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The world is more mysterious than most people are comfortable imagining. We cross paths with the mystical from time to time and may not even notice it. If we do, we quickly return to our usually mundane daily existence. But what if we not only acknowledged the unknown, we investigated it and spoke with those in the know? That's what co-hosts Scott Philbrook & Forrest Burgess, and co-executive producer Tess Pfeifle do at Astonishing Legends. Over 100 million downloads and hundreds of thousands of listeners have discovered the thrill of exploring the mysteries of our world, showing that the unknown can be both captivating and intriguing. Welcome to Astonishing Legends!
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S2 Ep42: Beneath the Haunted Dorm
In tonight's dead letter, we're back in Athens, Ohio, with our listener Evan, who was a sophomore engineering student at Ohio University around 2015. He was thrilled to get room 328 in Wilson Hall, directly …
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In tonight's dead letter, we're back in Athens, Ohio, with our listener Evan, who was a sophomore engineering student at Ohio University around 2015. He was thrilled to get room 328 in Wilson Hall, directly below room 428, the "haunted room" we asked about at the end of Dead Letter Office episode 52. He thought bunking below that haunted room would be fun. Maybe it was, but there was a price to pay.
Relevant Prior Episodes
Ep 338: Your True Halloween Stories IV, Part 3
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Ep 50: Mothman Part 1
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Ep 3: Greyfriars Kirkyard Halloween Special
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Ep 117: The Black Monk of Pontefract Part 1
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Ep 123: The Sallie House: Ghost in the Machine Part 1
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Ep 2: Queen Mary & The Haunted Valentine
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Ep 85: The Bell Witch Part 1
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Links and Further Reading
Dead Letter Office S1 Ep 52: The Little Old Man (Audioboom)
Histories of hOUme: A skeptical vacancy in Wilson Hall room 428, by Bri Shaniuk (The Post, October 2015)
Note: We call the paper the Athens Post in the episode. It's The Post, in Athens, Ohio.
Ghost stories, urban legends haunt college campuses (The Columbus Dispatch, via PressReader)
Five Athens cemeteries form lopsided square (The Post)
History of The Ridges (Ohio University)
Kennedy Museum of Art, 100 Ridges Circle (Ohio University)
More than 1,900 unidentified people are buried in Athens, Ohio (WOUB Public Media, October 2025)
Jim Harold's Campfire
Hotel Monte Vista, Flagstaff, Arizona
Tesseract (Wikipedia)
Sleep Paralysis and Anomalous Experience (Psi Encyclopedia)
Night hag (Wikipedia)
Benedictine College
The Shining, the 1980 film (Wikipedia)
Ring, the 1998 film released in North America as Ringu (Wikipedia)
New Orleans murder-suicide rivets city; couple had met amid Katrina (Associated Press, via The Seattle Times, October 2006)
Bloody Mary's Tours and Haunted Museum, New OrleansWe're looking for more stories! Send your Dead Letter to [email protected]!
S2 Ep41: The Dog Saw it First
In tonight's dead letter, Patrick writes to us from Northcote, a suburb on the north side of Melbourne, Australia, where his son James, thirteen at the time, took Cookie, the family's Boston terrier, out before …
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In tonight's dead letter, Patrick writes to us from Northcote, a suburb on the north side of Melbourne, Australia, where his son James, thirteen at the time, took Cookie, the family's Boston terrier, out before dawn one morning in the autumn of 2024, through a reserve that used to be part of a golf course. Cookie never barks at anyone, but at the top of the hill, beside a stand of gum trees, he stopped, stared, and started to growl at something James couldn't see. Forrest is away this week, so Richard Hatem, screenwriter of The Mothman Prophecies, sits in and reads the letter.
Relevant Prior Episodes
Ep 72: Richard Hatem - Screenwriter of The Mothman Prophecies
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Ep 50: Mothman Part 1
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Ep 37: The Delphos Ring Part 1
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Ep 45: Skinwalker Ranch Part 1
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Links and Further Reading
Last week's Dead Letter Office, DLO-240: The Visitor in Clothier Hall (Apple Podcasts)
Richard Hatem's Paranormal Bookshelf (Apple Podcasts)
The Mothman Prophecies, by John A. Keel (Bookshop.org)
Hunt for the Skinwalker, by Colm A. Kelleher and George Knapp (Bookshop.org)
Leaked "jellyfish" UFO video leaves the internet enthralled and baffled (Global News, January 2024)
Slender Man (Wikipedia)
Northcote, Victoria (Wikipedia)
Merri Creek (Wikipedia)
Whatever Remains Podcast, with Marie Mayhew (Apple Podcasts)
Loud pack of coyotes takes over abandoned West Hollywood construction site (ABC7 Los Angeles, July 2026)We're looking for more stories! Send your Dead Letter to [email protected]!
S2 Ep40: The Visitor in Clothier Hall
In tonight's dead letter, Keith takes us back to the spring of 1997, when he was a freshman at Rutgers living on the third floor of Clothier Hall, a brick dorm in downtown New Brunswick, New Jersey. Early one …
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In tonight's dead letter, Keith takes us back to the spring of 1997, when he was a freshman at Rutgers living on the third floor of Clothier Hall, a brick dorm in downtown New Brunswick, New Jersey. Early one Saturday morning, with the first light coming in around the curtain, he opened his eyes and someone was sitting on the floor against his roommate's bed, six feet away, in a room he had locked the night before. Someone, or some…thing…that shouldn’t have been there.
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Ep 26: Shadow People
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Ep 338: Your True Halloween Stories IV, Part 3
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Ep 87: Black Eyed Kids Part 1
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Links and Further Reading
Clothier Hall (Rutgers Residence Life)
Weird NJ
Shadow person (Wikipedia)
Note: We call Benadryl's active ingredient pseudoephedrine in the episode. It's diphenhydramine.
Hypnagogia and the hypnopompic state (Wikipedia)
Hypnic jerk (Wikipedia)
Jim Harold's Campfire
Miyamoto Musashi (Wikipedia)
Wild Talents, by Charles Fort (1932), free to read at sacred-texts.com
We're looking for more stories! Send your Dead Letter to [email protected]!Your True Halloween Stories IV Part 3
We're back, and this time we’re lucky enough to have paranormal investigator, researcher and author Michelle Belanger join us to help answer the question connecting this week's stories: does this phenomenon …
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We're back, and this time we’re lucky enough to have paranormal investigator, researcher and author Michelle Belanger join us to help answer the question connecting this week's stories: does this phenomenon have a name?
At a Southern California shopping mall, Amy gets in line for food when two young women behind her suddenly fill her with an intense feeling of dread.
In Los Angeles, Zee picks up two young women from an unlikely spot near a freeway overpass, and before long, an ordinary ride begins to feel anything but.
Lastly, Mike takes us back to a Chicago suburb in 1988, where a routine walk near a cemetery leads to a passing encounter with two women he has never forgotten.
Turn down the lights and join us for the final set of this year’s true Halloween mysteries.
Visit our website for a lot more information on this episode.
S2 Ep39: Above the Top Floor
In tonight's dead letter, we're in Cluj-Napoca, Transylvania in the 1990s, a few years after the revolution, where our listener Nadina, six at the time, had the run of a Soviet-era apartment block with her …
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In tonight's dead letter, we're in Cluj-Napoca, Transylvania in the 1990s, a few years after the revolution, where our listener Nadina, six at the time, had the run of a Soviet-era apartment block with her older sister and their best friend while their nanny visited a friend upstairs. They climbed past the last floor of apartments to the metal door at the top, and before anyone could touch it, something huge, aggressive and feral sounding on the other side began attacking it so hard they fled. Nadina still doesn't know what was up there.
Relevant Prior Episodes
Ep 49: Monsters Among Us
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Ep 116: Small Town Monsters
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Ep 183: Sam the Sandown Clown
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Ep 203: The Beast of Gévaudan
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Links and Further Reading
Hoia Baciu Forest (Astonishing Legends)
History of Cluj-Napoca
Systematization in Romania
Transylvanian Superstitions, Emily Gerard, 1885 (Project Gutenberg)
Pricolici
Strigoi
Tracing the Roots of Lycanthropy (Astonishing Legends)
The Beast of Bray Road (Astonishing Legends)
Blonde Venus (1932)
Classic Sideshow Acts: The Girl into the Gorilla (Museum of the Weird)
Pepper's Ghost
We're looking for more stories! Send your Dead Letter to [email protected]!Your True Halloween Stories IV Part 2
Our Halloween tradition continues with three more listeners sharing encounters they still can’t explain.At a church summer camp in the mountains above Southern California, Ray and two fellow counselors spot a …
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Our Halloween tradition continues with three more listeners sharing encounters they still can’t explain.
At a church summer camp in the mountains above Southern California, Ray and two fellow counselors spot a girl standing alone in the parking lot after lights-out. She silently returns to the bunkhouse when they call to her… but that won’t be the last time they see her.
In San Luis Obispo, Brian and his wife move into a guest house with a long history and a curious warning from their elderly landlady: most tenants don’t stay very long. Soon they begin to understand why.
And Terry takes us back to the night shift of a hospital coronary care unit, where a dying patient starts asking every nurse the same unsettling question: “Who’s that behind you?”
Turn down the lights and settle in for Part Two of our Halloween listener stories.
Visit our website for a lot more information on this episode.
S2 Ep38: Hello, James.
In tonight's dead letter, our listener TM was the office manager at a Catholic parish in the upper Mississippi river area, and part of her job was digitizing the cemetery's paper records, so she'd walk the rows …
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In tonight's dead letter, our listener TM was the office manager at a Catholic parish in the upper Mississippi river area, and part of her job was digitizing the cemetery's paper records, so she'd walk the rows with a camera, say hello to everyone, and tell them what she was there to do. One marker sat outside the cemetery’s plot map entirely: a boy who drowned in the river in 1936, with fresh flowers by his stone and no file in the office. One July afternoon, someone or something unseen let her know it was there.
Relevant Prior Episodes
Ep 247: Massacre at Duffy's Cut Part 1
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Ep 317: The Screaming Skulls
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Ep 85: The Bell Witch Part 1
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Ep 123: The Sallie House: Ghost in the Machine Part 1
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Ep 4: Amelia Earhart Vanishes Part 1
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Links and Further Reading
Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraph 1032 (Vatican.va)
St. John Chrysostom (Britannica)
All Souls' Day (Catholic Encyclopedia, New Advent)
Columbarium (Merriam-Webster)
Duffy's Cut (Wikipedia)
Historic Bell Witch Cave, Adams, Tennessee
Electronic Voice Phenomena: An Overview (Astonishing Legends blog)
Stahl House, Case Study House #22 (LA Conservancy)
Scared All The Time (podcast)We're looking for more stories! Send your Dead Letter to [email protected]!
Your True Halloween Stories IV Part 1
Once more, our favorite Halloween tradition rises from the grave, as three listeners join us to personally share encounters they still can’t explain.In the North of England, district nurse Luke and a trainee …
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Once more, our favorite Halloween tradition rises from the grave, as three listeners join us to personally share encounters they still can’t explain.
In the North of England, district nurse Luke and a trainee see someone inside the home of a patient who lives alone. In Idaho Falls, Krystina tells us about small dark figures lurking at the edge of a woman’s vision and their attempt to get answers. Then, Jennifer takes us to 1980s Southern Oregon, where a childhood encounter with a blinding figure rushing into her bedroom became only the first of many visits.
Turn down the lights and join us for three true stories, told by the people who experienced them.
Visit our website for a lot more information on this episode.
S2 Ep37: The Old Man on the Gravestone
In tonight's dead letter, Corey takes us back to Omaha, Nebraska in the year 2000, when he was the overnight host on a Top 40 station and a call-in topic about haunted places kept circling back to one private …
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In tonight's dead letter, Corey takes us back to Omaha, Nebraska in the year 2000, when he was the overnight host on a Top 40 station and a call-in topic about haunted places kept circling back to one private family cemetery. He sent a carload of listeners out there on a Friday night to report back live on the air. A few days later his boss got a phone call from the cemetery's caretakers. And, to paraphrase a Dateline episode…things got weirder from there.
We mentioned a TON of old eps in this one!
Relevant Prior Episodes
Ep 48: Choose Your Own Adventure
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Ep 71: Pere Cheney: The Town that Disappeared
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Ep 87: Black Eyed Kids Part 1
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Ep 50: Mothman Part 1
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Ep 14: What's Gotten Into You?
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Ep 209: The Phantom Horse of Greensboro
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Ep 120: The Grim Reaper
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Ep 154: Lockdown at the Waverly Hills Sanatorium
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Ep 156: The Ax Murder House in Villisca Part 1
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Ep 49: Monsters Among Us
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Ep 310: The Rhine Research Center: Extraordinary Evidence
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Links and Further Reading
Church Grims, by Tess Pfeifle (Astonishing Legends blog)
Strange Intruders, by David Weatherly
G.N.M. Tyrrell (Psi Encyclopedia, Society for Psychical Research)
Ghosts and Apparitions in Psi Research (Psi Encyclopedia)
Phantasms of the Living, Volume 1 (1886), free at the Internet Archive
Phantasms of the Living, Volume 2 (1886), free at the Internet Archive
Jim Harold's Campfire
The Mothman of Point Pleasant (Small Town Monsters, 2017)
The Ankou
The Case Against Reality, by Donald Hoffman
A Game of Pool, The Twilight Zone (1961)
On a Pale Horse, by Piers Anthony
The Villisca Axe Murder House
Live and Let Die (1973)
Twin Peaks: The Return (2017)We're looking for more stories! Send your Dead Letter to [email protected]!
A Tale of Ghost Ships Three!
In 1933, a Scottish botanist watched a seemingly abandoned steamship drift past the Alaskan coast on an ice floe. It appeared upside down in a strange mirage, with no crew and no one at the wheel. This ship was …
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In 1933, a Scottish botanist watched a seemingly abandoned steamship drift past the Alaskan coast on an ice floe. It appeared upside down in a strange mirage, with no crew and no one at the wheel. This ship was the Baychimo, which was abandoned two years earlier, but refused to disappear. Having repeatedly resurfaced across the Arctic, it earning a reputation as one of history’s great ghost ships.
In this episode, we explore the strange history of ghost ships from the the Baychimo, to the frozen Octavius, and the Ourang Medan, whose crew was reportedly found mysteriously dead shortly before the ship itself exploded and sank. Three ships, three enduring legends, and at least one vessel whose final resting place remains unknown.
Visit our website for a lot more information on this episode.
S2 Ep36: The Mimic
In tonight's dead letter, our listener Ed and his wife are newlyweds, sharing the apartment he's lived in for about two years in Clay Center, Nebraska. One morning in early 2020, he hits snooze on his alarm and …
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In tonight's dead letter, our listener Ed and his wife are newlyweds, sharing the apartment he's lived in for about two years in Clay Center, Nebraska. One morning in early 2020, he hits snooze on his alarm and sees a figure walking out of their bedroom, silhouetted by the living room lights he'd set on a timer, and it looks just like his wife, but it’s not.
Relevant Prior Episodes
Ep 26: Shadow People
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Ep 64: Electronic Fog
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Ep 226: Boundless Remote Viewing with Lori Williams Part 1
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Links and Further Reading
Ed's Floor Plan of the Apartment
Clay Center, Nebraska, Wikipedia
World's Largest Ball of Twine, Kansas Tourism
Note: We call it the world's biggest ball of yarn in the episode. It's actually a ball of sisal twine. I always mess that up! (Scott)
Doppelganger, Britannica
Hypnagogic Hallucinations, Cleveland Clinic
A-Yokai-A-Day: Ikiryo, Matthew Meyer
Alexander Cannon (psychiatrist), Wikipedia
STAR GATE [Controlled Remote Viewing], Federation of American Scientists
Astral Projection Hypnosis by Dr. Steve G. Jones
Journeys Out of the Body by Robert A. Monroe
Richard Hatem's Paranormal Bookshelf
Beyond the Bermuda Triangle by Bruce Gernon and Rob MacGregor
We're looking for more stories! Send your Dead Letter to [email protected]!S2 Ep35: The Benevolent Warning
In tonight's dead letter, our listener named Mark is driving through western Michigan at two in the morning in 1978, working off a paper map and handwritten directions to a house he's never been to. He comes up …
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In tonight's dead letter, our listener named Mark is driving through western Michigan at two in the morning in 1978, working off a paper map and handwritten directions to a house he's never been to. He comes up a hill and into a curve on US 131, and there are four people standing in his lane. Two of them are waving him over to the right, and the other two have their arms raised above their heads in an X. Had they not been there he may have had a fatal collision, and when he went to find them shortly after, they had vanished.
Relevant Prior Episodes
Ep 102: Resurrection Mary Part 1
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Ep 116: Small Town Monsters
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Links and Further Reading
Lydia: The Ghost of Jamestown Bridge, NCpedia
A History of the Vanishing Hitchhiker, Beardsley and Hankey, 1943
The Bray Road Beast, Small Town Monsters
Jim Harold's Campfire: True Ghost Stories, Books 1 through 6
Note: We call it the National Highway Transportation Safety Association in the episode. The ‘A’ is actually for Administration.
We're looking for more stories! Send your Dead Letter to [email protected]!S2 Ep34: The Lady in the Rocking Chair
In tonight's dead letter, listener Mothmaiden remembers a time when she was four years old and an only child in a neighborhood with no other kids, and she had an imaginary friend named Cindy Cora who looked …
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In tonight's dead letter, listener Mothmaiden remembers a time when she was four years old and an only child in a neighborhood with no other kids, and she had an imaginary friend named Cindy Cora who looked exactly like Betty Rubble from The Flintstones. Then on a sunny afternoon, in her own bedroom with the light coming through the window, she saw an elderly woman with white and gray hair piled high on her head, sitting in a rocking chair, calm and gentle and completely solid. Were these things connected?
Relevant Prior Episodes
Abduction at Devil's Den
Devil's Den: The Reckoning Part 1
Chris McKinnell and the Warren Legacy
Dan, Susan, Micah Hanks and Missing Time
Links and Further Reading
Two-thirds of school-age children have an imaginary companion by age 7, University of Washington
Note: We say about one in three for the invisible-only friends. In the study, about two thirds of kids have had an imaginary companion by age seven, and about one in three have one at the time they are asked.
The psychological significance of play with imaginary companions in early childhood, Learning & Behavior
Childhood amnesia, Wikipedia
Ghosts and Apparitions in Psi Research, the Society for Psychical Research's Psi Encyclopedia
Phantasms of the Living (1886) by Gurney, Myers and Podmore, Internet Archive
Strange Intruders by David Weatherly
Devils Den: The Reckoning by Terry Lovelace
Contact (1997), Wikipedia
Note: We say David Morse was one of the doctors on ER. He played Dr. Jack Morrison on St. Elsewhere.
Sesame Street debuts, November 10, 1969, HISTORY
Wall Street crash of 1929, Wikipedia
The History of Bettys in Pop Culture, Refinery29
Natalie and Tara on YouTubeWe're looking for more stories! Send your Dead Letter to [email protected]!
Special: Richard Hatem's Light in the Dark Tour 2026
Hey folks! We're gearing up to go to the Wet Hot Bad Magic Summercamp next week but after that we're back on our regular schedule! In the meanwhile here's a chat Scott and Richard had just a week ago about his …
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Hey folks! We're gearing up to go to the Wet Hot Bad Magic Summercamp next week but after that we're back on our regular schedule! In the meanwhile here's a chat Scott and Richard had just a week ago about his new tour which is also CLOSE ABOARD!
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A special episode from our friend Richard Hatem. Richard is the screenwriter behind The Mothman Prophecies and a longtime friend of the show, and he hosts Richard Hatem's Paranormal Bookshelf. He invited Scott onto his podcast to talk about his upcoming Light in the Dark Tour 2026, a 10-day, six-city run of live shows in September that wraps up at the Mothman Festival in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. We liked the conversation enough that we're sharing it here on the main feed.
Along the way, Scott and Richard get to such never-before-asked questions as: What scares our dogs? Where will Scott and Forrest be appearing live in September? Did Abbott and Costello get along? Can anyone find Scott's legendary "lost" appearance on Portlandia? Did Richard schedule too many shows on this tour, and will Susan ever forgive him? Find out the answers to these and many more questions on this episode.
If you can make it to one of the tour stops, go. Tickets and dates are at the link below.
Links
Get tickets to Richard Hatem's Light in the Dark Tour 2026 LIVE: https://www.richardhatemsparanormalbookshelf.com/events
Listen to Richard Hatem's Paranormal Bookshelf: https://www.richardhatemsparanormalbookshelf.com/
Support RHPB on Patreon: https://patreon.com/RichardHatem
Celebrate 2026 with 26% off all RHPB merch with offer code RHPB26. The discount is pre-applied at this link: https://richardhatem-shop.fourthwall.com/promo/RHPB26
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Notes
Get the answer to ALL of your Abbott and Costello questions here: Abbott and Costello Meet the Podcast
Is your dog afraid of hiccups, just like Luna? Learn about your dog's weird fears here: Understanding Your Dog's FearS2 Ep33: The Inn at Folck's Mill
In tonight's dead letter, listener Chris takes us back to the early 2000s, when he was the head brewer at a restaurant on the east side of Cumberland, Maryland, in a building so old it served as a Civil War …
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In tonight's dead letter, listener Chris takes us back to the early 2000s, when he was the head brewer at a restaurant on the east side of Cumberland, Maryland, in a building so old it served as a Civil War field hospital. One night after close, he and three coworkers were having a beer in the basement bar when the loudest sound he'd ever heard slammed into the floorboards right above their heads, shaking dust from the ceiling and rattling every bottle behind the bar.
Relevant Prior Episodes
Nightmarchers of Hawaii
Links and Further Reading
The Battle of Folck's Mill: Maryland Historical Trust Battlefield Documentation (PDF)
Battle of Folck's Mill, Wikipedia
Folck's Mill (National Register of Historic Places site), Wikipedia
The Battle of Folck's Mill, Western Maryland's Historical Library
The Invasion, Aug 1864: The Cumberland Alleganian's Original Account, Western Maryland's Historical Library
Folck's Mill Marker, Historical Marker Database
The History of Puccini Restaurant, Cumberland, Maryland
The Phantom Battle of Edgehill, Historic UK
The Spectral Army of Souther Fell, Mysterious Britain and Ireland
The Dieppe Raid Case, Mysterious Britain and Ireland
The Drummer of Tedworth, Wikipedia
Phantom Armies of the Night by Claude Lecouteux
The Rosenheim Poltergeist, by Tess Pfeifle at Astonishing LegendsWe're looking for more stories! Send your Dead Letter to [email protected]!
Richard Hatem's Light in the Dark Tour 2026!
Our friend Richard Hatem is taking his Paranormal Bookshelf on the road! The Light in the Dark Tour 2026 is an all new live show playing six cities in seven days, September 13th through 19th, and it winds up at …
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Our friend Richard Hatem is taking his Paranormal Bookshelf on the road! The Light in the Dark Tour 2026 is an all new live show playing six cities in seven days, September 13th through 19th, and it winds up at the Mothman Festival in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Richard and Susan Lambert will be at the festival both days selling Mothman and podcast merch, and on Saturday night, September 19th, he's performing an episode of the podcast picked especially for Point Pleasant.
Hear Scott and Rich talk about the tour in his most recent post on the RHPB feed:
Spotify
Apple Podcasts
Tour Dates and Tickets
Sunday, September 13: Storm Crow Manor, Toronto, ON
Monday, September 14: Padraigs Brewing, Minneapolis, MN
Tuesday, September 15: The Red Lion Pub, Chicago, IL
Wednesday, September 16: B Side Lounge, Cleveland Heights, OH
Thursday, September 17: Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (FREE SHOW!)
Saturday, September 19: Trinity UMC Community Center, Point Pleasant, WV (The Mothman Festival)
More from Richard
All Tour Dates and Tickets
Richard Hatem's Paranormal Bookshelf on Apple Podcasts
Richard Hatem's Paranormal Bookshelf on Spotify
Paranormal Bookshelf Merch
The Mothman Festival
Tickets for every show but Carnegie Mellon (which MAY not require them, TBD) are at richardhatemsparanormalbookshelf.com/events, or search Richard Hatem on Eventbrite. Come out and see Richard do his thing!S2 Ep32: But We didn't Break the Glass
In tonight's dead letter, a teenager in rural Arkansas in the late 2000s goes poking around an abandoned schoolhouse and comes home with a mirror she likes the look of. Years later it's hanging in her first Los …
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In tonight's dead letter, a teenager in rural Arkansas in the late 2000s goes poking around an abandoned schoolhouse and comes home with a mirror she likes the look of. Years later it's hanging in her first Los Angeles apartment, and one evening while she's in the bath she catches the towel on the back of the door swinging wildly but the moment she turns to look, it stops dead. But that’s only part of the story.
Relevant Prior Episodes
The Bell Witch Part 1
The Scrying Game
Mel's Hole Part 1
Abduction at Devil's Den
Nightmarchers of Hawaii
The Ghosts of Flight 401
Links and Further Reading
American Hauntings — Troy Taylor's books, podcast, and live events
Reunions: Visionary Encounters with Departed Loved Ones by Raymond Moody
Note: We say 1933 in the episode — Reunions was published in 1993.
Oculus (2013), dir. Mike Flanagan
What is a "dybbuk" in the prologue of the Coen brothers' A Serious Man?
Ghosts On A Plane? The Story Of Eastern Air Lines Flight 401We're looking for more stories! Send your Dead Letter to [email protected]!
S2 Ep31: DLO-231: The Kids in the Parking Lot
In tonight's dead letter, in the summer of 1996, two college kids from New Jersey were road-tripping to Gen Con when they got off I-80 near Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, looking for food and a place to stay. Around …
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In tonight's dead letter, in the summer of 1996, two college kids from New Jersey were road-tripping to Gen Con when they got off I-80 near Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, looking for food and a place to stay. Around 11:30 PM, at a gas station that turned out to be closed for the night, three blonde kids in bathing suits were standing under a light, saying something to them that neither of them could make out.
Relevant Prior Episodes
Black Eyed Kids Part 1
Strange Intruders with David Weatherly Part 1
Sam the Sandown Clown
Dan, Susan, Micah Hanks and Missing Time
Abduction at Devil's Den
Skinwalker Ranch Part 1
Links and Further Reading
Strange Intruders by David Weatherly
The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker
Death as a Child: The Modern Legend of the Black-Eyed Children (Atlas Obscura)
8 local spots you didn't know were haunted (northcentralpa.com — the "Otzinachson"/Demon's Den lore)We're looking for more stories! Send your Dead Letter to [email protected]!
S2 Ep30: DLO-230: A Finger Down the spine
In tonight's dead letter, listener John is nineteen, home from his freshman year and a few shifts into a summer dishwashing job at a grand old house on Michigan's Old Mission Peninsula that has been a …
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In tonight's dead letter, listener John is nineteen, home from his freshman year and a few shifts into a summer dishwashing job at a grand old house on Michigan's Old Mission Peninsula that has been a restaurant since the 1950s. The staff there blame anything strange in the building on a ghost they call Genevieve, and John doesn't believe in any of that. One warm night he goes upstairs to change out of his kitchen clothes, and the bulb pops the second he flips the switch. Strange enough on its own, but what happens next is why this particular night stuck with him.
Note: The room referenced at Waverly in the Episode is 503. It should have been 502.
Relevant Prior Episodes
Greyfriar's Kirkyard Halloween Special
The Sallie House – Ghost in the Machine Part 1
Lockdown at Waverly Sanatorium
The True Story behind the Conjuring Part 1
A Live Reading with Jim Hunt - Psychic Medium
Links and Further Reading
The Mission Table Restaurant of Bowers Harbor: A Splendid Building, But Not a Residence for a Ghost — Julie Schopieray, Grand Traverse Journal
Would the Real Mrs. Stickney Please Stand Up? Setting the Old Mission Ghost Story Straight — Northern Express
The Haunting of Bowers Harbor Inn – Is It Genevieve Stickney's Ghost? — Old Mission Gazette
Bowers Harbor Inn — Wikipedia, on the 1927 fire and the house built around the old farmhouse
Mission Point Lighthouse — History, the light at the tip of Old Mission Peninsula near the 45th parallel
Occupational Folklife — American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
Meet the Mackenzie Poltergeist of Greyfriars Kirkyard — Icy Sedgwick, on the grabs and marks reported on the tours
Waverly Hills Sanatorium — American Hauntings, on Room 502 and the nurse story
The Buxton Inn — Wikipedia, the Granville, Ohio inn Forrest visited
We're looking for more stories! Send your Dead Letter to [email protected]!Amy Bruni’s Cuisine to Kill For
In 1673, Rebecca Cornell was found dead beside the hearth in her Rhode Island home. Afterward, her ghost allegedly appeared to accuse someone of murder and her son was tried and hanged. Her story is just one of …
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In 1673, Rebecca Cornell was found dead beside the hearth in her Rhode Island home. Afterward, her ghost allegedly appeared to accuse someone of murder and her son was tried and hanged. Her story is just one of nearly sixty strange intersections of true crime, hauntings, history, and food collected in Cuisine to Kill For, the new cookbook from veteran paranormal investigator and television personality Amy Bruni. This week, Amy joins us to talk about the haunted restaurants, infamous deaths, cocktails, dinners, desserts, and recipes that reveal just how naturally the paranormal and the culinary can share a table.
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S2 Ep29: The Boy Who Wanted her Hand
In tonight's dead letter, listener Mary is on a ghost tour in Key West when the guide stands her group under an old, unmarked movie marquee and asks them what happened there. Before he says another word, Mary …
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In tonight's dead letter, listener Mary is on a ghost tour in Key West when the guide stands her group under an old, unmarked movie marquee and asks them what happened there. Before he says another word, Mary smells smoke. The story he tells the group involves a church fire, and more strange events unfold from there.
Relevant Prior Episodes
Conjuring Philip Part 1
The True Story behind the Conjuring Part 1
Resurrection Mary Part 1
The Count of St Germain Part 1Links and Further Reading
Great Fire of Key West (1886) — Wikipedia
Our History — St. Paul's Episcopal Church of Key West
Strand Theater, 527 Duval Street — Cinema Treasures
San Carlos Institute — Wikipedia
Chicago Hauntings: The Horrors of the Iroquois Theater Fire That Killed 602 People Downtown in 1903 — CBS Chicago
American Ghost Walks — the ghost tour company the hosts recommend
Dowsing — Britannica
The Philip Experiment — Wikipedia
We're looking for more stories! Send your Dead Letter to [email protected]!S2 Ep28: Milo
In tonight's dead letter, a truck-riding barn cat named Milo becomes the witness our listener Amy needs to affirm that she’s not seeing and hearing things. The old stone house they occupy seems to have some …
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In tonight's dead letter, a truck-riding barn cat named Milo becomes the witness our listener Amy needs to affirm that she’s not seeing and hearing things. The old stone house they occupy seems to have some very strange and unusual visitors. One defying any conventional explanation or even paranormal categorization.
Related Astonishing Legends Episodes
Background & Further Reading
Infrasound and the Paranormal — Vic Tandy's "fear frequency" research
That Ghostly Presence May Just Be Bad Plumbing — Popular Science, on infrasound and haunted-house perception
Beast of Bray Road — Wikipedia background on the Linda Godfrey dog-man case Forrest references
Ghosts of the Kent Stage — KentStater, on the haunted Kent, Ohio venue Scott
We're looking for more stories! Send your Dead Letter to [email protected]!S2 Ep27: The Light Beneath the Boats
In tonight's dead letter, Eric, a longtime listener on active duty in the Navy, pulls into Juneau, Alaska for a port call in the summer of 2009 and hikes up the Mount Roberts trail for the view over the harbor …
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In tonight's dead letter, Eric, a longtime listener on active duty in the Navy, pulls into Juneau, Alaska for a port call in the summer of 2009 and hikes up the Mount Roberts trail for the view over the harbor. Around eleven in the morning, in full daylight, he watches a perfectly round patch of light — a little bigger than a manhole cover, a shade lighter than the water — glide from boat to boat, slip under the cruise-ship dock, and circle a small float out in the middle of the channel. It never changes shape, never touches anything but the water, and as best he can tell, he's the only one who sees it. Then he hikes all the way down to that dock to find out what it was.
REFERENCE LINKS
Related Astonishing Legends Episodes
The Edgar Cayce Story Part 1
The Sallie House – Ghost in the Machine Part 1
The Sludge Entity Part 1
Background & Topics
Unidentified Submerged Objects (USOs) — Wikipedia
Investigation Alien (George Knapp) — Netflix
The "Plasmoids" Paper — Journal of Modern Physics (2024)
Foo Fighters (WWII) — Wikipedia
Nikola Tesla's Wardenclyffe Tower — Wikipedia
Lake Pend Oreille Acoustic Research Detachment (U.S. Navy)
Mount Roberts Trail, Juneau — Alaska.org
American Ghost Walks: Ketchikan Ghost Tour
We're looking for more stories! Send your Dead Letter to [email protected]!S2 Ep26: The Ghost with No Nose
In tonight's dead letter, our listener Kayla takes her two-and-a-half-year-old son to a private family viewing for his great-grandmother and keeps him in a back room so his last memory won't be the casket. All …
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In tonight's dead letter, our listener Kayla takes her two-and-a-half-year-old son to a private family viewing for his great-grandmother and keeps him in a back room so his last memory won't be the casket. All night, unprompted, he pulls relatives into that room to show them a ghost sitting in the corner with an unusual facial feature…or lack of one. As they leave, his mother — who'll tell you straight out she's a skeptic — stops at the chair and quietly tells whatever's there it's not welcome to follow them home. What happens over the next few weeks is why she finally wrote to us.
REFERENCE LINKS
Related Astonishing Legends Episodes
Background & Further Reading
The Bell Witch — Wikipedia
Adams, Tennessee (the Bell Witch's Red River community) — Wikipedia
Shadow Person — Wikipedia
Discussing Death With Young Children — ZERO TO THREEWe're looking for more stories! Send your Dead Letter to [email protected]!
Chris McKinnell and the Warren Legacy
Chris McKinnell grew up as the grandson of Ed and Lorraine Warren, surrounded by haunted objects and terrifying investigations that left him afraid of the dark until one unforgettable night changed everything …
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Chris McKinnell grew up as the grandson of Ed and Lorraine Warren, surrounded by haunted objects and terrifying investigations that left him afraid of the dark until one unforgettable night changed everything. In this special interview, he shares firsthand stories from inside the Warren family, including the infamous Lee, Massachusetts haunting, and why, after a lifetime chasing the paranormal, he's convinced the answers are far stranger than demons.
Visit our website for a lot more information on this episode.
S2 Ep25: Old Man Dayton
In tonight's dead letter… three families lived in the same old house across the years, none of them knowing each other, and each one wound up sharing the place with the same two ghostly visitors. As kids, our …
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In tonight's dead letter… three families lived in the same old house across the years, none of them knowing each other, and each one wound up sharing the place with the same two ghostly visitors. As kids, our listener Heather and her sister kept seeing a little boy who was never actually there when they looked closer. The adults saw someone different — an old man, solid enough that Heather's stepmother screamed for her father, certain a stranger had walked in. The corroboration of everything shows up in the form of a psychic.
REFERENCE LINKS
Related Astonishing Legends Episodes
Astonishing Legends — The Sallie House: Ghost in the Machine, Part 1 (Spotify)
Astonishing Legends — The True Story Behind the Conjuring, Part 1 (Spotify)
Astonishing Legends — Sam the Sandown Clown, Ep 183 (Spotify)
Astonishing Legends — The Fermi Paradox, Ep 022 (Spotify)
Astonishing Legends — Battle at Cisco Grove, Ep 246 (Spotify)
Astonishing Legends — Mantis Men, Ep 258 (episode page)
Topic & Background ReferencesPareidolia: why we see faces and figures in random shapes (Britannica)
The doppelgänger, the living double of folklore (Britannica)
Vic Tandy and the 19 Hz "haunted" frequency of infrasound (Wikipedia)
The Sallie House of Atchison, Kansas (Wikipedia)
The Perron family haunting, the true story behind "The Conjuring" (All That's Interesting)
Sam the Sandown Clown: the 1973 Isle of Wight encounter (OnTheWight)
The Cisco Grove alien encounter of 1964 (UFO Casebook)
John Keel and the "ultraterrestrials" (Wikipedia)
The Fermi paradox: "Where is everybody?" (Britannica)
Wormholes and the Einstein–Rosen bridge (Wikipedia)
Natalie and Tara, "doers of things" on YouTube (Natalie and Tara)
We're looking for more stories! Send your Dead Letter to [email protected]!This week's episode is sponsored by Mint Mobile — get premium wireless for $15 a month at mintmobile.com/dlo.
S2 Ep24: Pitched in Blue
In tonight's dead letter… our listener Daniel moves into a freshly built ranch house in the Salt Lake Valley back in 2011 — a house barely five years old, no tragic past, nothing "old and storied" about it. The …
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In tonight's dead letter… our listener Daniel moves into a freshly built ranch house in the Salt Lake Valley back in 2011 — a house barely five years old, no tragic past, nothing "old and storied" about it. The first odd thing he notices is that every doorknob in the basement is on backwards, rigged to lock someone in from the outside. He's sixteen, he's got the whole basement to himself, and from the very first night down there he can't shake the feeling that he's being watched. Then one night around eleven, three sharp knocks land on the wall right behind his head — and that's only the start.
REFERENCE LINKS
Lake Bonneville – Wikipedia
Kanashibari (Japanese sleep paralysis) – Yokai.com
Sleep Paralysis and the Hag Phenomenon – Neurolaunch
Sudden Unexpected Nocturnal Death Syndrome – The Order of the Good Death
Bell Witch – Wikipedia
Skinwalker Ranch – Wikipedia
Skinwalker Ranch of Uintah County, Utah (the locks the Shermans found) – Legends of America
Baba Yaga – Wikipedia
Astonishing Legends: Skinwalker Ranch Part 1
We're looking for more stories! Send your Dead Letter to [email protected]!S2 Ep23: Pop's Cat
In tonight's dead letter, we head about as far from the Office as you can get — the Hutt Valley near Wellington, New Zealand — for a story from Billy, a working artist who'd call himself a cautious skeptic. His …
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In tonight's dead letter, we head about as far from the Office as you can get — the Hutt Valley near Wellington, New Zealand — for a story from Billy, a working artist who'd call himself a cautious skeptic. His wife was deep into a spiritualist church and her own psychic abilities, and he mostly kept his distance from all of it. Then something started visiting their bed at night, something that felt exactly like a cat walking up the covers, even though their actual cat was nowhere near the room. Weeks later, a message about it came back to the family through his wife that no one was expecting.
Windy Wellington — Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand: https://teara.govt.nz/en/diagram/13182/windy-wellington
Cook Strait — Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand: https://www.linz.govt.nz/our-work/new-zealand-geographic-board/place-name-stories/place-names-cooks-voyages/cook-strait
Kupe — Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand: https://teara.govt.nz/en/first-peoples-in-maori-tradition/page-6
Hutt Valley — Wellington places — Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand: https://teara.govt.nz/en/wellington-places/page-8
Capital city: Wellington since 1865 — Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand: https://teara.govt.nz/en/capital-city
Can Our Dead Pets Come Back to Visit Us? — Rupert Sheldrake: https://www.sheldrake.org/essays/can-our-dead-pets-come-back-to-visit-us
Kaitiaki — guardians — Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand: https://teara.govt.nz/en/kaitiakitanga-guardianship-and-conservation/page-4
Sleep Paralysis, the "Bedroom Intruder," and the Sensed Presence — NIH / NCBI: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5329044/
Wellington Paranormal — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellington_Paranormal
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S2 Ep22: The Mechanic and Mr. Machine
In tonight's dead letter, listener Dean takes us to his grandmother's old Victorian house in a region of Scott’s home state of North Carolina known as the Sandhills. His family has traded strange stories about …
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In tonight's dead letter, listener Dean takes us to his grandmother's old Victorian house in a region of Scott’s home state of North Carolina known as the Sandhills. His family has traded strange stories about the family home for generations, from slamming doors in an empty house to a lady in white under the apple tree. He spent years as the family skeptic, right up until he started helping his aunt sort through the massive Americana collection left behind by her late husband we’ll simply call ‘D’, a mechanic with a passion for old gas pumps, slot cars, and vintage toys. A series of events that were too strange to chalk up to coincidence finally convinced Dean that something unexplained was going on, and frankly…we agree.
Reference Links
Mr. Machine from Ideal (1960) — Toy TalesMr. Machine — Wikipedia
Horikawa Robots and the Space Explorer "TV Robot" — Fab Tin Toys
House in the Horseshoe — NC Historic Sites
The Coastal Plain and Sandhills — NCpedia
"Haint Blue" — Historic New England
Black Shuck — Wikipedia
The Beast of Bladenboro — North Carolina Ghosts
What a Hospice Physician Can Tell Us About End-of-Life Visions — Discover Magazine
Ep 209: The Phantom Horse of Greensboro — Astonishing LegendsWe're looking for more stories! Send your Dead Letter to [email protected]!
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The Uninvited: The Ripperston Farm Invasion
In 1977, a remote dairy farm on the cliffs of southwest Wales became the center of one of the strangest and most enduring UFO cases in British history. What began with a glowing object hovering over Ripperston …
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In 1977, a remote dairy farm on the cliffs of southwest Wales became the center of one of the strangest and most enduring UFO cases in British history. What began with a glowing object hovering over Ripperston Farm escalated into months of unexplained phenomena: failing electronics, mysterious figures at the windows, silent visitors in a silver car, missing cattle that appeared miles away, and an encounter Pauline Coombs believed took place aboard an otherworldly craft. As sightings spread across the region — including the famous Broad Haven school incident witnessed by fourteen children — the area became known as the Welsh Triangle. With declassified government investigations, admitted hoaxes, and a mystery that remains unresolved nearly fifty years later, we ask: what really happened over St Brides Bay?
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