Astonishing Legends

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 1

Links 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

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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
Dyatlov Pass Part 1
Monsters Among Us 
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 

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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

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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
Ep 85: The Bell Witch Part 1 
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 THREE

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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.
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