Astonishing Legends

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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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 References
Pareidolia: 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)

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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

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