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Forgotten Darkness

Strange things are lost and forgotten in obscure corners of the newspaper.

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26 - The Lights of Capel Egryn

26 - The Lights of Capel Egryn

Mysterious lights are reported from a small village in northern Wales where a religious revival is underway, in 1904 and... Read more

27 Feb 2019

35mins

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58 - The Maniac of Beekman Hill, Part One

58 - The Maniac of Beekman Hill, Part One

On Easter Sunday, 1937 the bodies of model Veronica Gedeon, her mother, and a man named Frank Byrnes were found dead in ... Read more

27 Nov 2019

34mins

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41 - Pedro

41 - Pedro

In the 1930s, two gold prospectors working in the mountains of Wyoming find a mummy of a tiny man only about a foot in h... Read more

13 Jul 2019

29mins

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21 - Death Rides the Rails, Part One

21 - Death Rides the Rails, Part One

Before the infamous Villisca murders in Iowa, there was a series of other, eerily similar, axe murders across the Midwes... Read more

1 Jan 2019

41mins

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Halloween 2019

Halloween 2019

Second Halloween episode. This year's creepy stories are the tales of the cursed Zoarites of New York State; the black-v... Read more

29 Oct 2019

58mins

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62 - The Mapleton Ghost

62 - The Mapleton Ghost

A ghost haunts the railroad connecting Brooklyn and Coney Island in August 1894, but it soon proves to be... not what wa... Read more

7 Jan 2020

22mins

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56 - The Disappearance of Ambrose Small

56 - The Disappearance of Ambrose Small

Ambrose J. Small was a wealthy theater manager who disappeared without a trace on the evening of December 2, 1919 near o... Read more

4 Nov 2019

45mins

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43 - The Case of Eliza Armstrong

43 - The Case of Eliza Armstrong

The case of a missing girl in 1885 London leads to the passage of a law raising the age of consent and more strongly pro... Read more

22 Jul 2019

40mins

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44 - Bitten By Phantoms

44 - Bitten By Phantoms

The cases of the Romanian Eleonore Zugun, the Filipina Clarita Villanueva, and the English Giles children, all of whom w... Read more

29 Jul 2019

33mins

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36 - The Life and Death of Julia Pastrana

36 - The Life and Death of Julia Pastrana

Profile of Julia Pastrana, Mexican "freak show" performer of the 1850s, who was misused - shockingly - after her death i... Read more

6 Jun 2019

35mins

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16 - The Mysterious Death of Joao Prestes

16 - The Mysterious Death of Joao Prestes

A man in Brazil dies mysteriously, ostensibly burned by a UFO, in 1946.  Also, a number of Chupacabra encounters; other ... Read more

21 Nov 2018

33mins

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20 - The Presque Isle Incident/The Morristown Monster

20 - The Presque Isle Incident/The Morristown Monster

A reading from “New Landing and Creature Reports" by John Keel, appearing in the Flying Saucer Review for November/Decem... Read more

18 Dec 2018

25mins

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28 - The Murder of Mabel Mayer

28 - The Murder of Mabel Mayer

A 1927 California murder, once called "California's worst crime," but now little-remembered.  A 15-year-old girl is slai... Read more

25 Mar 2019

34mins

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66 - The Disappearance of Benjamin Bathurst

66 - The Disappearance of Benjamin Bathurst

Shortly after the signing of the treaty of Schönnbrun in October of 1809, bringing an end to Austrian involvement in the... Read more

3 Mar 2020

28mins

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