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  • The Dust Didn't Move-A Primer Pressed Against Glass, Then Vanished

    The Dust Didn't Move-A Primer Pressed Against Glass, Then Vanished
    Aug 29 2026
    The Dust Didn't Move-A Primer Pressed Against Glass, Then Vanished

    The dust on the interior ledge ran unbroken beneath a first-grade primer pressed spine-out against a ground-floor window - and when investigators arrived the book had vanished without a smear. What could place a book against glass without disturbing dust, and why did that same building keep its own calendar of sounds tied to six o’clock?

    In this episode, we follow the timeline from a runner’s morning discovery through the arrival of a residential manager and the slow uncovering of a sealed room and an archived diocese file. Listen as witnesses, dates, and a single uncannily steady sound raise the question: what links a vanished book, untouched dust, and a rhythm that stops only after July fifteenth?

    Person: Thomas Cox
    Location: Saint Bride's rectory, Ardmore neighborhood, Dunning Falls, Ohio
    Date: July 6, 2022 (discovery at 6:14 a.m.)
    Object: Learning Our Letters: A First Reader (published 1941)
    Resident: Valerie Perry (moved in July 2, 2022; age 32)

    - The primer was found pressed flat against the interior glass with its spine facing outward and the ledge dust continuous beneath it.
    - Thomas Cox photographed the open boarded window at 6:14 a.m, on a Tuesday in early July 2022.
    - The rectory was constructed in 1912 and had boarded-over windows along the rear foundation.
    - Valerie Perry moved into the rectory on July 2, 2022 and kept a strict schedule anchored by a paper planner.
    - Valerie recorded a tapping sound that always began within ten minutes of 6:00 p.m. and noted on July 15 that the sound started at 6:11 p.m., one minute before she completed a 6:12 a.m. insulin injection for her cat.

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    26 min
  • The Chair in Room 11: A Child's Shoe and the Silent Move

    The Chair in Room 11: A Child's Shoe and the Silent Move
    Aug 28 2026
    The Chair in Room 11: A Child's Shoe and the Silent Move

    A child’s size four sneaker sitting laced and spotless on a chair in the exact center of a motel room after eleven days of vacancy - and a chair that later crossed eight feet of floor without anyone hearing it. Who placed the shoe and why did the chair move silently, night after night?

    In this episode, we follow the sequence of events at the Linden Court Motor Lodge, from the initial discovery to the later arrivals and the unanswered questions that kept mounting. What connects a white canvas shoe, a silent midnight move, and eight guests who requested to leave Room 11?

    Location: Linden Court Motor Lodge, Dellworth, Indiana
    Date: June 4-6, 2012 (key events); room vacant for eleven days prior to discovery
    Person: Gloria Mueller (meter reader), Monica Jones (guest), Douglas Pell (manager), Officer Victor Haas, Cheryl Turner (case historian)
    Evidence: Size four white canvas sneaker, right foot, double-knotted laces; lab found faint white clay on inner heel
    Status: Incident logged as possible trespassing; shoe bagged and sent to county crime lab; subsequent contractor work over two years

    - The chair was placed exactly in the center of Room 11, facing the window, not against a wall.
    - A white canvas sneaker, right foot, size four, with laces double-knotted and a clean sole, sat on the chair.
    - The room had been vacant for eleven days before Gloria Mueller found the chair and shoe.
    - Officer Victor Haas bagged and logged the shoe; the county crime lab found no usable fingerprints but detected white clay on the inner heel.
    - Monica Jones reported the chair had been against the wall on June 5 at 2:40 a.m., then found it centered on June 6 at 11:38 p.m, without hearing it move.

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    27 min
  • Size Four, No Owner: The Dock Shoe That Returned Every May

    Size Four, No Owner: The Dock Shoe That Returned Every May
    Aug 27 2026
    Size Four, No Owner: The Dock Shoe That Returned Every May

    A dry, size-four child's canvas shoe appears every May on the south dock at Carver Lake - sitting on top of eleven days of undisturbed pollen with clean wood beneath and a folded child's drawing inside. The same lake house has stayed in one family since 1958, and the drawing matches childhood sketches and a recurring dream from a woman who left the property years before; how can a missing shoe from 1941 reappear with such precise links across generations?

    In this episode, we present the documented events surrounding the shoe on the dock at Carver Lake, the historical records and personal memories tied to the property, and the measurements and observations made by a freelance archivist and witnesses that deepen the mystery. What do the physical details and family history suggest about who - or what - could be returning the shoe every May?

    Person: Clifford Hoffman
    Person: Evelyn Sawyer (born Evelyn Bowen)
    Person: Debra Sawyer
    Person: Mia (Debra's daughter)
    Event: Shoe discovered on south dock in May 2019

    - The shoe rested on eleven days of undisturbed pollen film on the dock boards.
    - The shoe was a white canvas size four and contained a folded child's drawing.
    - Thomas Bowen drowned in May 1941 and was recovered wearing one white canvas shoe; the other shoe was never found.
    - The Sawyer family owned the Carver Lake property since 1958; Evelyn died in 2016 and Debra inherited the house.
    - Six dock boards had been replaced in September 2018 before the 2019 discovery.

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    29 min
  • The Dry Shirt on the Trail: Doris Pelham's Unquiet Return

    The Dry Shirt on the Trail: Doris Pelham's Unquiet Return
    Aug 26 2026
    The Dry Shirt on the Trail: Doris Pelham's Unquiet Return

    A dry navy uniform shirt labeled "DORIS" was folded on a chair along a new trail after an inch of rain soaked the ground, and no one could explain how it stayed perfectly dry. Three anomalies at a decommissioned press, a hidden labor-board file buried sixty feet deep, and a chemical smell tied to a 1950s maintenance cycle converge into one unresolved question: how did a fifty-eight-year-old industrial death resurface in 2019?

    In this episode, we lay out the sequence of events that linked a decades-old workplace fatality to recent oddities at Calverton Manufacturing, and we follow the trail from early-morning security footage to the labor archives to ask whether forgotten practices can haunt the present.

    Person: Doris Pelham
    Date: April 9, 1961
    Location: Press seven, Calverton Manufacturing
    Event: Shirt found on Kessler Ridge Trail in 2019
    Case: Decommissioned press anomalies linked to a buried labor board finding

    - The shirt bore the name "DORIS" and was perfectly dry despite over an inch of rain soaking the ground and chair legs sunk in soft earth.
    - Doris Pelham died at approximately 2:00 a.m. on April 9, 1961, at press seven; she was 46 years old and had worked at Calverton for 11 years.
    - The state labor board documented a hydraulic line improperly reinstalled during a 1961 maintenance cycle, but that finding was buried and the settlement with the family was not public.
    - In January and again on March 3, 2019, night-shift operator Keith Roberts noted a citrus-tinged degreaser smell near press seven; the compound had been discontinued before 2008 and last used during the 1961 cycle.
    - A security camera timestamp from February 14, 2019 showed press seven's amber indicator light cycling for 22 minutes at 3:47 a.m., despite the press having been decommissioned in 2008 with no power connection.

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    28 min
  • The Dry Paper in the Flooded Creek: 22 Names, No Explanation

    The Dry Paper in the Flooded Creek: 22 Names, No Explanation
    Aug 25 2026
    The Dry Paper in the Flooded Creek: 22 Names, No Explanation

    The sight of a dry sheet of paper in a half-submerged school desk should be impossible - yet on March 7, 2011 a fisherman photographed just that: a desk in Cutter Creek with twenty-two childlike names written in two columns, and paper with no water damage and a faint smell of chalk dust. How did a pristine attendance list from a 1919-1922 school record end up in a flooded creek decades later, matching an 89-year-old county inquiry exactly?

    In this episode, we follow the sequence of discoveries from Susan Mills’s journal entries and a mysterious damp strip on her north wall to a locked house, a blackboard filled with attendance marks, and finally a desk unearthed in the creek - tying those present-day anomalies to an archival county inquiry that lists the same twenty-two students. What connects the dry paper, the blackboard inscriptions, and the century-old tragedy?

    Person: Gary Edwards
    Date: March 7, 2011
    Location: Cutter Creek
    Case: Harwick Road one-room schoolhouse inquiry (February 14, 1922)
    Person: Susan Mills

    - A fisherman photographed the school desk at 7:52 AM on March 7, 2011.
    - The desk sat half-submerged in brown floodwater after the bottomland had been flooded for four days.
    - Twenty-two names were written on the paper in childlike block print: two columns with fifteen names in the first column and seven in the second.
    - A materials conservator later confirmed the paper showed no water damage, no swelling, no silt, and the ink was unsmeared.
    - An eighty-nine-year-old county inquiry document from February 14, 1922 listed twenty-two enrolled students, matching the names found on the desk paper.

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    27 min
  • The White Shoe in the Basement: A Photograph Nobody Explains

    The White Shoe in the Basement: A Photograph Nobody Explains
    Aug 24 2026
    The White Shoe in the Basement: A Photograph Nobody Explains

    A clean white child's shoe appears, upright and centered on a grimy preparation table in a funeral home's basement-then vanishes minutes later, and an unaltered photograph proves it once existed. The county archive holds a 1939 fire marshal report that names a seven-year-old girl, Clara Speight, found in that same basement wearing white shoes; who left the shoe on a February morning in 2019, and why, is the question that haunts this case.

    In this episode, we follow the people present that morning and the local archivist gathering past accounts to describe what happened, how the image was authenticated, and the historical record that links the basement to a child's death; what emerges is a chain of February anomalies reaching back eighty years and the unresolved idea that connects them.

    Date: Wednesday, February 4, 2019
    Location: Heller and Sons Funeral Home, Garver County
    Person: Susan Schmidt (photographer)
    Person: Julie Wright (employee)
    Event: 1939 boarding house fire; Clara Speight found in basement wearing white leather shoes

    - The photograph was taken at 9:14 AM on February 4, 2019 and shows a clean white child's shoe upright between two stainless steel preparation tables.
    - Two independent examiners confirmed the photograph was not altered.
    - When Susan Schmidt and a funeral home employee walked downstairs minutes after the photo was taken, the shoe was gone.
    - The building's entry log shows no record of anyone entering the basement between the previous afternoon and Schmidt's arrival that morning.
    - The 1939 fire marshal's report records that seven-year-old Clara Speight was found in the basement near the furnace wearing a white dress and white leather shoes.

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    26 min
  • Three Knocks at 2:15 - The Candle Retrieved from a Septic Tank

    Three Knocks at 2:15 - The Candle Retrieved from a Septic Tank
    Aug 23 2026
    Three Knocks at 2:15 - The Candle Retrieved from a Septic Tank

    A woman who trusted only what she could measure heard three precise knocks at 2:15 a.m. every night; six days later a septic technician reached into a decommissioned concrete tank and pulled out an eight-inch red candle with an unbroken wax seal and a paper receipt dated November 3, 1951 - how did the paper stay dry after decades in liquid waste, and why did removing the candle stop the knocking?

    In this episode, we follow the timeline of events from the first night Shannon Sheridan heard the knocks through the septic service that recovered the candle, laying out the physical details and unresolved anomalies to consider: can preserved evidence survive where physics says it cannot, and what links the object to a decades-old fire?

    Person: Shannon Sheridan
    Date: January 8, 2019 (first knocks)
    Location: root cellar beneath master bedroom
    Event: septic tank inspection on January 14, 2019
    Item: red candle, ~8 inches, wax seal intact, attached receipt dated November 3, 1951

    - The knocking always occurred at 2:15 a.m., in a pattern of three beats, four-second pause, three beats.
    - Shannon taught seventh-grade earth science for eleven years and moved into the house on June 1, 2018.
    - The house closed in May 2018 after a county tax auction; asking price was $41,000.
    - The septic technician Gail Lane had nineteen years of experience and found the candle about an hour into the job.
    - The attached handwritten receipt is dated November 3, 1951, the same date two people died in a nearby cellar fire recorded as undetermined cause.

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    29 min
  • or hanger; room cold and damp-smelling

    or hanger; room cold and damp-smelling
    Aug 22 2026
    or hanger; room cold and damp-smelling

    A small yellow rain slicker, arms pressed flat against a north bedroom window and facing the wetlands, appeared in a photographer’s image with no one able to explain how it arrived - the garment now sealed in an archival box after textile analysis dated it to late 1970s-mid 1980s. How did a child’s raincoat show up inside a room that had been latched, cold, and undisturbed for over a year?

    In this episode, we tell the documented account of the object, the house, and the woman who lived there, laying out the photographs, the conservator’s findings, and the house’s history to ask: what possible explanations remain for an unexplained physical artifact appearing in a locked room?

    Person: Frances Bell
    Date: December 4, 2021
    Location: Hooper Road farmhouse, north bedroom
    Author: Terry Underwood (photographs)
    Status: Slicker archived at Hendricks College

    - Photographer took eleven shots before sunrise and found the farmhouse in eight frames showing the yellow slicker in the north bedroom window.
    - The homeowner had entered the north bedroom only once upon moving in during autumn 2017 and had not returned for over a year.
    - Textile conservator Dr. Pamela Osei dated the rain slicker’s style to late 1970s through mid-1980s and noted dust accumulation measured in years.
    - County records show the original farmhouse was demolished and rebuilt in 1983 after spring floods the previous year.
    - Between 2018 and 2021 Frances reported hearing approximately twelve occurrences of small footsteps starting in the north bedroom and stopping before the top of the stairs.

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