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  • Seventy-Two Years Later: The Piggy Bank on a Frozen Gate Post

    Seventy-Two Years Later: The Piggy Bank on a Frozen Gate Post
    2026/11/03
    Seventy-Two Years Later: The Piggy Bank on a Frozen Gate Post

    A pale yellow ceramic piggy bank from the 1940s-50s was found balanced on a wooden gate post on January 9, 2023, with no footprints within eighty yards and an intact padlock-how did it arrive there seventy-two years to the day after a deadly fire on the same property? Was the repaired crack and late-model electrical tape a clue to its journey, or a coincidence that ties the present to January 9, 1951?

    In this episode, we follow the documented six-week sequence of events on the Weller Road property, from the discovery at 6:15 a.m. to a mysterious groan under the kitchen heard at 9:51 p.m.; we present the verifiable facts and the open questions that remain about the object, the house, and the estate history. Could the piggy bank, the surviving strip of pre-fire wood, and the timing all be connected?

    Person: Brian Long
    Date: January 9, 2023
    Location: Weller Road, Dunnmore, Nebraska
    Case: piggy bank found balanced on gate post
    Event: groaning sound from root cellar at 9:51 p.m. on January 14, 2023

    - The piggy bank was photographed at 6:15 a.m, on January 9, 2023, with the temperature at 11°F.
    - There were no footprints or snow disturbance for approximately eighty yards in either direction from the post.
    - The padlock on the chain-link gate showed no sign of tampering when Deputy Chris Waite documented the scene.
    - The piggy bank had a crack near its base repaired with a strip of brown vinyl electrical tape manufactured no earlier than the 1980s.
    - The original house on the property burned in January 1951; a single strip of pre-fire wood remains on the kitchen sill of the rebuilt farmhouse.

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    29 分
  • The Yellow Boot on the Wellhead: What Was Buried Beneath Tanner Parish?

    The Yellow Boot on the Wellhead: What Was Buried Beneath Tanner Parish?
    2026/11/02
    The Yellow Boot on the Wellhead: What Was Buried Beneath Tanner Parish?

    A single yellow child's boot was found upright on a concrete wellhead on December 9, 2011 - dry after nineteen days without rain and lying where no child had been. Days later a six-foot circular upheaval appeared around the wellhead and a 1961 subsurface survey slipped from the collar, describing a sealed brick-lined cistern nine feet deep; what on this farm had been deliberately buried, and why was it returning signs of itself now?

    In this episode, we trace the sequence of discoveries on a sixty-acre farm from December 2011 and the archival paper trail that revealed a sealed structure beneath a modern wellhead. Listen as neighbors, township records, and a misfiled survey piece together the question of what lay under the farmhouse and why the 1961 recommendation to offset the well was apparently ignored.

    Person: Lloyd Kowalski
    Person: Denise Weber
    Date: December 9, 2011
    Date: December 14, 2011
    Event: 1961 subsurface survey found sealed brick-lined cistern at nine feet depth

    - The boot was found on December 9, 2011 after nineteen days with no rain.
    - Lloyd Kowalski had walked the same route on the Weber property on the ninth of every month for six years.
    - The disturbed circle around the wellhead measured roughly six feet across and showed no tool marks or displaced soil pile.
    - A folded survey titled "Voss Township Subsurface Survey" included the visible year "1961" and a cross-section marking enclosed structural material at nine feet.
    - The 1961 survey recommended offsetting any new well a minimum of twenty feet from the cistern's edge, but the 2003 wellhead sat directly over the void.

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    24 分
  • A man discovers his handwriting is identical to a dead dispatcher's - character for character

    A man discovers his handwriting is identical to a dead dispatcher's - character for character
    2026/11/01
    A man discovers his handwriting is identical to a dead dispatcher's - character for character

    The chill here is precise: two pages of block-capital handwriting, one written the same week and one photocopied from March 4, 1978, match character for character and pressure for pressure. How can a living night dispatcher produce the exact hand of a man who died sixteen years earlier?

    In this episode, we present the documented account compiled by transit history correspondent Diane Fisher, laying out the room, the records, the people, and the small ordinary facts that together create an unsettling picture. What does the record itself suggest about how those two pages came to coexist?

    Person: Norman Meyer
    Person: Gerald Opp
    Date: March 4, 1978
    Date: November 14, 2019
    Author: Diane Fisher

    - Norman Meyer was 38 years old with eleven years on the job in 2019.
    - Gerald Opp died on November 9, 2003, at age 76 after retiring in 1984.
    - Barbara Enlow catalogued nine volumes of dispatch records spanning from 1961 to the present and noted single-person handwriting consistency.
    - A facilities crew cut the hasp on a wooden cabinet in late October 2019 because no key at the depot fit the lock.
    - The photocopied page from March 4, 1978, and a page written the same week in 2019 were identical character for character.

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    28 分
  • The Yellow Slicker at the Sealed Porthole: Who Placed It and Why?

    The Yellow Slicker at the Sealed Porthole: Who Placed It and Why?
    2026/10/31
    The Yellow Slicker at the Sealed Porthole: Who Placed It and Why?

    A child's yellow rain slicker, dated by a conservator to pre-1961 dyes and showing no fresh oils, hung perfectly centered against a sealed porthole of a locked basement that had not been opened for eleven days. Who arranged a decades-old garment on the inside of a fixed window of the Aldric Community Center on a freshly graded harbor path - and why would no physical entry or recent handling be evident?

    In this episode, you will hear the documented timeline of discovery, the accounts of witnesses who refused to enter the basement, and the archival details that connect the slicker to an earlier inspection note - all presented through primary descriptions and recorded findings. What does the ledger page found in the slicker’s pocket reveal, and can mundane explanations account for the sealed room, the untouched fabric, and the prior 1993 observation?

    Person: Megan Zimmerman
    Location: Aldric Community Center, Pelton Harbor
    Date: second Tuesday of October at 2:17 PM
    Object: child's yellow rain slicker dated to mid-twentieth century (dye compounds not manufactured after 1961)
    Inspector: Vince Purcell (locksmith) - deadbolt showed no tampering

    - The porthole was a fixed, sealed unit with no entry other than the interior staircase and the deadbolt showed no sign of tampering.
    - The building’s basement had been locked and not opened for eleven days before Megan Zimmerman photographed the slicker.
    - A textile conservator determined the slicker’s dye compounds were not manufactured after 1961 and found no fresh oils or contemporary particulates.
    - A 1993 engineering report by Phil Courtney noted a garment pressed against a porthole window on page eleven but provided no further detail.
    - Amy Donnelly, program director for 14 years, had stopped descending the basement stairs since mid-September, saying the room "felt as if the room is the thing that has forgotten you're supposed to be there."

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    26 分
  • The Logbook Below the Tower: Someone Wrote for a Dead Warden

    The Logbook Below the Tower: Someone Wrote for a Dead Warden
    2026/10/30
    The Logbook Below the Tower: Someone Wrote for a Dead Warden

    A soaked government-issue logbook floated down Elbow Creek and was found intact on September 9, 2017, yet its pages contained three entries written between September 2 and 4 that no one could explain. The entries used correct government format and accurate meteorological readings, were inserted between Marilyn Whitley’s own notes, and appeared while the tower cab was locked from the inside-so who wrote them?

    In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the logbook’s discovery to the entries that puzzled supervisors and colleagues, laying out what was recorded in the field and what remained unanswered. What do correct-style entries, a locked cab, and recurring wood-stove smells on northwest wind days mean together?

    Person: Michael Stewart
    Date: September 9, 2017
    Person: Marilyn Whitley
    Location: Clearwater Lookout No. 4, Penter's Cap
    Event: Three unexplained logbook entries dated between September 2 and 4

    - The logbook was found soaked and swollen against a root wad at the waterline of Elbow Creek.
    - Marilyn Whitley began entries at Clearwater Lookout No, 4 on September 1, 2017.
    - Three new entries appeared between Marilyn’s notes for September 2 and September 4.
    - The cab door was locked from the inside with a sliding bolt and the external padlock key was only on Marilyn’s ring.
    - Wardens at No. 4 historically reported an intermittent wood-stove smell on northwest wind days, lasting about 60-90 minutes.

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    28 分
  • The Frosted Handprint: When Bay Eleven Blew Cold in August

    The Frosted Handprint: When Bay Eleven Blew Cold in August
    2026/10/29
    The Frosted Handprint: When Bay Eleven Blew Cold in August

    A licensed surveyor pressed her palm to a glass partition in a repurposed cold-storage bay and watched her breath fog in ninety-one-degree August heat; the glass was cold enough to leave a photographic condensation handprint that she logged and reported. The refrigeration system had been certified decommissioned eighteen months earlier - so why did Bay Eleven feel like a freezer again?

    In this episode, we follow the timeline from the building's 1931 origin as Dellwood Cold Storage through its 2018 conversion into Carver Street Market, the formal decommissioning signed by a licensed mechanical contractor, and the ordinary actions that placed people and objects in Bay Eleven - all leading to a single unexplained cold handprint. Could a documented industrial history and routine human choices point to a physical anomaly in a modern market space?

    Person: Nicole Johnson
    Date: August 14, 2019 at 10:22 AM
    Location: Bay Eleven, Carver Street Market
    Status: Refrigeration certified decommissioned February 2018
    Event: Accidental asphyxiation death of Albert Norris in August 1953

    - Outside temperature was 91 degrees Fahrenheit on the morning the handprint was made.
    - The refrigeration system was certified decommissioned by Tom Bauer of Bauer Climate Services in February 2018.
    - The original building was constructed in 1931 and operated as Dellwood Cold Storage for nearly ninety years before conversion.
    - Albert Norris, age 44, died of Freon displacement asphyxiation in Bay Eleven in the third week of August 1953; his body was discovered at 10:20 AM.
    - Rebecca Powell arranged and furnished Bay Eleven about fourteen months before August 14, 2019, placing a fig tree in the corner during the soft opening.

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    28 分
  • The Notebook in the Dry Tank: Lights That Wake at 2:30 AM

    The Notebook in the Dry Tank: Lights That Wake at 2:30 AM
    2026/10/28
    The Notebook in the Dry Tank: Lights That Wake at 2:30 AM

    A bone-dry burgundy notebook found in a sealed septic tank belonged to an astronomer who died seventy years earlier, and a stairwell light has been turning on every night between 2:30 and 2:51 AM with no visible cause - what links a lost notebook and lights that wake a scientist in the middle of the night?

    In this episode, we follow the sequence of strange occurrences at Calloway Ridge Observatory and Halverson Hall at Brauer University, from a contractor finding the notebook on July 10, 2011 to repeated sensor-triggered lights and unexplained objects appearing in a researcher’s office, asking whether these are mechanical errors or something more puzzling.

    Person: August Wren
    Date: July 10, 2011
    Location: Calloway Ridge Observatory, Brauer University
    Person: Cynthia Brooks
    Date: July 1-10, 2011

    - The notebook was retrieved from a tank at 6:41 AM on July 10, 2011 by septic contractor Susan Cox.
    - August Wren built Calloway Ridge Observatory in 1926 and had been dead for seventy years at the time the notebook was found.
    - Cynthia Brooks began waking between 2:00 and 4:00 AM with a sensation of a door closing, and first saw the stairwell light on July 1, 2011.
    - The PIR motion sensor in the east stairwell consistently triggered between 2:30 and 2:51 AM on multiple nights while the stairwell remained empty.
    - On July 3, 2011 Cynthia found an unfamiliar star chart on her desk placed over her own Scorpius chart, annotated in an unknown cramped penciled hand.

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    27 分
  • The Child's Hand in the Harrow Ford Window: Unanswered Trace

    The Child's Hand in the Harrow Ford Window: Unanswered Trace
    2026/10/27
    The Child's Hand in the Harrow Ford Window: Unanswered Trace

    A child's hand pressed to fogged glass appears in a photograph of an otherwise empty border outpost - a building staffed by a single 51-year-old woman who kept an upper room closed and logged a repeating sweet chemical smell and unexplained temperature drops only on weekdays. Whose hand was it, and why do the physical records show no one else was ever there?

    In this episode, we tell what happened at Harrow Ford in June 2011, presenting the sequence of observations, logs, and physical evidence that surround the photograph and the unexplained events - and we ask whether the patterns in Holly Myers’s records point to something missed by investigators.

    Person: Holly Myers
    Date: June 9, 2011
    Location: Harrow Ford, northern Vermont
    Person: Nicole Porter
    Event: child’s hand in upper window photograph

    - Holly Myers had worked for Customs and Border Protection for 22 years and transferred to Harrow Ford in March 2008.
    - Nicole Porter, age 41, photographed Harrow Ford on June 9, 2011 and later found an image showing a child’s palm pressed to an upper window.
    - Between May and June 2011, Holly logged a sweet, chemical smell 17 times occurring only between 9:00 AM and 2:00 PM.
    - Temperature sensors recorded sudden drops of 4-7°F lasting 9-22 minutes, never after dark and never on Saturdays.
    - On Saturday June 7, 2011 Holly left the upper room closed but returned to find it open with a single blue-crayon child’s drawing on the floor; no access or vehicle logs showed entry in the prior 11 days.

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    26 分