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• Dyatlov Foundation Archives — translated expedition diaries & investigation records (dyatlovpass.com)
• Russian State Archive of the Sverdlovsk Region (1959 case files)
• Kuntsevich, Yuri. Dyatlov Pass: The Untold Story of the Lost Expedition. Dyatlov Foundation, 2019.
• Tempalov, Lev Ivanovich. Field Notes and Testimonies from the Dyatlov Search Party, 1959.
• BBC Future (2019) “The Mystery of Dyatlov Pass.”
• National Geographic (2021) “What Happened to the Hikers at Dyatlov Pass?”
• Smithsonian Magazine (2020) “The Dyatlov Pass Incident: How Nine Hikers Met a Tragic and Baffling End.”
• The Guardian (2019) “Russia Reopens Investigation into 1959 Dyatlov Pass Deaths.”
• Mountain Voice Documentary (2021) The Dyatlov Pass Files, Oknyom Media.
• Mansi Oral Histories (1989–2002), Ural State Historical Museum.

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In 2002, detectives in Ferguson, Missouri, uncovered a nightmare hidden behind an ordinary smile.
Maury Travis—a polite waiter, soft-spoken neighbor, and former college student—was living a double life.
Down in his basement on 1001 Ford Drive, he built what investigators later called a house of tapes: a place where fear, control, and performance intertwined.

Known to the press as “The Street Walker Strangler,” Travis targeted women along St. Louis’s streets and filmed their final moments.
When he mailed a taunting letter to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, his arrogance became his undoing.
The digital trail led police straight to him—and to the tapes that would reveal everything.

But this story doesn’t end with his death.
Years later, new forensic teams are still giving names back to the women he took, and the house on Ford Drive continues to carry the weight of what happened beneath its floorboards.

🎙️ Veil of Echoes tells this story not to glorify a killer, but to remember those the world ignored.
Because even in the darkest rooms, there are still echoes waiting to be heard.

🔗 Listen Now

Veil of Echoes: Ep. 14 - Maury Travis: The House of Tapes
Streaming on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, and everywhere you listen.

🕯️ Works Cited / Sources

• ABC News Primetime (2002): “Serial Killer’s Home Movies”
• St. Louis Post-Dispatch (2002–2003) archives
• CBS News (2003): “Woman Renting Suspected Serial Killer’s Home to Move Out Early”
• FOX 59 News (2003): “Woman Sees Home on TV, Learns Deadly Secret” — interview with tenant Catrina McHaw
• St. Louis Public Radio (2025): “Illinois State Police, SIUE Students Identify Three Unnamed Serial Killer Victims”
• FBI Case Summaries — Maury Travis Investigation

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Show Notes

• Cold Open: “The House That Watches” — told from the perspective of the Amityville house itself.
• Segment One: The DeFeo Murders — the night that changed 112 Ocean Avenue forever.
• Segment Two: The Lutz Haunting — twenty-eight days of terror that blurred fact and faith.
• Segment Three: Truth or Hoax — where psychology, skepticism, and belief collide.
• Closing Reflection: Some houses remember… and some refuse to forget.

🕯️ Written and narrated by Bria, Zach, and Lyndsay.

Sources Cited

• People v. Ronald DeFeo Jr. – New York Supreme Court, 1977.
• Suffolk County Police & DA Reports, Amityville Homicides (1974–75).
• Jay Anson. The Amityville Horror. Prentice-Hall, 1977.
• Ric Osuna. The Night the DeFeos Died. iUniverse, 2002.
• Hans Holzer. Murder in Amityville. Doubleday, 1979.
• Ed & Lorraine Warren. Graveyard: True Hauntings from an Old New England Cemetery. St. Martin’s Press, 1992.
• Gerald Brittle. The Demonologist. Graymalkin Media, 1980.
• Channel 5 News, New York (1976) – Amityville Investigation Footage.
• Shock Docs: The Amityville Horror House – Discovery+, 2021.
• History.com & Smithsonian Magazine features on Amityville (2017–2019).
• Rolling Stone – “The True Story Behind the Amityville Horror,” 2015.
• Skeptical Inquirer Vol. 23, No. 2 (1999).
• Skeptoid Podcast, Episode #40, 2007.

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When the veil thins and the fire still burns, Halloween becomes more than costumes and candy—it becomes remembrance.

In this Veil of Echoes Halloween Special, Bria, Zach, and Lyndsay travel back to the ancient fires of Samhain, uncover the forgotten rituals that shaped All Hallows’ Eve, and share the eerie folklore that still lingers in every carved pumpkin and flickering candlelight.

But not all the night’s stories belong to ghosts.
From The Candy Man’s poisoned Pixy Stix to the Napa Valley Halloween murders, we revisit the real crimes that turned superstition into fear—and fear into legend.

Gather by the fire for strange facts, dark history, and Halloween trivia that will test how much you really know about the night the dead remember.

🕯️ New true-crime episodes every Monday
👻 Paranormal tales every Friday
🎃 Happy Halloween, Veil Walkers.

🧩 Show Notes / Segment Guide

0:00 – 2:15 The Hook — “The Night the Dead Remember”
2:15 – 5:10 Halloween Night Special Intro
5:10 – 11:00 The History of Halloween
11:00 – 20:00 Strange & Creepy Halloween Facts & Superstitions
20:00 – 33:30 The True Crimes of Halloween Night
33:30 – 45:00 Creepy Halloween Facts You Probably Didn’t Know
45:00 – 50:00 Halloween Trivia by the Fire
50:00 – End Until the Veil Closes (Outro)

📚 Sources Cited

• History.com – “The Origins of Halloween and Samhain” (2023)
• Smithsonian Magazine – “Strange Halloween Superstitions and Facts” (2022)
• National Geographic – “Halloween: From Pagan Festival to Trick-or-Treat” (2020)
• Britannica – “Samhain and All Hallows’ Eve Traditions” (2022)
• Mental Floss – “13 Creepy Halloween Facts” (2019)
• LiveScience – “The Real Origins of Halloween” (2023)
• Biography.com – “Harry Houdini’s Death on Halloween Night” (2022)
• Crime Library Archives – “The Liske Family Murders” (2011)
• Texas Monthly – “The Story of Sister Tadea Benz and Johnny Garrett” (2019)
• NBC News – “The Real Candy Man Case: Ronald O’Bryan and the Pixy Stix Murder” (2014)
• Associated Press / Reuters – “Halloween Night Murders in Napa” (2005)
• Celtic Heritage Society – “Samhain: Fire Festivals and Traditions”
• American Folklife Center, Library of Congress – “Halloween Customs and Beliefs”
• Museum of Witchcraft and Magic, Cornwall – “Medieval Soul Nights and Masking Traditions”

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Our final October mini-episode takes you deep into the world’s most haunted forests — places where history, myth, and tragedy intertwine.
From Japan’s Aokigahara to Germany’s Black Forest, we explore the legends, disappearances, and echoes that linger long after the footsteps fade.

If the trees could speak… what would they tell you?

📚 Sources Cited

Aokigahara – Sea of Trees
• Yamada, Haruki. Aokigahara: Jukai no Fushigi. Tokyo Press, 2003.
• Paranormal Japan Archives. “Voices of the Forest.” 2019.
• BBC Travel. “The Suicide Forest and Japan’s Struggle with Silence.” 2021.

Hoia Baciu Forest (Romania)
• Istrate, Elena. The Baciu Phenomenon. Cluj-Napoca University Press, 2012.
• Vice. “The Haunted Forest Where Phones Die and Time Stops.” 2018.

Pine Barrens (New Jersey)
• McCloy & Miller. The Jersey Devil. Rutgers University Press, 1976.
• Weird NJ Magazine Archives. “Encounters in the Barrens.” 1993-2020.

Freetown State Forest (Massachusetts)
• Fall River Historical Society. The Cult Murders. 1990.
• Massachusetts State Police Archive Reports (1978-1995).
• Bridgewater Triangle Documentary. Dir. Aaron Cadieux & Manny Famolare. 2013.

The Black Forest (Germany)
• Brothers Grimm. Household Tales. 1812.
• Tourism Board of Baden-Württemberg. “Legends of the Schwarzwald.” 2020.
• Deutsche Welle. “The Real Stories Behind Germany’s Dark Wood.” 2022.

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📖 SHOW NOTES:

🕯️ Episode Overview

• Aileen Wuornos’ early life, abandonment, and survival on the streets
• The trauma and violence that shaped her worldview
• The relationship with Tyria Moore and how love turned to betrayal
• The series of murders that would make her infamous
• The arrest, confessions, and media circus that followed
• Her final years on death row and haunting last words

💔 Themes

• The cycle of trauma and violence
• What happens when society fails a person repeatedly
• The blurred line between justice and survival

⚡ Reflection

Was Aileen Wuornos a product of her pain — or proof of what happens when mercy runs out?

🕯️ WORKS CITED / SOURCES

• Wuornos, Aileen. Florida State Prison Interviews and Transcripts (1991–2002).
• Berry-Dee, Christopher. Talking with Serial Killers: Women. John Blake Publishing, 2018.
• Jenkins, Brian. Monster: My True Story. Documentary archives, 2003.
• Nick Broomfield. Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer (Documentary, 2003).
• Nick Broomfield. Aileen: The Selling of a Serial Killer (Documentary, 1992).
• Stone Phillips, NBC. Aileen Wuornos Interview Series. 2002.
• Florida Department of Corrections. Official Court and Case Records.
• Psychology Today Archives. “Female Serial Killers: The Case of Aileen Wuornos.”
• Rolling Stone. “Aileen Wuornos and the Myth of the Female Monster.” 2020.
• The Guardian. “Aileen Wuornos: What the World Got Wrong.” 2019.
• CNN Archives. “The Case of Aileen Wuornos: Timeline of Events.”
• Detroit Free Press. “The Early Life of Aileen Wuornos.”

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For thirty-eight years, the sound of hammering never stopped.
Behind the ornate walls of a California mansion, a grieving widow built a labyrinth for the dead — staircases that led to ceilings, doors that opened into air, and rooms that refused to end.

Was Sarah Winchester haunted by spirits… or by her own sorrow?

In this episode, we step inside the infamous Winchester Mystery House — a home born of guilt, grief, and obsession.
From the tragic losses that drove Sarah into isolation to the whispered séances that guided her hand, we uncover the truth behind one of America’s most enduring legends.

Because sometimes… the ghosts we build for ourselves are the hardest ones to silence.

🕯️ Featuring:
– The untold grief that shaped Sarah Winchester’s obsession
– Architectural secrets hidden in the mansion’s endless rooms
– The 1906 earthquake that changed the house forever
– The truth behind the number 13 and the symbols of protection
– Ghost stories still reported by guides and visitors today

🎙️ Hosted by: Bria, Zach, and Lyndsay of Veil of Echoes
🪞 A True Crime & Paranormal Podcast

📖 SHOW NOTES

🕯️ Episode Overview

• Sarah Lockwood Winchester’s early life, marriage, and loss
• The spiritual warning that led her west to San Jose
• Thirty-eight years of continuous construction — and the ghosts that may have inspired it
• The obsession with the number 13
• The earthquake that sealed rooms forever
• Theories of madness, grief, and guilt
• Sightings of Sarah and the mysterious “Clyde”
• The legend’s influence on culture — from Harry Houdini to Walt Disney

🏚️ Paranormal Highlights

• Séance Room phenomena
• Midnight bell chimes and phantom footsteps
• The “Hall of Fires” and Daisy Bedroom hauntings
• Faces in the windows and hammering behind the walls

🕰️ Reflection

Was the mansion Sarah’s curse — or her confession?
And if walls could speak, what would the Winchester House say after all this time?

🕯️ WORKS CITED / SOURCES

• Winchester Mystery House Official Archives
• Anderson, Cynthia Winchester. The Winchester Mystery House: The Mansion Designed by Spirits. California Historical Landmark #868.
• Berne, Emma Carlson. What Do We Know About the Winchester House? Scholastic, 2021.
• U.S. Ghost Adventures. “Why the Winchester House Is Haunted.” 2024.
• Smithsonian Magazine. “The Real Story Behind the Winchester Mystery House.” 2017.
• Atlas Obscura. “Inside the Labyrinth of the Winchester Mystery House.”
• History.com Editors. “Sarah Winchester and Her Haunted Mansion.”
• Ghost Adventures, Season 2, Episode 8.
• BuzzFeed Unsolved. “The Haunting of the Winchester Mystery House.”
• San Jose Historical Society Archives.
• Houdini, Harry. Magician Among the Spirits. Harper & Brothers, 1924.
• Disney Archives. “The Inspirations Behind Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion.”

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Some stories begin as warnings… whispered at sleepovers, told around dying campfires, or passed along by a friend of a friend.
But what if the legends we grew up hearing weren’t just stories — what if they were echoes of something that really happened?

In this third Halloween Treat mini-sode, the Veil of Echoes team dives deep into six of the most chilling urban legends ever told:
the hook-handed killer waiting on Lover’s Lane, the babysitter who realizes the calls are coming from inside the house, the girl who summoned something in the mirror, the statue that wasn’t a statue, the woman who smiled without a face… and the man who still dances and grins beneath the streetlights.

Join Bria, Zach, and Lyndsay around the fire as they explore where these tales came from, how they spread, and why we still can’t shake the feeling that somewhere… they might be true.

🕯️ “Every legend starts with a warning. And maybe… with someone who didn’t make it back.”

🗒️ Show Notes:

The third chapter of our October mini-series, leading up to our Halloween night special.
This week, we explore six infamous urban legends that blur the line between cautionary tale and real-world nightmare.

🕯️ Featured Legends:

• The Hookman – A couple’s late-night drive turns deadly when an escaped killer leaves his mark.
  Earliest references: 1950s U.S. folklore; popularized through 1960s cautionary teen tales and radio dramatizations.
• The Babysitter and the Caller – A young girl’s night turns to terror when she learns the calls are coming from inside the house.
  Origin: 1960s–70s true-crime inspired folklore; connected loosely to the 1950s Columbia, MO murder of Janett Christman.
• Bloody Mary – A mirror ritual said to summon a vengeful spirit when her name is spoken three times.
  Rooted in European “mirror divination” lore and 19th-century superstitions surrounding women’s vanity and death omens.
• The Clown Statue – A babysitter calls the parents about a creepy statue in the corner — only to find out the house doesn’t own one.
  Urban folklore resurgence: 1990s–2000s; first appeared on chain emails and early Creepypasta forums.
• The Expressionless – The story of a faceless woman who appeared in a hospital and whispered, “I am God.”
  Modern internet legend; surfaced on Creepypasta forums circa 2012; inspired by horror photography hoaxes and medical myths.
• The Smiling Man – A real-life encounter turned viral nightmare: a grinning stranger follows a man through the streets at night.
  Origin: Reddit’s /r/NoSleep post “The Smiling Man” (2012); later adapted into short films and podcast retellings.

📚 Sources Cited / Referenced:

• Brunvand, Jan Harold. The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends and Their Meanings. W.W. Norton, 1981.
• Creepypasta Archives (2008–2023). “The Smiling Man,” “The Expressionless,” and “The Clown Statue.”
• Reddit /r/NoSleep: “The Smiling Man” (2012).
• “Urban Legends: The Babysitter and the Man Upstairs.” Snopes.com (1994).
• “Bloody Mary: From Folklore to Fear.” Smithsonian Folklife Journal, 2019.
• American Folklore Society – Modern Legends Database. (1950s–present).
• Kobayashi, Naomi. Japanese Urban Myths & Mirror Rituals. Tokyo Folklore Press, 2009.
• The Hookman Legend and Moral Panic. American Folklore Review, Vol. 42, No. 3 (2018).

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