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What does it take for an ordinary neighbor to become the town witch?

Across the Midwest, stories survived of women blamed for strange illnesses, failed crops, unexplained deaths and supposed hexes. In Southern Illinois, crowds gathered to watch two sisters who claimed they had been bewitched. In Cincinnati, children became convinced that an elderly woman reading by candlelight was practicing magic. And in Rochester, Indiana, Irene Ray's reputation became so frightening that residents eventually demanded she be prosecuted for witchcraft.

Andrew and Terri explore those stories alongside old Midwestern witch folklore, the complicated history of folk healers and accusations, modern Wicca and contemporary witchcraft, Chicago's extraordinary mail-order occult industry, and the legends that transformed Whitewater, Wisconsin into the so-called “Second Salem.”

Because sometimes the strangest part of a witch story isn't the magic.

It's how certain everyone becomes that the witch is real.

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School buildings are filled with generations of memories, rumors, tragedies—and ghost stories.

This week, Terri and Andrew explore haunted schools: a mysterious visitor who had been dead for decades, an Illinois junior high allegedly haunted by a nun, the strange 19th-century saga of Pink Lizzie, apparitions in school theaters, ghost stories passed between generations of students, and a high school built over a cemetery where human remains were eventually uncovered.

Along the way, we examine why the same legends keep appearing in schools around the world, where folklore ends and documented history begins, and why an empty school after dark can feel like one of the creepiest places imaginable.

Class dismissed.

The ghosts may have other plans.

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A light glows in a lighthouse disconnected for generations. A chain moves as though an unseen child is tugging it. A missing freighter sails again through the storms of Lake Superior.

Terri shares her own unexplained experience at Whitefish Point—and the discovery that another visitor reported the same strange movement years earlier. From there, Terri and Andrew venture into haunted lighthouses, phantom schooners, the disappearance of the Bannockburn, the science of Fata Morgana mirages, and a sailor’s encounter with three silent men in a boat that should have sunk.

They also explore the tragedy of the SS Eastland, reported hauntings later associated with Harpo Studios, and the sound of someone sobbing in the darkness of Lake Michigan.

Do the Great Lakes keep their dead—or do some of them keep sailing?

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A massive black dog appears inside a sealed tent, watching a sleeping couple. When the man lunges at it, his fist passes straight through—and the creature vanishes.

From the infamous 1577 Black Shuck attacks at Bungay and Blythburgh to modern encounters on lonely roads in England and the United States, Terri and Andrew T. explore the folklore of hellhounds, phantom black dogs, spectral guardians, death omens, and supernatural hounds.

Some of these creatures bring terror and destruction. Some appear shortly before a death. Others silently accompany vulnerable travelers through dark woods—and may even save their lives.

So what are these mysterious black hounds? Demonic hunters, ghosts, omens, guardians of sacred ground—or several very different supernatural beings that have become tangled together in folklore?

This episode examines historical accounts, collected folktales, and reported encounters involving Black Shuck, the Snarly Yow, the inspiration behind The Hound of the Baskervilles, and other enormous dogs said to appear, disappear, and watch from the darkness.

Have you ever encountered a dog that seemed impossibly large, vanished without a trace, or appeared to be watching something no one else could see? Tell us your story in the comments.

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A tall, faceless man stands at the end of the hallway, watching. An old woman presses down on a sleeper's chest. Someone wakes unable to move—and becomes certain they aren't alone.

This week, we descend into the strange territory between sleep, folklore and the paranormal as we explore the Hat Man, shadow people, the Old Hag and the phenomenon of sleep paralysis.

We look at what science can explain, trace older traditions surrounding nighttime intruders, share historical and modern encounters, and examine the stories that become much harder to dismiss as dreams—including cases involving waking witnesses and multiple members of the same family.

Andrew T. and Terri also share unsettling childhood experiences of their own.

Are these figures products of the sleeping brain, supernatural visitors, or something stranger somewhere in between?

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Pull your chair closer to the fire—but pay attention to how many shadows are sitting beside you.

In this episode, Terri and Andrew share the kinds of frightening stories that have been told around campfires for generations: classic urban legends, regional ghost stories, Appalachian monsters, Gullah Geechee folklore, haunted railroads, mysterious witches, vengeful spirits, and a collection of two-sentence nightmares.

Along the way, they encounter the Dungarvon Whooper, the Taily-Po, a possible Boo Hag, Screaming Jenny, the Chesterville Witch, a disconnected telephone that rings in the darkness, and several reasons never to investigate a strange noise outside your tent.

Some stories are frightening. Some are unexpectedly touching. Others leave behind questions that probably should not be answered after dark.

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What makes an object haunted?

Is it a spirit attached to something it once owned? An emotional imprint left by tragedy? A ritual performed with intention? Or can an ordinary object become powerful simply because enough people believe its story?

In this episode, Terri and Andrew explore haunted objects and cursed artifacts ranging from a German Mauser seemingly accompanied by a shadowy soldier to the Delhi Purple Sapphire, the Crying Boy paintings, the mysterious Hexham Heads, allegedly haunted items sold online, and a disturbing ritual discovered deep in the Pacific Northwest woods.

Some objects appear to remember. Some seem to respond. And some refuse to stay gone.

But perhaps the most powerful thing attached to an object is not always a ghost. Sometimes, it is the story.

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Truck drivers spend long nights traveling through places most of us only pass through—and sometimes they see things waiting beyond the headlights.

In this episode, we share unsettling accounts of a ghostly passenger who never appeared on camera, a mysterious CB voice that may have saved a driver’s life, an unseen creature that slammed into a truck in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, and a familiar West Virginia highway that somehow became an impossible road.

Along the way, we encounter roadside apparitions, strange lights, Bigfoot, unexplained creatures, missing time, and one very important piece of advice:

Don’t get out of the truck.

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