Ep. 4 - We Wish You An Eerie Christmas

In the very first UNKNOWN HORIZONS Christmas special, Jesse, Micheal, and Zach share three chilling holiday tales.

Episode Transcript

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Tonight in our inaugural Christmas episode,we are taking inspiration from the rich British
tradition of sharing eerie tales around theYule Tide fire. So brace yourselves for
a captivating blend of supernatural encounters,chilling legends, and spectral mysteries that will
send shivers down your spine. Getready to unlock the secrets of the unknown

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and unwrap the dark side of Christmasin this unforgettable festive special. Welcome to
the first Christmas episode of Unknown Horizons. As always with you, I am
one of your hosts, Jesse.Tonight with us we have Michael Hey there,
and back with us again we haveZach Hey. So before we get

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into our stories, guys, whydon't we just talk for a minute here
about what our inspirations were to dothis, and a little bit of a
primer on the stories that we've pickedtonight. Which one of you guys would
like to go first? I'll gofirst. Tonight. I am covering the
story of the Warminster Thing, whichis a little bit of a paranormal extraterrestrial

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type thing. It's kind of astrange phenomenon, but it definitely captures the
Christmas spirit well, I think excellent. And Zach and I'm going to be
talking about the mysterious disappearance of OliverLurch. Oh, I've never heard of
that one. I'm very intrigued tohear about that. Without further ado,
Again, listeners, we really wantto set the mood tonight on again our

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first Christmas episode. So dim thelights, light that fire, spark up
some incense or any other sort ofherbal pleasures you might engage in. Do
whatever you've got to do to getin the mood, because, in a
departure from our usual format of havingan interviewee guest on again, we are

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going to be sharing some Christmas campfiretales with you, as it were,
So, Michael, why don't youkick things off and tell us and our
listeners about the Warminster Thing. Deepin the heart of western Wiltshire, Nestled
away beneath the shroud of the Englishcountryside, lies the quoint town of Warminster.

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Though it may seem like just anothersleepy English suburb, do not be
fooled by its unassuming facade. Warminsterharbor secrets that whisper through its ancient streets,
Secrets that have haunted it for centuries. Once this land bore witness to
the Romans tread and even King Arthurhimself laid claim to its soil. But
it's not the echoes of past monarchsthat send shivers down the spines of anyone

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who dares to venture into this town. No, it's the chilling tales that
have woven themselves into the fabric ofWarminster over the years. The most spine
tingling legend of all is the WarminsterThing. In the shadows of stonehenges enigmatic
stones, locals have gazed upon thenight sky only to witness strange other worldly

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phenomena. Unexplained lights, eerie blacktriangles, and extraterrestrial creatures have haunted this
land, reaching back almost a century, with a sinister climax on Christmas Day
of nineteen sixty five. Despite thepassage of half a century, the haunting
mystery endures, drawing curious seekers andskeptics alike to this unsuspecting town. So

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beware, for as the sun setsover Warminster, it is not just the
church bells that ring out. Itis the unsettling echoes of the unknown that
linger in the air, forever intertwinedwith the town's history. Throughout the nineteen
thirties and nineteen forties, the regionaround Warminster became a hotbed of strange activity.
Residents reported hearing strange, cracking soundsthat were stark in nature, which

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predated the UFO phenomenon by at leasta few decades. World War II came
and went, and throughout it thestrange sounds persevered. It wasn't until nineteen
sixty five, though, that thecraze and Warminster really took off. Thanks
to local journalist Arthur Shuttlewood. Workingfor the Warminster Journal, Shuttlewood, a
seasoned reporter, crafted an article thatwould ignite a wave of unsettling phenomena.

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The piece, hidden in the journal'sdepths, relayed the chilling account of Marjorie
by a local housewife who, onChristmas Morning encountered bizarre crackling noises near Bell
Hill, reminiscent of the sound ofbranches scraping over gravel. This seemingly innocuous
story, published as Mere Filler,soon became the catalyst for a town wide

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obsession. As the tale spread,Warminster became a nexus of paranormal intrigue.
More than thirty residents corroborated by hisexperience each adding their own eerie encounter,
Shuttlewood, delving deeper, amassed adossier of these chilling reports. The town,
once considered mundane, transformed into ahotbed of extraterrestrial activity. Sightings of

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strange metallic orbs and cigar shaped craftsfilled the skies, accompanied by inexplicable booming
and whizzing sounds. These other worldlyvisitations seemed to have a peculiar effect on
animal particularly dogs, and even causedmechanical failures in some cars. Amidst this
chaos, attempts to photograph these mysteriousvisitors proved futile. Most intriguingly, these

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sightings were concentrated around Cradle Hill andClay Hill, the latter steeped in dark
folklore and rumored to be a creationof the devil himself. The proximity of
these hills to a military base provideda rational explanation, yet the town preferred
to indulge in the more thrilling supernaturalnarrative. On August seventeenth, nineteen sixty
five, a loud boom shook housesin a neighborhood nearby, and residents were

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called the noise, making them allcollectively look outside a monstrous orange flame was
seen in the sky, crackling andhissing, said one witness. In the
weeks and months that followed, residentsof the area reported hearing and seeing similar
phenomena, strange sights and sounds thatstretched their understanding of reality. Some of

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these reports were accentuated by some localcranks, but by and large, it
seems like everyone in the area,even the tourists that flocked to the region
after the early accounts were published,seemed to report seeing or hearing Warminster's Thing,
as it came to be known.This all led to Christmas Day nineteen
sixty five, roughly a year afterthe first outburst, when a flurry of

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reports were made by some local residentswho claimed to see numerous flying objects in
the sky, accompanied by some strangesounds and unusual lights. Pictures of flying
saucers and other unidentified craft in thesky would be circulated over the next few
months, but eventually the popularity ofthe town's unexplained happenings began to fade.
Yet many today tried to explain whathappened. Was it the town's proximity to

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Stonehenge that attracted these strange, unearthlysymptoms. Was it merely auditory and visual
runoff from the nearby military base,or with the events always seeming to heighten
in intensity during the winter months,was this Santa Claus himself. Sadly we'll
never know, as the Warminster thingremains clouded in mist three to this day.
So what do you guys think?I find stories from that era in

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history regarding strange sightings in the skyand especially the prevalence of loud booms,
to be endlessly fascinating, and thereare no shortage of reported things like that.
Something that comes to mind are aseries of sightings that occurred in Germany.

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And I believe the fourteen hundreds arethe fifteen hundred, Zach, you
know the ones I'm talking about,right, And Michael, I think you've
seen these two. Yeah, theyhave woodcuts showing like a chaotic scene in
the night sky. Yeah. Wasit over Nuremberg? I think it was.
It was the Nuremberg Lights, That'swhat it was. Yeah, that's
a really interesting story, like peopledescribing an epic space battle unfolding above them.

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M And that's obviously centuries before thephenomenon that was witnessed in Germany that
came to be known as Foo Fighters, obviously the inspiration behind the band name.
But yeah, these pre modern aviationhistory unidentified flying phenomena activity in Europe
is just an endless well of speculationand fascination. You know, this era,

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like the nineteen sixties in particular,it seems to be kind of like
that in between between, you know, like the nineteen forties and nineteen fifties
where you know, cameras and stuffwere still pretty archaic. So in Warminster,
like these kind of rumors of similarphenomena date back centuries and it's you
know, the town has such likethis interesting historic background, but the fact
that there this has been kind oflike a continuous running theme throughout the town,

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it makes it just pretty spooky andkind of interesting. Yeah, no,
it's just not unprecedented. Obviously,in modern times we have a lot
of stories of quote unquote paranormal hotbedsthat tie into the theory of lay lines.
Point pleasant of course, in WestVirginia immediately comes to mind that there
has been UFO phenomenon dating all theway back from the nineteen sixties up until

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now, but it is rare tohear a locational hotbed for this type of
phenomena to go back almost a millennia. Yeah, that's something wild that's kind
of hard to ignore. What doyou have to say about it, Zach,
Yeah, I'm just I'm really fascinatedby stories of mystery sounds. It's

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a phenomenon I don't think really getstalked about enough, especially with this one.
It seems like it really has alot of similarities between the more modern
phenomenon of skyquakes. I don't knowif you guys are more familiar with that,
but there was actually like a mysterysound underwater off of the eastern coast
of Canada not too long ago.Was the Tunguska blast heard at the time,
because I know they didn't discover thedestruction caused by whatever happened there until

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decades later, But I can't rememberif there were contemporary reports of a boom
at that time. Yeah, well, I think Tanguska didn't. I think
it was heard like thousands of milesaway or whatever. But wasn't that like
around the same time. That's whenthey had like a particularly cold winter,
and they, like scientists have associatedthat with the Tunguusca. I mean,
there are a lot of Tonguusca theories, so it could be in there.

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Yeah. The big one that isoften bandied about is and Zach correct me
if I'm wrong here, but Iseem to remember reading in a lot of
places that it was theorized that itwas a meteorite that exploded in mid air
and that's why they didn't find acreator associated with it. Yeah, there's
a specific name for that sort ofHhmm, I don't know what you'd call
it. I guess it wasn't reallygonna be an impact, but I think

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a much smaller scale one actually hitRussia in more modern times. I remember
seeing the video of like this streakacross the sky and then like these windows
like shattered in the town. Doyou guys remember that wasn't that on a
dash cam video? Well it wasfrom Russia, so probably yeah, exactly.
But yeah. The thing that that'sinteresting about these like mystery sounds,

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particularly like the one that I'm thinkingof off the coast of Canada, is
they often make anyto the news,but then there's not really ever any follow
up. Yeah. I currently liveup in Anchorage, and up here there's
been something known as the Anchorage Home, which is like something similar like a
strange sound that just permeates throughout theregion. There is a lot of that

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going on around the world currently.I actually have some stuff bookmarked in my
phone for future episodes. We areseeing a major recurrence in modern times listeners
of these unexplainable sounds that seem toinvade a specific area and stake their claim.
And there are a lot of theories, but as far as scientifical conclusions,

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we're left wanting for conclusive explanations.Here we go decades in between these
phenomenons popping up, but we're inthe middle of a definite resurgence of it.
And I have heard of the activityup there in Anchorage. Yeah,
that's very strange. I guess weshould at least take a passing reference to
Havana syndrome. Yes, yes,definitely, And doesn't Havanah syndrome also kind

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of tie into the exploding head syndromea bit. Uh. I don't know.
Have you guys ever had exploding headsyndrome? I do. I have
it, like, not constantly,but pretty frequently. It's it's a weird
thing to experience. You have explodinghead syndrome? Yeah, no, shit,
Yeah, it's a thing. It'skind of like tied the sleep proalysis

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a little bit. It's kind oflike a milder but like different version of
it. So there will be timeswhere, like in particular, where I'm
stressed out, where I'll start fallingasleep, and as I'm drifting off to
sleep, I'll hear what just basicallysounds like, I don't know, something
terrifying to me. So it'll belike it'll sound like a door slamming,
or like sometimes it'll sound like asloud as a gunshot, like something like
that. So I'll just bolt awaken. Thankfully most of the time my wife's

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there, and if she's not reacting, I'm like, Okay, it was
just me. But yeah, it'sit's strange, you see, I have
something similar that I don't know ifit's an actual syndrome or if this is
something that everybody experiences. Maybe youguys can give me some context here.
But I'll be in that same statethat you were describing, where you know,
you're just between falling asleep and beingawake, and I will hear like

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conversations like they're in the room,like voices I recognize. I remember a
couple of years ago, I wasdrifting off to sleep, and I heard
the voice of a guy that Iwent to middle school with and haven't seen
in twenty years, but I heardhis voice talking to someone else, and
I just kind of wrote it offas like, Oh, I'm kind of
falling asleep now, But I wonderif there is a thing regarding that listeners.

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If you're familiar with some sort ofa syndrome or a condition associated with
that, be sure to reach outto us at our social media page,
which is Unknown Horizons Podcast on Instagram. That's all one word, Unknown Horizons
Podcast. If this is interesting toyou and you want to see it in
a in amatic format. There wasa movie that was released in Netflix a

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few years ago called The Block IslandSound, which I would highly recommend people
check out. It's about a similarphenomenon in a connection to extraterrestrials that I
loved, but I don't hear mentionedvery often. Yeah, I haven't even
heard of that one. I'll haveto check that out. Yeah, maybe
we should introduce listeners. Let usknow if this is something that you would

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be interested in seeing us while hearingus do, and you can reach out
to us again on our social mediapage. Or if you are interested in
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That's one to eight nine Productions,that's our parent company. We have
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eighty nine and True Crime Movie Club. And if you would be interested in
perhaps us doing occasional say movie ordocumentary review episode where we sit down and
do a deep dive into films likethe one that Zach has just mentioned,
or even maybe commentary tracks on paranormalclassics like the Fire in the Sky film,

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or perhaps even the Christian propaganda maskinghas Hollywood Cinema of the Conjuring Universe.
Definitely let us know if that's somethingyou'd be interested in. But in
the meantime, continuing this fine traditionof spooky stories around the holiday season,

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Zach, what story did you bringto the table tonight? My story takes
place on the Lurch family farm,which was a small family farm located on
the outskirts of South Bend, Indiana, And this story takes place on Christmas
Eve, eighteen eighty nine. Thefamily was beginning to settle in after a
long day of preparation. The brothersOliver twenty three and Jim twenty I had

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returned home to the holidays, andthey were beginning to set the table,
quietly catching up while their mother preparedminsmeat tarts in the kitchen. Father Thomas
added a few logs of the family'shearth before returning to his armchair to enjoy
a few moments of quiet before companyarrived. While outside, a gentle wind
kicked up the fresh snow that hadfallen the day before, rustling the white
pines that surrounded the humble homestead.Soon enough, a carriage arrived and three

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figures wrapped in flannels made the shortwalk to the Lurch family door. They
were Chicago attorney Anthony Lisk, hisdaughter Lilian, and the local reverend Samuel
Mlou, all a long time familyfriends of the Lurches. After quickly welcoming
their company, the evening's festivities began. Missus Lurch beamed as the company continued
to rave about the feast she hadlaboriously prepared, and Lilian blushed as both
boys vied for her attention. Whilethe older gents discussed local politics while filling

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the living room with the smell offreshly harvested tobacco and freshly spilled brandy.
As the night wore on, MissusLurch announced that the party was running low
on drinking water, and Oliver,still very interested in impressing Lilian, eagerly
volunteered to fetch it. Passing overhis winter scarf and gloves in a mad
rush to seem useful, he slippedinto his boots grabbed two pails. Before
his brother Jim had even managed toprocess his mother's quest, Oliver opened the

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door and prepared for the short hiketo the well, turning his head to
smirk at Jim, who offered ascowl in return. As the door shut
behind him, Oliver could just makeout the sound of Lily and giggling at
one of his brother's jokes, andhe began to wonder if perhaps he had
made the wrong decision. A fewmoments later, the quiet of the Lurch
home was shattered by a blood curdlingscream. The six remaining revelers stood in
shocked silence for a moment. Thesecond scream knocked them out of their stupor,

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and, realizing that Oliver was introuble, they rushed into the cold
winter night to save the young manfrom whatever threat had found him. So
they hoped to find Oliver had simplyhad an accident. There was a gnawing
feeling of dread that weighed heavily onthe party as they followed his tracks through
the snow. There was something dreadfullyunholesome about the scream they had heard,
Some indescribable dread seemed to echo behindthe initial shout, something that implied something
far more sinister than a sprained ankle. The feeling was amplified when two hundred

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or so yards from the house,Oliver's footprint simply stopped. No signs of
a struggle beyond the two buckets lyingon their side, no blood, no
imprint from a body. It wasas though he had just vanished. The
group stared at each other with bewilderment, before Oliver's voice once again cut through
them. Help help, It's gotme, he helped, from somewhere in
the black night. Jim was thefirst to move, running as fast as

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the snow would allow him the directionthat Oliver had been heading, but Thomas
could have sworn the shout to comefrom his right. He and Missus Lurch
decided to move in that direction.Likewise, Reverend Sam swore the sound of
the scream had been to the party'sleft. He handed mister Lisk his lantern
and advised him to take Lilian backinside the house, and asked him to
join in the surch as soon ashe could. Regardless of the direction they
had gone in, no one foundOliver, but they did continue to hear

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him over the course of the nextfew minutes. His occasional cries and whimpers
and insists in refraining that it hadhim, was echoing from seemingly everywhere,
each party desperately running in the directionthey thought they heard the boy's pleas coming
from, until they all inadvertently returnedto the spot where his footprints had ended.
Another scream tore through them, butexhaustion was beginning to set in,
and none of the party were ina state to make another mad dash towards

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the sound. This gave them afew additional seconds to process the sound and
to identify its source. Another panickedto cry, all but confirmed it.
This revelation provided no comfort, asthe searchers realized of their horror that the
sound was not coming from their leftto their right, nor did it lie
forward up the path or behind themtowards the house. The sound was coming
from above them. The six stooddumbfounded for a moment, unsure what to
do. The Reverend made the signof the Cross, while mister Lisk ran

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back towards the Lurch farmhouse in apanic, desperate to confirm that Lilian was
still safe. The Lurches themselves simplystared into the vast night sky, desperately
searching for a sign of Oliver.Another scream a desperate sob Oliver continued to
beg from release from somewhere among thetwinkling stars, and to his family's horror,
the screams now seemed to be growingmore distant, as though whatever had
their beloved son was pulling him higherand higher into the heavens, until a

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final cry of mother, please,and then Oliver was once and truly gone.
Eventually, Reverend Milou managed to corralthe grieving family back into their home.
As dawn broke, he and misterLisk began walking towards town. Despite
the otherworldly aura that hung over Oliver'sdisappearance, they did not know what else
to do but to gather a searchparty and hope, against hope that they
were the victims of some sort ofshared hysteria, and then the new light

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of day, a young man wouldbe found, perhaps simply confused and wandering
off into the forest. This wouldnot be the case. The search would
be a fruitless one, and Oliver'sstory quickly, much like the young man
himself, faded from view. Thiswas a time before mysterious disappearances were the
subject of endless speculation in fourteen circles, before the image of alien tractor beams
pulling helpless humans into the sky,and before the term of thunderbird was known

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outside of indigenous communities, there wasno context for supernatural speculation. The only
explanation offered at the time was thatJim had murdered his brother in a jealous
rage for Lilian's affection, a storythat would also require Jim to be a
masterful ventriloquist capable throwing his voice intothe night sky, a solution so silly
it was not even repeated in theyellowest of nineteenth century newspapers. Oliver's Fate
remained little more than a blurb ina local newspaper until nineteen fifty, when

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it was picked up by Fate magazine, after which it promptly returned to obscurity,
and even today is only occasionally mentionedas an early reference point by those
who see the similarities between it andtheir own pet paranormal projects, be it
Fealre or the phenomenon commonly described asthe missing for one one, So that's
the Oliver Lurch disappearance. What doyou guys think? Wow that I'm surprised.
I've never heard about that before meneither. That was wild. Yeah,

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and especially with the connection with Fatemagazine, it reminds me of a
somewhat similar story that we will becovering here on Unknown Horizons shortly, the
Pensacola Sea Serpent incident. But thatis an episode for another day. Yeah,
that's just that's a really wild story. The idea that it was this

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strange disappearance with this unexplained phenomena attachedto it, like in an era before
that was a common thing. Likeyou were saying at the Enzac that's like,
Wow, that's just got my spidysenses tingling. I want to know
more. I do have some goodnews for you guys. It was a
fake story. Ohow, So Iwanted to bring this up for a very

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specific reason, not just because ofits Christmas related but because it's a very
important story in the history of mysteriousdisappearances and their relation to the paranormal.
So this story actually began life afew years earlier, in the eighteen hundreds,
and it as its roots in anAmbrose Beer story called The Difficulty Crossing
a Field, and that story isabout a farmer who is, like the

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name implies, just crossing over hisfield to greet a neighbor, and midway
through the field he just disappears,and his family goes and looks for them,
and they just hear his shouting andcrying and begging for help, but
their neighbor are able to locate him. Ambrose Biers wrote this and several other
mysterious disappearance stories, and they wereso good and so well written and written

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in a very journalistic flair type stylethat newspapers did actually start reprinting them,
and as they want to do inthat era, the journalists would kind of
deconstruct them and put them back togetherusing their component parts. And this one
was actually first compiled in a articlethat was published in Hawaii, of all
places, in a newspaper called thea Lulu Star, and then it was

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picked up and expanded upon by someonein Fate magazine, and it does occasionally
still get referenced as a real disappearance. And there are some who will point
to earlier disappearances from Ambrose Biers's timethat they'll claim inspired his stories. So
it's a very tangled web that maybewe'll dig into some other time, because
I would like to actually talk aboutAmbrose Bierce's disappearance at some point on the

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podcast, which is its own tangledmystery. But yeah, so you guys
can rest easy tonight. Nothing isgoing to be pulling your children on to
the sky. But yeah, no, thank you for letting me know,
because I was about to dive deepdown the rabbit hole in my newspapers dot
com archives. Yeah, you're welcomenow. But that's really interesting. That's

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uh, you know, like Ithink a lot of us think back to
like journalism from decades ago and thinkthat it had like this higher degree of
respectability. But I think that's agood reminder that that's not always been the
case. It's just like they saidin The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance print
the legend, Yeah, don't letthe truth get in the way of a
good story exactly all right, Well, Jesse, do you have a spooky

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story for us tonight? Yes,I do, And it's a story that
is very near and dear to myheart. It was one of the first
historical ghost stories that I ever readabout as a child, and I read
about it in a book that isagain very near and dear to my heart.
It was a book that I discoveredprobably in second or third grade,

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growing up in the nineties and NewJersey. And that's a book titled Great
Ghosts by the phenomenal, legendary paranormalauthor, the late Great Daniel Cohen.
And this story is the story ofthe Brown Lady of Raynham Hall. In
the heart of Norfolk, England,lies the historic Rayndam Hall, a grand

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estate with a chilling history. Withinthe walls of this majestic mansion resides a
ghostly presence that captured the imaginations ofmany for centuries. The Brown Lady of
Raynham Hall is a specter whose hauntingand mysterious tale has become the stuff of
legends. The story of the BrownLady dates back to the early eighteenth century.

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The apparition is believed to be thespirit of Lady Dorothy Walpole, the
sister of the prominent Whig statesman RobertWalpole. Lady Dorothy was married to Charles
Townsend, a politician known for hisvolatile temper and cruel nature. Legend has
it that Lady Dorothy's fate took adark turn when she was accused of infidelity.

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Enraged by the rumors, Charles Townsenddecided to punish his wife by locking
her up in the confines of RaynhamHall. It is said that Lady Dorothy
spent the last years of her lifeas a virtual prisoner, isolated from the
outside world. Lady Dorothy's tragic storytook an even more sinister turn when she
died under mysterious circumstances. Some accountsclaimed that she was poisoned by her her

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husband, while others suggest that shesuccumbed to a broken heart. Regardless of
the cause, her death left alingering presence within the walls of Raynham Hall.
The first reported sighting of the BrownLady occurred during the Christmas of eighteen
thirty five, when Colonel Loftus,a guest at the estate, claimed to
have encountered the ghostly figure. Accordingto his account, he spotted a woman

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in a brown dress descending the staircase. Her face was described as deathly pale,
with empty eye sockets and a sorrowfulexpression. News of the encounter spread
and the legend of the Brown Ladybegan to take hold. Over the years,
numerous visitors and residents of Raynham Hallreported their own chilling experiences. Many

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claimed to have seen the ghostly figurewandering the corridors, gliding silently through the
rooms, and sometimes even appearing inphotographs. One of the most famous photographs
capturing the Brown Lady was taken innineteen thirty six by Captain Hubert C.
Provand and Injury Shira, two photographersfrom County Life magazine. They were at

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Raynham Hall to capture images of thegrandeur of the estate when they unexpectedly encountered
the specter. As they snapped apicture of the grand staircase, the image
of a misty figure in a browndress materialized on the film, forever immortalizing
the ghostly presence of the Brown Lady. Since then, countless paranormal investigators and

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thrill seekers have visited Raynham Hall insearch of a glimpse of the infamous specter.
Some have reported feeling an icy chillin the air, while others have
witnessed objects moving on their own.The apparition of the Brown Lady has become
an enduring part of the estate's history, attracting tourists and ghost hunters alike.

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Despite numerous attempts to depunk the legend, the haunting of the Brown Lady of
Raynham Hall continues to captivate the mindsof those who hear her story. Skeptics
argue that the sightings can be attributedto tricks of the light or simply overactive
imaginations, but believers remain convinced thatLady Dorothy's spirit still roams the halls of

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her former home. The Brown Ladyof Raynham Hall has become a symbol of
the tragic and mysterious past that hauntsthe grand estate. Whether a figment of
imagination or a genuine ghostly appearance,her story serves as a reminder of the
secrets and hidden sorrows that reside withinthe walls of historic houses, and as

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long as Raynham Hall stands, thelegend of the Brown Lady will continue to
intrigue and send shivers down the spinesof all who dare to explore its haunted
history, and that ladies, gentlemen, listeners alike is the story of the
Brown Lady of Raynham Hall. Andthe description that I read in Great Ghosts

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by Daniel Cohen of the sorrowful paleface with empty eye sockets was very possibly
one of the first things I everread in a book as a child that
truly frightened me. And that photois arguably the most famous photograph of a
full bodied apparition, especially within modernpop culture. It is definitely a very

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chilling photo and no matter what endof the spectrum you're on, whether you're
a believer or a skeptic, it'snot something that can be dismissed very easily.
If you take the skeptical position,it is certainly one of the better,
if not best fakes out there,and if you're a believer, it
is for many concrete evidence of anafterlife. And that's all for this week's

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special Christmas installment will be back afterthe holiday with more tales of the uncanny
and unexplained right here on unknown Horizons. Merry Christmas and have a very very
happy twenty twenty four.