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Whispering Woods Studio
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The Whispering Woods: After Dark was formerly known as Obscurata. It is still the place for the darker stories. The unsolved cases, strange disappearances, true crime, occult history, paranormal reports and unexplained events that don’t quite fit anywhere else. Each episode looks at the stories that linger after the lights go out. Some are rooted in crime. Some in folklore. Some in witness accounts, old reports, rumours, fear and the things people have never been able to fully explain. Different name. Same dark corners. Brought to you by the creators of The Whispering Woods. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  1. Aug 15 • Premium Early Access

    The Ghost of Big Moose Lake: Grace Brown, Chester Gillette, and the Adirondack Murder

    In 1906, twenty year old Grace Brown travelled to Big Moose Lake with Chester Gillette, the man she loved and hoped would marry her. Instead, she was found dead in the water, and her private letters became the centre of a sensational murder trial. More than a century later, Grace is still said to haunt Big Moose Lake as a sorrowful woman in white. The BOOK BY US A COFFEE Subscribe to our PATREON EMAIL us your stories Join us on INSTAGRAM Join us on TWITTER Join us on FACEBOOK Visit our WEBSITE Research: https://www.adirondack.net/history/grace-brown/ https://unsolved.com/gallery/ghost-of-grace-brown/ https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/6528/20051201/heard-up-north-grace-brown-s-last-letter https://crimereads.com/people-v-gillette/ https://history.nycourts.gov/product/2009-calendar/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Grace_Brown https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_Gillette Sarah xx "Spacial Winds," Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licenced under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

  2. Jul 25 • Premium Early Access

    The Ghost of Superman: George Reeves, Benedict Canyon, and Hollywood’s Haunted Death House

    After George Reeves, television’s original Superman, died in his Benedict Canyon home in 1959, the official ruling was suicide. But questions, rumours and old Hollywood whispers followed the case for decades, and later tenants claimed the house itself was haunted by strange noises, moving objects and even an apparition of Reeves dressed as Superman. The BOOK BY US A COFFEE Subscribe to our PATREON EMAIL us your stories Join us on INSTAGRAM Join us on TWITTER Join us on FACEBOOK Visit our WEBSITE Research: https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-george-reeves-19590617-20160615-snap-story.html https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-sep-15-et-reeves15-story.html https://people.com/george-reeves-death-controversial-theories-11755407 https://walkoffame.com/george-reeves/ https://www.jimnolt.com/location.htm https://www.hollywood.com/general/george-reeves-superman-hollywoodland-ghost-haunted-house-57174240 https://www.americanhauntingsink.com/reeves-house Sarah xx "Spacial Winds," Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licenced under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

  3. 6d ago • Premium Only

    Dead Woman’s Ditch: Somerset’s Ancient Mystery, Murdered Women and Dark Folklore

    High on the Quantock Hills, Dead Woman’s Ditch carries a name older than the murders later tied to it. This episode follows the ancient earthwork, the story of Jane Walford, the 1988 discovery of Shirley Banks, and the shadow of John Cannan and Suzy Lamplugh. The BOOK BY US A COFFEE Subscribe to our PATREON EMAIL us your stories Join us on INSTAGRAM Join us on TWITTER Join us on FACEBOOK Visit our WEBSITE Research: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Woman%27s_Ditch https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1008254 https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?resourceID=19191&uid=189513 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cannan https://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/2024-11-07/bristol-murderer-and-sex-offender-dies-in-jail-aged-70 https://www.suzylamplugh.org/suzys-story https://www.suzylamplugh.org/news/statement-on-john-cannans-death Daily Mirror, “At Last They’ve Found Shirley,” Tuesday 5 April 1988 Somerset County Herald, “The Land of Quantock,” Saturday 12 March 1938 Sarah xx "Spacial Winds," Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licenced under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

  4. 6d ago

    Dead Woman’s Ditch: Somerset’s Ancient Mystery, Murdered Women and Dark Folklore

    High on the Quantock Hills, Dead Woman’s Ditch carries a name older than the murders later tied to it. This episode follows the ancient earthwork, the story of Jane Walford, the 1988 discovery of Shirley Banks, and the shadow of John Cannan and Suzy Lamplugh. The BOOK BY US A COFFEE Subscribe to our PATREON EMAIL us your stories Join us on INSTAGRAM Join us on TWITTER Join us on FACEBOOK Visit our WEBSITE Research: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Woman%27s_Ditch https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1008254 https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?resourceID=19191&uid=189513 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cannan https://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/2024-11-07/bristol-murderer-and-sex-offender-dies-in-jail-aged-70 https://www.suzylamplugh.org/suzys-story https://www.suzylamplugh.org/news/statement-on-john-cannans-death Daily Mirror, “At Last They’ve Found Shirley,” Tuesday 5 April 1988 Somerset County Herald, “The Land of Quantock,” Saturday 12 March 1938 Sarah xx "Spacial Winds," Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licenced under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ SURVEY https://podcastsurvey.typeform.com/to/mDi5IVFf Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  5. Jul 11 • Premium Only

    The 1988 Anomaly: Did Reality Shift? Strange Timeline Stories, Broken Time and Glitches in the Matrix

    A church in Texas where thousands looked into the sky in 1988. A theory that time moves towards rupture. A machine beneath Europe that became, for some, a symbol of a universe disturbed. And ordinary people, scattered across the internet, trying to explain why their lives feel as though they continued after something else ended. Perhaps nothing happened. Perhaps the feeling is memory, grief, fear, nostalgia, or the strange dislocation of living through years that change too quickly. But for those who believe they remember the other world, the question remains. If reality did shift, would we know? Or would we simply wake the next morning, make a cup of tea, answer our messages, go to work, and spend the rest of our lives wondering why home no longer feels like home? The BOOK BY US A COFFEE Subscribe to our PATREON EMAIL us your stories Join us on INSTAGRAM Join us on TWITTER Join us on FACEBOOK Visit our WEBSITE Research: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheWhyFiles/comments/1ie4jey/the_1988_anomoly/ https://www.reddit.com/r/HighStrangeness/comments/18lgtui/it_was_saturday_august_13_1988_and_ive_never_been/ https://www.upi.com/Archives/1988/08/16/Pilgrims-say-they-saw-visions-of-Virgin-Mary/8186587707200/ https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-04-10-mn-1686-story.html https://home.cern/science/accelerators/large-hadron-collider/ https://home.cern/news/press-release/cern/first-beam-lhc-accelerating-science https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_McKenna https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_phenomenon https://www.reddit.com/r/Retconned/comments/18cimeh/if_the_world_did_end_is_it_possible_that_it/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Retconned/comments/jxfypw/everything_changed_in_20122015/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Glitch_in_the_Matrix/comments/exfkue/i_died_in_an_alternate_universe/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Glitch_in_the_Matrix/comments/p5snd7/i_think_i_may_have_died_in_a_car_accident_in_an/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ParallelUniverse/comments/1fctsf8/constantly_wanting_to_go_home/ Sarah xx "Spacial Winds," Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licenced under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

  6. Jul 11

    The 1988 Anomaly: Did Reality Shift? Strange Timeline Stories, Broken Time and Glitches in the Matrix

    A church in Texas where thousands looked into the sky in 1988. A theory that time moves towards rupture. A machine beneath Europe that became, for some, a symbol of a universe disturbed. And ordinary people, scattered across the internet, trying to explain why their lives feel as though they continued after something else ended. Perhaps nothing happened. Perhaps the feeling is memory, grief, fear, nostalgia, or the strange dislocation of living through years that change too quickly. But for those who believe they remember the other world, the question remains. If reality did shift, would we know? Or would we simply wake the next morning, make a cup of tea, answer our messages, go to work, and spend the rest of our lives wondering why home no longer feels like home? The BOOK BY US A COFFEE Subscribe to our PATREON EMAIL us your stories Join us on INSTAGRAM Join us on TWITTER Join us on FACEBOOK Visit our WEBSITE Research: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheWhyFiles/comments/1ie4jey/the_1988_anomoly/ https://www.reddit.com/r/HighStrangeness/comments/18lgtui/it_was_saturday_august_13_1988_and_ive_never_been/ https://www.upi.com/Archives/1988/08/16/Pilgrims-say-they-saw-visions-of-Virgin-Mary/8186587707200/ https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-04-10-mn-1686-story.html https://home.cern/science/accelerators/large-hadron-collider/ https://home.cern/news/press-release/cern/first-beam-lhc-accelerating-science https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_McKenna https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_phenomenon https://www.reddit.com/r/Retconned/comments/18cimeh/if_the_world_did_end_is_it_possible_that_it/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Retconned/comments/jxfypw/everything_changed_in_20122015/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Glitch_in_the_Matrix/comments/exfkue/i_died_in_an_alternate_universe/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Glitch_in_the_Matrix/comments/p5snd7/i_think_i_may_have_died_in_a_car_accident_in_an/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ParallelUniverse/comments/1fctsf8/constantly_wanting_to_go_home/ Sarah xx "Spacial Winds," Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licenced under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ SURVEY https://podcastsurvey.typeform.com/to/mDi5IVFf Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  7. Jul 4 • Premium Only

    The Bleeding Houses | The Atlanta Blood House and La Plata’s House of Blood

    In 1986, blood began to rise from the floor of a family photography shop in La Plata, Argentina, drawing police, priests, believers and frightened neighbours to a house suddenly treated as both crime scene and shrine. Less than a year later, in Atlanta, Georgia, another ordinary home became known as the Blood House when human blood appeared across its floors and walls, with no body, no injury, no break-in, and no explanation. The BOOK BY US A COFFEE Subscribe to our PATREON EMAIL us your stories Join us on INSTAGRAM Join us on TWITTER Join us on FACEBOOK Visit our WEBSITE Research: https://www.laplata1.com/2021-10-17/el-gran-misterio-sin-resolver-de-la-plata-el-dia-que-broto-sangre-del-piso-en-una-casa-por-la-visita-de-una-virgen-65046/ https://www.diarioeltiempo.com.ar/nota-milagro--crimen-o-engano-el-dia-que-broto-sangre-del-piso-en-una-casa-de-la-plata-172416 https://www.airedesantafe.com.ar/la-terrorifica-historia-la-casa-sangrante-la-plata-el-misterio-que-sigue-resolver-n585877 https://theghostinmymachine.com/2021/08/02/unresolved-what-caused-the-atlanta-blood-houses-mysterious-mess/ https://www.trulyadventure.us/blood-house https://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/12/us/source-of-blood-in-atlanta-house-still-a-mystery.html Sarah xx "Spacial Winds," Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licenced under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

  8. Jul 4

    The Bleeding Houses | The Atlanta Blood House and La Plata’s House of Blood

    In 1986, blood began to rise from the floor of a family photography shop in La Plata, Argentina, drawing police, priests, believers and frightened neighbours to a house suddenly treated as both crime scene and shrine. Less than a year later, in Atlanta, Georgia, another ordinary home became known as the Blood House when human blood appeared across its floors and walls, with no body, no injury, no break-in, and no explanation. The BOOK BY US A COFFEE Subscribe to our PATREON EMAIL us your stories Join us on INSTAGRAM Join us on TWITTER Join us on FACEBOOK Visit our WEBSITE Research: https://www.laplata1.com/2021-10-17/el-gran-misterio-sin-resolver-de-la-plata-el-dia-que-broto-sangre-del-piso-en-una-casa-por-la-visita-de-una-virgen-65046/ https://www.diarioeltiempo.com.ar/nota-milagro--crimen-o-engano-el-dia-que-broto-sangre-del-piso-en-una-casa-de-la-plata-172416 https://www.airedesantafe.com.ar/la-terrorifica-historia-la-casa-sangrante-la-plata-el-misterio-que-sigue-resolver-n585877 https://theghostinmymachine.com/2021/08/02/unresolved-what-caused-the-atlanta-blood-houses-mysterious-mess/ https://www.trulyadventure.us/blood-house https://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/12/us/source-of-blood-in-atlanta-house-still-a-mystery.html Sarah xx "Spacial Winds," Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licenced under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ SURVEY https://podcastsurvey.typeform.com/to/mDi5IVFf Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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The Whispering Woods: After Dark was formerly known as Obscurata. It is still the place for the darker stories. The unsolved cases, strange disappearances, true crime, occult history, paranormal reports and unexplained events that don’t quite fit anywhere else. Each episode looks at the stories that linger after the lights go out. Some are rooted in crime. Some in folklore. Some in witness accounts, old reports, rumours, fear and the things people have never been able to fully explain. Different name. Same dark corners. Brought to you by the creators of The Whispering Woods. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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