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Astonishing Legends

Astonishing Legends

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Summary
 The world is more mysterious than most people are comfortable imagining. We cross paths with the mystical from time to time and may not even notice it. If we do, we quickly return to our usually mundane daily existence. But what if we not only acknowledged the unknown, we investigated it and spoke with those in the know? That's what co-hosts Scott Philbrook & Forrest Burgess, and co-executive producer Tess Pfeifle do at Astonishing Legends. Over 100 million downloads and hundreds of thousands of listeners have discovered the thrill of exploring the mysteries of our world, showing that the unknown can be both captivating and intriguing. Welcome to Astonishing Legends!Astonishing Legends Productions, LLC Social Sciences World
Episodes
  • S2 Ep41: The Dog Saw it First

    S2 Ep41: The Dog Saw it First
    Nov 6 2026
    In tonight's dead letter, Patrick writes to us from Northcote, a suburb on the north side of Melbourne, Australia, where his son James, thirteen at the time, took Cookie, the family's Boston terrier, out before dawn one morning in the autumn of 2024, through a reserve that used to be part of a golf course. Cookie never barks at anyone, but at the top of the hill, beside a stand of gum trees, he stopped, stared, and started to growl at something James couldn't see. Forrest is away this week, so Richard Hatem, screenwriter of The Mothman Prophecies, sits in and reads the letter.
    Relevant Prior Episodes
    Ep 72: Richard Hatem - Screenwriter of The Mothman Prophecies
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    Ep 50: Mothman Part 1
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    Ep 37: The Delphos Ring Part 1
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    Ep 45: Skinwalker Ranch Part 1
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    Links and Further Reading
    Last week's Dead Letter Office, DLO-240: The Visitor in Clothier Hall (Apple Podcasts)
    Richard Hatem's Paranormal Bookshelf (Apple Podcasts)
    The Mothman Prophecies, by John A. Keel (Bookshop.org)
    Hunt for the Skinwalker, by Colm A. Kelleher and George Knapp (Bookshop.org)
    Leaked "jellyfish" UFO video leaves the internet enthralled and baffled (Global News, January 2024)
    Slender Man (Wikipedia)
    Northcote, Victoria (Wikipedia)
    Merri Creek (Wikipedia)
    Whatever Remains Podcast, with Marie Mayhew (Apple Podcasts)
    Loud pack of coyotes takes over abandoned West Hollywood construction site (ABC7 Los Angeles, July 2026)

    We're looking for more stories! Send your Dead Letter to deadletteroffice@astonishinglegends.com!
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    31 mins
  • S2 Ep40: The Visitor in Clothier Hall

    S2 Ep40: The Visitor in Clothier Hall
    Oct 28 2026
    In tonight's dead letter, Keith takes us back to the spring of 1997, when he was a freshman at Rutgers living on the third floor of Clothier Hall, a brick dorm in downtown New Brunswick, New Jersey. Early one Saturday morning, with the first light coming in around the curtain, he opened his eyes and someone was sitting on the floor against his roommate's bed, six feet away, in a room he had locked the night before. Someone, or some…thing…that shouldn’t have been there.
    Relevant Prior Episodes
    Ep 26: Shadow People
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    Ep 338: Your True Halloween Stories IV, Part 3
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    Ep 87: Black Eyed Kids Part 1
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    Links and Further Reading
    Clothier Hall (Rutgers Residence Life)
    Weird NJ
    Shadow person (Wikipedia)
    Note: We call Benadryl's active ingredient pseudoephedrine in the episode. It's diphenhydramine.
    Hypnagogia and the hypnopompic state (Wikipedia)
    Hypnic jerk (Wikipedia)
    Jim Harold's Campfire
    Miyamoto Musashi (Wikipedia)
    Wild Talents, by Charles Fort (1932), free to read at sacred-texts.com
    We're looking for more stories! Send your Dead Letter to deadletteroffice@astonishinglegends.com!
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    35 mins
  • Your True Halloween Stories IV Part 3

    Your True Halloween Stories IV Part 3
    Oct 25 2026

    We're back, and this time we’re lucky enough to have paranormal investigator, researcher and author Michelle Belanger join us to help answer the question connecting this week's stories: does this phenomenon have a name?

    At a Southern California shopping mall, Amy gets in line for food when two young women behind her suddenly fill her with an intense feeling of dread.

    In Los Angeles, Zee picks up two young women from an unlikely spot near a freeway overpass, and before long, an ordinary ride begins to feel anything but.

    Lastly, Mike takes us back to a Chicago suburb in 1988, where a routine walk near a cemetery leads to a passing encounter with two women he has never forgotten.

    Turn down the lights and join us for the final set of this year’s true Halloween mysteries.

    Visit our website for a lot more information on this episode.
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    2 hrs and 27 mins
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