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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 Ep42: Beneath the Haunted Dorm

    S2 Ep42: Beneath the Haunted Dorm
    Nov 12 2026
    In tonight's dead letter, we're back in Athens, Ohio, with our listener Evan, who was a sophomore engineering student at Ohio University around 2015. He was thrilled to get room 328 in Wilson Hall, directly below room 428, the "haunted room" we asked about at the end of Dead Letter Office episode 52. He thought bunking below that haunted room would be fun. Maybe it was, but there was a price to pay. Relevant Prior EpisodesEp 338: Your True Halloween Stories IV, Part 3Astonishing Legends · Spotify · Apple Podcasts Ep 50: Mothman Part 1Astonishing Legends · Spotify · Apple Podcasts Ep 3: Greyfriars Kirkyard Halloween SpecialAstonishing Legends · Spotify · Apple Podcasts Ep 117: The Black Monk of Pontefract Part 1Astonishing Legends · Spotify · Apple Podcasts Ep 123: The Sallie House: Ghost in the Machine Part 1Astonishing Legends · Spotify · Apple Podcasts Ep 2: Queen Mary & The Haunted ValentineAstonishing Legends · Spotify · Apple Podcasts Ep 85: The Bell Witch Part 1Astonishing Legends · Spotify · Apple Podcasts Links and Further ReadingDead Letter Office S1 Ep 52: The Little Old Man (Audioboom) Histories of hOUme: A skeptical vacancy in Wilson Hall room 428, by Bri Shaniuk (The Post, October 2015)Note: We call the paper the Athens Post in the episode. It's The Post, in Athens, Ohio. Ghost stories, urban legends haunt college campuses (The Columbus Dispatch, via PressReader)Five Athens cemeteries form lopsided square (The Post)History of The Ridges (Ohio University)Kennedy Museum of Art, 100 Ridges Circle (Ohio University)More than 1,900 unidentified people are buried in Athens, Ohio (WOUB Public Media, October 2025)Jim Harold's CampfireHotel Monte Vista, Flagstaff, ArizonaTesseract (Wikipedia)Sleep Paralysis and Anomalous Experience (Psi Encyclopedia)Night hag (Wikipedia)Benedictine CollegeThe Shining, the 1980 film (Wikipedia)Ring, the 1998 film released in North America as Ringu (Wikipedia)New Orleans murder-suicide rivets city; couple had met amid Katrina (Associated Press, via The Seattle Times, October 2006)Bloody Mary's Tours and Haunted Museum, New OrleansWe're looking for more stories! Send your Dead Letter to deadletteroffice@astonishinglegends.com!
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    50 mins
  • 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
    Astonishing Legends · Spotify · Apple Podcasts
    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
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