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  • Introducing: CONSPIRACY THEORIES, CULTS, AND CRIMES

    Introducing: CONSPIRACY THEORIES, CULTS, AND CRIMES
    Aug 20 2025
    From Jonestown to Heaven’s Gate, to the Octopus Murders and the Waco Siege, the world is full of deception, manipulation, and destruction. Listen to Conspiracy Theories, Cults, and Crimes every Wednesday as we explore the real people at the center of the world’s most shocking secrets and nefarious organizations. Conspiracy Theories, Cults, and Crimes is a Crime House Original powered by PAVE Studios. Follow the show now so you don’t miss a single story.

    Listen and follow here: https://link.podtrac.com/nu1waeoa
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    8 min
  • Dead Letter Office Special Announcement

    Dead Letter Office Special Announcement
    Aug 19 2025
    This week’s Dead Letter Office is cancelled, but the show will return next week. Thank you for your patience and understanding!
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  • 42: A Gathering of Shadows

    42: A Gathering of Shadows
    Aug 12 2025
    In tonight’s dead letter, listener Jerri-Kay recounts a story from her childhood when her mother witnessed multiple shadow figures entering their bedroom in broad daylight. Later that night, while seemingly half-asleep, when her mom enters her room she yells that she's not her mother and points to lights that only she can see in the room, leaving the family shaken and searching for answers. Were these events positive or negative?

    Astonishing Legends' Shadow People Episode:
    https://open.spotify.com/episode/7wNUanfRFXoQ0QOhy5l58L?si=62193edf57854ec0
    https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/astonishing-legends/id923527373?i=1000355594797

    Myth Fits Podcast with Kari Byron and Tori Belleci from MythBusters:
    https://www.youtube.com/@MythfitsPod
    https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mythfits/id1813405582
    https://open.spotify.com/show/6SOvzD9Rc52Is6qHm0ivJt?si=f479aac0675644f8

    David Weatherly's Work:
    https://eerielights.com/
    https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B01N59JC6U/allbooks

    David Weeatherly on Astonishing Legends (Spotify/Apple Podcasts Links)
    https://open.spotify.com/episode/2RWx4nYQNZZ9b3qd04Dj8y?si=0353dbf9a2324ae1
    https://open.spotify.com/episode/5p5GxpIqVX43RQwvtmTdwz?si=35384b2e23404b63
    https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/astonishing-legends/id923527373?i=1000495952492
    https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/astonishing-legends/id923527373?i=1000497668831

    Documentary - The Nightmare:
    https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/the-nightmare

    Missing 411:
    https://www.amazon.com/stores/David-Paulides/author/B002ALI9AA?
    https://open.spotify.com/episode/3TRVhzSYDB6NKiU69L5c9A?si=e6fe2e83dfe84069
    https://open.spotify.com/episode/5Q0pc5e8JlBoZzDrgY1Evp?si=b451bd4ae98841be
    https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/astonishing-legends/id923527373?i=1000579063545
    https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/astonishing-legends/id923527373?i=1000580601049

    Article on Light Emission After Death:
    https://www.sciencealert.com/we-emit-a-visible-light-that-vanishes-when-we-die-says-surprising-new-study

    Email your stories to deadletteroffice@astonishinglegends.com
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    36 min
  • The Hatem Files 2

    The Hatem Files 2
    Aug 9 2025
    This week, Scott and Forrest welcome back Richard Hatem of Richard Hatem's Paranormal Bookshelf to Astonishing Legends! Join us as we delve into Richard's unique insights on paranormal literature, including odd details in famous experiences like Whitley Strieber's book, Communion and others. We'll explore Rich’s favorite episodes and get a sneak peek into his upcoming season. Plus, we'll hear about his pending tour across the US, including a stop at the Mothman Festival in just a few weeks!

    Visit our website for a lot more information on this episode.
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    1 h et 47 min
  • 41: The Fisherman's Ghost and the Homunculus

    41: The Fisherman's Ghost and the Homunculus
    Aug 5 2025
    In tonight’s dead letter, we hear from our listener Sam, who shares two spooky stories. The first involves two hauntings at an aquarium in the UK. An old lady ghost with a penchant for floral perfume, and as one might expect…a fisherman. While the second features a mysterious, hunched-over shadow figure lurking in a South Carolina home. Sometimes these shorter letters are the most freaky. As we often remind our listeners, the real experiences don’t occur with a three-act structure or poignant message all the time. Instead they are just glimpses of something that you may never understand.

    North Carolina Aquarium at Fort Fisher:
    https://www.ncaquariums.com/fort-fisher

    Phantosmia (Phantom Smells):
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantosmia

    Clairalience:
    https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/enlighten/clairalience-to-clairvoyance-your-psychic-gifts/

    Gorton's Fisherman:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorton's_of_Gloucester

    Trilogy of Terror (1975):
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilogy_of_Terror
    https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/trilogy-of-terror

    Homunculus:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homunculus
    https://www.britannica.com/science/homunculus-biology

    Astonishing Junk Tour:
    https://www.patreon.com/posts/astonishing-junk-85805858?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

    Email your stories to deadletteroffice@astonishinglegends.com
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    34 min
  • 40: Skinwalkers in Iraq

    40: Skinwalkers in Iraq
    Jul 29 2025
    In tonight’s dead letter listener Henry, a marine, recounts his experiences on guard duty in Iraq, where his platoon was stationed at an abandoned hotel near the Jordanian border. During a late-night watch, he and another marine hear footsteps in the stairwell, but a search of the building yields nothing but an unsettling encounter with glowing eyes in the boiler room. The mystery deepens when a fellow marine suggests the presence of a skinwalker, leaving the group to ponder the true nature of what they encountered in the desolate hotel.

    Navajo Culture
    https://discovernavajo.com/navajo-culture/
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navajo

    Skinwalkers (In the Context of Navajo Culture)
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin-walker
    https://nativeappropriations.com/2016/03/magic-in-north-america-part-1-ugh.html

    The Monroe Institute
    https://www.monroeinstitute.org/

    Jim Harold’s Campfire
    https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jim-harolds-campfire/id310656913

    Trebil, Iraq
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trebil
    https://web.archive.org/web/20050716034614/https://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/2088

    The Monte Vista Hotel in Flagstaff, Arizona
    https://hotelmontevista.com/
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    31 min
  • 39: The Hat Man Takes a Seat

    39: The Hat Man Takes a Seat
    Jul 22 2025
    In tonight’s dead letter… Josh shares a chilling encounter with a being we’ve discussed on the show numerous times. The Hat Man. For Josh he appears as a shadowy figure sitting in his bedroom in the middle of the night. What would you do in this situation? It’s easy to answer that until you’re confronted with it yourself. Josh gave into paranormal apathy, something we’ve identified at Astonishing Legends as a common reaction to the unexplainable. Is the Hat Man a harbinger of doom or change or just something that happens in our mind?

    Jim Harold’s Campfire
    https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jim-harolds-campfire/id310656913

    Our Strange Skies (Rob Kristoffersen)
    https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/our-strange-skies-ufos-throughout-history/id1546735571

    Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar
    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0816692/

    Hypnopompic State
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnopompia

    Hypnogogic State
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogia

    Send your story into deadletteroffice@astonishinglegends.com
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    36 min
  • 38: A Gray Walks in LA

    38: A Gray Walks in LA
    Jul 15 2025
    In tonight’s dead letter, listener Renee shares a strange encounter in Los Angeles. Late one night, while walking her dog, she saw what appeared to be a gray alien. After a moment of shock, she looked again and saw a middle-aged African-American woman. Renee was left wondering if she had seen a psychic mask slip or if it was just a trick of the light.

    Send your story to deadletteroffice@astonishinglegends.com
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    33 min