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Podcast · By Mary Ann Poll · English · Official site

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Sep 14, 2026
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  1. Episode · Sep 14, 2026

    Episode 91: The Groton Possession: Her Lips Never Moved (opens the original)

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    EPISODE DESCRIPTION In the winter of 1671, 20 years before the trials at Salem, a 16-year-old servant girl in the frontier town of Groton, Massachusetts, fell into violent fits, accused two neighbors of witchcraft, confessed to signing her name in the devil's book, and then took most of it back. Her employer, a 31-year-old minister named Samuel Willard, wrote it all down as it happened, day by day, suspecting a fraud the whole time. Then a voice spoke out of her while her lips never moved. Mary

  2. Episode · Sep 7, 2026

    Episode 90: The Clarke Mansion: It Ripped The Door From Its Hinges (opens the original)

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    In April 1874, a doorbell rang after midnight at a nine-room mansion in Oakland, California, and no one was standing at the door. Over the three nights that followed, a Treasury officer who publicly mocked the whole idea of spirits watched his own furniture move, his front door come off its hinges, and a crowd of 500 people fill the street outside his home. Mary Ann Poll tells the story of Thomas Clarke, the investigation that called him a fool, and the fight he spent the rest of his life waging

  3. Episode · Aug 31, 2026

    Episode 89: Whispers Estate, Something Named Itself (opens the original)

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    A man bought a Victorian home in Mitchell, Indiana for its price and its character, and spent the following months learning exactly what else came with it. This is the story of Van Renier, the house he refused to walk away from, and a table that answered a question no one expected it to answer. EPISODE NOTES ● Owner Van Renier has publicly stated the house holds a confirmed record of six deaths, not counting any patients who may have died during Dr. John Gibbons's twenty-six years of medical pra

  4. Episode · Aug 24, 2026

    Episode 88: The Sallie House: Something Chose a Target (opens the original)

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    In 1992, an Army sergeant and his pregnant wife moved into a modest house in Atchison, Kansas. Within months, the husband was being physically attacked by something no one could see, documented on camera by a national television crew. The activity has never stopped. EPISODE NOTES ● Tony Pickman's scratches were documented on film by the Sightings television crew in 1994: nine uninterrupted minutes showing marks materializing on his skin with no visible cause. ● The Kansas Paranormal Group's inve

  5. Episode · Aug 17, 2026

    Episode 87: The Haunted Menger Hotel (opens the original)

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    In 1876, a beloved chambermaid at San Antonio's Menger Hotel was shot twice by her husband and died in the hotel's care. Her killer walked free. Nearly 150 years later, staff and guests say she never left. EPISODE NOTES ● Menger is pronounced MEN-jer, rhyming with 'danger' (William Menger was a German immigrant). ● The original 1876 funeral receipt, made out to 'Sallie White, colored chambermaid, deceased, murdered by her husband,' is preserved in the hotel lobby. ● Named witnesses: Virgie 'Gyps

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