Astonishing Legends
Scott Philbrook · Forrest Burgess
The unexplained, exhaustively examined.
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- 1. S2 Ep26: The Ghost with No Nose · 14 Jul 2026
- 2. S2 Ep27: The Light Beneath the Boats · 21 Jul 2026
- 3. S2 Ep28: Milo · 28 Jul 2026
S2 Ep30: DLO-230: A Finger Down the spine
11 Aug 2026 · 50 min
In tonight's dead letter, listener John is nineteen, home from his freshman year and a few shifts into a summer dishwashing job at a grand old house on Michigan's Old Mission Peninsula that has been a restaurant since the 1950s. The staff there blame anything
Amy Bruni’s Cuisine to Kill For
9 Aug 2026 · 1h 27m
In 1673, Rebecca Cornell was found dead beside the hearth in her Rhode Island home. Afterward, her ghost allegedly appeared to accuse someone of murder and her son was tried and hanged. Her story is just one of nearly sixty strange intersections of true crime,
S2 Ep29: The Boy Who Wanted her Hand
4 Aug 2026 · 48 min
In tonight's dead letter, listener Mary is on a ghost tour in Key West when the guide stands her group under an old, unmarked movie marquee and asks them what happened there. Before he says another word, Mary smells smoke. The story he tells the group involves
S2 Ep28: Milo
28 Jul 2026 · 43 min
In tonight's dead letter, a truck-riding barn cat named Milo becomes the witness our listener Amy needs to affirm that she’s not seeing and hearing things. The old stone house they occupy seems to have some very strange and unusual visitors. One defying any co
S2 Ep27: The Light Beneath the Boats
21 Jul 2026 · 50 min
In tonight's dead letter, Eric, a longtime listener on active duty in the Navy, pulls into Juneau, Alaska for a port call in the summer of 2009 and hikes up the Mount Roberts trail for the view over the harbor. Around eleven in the morning, in full daylight, h
S2 Ep26: The Ghost with No Nose
14 Jul 2026 · 31 min
In tonight's dead letter, our listener Kayla takes her two-and-a-half-year-old son to a private family viewing for his great-grandmother and keeps him in a back room so his last memory won't be the casket. All night, unprompted, he pulls relatives into that ro
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The anthology of dread
A voice, a creaking door, and a self-contained story designed to frighten you in half an hour. Suspense and Lights Out built the grammar every horror anthology still uses.
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