{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"The House on 109","description":"In tonight's dead letter, we head into Grafton, West Virginia — a small railroad town built on a B&O junction, Civil War supply lines, and two national cemeteries. The house at the center of this story sat right in the middle of all that history. When a listener named Jonathan moved in with his family as a kid, it was, as he puts it, just off — and the footsteps upstairs were the easy part. Small things kept stacking up, the kind you could maybe almost explain away one at a time but never all together. Decades later he's still working through what happened in that house, and what stayed there.\n\nREFERENCE LINKS\n\nGrafton, West Virginia — e-WV Encyclopedia\n (https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/entries/2078)\nB&O Railroad Historical Marker in Grafton\n (https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=175612)\nGrafton Civil War Supply Depot Historical Marker\n (https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=175609)\nGrafton National Cemetery — National Cemetery Administration\n (https://www.cem.va.gov/cems/nchp/grafton.asp)\nThornsbury Bailey Brown — First Union Soldier Killed in the Civil War\n (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thornsbury_Bailey_Brown)\nInternational Mother's Day Shrine\n (https://www.internationalmothersdayshrine.org/)\nAnna Jarvis, Founder of Mother's Day\n (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Jarvis)\nThe Grafton Monster — e-WV Encyclopedia\n (https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/entries/2435)\nThe Grafton Monster Festival (https://www.visitmountaineercountry.com/event/grafton-monster-festival-2/)\n\nThe Grafton Monster in Fallout 76\n (https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Grafton_Monster)\nGeorge Washington's Surveying of Grafton — City of Grafton\n (https://www.graftonwv.org/about-3)\nRuth Ann Musick, West Virginia Folklorist\n (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Ann_Musick)\nThe Telltale Lilac Bush and Other West Virginia Ghost Tales\n (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telltale_Lilac_Bush)\nAstonishing Legends Ep 85: The Bell Witch Part 1\n (https://astonishinglegends.com/al-podcasts/2017/10/08/ep-85-the-bell-witch-part-1)\nAstonishing Legends Archived Episodes — The Bell Witch Series\n (https://astonishinglegends.com/archived-episodes)\nThe Enfield Poltergeist (1977)\n (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enfield_poltergeist)\nThe Smurl Haunting (West Pittston, PA)\n (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smurl_haunting)\nSkinwalkers at the Pentagon — Lacatski, Kelleher, Knapp\n (https://www.amazon.com/Skinwalkers-Pentagon-Insiders-Account-Government/dp/B09HR54GQF)\nHypnopompic Hallucinations — Sleep Foundation\n (https://www.sleepfoundation.org/how-sleep-works/hypnopompic-hallucinations)\nThe Old Hag Phenomenon and Sleep Paralysis\n (https://www.healthline.com/health/sleep/old-hag-syndrome)\nThe Blemmyes — Headless Men with Faces in Their Chests\n (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blemmyes)\nWest Virginia Paranormal Investigations\n (https://www.facebook.com/WVPara/)\nPaper Moon (1973)\n (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_Moon_(film))\nWe're looking for more stories! Send your Dead Letter to deadletteroffice@astonishinglegends.com!","author_name":"Astonishing Legends","author_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/4322549-astonishing-legends","provider_name":"Audioboom","provider_url":"https://audioboom.com","width":480,"height":95,"thumbnail_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/43662848/600x600/c","thumbnail_width":600,"thumbnail_height":600,"html":""}