{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"The Benevolent Warning","description":"In tonight's dead letter, our listener named Mark is driving through western Michigan at two in the morning in 1978, working off a paper map and handwritten directions to a house he's never been to. He comes up a hill and into a curve on US 131, and there are four people standing in his lane. Two of them are waving him over to the right, and the other two have their arms raised above their heads in an X. Had they not been there he may have had a fatal collision, and when he went to find them shortly after, they had vanished.\n\nRelevant Prior Episodes\n\nEp 102: Resurrection Mary Part 1\nAstonishing Legends (https://astonishinglegends.com/al-podcasts/2018/03/25/ep-102-resurrection-mary-part-1) · Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/episode/3Zbe5BAn5goLxPIfPVsknV) · Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/resurrection-mary-part-1/id923527373?i=1000407468733)\n\nEp 116: Small Town Monsters\nAstonishing Legends (https://astonishinglegends.com/al-podcasts/2018/8/25/ep-116-small-town-monsters) · Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/episode/2R6U64cV98pANVHIzHDIOa) · Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/astonishing-legends/id923527373?i=1000418508545)\n\nLinks and Further Reading\n\nLydia: The Ghost of Jamestown Bridge, NCpedia (https://www.ncpedia.org/lydia-ghost-jamestown-bridge)\n\nA History of the Vanishing Hitchhiker, Beardsley and Hankey, 1943 (https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/modernlanguages/applying/undergraduate/crossschool/ln305/biblio/beardsley__hankey_a_history_of_the_vanishing_hitchhiker.pdf)\n\nThe Bray Road Beast, Small Town Monsters (https://www.smalltownmonsters.com/shop/thebrayroadbeastdvd)\n\nJim Harold's Campfire: True Ghost Stories, Books 1 through 6 (https://jimharold.com/campfirebooks/)\n\nNote: We call it the National Highway Transportation Safety Association in the episode. The ‘A’ is actually for Administration.\n\nWe're looking for more stories! Send your Dead Letter to deadletteroffice@astonishinglegends.com (mailto: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/43839372/600x600/c","thumbnail_width":600,"thumbnail_height":600,"html":""}