{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"The Old Man on the Gravestone","description":"In tonight's dead letter, Corey takes us back to Omaha, Nebraska in the year 2000, when he was the overnight host on a Top 40 station and a call-in topic about haunted places kept circling back to one private family cemetery. He sent a carload of listeners out there on a Friday night to report back live on the air. A few days later his boss got a phone call from the cemetery's caretakers. And, to paraphrase a Dateline episode…things got weirder from there.\n\nWe mentioned a TON of old eps in this one!\n\nRelevant Prior Episodes\nEp 48: Choose Your Own Adventure\nAstonishing Legends (https://astonishinglegends.com/al-podcasts/2017/2/7/ep-048-choose-your-own-adventure) · Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/episode/1lnNCsAMwTevw1YJDx6EUo) · Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/astonishing-legends/id923527373?i=1000375949489)\n\nEp 71: Pere Cheney: The Town that Disappeared\nAstonishing Legends (https://astonishinglegends.com/al-podcasts/2017/5/18/ep-71-pere-cheney-the-town-that-disappeared) · Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/episode/26PaVXdKtddyt6CUnLPP5j) · Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/astonishing-legends/id923527373?i=1000385629208)\n\nEp 87: Black Eyed Kids Part 1\nAstonishing Legends (https://astonishinglegends.com/al-podcasts/2017/10/22/ep-87-black-eyed-kids-part-1) · Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/episode/1WeXzbjFl1azd7xjpEOc5o) · Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/astonishing-legends/id923527373?i=1000393874073)\n\nEp 50: Mothman Part 1\nAstonishing Legends (https://astonishinglegends.com/al-podcasts/2017/2/7/ep-050-mothman-part-1) · Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/episode/5OcbRt8FoncRPJiFyot9px) · Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mothman-part-1/id923527373?i=1000376902986)\n\nEp 14: What's Gotten Into You?\nAstonishing Legends (https://astonishinglegends.com/al-podcasts/2017/2/6/ep-014-whats-gotten-into-you) · Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/episode/5PCBDsKEn8GfhBXwnACx8p) · Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/astonishing-legends/id923527373?i=1000352822383)\n\nEp 209: The Phantom Horse of Greensboro\nAstonishing Legends (https://astonishinglegends.com/al-podcasts/2021/5/22/ep-209-the-phantom-horse-of-greensboro) · Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/episode/5GNDWxBESev1TQ4wWrRDFZ) · Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/astonishing-legends/id923527373?i=1000522787086)\n\nEp 120: The Grim Reaper\nAstonishing Legends (https://astonishinglegends.com/al-podcasts/2018/10/06/ep-120-the-grim-reaper) · Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/episode/4ZAOONce6e4f85n8RQY8Sb) · Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/astonishing-legends/id923527373?i=1000421246113)\n\nEp 154: Lockdown at the Waverly Hills Sanatorium\nAstonishing Legends (https://astonishinglegends.com/al-podcasts/2019/9/22/ep-154-lockdown-at-the-waverly-sanatorium) · Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/episode/2Vg6JyYCPnretRMtlTGM1f) · Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/astonishing-legends/id923527373?i=1000450794269)\n\nEp 156: The Ax Murder House in Villisca Part 1\nAstonishing Legends (https://astonishinglegends.com/al-podcasts/2019/10/20/ep-156-the-ax-murder-house-in-villisca-part-1) · Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/episode/6HD8u2Q3MuCXlf4Jzg22mP) · Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/astonishing-legends/id923527373?i=1000454256189)\n\nEp 49: Monsters Among Us\nAstonishing Legends (https://astonishinglegends.com/al-podcasts/2017/2/7/ep-049-monsters-among-us) · Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/episode/2il0qVGYdmvyV7MBLWtQ28) · Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/monsters-among-us/id923527373?i=1000376271976)\n\nEp 310: The Rhine Research Center: Extraordinary Evidence\nAstonishing Legends (https://astonishinglegends.com/al-podcasts/2025/05/10/ep-310-the-rhine-institute-extraordinary-evidence) · Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/episode/0mXFCcNjUmMR9G42Z0WOLL) · Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-rhine-institute-extraordinary-evidence/id923527373?i=1000707918686)\n\nLinks and Further Reading\nChurch Grims, by Tess Pfeifle (Astonishing Legends blog) (https://astonishinglegends.com/astonishing-legends/2018/10/17/church-grims)\n\nStrange Intruders, by David Weatherly (https://www.abebooks.com/Strange-Intruders-David-Weatherly-Leprechaun-Press/20268639536/bd)\n\nG.N.M. Tyrrell (Psi Encyclopedia, Society for Psychical Research) (https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/gnm-tyrrell)\n\nGhosts and Apparitions in Psi Research (Psi Encyclopedia) (https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/ghosts-and-apparitions-psi-research-overview)\n\nPhantasms of the Living, Volume 1 (1886), free at the Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.99141)\n\nPhantasms of the Living, Volume 2 (1886), free at the Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/phantasmsoflivin02gurniala)\n\nJim Harold's Campfire (https://jimharold.com/category/jim-harolds-campfire/)\n\nThe Mothman of Point Pleasant (Small Town Monsters, 2017) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mothman_of_Point_Pleasant)\n\nThe Ankou (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankou)\n\nThe Case Against Reality, by Donald Hoffman (https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-case-against-reality-why-evolution-hid-the-truth-from-our-eyes-donald-hoffman/a68dde20f993121e?ean=9780393254709)\n\nA Game of Pool, The Twilight Zone (1961) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Game_of_Pool_(The_Twilight_Zone,_1959))\n\nOn a Pale Horse, by Piers Anthony (https://bookshop.org/p/books/on-a-pale-horse-piers-anthony/637201e59f3cbafa?ean=9780345338587)\n\nThe Villisca Axe Murder House (https://murderhouse.com/)\n\nLive and Let Die (1973) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_and_Let_Die_(film))\n\nTwin Peaks: The Return (2017) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_Peaks:_The_Return)\n\nWe're looking for more stories! 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