rich 1.0 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. REFERENCE LINKS Grafton, West Virginia — e-WV Encyclopedia (https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/entries/2078) B&O Railroad Historical Marker in Grafton (https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=175612) Grafton Civil War Supply Depot Historical Marker (https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=175609) Grafton National Cemetery — National Cemetery Administration (https://www.cem.va.gov/cems/nchp/grafton.asp) Thornsbury Bailey Brown — First Union Soldier Killed in the Civil War (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thornsbury_Bailey_Brown) International Mother's Day Shrine (https://www.internationalmothersdayshrine.org/) Anna Jarvis, Founder of Mother's Day (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Jarvis) The Grafton Monster — e-WV Encyclopedia (https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/entries/2435) The Grafton Monster Festival (https://www.visitmountaineercountry.com/event/grafton-monster-festival-2/) The Grafton Monster in Fallout 76 (https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Grafton_Monster) George Washington's Surveying of Grafton — City of Grafton (https://www.graftonwv.org/about-3) Ruth Ann Musick, West Virginia Folklorist (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Ann_Musick) The Telltale Lilac Bush and Other West Virginia Ghost Tales (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telltale_Lilac_Bush) Astonishing Legends Ep 85: The Bell Witch Part 1 (https://astonishinglegends.com/al-podcasts/2017/10/08/ep-85-the-bell-witch-part-1) Astonishing Legends Archived Episodes — The Bell Witch Series (https://astonishinglegends.com/archived-episodes) The Enfield Poltergeist (1977) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enfield_poltergeist) The Smurl Haunting (West Pittston, PA) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smurl_haunting) Skinwalkers at the Pentagon — Lacatski, Kelleher, Knapp (https://www.amazon.com/Skinwalkers-Pentagon-Insiders-Account-Government/dp/B09HR54GQF) Hypnopompic Hallucinations — Sleep Foundation (https://www.sleepfoundation.org/how-sleep-works/hypnopompic-hallucinations) The Old Hag Phenomenon and Sleep Paralysis (https://www.healthline.com/health/sleep/old-hag-syndrome) The Blemmyes — Headless Men with Faces in Their Chests (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blemmyes) West Virginia Paranormal Investigations (https://www.facebook.com/WVPara/) Paper Moon (1973) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_Moon_(film)) We're looking for more stories! Send your Dead Letter to deadletteroffice@astonishinglegends.com! Astonishing Legends https://audioboom.com/channels/4322549-astonishing-legends Audioboom https://audioboom.com 480 95 https://audioboom.com/i/43662848/600x600/c 600 600 <iframe width="100%" height="95" src="https://embeds.audioboom.com/posts/8907781/embed?v=202301" style="background-color: transparent; display: block; padding: 0; width: 100%" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="allowtransparency" scrolling="no" title="Audioboom player" allow="autoplay" sandbox="allow-downloads allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation"></iframe>