rich 1.0 In tonight's dead letter, listener Chris takes us back to the early 2000s, when he was the head brewer at a restaurant on the east side of Cumberland, Maryland, in a building so old it served as a Civil War field hospital. One night after close, he and three coworkers were having a beer in the basement bar when the loudest sound he'd ever heard slammed into the floorboards right above their heads, shaking dust from the ceiling and rattling every bottle behind the bar. Relevant Prior Episodes Nightmarchers of Hawaii (https://open.spotify.com/episode/5KJHipt22ea8EWRMCATTOJ) Links and Further Reading The Battle of Folck's Mill: Maryland Historical Trust Battlefield Documentation (PDF) (https://apps.mht.maryland.gov/medusa/PDF/Allegany/AL-III-C-182.pdf) Battle of Folck's Mill, Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Folck%27s_Mill) Folck's Mill (National Register of Historic Places site), Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folck%27s_Mill) The Battle of Folck's Mill, Western Maryland's Historical Library (https://www.whilbr.org/BattleofFolcksMill) The Invasion, Aug 1864: The Cumberland Alleganian's Original Account, Western Maryland's Historical Library (https://www.whilbr.org/BattleofFolcksMill/Invasion-Aug-1864-Folck-s-Mill) Folck's Mill Marker, Historical Marker Database (https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=19328) The History of Puccini Restaurant, Cumberland, Maryland (https://puccinirestaurant.com/history/) The Phantom Battle of Edgehill, Historic UK (https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/Phantom-Battle-of-Edgehill/) The Spectral Army of Souther Fell, Mysterious Britain and Ireland (https://www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk/hauntings/souther-fell-mungrisdale/) The Dieppe Raid Case, Mysterious Britain and Ireland (https://www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk/hauntings/dieppe-raid-normandy/) The Drummer of Tedworth, Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drummer_of_Tedworth) Phantom Armies of the Night by Claude Lecouteux (https://www.amazon.com/Phantom-Armies-Night-Ghostly-Processions/dp/1594774366) The Rosenheim Poltergeist, by Tess Pfeifle at Astonishing Legends (https://astonishinglegends.com/astonishing-legends/2020/8/17/the-rosenheim-poltergeist) We're looking for more stories! Send your Dead Letter to deadletteroffice@astonishinglegends.com (mailto:deadletteroffice@astonishinglegends.com) ! Astonishing Legends https://audioboom.com/channels/4322549-astonishing-legends Audioboom https://audioboom.com 480 95 https://audioboom.com/i/43815066/600x600/c 600 600 <iframe width="100%" height="95" src="https://embeds.audioboom.com/posts/8946927/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>