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Astonishing Legends

45: Uninvited Intruders

Astonishing Legends

Scott Philbrook

History, Society & Culture

4.69.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In tonight’s dead letter, a listener recounts a childhood filled with unexplained phenomena in their 1940s Michigan home. From persistent footsteps and unsettling noises like dragging chains and hammering to a menacing presence in their bedroom, the haunting escalated over the years, driving them to seek refuge upstairs. But even then, the activity followed, with something heavy repeatedly stomping on the cast iron cover of the well room just outside their window. Pers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_lightning

Search this page for more on the Jacob Marley quote, “I wear the chain I forged in life…”
https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/christmascarol/quotes/character/jacob-marley/

Witch Ride/Sleep Paralysis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_paralysis

Stephen Prozak Shippy
https://www.strangemusicinc.com/artists/prozak
https://www.youtube.com/@HauntedSaginaw/featured

Iron in Folklore
https://diabolicalconfusions.wordpress.com/2011/02/15/iron-in-folklore-superstitions-explained/


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0:00.0

The Astonishing Legends Network

0:03.7

The views and opinions expressed by hosts and listeners on the astonishing dead letter office are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of Astonishing Legends productions, the Astonishing Legends Network, or any affiliated entities or guests.

0:37.2

Thank you. any affiliated entities or guests. When something unexplainable happens to you, it can make you feel isolated or alone.

0:43.3

But trust us, you're not.

0:46.3

For over a decade, you've been sending your strange stories to astonishing legends.

0:51.3

And now it's time for our fellow legenders to hear them too.

0:55.8

Join us weekly in Blanket Fortiana as we dig through your intriguing messages to the

1:00.4

astonishing Dead Letter Office. Tonight's episode Un Invited Intruders

1:14.3

Tonight's Dead Letter comes to us from a listener from the West Michigan area

1:22.3

who's asked to remain anonymous.

1:24.3

And this is another case of not just a lone witness reporting a loan incident. It's a

1:31.3

whole family experiencing something and confirming the happenings as they all witness this. And

1:38.0

whatever it is, it may have just been a resident spirit of the house or land and just generally haunting the premises,

1:48.3

or it may have been fixated on our listener tonight.

1:51.9

This is a real traditional Dickensian haunting here.

1:55.4

This one is like straight out of Christmas Carol, which I thought was pretty fascinating.

2:00.0

Or maybe perhaps Tobin's spirit guide, which I really wish that was a real book, but it's not.

2:04.9

It's waiting for you to write it, sir, or I guess us.

2:08.2

But yeah, we're still working on the Astonishing Legends Almanac.

2:11.5

So after that's done, then we'll get right to it.

2:14.2

All right, man, I think it's your turn to read tonight.

2:16.6

All righty then. All right, man, I think it's your turn to read tonight. All righty then.

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