608 // Barbara Newhall Follett

Missing

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🗓️ 30 November 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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In this new episode, Crawlspace Media's Tim Pilleri and Lance Reenstierna speak about the mysterious disappearance of Barbara Newhall Follett from Brookline, Massachusetts on December 7th, 1939. This episode was researched by Kathleen Studer. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Newhall_Follett. https://farksolia.org/about-barbara-follett-page/. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-place-of-vanishing-finding-barbara-newhall-follett/. https://the-line-up.com/barbara-newhall-follett. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-place-of-vanishing-finding-barbara-newhall-follett/. https://www.newspapers.com/. photos from Farksolia.org except shoe from “a place of vanishing”. Check out Uncommon Goods: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://uncommongoods.com/MISSING⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Check out Happy Mammoth and use my code MISSING for a great deal: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://happymammoth.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Check out Mood and use my code MISSING for a great deal: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://mood.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Check out Bioma Health and use my code MISSING for a great deal: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠gobioma.com/missing⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Follow Missing: IG: https://www.instagram.com/MissingCSM/. TT: https://www.tiktok.com/@missingcsm. FB: https://www.facebook.com/MissingCSM. X: https://twitter.com/MissingCSM. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0yRXkJrZC85otfT7oXMcri. Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/missingcsm. Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/missing/id1006974447. Follow Crawlspace: IG: https://www.instagram.com/Crawlspacepodcast. TT: https://www.tiktok.com/@crawlspacepodcast. FB: https://www.facebook.com/Crawlspacepodcast. X: https://twitter.com/crawlspacepod. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7iSnqnCf27NODdz0pJ1GvJ. Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/crawlspace. Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/crawlspace-true-crime-mysteries/id1187326340. Check out our entire network at http://crawlspace-media.com/. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The In today's new episode of Missing, we speak about the mysterious disappearance of Barbara, Newhall, Follett, from Brookline, Massachusetts.
0:47.3	Lance, how's it going today? This is quite a, quite a case here.
0:52.3	Yeah, it's one of those historical ones that we really like. This one
0:55.4	takes place in the 1930s and 40s, and Barbara Follett was like a child prodigy, not like a child
1:02.8	prodigy. She was a child writing prodigy and mirrored the character that she created in this
1:10.4	wonderful book called The House Without
1:12.9	Windows. But we'll get into that when we get into her disappearance. What did you think?
1:17.5	Yeah, this is a really interesting story. Certainly made a bit more complicated by her
1:22.4	background and really great research by our friend Kathleen Studer.
1:29.1	Big thanks for this one.
1:31.1	While reading it, I really wasn't sure where it was going,
1:34.8	so I'm very pleased to be speaking about it here today with you.
1:38.7	All right, we're going to break real quick for commercial,
1:40.8	and we will return with the story of Barbara Newhall Follett was born in Hanover, New Hampshire, on March 4th, 1914.
2:27.4	To parents, Roy Wilson Follett and Helen Thomas Follett.
2:32.4	And Roy went by his middle name Wilson,
2:36.0	and he was Harvard educated and taught English first at Dartmouth and then later at Brown.
2:42.0	And Barbara's mother Helen had been a school teacher.
2:46.0	You know, when I read or hear about people who have parents who are in the educational field, who are in education,
2:54.7	something about that just makes me feel like they had a solid upbringing. And that could just be
3:00.4	me being naive about things. But to have two teachers as your parents feels like you are sort of destined to have a good head on your shoulders.
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