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Time for the heart starts pounding annual tradition of telling ghost stories near the holidays.

If you are new here and you're not familiar, back in the day before electricity and any of that,

it was tradition to gather around the hear hear a ghost story at Christmas time.

Halloween wasn't the only holiday where people got spooked.

And though we've lost that tradition over the years,

we're going to bring it back. And I have a good one for you today. It's based on the story

To Be Read at Dusk by Charles Dickens. It's a story of a woman who saw something so horrifying

she almost didn't believe it. And just a reminder, we have lots and lots of bonus

episodes to catch up on on Patreon and Apple Podcasts. This month's bonus episode is going to be

on Missing 411, but we also have ones like cursed paintings, creepy games, the dark and morbid

history of nursery rhymes, and so much more. If you have a long drive

coming up this holiday season, it might be a good time to catch up. And next week is going to be

our last episode of the year, and it's going to be a little different. Think of it kind of like

an end of year report, where I'll reflect on the show this past year. I'll also share some data on

the show and our listeners, and I'll give you some of my favorite darkly curious recommendations

of the best documentaries and movies I watched that I think you should check out. That episode will be

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