Ep. 116 - The Watcher

The Conspirators Podcast

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In 2014, a family purchased their dream home in an upscale New Jersey neighborhood. What they didn't know was the home secretly came with a nightmare--a mysterious individual who called himself "The Watcher". This person claimed to know their every move, to know the names of their children, and to have left something terrible inside the walls of their dream house. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theconspiratorspodcast Notes: https://people.com/archive/harassed-by-an-unknown-author-of-vicious-rhymes-ruth-finley-confronts-the-stranger-within-herself-vol-30-no-10/https://www.kansas.com/news/local/crime/article231411383.htmlhttps://www.thecut.com/2018/11/the-haunting-of-657-boulevard-in-westfield-new-jersey.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/09/nyregion/the-watcher-house-sold-new-jersey.htmlhttps://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-jersey-home-stalked-by-the-watcher-sells-after-years-of-torment/ Music: Dexter Britain, "The Tea Party" https://dexterbritain.com Kevin MacLeod “Long Note One", "Anxiety", "Despair and Triumph" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) Licence: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Alex Mason & The Minor Emotion, "You Promise", "Cry About Me", "No More Words", "Hope", https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Alex_Mason__The_Minor_Emotion Kai Engel, "Mist and Clouds", "Morbid Imagnation" https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kai_Engel Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	On BBC A
0:02.0	I am doing life a few more years means nothing to me
0:06.0	I'm pregnant
0:08.0	judges go easy I'm pregnant women
0:10.0	I've been old my electricity that's all
0:12.0	don't think I should even be in here.
0:14.0	A new series of the Baffa Award winning time.
0:18.0	You tell anyone and I mean anyone about me I will kill you starring Jody Whitaker tomorrow Lawrence and
0:26.0	Bella Ramsey time watch on BBC I player
0:30.6	during the late 1970s the residents of Wichita, Kansas were living on edge.
0:37.0	A serial killer named BTK, short for bind, torture kill, had already murdered seven women.
0:44.8	And residents lived in constant fear about where he might strike again.
0:49.4	Throughout the 1970s, BTK, who would eventually be arrested and unmasked as a former security
0:57.4	alarm installer named Dennis Rader, sent taunting letters to the police daring them to catch him.
1:05.0	But it was on November 6th, 1978,
1:08.0	when a couple named Ed and Ruth Finley
1:11.0	appeared at police headquarters to report a different set of terrifying letters of their very own.
1:19.0	Over the previous week someone had been taunting Ruth with a series of disturbing phone calls and letters.
1:25.0	The letters were always written in verse, which also gave the writer the name they're most known by, the poet.
1:37.0	One such rhyme read, Here's to you tender Valentine, red with blood and tied with twine. Nothing too much for a Valentine,
1:42.0	gone from here by a whim of mine.
1:47.3	Police filed the complaint and did a cursory investigation, but had little to go on.
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