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Inhuman: A True Crime Podcast

Episode 144: The Circleville Letters Mystery

Inhuman: A True Crime Podcast

Inhuman Podcast

True Crime

4.82.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

HAPPY SPOOKY SEASON!! This is the story of the mysterious letters that terrorized the town of Circleville, Ohio for two decades.

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What's up you guys? I'm Haley and I'm Andrea and this is Inhuman, a true crime podcast.

0:54.0

Happy spooky season everyone officially entered spooky season and I wanted to kick off spooky season with a kind of like creepy story.

1:08.0

There's a little bit of your typical true crime but not fully. It's more of like a but it's also not a haunted story.

1:15.0

Okay. It makes sense. Yeah. You'll see in a second.

1:18.0

But today we are going to be talking about the Circleville letters mystery.

1:24.0

And this was suggested by Shelby H. So thank you for the suggestion Shelby.

1:29.0

And I'm really excited to share this story because it kind of reminds me of the watcher house and all of that spookiness where it's like creepy and scary but not like haunted.

1:39.0

So I thought it would be a perfect way to kick off spooky season.

1:43.0

So before we get into the full story I want to give you a little bit of background on the town of Circleville.

1:50.0

So Circleville is a town in Pickaway County Ohio which is about 25 to 30 miles south of Columbus Ohio which if you don't know is a big city in Ohio.

2:02.0

So Circleville isn't a super big town. In 2020 the population was just under 14,000 and back in the 70s and eights when this story takes place it was even smaller.

2:14.0

The name Circleville actually comes from the city's original layout when it was created in 1810.

2:20.0

So back then the town was basically an 1100 foot diameter circle.

2:27.0

So it was literally just like a circle so they called it Circleville.

2:32.0

But by the 1830s they expanded to the typical grid shape of a town because that was obviously more convenient.

2:40.0

But they decided to keep the name Circleville.

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