Hey, Murder-Milers, Mike here. Before we get going, just a quick heads-up. This episode is a bit of a one-off.

What you're about to hear comes from the investigative podcast, Paranormia, from the Always True Crime Network.

Paranormia explores real crimes, where the supernatural, the psychological and the macab collide. Think cult killings,

voodoo rituals and the internet myths that blur the line between fiction and fear. The episode I'm

sharing with you today is a true story from 1990's Brighton, and honestly, it's one of those cases

that becomes more unsettling the longer you sit with it. A murder trial,

jurors shut away in a hotel room, tensions running high, and then somehow a Ouija board enters the

deliberations. It's a story about belief, stress, and what happens when rational systems are pushed

to their limits. So give it a listen, see what you make of it, and what happens when rational systems are pushed to their limits.

So give it a listen. See what you make of it, and I'll catch you on the other side.

They said the place had a history.

Creaking doors, old wallpaper, the smell of salt and carpet glue, the kind of hotel that already felt haunted, even before the jury arrived.

But what really unsettled the jurors was the silence.

For almost a week they'd been cut off was the silence.

For almost a week, they'd been cut off from the world.

No television, no papers, no phone calls from home.

Twelve strangers locked together with the weight of two young lives taken too soon.

Outside, reporters called it the honeymoon murders.

Inside, the jurors try to stay sane.

Alcohol and paper cups.

Gossip about the lawyers.

Uneasy jokes about the case.

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