Lost Charlie Ross

Strange Familiars

SpectreVision Radio

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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“Don’t take candy from strangers”…We tell the story of Lost Charlie Ross, a child abducted from Germantown, Pennsylvania in 1874. Charlie’s abductors sent multiple ransom notes, but were killed during a separate attempted robbery without ever revealing where Charlie was located. Over the ensuing years, several people claimed to be Charlie Ross, but none of their claims proved true. In a very Strange Familiars twist, while researching the story, Alison found that one boy who was thought, for a time, to be the lost Charlie Ross, lived in our home town! If you would like to help us continue to make Strange Familiars, get bonus content, t-shirts, stickers, and more rewards, you can become a patron: http://www.patreon.com/StrangeFamiliars If you would prefer a one-time payment to help us out, here is a PayPal.me link - you can change the number 25 in the URL to any amount: https://www.paypal.me/timothyrenner/25 Our Strange Familiars / Lost Grave etsy shop has art, books, patches, t-shirts, and more ... including original art done for Strange Familiars: https://www.etsy.com/shop/lostgrave Strange Familiars t-shirts and other designs are available here: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/strange-familiars?ref_id=14000 Episode 225 notes and links: 90 Days to the Perfect Puppy: https://perfectpuppies.sithappens.us/90-days Riverbend Comics: https://www.riverbendcomics.com Karmic Garden: https://www.etsy.com/shop/KarmicGarden Timothy’s book of paranormal illustrations, Apparitions, is available to order now… directly from us: https://www.strangefamiliars.com/home/apparitions-illustrations-of-the-other-book or, if you prefer, on etsy: https://www.etsy.com/listing/877387099/apparitions-art-book-by-timothy-renner Timothy’s book, with co-author Joshua Cutchin, Where the Footprints End, Volume II, ordering information: https://www.strangefamiliars.com/home/where-the-footprints-end-volume-ii-available-now Strange Familiars Photo of the Week #64: The Lost Charlie Ross You can purchase this photo in our etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/listing/978673177/lost-charlie-ross-strange-familiars Timothy’s books: https://www.amazon.com/Timothy-Renner/e/B072X44SD5 Strange Familiars ‘Awoken Tree’ t-shirts are available in our Etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/listing/739690857/strange-familiars-podcast-awoken-tree Alison: https://www.etsy.com/shop/odpeacock Chad’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNB7MSJ2F1SRBPcQsEFLnvg (make sure to subscribe to Chad’s channel, Ruck Rabbit Outdoors.) Chad’s etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/RuckRabbitOutdoors To help with the Capuchin Day Center’s work with the homeless you can donate here: https://www.capuchindaycentre.ie and here: https://www.cskdetroit.org Contact us via email at: strangefamiliarspodcast@gmail.com http://www.facebook.com/strangefamiliars Join the Strange Familiars Gathering group on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/strangefamiliars/ instagram: @strangefamiliars http://www.strangefamiliars.com Intro and background music by Stone Breath. You can find more at http://stonebreath.bandcamp.com The closing song is Some Thing by Timothy from the album Fallow: https://stonebreath.bandcamp.com/album/fallow Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/strange-familiars/donations Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	They claim they were on ice because they'll sneak into the sky different from the other
0:28.0	you.
0:52.0	Welcome to Strange Familiers. If you've had an encounter with the pair normal,
0:56.2	or if you know of a story you think we should cover, you can email us strange familiar podcast at gmail.com.
1:04.3	How you doing tonight Allison? I'm well I'm kind of excited about this episode because I would like
1:09.6	to announce that after a long battle of basically attrition on the part of the pair normal,
1:15.7	I think I'm in. Because of what happened during this research. So it was a very strange
1:23.6	familiar thing. The story took a very strange familiar turn. We'll just put it that way.
1:28.1	Partly just because of procrastination because we were ready to do this episode on Sunday or Monday
1:33.6	and I was like I'm too tired. I don't feel prepared. Just give me another day to get some more
1:38.4	notes together. And then this whole other weird aspect added. Yeah.
1:43.8	Tonight's story started with tonight's photo of the week. I got this card and it had this
1:55.5	person's name on it. So I did a quick search as I'm want to do and sure enough it turned up in
2:02.4	pretty incredible story. It's a story that we wanted to start with the old adage we all heard
2:08.3	it when we were kids. Don't take candy from strangers. No, I felt this was just general common sense
2:15.2	right that your parents said and it's something that somebody's parents said to them and got pissed.
2:20.2	But it turns out this this race has a kind of origin. Yeah, I thought in my mind I kind of
2:26.5	added it to like the great 70s and 80s trick-or-treat candy apples with razor blades kind of
2:32.8	phenomenon. So in my mind, candy from strangers was just bad generally. Right, except
2:38.0	in Halloween. Except in Halloween when it's totally fine. In the same way it's like don't sit on
2:41.7	all men's laps, except for a Christmas time. You know, right. Holiday seemed to be exempt from
2:47.2	basic social moratism. Don't sit on all the man's lap unless he's wearing a funny costume.
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