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Astonishing Legends

S2 Ep13: No Human Could Throw Books Like This

Astonishing Legends

Scott Philbrook

Society & Culture, History

4.610K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In tonight’s dead letter, we hear from a librarian who works the desk at a fairly new building down in the Southeast. But the ground it sits on has a much heavier history: the library was built right over the exact footprint of four demolished hospitals, with the old medical cornerstones still cemented into the walkway outside. When a freshly upgraded security system triggers overnight and catches something moving in the dark, the staff is forced to wonder if the property's busy past is finally bleeding into the present.

REFERENCE LINKS

The Bray Road Beast Documentary on Prime Video

A Haunting at the Hoyt Library on Prime Video

Small Town Monsters Official Website

ER70 EVP Recorder on the App Store

Waverly Hills Sanatorium

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1:10.5

Tonight's episode, No Huming could throw books like this.

1:17.0

Libraries are usually our refuges.

1:20.3

I would love to work at a library with no other people there.

1:24.3

But you expect things like, you know, the smell of the book paper. I love the smell of books.

1:30.0

Yes. The quiet hum of perhaps the HVAC. Maybe the rogue cart with a squeaky wheel with a librarian putting the books back on the shelves. But this isn't Ghostbusters.

1:41.6

Yeah. We don't expect apparitions of librarians shushing us, or do we?

1:47.3

Well, this particular library is a mid-size one here in the southeastern U.S.

1:51.8

And while we've been asked to keep the exact location confidential, I do know where it is.

1:56.4

It's not even a half-day's drive from me here in Greensboro, North Carolina.

2:00.8

And it's not really that

2:01.9

old either. It was built in 2009, the same year that my son was born. Right, on the grounds of not

2:08.2

one, but several, I think four preexisting hospitals that were all torn down and built back

2:15.2

in the same spot. Yeah. So that's pretty interesting. And, you know,

2:20.2

I guess I would say here that historically speaking, the South anyway, has a rich tradition of urban

2:25.1

renewal in its massive medical districts. And if you look at the old charity hospital footprints in

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