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This Paranormal Life

The Circleville Letters Mystery - Ghost or Serial Killer?

This Paranormal Life

This Paranormal Life

Improv, True Crime, Comedy

4.73.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Who doesn’t love receiving mail? — a letter from a loved one, a cool eBay purchase, or illicit substances from the dark web — it can be such a fun treat to receive a piece of mail. But what if next time you opened up your mailbox you were staring down the barrel of a loaded gun? That’s the uncomfortable reality that the residents of Circleville, Ohio had to become accustomed to after mysterious letters started turning up in their town. The letters revealed impossible-to-know secrets and details of sordid infidelities. But who authored the letters? And were they even among the living? Time for Rory and Kit to investigate. Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Join our Secret Society Facebook Community⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Support us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Patreon.com/ThisParanormalLife⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to get access to weekly bonus episodes! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Buy Official TPL Merch!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Edited by Philip Shacklady Research by Ewen Friers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

In 1977, residents of a small town in Ohio called Circleville began receiving mysterious letters from an unknown source identified only as writer.

0:10.0

I know where you live. I've been observing your house and know you have children.

0:16.0

This is no joke. Please take it serious. Everyone concerned has been notified. It will be over soon.

0:24.6

They were etched in bizarre handwriting. Just imagine a letter posted through your letterbox containing these disturbing words and then imagine receiving hundreds of them over the course of several years.

0:39.1

The letters contain threats of violence and supposed blackmail, often as a means of coercing

0:44.6

the receiver to comply with the writer's will.

0:47.9

But who or what was sending them?

0:50.5

What did they want?

0:51.8

And what's scarier?

0:52.9

A haunted amusement park?

0:56.3

Or amusement park prices themselves?

0:59.9

Answers to these questions and more on this episode of... This Paranormal Life!

1:03.7

Hello, welcome back to the show to This Paranormal Life.

1:07.4

Rory, what the damn hell is going on here?

1:10.3

I have no idea. Someone called the writer sending threatening letters to individuals.

1:17.6

That's terrifying.

1:18.6

In this circumstance of us trying to bust this case, I'm treating you right now as the detective at the start of the movie.

1:23.6

I'm like, yeah, we got some evidence right here for you, Chief. This is the letters we're looking at. Jesus Christ, are you, we're going, moving this fast. We're just going.

1:31.6

All right, you can call me Detective Lugo as we kick off this investigation. Kit has handed me

1:39.0

the letter that I believe is the one that was sent to these individuals, whoever they are. It's marked to

1:47.6

Mrs. Ron Gillespie. Is that right? Yep. Mrs. Ron Gillespie? Well, I guess actually,

1:56.8

yeah, that is a thing that people used to do, isn't it? People would be like, you know, like in a movie in the 1950s, if someone was flirting with Rory Pars, they would say, is there a Mrs. Rory Pars? Oh, I see. I feel like that might be what they're saying. A little flirting. Okay. Well, I'm not saying the flirting. I was just like, you might have, I don't know, maybe if you didn't know Ron's wife's name, you might be like, just Mrs. Ron Gillespie. That's a stretch. I'm trying to make it make sense. Yeah, this is already really messy. What's happening? What's going on? Don't focus on the address. Focus on the blackmail letter. Do you want me to read this? Well, no, I just read it. But I'm just showing you the nature of the letter.

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