Well, it's that time of year again. Time for the heart starts pounding annual tradition of telling ghost stories near the holidays.

If you are new here and you're not familiar, back in the day before electricity and any of that,

it was tradition to gather around the hear hearth in your home and share a ghost story at Christmastime.

Halloween wasn't the only holiday where people got spooked.

And though we've lost that tradition over the years, we're going to bring it back.

And I have a good one for you today.

It's based on the story To Be Read at Dusk by Charles Dickens.

It's a story of a woman who saw something so horrifying, she almost didn't believe it.

And just a reminder, we have lots and lots of bonus episodes to catch up on on Patreon and Apple Podcasts.

This month's bonus episode is going to be on Missing 411, but we also have ones like cursed paintings, creepy games, the dark and morbid history of nursery rhymes,

and so much more. If you have a long drive coming up this holiday season, it might be a good

time to catch up. And next week is going to be our last episode of the year, and it's going to be

a little different. Think of it kind of like an end of year report where I'll

reflect on the show this past year. I'll also share some data on the show and our listeners, and I'll

give you some of my favorite, darkly curious recommendations of the best documentaries and movies I

watched that I think you should check out. That episode will be available

wherever you get your podcasts, including the Odyssey app. But for now, let's dive in.

It's when your heart starts pounding. It's when your heart starts pounding.

One, two, three, four, five.

There were five of them.

Five resort workers standing around the gondola at the top of the mountain in

Aspen, Colorado.

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