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care when listening. Hi there. I hope you're well. As I mentioned in the update a couple of weeks ago,

this is a carefully selected replay from the archives as we prepare to return with new episodes in late April.

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This is part one of a two-part series.

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This series includes the death of a young child.

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The year was 1936 and the location was Pacific Junction, a remote railway junction in the Atlantic province of New Brunswick. It was a bitterly cold evening in early January, and Canadian National Railway's worker

Omar Lutz was suddenly woken up by the sound of his dog barking incessantly outside.

It was just after midnight.

Omar went out to see what the disturbance was

and found his dog running up and down the road,

barking into the darkness as snow fell over the wooded area.

Omar couldn't see anything going on,

so quickly checked his fox pens to make sure no one was around

before taking his dog back inside.

He went back to bed thinking nothing more of the strange incident.

The following day, Omar was back at the station at around noon when a man burst in saying

he needed help.

The man was a local trapper and logger named Otto Blackney, and he said he'd just run straight

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