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On cult leader, I strive for telling stories in a truthful matter, though press, media, and other resources cannot always be verified.

Sources can be found in the show notes. Hello and welcome back to cult leader.

I'm your cult leader, Spencer Henry, and this week's case made its way across my desk after a recent reminder of a story that I told a while back about the Greenbrier ghost.

In full transparency, I'm not ready to let go of Halloween quite yet.

So we're allowing this month's theme of haunted episodes to bleed into November.

Is that all right?

I think so.

I mean, do we actually have any formal rule against it?

I don't think so.

And based on the feedback I've been getting from you guys, you're loving these haunted episodes.

So let's get into it.

I've never, and I mean never heard anybody talk about this case before. So when I

learned about this case, I couldn't wait to just dive in and learn every single thing I could

about it. Now, this is an older case, but stick with me here because we've got Moida,

we've got visions, and we've got all the good makings of a Halloween flick. Travel back in time with me to 19th century

England. Poulstead specifically. A small, sleepy rural village tucked into the Suffolk countryside.

The name roughly translates to placed by a pool, which fits since there are two large ponds right in the

middle of it. It sat by a small

branch of the river Stour, surrounded by farms. Back in the early 1800s, it was a typical rural

community, you know, close-knit, religious, full of gossip. Saturday meant shopping at the fair,

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