The Shadow Man

Unsolved Mysteries

Cosgrove Meurer Productions, Inc. + Audacy

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.7 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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The Pracht family has just moved into a rural Nebraska farmhouse when they begin to be harassed and taunted by the ghost of a psychopathic serial killer from the 1890s. How can they rid the house of his spirit? To find out more about this case visit: https://unsolved.com/podcasts/the-shadow-man/

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0:00.0	One night Randy and I were sleeping and we were both woken up.
0:13.6	Rian and ran into the room screaming, saying it hurts, it hurts.
0:20.2	There's something on it, it hurts.
0:23.5	And she was pulling her shirt up from her back.
0:28.5	As we were looking at her back and she was saying it's hurting, it's hurting.
0:33.8	We saw three scratches go up her back.
0:39.8	And they just, they appeared right before our eyes.
0:46.3	Just to think about it, sends chills up my spine.
0:53.9	November 3rd, 1878, wielding an axe, 22-year-old Stephen D. Richards enters the home of Mary
1:01.1	Halson and slaughters the young mother along with her three children.
1:06.0	He then makes himself breakfast before burying the bodies in the backyard.
1:10.7	For this and other murders, Richards is executed by hanging and buried in Minden, Nebraska.
1:17.2	Over 100 years later, a young family moves into a beautiful new home in nearby Norman,
1:22.2	Nebraska.
1:23.2	And it's here that serial killer Stephen D. Richards makes a very unwelcome return.
1:37.2	I'm Steve French and this is Unsolved Mysteries, The Shadow Man.
1:53.0	It's October 2012 and life as they know it is about to change her Danielle and Randy
1:58.3	Pratt and their growing family.
2:02.5	My husband and I had decided that we wanted to become foster parents and we needed a bigger
2:09.4	house.
2:11.2	So when we were looking around, we found this place here and it was perfect.
2:17.2	Five bedrooms, three bathrooms.
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