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Unsolved Mysteries

The Shadow Man

Unsolved Mysteries

Cosgrove Meurer Productions, Inc. + Audacy

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.73.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

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/ To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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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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