meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
The Trail Went Cold

The Trail Went Cold – Episode 168 – Don “Rainboy” Decker

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

Tv & Film, True Crime

4.53.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

February 24, 1983. Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. After receiving a temporary furlough from the county jail, 21-year old Don Decker attends his grandfather’s funeral and goes to stay at a friend’s house. It isn’t long before Don appears to go into a trance and water starts materializing from the house’s walls, ceiling and floor. Over the course […]

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

February 24, 1983. Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. After receiving a temporary furlough from the county

0:08.8

jail, 21-year-old Don Decker attends his grandfather's funeral and goes to stay at a friend's house.

0:15.4

It isn't long before Don appears to go into a trance and water starts materializing from the

0:20.4

house's walls, ceiling, and floor. Over the course of the next several days, Don seemingly makes

0:26.4

water appear at a number of different locations, including a pizza parlor and the county jail,

0:32.0

and numerous eyewitnesses report seeing strange supernatural events which make them believe

0:36.9

that Don is possessed by an evil spirit. After a meeting between Don and Reverend, the strange

0:42.8

occurrences finally come to an end, and there are no further incidents involving water, but no

0:48.0

explanation can be found for the bizarre saga of Don Rayboy Decker. After that, the trail

0:55.9

went dry.

1:26.7

Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of The Trail Went Dry. I'm your host Robin

1:37.9

Warner and we have reached an historic milestone this week. This is our 168th feature length episode,

1:44.8

and when you combine that with the 32 mini-sodes we've also released, I guess that means today's show

1:50.4

officially marks the 200th episode we've ever produced. And to commemorate the milestone,

1:55.8

we are going to be presenting what is undoubtedly the scariest, most disturbing, most nightmare-inducing

2:01.2

case we've ever covered. The saga of Don Decker, aka Rayboy. Yes, this is the untold story of

2:09.3

the unproduced prequel to the Oscar-winning Dustin Hoffman Tom Cruisefilm, Rain Man.

2:15.2

Okay, not really. If you're an unsolved mysteries fan, you've probably heard of this one before,

2:20.8

and remember it as the story about the guy supposedly had the ability to use his mind to

2:25.6

generate water and make it rain indoors. By pure happenstance, the release date of our 200th

2:31.6

episode just happens to be April 1st, and well, it would be downright foolish for us not to cover

2:38.0

this case. You see back in February, I released a bonus episode on Patreon about my top 10

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Robin Warder, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Robin Warder and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.