You know that feeling you get when things just aren't going your way? Your car won't

start, you're late to a meeting, you spill coffee on your way to work? You might blame

those things on, say, karma or mercury in retrograde or just bad luck. But if you lived

in 1900s, Pennsylvania, there'd be a different explanation. You might think you'd been cursed

by the dark arts. Obviously that sounds a little wild. And even if it was the answer,

most people wouldn't do anything about it, much less break into someone's home and murder

them in cold blood. But in 1928, John Blimeyer was willing to do all of those things just

to lift a curse. And according to him, it actually worked.

This is Supernatural, a Spotify original from Parkast. I'm your host Ashley Flowers. Every

Wednesday, I'll be taking a deep dive into a real unexplained mystery to try and figure

out the truth. You can find all episodes of Supernatural and all other Spotify originals

from Parkast for free on Spotify. This week's episode is about the Hex Hollow Murder. In

1928, a Pennsylvania faith healer named Nelson Raymeyer was accused of placing a curse

or a Hex on multiple people. One of his alleged victims took it upon himself to break the Hex,

and the events that followed only seemed to confirm that Nelson had been dabbling

in the dark arts. We'll have all that and more coming up. Stay with us.

If you take a drive through the winding desolate streets of Hex Hollow, Pennsylvania, I can almost

guarantee you'll get this haunting chill down your spine. Hex Hollow lies in a heavily

wooded area of York County, Pennsylvania. It has these centuries-old farmhouses that

give off this eerie vibe, like something sinister happened there. Because, well, it did.

The story starts before the Great Depression in the year 1900. The American Dream is

alive and well. The economy is chugging along, and agriculture is prospering. Pennsylvania

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