Hello, everyone, welcome back to National Park After Dark. You're listening to a Trail Tales episode, and I'm Cassie.

And I'm Danielle. And we got some stories for you. Oh, as normal. Sure do. Yeah. So my first story,

Small Town Legend, with a scary story behind it.

Hi, my name is Roger from just south of Denver and a longtime fan of the pod.

I grew up in a then small town in Connecticut, a place called Wallingford.

Oh, it's coming back.

I'm like, Roger, you're already being chosen because I too lived outside of Denver and my dad lived in Wallingford.

Oh, wow.

So.

Yep.

Our small town legend had to do with a real event, but the legend was definitely built to scare people even more.

The version of the legend everyone knows is that of shoebox lane, also known as Tyler Mill Road.

This story was that an old man lived in the creepy house off of this very desolate road

and would murder people and leave parts of them around in shoeboxes for kids and wayward teens

to find along this very, very scary road. Of course, the big thing was to drive down that road with

not a single street light to be seen, late at night, and scare the hell out of yourself.

There really was a spooky old house with abandoned cars and other machinery around it,

and it was out there all by itself. Of course, the old guy who lived there was actually a very

nice old guy, and his

family had owned the home and land around it for so many years. Nobody was really sure how long it

had been there, but the story doesn't end there. The real story, almost 140 years old, includes

a little used wooden path, an inquisitive dog, an old-style wooden shoe box, which was

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