“SKI FOREVER” by Scott Donnelly #MicroTerrors

A school bus driver in Circleville, Ohio was told in block letters to end an affair or her husband would die, and he did. Decades later a New Jersey couple paid $1.3 million for 657 Boulevard and never spent a night there, because a stranger signing himself The Watcher kept writing to ask about the "young blood" in the house. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/circleville READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2ycj6492 FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Two stories of people living ordinary lives being terrorized by threatening, creepy letters in the mail. We’ll begin in 1976 in Circleville, Ohio. Then I’ll share a more modern story where a New Jersey family moves into a home and is terrorized for years by mail through 2017. CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00.00.000 = The Foreboding 00:01:50.978 = Show Open 00:03:06.569 = The Circleville Letters 00:14:25.756 = The Westfield Watcher *** 00:43:42.991 = Show Close *** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break LISTEN ON PODCAST APPS: Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.com/wdapps *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast* SOURCES and RESOURCES: “The Circleville Letters” by Les Hewitt for Historic Mysteries: https://tinyurl.com/y8hhhjnr “The Watcher of Westfield” by Les Hewitt for Historic Mysteries: https://tinyurl.com/yadngrqd (Over time links may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. Some links included above may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.) WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. Originally aired: June 2021 LIKE WHAT YOU’RE HEARING? WEIRD DARKNESS posts episodes 7 DAYS A WEEK! Listen FREE wherever you get podcasts or visit https://weirddarkness.com/listen. • Paranormal • True Crime • Ghosts • UFOs • Cryptids • Unexplained • Want even more? Become an OFFICIAL WEIRDO for commercial-free episodes, bonus episodes, weeknight live chats, audiobooks & more at https://WeirdDarkness.com/OFFICIAL This episode of Weird Darkness follows two unsolved campaigns of terror by mail: the Circleville Letters that tormented a small Ohio town beginning in 1976, and The Watcher, an anonymous writer who drove a family out of a $1.3 million house in Westfield, New Jersey.It opens in Circleville, Ohio, where school bus driver Mary Gillespie started receiving block-lettered letters postmarked from Columbus accusing her of an affair with the school superintendent and warning that her house was being watched. Her husband Ron Gillespie got one ordering him to end the affair or die, and on August 19, 1977, after a phone call whose contents Mary never learned, Ron grabbed his pistol, drove off, and struck a tree at a nearby...

What if the imaginary friend you had as a child wasn’t imaginary at all — but something lingering, watching… and very real? EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/imaginaryfriends READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yckr4ry4 FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Most people had imaginary friends when they were younger. These "friends" were usually nice, funny, and even comforting. They took the form of animals, other humans, and sometimes larger-than-life characters that defy classification. And sometimes they were extremely creepy and downright scary, especially when examined in hindsight. CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = The Foreboding 00:01:22.744 = Show Open 00:02:39.239 = Imaginary Friends, Part 1 00:15:42.835 = Imaginary Friends, Part 2 *** 00:25:41.562 = Song: “Funny Man” by Dark Weirdness (about an imaginary friend) 00:30:08.623 = Show Close *** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break LISTEN ON PODCAST APPS:  Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.com/wdapps *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast* SOURCES and RESOURCES: Imaginary Friends 01: http://ow.ly/olpf30nQLkP Imaginary Friends 02: http://ow.ly/obdb30nQLl8 (Over time links may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. Some links included above may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.) WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. Originally aired: June 2021 LIKE WHAT YOU’RE HEARING? WEIRD DARKNESS posts episodes 7 DAYS A WEEK! Listen FREE wherever you get podcasts or visit https://weirddarkness.com/listen. • Paranormal • True Crime • Ghosts • UFOs • Cryptids • Unexplained • Want even more? Become an OFFICIAL WEIRDO for commercial-free episodes, bonus episodes, weeknight live chats, audiobooks & more at https://WeirdDarkness.com/OFFICIAL Weird Darkness collects fifteen true accounts from adults who look back on the imaginary friends of their childhood and find something other than imagination: a murdered girl buried a mile and a half from the house, a tall man in bloody scrubs at a tea party, two girls in white nightdresses who vanished whenever the dog ran in, and a voice in a basement window where nobody lived.It opens with a toddler named Karen who had to be treated like a real person, a friend so insistent that the child's mother wondered if she was seeing something nobody else could. Decades later, an article about a missing-person case in the same city named a murdered girl called Karen, and a text to her mother for the old address confirmed the body had been buried about a mile and a half from their former home, more than a decade before the family moved in.From there, a Redditor who broke into foreclosed...

A restoration contractor who makes his living not asking questions takes a job scrubbing three and a half centuries of dried blood off the floors, walls, and fifty-foot ceiling of a boarded-up mansion, with one condition from the client – stay out of the rooms behind the barricades. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/mitm-restoration SOURCES and RESOURCES: “Restoration” by Jordan Eilbert (aka Devlin Riptide): https://tinyurl.com/yx3xb5bv WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. Midnight In The Macabre (MITM), originally aired: September 08, 2026 LIKE WHAT YOU’RE HEARING? WEIRD DARKNESS posts episodes 7 DAYS A WEEK! Listen FREE wherever you get podcasts or visit https://weirddarkness.com/listen. • Paranormal • True Crime • Ghosts • UFOs • Cryptids • Unexplained • Want even more? Become an OFFICIAL WEIRDO for commercial-free episodes, bonus episodes, weeknight live chats, audiobooks & more at https://WeirdDarkness.com/OFFICIAL

From popes and painters to witches and bluesmen, these are the damned souls who bartered with the Devil — and paid in madness, torment, and blood. EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/SoulsForSale READ or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yc3hvtnj FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Five stories of real people who supposedly made deals with the Devil himself. *** In the summer of 1988, a terrifying creature began haunting the woods and little towns of Lee County, South Carolina – it quickly became known as Lizard Man. *** Governor Daniel G. Fowle ordered the construction of an oversized bed - but a later inhabitant of the governor’s mansion found the bed that gave Fowle such comfort to be the source of a strange series of encounters. CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00.00.000 = The Foreboding 00:01:06.860 = Show Open 00:02:29.690 = They Made Deals With The Devil: Pope Sylvester II 00:07:32.068 = They Made Deals With The Devil: Dr. John Fian 00:014:16.947 = They Made Deals With The Devil: Bernard Fokke 00:18:05.150 = They Made Deals With The Devil: Christoph Haizmann 00:22:16.516 = They Made Deals With The Devil: Tommy Johnson 00:27:10.619 = Lizard Man, 30 Years Later *** 00:36:13.875 = The Ghost In The Governor’s Mansion 00:40:42.478 = Show Close *** = Begins immediately after inserted ad break LISTEN ON PODCAST APPS:  Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.com/wdapps *No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast* SOURCES and RESOURCES: BOOK: “Lizard Man: The True Story of the Bishopville Monster” by Lyle Blackburn: https://amzn.to/2Exqoga BOOK: “North Carolina Legends” by Richard Walser: https://amzn.to/2H2MlFw “They Made Deals With The Devil” by Erik: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/38fkm5us “Lizard Man, 30 Years Later” by Nick Redfern: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/x4yy4m5w “The Ghost in The Governor’s Mansion”: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/57hwb5tp (Over time links may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. Some links included above may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.) WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness. Originally aired: June 07, 2022 LIKE WHAT YOU’RE HEARING? WEIRD DARKNESS posts episodes 7 DAYS A WEEK! Listen FREE wherever you get podcasts or visit https://weirddarkness.com/listen. • Paranormal • True Crime • Ghosts • UFOs • Cryptids • Unexplained • Want even more? Become an OFFICIAL WEIRDO for commercial-free episodes, bonus episodes, weeknight live chats,...

A merchant seaman on his first voyage walks out of a candlelit shop in Libya with a solid gold coin he can't pawn, sell, gamble away, or throw into the sea, and then a shipmate is found dead with the coin missing. Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/OTR CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)… 00:00:00.000 = Show Open 00:01:30.028 = CBS Radio Mystery Theater, “Devil’s Gold” (September 04, 1978) ***WD 00:47:43.536 = Barrie Craig, “Death And The Purple Cow” (December 12, 1951) ***WD 01:17:08.212 = BBC Radio 4/Radio 7 Ghost Story, “Midnight Express” (December 29, 1986) 01:30:06.504 = Night Beat, ‘Death Of Riley” (May 15, 1952) ***WD 02:00:25.506 = The Black Book/Man In Black, “The Price Of The Head” (February 02, 1952) ***WD 02:15:10.251 = Let George Do It, “Graystone Ghost” (March 24, 1952) ***WD 02:45:11.736 = Box 13, “Flash Of Light” (February 20, 1949) ***WD 03:12:23.023 = Calling All Cars, “The Chloroform Murders” (March 14, 1934) ***WD 03:41:44.552 = Casey Crime Photographer, “Grey Kitten” (February 06, 1947) 04:11:11.997 = CBC Mystery Theater, “The Old Nurses Story” (1966-1968) ***WD 04:39:49.689 = The Clock, “The Past Or The Present” (February 14, 1956) 05:05:27.883 = Show Close (ADU) = Air Date Unknown (LQ) = Low Quality ***WD = Remastered, edited, or cleaned up by Weird Darkness to make the episode more listenable. Audio may not be pristine, but it will be better than the original file which may have been unusable or more difficult to hear without editing. CUSTOM WEBPAGE: https://weirddarkness.com/WDRR0767