Scary Ghost Stories

A Signal in the Dark: The Death of Ross Mason

A sixty-three pound feed horn mounted thirty-one feet high was found upright in frozen gravel eighteen inches from parked trucks on November 28, 2017, with no ladder, tools, or footprints nearby - and the man who maintained the antenna, Ross Mason, was missing. He had run an unscheduled seven-hour recording session that night on the hydrogen line and left a cold pot of coffee and meticulous notebooks behind; what did he hear that made him break a rigid routine?

In this episode, we lay out the documented details of Mason’s last days, the repetitive pulsed signal he logged near 1420 MHz, and the scene the deputy found the morning he was reported missing, asking whether the evidence points to interference, a deliberate act, or something else entirely.

Person: Ross Mason
Date: November 28, 2017
Location: Crestfall Observatory, Harlan County, Nevada, elevation 6,000 ft
Signal frequency: ~1420 MHz (hydrogen line)
Session length: 7 hours 13 minutes

- The feed horn weighed 63 pounds and had been mounted 31 feet above the ground on four grade-eight bolts.
- The feed horn lay upright in the driveway, 18 inches from the spot where trucks park, with no ladder, tools, or footprints and frozen ground.
- Mason had lived at Crestfall Observatory for just under three years on a residency grant and kept a strict schedule: dinner 5:30, bed 9:15, up 5:00.
- He documented a pulsed signal pattern across 17 sessions over six weeks, with groupings like three short, three long, three short, then a ~40-second gap.
- On November 27 at 11:04 PM he started an unscheduled recording that ran until 6:17 AM; the terminal was still running and the coffee brewed at 6:00 AM was cold when Deputy Sandra Fitch arrived.

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The Widow's Library Card Returned After Death - Who Used It?

The thrill here is a quiet, uncanny return: a library card belonging to a woman who died eight years earlier shows up in a storage-room donation and the same handwriting appears on checkout entries after her death-so who actually used the card? Could the ledger and the card’s signature tell a different story about presence, grief, or a mistake that no one noticed for years?

In this episode, we follow the sequence of events from the cardboard box splitting in the night to the director pulling a handwritten circulation ledger; the episode traces the people, dates, and physical evidence that create the central mystery: if Loretta Marsh died in 2003, who was the person who signed her name on library records in 2003 and 2004?

Person: Loretta Marsh
Date of death: March 9, 2003
Location: Mabry Falls Public Library, Dunmore Avenue and Fourth Street, Holt County, Arkansas
Witness: Paula Bennett (found the card), Dennis Marsh (handwriting comparison)
Record: Ledger entries dated Sept 2003, Nov 2003, and June 2004

- A slim paperback gardening guide donated by Loretta Marsh in the 1990s contained her library card when found in 2011.
- Paula Bennett had attended Loretta Marsh's graveside eight years earlier and found the card on the storage-room floor.
- The library account was marked "flagged" after Loretta's death but not deleted from the system.
- Handwritten ledger entries show the card was presented and staff processed transactions on three post-death dates: September 2003, November 2003, and June 2004.
- Dennis Marsh, a draftsman, identified the handwriting on the card and on the ledger entries as his wife's, saying it was not merely similar but hers.

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The Boxcar That Rolled Itself Into a Locked Spur at Night

A fifty-three-foot steel boxcar with no locomotive, no lights, and no crew rolled slowly into a decommissioned spur that had been physically cut off for eleven years. The switch sealing Track Nine was still bolted and rusted, the car’s reporting mark matched a unit supposedly scrapped years earlier, and the paper trail ends with a dissolved company - so how did MFCX 4418 get there?

In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the 10:11 p.m. sighting to the initial investigations, following eyewitness accounts, on-scene photographs, and corporate records to trace what happened and why one detail remains unexplained.

Person: Edward Tate
Person: Diane Dixon
Event: MFCX 4418 resting against buffer stop on Track Nine
Date: early September (Thursday night; 10:11 p.m.; 11:14 p.m. 911 call; 11:40 p.m. supervisor call)
Location: Maren Falls freight yard, Track Nine

- Boots the dog refused to move at 10:11 p.m., prompting Edward Tate to stop and observe the yard.
- Track Nine had been decommissioned and physically cut off from active lines for eleven years.
- The switch sealing Track Nine, Switch 9-Alpha, required a bar-and-bolt assembly and two-person sign-off and showed no fresh tool marks.
- The boxcar stencil read MFCX 4418, a Maren Falls Central reporting mark and four-digit identifier.
- Brightline Asset Recovery, LLC claimed the car from a Findlay scrapyard but had been administratively dissolved seven years before the incident.

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She Pulls a Spotless Bell Plate From the Mud: The Harwick Hall Mystery

A woman fishing Caldwell Creek finds a spotless brass plate, four inches by six, with a push-button engraved MATRON - unchanged by mud, screws still threaded, as if placed that morning rather than buried for decades. The plate ties directly to a sealed dormitory at Harwick Academy where a fourteen-year-old, Cora Simms, died in 1987 after an over-administered sedative; why was a matron's bell lost to the creek only to reappear in 2011?

In this episode, we follow the discovery on August 6, 2011, and the documents and memories that connect the plate to Harwick Academy, the dormitory, the matron's alcove and the unresolved questions about Cora Simms' death and the missing records that left her family without answers.

Person: Heather Collins
Date: August 6, 2011
Location: Caldwell Creek / Harwick Academy
Person: Cora Simms
Date: August 14, 1987

- The brass plate measured 4 inches by 6 inches with a central push-button and the engraved word MATRON.
- Heather Collins had fished the same stretch of Caldwell Creek for 20 years before finding the plate.
- Harwick Academy operated from 1922 and Harwick Academy survived a 1961 fire; the school closed permanently on August 14, 1987.
- Cora Simms was 14 years old when she died in the Harwick Academy dormitory in the summer of 1987; her death certificate lists a cardiac event.
- Administrator Walt Greer removed every school record from September 1986 through closure before leaving Tennessee.

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The Lobster Boat That Froze in July: Missing Hours at Sea

A lobster boat found with its lower eighteen inches encased in solid ice on July 11, 2009 - in sixty-one degree air and harbor water above fifty-eight degrees - promises a chill that logic can't explain. A GPS log holds one buried detail no one has accounted for; what did two crewmembers lose from their day at sea?

In this episode, we walk through the documented events surrounding the Maren K., the two people aboard who recalled almost nothing, and the physical evidence on the boat and in the harbor - leading to the unanswered question that has haunted the town.

Person: Beverly Crawford
Person: Walt Ogren
Date: July 9, 2009
Location: Slip Fourteen, Harwick, Maine
Event: Boat hull frozen in July

- The Maren K. had the bottom eighteen inches of its hull encased in solid ice when found on July 11, 2009.
- Air temperature at discovery was sixty-one degrees and harbor water had not dropped below fifty-eight degrees all summer.
- The Maren K. had been sitting in its slip for thirty-six to forty hours with no reported touching or unusual reports.
- Beverly Crawford, age twenty-four, remembered being on the water at approximately 9:30 AM but had no memory from then until about 8:00 PM.
- A plate of ice roughly four feet across spread across the water at the boat's bow.

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