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The episode explores the haunting experiences of a listener named Jonathan in a historically rich house in Grafton, West Virginia.

In tonight's dead letter, we head into Grafton, West Virginia — a small railroad town built on a B&O junction, Civil War supply lines, and two national cemeteries. The house at the center of this story sat right in the middle of all that history. When a listener named Jonathan moved in with his family as a kid, it was, as he puts it, just off — and the footsteps upstairs were the easy part. Small things kept stacking up, the kind you could maybe almost explain away one at a time but never all together. Decades later he's still working through what happened in that house, and what stayed there. REFERENCE LINKS Grafton, West Virginia — e-WV Encyclopedia B&O Railroad Historical Marker in Grafton Grafton Civil War Supply Depot Historical Marker Grafton National Cemetery — National Cemetery Administration Thornsbury Bailey Brown — First Union Soldier Killed in the Civil War International Mother's Day Shrine Anna Jarvis, Founder of Mother's Day The Grafton Monster — e-WV Encyclopedia The Grafton Monster Festival The Grafton Monster in Fallout 76 George Washington's Surveying of Grafton — City of Grafton Ruth Ann Musick, West Virginia Folklorist The Telltale Lilac Bush and Other…

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