About this episode

Listener Chris shares a haunting experience from his time as a head brewer in a historic building in Cumberland, Maryland.

In tonight's dead letter, listener Chris takes us back to the early 2000s, when he was the head brewer at a restaurant on the east side of Cumberland, Maryland, in a building so old it served as a Civil War field hospital. One night after close, he and three coworkers were having a beer in the basement bar when the loudest sound he'd ever heard slammed into the floorboards right above their heads, shaking dust from the ceiling and rattling every bottle behind the bar. Relevant Prior Episodes Nightmarchers of Hawaii Links and Further Reading The Battle of Folck's Mill: Maryland Historical Trust Battlefield Documentation (PDF) Battle of Folck's Mill, Wikipedia Folck's Mill (National Register of Historic Places site), Wikipedia The Battle of Folck's Mill, Western Maryland's Historical Library The Invasion, Aug 1864: The Cumberland Alleganian's Original Account, Western Maryland's Historical Library Folck's Mill Marker, Historical Marker Database The History of Puccini Restaurant, Cumberland, Maryland The Phantom Battle of Edgehill, Historic UK The Spectral Army of Souther Fell, Mysterious Britain and Ireland The Dieppe Raid Case, Mysterious Britain and Ireland The Drummer of…

People in this episode

Host: Astonishing Legends Productions

Guest: Chris

Topics covered

• ghost stories
• historical events
• Cumberland Maryland
• Civil War history
• brewery tales
• listener stories

Keywords

• Folck's Mill
• Cumberland
• Civil War
• haunting
• brewery
• listener story
• ghosts

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Astonishing Legends

Books & works: The Battle of Folck's Mill, The Phantom Battle of Edgehill, Phantom Armies of the Night, The Drummer of Tedworth, The Rosenheim Poltergeist

Places: Cumberland, Maryland, Folck's Mill

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