In tonight’s dead letter, we’ll take you through the brutalist monuments and ancient layers of Sofia, Bulgaria looking for what may have been the scene of a localized timeslip. After giving up the search for a playground that made a pronounced childhood impression, our listener Vili, stumbles right into a beautifully preserved version of it. We’ll discuss the folklore of missing time, and how our own memories might just be powerful enough to physically manifest things we wish to recover that don’t exist anymore.

REFERENCE LINKS

National Palace of Culture (NDK) in Sofia

Samodiva - Bulgarian Woodland Spirits

The Moberly–Jourdain Incident (Versailles Time Slip)

Ed Debevic's Retro Diner

Alpine Gardens (Alpinarium)

The Ghosts of Versailles Part 1 (Astonishing Legends)

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In one of Brazil’s strangest unsolved mysteries, two electronics technicians travel to Niterói in 1966, buy matching raincoats, hike up a remote hill with cash, water, towels, and a handwritten set of bizarre instructions, then turn up dead days later lying side by side on palm leaves, wearing homemade lead eye masks and showing no clear cause of death. What follows is a case that spirals far beyond a simple true-crime puzzle, with every answer leading to a bigger question: were these men victims of a bizarre accident, participants in something occult, or did they believe they were about to witness something not of this world?

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In tonight’s dead letter, we hear from a librarian who works the desk at a fairly new building down in the Southeast. But the ground it sits on has a much heavier history: the library was built right over the exact footprint of four demolished hospitals, with the old medical cornerstones still cemented into the walkway outside. When a freshly upgraded security system triggers overnight and catches something moving in the dark, the staff is forced to wonder if the property's busy past is finally bleeding into the present.

REFERENCE LINKS

The Bray Road Beast Documentary on Prime Video

A Haunting at the Hoyt Library on Prime Video

Small Town Monsters Official Website

ER70 EVP Recorder on the App Store

Waverly Hills Sanatorium

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