In 1977, The Amityville Horror put a haunted house on every bookshelf in the world. Within weeks, a second book appeared beside it, which seems to have been overshadowed. Yet it’s a truly compelling (and eerie) haunting case.

Night Stalks the Mansion was written by Harold Cameron and Constance Westbie, and it records what happened to the Cameron family in the early 1960s, when Harold, a business executive with a wife, four children and a six-month-old baby, rented a house for $3,600 a year.

The house itself is the Heilbron Mansion, just off West Rose Tree Road in Middletown, Pennsylvania, and what the Camerons met there has never had the audience it deserves.

Footsteps climbing the stairs at night, and an intense cold that arrived with them. Two five-month-old chow puppies bought as guard dogs, who shrank back from a woman in the house in absolute dread. A basement window painted black, inside and out, hiding a room the family had never seen. Coffins in a crypt on the grounds, rotted down to fragments of cloth and dust, with skulls looking up at the torchlight.

And beneath all of it, an older story. A girl of fourteen. A maple tree. A single pink dance shoe.

I'll take you through the whole case, in the order the Camerons recorded it, and we'll come to the girl at the centre of it, whose story this house would not let go of.

Have you ever lived somewhere that felt wrong before you could explain why? Let me know in the comments.

I'm Peter Laws, and this is Into the Fog.

Editor

Gerard Giorgi-Coll

Artwork and Research Assistance

Steph Lay

This episode is based on Night Stalks the Mansion: A True Story of One Family's Ghostly Adventure, by Constance Westbie and Harold Cameron.

You can find it on Amazon here in the US, and here in the UK.

Image and Footage Credits

Our special thanks to Andrew Fallon for kindly allowing us to use his remarkable footage of Heilbron Mansion following the 1987 fire. Andrew has helped preserve the mansion’s history by sharing a wealth of photographs and footage over the years through the Delco Memories Facebook Group. You can explore these and many other fascinating glimpses into the area’s past here.

Cover of Night Stalks the Mansion: A True Story of One Family’s Ghostly Adventure by Constance Westbie and Harold Cameron: Stackpole Books, 2023, via Amazon

Photographs of Heilbron Mansion: Andrew Fallon, via Delco Memories Facebook Group

Sale advertisement for the Claflin estate, later known as Heilbron Mansion: Andrew Fallon, via Delco Memories Facebook Group

Historical illustration of Edwards House, later Heilbron Mansion: Rachel McClure, in H. S. Pearson, Middletown Township (1985), shared by Andrew Fallon via Delco Memories Facebook Group

Cover of The Amityville Horror by Jay Anson: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1977, via Royal Books

Newspaper article discussing Kevin Giles’s plans for a second book: The Missoulian, 20 December 1980, via Newspapers.com

Harold Cameron’s letter to Dear Abby: Star-Gazette, 2 June 1980, via Newspapers.com

Photograph of Heilbron Mansion following the 1987 fire: Andrew Fallon, via Delco Memories Facebook Group, used with permission

Footage of Heilbron Mansion during restoration, filmed in 1989: Andrew Fallon, via Facebook, used with permission

Annotated Google Maps imagery of Ridley Creek and surrounding area, Pennsylvania: Map data ©2026 Google. Imagery ©2026 Airbus and Maxar Technologies.

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Eight figures in hooded robes. Burning torches. A freshly dug grave in a Scottish churchyard.

This is Into the Fog Embers, my companion series, where I share case updates and shorter paranormal accounts sent in by viewers. Not every story becomes a full documentary investigation, but some are too intriguing not to tell.

Tonight's Embers case comes from a viewer and centres on two strange incidents connected to St Lolan's Church and burial ground, also known as Kincardine Graveyard, at Blair Drummond, near Stirling, in Scotland.

The first took place in the early 1980s. Darren's mother was cycling home past the old cemetery in the early hours of the morning when she saw something she has never forgotten.

She told a neighbour, who went down to the graveyard to confront them himself, and came away with a perfectly ordinary explanation. It was only afterwards that he realised how strange that explanation really was.

The second comes from the late 1990s, when Darren's uncle was working in the same cemetery. Two men, years apart, both affected by the same grave enclosed in iron railings — and by what its 1813 inscription actually says.

Do you know this churchyard, or have you heard the local stories connected to it? I would love to hear from you in the comments below.

Editor

Kristian Lander

Artwork

Steph Lay/Kristian Lander

With thanks to Darren Ferrier for sharing his family’s strange memories of St Lolan’s burial ground, and for giving us the opportunity to explore the intriguing history surrounding them.

Research and Image Credits

Special thanks to Roger Griffith for allowing us to use his footage of St Lolan’s Kirk and Burial Ground, and for the helpful correspondence about the Downie gravestone featured in Darren’s story. You can find more of Roger’s local-history videos on YouTube at @rogergriffith286.

Footage of St Lolan’s Kirk and Burial Ground, Kincardine-in-Menteith: @rogergriffith286; used with permission

Photographs of the burial vaults and burial sites at St Lolan’s Kirk, Stirlingshire: Rosser1954; CC BY-SA, via Wikimedia Commons

Photograph of the Downie gravestone at St Lolan’s Kirk, Stirlingshire: Rosser1954; CC BY-SA, via Wikimedia CommonsHave a genuine experience to share? Submit it here:

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They drove into a glowing green mist in 1974 and lost 3 hours. What followed them home turned a UFO encounter into a terrifying poltergeist haunting.

On 27th October 1974, John and Sue Day drove home to Aveley, Essex with their three young children when a pale blue light paced their car, the radio crackled and died, and a dense, glowing green mist swallowed the road. A 20-minute drive became nearly 3 hours missing. Then came nightmares of medical procedures, shadow figures, a clown-like visitor, moving objects, opening doors, humming and clicking, and phantom phone calls, much of it witnessed by investigators themselves.

In this episode, I investigate the Aveley case. One of Britain's most disturbing combined abduction and haunting cases. As UFO disclosure and talk of non-human intelligence grows, are abductions and hauntings part of the same phenomenon? And could this be linked to the infamous Sandown Clown case, which happened a year earlier, only 100 miles away?

I'm Peter Laws and this is Into the Fog. Real paranormal cases. Real witnesses. Told by a real person.

What do you think followed them home? Let me know in the comments.

Editor

Gerard Giorgi-Coll

Artwork

Steph Lay

Research

Marcus Lowth

Research and Image Credits

This episode draws on Andrew Collins’ original two-part investigation of the Aveley case, published in Flying Saucer Review in 1978:

Part One: Vol. 23, No. 6

Part Two: Vol. 24, No. 1

Original theatrical poster for The Fog: AVCO Embassy Pictures, via IMDb

Photograph of Andrew Collins: via IMDb

Artist’s impression of Sam the Sandown Clown: Symbioticwolfkat13, CC-BY-SA, via Newgrounds

Photograph from Strange Days Festival, September 2026: Peter Laws

Footage of Claire and Peter, Paranormal Storytelling on YouTube, Strange Days Festival, September 2026: @DontScareClaire

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