Into The Fog with Peter Laws

On October 25th, 1979, Miami police and firefighters walked into the Miami Aerospace Academy in Little Havana and found hundreds of cadets in full panic.

A 13-year-old girl rigid and sobbing that "the devil is inside of me," other pupils growling and twitching, a boy who crashed through a second-floor window and got straight back up, classroom doors torn from hinges, and teachers unable to hold order.

The next day The Miami News ran it front-page as "Ouija Riot Baffles Police!"

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

In this episode I investigate what really happened at the Miami Aerospace Academy in Miami, Florida, drawing on testimony from biology teacher Patricia Murphy, former Miami police sergeant Lynne Brookes, deputy fire chief Frank Rollason, officer Harry Cunnill, Lt. Dan LeMay, principal Evaristo Marina, and WCKT-Channel 7 camerawoman Beverly Bryan, plus the Santeria offerings found on campus, the cursed F84 jet, and the debate over mass hysteria vs something darker.

This is a true paranormal story, never fictionalised, with real witnesses on the record.

Let me know in the comments… what do YOU think happened in that school that day?

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Editor

Gerard Giorgi-Coll

Artwork

Steph Lay

Our research for this episode drew on contemporary newspaper reports, articles, documentaries, and accounts from former students and staff. Some accounts and allegations about the Miami Aerospace Academy may be disputed or can no longer be independently verified. 

Research and Image Credits

A key source for this story was Jeff Maysh’s superbly researched October 2019 article, “Hysteria High: How Demons Destroyed a Florida School.” https://jeffmaysh.medium.com/hysteria-high-how-demons-destroyed-the-miami-aerospace-academy-jeff-maysh-5a31b4770f29 

Miami Aerospace Academy advertisement: El Miami Herald, July 1979

Evaristo Marina portrait, digital recreations and Miami Aerospace Academy Yearbook, 1979: based on material reproduced by Local Crew, “Education Exorcism”: https://localcrew.ru/educationexorcism

Image of Major McKently: courtesy of Joe Perez, Miami Aerospace Academy Facebook group.

Promotional image from The Devil’s Academy (2023): Lion Television, LLC, via Amazon Prime.

Article on reported hospital admissions: Jacksonville Journal, March 1974.

Articles covering the Miami Aerospace Academy Ouija Riot: The Miami News, October 1979.

Article on Amy Godoy’s occult detective career: Fort Pierce Tribune, January 1998.

Article on rescued mountain lion: Caymanian Compass, September 1988.

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Peter

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Was a poltergeist caught on camera by a Canadian news crew?

Summer, 1989. In Beauport, Quebec, an entire apartment building on Mgr-Gauthier Street came alive, violent banging that shook partition walls, ragged holes punched through plasterboard in real time, and dark shadows at the edge of vision. Witnesses weren't just tenants. Police officers, gas engineers and city inspectors all felt it.

In this true ghost story, I investigate the Beauport Poltergeist, the TVA footage from August 4th 1989, what Lt. Guy Bedard and Inspector Gaston Dubé experienced, why gas, clay soil and plumbing theories failed, and the two chilling triggers: reported seances after a death downstairs, and 12-year-old Zoe's summer stay.

This is a documented poltergeist true story, never fictionalised, told from contemporary press and investigator notes.

Have a genuine experience to share? Submit it here: https://bit.ly/ITF-YourStory

Editor

Gerard Giorgi-Coll

Research

Marcus Lowth

Artwork

Steph Lay

Research and Image Credits

This episode draws on the following key research sources:

The Beauport Poltergeist: Ghost Theory https://www.ghosttheory.com/2015/08/0...

Poltergeist in Quebec City: The Beauport Case Revisited https://mesplaisirs.com/poltergeist-a...

Archival television footage of Micheline Cochrane and the Beauport property: The Beauport Phenomenon, TVA, via @SpiritSeekers / YouTube  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfS2jv-2Noc

Newspaper articles: “Une maison hantée à Beauport?” and “Des fantômes en chair et en os?”Le Journal de Québec, August 1989.

TVA television network logo, 1984–1990: EsaïeGregoryPrickett, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Photograph of Christian Page: IMDb profile, accessed September 2026.

Her father called an imam to perform an Islamic exorcism on their house. Then builders found crucifixes hidden under the carpet.

Welcome to Into the Fog Embers, my companion series for case updates and shorter true paranormal accounts that deserve telling, even when they're not full-length documentaries.

Tonight's Embers comes from Zaynab, one of my Patreon supporters. When she was 8, her family moved into a house with a granny flat in the garden that had stood empty for a long time.

She began seeing faceless figures, an elderly man in an armchair, a figure striding toward her in the garden, later a faceless child in her bedroom. The atmosphere turned cold and silent, like stepping underwater. Her father asked a local imam to perform an Islamic exorcism. As he recited, Zaynab began shaking uncontrollably, filled with anger and an urge to make him stop.

Months later, builders lifting the carpets found several crucifixes hidden underneath. Had the previous owners, an elderly Irish Catholic couple, also experienced the paranormal in that property? I'd especially love to hear from Muslim viewers, does this fit with your understanding of jinn?

IMPORTANT: Into the Fog welcomes people of all faiths and none. So just because this story features two religions (Islam and Christianity), please don't use that as a springboard to attack one faith or the other. Respect for fellow viewers is an important part of the Into the Fog community.

Do you have a genuine experience to share? You can tell us about it here:⁠https://bit.ly/ITF-YourStory⁠

Editor

Kristian Lander

Artwork

Steph Lay and Kristian Lander

With warm thanks to Zaynab for sharing her vivid and deeply unsettling childhood experiences, and for offering such a personal perspective on the possible role of djinn and Islamic exorcism.

Research and Image Credits

With sincere thanks to Dr Rifat Salam for generously sharing her time and expertise in discussing representations of djinn, and for helping us identify appropriate artwork for this episode. You can explore Rifat’s fascinating writing on beliefs, folklore and experiences relating to the spooky and unexplained here: https://probablynotaghost.wordpress.com

14th-century representation of Al-Malik al-Aswad, the Black King of the jinn: Bodleian Libraries; Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Late-medieval representation of Al-Ahmar, the Red King of the jinn: Bodleian Libraries; Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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Three airmen were ordered to guard the Triangle at Keesler Air Force Base, Biloxi, Mississippi in 1980. What they saw, shook them enough to make a pact. For decades they stayed silent, fearing ridicule and damage to their careers. Until now.

This is the true testimony from Kris Maddalena's The 13th Squadron.

For the first time, Kris tells what happened inside the supposedly empty dormitories: the wardrobe painted black inside and carved with an inverted pentagram, the 1 AM scream that returned like clockwork, chanting from inside the walls, the mysterious fire breakout at a heavy metal concert on base, and the pale figure with a butcher knife that stood beside his bed.

Locals have long whispered about everything from Satanic activity to UAP sightings along the Gulf Coast (the The Pascagoula alien abduction happened nearby, and the experiencers were examined on this very base). Yet what happened in the Triangle to these three Airmen is a frightening yet untold mystery.

A huge thank-you to Kris Maddalena for trusting us with his story, sharing his memories (including having President Donald Trump as his landlord at Trump Towers, New York) and photographs, and also for being so generous with his time while we put this episode together.

If you’d like to read the full story of Kris’s experiences at Keesler, do check out his book, The 13th Squadron: Unexplained Activity Inside the Keesler Air Force Base Triangle.

Find Kris’s book here:

Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H1GGFD1J

Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0H1GGFD1J

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CREDITS:

Editor

Gerard Giorgi-Coll

Artwork

Steph Lay

Image Credits

Kris Maddalena’s graduation portrait: Kris Maddalena; used with permission

Cover of The 13th Squadron: Unexplained Activity Inside the Keesler Air Force Base Triangle by Kris L. Maddalena, 2026: via Amazon

Photograph of Trump Village, Brooklyn, 2016: Hassan Tahir, via Wikimedia Commons; CC BY-SA

Photograph of Fred and Donald Trump at Wollman Rink, Central Park, c. 1986: Bernard Gotfryd, via Wikimedia Commons; Public Domain

Photograph of Keesler Air Force Base in the early 1980s, showing “The Triangle” highlighted: Kris Maddalena; used with permission

Photograph of Kris Maddalena operating radar equipment: Kris Maddalena; used with permission

Digital recreation of Shaare Zion Temple, Brooklyn, 1964: based on Samuel H. Gottscho photograph, Library of Congress; no known restrictions on publication

Photograph of painted vessel from Jemdet Nasr, c. 3200–2900 BC, Ashmolean Museum: Zunkir, via Wikimedia Commons; CC BY-SA

Photograph of the north transept rose window of Amiens Cathedral, France: Vassil, via Wikimedia Commons; Public Domain

Illustration of an inverted pentagram with a goat’s head, from La Clef de la Magie Noire (1897): Stanislas de Guaita, via Wikimedia Commons; Public Domain

Photograph of an American cockroach (Periplaneta americana): Gary Alpert, via Wikimedia Commons; CC BY-SA

Photograph of the entrance to Biloxi National Cemetery: Eric Pendergrass, via Wikimedia Commons; CC BY-SA

Cover of MUFON UFO Journal, No. 279, July 1991: MUFON Project Aquarius archive

Article on UFO sightings in Mississippi, October 1973: The Clarion-Ledger, via Newspapers.com

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Eight true encounters with creatures that weren't animals.

Real witnesses describe skinwalkers, dogmen and wolf-like creatures that stood upright, stared back, and were never explained.

These were not simply animals, or even cryptids: witnesses describe something that behaved like a paranormal, non-human entity.

These are NOT fictionalised horror stories. Every account here is a documented report of the unexplained, told in the witness's own words.

And keep watching this episode to hear about the very spooky phone call Peter had, during the making of this.

Special thanks to writer and researcher Paul Sinclair, author of the Truth Proof series, for generously allowing us to feature two stories explored in Wolf Lands, use footage from the documentary’s trailer, and for the fascinating conversations with Peter that helped shape this episode.

You can discover more of Paul’s work on the Truth Proof YouTube channel, @paulsinclairtruth-proof. (@paulsinclairtruth-proof)

Watch Wolf Lands on Amazon Prime:

US: https://www.amazon.com/Wolf-Lands-Pau...

UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wolf-Lands-P...

Paul’s web site: https://www.truthproof.uk/

Truth Proof eBay shop: https://www.ebay.co.uk/shop/truth-pro...

Viewer Stories

Thank-you to everyone whose strange and unsettling experiences featured in this episode:

From our viewer’s comments:

@henningberg7975/@Sulraks - The Red-Eyed Creature on the Norwegian Road

@Arthurshort6619 - The Dog That Turned to Black Bones and Mist

@ericbarkmann1743 - The Floating Dog’s Head on the Stairs

@tegan8523 - The Half-Dog Man Behind the Sofa

Kimberly Brennan - The Dogman Beneath the Streetlight, shared on Peter’s Patreon

Waady - The Black Dog at the Hospice Bedsides, shared by email

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Editor

Gerard Giorgi-Coll

Artwork and Research Assistance

Steph Lay

Illustration Credits

Footage from Paul Sinclair’s YouTube channel: @paulsinclairtruth-proof

Footage from Wolf Lands: A Film About the Cryptid Phenomena by Paul Sinclair and Les Drake: Lightform Media, 2023; courtesy of Paul Sinclair and used with permission

Cover images from Paul Sinclair’s Truth Proof series: Psychic Book Club Publishing and Truth Proof Publishing, 2016–2021

Cover image from Wolf Lands: Lightform Media / Amazon Prime, 2023

Photograph of Flamborough Lighthouse and the Outer Headlands Cliffs, 2025: Steph Lay

Photograph of Reverend Donald Omand: from Marc Alexander, Devil Hunter, Sphere, 1981; lightly enhanced for clarity

Maps showing the locations of the North Yorkshire sightings: Google Earth; map data © 2026 Google data: SIO, NOAA, U.S. Navy, NGA and GEBCO; imagery: Landsat / Copernicus

Image from Reverend Abraham Fleming’s 1577 account of the ghostly Black Shuck at Bungay Church: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Original painting of Black Shuck by Bethan Briggs-Miller. Discover more of Bethan’s atmospheric folklore art here: bethanbriggsmillerart

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*This episode is a newly enhanced re-release of one of my earliest cases. Originally told in two parts, it’s now combined into one complete, updated edition, with new visuals.*

In 1969, a property developer thought he’d found the ultimate "golden house", a bargain farmhouse with 26 acres of land. But the local estate agents had a warning: the property was haunted.

In this episode, Peter Laws uncovers the terrifying true account of Alec Porter and the "Fatal Fixer Upper."

What started as a dream renovation project quickly spiralled into a battle for survival against a malevolent force.

From concrete objects being thrown with lethal force to the discovery of a hidden room containing a tall, black, chattering entity, this case remains one of the most distressing paranormal encounters in British history.

We dive deep into the research of journalist Colin Parsons, exploring:

• The "tall, dark spectre" seen stalking the country lanes.
• The chilling moment a hidden room was breached, releasing a horrific black vapor.
• The physical evidence left behind, including a scar from a flying religious relic.
• The shocking connection to a modern housing estate where a patch of land remains undeveloped to this day due to a string of fatal construction accidents.

Is it possible for a jealous entity to hold onto a patch of land even after the original house is burned to ash?

Join Peter Laws as we step into the fog to investigate this forgotten haunting.#Paranormal #TrueGhostStories #HauntedHouse #IntoTheFog #PeterLaws #Supernatural #ScaryStories #BritishHauntings #HiddenRoom

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In the sweltering heat of the legendary 1976 UK heatwave, a different kind of horror was unfolding within the walls of a quiet British farmhouse.

While the country baked under an unrelenting sun, the inhabitants of the Hunt house were discovering a secret so sadistic it has remained largely unheard of for decades.

In this episode of Into the Fog, Peter Laws deep-dives into the chilling case of a woman bricked up alive, a tragedy born from a "sin" the church tried to bury.

We explore the haunting accounts of the crying behind the walls, the dark history of a nun’s secret, and the malevolent atmosphere that gripped this isolated rural home during one of Britain's most extreme summers.

In this video, we investigate:

-The true story of the 1976 Hunt House mystery.

-Why a woman was walled up alive inside a farmhouse.

-The connection between the "Sadistic" events and a hidden religious secret.

-First-hand accounts of the haunting that occurred during the 1976 heatwave.

Editor

Gerard Giorgi-Coll

Artwork

Steph Lay

Research and Image Credits

This episode draws on Colin Parsons’s account ‘The Girl in the Wall’, published in the book Encounters with the Unknown (Robert Hale, 1990).

The book is now out of print, but a digitised edition can be borrowed free of charge from the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/encounter...

Cover image: Encounters with the Unknown by Colin Parsons (Robert Hale, 1990).

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"Don't go into any room that doesn't have a light on."

When 8-year-old Anthony Key visited a friend’s house in North Carolina, he was given a simple warning. But what he saw, and what followed him home, would spark a decade of terror that his family is still trying to process today.

From heavy furniture moving on its own to a physical attack that left a red handprint on his face, this isn’t your typical ghost story. It’s a relentless, visceral ordeal with multiple demonic creatures that feels like a real-life horror movie. If you’re a fan of the brutal, high-stakes terror in "Evil Dead Burn" or the psychological dread of the Insidious movies, the Anthony Key haunting is a forgotten case you need to hear.

In this episode of Into the Fog, we explore:

• The horrific text messages, following a mothers funeral. 
  
  
• The terrifying "ceiling crawler" that Tabitha encountered.
  
  
• The DogMan at the window 
  
  
• The laughing demon at the trailer park
  
  
• The 250lb armchair that moved on its own.
  
  

Prepare to walk into the fog for a paranormal case that will get under your skin.

Editor
Peter Laws

Artwork
Steph Lay

Sincere thanks to Anthony for trusting us with his compelling story, and to Samantha for confirming what she remembered about that time.

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Brace yourself for a little discussed haunting that shook a local church, and became a teaching tool for priests. In 1965, the Acton Vale Poltergeist didn’t just terrify a family, it forced three Catholic priests to admit they were witnessing something truly beyond explanation. They believed it was a demonic infestation.

In this episode, we dive deep into the verified archives to uncover the aggressive and violent phenomena that targeted a young girl and the men of the cloth who stood their ground against it. Was it a haunting, or something DIABOLICAL? 

Note: This case features a Catholic/ Byzantine religion painting called #OurLadyofPerpetualHelp. The painting was said to be alive, which makes it so weird that I got comments saying that today (the day this came out, June 27th) is the feast day for this very painting. That was totally not planned. Of all the days. Isn’t that a little eerie?

In this video, we explore:

-The eyewitness accounts of the three priests on the scene.
-The violent physical manifestations that defied the laws of physics.
-The chilling aftermath and it's implications for us.

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On the 50th anniversary of the classic anti-Christ, demonic film 'THE OMEN', this video, and its religious horror themes, will be a fitting topic to explore.

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