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This episode is a haunted triple feature.
We open with two ghost videos sent in by viewers. First, a spirit allegedly caught darting through the background of a 1966 funeral in Ireland, footage that's been unsettling viewers for decades. Then a family in Mexico shares video of something even harder to explain: a creature's eyeball reportedly peering out at them from a crack in their wall.
Then we go deep on one of the strangest true crime stories in American history. On July 7, 1908, twenty-year-old Hazel Drew took a walk down a secluded road in Sand Lake, New York, and was never seen alive again. Her body turned up floating in Teal's Pond days later, and the murder was never solved. More than a century later, people still say her ghost walks those same woods.
But Hazel's story didn't stay buried. Her murder, and the legend of her ghost, directly inspired one of the most iconic characters in television history: Laura Palmer from Twin Peaks. We break down Hazel's real timeline, the suspects who were never cleared, the theories that still circulate today, and how a scary story told to a little boy named Mark Frost turned into a cult classic decades later.
Ghosts on camera. An eyeball in the wall. And the true unsolved murder behind Twin Peaks. This one has it all.
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