Lucy begins coughing up long red hairs and finding them throughout her apartment. As she searches for answers, she learns an unsettling truth.

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ABOUT WEIRD DARKNESS: Weird Darkness is a true crime and paranormal podcast narrated by professional award-winning voice actor, Darren Marlar. Seven days per week, Weird Darkness focuses on all thing strange and macabre such as haunted locations, unsolved mysteries, true ghost stories, supernatural manifestations, urban legends, unsolved or cold case murders, conspiracy theories, and more. On Thursdays, this scary stories podcast features horror fiction along with the occasional creepypasta. Weird Darkness has been named one of the “Best 20 Storytellers in Podcasting” by Podcast Business Journal. Listeners have described the show as a cross between “Coast to Coast” with Art Bell, “The Twilight Zone” with Rod Serling, “Unsolved Mysteries” with Robert Stack, and “In Search Of” with Leonard Nimoy.
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IN THIS EPISODE: Elva Heaster was dead – but that didn’t stop her ghost from solving the murder. *** In Stephen King’s “Pet Semetery”, beloved family pets could come back from the dead. *** In Washington there is a hole that some say brings animals back to life – for real. *** In the middle of the Brompton Cemetery grounds, shrouded by trees stands a mausoleum… and what some believe is a time machine. *** The Mothman is apparently no longer bound to Point Pleasant, West Virginia – in 2017 he appeared 55 times in Chicago. *** And we BEGIN this episode with, a chapter from the book, “Beautiful Nightmares: Women of Horror Anthology” entitled "HAIR" by Faith Marlowe.

CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…
00:00:00.000 = Show Open
00:01:14.973 = “Hair” (title story)
00:51:05.987 = The Ghost Who Helped Solve Her Own Murder
00:59:25.235 = The Monster of Mel’s Hole
01:10:01.307 = The Chicago Mothman Sightings
01:15:11.155 = London’s Time-Traveling Mausoleum
01:28:43.973 = Show Close

SOURCES AND RESOURCES FROM THE EPISODE…
“Hair” by Faith Marlow, from the book “Beautiful Nightmares: Women of Horror Anthology”: https://amzn.to/3LolYK6 (no longer in print)
“The Ghost Who Helped Solve Her Own Murder”: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p98d8pu
“The Monster of Mel’s Hole”: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/1xpq30ql
“The Chicago Mothman Sightings”: (link no longer available)
“London’s Time-Traveling Mausoleum”: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/7pgczqce
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Originally aired: May 07, 2018
EPISODE PAGE at WeirdDarkness.com (includes list of sources): https://weirddarkness.com/RedHairHaunting