The Timber

Opened in 1902 as the Illinois Asylum for the Incurable Insane, the Peoria State Hospital treated thousands of patients in its 70+ years of operation. Was it a place of compassion and healing, or was it, as Ghost Asylum described it, a place where "countless people died undergoing barbaric medical experiments”?

All I know is that whatever walks there, does NOT walk alone.

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Episode Written and Produced by Tyler Liston

Music used with full permissions and licenses from Artlist.io

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In this third episode of Haw Creek, we will take a look at Koji Suzuki's 1991 book, Ring, and how it merged with the film adaptations to create one of horror’s greatest characters:

Sadako Yamamura.

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Episode Written and Produced by Tyler Liston

Music used with full permissions and licenses from Artlist.io

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Even when I am alone, I am never actually ALONE. For almost four decades, I have had a frequent visitor. A visitor who is darker than dark, like a shadow's shadow. A visitor that will sometimes grab my ankle in the night, or sometimes just stand silently in the corner. Smiling.

Watching me with those smoldering, glowing red eyes.

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Episode Written and Produced by Tyler Liston

Music used with full permissions and licenses from Artlist.io

Want to be a part of a future bonus episode of The Timber? Send your true paranormal story to [email protected] !

In this first bonus episode, we take a look at one of the most mysterious and tragic cases of the early 2010's and the eerie similarities it shares with a short story that was published 15 years earlier.

Episode Written and Produced by Tyler Liston

Music used with full permissions and licenses from Artlist.io

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This is the story of how the media *supposedly* helped create a monster. A story about how one person can *supposedly* be driven to cause harm to others in the service of gaining attention. A story about how *supposedly* the desire for fame and notoriety can make someone do the darkest and most unspeakable acts of evil.

This is the story of the Rose-Mar College of Beauty Massacre.

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Episode Written and Produced by Tyler Liston

Music used with full permissions and licenses from Artlist.io

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Some say it was the Chinese who were here first. Others say it was the Egyptians or the Phoenicians. Some say it was the Vikings, the Irish, or the Welsh. 

Was it a band of survivors who escaped Atlantis before it was destroyed? Was it extraterrestrials?

There are a dozen theories and a dozen more fables about who actually “discovered” America. Let's find the truth.

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Episode Written and Produced by Tyler Liston

Music used with full permissions and licenses from Artlist.io

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There is supposedly one cave in the Grand Canyon that stands apart from the others. It’s a cave steeped in mystery, found by a scout for the Smithsonian over a hundred years ago, and then systematically covered up by the most powerful institutions in America.

A cave that, if it truly does exist, will change the entire timeline of human history.

This is the story of Kincaid's Cave.

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Episode Written and Produced by Tyler Liston

Music used with full permissions and licenses from Artlist.io

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In March of 1997, thousands of people living in the Valley of the Sun looked up and saw a strange sight. A series of lights, flying in formation, slowly and silently crossed over the Phoenix metropolitan area. What fascinated, and terrified the citizens of Arizona that night, though, wasn't the lights themselves. 

It was the mile-wide ship the lights were attached to. 

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Episode Written and Produced by Tyler Liston

Music used with full permissions and licenses from Artlist.io

What would you do if you were infested with demons? Who could you possibly turn to? Luckily, Arizona is home to "The REAL Exorcist", Dr. Bob Larson. 

Larson has performed over 30,000 exorcisms in the past four decades, and he is willing to meet with you personally to deliver you from your demonic possession... 

All for the low-low price of $695

This is the story of how an entire generation of hucksters and charlatans, led by Dr. Bob Larson, has spent decades exploiting the fears of Christians to line their pockets. But that's not all... they might have done something FAR more dangerous.

They might have created a tulpa. 

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Episode Written and Produced by Tyler Liston

Music used with full permissions and licenses from Artlist.io

A portion of the episode is pulled from:

Stollznow, K. (2012). Bad language: deliver us from Bob Larson. Skeptic [Altadena, CA], 17(4), 6+. https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A313159913/AONE?u=cens39029&sid=googleScholar&xid=666389ff

There are magical places in Arizona that defy understanding and hum with power.

One of these magical places rests to the east of the valley of the sun. It’s an expansive land filled with some of the most beautiful peaks and valleys in the world. It’s also a dangerous place, filled with supposed monsters and curses… and gateways to the underworld.

It’s where more than 600 people have vanished in the past 150 years.

This is the story of the Superstition Mountains.

Episode Written and Produced by Tyler Liston

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