The Lantern at Fallow Cross: Who Keeps Lighting the Graves?

The Lantern at Fallow Cross: Who Keeps Lighting the Graves?

A faded cast-iron lantern, a candle burned a third of the way down, and footprints recorded twice a year for at least seventy years - someone has been visiting Fallow Cross on June and December new moons for decades. Who is the person leaving a women's size seven footprint with a slightly supinated right foot, and why did the lantern first appear the winter a Thompson girl vanished?

In this episode, we follow Amy Crawford, a local historian, from a maintenance note filed in 2019 to county ledgers reaching back to 1951 and beyond. The episode traces the repeated constable entries, the pattern of visits every June and December, and the Thompson family events in 1926 that may tie to the lantern - what does that pattern really mean?

Person: Amy Crawford Date: June 4, 2019 Event: Lantern found hanging at Fallow Cross junction Case: Repeated constable entries for lantern and footprint every June and December new moon Location: Harwick County, near Vane's Mill and Wentfield

- Philip Taylor photographed the lantern on June 4, 2019 and filed a maintenance note with county road maintenance. - The candle in the lantern was burned roughly a third of the way down and the wax was still soft when found. - County constable logs show entries noting a lantern burning at Fallow Cross every June new moon and every December new moon. - Night Constable Pete Waring recorded a woman's size seven footprint with the right foot slightly supinated twice annually for eighteen years. - In 1926, Owen Pratt, age 23, drowned in the Thompson stock pond and Vera Thompson, born 1909, was hospitalized in October 1926 and vanished from county records after December 1926.

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