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Send us Fan Mail Three ranger badges turn up near a firewatch tower in Blackwood Forest, and each one carries the same impossible problem: headquarters insists the names never existed and the badge numbers were never issued. I’m Avery Quinn, and the deeper I read Claire Morgan’s handwritten journal, the less it feels like a spooky story and the more it feels like someone rebuilt six months of a stranger’s life down to supply lists, radio checks, petty complaints, and the kind of boring detail...
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Send us Fan Mail When I said I wanted to go back to Blackwood Road, I never thought I would actually find anything. A few days later a manila envelope showed up with no return address and inside was a single photograph of me standing in a restricted Blackwood logging site. I never saw anyone take it. The angle looks like it was shot from above, like a camera hidden in the trees, and it forces one terrifying conclusion: I was being watched the whole time. If you’re into paranormal invest...
Send us Fan Mail I went back into Blackwood Logging records and found three separate incidents that echo what Tom described at Site 27, but years earlier and across different crews. The most unsettling discovery isn’t the stories themselves, it’s the workplace rules Blackwood appears to create afterward, like you can’t trust voices, time, or even a headcount. I am piecing together company records that were never meant to be seen. Between strange mechanic reports and a pattern of unexpe...
Send us Fan Mail The official story is that Blackwood Logging “shut down” in the late 70s. But when I start pulling property records, leases, tax payments, and maintenance agreements, the timeline breaks wide open. Why would a company that no longer exists keep buying industrial equipment, paying contractors, and maintaining roads inside Blackwood Forest years later. So what actually stopped in 1979? The logging, or the public-facing version of Blackwood itself? If you’re into paranorma...
Send us Fan Mail Last week, I told you I found two interviews in the Milbrook Historical Society. Both were conducted by a reporter named Jacob Springer and Both were with men who had worked for the Blackwood Logging Company. The first was Walter Harlan. The second… was Tomas Bell. Today we walk through Tom’s story, built from reporter Jacob Springer’s original interview notes. You’ll hear why Tom volunteers for the winter crew, the specific rules foreman Frank Mercer lays down about the fore...
Send us Fan Mail I wasn't going to come back, really. People in Millbrook have always loved a good story, but lately they don't even look at me when I mention Blackwood Forest. After I stepped away from the podcast, the town’s reaction doesn’t feel like gossip anymore. It feels like a warning, and it’s aimed straight at me. So, I follow the one detail that keeps scratching at my brain: Jacob Springer, a reporter who tracked down former Blackwood logging crew workers and recorded their accoun...