Halloween in the Shadows: Episode References
A home with a history. An ordinary afternoon interrupted. An unexpected visitor at the door.
Our Halloween finale closes The Shadow Archives: Strange & Sinister with three unsettling stories. Below are the accounts, historical reporting, and official records consulted for the episode.
Listen first if you’d like each story to unfold without advance details. Some source titles and linked pages reveal more than this introduction.
The Union Screaming House
Steven LaChance. “The Union, Missouri Haunting.” Account credited to 2004, hosted by Legends of America.
Steven LaChance and Laura Long-Helbig. The Uninvited: The True Story of the Union Screaming House. Llewellyn, 2008. Bibliographic record and publisher description.
Tom Ruffles. Review of The Uninvited. February 17, 2019.
The Screaming House website. Supplemental promotional account.
The Kentucky Meat Shower
Library of Congress. “Exploring Unusual Phenomena: The Kentucky Meat Shower of 1876.”
Frank W. Reiser. Historical testimony and specimen discussion.
Ellen Gutoskey, Mental Floss. Historical overview of the 1876 event.
Bec Crew, Scientific American’s former blog network. Scientific discussion and proposed explanations.
Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Turkey Vulture overview.
The Phantom Social Workers
UK Parliament, Hansard. “Bogus Welfare Workers” — Home Department. May 16, 1990.
UK Parliament, Hansard. “Bogus Welfare Workers” — Health Department. May 16, 1990.
Glenda Cooper, The Independent. Contemporary reporting on the investigation. August 17, 1995.
Unresolved. “Phantom Social Workers.” Retrospective account.
Wikipedia overview. Supplemental cross-reference.
A note on the sources
These stories draw on different kinds of evidence, including personal recollections, historical testimony, and official records. Reported supernatural experiences remain attributed accounts. Linked sources may contain disturbing descriptions.
The full text of The Uninvited was not reviewed; the episode used the early published account, publisher material, and the review listed above. Historical newspaper testimony for the Kentucky story was consulted through a reproduction rather than an original newspaper image.
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