Hosts Reflect on Childhood Wonder

In tonight’s dead letter from listener Amanda, the boundary between an adorable trusted holiday icon and nocturnal terror is tested in the deep woods near the Allegheny National Forest. A massive silhouette of something that shouldn’t exist peering over the hood of a car sparks a lifelong mystery. Amanda may have been a child when she saw this, but her mom and grandmother were both also eyewitnesses.

References and Links:
The History of Warren, Pennsylvania
The Folklore of the Celtic Púca
Flemish Giant Rabbits: Facts and Size
The Psychology of Childhood Memory and Trauma

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