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TuneIn Dead Children’s Playground: Based on a Rocket City Urban Legend
Huntsville, Alabama is home to one of the creepiest urban legends in America—the haunting of Dead Children’s Playground. In this spine-tingling episode, author Dawn Crouch shares the inspiration behind her book Dead Children’s Playground, a story that blends urban legend, paranormal activity, and true crime suspense.
Her novel follows Arik, a medical student whose life takes a dark turn when he stumbles into a mystery surrounding Monte Sano caves and the serial killer said to dump his victims in Drost Park. As Arik follows the ghostly figure of a young girl carrying a lantern, he discovers a nightmare that thrusts him into a deadly investigation.
We also dive into Dawn’s personal experiences with the paranormal in New Orleans graveyards, including chilling encounters that defy explanation.
0:00 Start your free seven-day trial and unlock this episode plus hundreds more, all ad-free, when you become a Mysterian on Patreon. There Yes, and, and like I said, I mean, it was, it was first, it was just known as the burial ground, and that was in 1822. And, um, you know, some people say that the, the playground is haunted because there are a lot of children who are buried in that cemetery. I mean, the, the, you know, the Spanish influenza of 1918, um, just, I mean, children, uh, if you had children who lived to adulthood back then, whether you were rich, poor, whatever, it was a miracle almost because people lost children back then.
0:46 Oh, yeah, they did. Yeah, and they died very early- Right... in age. Right. Yeah. So- Let me ask you something about the... Okay, so the, the playground is n- it, it's next to this particular cemetery. Is that what you're telling me? It's basically across Unlock this episode right now by clicking on the link for your free seven-day trial in the show notes or by visiting mysteriousradio.com.
