S2 Ep17: The Sealed Room

In tonight's dead letter, we're across the harbor from Boston, in the densely layered city of Chelsea, Massachusetts. Our listener grew up in a building that began its life as a 19th-century clinic, served as a surgery, and ended its years as a hospice before becoming a multi-generational family home. But the house already had a few residents. Different presences on every floor, each with their own habits and rules. What's harder to explain is the room someone worked very hard to make sure no one would ever find. REFERENCE LINKS Great Chelsea Fire of 1908 — Wikipedia Chelsea Conflagration 1973: The Biggest Fire You've Never Heard Of — Fire Rescue 1 Chelsea on Fire: 1908 — Chelsea conflagration: The biggest fire you’ve never heard of GBH/WGBH Boston Domovoy: Slavic Household Spirit — Wikipedia Domovoy: The Guardian Spirit of the Home and the Family — Slavic Lore Domovoy — Britannica Modern Spolia: Harvesting Building Materials from Demolition Sites — ArchDaily Electronic Voice Phenomenon — Wikipedia Ghosts in the Machine: The Truth About EVP — Homespun Haints Sensing What Others Cannot: Anomalous Experiences and Autism — Psychology Today Adults with Autism Spectrum Conditions Experience Increased Levels of Anomalous Perception — PLOS ONE / PMC Is There a Connection Between Autism and the Paranormal? — Association of Paranormal Study We're looking for more stories! Send your Dead Letter to deadletteroffice@astonishinglegends.com!

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S2 Ep17: The Sealed Room is an episode from Astonishing Legends by Scott Philbrook.

This episode is 43:39 long.

This episode was published on May 5, 2026.

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