Sealed on the Ice: A Letter From a Dead Cheryl

Dark Myths and Legends · Jul 27, 2026 · 20m

Sealed on the Ice: A Letter From a Dead Cheryl

A mason jar, seated upright on the center of a pond's ice with no footprints to or from it, contained a sealed letter written by a woman who had died twenty-two years earlier - and dated five days before the jar was found. The pond has borne the name Cheryl's Pond since 1881, and two women named Cheryl Osborne, both thirty-eight at death, vanished from that same water a century and sixteen years apart; how did a letter from the more recent Cheryl survive sealed on the ice?

In this episode, we follow the discovery and the records that connect two…