Sounds Behind the Wall: The Nightgown in the Sealed Room
Sounds Behind the Wall: The Nightgown in the Sealed Room
Fear and sorrow press through a thumb-wide gap in a rectory wall: a seven-year-old's white cotton nightgown, folded, wax-sealed in a glass jar and untouched for sixty-five years-who sealed it and why was the room closed off for decades?
In this episode, we follow the timeline from the first late-night sounds in Michelle Erickson's north bedroom to the county surveyor's discovery and the archival work that links the garment to a child named Agnes Pell-what do the records and the jar together tell us about the secret the parish closed…
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