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The Bottle in the Culvert: Pelton's Forbidden Lullaby and Name
The Bottle in the Culvert: Pelton's Forbidden Lullaby and Name
A glass baby bottle sealed and standing upright thirty feet inside a storm drain held a strip of paper with a lullaby dated to the 1950s - and a name that people in Pelton, Indiana refuse to speak. Who wrote that final line, how did the paper get into the culvert, and why does an entire town avoid finishing the song?
In this episode, we follow the discovery and the local records that converge on one vanished infant and a name erased from everyday speech. The episode traces the bottle found on March 4, 2019, the paper dated to the…
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