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Burnt Caramel in Cold Stone: The Hargrove Hall Smell Reopened
Burnt Caramel in Cold Stone: The Hargrove Hall Smell Reopened
The scent that stopped a volunteer forty feet into Hargrove Hall was burnt caramel with a sharp chemical undernote - furfural and a synthetic musk - rising from walls sealed for decades. How did combustion byproducts and a mid-century industrial cleaning scent reappear in an unheated, decommissioned dormitory with no recent entry?
In this episode, we follow the sequence of events from the August morning Dale Williams first encountered the smell to the air-quality tests that revealed unexpected compounds, and the archivist who…
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