They Buried the Counting Rhyme - Why the Sixth Name Was Silent

Dark Legends & Mysteries · Jul 27, 2026 · 29m

They Buried the Counting Rhyme - Why the Sixth Name Was Silent

The copper tube pulled from Crestline Road held a March 14, 1891 firewood receipt and, on its reverse, a counting rhyme that lists six named deaths in Aldermere Parish-with the sixth verse the only one people had always refused to say aloud. Why was a church receipt signed by Deacon H. Ames used as the backing for a children's rhyme that records specific ages, garments, and a man who “saw the door,” then sealed and buried below the frost line for decades?

In this episode, we trace how a retired postal worker, his grandmother’s…