The Card, the Churchyard, and the Seven Names Left to Count

Dark Legends & Mysteries · Sep 9, 2026 · 27m

The Card, the Churchyard, and the Seven Names Left to Count

Fog that sits in a shallow bowl, a dry index card pinned to a gas meter, and a children's counting rhyme that maps seven deaths from January to July - what looks like a child's song is actually a calendar of graves. Who threaded that card to a vacant house eight months after it was sealed, and why did they wait two years for Dale Taylor to find it?

In this episode, we follow how a meter reader's curiosity, a retired teacher's notebooks, and an eighty-three-year-old's memory reconnect a rhyme to parish records and seven children's…