Red White and BOO! - Fourth Of July Horror Stories

The horror stories are back, and this time they're wearing red, white and blue. This one's a shorter throwback to our old horror stories format, an armful of creepy, true-ish tales with a Fourth of July coat of paint. We start in the sky, because the Fourth is the single most common date on the whole calendar for UFO reports, and we land in Tinley Park, Illinois, where the lights over the fireworks came with a very earthly list of suspects and one very unsettling backup location.From there it's a petty little history lesson on why the country's been blowing out the candles two days late since 1776, a batch of facts that includes the president who was taken out by a bowl of cherries, and the reason Jaws is secretly a Fourth of July movie.A listener sends in a haunted house story where a pack of kids goes ghost hunting instead of watching the show, and it ends on a face in a window that more than one of them saw. And we close on the eerie one, the three founding fathers who all died on the Fourth of July, two of them within hours of each other, and the ghosts a few of them supposedly left behind. Also my chihuahua Charles, who experiences every fireworks display as a personal act of war. Grab a hot dog. Try not to look up. Got a story of your own? Something unexplained? Something that still keeps you up at night?Send it to [email protected] or message me directly at patreon.com/talesfromthedark. Your story could be next.🔔We would love to see more of you! Head over to Facebook and join the Tales From The Dark group to keep up with up to date information and current investigations!📌If you love the show and want to get more exclusive content, check out our Patreon at patreon.com/talesfromthedark !Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tales-from-the-dark--5003311/support.