4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2019
⏱️ 73 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
For the people in a small town in upstate New York, what happened was just another sordid true crime story. But they would never know just how frightening and surreal things became in its aftermath, or what one woman chose to endure in the name of compassion.
Music: Bob Pokrzywa, from the album 'A Wounded and Prostrate Foe,' all rights reserved. https://bobpokrzywa.bandcamp.com/album/a-wounded-and-prostrate-foe -and- Anthony Brown, 'Evolving Ambient Soundscape,' Getty Music. All rights reserved.
Cast (in order of appearance):
Scholar: Eric Dantley
Ellen Hershbergen: Linda Wojtowick
Narrator: Jamie Molina
Pontiac resident: Julie Medina
Father Dorr: Les Lentz
Denise Minotka: Amy Newman
Detective: Corey Landis
Radio broadcaster: Maureen Rivers
Nan Carlos: Currer Hathaway
Private investigator: Stuart Arnheim
Social worker: Effi T. Mothgil
Grace Beck: Catherine Saraceno
Prosecutor: Cal Butera
Police officer: Ebenezer Alasi
Listeners might also enjoy my new (free) audiobook of dark suspense called Town With a Tranquil Name, now downloadable from the podcast Those Snowy Nights You Read to Me, They'll Never Be Forgotten.
Also now available: a graphic novel version of eight Knifepoint Horror stories. Check out the anthology here:
https://mdpenman.bigcartel.com/
https://longlivelamariposa.bigcartel.com/
https://mrpicto.bigcartel.com/
Other audio horror by Soren Narnia:
'Why Have You Disturbed Our Sleep' - The Bloodlust podcast, October 8, 2017
'Outcall' - Episode 15, Alexandria Archives podcast
'Paranormal Appraisal 151' – Episode 20, Alexandria Archives podcast
'Q & A With a Vampire Killer' - Episode 33, Alexandria Archives podcast
Patreon: www.patreon.com/sorennarnia
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
0:00.0 | This is the sixth edition area of a cult manifestation. Only four copies exist in the world today. |
0:18.0 | This one was stolen from the University of Heidelberg about ten years after it was printed in 1832. |
0:25.0 | I could go to jail for this, obviously, which is another reason you're not recording this. |
0:31.0 | And I'm not using my name. And I can't answer any questions about where this came from. |
0:37.0 | Good. The phenomenon that Ms. Hirschberg is talking about has only been referenced one time in print and it's in here. |
0:47.0 | The terminology is archaic, so of course the term lock box is nowhere in here. |
0:54.0 | Again, we're just starting here. I want you to see the ground. |
0:59.0 | I was just driving by and I saw this place. It's all alone here on this little road with the garden over here. |
1:27.0 | They were having like a spring fun fair. And I just had this feeling that it was where I wanted to be. |
1:38.0 | I moved here and I had turned this church and I'd worked for it and that's all I really wanted. It was just a feeling. |
1:50.0 | So, that's exactly what I did. |
1:55.0 | At the age of 45, Ellen Hirschberg moved alone from Buffalo to the small town of Pontiac, New York. |
2:02.0 | In April of 2013, she found a job at a hallmark store ten miles away and rented a tiny fixer up her beside the woods. |
2:10.0 | She settled into a simple routine of work and church activities. |
2:15.0 | In May, she received a call from a cousin she barely knew, asking for her help. |
2:21.0 | Donna said to me, we just can't take care of Winthrop anymore. He needs a place to stay and get settled. |
2:30.0 | And Pontiac's perfect because he's going to have a job at the Sheet Metal plant. It's all arranged. |
2:35.0 | I never even met Winthrop, but she sent me a couple of photographs. |
2:40.0 | She said he was a good man, but he'd had some trouble in the army and used to drink, but that he didn't anymore. |
2:49.0 | For a long time, it'd been sort of moving between family members out there in Omaira. |
2:56.0 | So, what could I say? I said, yes, he should come and live in the spare room for a couple months. |
3:02.0 | Tilly had the money to get a place in Angola. I didn't really think that much about it. |
... |
Transcript will be available on the free plan in -1928 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from SpectreVision Radio, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of SpectreVision Radio and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.