Have you ever had a moment so weird it felt like reality glitched? This week on Round Robin, we’re talking déjà vu, impossible coincidences, missing objects, gut feelings, and the stories we still can’t explain.

#RoundRobinPodcast #GlitchInTheMatrix #DejaVu #WeirdButTrue #PodcastLife

Hosted and Produced by Tracy Preston, Featuring Christine Mulligan, Nina Mulligan and my husband Todd Preston

Original music created exclusively for Round Robin by Tracy Preston

Original artwork by Todd Preston

In 1991, seventeen-year-old Christa Lynne Ruth Ferree, a Harper Creek High School junior from Battle Creek, Michigan, left home to visit someone she knew. She never came back.

Days later, Christa’s body was found hundreds of miles away near Clinton, Oklahoma. She had been strangled. Three teenagers — Thomas Eugene Krause II, John Seeley Loepke Jr., and Brad Trevor Warner — were convicted in her murder and originally sentenced to life without parole. Decades later, because they had been juveniles at the time of the crime, all three were resentenced to 40 to 60 years, reopening painful questions about punishment, rehabilitation, second chances, and the life Christa never got to live.

This episode of Malice in the Mitten tells Christa’s story with care: who she was, how she is remembered, the betrayal that led to her death, the long road from Battle Creek to Oklahoma, and the legal aftermath that brought her case back into court nearly three decades later.

Listener note: Thank you to Jessica Elliott for suggesting Christa’s story and helping bring her name back into the light.

#MaliceInTheMitten #MichiganTrueCrime #ChristaFerree #BattleCreekMichigan #TrueCrimePodcast

Hosted and Produced by Tracy Preston, Featuring Christine Mulligan

Researched and written by Tracy Preston

Original music created exclusively for Malice in the Mitten by Tracy Preston

Original artwork by Todd Preston

Sources include WWMT News Channel 3 reporting on the 2019 resentencing’s, WBCK coverage of the Battle Creek murder case, MDOC OTIS records, the Harper Creek Educational Foundation Christa Ferree Scholarship Fund, Find a Grave memorial records, The Oklahoman April 1991 article excerpt, and Battle Creek Enquirer obituary/article clippings reviewed during research. Some archival newspaper records are subscription-limited; unsupported secondary retellings were treated as leads only and were not included as verified fact unless supported by additional sourcing.

On this episode of F-Bomb Friday, we step into one of the most unsettling paranormal mysteries whispered across Michigan: Shadow People. From haunted roads near Ypsilanti to abandoned hospitals, frozen farmhouses, Upper Peninsula mining ruins, cemeteries, and lonely back roads, witnesses describe the same impossible thing — black, human-shaped figures standing in the dark, watching.

Are they ghosts? Sleep paralysis? Demons? Interdimensional beings? Or are Shadow People the shape our minds give to fear itself?This haunting Michigan folklore episode explores the Hat Man, the Watchers, shadow figures in the woods, and the terrifying feeling that something is standing just out of sight… waiting for you to notice it.

#ShadowPeople#MichiganFolklore#FBombFriday#TheHatMan#ParanormalMichigan

Hosted and Produced by Tracy Preston, featuring Todd Preston

Written and researched by Todd Prest

Original music created exclusively for F-bomb by Tracy Preston

Original artwork by Todd Preston

Sound Effect from Uppbeat: horror-scream-in-abandoned-place(Long).mp3

Sources:

Pure Michigan – Haunted Places in Michigan

Michigan Haunted Houses – Real Haunted Places Across Michigan

Shadowlands Haunted Places Index – Michigan

GhostQuest – Haunted Places Michigan

Haunts.com – Michigan Haunted Places

Wikipedia – Shadow Person Phenomenon

Reddit – Soop Cemetery Shadow Figure Reports

Reddit – Michigan Urban Legends Discussion

Reddit – Hat Man Experiences

Reddit – Childhood Hat Man Encounter Originally From Michigan

Reddit – Michigan Shadow Visitors Encounter

USC Folklore Archive – Sleep Paralysis & The Hat Man