The Journal

Candle Face's Master Shadow: The Broomstick Killer

Two weeks after the Master Shadow left me that riddle, I've solved it. Freed to kill but bound again, a name yelled that brings silence,...

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Elderly couple posed closely together, the woman gently holding the man's face as both look upward against a plain lavender background.

Identified? Candle Face Victims 40 & 41: Rancher and His Wife

About a month ago, a couple came to me, ranchers who'd lived east of Austin until Candle Face's voices tore their family apart. Their account...

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Identified? Candle Face Victim #42: The Crown of Bone

Victim #42 gave me two dates in her testimony, and those dates led me to a real missing-persons listing that matches her in ways I...

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Candle Face Chronicles Podcast: Story of Victim #3

We go back to Victim #3, the couple from Sixth Street to the Gravel Pit. A regular listener wrote in with what may be an...

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Candle Face Chronicles Podcast: Is the Mystery Visitor Tanisha’s Spirit?

On this week's episode, Stacey Tallitsch and I work through Victim #2, the little girl whose spirit came to me back in November 2023. The...

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A formal comparison table matching news media reports against the spirit's testimony across seven details that nearly all align.

Identified? Candle Face Victim #13: Beneath the Surface

A commenter tied the drowned boater from December and February to a real, unsolved Lake Travis disappearance from the late 1990s, a man who swam...

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A formal comparison table matching a missing persons report against the spirit's testimony across seven details that nearly all align.

Identified? Candle Face Victim #11: The Girl from the Shack

An anonymous tip connected Victim #11's account to a real Austin cold case. The similarities are unsettling, but I'm holding the line: a spirit's testimony...

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A formal comparison table matching a missing persons report against the spirit's testimony across nine details that nearly all align.

Identified? Candle Face Victim #2: Mama's Last Embrace

Three months of testimonies, and finally a possible break. A former colleague who saw my podcast went looking on his own and found a decades-old...

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