S2 Ep39: Above the Top Floor

In tonight's dead letter, we're in Cluj-Napoca, Transylvania in the 1990s, a few years after the revolution, where our listener Nadina, six at the time, had the run of a Soviet-era apartment block with her older sister and their best friend while their nanny visited a friend upstairs. They climbed past the last floor of apartments to the metal door at the top, and before anyone could touch it, something huge, aggressive and feral sounding on the other side began attacking it so hard they fled. Nadina still doesn't know what was up there. Relevant Prior Episodes Ep 49: Monsters Among Us Astonishing Legends · Spotify · Apple Podcasts Ep 116: Small Town Monsters Astonishing Legends · Spotify · Apple Podcasts Ep 183: Sam the Sandown Clown Astonishing Legends · Spotify · Apple Podcasts Ep 203: The Beast of Gévaudan Astonishing Legends · Spotify · Apple Podcasts Links and Further Reading Hoia Baciu Forest (Astonishing Legends) History of Cluj-Napoca Systematization in Romania Transylvanian Superstitions, Emily Gerard, 1885 (Project Gutenberg) Pricolici Strigoi Tracing the Roots of Lycanthropy (Astonishing Legends) The Beast of Bray Road (Astonishing Legends) Blonde Venus (1932) Classic Sideshow Acts: The Girl into the Gorilla (Museum of the Weird) Pepper's Ghost We're looking for more stories! Send your Dead Letter to [email protected]!