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b'Ruthie Mae McCoy was the type who talked to herself and cursed strangers on the street. When she called 911 to report that someone was coming through the medicine cabinet of her Abbott Homes apartment, she might have been hallucinating. But she wasn\\u2019t. (They Came Through The Mirror) *** Who was the mysterious woman who spoke a language no-one could understand? What was inside the box she held in her hands? What was the meaning of the markings on the round metal object she arrived in? Those are just some of the questions no one has been able to answer about a strange encounter near Tokyo in 1803. (The Alien Woman and the Hollow Ship) *** In a well-known area of southwest Texas that many believe to already be haunted, a woman dies in childbirth \\u2013 but when she is found, her baby is missing, and wolf prints are everywhere. And that\\u2019s when sightings of The Wolf Girl of Devil\\u2019s River begin. (The Wolf Girl of Devil\\u2019s River) *** Throughout early 1800s Delaware and Maryland, Patty Cannon and her gang kidnapped as many as 3,000 Black Americans to sell into bondage in the South\\u2026 and would often murder those slaves\\u2026 and those that sold them. (Patty Cannon: The Slave-Trading Serial Killer)

SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM THE EPISODE\\u2026
\\u201cPatty Cannon: The Slave-Trading Serial Killer\\u201d by Emily Stringer for All That\\u2019s Interesting: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/a95a6zaz
\\u201cThe Alien Woman and the Hollow Ship\\u201d by Ellen Lloyd for Ancient Pages: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/tvkvddc5
\\u201cThe Wolf Girl of Devil\\u2019s River\\u201d by Brian Haughton: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/5uf2utcc
\\u201cThey Came Through The Mirror\\u201d by Steve Bogira for Chicago Reader: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/65pp5y96
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Originally aired: October 14, 2021

PARTIAL TRANSCRIPT: https://weirddarkness.com/they-came-through-the-bathroom-mirror/

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