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Trick or Treat 4: From the Beyond

Duration
24m
Broadcast on
24 Oct 2025
Audio Format
other

Humans have reached out to communicate with the dead for millennia, and as this collection of tales will show, that hasn't always gone according to plan.

Narrated and produced by Aaron Mahnke, with writing and research by Alex Robinson.

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On March 15th of 1853, Augustus Richard Peters died. He wasn't expected. He was only 33 years old at the time with no known major health problems. He had complained of a cold a few days before, and then he was gone. He left behind a wife, two children, and a very unpleasant job. You see, Peters had been a post-manager for the Hudson Bay Company. And this meant that he was in charge of trading posts in some of the coldest parts of Canada. When he passed away, he and his family had been stationed at Fort McPherson all the way up in the Arctic Circle. And it would seem that Peters had really hated it there, because before he died, he told his wife that he didn't want his remains to stay at Fort McPherson. But his wishes were ignored, and he was buried there. Years passed by, the world moved on. His widow even remarried his replacement, the new post-manager, and still Augustus Peters' bones stayed at the fort. Finally though, in 1859, his widow requested that his body be taken away. Now, this wasn't a simple thing to ask for. They couldn't just exhumed Peters from his frozen grave and ship him off to a new city using the ye old post office. There was no real infrastructure in place. After all, this was the most remote corner of Canada, and it was the 19th century. There was barely anything aside from ice and snow. And so Peters had to be transported on a dog sled. His coffin was large and definitely not made to fit on a narrow sled. Even so, McPherson's chief trader, Charles Goode, volunteered to load the body up with his dogs and transport it 300 miles south to Fort Goode Hope. It was a slow going ride. The coffin was unwieldy and hard to keep on the sled, and its heavy weights made traversing the rocky terrain difficult.

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