Episode 107: The Stones
In the early 1980s, a formerly quiet suburban street in Birmingham, England—Thornton Road—was struck by a series of bizarre rock attacks credited to unseen forces that some believed were paranormal in nature. . . even, perhaps, the work of a poltergeist.
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