Turlock Unburied explores the dark history of Turlock and California’s Central Valley — unsolved murders, forgotten fires, scandals, and local legends buried in old newspaper archives and public records. Each episode uncovers stories that once shook the community and still echo today.
No history lesson tonight. No dusty newspaper clippings or forgotten crimes. Just a collection of terrifying tales from Turlock and the surrounding countryside.
For this special Halloween edition of Turlock Unburied, we're turning down the lights and sharing stories of unexplained encounters, childhood nightmares, haunted homes, and things that simply shouldn't exist.
A ghostly figure with a crooked arm that follows a child into adulthood. An invisible stranger breathing beside a sleeping toddler. A house on Mitchell Avenue with decades of disturbing encounters. A violent, inexplicable vortex inside a Denair home. And a late-night encounter on Turlock's west side that proves even ordinary objects can become the stuff of nightmares.
Plus, a chilling family story involving two little boys and two cemeteries.
These aren't urban legends from faraway places. They're stories from our own neighborhoods, our own streets, and the people who lived them.
Six stories. One Halloween night. And a reminder that sometimes the scariest things happen close to home.
Turn out the lights, put on your headphones, and enjoy The Turlock Unburied Halloween Special.
Happy Halloween... and thanks for listening.
14 Oct 2026
I Know. I Shot My Wife
This episode begins with one of the strangest murder stories to ever pass through the offices of the Turlock Daily Journal. In 1934, Clarence DeMoss shot his wife, Mabel, near Hilmar, then made his way to Turlock and calmly confessed to newspapermen: “I know. I shot my wife.” What followed was a bizarre newsroom confession, a phone call to the hospital, a murder trial involving his own children, and eventually the gallows at San Quentin.
Then, Turlock Unburied introduces a new recurring series: The Hauntings of North Turlock. In “I Remember You,” a family living in an ordinary modern home begins experiencing unexplained disturbances — scattered laundry, a shadow figure watching from a child’s bedroom, flickering lights, and a terrifying electrical failure. When amateur investigators bring in a spirit box, the answers seem to point back to a Ouija board encounter from decades earlier.
Two very different stories. One buried in Turlock’s past. One disturbingly close to the present.
30 Sept 2026
Echoes of the Occult: The Spiritualist Years
Turlock has long been known as a town of churches—but its spiritual history has always had a stranger side.
In the first installment of Echoes of the Occult, we dig into the early years of Spiritualism, mysticism and the supernatural in Turlock and the surrounding valley. From mediums and clairvoyants to mind readers, traveling mystics and performers who promised audiences a glimpse beyond the veil, the old newspapers reveal a world that existed alongside the Valley's more familiar religious traditions.
Then, in the second half of the episode, we travel to Merced in 1920 for The Desecration at Merced Cemetery—a bizarre nighttime disturbance that left monuments toppled, grave markers moved, and a marble statue of a child standing over a stranger's grave with a flowerpot placed upon its head.
Who—or what—was responsible?
Turlock Unburied: Echoes of the Occult — The Spiritualist Years, followed by The Desecration at Merced Cemetery.
History gets stranger after dark.
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