Two chilling stories—one shrouded in cosmic mystery, the other rooted in rural folklore. In 1966, two Brazilian men were found dead on a hillside, dressed in raincoats and strange lead masks, with no clear cause of death. Were they victims of a UFO experiment gone wrong, a secret ritual, or something even stranger? Then we travel back to rural England, where the brutal 1945 murder of Charles Walton still haunts the quiet village of Lower Quinton. With whispers of witchcraft and curses surrounding the case, fact and folklore blur in unsettling ways.
Join us as we unravel the eerie threads connecting unexplained phenomena, superstition, and the human need to explain the unexplainable.
Champagne Pairing:
Drappier Carte d’Or Brut → Earthy and unusual — a toast to UFOs and eerie witchcraft murders.
Wikipedia (English): Lead Masks case — background, note text, and chronology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_masks_case Wikipedia
Wikipedia (Português): Mistério das máscaras de chumbo — Brazilian reporting, witness account, police conclusion https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mist%C3%A9rio_das_m%C3%A1scaras_de_chumbo Wikipedia
Brazilian National Library (O Globo archive snippet mentioning “masks of lead” and poison/afterlife angle) https://memoria.bn.gov.br/docreader/WebIndex/WIPagina/089842_07/75989 memoria.bn.gov.br
Rede Globo “Linha Direta Justiça” dossiers (witness Gracinda; morgue aide’s claim; investigator notes) https://redeglobo.globo.com/Linhadireta/0%2C26665%2CVYJ0-5259-215833%2C00.html https://redeglobo.globo.com/Linhadireta/0%2C26665%2CVYJ0-5259-215835%2C00.html https://redeglobo.globo.com/Linhadireta/0%2C26665%2CVYJ0-5259-215832%2C00.html https://redeglobo.globo.com/Linhadireta/0%2C26665%2CVYJ0-5259-215834%2C00.html Rede Globo+3Rede Globo+3Rede Globo+3
UFO Magazine Brazil (2003): “O Caso Máscaras de Chumbo revisado” (Portuguese) https://ufo.com.br/o-caso-mascaras-de-chumbo-revisado/ ufo.com.br
Skeptoid #398 (skeptical reconstruction) https://skeptoid.com/episodes/398 https://open.spotify.com/episode/4R50DhBqhDMm8P62965lI6 skeptoid.comSpotifyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Charles_Walton
https://www.ourwarwickshire.org.uk/content/article/tales-about-meon-hill
https://www.stratford-herald.com/news/witchcraft-and-murder-on-meon-hill-9223403/
https://www.vice.com/en/article/charles-walton-murder-victim
https://the-line-up.com/pitchfork-murder
https://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/9627/meon-hill
https://whitedragon.org.uk/articles/charles.htm
https://www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk/forum/the-charles-walton-mystery-warwickshire/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Fabian
(academic context on folk-horror themes) https://shura.shu.ac.uk/25147/