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.

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.

In 1977, Sharon Brown was found murdered in Turlock, leaving behind a case that remains unsolved nearly five decades later. In this episode of Turlock Unburied, we revisit the crime, the investigation, the questions that still linger, and the mystery at the center of it all: who killed Sharon Brown?

Then, the episode shifts from an unsolved murder to one of Turlock’s best-known firehouse ghost stories. Retired firefighter Dennis Fujita recalls strange experiences at Fire Station 3, including disturbing nightmares and a shadowy figure seen moving through the station at night.

Two very different stories—one rooted in a real and unresolved tragedy, the other in the unexplained history of a place where firefighters lived and worked for decades.

This is Turlock Unburied Episode 2.2: Who Killed Sharon Brown? & The Haunting of Fire Station 3.

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