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hey weirdos I'm Ash and I'm Elena I didn't have a microphone in front of my face so that
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would have been weird we've been doing this for five years and I still don't remember to put the microphone in front
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of my face and this is morbid yeah it [Music] is it's listener tals so it's brought to
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you by you for you from you and all about you and it's Lucy [ __ ] Goosey up in here it is Lucy and it is
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very Goosey and I have the microphone in front of my face now so we can do this and I'm going to start this listener
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Tales because I'm excited for this uh this tale subject subject line thank you for trying to help me out I appreciate
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that I will always struggling I will always I will always try I will always so this one's called listener Tale deom
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on demoray drive with a yeet for ash going to say don't you forget it don't you forget it but any time I see a deom
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on something I'm like huh you're like tell me all about it what's happening there call me so this says well hello my
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spook alicious ladies of all things morbid and spoopy have I got a listener tale for you I'm confident we'll inspire
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you to Yeet yourself right out of my childhood memories and back right back to the safety of wherever you are
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listening from be prepared to grab your butts and SEC car your titties we're about to have some full body chills
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let's go brother but first a little pre-a gushing a big shout out to my oldest daughter Meg yes you can use her
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first name and my first name thanks Heidi your name is Heidi she introduced me to your podcast back on April 15th
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2023 during a short three hour a short three-hour road trip that's not short that's pretty road I was say uh for
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girls day out shopping the first episode I heard was the one where you stumbled across a video on the dark web that pict
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Ed feet moving around with a suitcase leaking black fluid and when you went back to find It Again the video was gone
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oh remember those Tik toks [ __ ] I forgot about those what was the name I can't remember no me either damn
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it we'll have to we'll have to see then the episode of the killer lady clown who
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shot her Lover's wife in the face you literally have me at hello weirdos I've been hooked ever since I went back to
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episode one and have since finished episode 347 the Jack the Ripper series oh you're in you're in a good place yeah
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you are uh all those episodes in under four months damn as most of us hooked on morbid weirdos tend to do I listen to
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you as I cooked I cook clean fold laundry drive around etc etc hands down your podcast is my favorite and I've
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told a dozen or or so fellow True Crime fans to check it out thanks thank you now to my spoopy story I've withheld the
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names of my family members for their privacy however I've listed their names and resources for your eyes only at the
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end of the tail on my resources page wow look at you know in the event your curios inspires you to research this
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case even further oh I hope you do my research skills or total lack thereof left me frustrated I have to tell you
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ladies I'm so impressed with your research skills and Dave's I was going to say mostly it's Dave but thank you
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very much I couldn't find [ __ ] without creating multiple accounts forget that I'll give you all I've got and let you
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take it from here if you so desire so here goes I've attached my listener tale roughly a 20-minute read without
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commentary called DMP on demoray Drive enjoy let's go let's go [Music] I got to bring it up okay bring it back
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back in the day just Kidd I was like what I was you were like where are we I thought you were going oh I was like
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what no no no I said bring it back and then I went a you didn't see the shoulders of it all that's what took me
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out sorry back to Heidi it's not about me back in the day my father worked as an insurance agent with a side hustle as
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a contractor Builder and Craftsman damn he would find a trash heap of a home buy
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it for pennies gut it remodel it and flip it for profit he carried paper on those homes and did so well fiscally
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that he eventually gave up his insurance work for D Dawn till Dusk self-employed
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Contractor Building gig which incredibly he is still hard at work today in his mid 70s let's go Papa your dad what can
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I say Dad loves what he does that's great you never work a day in your life hell yeah my little brother and I spent
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many Summers as free laborers for a dad's intensive home renovations sure we'd both grown in unison when Dad
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announced that he bought another hubel but we learned some incredible skills of our own and firsthand lessons in the
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value of hard work and Visionary promise that was beautiful sentence yeah the vast majority of my dad's remodeling
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projects were from phenomenal everyone who knew him wanted my dad to remodel their kitchens bathrooms or build their
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entire home additions there was even a time when one of his homes was featured in an architectural Digest Magazine damn
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look mama we made it yeah nevertheless the home I'm about to introduce you to was not one such pH nomenal project on a
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hot July day in Grants Pass Oregon is that it right Dad Oregon Trail oh Dad loaded my little brother and me into our
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family's Brown for Brown Ford van and took us with him to inspect a potential remodel that was owned by Mr Floyd Baker
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one of my dad's Insurance clients Floyd had fallen on hard times and was looking
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to sell his house I like that you made up the names in this and you chose Floyd appreciate that it's similar to Boyd and
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that's what me and Elena call each other there you go quick side note if you Google the residence I've attached the
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information for your eyes only you'll find that it sits near the West End of demoray drive today this area is
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considered Suburbia with the surrounding pasture pastures divvied up in additional housing and pot Gardens but
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back when I was just a tween in the mid1 1980s this property was a good 15minute
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drive out into the countryside of Grants Pass proper now back to that fful July Day Dad pulled up in front of the home's
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two-car garage which was and still is attached to the right side of the house it's double wing single garage door
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stood gaping open what you just said Double Wing Oh I thought he said Double Wing It actually says double wide but I
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said Double Wing and I'm I'm 12 you are 12 you said Double Wing I was like no I said wing and that was still
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wrong we out here it's double wide single garage door stood gaping open like a dark yawning
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mouth that scar yeah I don't I don't know about that I hate that Dad told us to I know exactly
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how I feel about it Dad told us to stay by the van as he hopped out and greeted Floyd who approached the van with a
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toothy grin I don't like that Dad and I like my men to smile at me with no teeth give me a s well give me a soft
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smile give me a gummy smile no no no soft Smiles only smes SM at me baby Floyd so Dad and
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Floyd mosied off to inspect the house and surrounding acreage my brother and I quickly grew bored of sitting in the hot
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van and decided to loiter in the shade of the trees near the house as we tumbled out of the van and moved closer
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to the house a horrendous stench slapped our faces and burned our n nostrils good
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God what is that death you said it like that we were Farm kids we'd smelled dead
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animals before a rotting rodent left by the barn cats here a putrid post butcher
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gut pile there you got the idea oh that was I feel like I can smell it but this smell far far worse the pungency was
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profound I love that sentence and it had a disgustingly and indescribably sweet twist to its rancid odor oh we know
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that's right so gross our senses of smell were seared by it my brother and I flippantly commented how on how awful
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the smell was but again boredom and a touch of curiosity s in what the heck was taking Dad so long while we waited
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we tried to pinpoint where the nasty odor was coming from from we quickly determined it was coming from the garage
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yep definitely the garage we had no doubt we peered into the dimness of the open garage door with our hands clamped
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tightly over our mouths and noses our eyes took a moment to adjust from the bright Summer Sun as our vision came
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into Focus we noticed that a slab of concrete had been cut out of the parking space on the left side of the garage
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floor the missing slab was roughly 4 to 5 ft long by 2 or 3 ft wide and 5 or 6 in deep right down to the dirt uhoh
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there were dark red splotches around the missing section of concrete weird weird
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indeed along the left side of the garage or like you know we like to say unique yeah yeah different along the left side
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of the garage there was a step and a door that led into the house the bottom half of the door was dented in huh
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that's odd too mhm sure is the rest of the garage was unassuming a cluttered workbench stretched along the right side
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of the garage and the back wall was covered with overfilled wooden shelving that reached from floor to ceiling at
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the back of the garage toward the left side a door stood open and offered a peek into the backyard as I for as I AER
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mentioned we were 80s kids I was 10 or 11 and my brother is 2 years younger than me so it goes without saying that
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electronic div Divergence was not an option for us back in those days instead our Curiosities peaked and we resorted
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to our youthful and warped imaginations for entertainment what could be a better
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game than this one of us decided it would be great fun to see who could run all the way through the foul garage and
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at the back door without taking a breath my God I would have 100% played this game I would not I don't recall whose
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Grand idea it was but the game was a foot it was L us we ran it was it was mine we ran from the front and out the
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back then again from the back to the front next we mixed it up by adding a jump over the missing section of
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concrete slabs as we ran through the raning garage after that we realized we were much too successful with these
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minor challenges and decided to see how many times we could run back and forth through the garage without having to
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gasp for a gulp of pure beir we were nailing it oh my God you guys are probably so stinky so stinky Jump Ahead
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about a decade I was fascinated with forensics and seriously considered it as a field of study as I headed off to
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college however the memory of my experience in the demoray garage and how truly disgusting the pong of human
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decomposition is persuasively steered me away from that career choice so I ended
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up caring for the living rather than the dead hey good for you jump ahead another
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10 years I'm around 30 years old and assisting a surgeon with lancing a softball siiz abscess and a patient's
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groin that sounds [ __ ] horrible you you picked that sentence up and you just dropped it right in front of us a
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softball sized abscess you didn't ask me on you didn't knock on the door you busted through the door and you just
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dropped that sentence in my lap like remember when you learned I have to have that remember when you learned how to
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hold a softball you like had to figure out like how to arrange your fingers around it and still they wouldn't fit
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cuz the softball's [ __ ] huge yep on your groin yeah and abscess it's going to get worse we
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successfully drained about a liter of loose yellow Pearl you wanted to read this
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one some stuff from the absess no no no she said leader of loose yellow pesent wait were you going to skip over
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the whole thing no uh no shut up it had black Flex of necrotic tissue in it Yeet
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she just goes Yeet I'm so upset the stench of that drainage was the closest smell to human decomp that I've ever
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experienced in nearly 40 years oh my God girly I just had onion rings for lunch why did you do that to
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me I suppose that would make sense it was necrotic tissue after all in fact you ladies read a listener Tale in which
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a thoughtful writer tried to describe the reak of human decom she was so close but I remember saying out loud what
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about the sweetness thank you ready no sooner had the words left my I was going to say I say that no sooner had the
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words left my mouth then Elena said there's a sweet smell too truth it's my personal conviction that a sweet odor in
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decomposition is what makes the decom smell uniquely human it's just it's true it's a sickly sweet smell that's how I
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felt about my onion rings today yeah it was they were sickly sweet no I got Sonic onion rings and why do they make
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them tastes like cake I don't like it they literally have vanilla in them like why were my onion rings like deom I too
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know the smell of human decomposition I do at this it was like my Sonic onion rings honestly it might be close it was
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like making onion rings vanilla bread it's true though there's like a weird you know when something is so
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sweet that you're like it smells bad I want to launch myself into the Sun that was so bad like I don't know if I know
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about that like you know how sometimes somebody will give you like you'll order a coffee and they put too many pumps of
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something in it and you take a sip and you're like like it's just like oh my God it does this certain thing to like
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your tongue I feel like yeah and it's just human deom is all the horrible smells you can
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think of of like garbage rotting yeah but add a sweet sweet uh I don't know how to
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justbe like a like a sweet layer on top that just as you smell that that hot rotting garbage that turns your stomach
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this sweetness like leaks in after it so you're just like like it's just like you
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don't know where you're that was loud you don't know where you're you're supposed to go or feel cuz you're like
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it's so confusing you know where you go you go home Roger you go home Roger and you take a sh Chow it's a lot it's a lot
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it's really hard to describe I think that's why nobody can really describe it accurately it's like rotting garbage
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that a Starbucks barista just like goes by and like pumps all the caramel on much yeah but she puts like um the the
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sugar-free one I was just going to say the sugar-free one that's somehow sweeter like it's just cuz it's like
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fake like it's like asart time like ranly sweet okay uh now back to the mid 1980s Dad finally returned with a grumpy
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look on his face and told us to get in the van we're leaving yeah get out of there my brother and I playfully bounded
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back to the van offhandedly commenting on how vile Floyd's garage smelled dad merely grunted in agreement we started
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back down demoray drive toward our own home which was less than 2 miles away we lived on the road that runs parallel to
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Dem Demay drive along its souths side in retrospect we lived much too close to Floyd's House dad was silent for a
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minute as we turned off the road dad finally asked do you know what that smell was oh my God is he going to tell
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you my brother and I both offered lame ideas like really rotten garbage dad eventually clarified by saying that was
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the smell of Floyd's wife she was was murdered in the garage while he was away on business he said so take that rancid
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smell out of your mouth okay after a beat with our mouths hanging open and our eyes bulging my brother and I
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started asking dad all sorts of questions he calmly this is a dad yeah he calmly and matter of factly answered
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each one how old were you good for your dad just being like you know what here it is the story was that Floyd's wife
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was bludgeon to death in the garage with a hammer that was reportedly plucked from the cluttered workbench oh that's
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horrific the removed concrete slab had a bloody footprint or something on it in the wife's own blood and so it was taken
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for evidence the dent in the door was from the wife falling against it during the
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attack this is [ __ ] up sad she was like brutally killed the odor was from the wife rotting in the garage for 2
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weeks In The Heat Of Summer cuz he was away and apparently she had been found by Floyd himself upon his return from
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the business trip oh my God the cherry on top was that Mrs Baker's decomposing body was removed not long enough before
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my brother and I were carelessly were running carelessly through the garage my dad didn't realize we would be exposed
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to any of that oof mistake number one mistake number two my Dad decided to buy Floyd's house what the [ __ ] let me
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repeat myself so that this is plainly clear my father of previously sound mind resolved to purchase Mr Floyd Baker's
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murder home that's a choice okay so Dad gives each one of us his remod excuse me
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sorry it's okay that you were a little flustered after that okay take that breath so Dad gives each one of his
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remodels a unique or sophisticated name such as the Woodland or the Redwood Falls or the Chateau I love your dad to
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list a few but for this abhorent model we understandably and very simply dubbed it the murder house and still call it to
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that to this day honestly I I don't know what else you could name it in the months following following my dad's
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decision to make the murder house his next remodel we would show up on site as a family to help deep clean dispose of
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garbage and otherwise assist Floyd with moving out of the home or Floyd Floyd's wife had a little white Pomeranian which
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Floyd claimed to utterly despise on one such occasion that we were there helping
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them clean I distinctively recall Floyd carrying the Palm in one arm while dramatically waving one of the dogs paw
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at us and repeatedly saying bye-bye bye-bye as he climbed into his vehicle with the dog and drove away no more Palm
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it turned out that Floyd took the Palm to be euthanized cremated and buried along with his wife I didn't see the end
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of that sentence coming I thought you were I thought you were saying that he came to love the dog
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he came to love the dog I was like bye-bye going on a trip that's what I thought too oh my god oh Floyd that's
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not okay the end of that sentence was such a jump scope that was so mean [ __ ] Floyd I feel like I was just
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tricked you were you were duped I was like a bye-bye byebye oh that's what Floyd was like too and the dog's just
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like okay that's so sad and also it's like dude your wife probably loved that [ __ ] dog damn why the [ __ ] did you
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use say you know what Heidi has the right response what the actual [ __ ] he should have given it to somebody
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else you don't just kill a dog cuz you don't want it I'm on an emotional roller coaster right now it's like Lucy Loosey
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Apple juicy damn Flash Forward two decades with me I'm I'm here with you yeah let's get out of there I'm working
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as an ice you nurse so you are a superhero and have a male patient who purposely blew half of his lower jaw oh
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who purposely blew half of his lower jaw off during a failed suicide attempt oh oh my God the kicker he first shot and
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killed the family dog before attempting to kill himself I don't think that's a kicker I don't I don't think anybody
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told you what a kicker was well when I learned of that fact my mind had instantly gone back to Floyd cheerfully
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waving the of his wife's Palm as he left to have it euthanized what the heck why
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not give the pet to someone who would love to have it honestly there are no adequate words for these people truly
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that's like that's the thing just give it to someone else God back at the murder house I remember that the inside
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of the home rre of cheap cigarette smoke the interior walls were formly white but
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had required a permanent orange tinge and had brownish streaks of nicotine tar that had dripped Down the Walls like wet
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mascara you paint a picture have you ever been in a house where somebody has smoked like that it's crazy what it does
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to the walls oh it's wild we scrubbed them as best we could to no avail the tar persistently seeped through several
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several fresh layers of paint so we eventually resorted to painting them with a special sealant used after grease
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fires before repe repainting the walls successfully and if that's not an anecdote to not smoke ever what one day
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my mom brother and I were cleaning out in the garage Sons the odor of human human deom Floyd had a large trash can
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by the workbench at one point while tossing some garbage into the trash my brother spied a bone more than a foot
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long and nearly an inch in diameter with bits of fatty Flesh on it he anxiously pointed it out to Mom
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and me mom who was an ER nurse noted that she didn't think it was human damn maybe an animal of some sort
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we lived on a farm full of horses cows dogs cats turkeys chickens pigs ponies Etc and we assisted with butchering our
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own meat but this bone was unfamiliar and right unsettling could it be from a child I asked my mom didn't think so but
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we all agreed it didn't look like a bone we Farm folks were familiar with as we gathered around the trash postulating
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and gawking at the bone Floyd came in through the back door of the garage and asked what are we looking at the kids
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are curious about a bone in your trash answered my mom with a quick side nod toward the garage after a passing glance
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Floyd burst out into graveled laughter ha that's just a turkey leg bone no it's not he then turned and sauntered back
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out the way he had come in why Floyd's always lying he's lying he's always lying that was and still is the
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strangest turkey leg bone I have ever seen yeah that's cuz it was not Mom gave us a wide-eyed shrug and we returned to
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cleaning but from that moment on I was exceedingly suspicious of Floyd me too after the by-by August brought the
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Josephine County Fair to town my family owned a vacant lot near the fairgrounds so we parked cars there every Fair
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season to help pay for the lot's annual property taxes as a reward at the end of
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the hot and exhausting week of parking cars all day every day my parents stayed to park the cars after Sunset while my
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brother and I got to go enjoy a couple of hours of fun at the fair before it closed for the season we were noshing on
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cotton candy and strolling through the selection of rides when Floyd literally jumped out at us from around the dark
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side of a ticket booth Boo get out of here Floyd you're too wiy you're Wicked Wily way too wiely my brother and I
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gasped and grabbed each other's arms with sticky fingers Floyd burst into obnoxious cackles rubbing his hands
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together with Glee he was pleased he was plainly very pleased at our fright Floyd
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glanced from side toide with his dark beady eyes where are your parents everywhere they're everywhere everywhere
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Floyd get the [ __ ] out of here my parents are everywhere every single person in this fair is my parent Floyd
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and they'll get you Floyd oh they're close to I love oh they're close by somewhere I answered even though they
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weren't smart Floyd looked around for a few seconds longer then said well I guess I'll go find them then as he
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disappeared back into the Shadows around the ticket booth my brother and I exchanged horrified looks and took off
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running the opposite direction we fled the fair grounds frequently dancing behind us and met up with our parents
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back back at the property we were unnerved and trembling my parents looked worried and became hyper Vigilant in
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keeping one eye out for us and the other for Floyd who never did reappear that night at least as far as my brother and
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I knew of Floyd finally moved back to California I think for from which he had originally come my entire family
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breathed a huge sigh of relief at his departure bye Floyd not too long after Floyd left my parents received news that
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Floyd had killed himself somewhere along the Pacific coast oh that's sad only then did my parents start sharing
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additional details about Floyd not sad I wondered about this apparently the police believed he had
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murdered his wife and staged a business trip as an alibi I believed it oh [ __ ]
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never have I ever met a man creepier than Floyd supposedly he hadn't been arrested because the police didn't have
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enough evidence to support their Theory moreover a local police detective and a close family friend of ours told my
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parents that Floyd reportedly had at least two former wives who had also died under suspicious circumstances [ __ ]
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Floyd geez we had Associated ourselves with a possible serial killer could it get much worse than that yes yes it
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could and it did what I didn't think it was was going to get worse my dad started ripping down walls at the murder
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house and adding on a master suite oh no I remember him telling us that he had found some really bad things written on
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the sheet rock but he never did say what those things were moreover my dad replaced the dented inner door of the
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garage and filled it in the missing concrete slab everything got a good scrub down and fresh paint new carpet
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new lenium however my dad always felt like he was being watched as he worked and so he got his REM remodel project
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done in as little time as possible just the basics no detail craft work by the way Dad's craft work is one of his
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signature moves too bad murder house you basic well it's like when Nicole buyers
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is that you basic you basic I love that he has like craft work that he puts in his homes that's like detail that's
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really cool astonishingly my parents decided to use this particular home as a rental rather than selling it mistake
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number three the first people they rented it to was a young couple with several small children I don't even
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think they made it a full month before telling my parents we can't stay here any longer things come out of the walls
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at night and scare the kids I'm sorry things come out of the walls at like things or people several things
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apparently yeah or things I hate it I hate it here uh I made a mental note to myself I don't
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even know if I'll ever be at there at night but never ever fall asleep at the murder house that's a dope mental not
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that is back then write that down my mom was part of a women's prayer group group
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so after hearing the news of demons in the walls no real surprise there she and her lady friends went through the murder
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house room by room praying over it blessing it and binding any evil spirits in the name of Jesus Christ Ash this is
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the Christian equivalent of a good saging I got you girl after that my parents were successful in renting out
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the home in 1988 my mom's oldest brother and his wife bought the murder house and
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moved into it I remember my aunt asking my dad if he could go under the house and cover any exposed pipes she
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explained because an animals keep getting under there and bang on the pipes it keeps us awake all night that's
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not animals baby my dad had a blank look on his face and responded along the lines of uh there aren't any exposed
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pipes under your house another time my aunt and uncle invited our family over for a movie night they had a big screen
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TV that fac their bed so the adults all piled on the bed while my brother and I sat on the floor leaning against the
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foot of the bed to watch the show at some point during the movie a huge frigid gust of air came up through the
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floor beneath my brother and me we were startled by it as it shot past us towards the ceiling we literally had
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chills running up and down our spines we asked our aunt and uncle if they had turned on the AC nope no AC scared out
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of our minds my brother and I leapt off the floor and into the bed I remember the adults complaining the adults
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complaining about not having enough room for all of us on the bed but my brother
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and I simply refused to go back down on the floor I don't blame you my aunt and uncle only lived there for a couple of
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years my last memory inside the murder house was a time when I was hanging out with my aunt I wasn't feeling well so
00:26:55
she had me lay down on the couch in the living room while she worked from home somehow I fell asleep even as I type
00:27:01
this my brain is screaming you never wrote down your dope mental thought you didn't write down that dope mental note
00:27:06
I remember waking up with a start with a start as dusk was falling I couldn't believe I hadn't died or been tortured
00:27:12
by a wall demon nevertheless never again would I let that happen almost every day
00:27:17
from the time I was 11 until I moved out of my family home at 18 I would jog the
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three milei Loop that consisted of my street two side streets and demoray drive every time I neared the murder
00:27:27
house I would jog along the opposite side of demoray drive and watched the house with a steady side gaze as I
00:27:34
neared it and then passed it I always felt like the house was watching me back in preparation for this listener tale I
00:27:39
had a couple of details that I simply couldn't pin down I spent hours literally hours researching online with
00:27:45
zero success so I resorted to calling my parents hey Mom I know this is out of the blue but do you remember when Dad
00:27:51
took us to the house on demoray For the First Time The Murder House of course I chuckled to myself at the involuntary
00:27:57
note of of disgust in her voice as she said of course do you remember what year that was or how old I was goodness mom
00:28:04
answered maybe 10 I don't remember the year let's ask your dad my dad wasn't sure the year either he was certain he
00:28:10
bought the murder house from Floyd in the mid 80s though and he knew that my aunt bought it in 1988 dad chuckled when
00:28:16
I told him that the house was back on the market with no mention of a garage murder and that it had gone through
00:28:21
several owners over the years he said that he wasn't surprised at all dad wrapped up our little trip down memory
00:28:26
lane with a touch of a astonishment about Floyd man I can't believe he was in our lives what a great end note on
00:28:33
Floyd like [ __ ] can't believe we knew that man can't believe we knew that man like damn what a guy to
00:28:41
know I love that [ __ ] Floyd So ladies the moral of my story is this keep it weird but not so weird that you
00:28:48
accidentally expose your kids to the horrid smell of human decom In The Heat Of Summer but do keep it so weird that
00:28:54
you are honest and calm about answering all of your kids rambling murder questions
00:28:58
but not so weird that you decide to buy said murder house and then rent it to an
00:29:01
unsuspecting young family with little kids who wake up to Demons coming out of their walls yeah and certainly don't
00:29:06
keep it so weird that you then sell the home to your in-laws who invite you over
00:29:10
and expose you and your own kids to cold ghostly air and banging pipes and don't
00:29:15
keep it so weird that you watch the house that's watching you as you jog by every day and definitely don't keep it
00:29:20
so weird that you let a possible serial killer be a part of your family's lives yeah don't keep it that weird bye hide
00:29:27
oh you know what Heidi this house does have creepy Vibes just looking at it [ __ ] went down you see it [ __ ] went down
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yeah yeah it's sad cuz it's like it's like a cute house in a way that's how I pictured the house but it feels it's
00:29:42
actually not how I pictured it that's funny see that's how I pictured it yeah uh oh Heidi you just gave me a
00:29:49
new hyperfixation so thank you for that wow cuz now I'm going to go crazy looking into this investigate it I'm
00:29:58
going to investigate this Heidi damn Heidi that was a good one Heidi that was horrifying and so well told and thanks
00:30:05
for being a hero ICU nurse yes you you're a [ __ ] badass never change your parents sound hilarious I love them
00:30:12
and I am forever impressed that your dad just decided to make something he loved
00:30:16
into his whole job and did it forever and he's in his 70s and still doing it and then he's a Craftsman pour one out
00:30:22
for your good job dad I love I loved his Vibe your dad's Vibe and yeah it was Immaculate I I pictured him
00:30:30
as like the good guy in the movie that like hangs out with like the crappy guy who he really just wants to kill the
00:30:34
whole time you know what I mean you're right yeah The Sopranos of it all The Sopranos of it all you know um well my
00:30:41
next one is called uh listener tale my haunted ass baby that's amazing so it says hello attached to a puaa about my
00:30:49
haunted ass baby also attached her some pictures of my family and haunted baby as a baby haunted baby as a baby haunted
00:30:57
baby is adorable I love haunted baby she said I haven't really come across anyone
00:31:01
else with a haunted baby so I thought this would be a good story to submit happy reading I love that you're like
00:31:06
I've been on the lookout I love you never have I come across another haunted baby oh we can use uh her name Casey
00:31:13
Casey helloy also your family and you are just beautiful oh my gosh holiday Pi is so cute you're so cute oh my God your
00:31:21
kids are so cute I don't know what this is this this other photo yet but I'm afraid I'm afraid okay hello my spooky
00:31:28
friends Alena and Ash how tickled I was to have discovered your podcast by random one sweltering South Carolina
00:31:33
evening oh that sounds delightful wow you guys are great writers yeah I was pissed that day because of the heat and
00:31:39
humidity that sun sure does have the audacity truth I was tired of feeling sweat in every NOK and cranny from my
00:31:45
toties to my booties my toties to my booties my toties to my booties I love it so when I got in my car that night to
00:31:51
head home from my sister-in-law's house after helping her in her yard that day I
00:31:55
had no desire to turn on my normal music playlist I swiped over to the podcast and saw morbid yep that's me I'll give
00:32:01
it a listen you're like hey look at that that's me and I haven't stopped since that's why we named it morbid cuz we're
00:32:06
like I know a lot of people feel like they to are morbid and was like we should name it maob and I was like
00:32:12
what's that mean again and I was like morbid and I was like we should just name it morbid and I was like that
00:32:16
sounds better and here we are five years later there we are uh and Casey says I haven't stopped since I torture my kids
00:32:22
on road trips listening to you guys quote unquote only six episodes and we'll be in Florida boys
00:32:28
communal groans of displeasure in the back seat they are used to you now and are happy to oblig these days my name is
00:32:33
Casey yeah thanks man my name is Casey I'm 32 happily married to my man of 14 years Eli and we have three children I
00:32:40
was blessed with all boys we've got Lane pronounced as Lane but my husband was really into World of Warcraft at the
00:32:46
time and insisted on spelling it with two L's because that was the name of the realm that he played in iroll I love
00:32:52
that for you guys I love that a lot and I love that you were like you know I love The Whimsy of it all and you
00:32:57
indulged him in that and you know what Mikey just gave all the rock on cuz he loves wow isn't that what the cool kids
00:33:03
call it wow so Mikey approves we approve I fellow wower and Lane is a really cool
00:33:08
name I like the name Lane a lot well that was [ __ ] terrifying that that just happened what
00:33:14
fell what just did it fall onto the Caster the Applause is happening right now oh our ancestors in the room also
00:33:21
also approve of Lane yeah because uh our our roadter is haunted that's the thing
00:33:26
we record into yeah our our pod lab is haunted really uh and every time that we need
00:33:31
encouragement or uh to make a decision or they like something the roadter will just hit the Applause button for without
00:33:38
anyone near it and it just did for you and at the same time something fell yeah it was the um the uh what's it called
00:33:47
lighter lighter lighter um but not onto it no oh so they like your kid's name cool didn't fall on to it well there's
00:33:54
also Watson and Ellis oh Watson and Ellis oh I love all those names won is a wicked cute name that's my favorite of
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them all they are 12 six and two I love them with all my heart me too me as well
00:34:06
I love all of them when I was in high school and was constantly asked what I wanted to be what career I wanted to
00:34:12
pursue I never had an answer because all I ever really wanted is to be a mom me too I feel that in my bones I just want
00:34:20
to hug you you're a great human and I love you I had never felt fulfilled until I held my first son in my arms yep
00:34:27
this is it this is what I meant to do oh my God Casey high five I love you so much you [ __ ] rule oh my God more
00:34:31
baby pictures and I'm so excited you see the fro Loops oh my God obsessed shut up
00:34:36
so enough about that I've been wanting to share my story with y'all for a hot minute but I could never find the time
00:34:41
to just sit down and write my mom brain be all over the place you know how it is
00:34:44
Elena I do I do know that so here it goes one of my kids was born haunted yay can you guess which one it was just for
00:34:51
funsies I'll insert a pick of each of them and you can feel them out I want to see all right so first we have Lane he
00:34:56
doesn't give me haunted Vibes no Lan is just a little little poopy L is just like I want to smush the picture we see
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is just like this beautiful little bab in a little basket and he has a lamb and he has a lamb and then there's Watson
00:35:09
with a cool sick ass shark hat and matching shark shorts I might be Watson I think it's Watson but then there's
00:35:17
Ellis in an elf costume they're all so cute that I want to scream at the top of my
00:35:22
lungs I don't know something I feel Watson I feel Watson but then something is also telling me
00:35:28
Ellis yeah I could see Ellis too there's nothing like distinctive that I'm like that is a haunted baby The Vibes I feel
00:35:35
it's just Vibes I'm going Ellis I'm going with Watson all right let's go let's go do you get any creepy vibes
00:35:41
from them yeah I didn't either but that middle one oh did I get I got it Watson in the cute ass hat and the shark
00:35:47
panties is the one he must have shared my womb with his many Spirit friends because no lie the day we brought him
00:35:52
home was the day the activity began in our house I knew it was Watson this joke ER put us through the ringer so walson
00:35:59
was born January 9th 2017 we got a Cappy hey maybe that's what it was I felt the
00:36:05
vibe with him The cppy Vibes me and Watson together forever yeah I had a fast and easy labor eight hours how fast
00:36:12
so quick God he was born after four pushes with the most perfect round head uh at 9 PB even damn mama that's wild
00:36:20
good job my biggest baby out of all three of them we were over the moon and were so happy to be going home to start
00:36:25
our new adventure as a family of four I felt super confident going into this second baby and I was less anxious and
00:36:31
way more prepared it helped me a lot that we also waited 6 years in between kids oh yeah although I did think to
00:36:37
myself what the [ __ ] am I doing I have a six-year-old at home that can wipe his
00:36:40
own ass and make his own Pop-Tart and sleeps all night and I'm starting this [ __ ] all over again I could literally
00:36:45
leave this kid at the hospital and walk away oh oh postpartum intrusive thoughts
00:36:50
I was just going to say that's exactly what it is the immediate thought of like oh
00:36:55
[ __ ] that's a whole person like I am responsible solely for this thing so much fun alas we did bring his little
00:37:03
cute ass home and we quickly fell into a routine yeah don't feel weird if you ever think that when you have a baby
00:37:09
everyone has that moment of like oh [ __ ] that's know that's a whole last person
00:37:14
and I have to bring it home and keep it alive forever and keep the other one alive if you got it that's the thing you
00:37:19
got it you through one so when he was about a week old I got up after feeding at around 2:30 a.m. and went into the
00:37:26
kitchen to wash the bottle where I found our side by-side refrigerator wide the [ __ ] open oh [ __ ] thinking it may have
00:37:32
been my six-year-old Lane I closed the fridge and went to his room prepared to scold and found a little angel sleeping
00:37:38
in his bed with no snacks to be seen anywhere near him not near not near a crumb of the lip or sticky Jell-O
00:37:44
fingers so I chocked it up to being a weird happening maybe my husband accident accidentally left it open on
00:37:50
one of his late night food bingers after smoking his Devil's lettuce because anxiety although after questioning him
00:37:55
about it he denied the this claim a couple weeks later I was sitting out in the living room with both my boys Lane
00:38:00
had his toy box out here and we were just lounging around toys were scattered all over as they do eye roll I noticed
00:38:07
this uh I noticed that one of his RC cars was lit up which was weird because I had recently removed the batteries cuz
00:38:13
things with noise get on my nerves I had to break the news to Lane and just tell
00:38:17
him that it was broken slap's hand bad mom no way but I'd be damned if this thing wasn't lit the hell up I got up to
00:38:24
check it and remove said batteries again thinking my husband baned against me and
00:38:27
put them back in to gain parenting points with Lane as I bent down to pick it up that thing drove across my living
00:38:33
room into the dining room I looked at Lane and he looked at me I looked at Lane and he looked at me he did not have
00:38:41
the controller I did not have the controller who has the controller the spirits I went over to pick it up the
00:38:48
lights had turned off at this point no [ __ ] batteries were in there I threw that thing in the trash immediately no
00:38:53
possessed toys in my house no way as the weeks went on and turned into months we
00:38:57
were still having weird Phantom toys speaking driving by themselves and the occasional kitchen cabinet open in the
00:39:02
middle of the night that gives six sense and I don't like that the cabinets though are better than the refrigerator
00:39:08
well for like you know like in I'm just thinking practices yeah sorry I could not get the word perishables out of my
00:39:15
face I'm just thinking practicality wise it's like okay but it's way scary yeah no the six sense scene where he is
00:39:22
sitting there with his hands on the table and all the cabinets are opened and he takes his hands off and it's like
00:39:28
the hand prints and the sweat yeah too much actually my hands are kind of sweaty right now thinking about it I
00:39:33
hate that I'm a little stressed sense [ __ ] me up still to this day oh yeah that movie is [ __ ] but we were
00:39:38
learning to live with these weird happenings but then things started to get a little more weird I posted a
00:39:42
picture on my Facebook one day of Watson he's always had these huge blue silver eyes that look too big for his head I
00:39:48
love them me too my great aunt commented on this particular picture of him I should point out that this great aunt
00:39:53
was very spiritual practiced white magic and and once had a ghost friend that she
00:39:57
claimed was a Cherokee Native that followed her everywhere I love this Aunt I do too I want to be this aunt she was
00:40:03
very eclectic and I always enjoyed interactions with her and hearing her stories she posted that Watson's eyes
00:40:08
were beautiful and that he can see more than we can oo that's cool she got the vibes from the picture okay Aunt Jan
00:40:15
thanks for that I took it with a grain of salt but didn't like the idea that my big eyed baby was seeing ghosties and
00:40:20
spirits but alas I believe she was great baby mypp b go baby when Watson was about 5 months old and been brought to
00:40:26
my attention uh by my husband that I had developed this new annoying habit of snoring I and I didn't believe him so to
00:40:33
prove him wrong I paid $29.99 for an app and quickly learned he ain't no liar crying Emoji so now I felt obliged to
00:40:40
continue to use this thing so I didn't feel like it was a waste of money at night it would begin to record oh no no
00:40:46
no no oh I'm so excited I always think that I want to do that to like hear if my snoring is that bad but I'm not going
00:40:53
to I might do it someone died in my house so I'm not doing I'm going to do it did I nobody died right here I don't
00:40:59
I don't know maybe you don't know I don't know you should look into that I should look into that well anyways at
00:41:04
night it would begin to record when it detected snoring or snoring like noises it kept a log of what time it was when
00:41:09
these noises took place I would wake up in the morning and scroll through my snores and listen sometimes we got the
00:41:15
occasional fart and it would brighten my day I love you so much we would be friends I love farts and snoring and you
00:41:24
so on this day I was listening to my little sound bites and got to one that had the time SP stamp of 3:03 a.m. I
00:41:30
love that it was 30:3 like that band yeah I'm listening to it but I don't hear snoring what I do hear is what
00:41:37
sounds like something sitting down on my bed and an aggressive breathy sounding whisper says watson no I don't [ __ ] with
00:41:46
that no I would throw hands with a spirit if they said my kid's name like that i' be like I'm going to [ __ ] you up
00:41:51
yeah like don't say my kid's name O I don't like it now walson was still in our room at this point he slept right
00:41:57
beside me every night my phone recorded on a side table between me and his baby bed I immediately woke up my husband and
00:42:03
demanded to know if he was up last night with Watson he said he hadn't woken up at all let alone go sit on the side of
00:42:08
my bed and talk to Watson this freaked me out this was not okay something was trying to get my baby's attention and I
00:42:15
am not okay with this no I don't blame you I reached out to a medium I was scared as it was but definitely didn't
00:42:20
want negative energy trying to get my baby and I knew I needed to know if he was safe have yall have y'all not seen
00:42:27
Paranormal Activity too I have I have not I know what's up not today demons no way we sat up uh excuse me we set up a
00:42:34
meeting with the medium and she came to the conclusion that Watson did attract spirits but from what she could tell
00:42:40
they were harmless and mostly familial fun side note I found out after Watson was born that my great grandpa had a
00:42:46
twin brother that died at four years old and his name was D Watson whoa that's crazy that you just felt compelled to
00:42:54
name your child that too this made me feel lots better about it but we had a Stern talk to the ghosty after that that
00:43:00
there will be no talking to the baby I didn't have any other issues as far as that was concerned still the occasional
00:43:06
toy the occasional cabinet that was old news at this point flash forward to a few months later Watson's now walking
00:43:13
Watson is adjusting to sleeping in his own room and it is not going great oh I feel that I mean damn it was worse than
00:43:19
when he was a newborn he would always wake up screaming and most of the time end up in bed with me and Eli when I say
00:43:25
most of the time I mean every night oh I feel this so hard after one of the worst
00:43:29
nights we had with him I was cleaning around the house checking things off my list one by one vacuuming was done
00:43:35
kitchen cleaned so I went on to my next chore to clean and dust out our mantle above the fireplace above the mantle
00:43:41
there's a mirror that doesn't get much attention because no one can reach it without being on a stool as I'm dusting
00:43:46
the mantle I noticed something on the mirror it's kind of waxy like one of those crayons you get with your Easter
00:43:51
egg die kits I see a w and then an A and then a TS o n something/ someone has written my baby's name on this [ __ ]
00:44:02
mirror nope I'm freaked the [ __ ] out I call my husband at work and demand to know if he did it why would I do that
00:44:09
Casey it's very a very valid question why would I ever he's right he'd never do anything like that I called Tain
00:44:16
who's only six and asked if he did it the kid barely knows how to spell his own name so of course he denied it plus
00:44:21
he would never have been able to reach out there up uh up there talk about freaky we left the house and I got some
00:44:27
Sage I'd never cleansed my home before but something had to be done I read Sage for dummies and got to it I felt
00:44:33
accomplished be gone you intrusive spirit and stop being so obsessed with my baby why are you so obsessed with
00:44:37
Watson why are you so obsessed with him things really tapered off after the sage
00:44:42
Watson still had issues sleeping in his room and didn't willingly sleep in there
00:44:45
until his little brother Ellis moved in last year ha Watson sleeps in there with
00:44:49
Ellis so that Ellis won't be afraid like he was my heart Watson has told me that
00:44:54
he used to see monsters in his room and that's that's why he would cry he's also
00:44:57
told me that I'm not his real mom and that his real mom died in 1984 but he still loves me oh wow and then she wres
00:45:04
okay child thanks for that okay child oh my God as he's gotten older and began taking an interest in other things like
00:45:12
sports and school he really hasn't talked any craziness lately we are thankful for that me too he's growing up
00:45:17
to be a kind handsome boy and only a little haunted young man I'll attach pictures of the mirror for you guys as
00:45:23
well as a video I took of him where you can clearly see an orb fly from his head
00:45:28
I wish I still had the recording of the whisper but apparently the app deletes sound bites after 28 days and I didn't
00:45:33
know that at the time sad face thank you for taking the time to read about my spooky boy I hope I did a good job
00:45:38
writing all of this out you did writing was never my thing and we'll continue to
00:45:42
not be my thing lots of love to you guys I will be tickled pink if you choose to
00:45:46
read this on your podcast love and light always Casey I love this story oh my God
00:45:52
I love it so and I'm so obsessed with these little little goofies and it says watson for sure oh yeah you could see
00:45:59
that clear as day that's really upsetting it's really upsetting oh my gosh he's so cute though all of them are
00:46:05
so freaking adorable let me see hold on oh yeah it definitely does it says watson yep that's that's Watson right
00:46:12
there that says it that's really upsetting I'm downloading I had to download the video to see if it will
00:46:17
work my goodness let me see if this orb is flying from this baby's head him's got a Jumpoline him's got a
00:46:25
jump aine okay um oh [ __ ] did you watch the [ __ ] video oh my God hold on it just
00:46:36
went away look up here it literally flies out of his head and away that's wild damn I've actually never seen anything
00:46:48
like that Watson it literally comes like straight out of his head he is so cute I
00:46:55
that was such such a wild Journey oh my God that's and I'm obsessed with all three
00:47:01
of those little muffins and they have really great names they do L Watson and Ellis like those are cool Brothers right
00:47:09
there and they all go really well together they do they flow really well yeah so I think we have time for one
00:47:14
more I would do one more let's party uh do you want me to do a cautionary tale for runners and joggers or the man in
00:47:22
Black and the glitching lights I think you know the man in Black and the gling lights I knew you
00:47:27
knew I knew you knew so this says hello spooky ladies my name is Kate yes you can use my first name and I'm a longtime
00:47:36
listener of the Pod I started listening back in covid times and fell in love with your podcast as I was dealing with
00:47:42
the stress of navigating my first year of teaching during the pandemic holy [ __ ] you're another hero another one
00:47:47
side note we have we have three Heroes here yeah we got an ER an ICU nurse a mom and now we have um a teacher damn
00:47:55
brought to you by Heroes hero side note thank you so much for the respectful way
00:48:00
you always talk about teachers having been on the receiving end of a lot of criticism speculation negative comments
00:48:05
and even a couple of punches no joke I want you to know I truly appreciate it I love my job but I'd be lying if I said
00:48:12
it was easy to honestly teachers I'm I'm don't I don't say that lightly I think you have one of the hardest jobs on
00:48:19
planet Earth you absolutely do also Kate I will throw hands for you I'll throw hands for you your podcast also helped
00:48:24
me stay grounded while I was dealing with postpartum depression last year as a first time Mama I'm so sorry you went
00:48:29
through that too my therapists actually recommended I listen to something comforting when I felt like I was not in
00:48:34
control and somehow your true crime stories did the trick not sure what that says about me but thank you nonetheless
00:48:39
I'm glad I'm glad we could help you get through it I appreciate your sense of humor and wit the detail you put into
00:48:45
each case and the dignity you give to each victim I think the True Crime genre can sometimes fall into sensationalizing
00:48:50
the crazy murderers out there so I'm grateful that your podcast sheds light on the wonderful people who were taken
00:48:55
from this world too soon but I also love how much you how much you [ __ ] talk the
00:48:59
peaches pieces of literal human garbage that commit these crimes the amount of f
00:49:03
bombs I casually drop may have increased since I started listening to your podcast I'm not mad about it we should
00:49:08
put like a like a side effect warning out I know I'm sorry side effect attached you will find a size 14 double
00:49:14
space puer Oh you get it if you read it on the show I might literally die in the
00:49:17
best way possible don't do that you can feel free to trim this down as needed seriously I'm an English teacher with
00:49:22
ADHD so brevity is not my forte and you will find several parenthetical injections throughout like this one the
00:49:29
story is about 10 to 11 minutes long perfect also sorry for adding like 10 minutes just to the introduction
00:49:34
consider this my pre-show banter anyway on to my spooky story about The Man in Black that haunted my childhood home
00:49:40
let's [ __ ] go let's go subtitle am I haunted possessed being punked by an old timey ghost I hope the ladder I like a
00:49:49
punking ghost and an old timey ghost before we get into the spooky stuff you need a little background info you know
00:49:54
setting the scene with a little imagery some tasty details and a Sprinkle of facts that might come back later a nice
00:49:59
Exposition Sunday if you will it's like an exposition dump I have always had a super close connection with my Dad we
00:50:05
looked alike we acted alike and we both struggled with anxiety yet always managed to look on the bright side of
00:50:10
things my dad and I could finish each other's sentences had some of the same mannerisms and enjoyed a lot of the same
00:50:15
Hobbies my biggest compliments I've ever been given are that's something your dad
00:50:20
would do slay and you're just like your dad oh that's so sweet I know I love that we had a few more things in common
00:50:26
but more on that later unfortunately my dad passed away last year I'm so sorry it's been hard to keep positive without
00:50:33
him and our family has sort of Fallen apart as of late oh I want to give you a hug I know it's been even more difficult
00:50:38
raising my son without him around to see my dad passed away a few months before my son was born oh my God he does see
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I'd like to think that I'm carrying on his legacy of being kind light-hearted and silly in a world that wants you to
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be anything but wow like yeah everybody listen to that that last paragraph wasn't necessarily important to the
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story I just wanted to gush about how awesome my dad was for a minute do it anytime yeah I think he'd get a kick out
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of this story being featured on the Pod well first he'd probably say what's a podcast I mean I taught the man how to
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copy and paste on at least five occasions and it never stuck but I digress that's such a dad thing oh yeah
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I've been debating on whether I should submit my listener tale for a while now and something compell me to finally just
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start typing it as I type this it's actually Father's Day so maybe the universe is trying to tell me something
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definitely anyway our connection was always super strong one day when I was in my late teens I was driving my my dad
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home after we gotten dinner it was night time so the street lights were on and we
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had the windows down as Dad blasted The B-52s from this crackly R stereo of a crummy my crummy beat up Saturn Rock
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Lobster he insisted love it we pulled into our neighborhood the curved streets lined with street lights casting their
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warm yellow glow we passed the house with the yippy Yorkie and suddenly the street light went out I sigh this had
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happened to me before in fact it had happened quite often since I started driving I could not recall a single trip
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in which at Le at least one street light didn't go off as soon as I passed it huh
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wow it was usually more than one on occasion it was a store sign huh once I sh once I [ __ ] you not while waiting at
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a red light after leaving my friend's house at 1:00 a.m. the red light changed and not but not to Green to nothing at
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all what so when this street light went off with my dad in the car I wasn't phased I really didn't think anything of
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it it was just some weird coincidence or maybe I was part robot and I gave off some kind of weird interference I don't
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know but as we passed the house with the Blue Shutters another street light went
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off my dad turned the music down and said sorry for what I asked the lights they always go out when I drive by he
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replied oh [ __ ] they go out when you drive by I asked I just turned onto my street when I said this our house was at
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the very end of our street it wasn't a super long street but there were probably four to five street lights on
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either side of the road as we drove past the first one every single light went out at the same time like someone had
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just pulled the plug on our neighborhood when I pulled into our driveway our porch light went off too the [ __ ] fun
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fact the switch for the porch light was on it literally never worked again the whole time my parents lived there they
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called an electrician once and everything it was never fixed what I turned off the engine and we both sat
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there for a minute this was that was the first time we realized that we'd both been experiencing this as the years pass
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we'd find out that it wasn't just the lights that would turn off we both had trouble keeping our cell phones because
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ours would randomly die RP my first purple razor oh a favorite pastime of ours was watching movies and it was just
00:53:32
when it was just the two of us sometimes the TV would turn off on its own the [ __ ] my husband has told me so many
00:53:37
times that I'm cursed when it comes to technology things just always glitch around me but the street lights turning
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off I guess that had been happening to my dad for years and I'd never really noticed he never said anything to anyone
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about it I couldn't believe I hadn't noticed but thinking back to our family car trips I was definitely a sleepy
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passenger especially if it was dark outside as we sat in the driveway my dad asked me did Mom ever tell you about the
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man in Black no he was not talking about Johnny Cash or Will Smith this is the story my dad told me I later got more
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details for my mom which I'll throw in there too my brother refused to talk about it I think you'll see why uhoh I
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was born on the East Coast what but my family is originally from Ohio when I was an infant my parents moved us back
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to Ohio in a small farm town kind of in the middle of nowhere and parent my parents both worked in restaurants so
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money was tight we rented a small two-bedroom house in this Farm Town my brother was three at the time and he got
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one bedroom to himself since I was only months old I was sleeping in a bassinet in my parents room within a few weeks of
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moving in that summer my parents started to notice something wasn't right it started off small a glass of water my
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mom swore she set on the table would suddenly be on the bathroom counter the cabinet door that my dad shut would be
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open the next time you walked into the room just little things that made you question your sanity a bit but didn't
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make you think much of it plus my parents were hardworking sleep-deprived parents of two young kids maybe they
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were just imagining things this one on for weeks but by Autumn things started to get more sinister sinister B Sinister
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BBE one night while my dad was at work my parents worked opposite shifts my mom was watching TV while my brother and I
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slept she heard me crying from the bedroom so she turned off the TV and went to check on me she opened the door
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to the bedroom only to find me fast asleep then she heard crying from my brother's room only it didn't sound like
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like a three-year-old's cry it sounded like a newborn baby the [ __ ] little freaked out my mom went into my
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brother's room he too was asleep oh I hate that a lot pretty soon cabinet doors would open on their own right in
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front of my parents coffee cups sometimes fell out of the cabinets my brother wouldn't sleep alone anymore so
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he slept out on the couch with my mom my mom pretty much always fell asleep in the chair in the living room anyway she
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was quite the snorer and preferred to sleep upright my mom says one afternoon her cup of coffee slid quickly off the
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coffee table and shattered onto the floor according to my dad my mom wanted to move out from the first Supernatural
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incident my dad convinced her to stay rent was cheap and they couldn't really afford to move out plus we lived really
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close to my grandparents who were frequent babysitters and helped when my dad had to leave for work before my mom
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got home the final straw was when my grandma was watching us in between my parents shifts my grandma a very
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religious woman won't talk about this event either so I'm just going to go off what my mom told me I was napping and my
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brother was playing in the front room which was kind of a little foyer that was treated like a playroom separate
00:56:26
from the living room my brother had his Hot Wheels cars and was playing by himself as my grandma wasix fixing him a
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snack my grandma who was clear across the house heard what sounded like a man's deep laugh followed by my
00:56:38
brother's screaming oh [ __ ] that when my grandma got into the front room my brother was in the fetal position in the
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corner crying and hugging in his knees my grandma asked him what was wrong he wouldn't answer she scooped him up and
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held him until he calmed down a second then he said the man in Black won't leave me alone
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oh my grandma W I just got chilled I hate that my grandma looked around the room and didn't see anyone the front
00:57:01
door wasn't locked a common stupid small town thing so my grandma thought maybe someone had come in while she was in the
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kitchen for context the foyer was separated by small by a set of small wooden doors like you'd see for a closet
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so it's not Unthinkable that the front door could be opened without my grandma seeing it my grandma asked my brother
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what the man looked like but all he would say was he was the man in Black and he had a black hat so my grandma
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looked outside but saw nothing my grandma got my brother calmed down on the couch just in time to hear the same
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deep laugh again this time it was coming from the room where I was sleeping according to my mom my grandma said she
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found me lying in the bassinet with my eyes wide open but almost like I didn't register that she was looking at me
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there was no signs of any man like you were looking at something else needless to say when my mom got home from work my
00:57:48
grandma insisted that we move out uh my she told my grandpa who was a very protective who was very protective
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in a man of action and he convinced my parents to move in with them until we found a new place those are some good
00:58:00
grandparents for real they're like get the [ __ ] out of there in fact the house
00:58:03
we moved into was actually bought under my grandpa's name since my parents couldn't afford to buy it and break
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their lease my parents had that house until 5 years ago what a good set of parents that's a good fam as my parents
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were packing our things from the haunted house my dad checked the attic in the ceiling of my parents bedroom to see if
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we'd stored anything there once up there he realized they'd never ever even checked out the attic in in the first
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place and the only thing up there was an old dusty box he took the box to the dining room table wiped off the top
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layer of dust and remove the lid no inside were several very old black and white pictures they were not ours and my
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dad guessed that they had been left by the owner of the pre or the previous renter there were a couple of family
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photos some pictures of a farm and one picture of a tall man in a black suit with a black hat he was staring right
00:58:51
into the camera with a blank face my dad said he had large bushy eyebrows that almost looked furrowed giving him a
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menacing demeanor in his hand he held a lantern the lantern was not lit he had a
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feeling that this man was the man in Black he never asked my brother to look at the picture because he didn't want to
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scare him a little worried that he would disturb whatever spirit this was if he took any of the pictures he put them all
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back in the box and put the box back in the attic smart the door of which was the ceiling of my parents bedroom right
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above my bassinet and if you remember my mom slept in the living room with my brother so only my dad and I slept in
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that room right under the man in Black's photo with the unlit lantern yep now my
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dad didn't necessarily believe in the Supernatural all that much which is probably why he didn't feel the same
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sense of urgency my mom did when she asked to move out so I don't think he came to the same conclusion that I did
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but I feel like the man in Black might be the origin of the lights going out around both me and my dad we shared a
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room with the Man's picture so maybe we shared a room with his Spirit I'm not really sure how ghosts prefer to haunt
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people but maybe we were both a little haunted by the man in Black it's a pretty harmless haunting if you think
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about it the whole glasses falling off shelves thing didn't follow us to our new home just the lights going off here
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and there I think I can handle that my brother still won't talk about it so I don't know if the lights go out for him
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too as for me I'm very happy that I don't remember a thing about that house or all the crazy [ __ ] that happened
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there for real I'm grateful that my mom and my grandparents insisted on getting us out of there before anyone got hurt
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and I'm happy my dad can still laugh through it all seriously even telling me that story in the car was almost like he
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was telling a joke or like he was just telling me about what he did over the weekend he so casually told me about how
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we lived in a haunted house for months and then was like well I'm going to bed see you oh and yes street lights still
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go off when I drive by them the computer I'm using will randomly turn off and won't turn on again until my husband
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turns it on and then it magically works just fine wow I like to think it's my dad saying hello especially when I'm
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watching Jeopardy which my dad and I watched and played against each other all the time and then the connection
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from the antenna will glitch and make the screen freeze just at the right time time so I can't answer the question it's
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my dad getting the last laugh like always that's awesome I love that so yeah that's the story of the Man in
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Black and the Glitchy lights I hope you enjoyed it and if you're reading it thanks so much for taking the time keep
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being awesome and keep it weird but not so weird that you freaked out by lights randomly going off it's just an old
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timey Man in Black having a good time [ __ ] with you or my dad saying hi from the other side okay bye bye
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damn that was creepy holy [ __ ] and she oh and you send photos let me see and your name is Kate sorry I didn't I
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forgot if I could use your name again oh my God you're so oh my god look you and
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your dad and your dad giving you a little cor oh shut up oh my God adorable this baby is the cutest baby I've legit
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ever seen that was such like a touching story yeah as well and it was like creepy and touching oh my God Kate thank
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you for that and um I'm glad that street lights still go off for you I know that's fun cuz that's a really fun
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you're you're like Nan see in the craft yeah I hope it never gets like dangerous
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though I hope you can always see safely just like R damn you guys you guys always said such good tals you really
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gave us some stuff here guys and I appreciate you we had a teacher a mama and an ICU nurse I love it killing it
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well as always we hope you keep listening and we hope you keep it Weir but not so weird that you have a haunted
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baby or your street lights turn off or you go and play in a garage where someone was murdered woo bye love you so
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