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Hey weirdos, I'm Ash. And I'm Elena. And this is Morbid. It's morbid at night. At night. Alina won't get that
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reference. But at night, Spongebob. >> Oh my god. >> It's always Spongebob. >> I was going to say, you shouldn't be
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surprised at this point. I almost said it. I was almost like, is that Spongebob? If I say that it's a
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reference you're not going to get, I feel like eight out of 10 times it's probably Spongebob.
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>> Yeah, I could see that. Yeah, that makes sense. That checks. >> Or a hip rap song, which I probably
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won't get, but I try. >> So, today we're doing kind of like um a spooky legend >> episode. Yeah,
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>> episode. We're doing kind of like a mishmash. >> A spooky legends. >> Mishmish mush.
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>> A mishmash. A smish mash. Yeah, we figured like Halloween legends Halloween >> and legends they just go hand in hand.
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>> They do. And it just felt right. Um because we haven't really done anything like Halloween related.
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>> No. >> On the pod. I mean we we've been doing some spooky things, >> but we've been doing just a lot of like
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true crime cases. So we're like, you know what? Let's bring it to a place of Halloween.
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>> A place of of spookiness, >> a place of weird. A place of Elena and Ash. Which, by the way, speaking of
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spooky and weird and awesome, we went to the Salem Night Fair the other night. >> Dude, it was so much fun.
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>> Ryan and Matt do at from the Black Veil. They're the ones who put it on. They do
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such an amazing job. It's insane. Like, shout out to them. And all the vendors and like everybody who makes it happen.
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It's just like it's one of the Elena literally walked in there and she was like, I want to live here.
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>> Yeah. I texted John and because he was home with the kids and I was like um because they were sleeping and one of us
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had to stay home because we're kind of like short-handed with help this week. >> But uh I texted him cuz he was like,
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"How is it?" And I was like, "I'm not kidding you. I feel like this is the inside of my mind."
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>> It Oh, it absolutely is. >> And it felt like it was. >> Oh my god. I have to still unpack the
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candles that I got there. And when I do, I need to I need to shout out the the woman who makes those candles because
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she was telling us like how she does it and everything and she sets intentions and all this stuff and they're so
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beautiful and they smell so good. I can't wait to light one. >> It's just like it's like spooky Etsy
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come to life. >> It's just these amazing vendors, >> like so many cool things like good food
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and tarot card readings. It's just >> it's everything just delightful that you could want. And it's at the Salem
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Pioneer Village, which makes it just spooky and awesome. >> It was so rad. It was also the start to
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like a really awesome weekend for me. >> Yeah. >> Like this past weekend was one of the
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best weekends I've had in years. >> Look at you. >> Cuz I got to do that with you and like a
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bunch of our spooky fun friends. >> And then the next day we got to go to um Drew's cousin's bachelorette and she's
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just like the sweetest human and all her sisters are so cool. >> I love that. >> And it was like so fun hanging out with
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them. And then yesterday I got to hang out with you and our family. >> Exactly. And it was like so wonderful.
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>> And we got to go to a haunted house finally. >> And we got to Sheena and Tid.
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>> Yes. Oh wow. The way that I almost just outed Tid's identity. >> I was just I went
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>> Yep. You said you said pump the brakes. >> I said Tid. >> Oh man, that was a close call.
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>> Yeah. If you guys aren't following Sheena, Melwani, and Tid, >> the real Indian dad.
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>> Yeah. Yeah. >> You got to do it. Go follow their Tik Tok. Go check them out. They're
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hilarious. And also they happen to be like the sweetest, most amazing people in real life. So they've become recently
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like um some of our new best friends and it's really exciting. >> Um and it was Sheena's first haunted
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house ever. So it was really fun to bring her to that. >> I I felt so I felt like so important
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bringing her to her first haunted house. >> I know. And also it was so much fun.
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>> It was It was needed. We haven't hit one this year. No. It just It hasn't worked
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out. You know, people have been sick. Kids have been sick. It just hasn't been a thing that we could do.
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>> Yeah. and we've just been so busy that it just isn't working out. And finally,
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>> I know >> it was after all the kids went to sleep and I was like, you know what? Let's go.
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We can go. >> Hell yeah. >> Yeah. And we used Elena and I used to go to a haunted house literally every
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weekend in October. Like it was our thing that we did together and we'd like invite whoever, but we always went no
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matter what. And the past couple years, it's been co and kids and busy and craziness. So, it's like next year we
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got to get back on our grind. get back on it, you know. But we met a ton of you guys at the night fair, too. And I just
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wanted to say you guys were awesome and it was really cool to meet you and you kind of made our nights, so thanks for
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being rad. >> Yeah, it was just it just felt a good weekend. >> It felt right. Every time somebody came
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up and was like, "Oh my god, hey." It was like we would meet here. Like you know what I mean? Like I was like,
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"Yeah, like this feels right that we're meeting here." >> That's our our good meet cute with
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people, you know? So, thanks for being awesome and saying hi to us cuz that was really cool.
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>> It was so fun. >> And I hope you guys had fun at the night fair, too. And I hope everybody had a
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good weekend no matter what they did. And you know what? It's Halloween spooky random legend time. So, this episode
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goes out on like a Wednesday. People are going to be like, "It's literally the middle of the week." Like,
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>> you know. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. But, you know, it's coming. >> Whatever. >> Yeah. Halloween's coming.
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>> Oh, I didn't. You were so confused. >> It's What time is it? It's late. I don't
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know. I don't even know. >> Yeah. >> Who knows? It's like 8:30 p.m. So, I'm geriatric and it's way past my bedtime.
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>> But, do you want to start or should I? >> No. Whoa. >> I never start this. All right. Oh my.
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>> Wow. If you could see her face right now, everybody. >> No. Wa. Okay. Well, I'm going to be
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covering um a little bit like just a little little handful little scoop of uh fairy lights. The legends of fairy
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lights. >> You do that. I have a joke for you. >> Okay. >> I'm not like Michael Scott. I'm
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superstitious. >> Yeah. So that's why you have to start. >> Oh, I see. Okay. That took me a second.
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>> It also took me a second to form the joke and that's why I had to interrupt you and tell the joke at a bad spot.
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>> Very nice. >> But I had to do what I had to do. >> Yeah. Cuz I at first my brain was going
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to the actual quote like the I'm not superstitious, but I'm a little siticious. >> So I got confused. But I like it. Okay.
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And retroactively, I'm laughing right now. All righty. Like, you son of a [ __ ]
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>> Tell me about you. Tell me about your fairies. And remind me not to tell a joke when it's too late.
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>> Look at Ash doing a tight 10 up in here. Uh, so yeah, I'm going to talk about
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some fairy lights. Particularly, I'm going to start with ones from Louisiana. >> Oh, do you like that place or something?
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>> I do. I think Louisiana is great. >> Tinyurl.com/theb butcher in the ren. >> Thank you.
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>> You're welcome. >> But these are called lufoles. >> Ooh, kind of like a beignet but
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different. >> Not at all like a beignet, but I I would like a beignet. No, >> I've never had a beignet.
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>> Beignet. >> Beignette. >> Beignette. No, these are called lufles. And these entities are also known as the
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cinjun fairies or the swamp fairies. M. >> And it may sound beautiful, but it has a
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truly sinister motive for appearing to unsuspecting victims. >> So, back the [ __ ] up.
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>> Yeah, the It sounds great, but no. So, this word is obviously French. I don't
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know if you could tell. >> Oh, that's weird. I thought it was German. >> The fufu.
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>> Uh, it's obviously French, and it has a few different translations. I've seen
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marsh fire, but I've also seen crazy crazy fire, which I think crazy fire kind of like fits better.
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>> I like that. Now, a lot of people with cinjun heritage today in especially in
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the Louisiana area have probably heard tales of these entities from their parents, grandparents, you know, the
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like. They're the kind of tales that come with a strong lesson of not following things into the swamp or the
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woods. >> Lessons are important. >> They are, you know, stay out of the swamps and just don't be a crazy little
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wanderer. You know, >> that's actually like exactly who I am. >> Yeah. Don't be a crazy little wanderer.
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Not in these parts. Now, these little things are balls of light. Usually very small, but sometimes they could be a
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little bigger. Like they Some of them are the size of like a quarter. >> And then some of them can be like a
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cantaloupe size. >> A cantaloupe, you say? >> And Yeah. And they'll look like a flickering flame.
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>> Cantaloupes are pretty big. I imagine a flickering cantaloupe flame. >> Yeah. But they're far away. They start
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out far away. So you'll see them and they just kind of vary in size. No, they appear in the darkness of the Louisiana
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bayou and they just kind of like dance along the tree line. And initially, these lights were seen as a good omen at
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first cuz people were like, "Oh, lights, that's great." >> Lights are always good.
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>> Sounds good. And the story can sometimes vary depending on who is telling it. But
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there is a strong consistency with the important parts of the stories when it comes to where these came from. Some
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people believe that these fires are the spirits of babies that died unbaptized or died while they were or died while
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they were still nursing. >> Oh >> yeah. And these aren't like grown people who weren't baptized as babies. These
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are babies who were not baptized and died as babies. >> Oh >> yeah, that's what these are.
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>> You said let me clarify. You're confused and I was. So thank you. Okay. Or these are babies who died while
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they were still nursing. >> Oh, that's terrible. >> And then they now have to like wander
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around in some kind of purgatory state. >> I hate that. >> Now, a lot of these tales kind of tales
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regarding them are scary and have like a really hopeless feeling to them. If they're not babies, then some people
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believe that these are just like spirits of those who died. They lived terrible lives, like did wicked things in their
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lives, and they entered purgatory and then were spit back into the earthly realm because their lives were so filled
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with sin that they're now forced into this like punishment afterlife. >> Damn, you're so bad you can't even hang
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out in purgatory. >> They spit you out of purgatory. Like neither one of them are taking you.
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>> Who the hell gets spit out of purgatory? >> Apparently the people who turn into
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lufallets. >> But lufale is so beautiful. >> It does sound beautiful. That's that's
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their game. >> So others believe that these are bright like these are the spirits of loved ones
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who have died and this was their way of returning home to pass on a message or to comfort those who are struggling with
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their loss. >> All right, so so far we've got dead babies which is absolutely terrible.
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We've got people wicked human beings so terrible that they can't even hang out in purgatory and now I have a loved one.
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>> Well, and this is what it is. This is where the issue lies. This is a trap. They are all traps. You are compelled by
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these lights to follow them, but you will never quite reach them and they're just not they're not good. They appear
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to be seen as as what you want them to be. Loved ones to comfort you and bring you news from beyond. Like they are that
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they try to make themselves into what you need them to be. But they are not your loved ones. They are not anything
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good. They are masking as such and are in fact there to lure you into the swamps to your [ __ ] death.
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>> Well, that's why they shouldn't have gotten kicked out of purgatory. Leave them there so they can't [ __ ] with me
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and mine. >> So even though the people who would believe these were their their loved
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ones were being tricked by these entities, what they are is they really are like evil things. So I don't think
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and I the whole like babies in purgatory thing I think is just like a whole other
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series of issues. But I think it's it seems to me like the one that fits right is these cuz these are evil. Like
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they're not good. >> Like Frank from Hellraiser. >> Yeah, exactly. Like he would
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>> he would definitely be one of these. >> I'm a horror queen. >> Wow. >> Yeah. It's me, Ash. I watch horror
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movies now. I introduced Ash to Hellraiser like what last week? >> Yeah, like two weeks ago.
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>> Two weeks ago for the first time she had seen it and she loved it and I proud. I
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was so proud >> mama. >> I was real proud. I was like, "That's my girl. That's my girl." Next on Scream,
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just like quick diversion. If you guys don't listen to Scream, you should listen. It's a lot of fun.
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>> Yeah. It's a podcast that we're on with our friend Caleb and we do horror movies. But, um, we're going to do Black
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Sunday and I'm really excited for it. It's my pick. So, like, I really am becoming a true horror head.
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>> And guys, now's the time to go listen to listen to Scream if you're not listening
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already. >> Yeah, come on. Go ahead. It's fun. So, back to this. They're not your loved
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ones. They're going to lead you to your [ __ ] death in the swamp. Their entire thing is to distract you.
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>> Like, they they're like, "Ooh, pretty lights." And then you follow them. >> Pretty lights and you love me. Let's go.
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>> Exactly. And once they have you, they keep you. Oh. Oh, they're not letting you go. I did not like the little eye
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thing that you just did. >> They keep you. They keep you. I was like, don't look at me like that.
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>> They keep you. And they lead you further and further into the swamps, making sure
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that you lose your way, that you're paying attention to them. You're not paying attention to where you're going.
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And when you realize how far you have wandered, it's always too late. >> Oh my damn.
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>> You're either lost or you will fall into the swamp and drown. >> Those are the two outcomes. And some
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legends even say, I found a few things that say they'll try to lure you into the swamps and into briars or sharp
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prickly bushes to get you torn to pieces. >> Jesus Christ. Again, like hell raiser.
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>> Exactly. >> Whoa. Are these just centubites? >> Are the Maybe these could be just pin
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head and like butterball over there, >> my man. >> But my man, now they have also been
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associated though with treasure treasure seeking people. >> Okay. So there are stories that say it
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was common for highranking pirates to kill a crew member before they would bury their treasure. They would then
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throw the body of this crew member into the hole with the treasure. And this p this act would connect this dead man's
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soul to the treasure forever. >> And they are now forced into the job of guarding the treasure until the pirates
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come back to claim it. >> Why do I kind of love that? >> Isn't that gnarly? >> The murder part. Isn't that so gnarly?
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Like they murder one of their crew mates, throw him in the hole, and he's now bound to this treasure. That's some
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Pirates of the Caribbean [ __ ] >> That's some pirate [ __ ] Yeah, we should cover like some pirate stories.
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>> We got to cover some pirate stories. >> There's some crazy ones lingering out
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there in the >> Yo ho ho. Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum. >> Ohoy. Maybe. >> Maybe.
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>> There you go. Arg. Did we just become pirates? >> We did. We did. Remember when everybody
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would get excited about speak like a pirate day or everybody would get excited about on Facebook they would let
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you change your language to pirate? >> I do briefly remember instead of like what what do you cuz you know how like
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when you would put up a status update it would say like what's on your mind what's on your mind it would change to
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like what ye be plundering or something. >> That must have been when Facebook like
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first happened and I think I was like a little bit after that >> and everyone was like real into it. They
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were like I'm a pirate. It says, "What you be plundering right now?" >> I kind of love that.
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>> It was funny. We were like, we were a simpler people back >> when you would just get into like poke
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fights on Facebook. >> It was simpler time. It was a beautiful time. >> Yeah. Poking used to be a way of like
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flirtation back in my day. >> Oh, yeah. It was It was a much simpler time. But enough of that. So these
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spirits that are now connected to this treasure are said to become lefu especially when the treasure was finally
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claimed by the pirate that initially buried it because they would still stay and guard the place that the p that the
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treasure was. >> Then they would lure other people toward the the treasure place only to lead them
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to certain death and bury them alive. >> All righty. So people think they're being led to buried treasure. There's a
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tale of like these two guys. I read it in a few different sources. These two guys were working on a railroad
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together. They were friends. They saw the lufallets and they were like, "Ooh, we have to follow them cuz maybe they're
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going to lead us to treasure." And they followed >> and the lufale went into the dirt like
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into the like led them astray. >> Went into the dirt and they were like that must be where the treasure is. So
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they started digging and they were working on the railroad so they had shovels >> all the live long day.
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>> They ended up banging into something. They're like, "Holy [ __ ] it's treasure." They got so excited that one
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of them was greedy and decided to knock the other one out with a shovel to take the treasure for himself.
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>> Oh, that's fake as [ __ ] >> But when he got to the treasure, he opened it up and it was a leaflet who
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was [ __ ] with him and that leaflet killed him. And then his friend woke up and ran back to the railroad and was
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like, "Holy [ __ ] what happened?" And they never found the other friend again. So he was a [ __ ] greedy [ __ ] And
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he got eaten by the lofule. >> Eaten. You said >> I said the lfule, but it's just lafulet
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because that's two. >> Whoa. >> But so don't follow the lufale. And if you follow the lufleet with a friend,
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don't get [ __ ] greedy cuz one of you is going to die. >> Wow. This is a cautionary
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tale. >> Yeah. And you might be thinking to yourself right now, "Well, shit." >> Yeah.
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>> Is this it? I'm usually thinking to myself, "Well, [ __ ] If they appear, do I have a choice or is it just my fate to
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follow them? Like, are they going to force me to follow them? >> Yeah. What are my options here?
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>> Like, what's what do I do here? >> I'm saying, >> well, some locals believe that you can
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you actually can fight against their otherworldly power and keep yourself from becoming a victim of the swamp
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fairies >> with a little one-two punch. >> No, not a one-two punch. They don't give
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a [ __ ] about that. They're like, "Get the [ __ ] out of here with your little hands."
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>> Why was that so funny? They don't give a [ __ ] about They don't. They don't care
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about that >> fufu on your one too [ __ ] >> I'm fufu. I don't care about your little
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like boop boop hands. >> So apparently these little entities though, they don't care about you
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throwing hands, but they do care about iron. They cannot cross anything iron. >> Oh,
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>> not sure why. So if you're seeing one and you're feeling the pull of their power, you have to put something iron
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between you. Usually, it's recommended that you drive something into the ground that's iron, like a blade or I read a
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lot of people use iron needles. And this is interesting because it works the the
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way that it works is the fufu are compelled to try to fit through the eye of the needle.
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>> They try to fit through it. >> Why does that sound familiar to me? Like, >> well, I'll I'll get I'll tell you
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because you probably remember it from a couple of other things. So, they'll try to get through the eye of the needle and
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then they will spend a lot of time and effort trying to do this and they'll momentarily lose sight of the fact that
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they came here initially to lure you into the swamp to watch you die a horrific slow death.
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>> It's kind of like you lure them into the eye of the needle and watch them have a
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horrific slow death. >> You pay you play their own game. So, when they're distracted, you can run as
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far away as humanly possible and never look back. This works a lot like the legends that include leaving a lot of
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things outside your door for spirits to count. That might be what you're thinking about. We've covered things
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before like these key We've covered some of these like keepaway methods for spirits.
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>> Yeah. Like salon. >> Yeah. Now, one of these I found actually cuz I started looking into other ones
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cuz I was I thought the same thing. I was like that sounds so familiar. Yeah. I think I was thinking of all these
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different um like cultures and legends that would be like they will count this many things outside your door and forget
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that they're coming in to you. >> Now, one of these that I found terrifying and fascinating is the haint.
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>> Oh, >> which is an evil ghost from Galaguchi culture found in the south near like
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Florida, Georgia, North and South Carolina area. These hints have a method. And these hints are like evil
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ghosts. And they have a method of killing their victims by chasing them until they die of exhaustion.
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>> That's my worst [ __ ] nightmare. >> That's their goal. They just exhaust you
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to death. I >> I mean, life is already doing that to me. So, can you not? >> So, can you not? But you can keep these
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away, it said, by a few methods. First, you can apparently use newspaper as wallpaper. Um, or that's not my vibe.
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>> You can read you can put pages of books as wallpaper, which sounds kind of cool.
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>> Also not my vibe >> because the hint just has to read every single word. They will stop and have to
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read every single word in these papers. So the more papers the better. >> Okay. >> They will never be able to get you. The
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sun will come up and they'll be banished. >> Awesome. Bye. You can also leave sand,
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rice, or a broom outside your home because the hint will have to count every grain of sand or rice and they
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will have to count every bristle on the broom >> and they get confused really easily. So,
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they'll have to start over a bunch of times. >> The more things you can leave out for
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them to count, the better. >> All right. You can also paint your porch, ceiling, or floor paint blue.
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>> Oh, >> because it makes them think that it's water and that's something they can't go
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past. >> Isn't that interesting? >> That is interesting. >> And those you will still find porches,
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especially in the south. >> Yeah. >> Um it's like in the Carolinas and stuff, you'll find a ton of porches have that
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blue. >> I found that out a couple years ago. I knew somebody who had like a blue roof
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on their porch. >> Mhm. Yeah. Now this brings us back to iron and the fufulets. >> Yes,
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>> they can't pass iron. So you can sometime what trick them with whatever you have to put in the ground.
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>> They will at least pause to think it over and you can get out of there. >> Will kale count.
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>> Kale. There you go. Iron rich. Iron rich kale. >> Yeah. >> So apparently they can also enter your
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home though, which is terrifying. >> No thanks. Can I give them something to count?
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>> You can. So there's a thought that lufale really love to terrorize children, particularly infants.
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>> Yeah. See, I don't that's why I don't think they're babies. >> Yeah. They're dicks. So if your baby
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wakes up with rosy cheeks, it's thought that the fufu came into your home at night and stole some of your infant's
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breath >> and that's why their cheeks are a little rosy. >> Not just that they're a a warm sleeper.
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>> No foulet. Okay. So, in order to make sure that doesn't happen again or happen
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at all really, >> it's suggested that you scatter mustard seeds on the floor of the nursery
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because again, lufale will stop to count them all and eventually the sun will rise and they will be banished another
00:23:14
day. >> Okay. >> Of course, you now have mustard seeds all over the floor of your nursery, but
00:23:19
hey, your baby still has oxygen. So, that is that's a good toss up in my book. Although, like mustard seeds do
00:23:26
kind of seem like they would be a choking hazard. So, >> well, if your baby's in the crib,
00:23:31
>> yeah, they >> baby's not getting out of the crib. Not as >> not as an infant. This is like infant
00:23:36
infant. >> This isn't toddler. Like, this is infant. >> So, they're swaddled. Like, you got a
00:23:41
swaddler in there. >> I love the little swaddle. >> I love the little swaddle baby mushies.
00:23:46
>> I feel like I could just like smell that. >> I know. >> Like smell a little swaddled babe.
00:23:50
>> No, those were that was all interesting to me. But then while searching for information about these things, I kept
00:23:56
coming across like things like it that were like really >> I want to do like a whole episode I
00:24:01
swear on these kind of things because they're just very interesting. And I kept finding them from all over the
00:24:05
world. And there are the will of the wisps in Scotland which I'm going to talk about in a second, but those are
00:24:11
the ones I knew about growing up. Like Ma used to talk about them. And then one I hadn't heard of is from Denmark,
00:24:19
>> and they are literally called the jacko'lanterns, >> but they're not >> But they're not pumpkins.
00:24:24
>> Okay. >> They are lights as well. And they're said to and this is Denmark. They're
00:24:28
said to be spirits of unrighteous men. >> Are you righteous? >> No. >> No. >> I'm a jacko'lantern. Actually,
00:24:37
>> now these unrighteous men come back because they were kicked out of the other realm and sent back to Earth. They
00:24:44
make it their goal to lure travelers off their paths and lead them into bogs and
00:24:48
marshes and swamps so that they drown alone. >> Also, don't you dare point at one if you
00:24:54
see it. If you point at one, they will always see you pointing at them no matter what, and they will seek you out.
00:25:00
>> Well, you are pointing right now, so I suggest you stop. >> I'm pointing right at you.
00:25:04
>> Well, there's three fingers pointing right back at you. >> Oh, I That's funny.
00:25:09
No, it's the same concept, but this time it's grown unrighteous men. And the way
00:25:14
to stop them is not with iron, but by turning your cap inside out. >> What if I don't have a cap?
00:25:21
>> Well, what's funny to me is like, so basically a rally cap will send these [ __ ] packing.
00:25:25
>> Yeah. >> Do you remember she's shaking her head? She literally was like, "No."
00:25:31
>> I was like already I don't remember. playing like baseball or softball, a rally cap was like you you put your head
00:25:37
inside out when you're not doing great cuz you're you're aiming you're manifesting a rally.
00:25:43
>> Do you remember that I was the girl on the softball team who convinced everybody to make matching bows and then
00:25:48
we all wore those to games and then the softball coaches really didn't like me for that?
00:25:51
>> I do remember that. >> You're welcome. >> But softball but make it fashion. It's
00:25:56
still funny that like a rally cap is like a turned inside out cap to like manifest a rally when you need one and
00:26:02
that >> will send the jacko'lanterns gone like packing. >> Is there anything else I can do or
00:26:08
that's my only >> That's it. That's all I could find. So if you don't have a cap, I guess you're
00:26:11
[ __ ] out of luck. >> Well, [ __ ] Uh, but that's awesome. Now, back to the Will of the Wisps because there those I
00:26:32
just love those. >> Ma talked about these. Uh, >> mom and I remember dad telling me a
00:26:36
story about the will of the wisps cuz they are from Scotland. >> I never heard them talk about these. Now
00:26:41
I'm interested. >> It's probably the closest thing I knew to lufale. >> Okay. >> They originate in Scotland and they're
00:26:47
kind of the same idea. They're fairy lights that lead people astray to their demise. And they are sometimes referred
00:26:54
to as ignispatus, I believe. I'm probably saying that wrong. But it's Latin >> and it's Latin for I was just going to
00:27:02
say it's probably good that I can't say that. So that's fairly great. It's Latin
00:27:06
for foolish fire. >> Ah, >> and it makes sense. That's exactly what it is. So travelers or just any wary
00:27:12
victim would see what looked like a flickering flame of a lantern or a candle over the moors or bogs or
00:27:18
marshland. They would feel compelled to follow it. And sometimes it gave the impression of someone needing help.
00:27:24
>> Oh >> yeah. So it like praise on people's like need to help others. >> Oh right.
00:27:29
>> Or something you just needed to go and check out like something interesting. They were like
00:27:33
>> And these little lights are very like playful. They're like fairy lights and and at first they bounce and jump and
00:27:40
like really invite you. >> They're like, "Check me out." >> Like they're like, "Girl, let's go."
00:27:44
>> Damn, I'm never going to look at a firefly the same after. >> No, that's truly. Now, these the will of
00:27:50
the wisps are bad omen. And seeing one can mean you or someone you know is about to die.
00:27:56
>> Oh [ __ ] >> Yeah. And they're also said to possibly lead someone to maybe see Fay, which can
00:28:02
be >> or Yeah. You don't want to [ __ ] with Fay? >> No, you do not. >> And they also will lead you to
00:28:09
leprechauns. >> Huh. >> So, that seems like [ __ ] to me, but that cuz that's more in like the uh like
00:28:15
the Irish version of things. But there's like a little buried treasure bit here,
00:28:19
too, that in Scotland it says like you could find treasure, too. So, I guess that lines up with like leprechauns
00:28:24
>> or you could die. >> Truth. So, it's a real it's a real 50/50 shot. Now, it's the origin of Will of
00:28:32
the Wisps that really interested me at first. It's a just like an interesting story. Apparently, the legend says that
00:28:39
there was a man named Will who was an [ __ ] Will >> there you go. He did all sorts of bad
00:28:46
things while he was alive. And when it was time for him to shuffle off this mortal coil, he went to meet St. Peter
00:28:52
at the pearly gates and his the film of his life rolled before him and it was a flop. This film sucks.
00:29:00
>> Critics hated it. >> Rotten Tomatoes gave it a 10% at best. The letter box score was even worse. It
00:29:05
was just so St. Peter was like, "My guy, we can't let you in with those kind of numbers. You can't come in here."
00:29:11
>> Well, [ __ ] >> So, he was like, "You have to try this [ __ ] again, William." He was like, "You
00:29:15
got to Will." It's actually It is William and Will and different sources you see. But I I got Will
00:29:21
>> get you a boy who could do it. >> Exactly. So, he sent Willm back to Earth to give it another try.
00:29:27
>> Oh, okay. So, you better shape the [ __ ] up, sir. >> This idiot [ __ ] it up again.
00:29:31
>> I bet he did. >> In fact, he was even worse this time around. >> Oh, no. St. Peter didn't was like, "Get
00:29:38
out." When he came back, >> [ __ ] >> He kicked him out, not back to Earth, but banished him from the other place,
00:29:44
too. >> So, he was walking around purgatory, and the devil shows up. He said, "Hey." And
00:29:50
the devil was like, "Wow, you're pathetic." And he gave him a burning piece of brimstone and he was like,
00:29:56
"Here, it's [ __ ] cold in here. Hold that." Like as the devil would. He was like,
00:30:03
"It's cold in purgatory. Here's some [ __ ] fiery brimstone to hold on to." Like, "Hope it keeps you warm."
00:30:08
>> I don't think the devil would like help you out like that. >> Well, and he gave it to him and he was
00:30:11
like, "Don't be a dick." And then he just left. >> Like, "Here's some fiery rock. Try to
00:30:16
make something of yourself in purgatory." >> I want to know what the devil was doing
00:30:19
in purgatory. Well, Will, I think he's just got He probably like tootses in there a little bit and is like, "How's
00:30:24
everybody doing?" Like, he's probably just a dick in there. >> Do you guys follow Satan on Tik Tok?
00:30:30
Because you should. >> Follow Satan on Tik Tok. >> I know his true identity, but I won't
00:30:34
spoil it. >> Hilarious. >> It's so >> You got to follow it. But he basically said, "Don't be a dick. Here's some
00:30:40
fiery rock." >> Like, yeah, take do something. >> You will with that. But Will took this
00:30:44
as an opportunity to enact his bitter revenge on the world, which might have been the devil's
00:30:50
>> plan all along because he knew that William was a dick set up. >> Here's some fiery rock. Be a nice guy.
00:30:55
And then he just left. >> Yeah. Like what? >> But he continues his reign of terror now
00:31:00
using his brimstone rock gifted by Lucifer to lure travelers into the bogs to die.
00:31:06
>> Nice, Will. Now, I'm not going to ruin this by pointing out that all of these
00:31:12
lights can possibly be attributed to swamp gas and bioluminescent mushrooms analogy,
00:31:17
>> but you like just did though. >> It's spirits. Happy [ __ ] Halloween. >> I love that send off.
00:31:23
>> That's the end of mine. >> That was really funny. And you said us the ends of mine.
00:31:30
>> All right. Well, I Oh, fairy lights. I am a witch. Oh, yeah, you do. I have a
00:31:35
witch because it's [ __ ] Halloween. A witch and a curse and a >> Yes, actually. I wish a witch and a few
00:31:41
curses and always some when it's my story. >> All right. Well, mine is the legend of
00:31:46
Hannah Crana aka the wicked witch of Monroe. Hannah Crana. >> Hannah Crana. >> Hey girl.
00:31:52
>> I [ __ ] love her to be honest. >> I already love her. All right, so like I said, the Hannah Cran legend comes to us
00:31:58
from Monroe, Connecticut. Much like the Warren. >> Hey, close by. Hey. So Hannah was a lady
00:32:03
who was born way back in 1783, one who was said to be a witch. Now, luckily for Hannah, like by the time she
00:32:11
was doing her witchy thing, people in New England had already seen the hysteria caused uh in Salem by the witch
00:32:18
trials. So they were a little more hesitant to bring women that they believe to be witches to trial.
00:32:24
>> That's so nice of them. >> Yeah. Yeah. They were like, "We saw how this went and I think instead we'll just
00:32:29
spread some rumors throughout town and mess with them from afar." >> Oh, there you go.
00:32:33
>> Yes. So, again, it was they saw that it was a flop the first time around and they were like, "Let's not repeat that."
00:32:38
>> They said, "We're not in our flop era. >> No, we are not. >> We're in our [ __ ] [ __ ] ass era, so
00:32:45
let's spread rumors and run a muck. >> We're in our Are we in our It might be in our [ __ ] ass era again."
00:32:51
>> Yeah, we're >> seems like the whole world is in that [ __ ] ass era. very much in a [ __ ] ass
00:32:56
era at this moment in time. But back then they were not in their flop era. They were again in their [ __ ] ass era.
00:33:03
And that was the case with Miss Hannah. They they bullied her from afar. Now Hannah's a bit of a mystery woman even
00:33:10
when it comes to her name because some sources say that she was married to a man named Joseph Hovie and her grave
00:33:17
actually even says that she's the wife of that man's. Hm. But I also found an article on newspapers.com
00:33:24
and it referred to her husband as Silas Crana. >> Huh. >> So I was trying to figure out if like
00:33:29
Silus was like mister or sir or something like that, but it seems to be a name. >> So that's weird.
00:33:36
>> That's interesting because nobody really knows when Hannah became known as Hannah
00:33:40
Crana. Some people say that it was a nickname given to her in like a jokey way, but I mean, I guess it really
00:33:46
doesn't matter that much because throughout the year, she's more known as the wicked witch of Monroe.
00:33:50
>> Whoa. >> So, the house that she and her husband lived on was on Cralgy, I hope I'm
00:33:55
saying that right, Craly Hill in Monroe, Connecticut. Now, evidently these days,
00:33:59
what is left of their home, we'll get more of that later, is guarded by different sized snakes.
00:34:06
>> Ooh. >> To this day, >> damn. Now, Hannah's story seems to start with the death of her husband.
00:34:12
>> So, there are two very different accounts of how she killed the man. Oh. >> Um, neither has been proven to be true,
00:34:18
but let's explore both, shall we? >> Let's look at both. So, story one says that Hannah's husband went out for a
00:34:24
walk one night and he drifted a little too far from home. Now, somehow he stumbled over and fell off the edge of a
00:34:33
cliff >> in Connecticut. um >> in Connecticut. >> In Connecticut. Uh >> and when you said drifted too far from
00:34:40
home, I just pictured him like clinging to a piece of driftwood and just like drifting.
00:34:44
>> No, he's just walking. He's just slowly drifting, >> drifting away. I don't want to get sued.
00:34:50
Um his body was found the next day and immediately people thought that Hannah had something to do with it.
00:34:56
>> Hannah Crano. >> They thought Hannah Krano. They thought Hannah Crano. >> They did.
00:35:00
>> And they said she put some kind of spell on him that led to his death. The spell
00:35:04
must have disoriented him so much that it just left him walking blindly to this cliff having no idea what he was
00:35:10
actually doing. Damn. >> So, that could be it. Could be it. Or the other variation of the story is uh
00:35:15
pretty dark. In this version, Hannah's husband partakes a little too often in excessive drinking and she's through
00:35:22
with it. She's had enough. >> Well, she's Hannah. >> She's Hannah and she's not here for your
00:35:26
[ __ ] >> No, she's not. >> So, he comes home one day and they get into it cuz she's like, "Hey, you smell
00:35:30
like booze again and I'm kind of sick of this shit." Yeah. So, they start fighting. They bring their argument
00:35:35
outside cuz she says, "You won't take this outside." And they walk toward the cliff and things get more and more
00:35:41
heated until finally Hannah grabs her husband. Apparently, she's very strong like bull. And she tosses him over the
00:35:49
edge of the cliff. >> No. Holy [ __ ] >> Allegedly, >> I'm laughing just because of like the
00:35:56
thought of this like I'm picturing Hannah Cran in my head as like a very small woman.
00:36:01
>> Yeah, me too. I don't know why. Like it just came to my brain that way. >> And then I'm just picturing her like
00:36:07
hoisting this man. >> Like like uh Louisa. >> Yes. >> From from Encanto like she does with the
00:36:15
with the donkey. >> Hannah's the strong one. And she's not nervous. >> No, she's not.
00:36:20
>> She's as strong as the crust of the earth is. So, and the Native Americans watched her
00:36:27
be as strong as the crust of the earth is from the bottom of the cliff as this happened. Even though Hannah thought
00:36:33
that nobody had seen, but word spread around town either way, whether she tossed him over the cliff herself or if
00:36:40
she concocted some kind of spell that made him do it. So, either way, he went over a cliff. He did in Connecticut. Um,
00:36:47
and there were a couple of people who really actually did want her persecuted for witchcraft. But for one reason or
00:36:54
another, that never happened. But some people think that's because the local authorities were so scared of her that
00:37:01
they didn't want to press the issue and try their luck. >> I mean, there's two choices here. She
00:37:06
either bewitched the man off a cliff or she hoisted him above her head and tossed launched him off a cliff. Nay, I
00:37:15
say yeed it. >> There is there I understand why they were a little little hesitant to get
00:37:22
involved in that whole thing. >> And we're only ling because this is a legend. >> It's a legend. This is all legend. So,
00:37:28
>> it's hilarious. >> So, Hannah's husband uh he was said to have died in May and she wasn't seen
00:37:33
again until that next October. >> So, she disappeared for a little while >> and then she came back for spooky
00:37:38
season. >> She did because she's Hannah. >> She's like, "It's Halloween, bitches."
00:37:42
>> Yes. Now, when she was spotted, there were two men riding past her. And according to the New Town B newspaper,
00:37:47
she was quote dressed in white flowing garments and with disheveled hair standing in the swamp near the road in
00:37:54
the rear of her home. >> I love that for her. She is now um a swamp hag and that's pretty great.
00:38:02
>> Also, a swamp banshee. That's what she didn't kill her husband and maybe she was just a little distraught that the
00:38:07
man's yeeted himself over a cliff. So, she was just having a quick moment in the swamp and you could just let her
00:38:12
have at it. >> Yeah. Let her grieve in the swamp, man. >> Let me grieve in the swamp so that I
00:38:17
know it's real. >> Let me like She's having a a hot banshee summer. Okay. She had a hot banshee
00:38:24
summer. It's October now. >> Next summer. You heard it here first. I am having a hot banshee summer.
00:38:30
>> That's what Hannah was doing. >> Don't at me. >> She's just finishing off her hot banshee
00:38:35
summer. She was stepping into spooky season by stepping into the swamp. >> Yes. >> It was just her moment. Like everybody
00:38:42
needed to let her have her moment. >> Let her live. >> Yeah. >> Um but they didn't want to let her live.
00:38:47
And after that sighting, people would see her from time to time and word kind of started to spread because people
00:38:53
weren't seeing her too often. And a lot of the times the sightings would be really late at night. So people really
00:38:59
kind of started to latch on to this idea that she was a witch and they wouldn't see her again until that next spring.
00:39:06
>> Now she came back with a [ __ ] bang. And maybe she wouldn't have or if it weren't for like a little neighborly
00:39:13
dispute. Maybe she would have just continued hanging out and minding her own GD business.
00:39:19
But apparently one of her ne apparently apparently apparently one of her neighbors cattle had gotten into her
00:39:26
yard and messed up some of her flowers. Now she took great pride in her garden. She grew tiger lilies and she was like,
00:39:33
"Don't [ __ ] with them." >> Do you know how hard it is to keep a plant alive? >> Yes, I do because I became a plant mom
00:39:38
this past year. >> Plant parents of the world, I tip my hat to you because that [ __ ] is hard.
00:39:44
>> It is. That [ __ ] is [ __ ] hard >> cuz all so many plants are different and
00:39:48
like some like this weather >> takes a lot of commitment. >> Some like that weather. Some you can't
00:39:52
water too much. Some you have to give the water amount. Some you can't even [ __ ] water. Like who knew you
00:39:57
couldn't leave a freaking cactus in your bathroom and that it would be too steamy
00:40:02
in there and that you would kill a cactus even though nobody can kill a cactus. I'm not speaking from personal
00:40:07
experience. >> Yeah. Who knew? >> Apparently you. Who knew? >> I don't know. >> Who knew?
00:40:13
>> But anyway. Yeah. Hannah. Hana. Hana. She got in a dispute with her neighbor because she was like, "Hey, you're being
00:40:21
careless. You got to watch your cattle and not let them eat my [ __ ] or my tiger
00:40:26
liies." And this guy was not hearing her side of the story at all. He didn't give
00:40:32
a [ __ ] >> Oh, no. >> So, she got real angry. Real angry. He laughed in her face and told her she was
00:40:39
an old woman without a husband. And what would she even do to stop him? >> That is literally like Tai and Clueless.
00:40:48
You're a virgin who can't drive. >> Like that's You're an old woman with no husband. Like that is so gnarly. Like
00:40:59
what? >> It's the Connecticut version of that. >> Dude, my guy, that is not nice.
00:41:05
>> Yeah, that hit different. >> Like that's like really I would ax your ass. >> Yeah. I would learn dark magic if I
00:41:12
didn't know it. >> I mean, >> that would be it. >> She showed him. >> Damn. >> Because according again to the New Town
00:41:19
Bee from December 7th, 1900, Hannah, quote, with strangely flashing eyes and a voice tense in its vindictiveness,
00:41:27
cried with an outstretched, menacing arm, "MY CURSE UPON you and my curse upon your crop."
00:41:34
I love Hannah Cran. Hannah Crana is my mother effing girly >> cuz I don't think she killed her
00:41:42
husband. Or do I? >> I think it was an accident. He stumbled off a cliff in Connecticut. And I think
00:41:48
>> he was known to drink. >> I think she is She's cursing. >> Yeah, I think she became a witch.
00:41:54
>> I think she was pushed into this. >> And on that day, I became a witch. >> There you go.
00:41:59
>> You know Tik Tok. >> Yeah, >> you know Tik Tok. >> Hello Tik Tok. >> Of course she does. Hannah knows all.
00:42:05
She'd be a great Tik Tocker. >> I'd follow her. >> I would. >> I'd show you how to grow tiger liies.
00:42:11
>> She would have an Etsy shop for shey. >> For sure she would. >> I wish you had said for she
00:42:17
>> and I would buy [ __ ] from it. >> Yes. >> Yeah. >> Yes. >> Yeah. She'd be at the night fair.
00:42:22
>> All right. Well, listen. She would have. But so before that fateful day, this
00:42:26
man's crop was growing quite quite nicely. You know how it was. You know how it goes when your crop grows in so
00:42:33
nicely. I love when my crop grows nicely. >> Why does that sound like gross? Why does
00:42:37
that sound like dirty in a way? >> You can make anything dirty. >> It's truth. >> However, the morning after the curse was
00:42:56
uttered, the man woke up to a very different set of crop. >> I bet he did. I know you're probably
00:43:02
supposed to say crops, but saying crop and like making it feel plural is fun for me.
00:43:07
>> I like that. Cool. Every last one of his potatoes had died and the ground. I know. Like how dare like Hannah, I love
00:43:14
you, but like not the potatoes. >> That was a misstep, Hannah. >> Yeah, but it wasn't. Nothing Hannah does
00:43:20
is a misstep in my opinion. IM O. >> I love a potato. >> I do too. But you can get them from
00:43:25
another guy who won't tell you that you're old or that you don't have a husband to defend you.
00:43:29
>> I forgot about that. That's bad. So poo poo on him. All of his potatoes were dead and the ground was littered with
00:43:35
stinky oozing dead potatoes. Ew. Much like he deserved. >> So a while later, after trying
00:43:41
everything he possibly could to make his potatoes grow again and having all of his attempts fail, that [ __ ]
00:43:48
went with his tail between his legs to go apologize to M. Hannah. >> I was just going to say you should go
00:43:54
apologize. >> And he did >> admit your wrongdoing. >> He admitted his wrongdoing and I respect
00:43:58
that. >> I do too. So she told him, "Thank you for the apology and mark my words, next
00:44:04
year's crop will be beneficial to you, my dude." Look at her. Look at this forgiving queen. Forgiving queen.
00:44:10
>> Look at She sees growth. >> She gives chances. >> She sees growth and she rewards it.
00:44:15
>> Well, listen. The next year, the man was walking through the neighborhood and
00:44:20
Hannah gave him a little hello and beckoned him over. And she said to him, "Go out tonight at 10:00 to your crops
00:44:27
and you will see a significant change from last year." So he did. He went out to those crops. And as he stood there,
00:44:35
he heard some kind of rustling in the distance. But then the sound got louder and louder, and he stood there in awe.
00:44:42
The corn was literally growing as he watched it. >> Wo! >> And by the time it was done, it was at
00:44:49
least 20 in taller than when he'd first gotten there. That's a significant change,
00:44:54
>> one might say. So, as he stood there, probably with his jaw on the ground, Hannah just came walking out of the
00:45:00
stalks. >> Yeah, she did. >> And she said to him, and this is a quote again from the New Town B newspaper
00:45:06
because they had the best information on this. >> They had the scoop a scoop. >> They did. It was written in 1900 and it
00:45:11
was so much fun to read. >> I love this. >> But she told him, quote, "Always remember that as others do to me, even
00:45:18
so I do to them. Good for good, evil for evil. >> Oh, >> a little law of return for my witch
00:45:26
[ __ ] out there. >> I am with Hannah. >> I am too. >> Team Hannah. >> I am a great believer in the rule of
00:45:33
3x3. >> Mhm. So, Theodore Beach and Isaac Nicholls, two local farmers, would soon
00:45:39
learn all about Hannah's philosophy. They were passing her house one day and they called out to her in a real nasty
00:45:45
tone, kind of doubting how powerful she was because obviously this farmer before
00:45:50
them had been like, "Holy [ __ ] you guys, you got to like be nice to Hannah. She can make [ __ ] up your spuds.
00:45:56
>> She could [ __ ] up your spuds or she could make corn happen." And it's a beautiful thing.
00:46:01
>> The choice is yours. >> Yes, one might say corn. >> Make it a great day or not.
00:46:07
>> The choice is yours. Yeah, >> you're really ruining my corn joke here. I'm just trying to say calm.
00:46:13
>> I knew you were going there. >> I know. >> I knew it. >> Um but yeah, so so he was like,
00:46:17
"Listen." But these two [ __ ] were like, "Hey, you old hag, if you're so powerful, let's see it." And Hannah was
00:46:24
like, "Oh, baby, let's go." So she pointed to a nearby oak tree and she said, "You want to see some [ __ ] Before
00:46:30
you have a chance to even pass that tree, you're going to find out just how powerful your girl is." By the way,
00:46:37
these are all direct quotes. They're direct quotes. But then she turned around and she just cackled all the way
00:46:41
inside like a true [ __ ] queen. So the two men continued doubting her and as they turned to go on their merry way,
00:46:49
>> they really shouldn't have because once Hannah was back inside her home, they
00:46:53
tried to continue down the road and they were carrying like a huge load of hay with them and leading uh the like hay
00:47:01
barrel majiggy was two oxen. They were pulling the cart. But as they signaled the animals to head down the road, they
00:47:08
simply could not move the cart. It was completely stuck. Hannah. Yeah. They kept trying and eventually one of the
00:47:17
wheels came flying off and everything went flying. And as that happened, unfortunately, it did startle the
00:47:23
animals. So they ran away through a fence and just kept running. And they ran so far away. And the two farmers
00:47:33
went down the road after them after glancing back at Hannah's house and hearing her cackling from inside. And
00:47:39
they just kept running and running and running and she kept cackling. And all the reports kind of make it seem like
00:47:46
the more Hannah was laughing, the faster they ran. Like her laughter was controlling the speed of their
00:47:51
>> Oh my god. >> their run. >> I'm obsessed with that. >> Yeah. Almost like they were bewitched by
00:47:56
laughter. >> I love it. And then she's just laughing her ass off. >> Exactly. >> That's amazing. So they never [ __ ]
00:48:01
with her again. And strangely enough they were like later on two a couple of people stumbled across um the cart of
00:48:08
hay and there was this jar of strange liquid inside that the two farmers said was not there before.
00:48:14
>> Wo. >> But like no explanation about that. Just some weird ass liquid. >> Weird liquid.
00:48:19
>> They're like Hannah did it. >> Yeah. >> Wow. Yeah. So Hannah was said to kind of
00:48:24
love that people thought of her as a witch. You know >> maybe from time to time she would use it
00:48:28
to her advantage. >> Yeah. She knew that people were a little scared of her, so why not benefit from
00:48:33
that? >> So, she'd go to her neighbors and ask them for like firewood or pies. And
00:48:37
remember, she's a widow. She like she was left with next to nothing, so she needs a little help from her neighbors,
00:48:43
of course. >> And she would give it to them had they asked. She give them a bundle of tiger
00:48:47
liies, you know. >> Oh, yeah. She would. >> An eye for an eye. A tiger lily for a
00:48:51
pie. >> Exactly. I love that she's in her villain era, though. I love that she's
00:48:54
just leaning into it. She's like, "You going to be scared of me? Be scared of me." She doesn't give a single [ __ ] And
00:49:00
that is something I aspire for sure. >> So yeah. So if they wouldn't give the pies to her or the firewood, she would
00:49:07
just tell them that she was going to curse them. Or she'd just kind of like utter some kind of curse at them and
00:49:12
just [ __ ] them all up. >> That's what I'm going to do now. >> I mean, yeah. Somebody will give me a
00:49:17
pie. I'm just going to be like, I'll curse you. I'll give you any pie you want. >> So one day, one of her neighbors was
00:49:23
making a [ __ ] ton of pies and Hannah was like, "Hey, like can I get in on those?
00:49:26
You want to get out on this pie? >> Can I get some of that? Can please. Oh, please.
00:49:31
>> I like pumpkin. She said, "I am your neighbor." So, the neighbor woman, she seemed a bit put out by the request.
00:49:40
But, but you're making pies. You're making so many. >> You're making pies for people to
00:49:44
consume. It's also really funny like the take that some people want to take on this story cuz you can tell some people
00:49:51
that reiterate these accounts are not on Hannah's side and they're like she just
00:49:56
told Hannah that her husband really loved that pie and that she didn't want to give it to her and Hannah just like
00:50:02
punched her in the face. Like that's not what happened. I'm a Hannah truther. Okay. So what really happened was
00:50:11
I'm a Hannah truther. So Hannah asked for one of them and this [ __ ] gave her the smallest one. And
00:50:18
Hannah was like, "You're kind of selfish, huh? Making all these pies. I got nothing and you give me the smallest
00:50:25
one. Have you heard the word on the street? I'm a [ __ ] widow." So the lady tries to start with her and
00:50:32
Hannah says, "Hush hush now." And she turns around to go home. But as she does, she mutters something under her
00:50:37
breath. You better hope she didn't mutter at you. And it turned out that it was some kind of curse because that
00:50:43
[ __ ] ass woman, she was never able to bake another pie again. Hannah, is that you?
00:50:53
>> I'm scared. >> Could never bake pie again. >> Never bake again. >> But now, no pies for you.
00:50:59
>> To the sad part of my story. >> Oh, okay. Let me get myself together. After years of cursing and such, Hannah,
00:51:06
my queen, No, like my actual queen predicted her own death. Are you okay over there? This is the sad
00:51:15
part. My queen died. >> I'm crying so hard. So, she had a rooster named Bereas or Boris. Are you
00:51:24
all right? She's stopping. >> Of course she did. She had chicken, snakes, and roosters and tiger [ __ ]
00:51:31
lilies. named Boris. >> Boris or Bereus? How would you pronounce B O R E A S? >> Borius.
00:51:41
>> Borius. >> Boris. >> Borious. >> Boris. I like Borius. >> Borius. >> Hannah. I hope I'm saying it right. All
00:51:48
due respect. >> Borius. >> Borius. So, she had a rooster named Borius, and he was like basically her
00:51:54
best friend. The people in town had gotten so used to him crowing at exactly midnight every single night that they
00:52:00
like knew him by name. And a lot of people thought that he might have been her familiar.
00:52:04
>> Oh. >> But one day, Bereas, Bereas, the rooster, >> died unexpectedly. And Hannah was obviously super sad. And
00:52:13
she went over to one of her neighbors that she actually got along with to chat about it. And she told the neighbor,
00:52:18
"Because my my beloved rooster has died, I know that my death is approaching, too. I can feel it." Oh, no. So she said
00:52:25
to this neighbor, she gave them explicit instructions about how her death was to
00:52:30
be handled. And when somebody does that, you respect their wishes. Yeah. Correct.
00:52:36
So she wanted her casket to be carried by hand down to the cemetery. They had to walk her down to the cemetery, hold
00:52:43
that casket, walk with their own two feet. However many people needed to be there, that's fine. But that's what they
00:52:49
had to do. Paul bear. Paul bear. >> Yeah. So, she also said that she was not to be buried until after sundown.
00:52:59
Hannah was found dead in her home the day after this conversation. >> I know. Hannah,
00:53:06
>> she knew. She knew. >> She knew. >> So, it was the middle of January and there was fresh snow on the ground. So,
00:53:11
the people in charge of moving her decided to ignore her request to be carried down to the cemetery and instead
00:53:18
they tried loading her casket onto a big sled so that they could be lazy and slide her down. Oh no. Mhm. But no
00:53:28
matter what they did, they could not get that casket to stay on the sled. It kept
00:53:32
falling off. People sat on it and tried to make sure that it wouldn't fall off. They would get thrown off. At one point
00:53:39
it apparently just started violently shaking. >> Oh, I would throw people off my casket
00:53:44
for sure. >> Absolutely. I'm not going to ever be in one of those, though. Um, they tried
00:53:48
tying chains to it to get it stuck to the sled. It still fell off no matter what. They couldn't keep it on there.
00:53:54
>> It's like, "Guys, just pick it up." >> Yeah. So, eventually these [ __ ] did.
00:53:58
They did as Hannah wished. And by the time they were through, they actually had no choice but to fulfill her final
00:54:04
wish to be buried after the sun went down. >> It's the middle of the night now. >> Straight up. So when the people carrying
00:54:09
her casket finally got her settled and were able to, you know, like fulfill her final wishes,
00:54:15
they made their way back into town and they passed by her house cuz they figured, you know, we did like she told
00:54:21
usually did the right thing eventually. >> No, when they did, they found her house
00:54:25
completely engulfed in flames. >> Oh, Hannah. She was not happy. Woo. Now, for some reason, the nearby well was
00:54:36
running dry, even though earlier that day, people had no issue using it. Someone claimed that around 11:00 a.m.
00:54:43
they'd gotten multiple buckets full of water. And now it was about 300 p.m. And it seemed like there hadn't been water
00:54:49
in the well at all that day. Not even a drop was left. The rocks at the bottom did not glisten like they were even
00:54:56
damp. This thing was dry. But I thought it was after dark. It was 300 p.m. >> Well, it was winter,
00:55:07
so it was dark that day. >> Oh, okay. I don't know. Maybe it was a long walk back.
00:55:13
>> It was a really long walk. >> Sources vary. All right. >> Maybe after dark meant like early mourn.
00:55:19
>> Yes. >> By the time they got her in there and it took a while for them to after sundown.
00:55:23
>> Yeah, exactly. >> And they had had a voyage. So, >> they did have a voyage. So anyway, the
00:55:28
well is bare and they knew that this was Hannah at work. Inconsistencies are fine. It's totally a legend, man.
00:55:35
>> I'm just So the fire roared on for multiple days and apparently even spread to multiple other towns. Oh, damn.
00:55:43
>> Because they could not get this fire out. >> The wellwater. >> Mhm. It spread to Danbury, Bridgeport,
00:55:48
and New Town. Now, legend has it when the fire started to settle and there was just a bunch of like rubble and ashes
00:55:54
everywhere, Hannah Craner Cran, excuse me, Hannah Cran appeared before the town's people
00:56:01
again, seemingly in search of something and slightly irritated. >> Slightly irritated
00:56:06
>> as she always was. >> I love that. >> So, as they all stood by and watched, she poked through the ashes with a
00:56:12
stick. But when she couldn't find what she was looking for, she just turned around and headed toward the well. And
00:56:18
when she made it there, her figure disappeared. And as she disappeared, the ghost of her rooster appeared. He said a
00:56:28
little cockadoodle do three times for everybody. And people claimed that the sound of this crow of his crow, excuse
00:56:35
me, was eerily similar to Hannah's voice. >> Oh. So, in the weeks following, people
00:56:41
around town started to float the idea that the rooster and Hannah were actually the same person or spirit.
00:56:48
Whoa. >> And she could just like appear as the rooster when she wanted to. >> Whoa.
00:56:53
>> They were like, I've never seen them in the same time in the same place at the
00:56:56
same time. >> I haven't seen Hannah and Boris in the same room. >> Okay. >> Okay. So, the next time somebody spotted
00:57:01
Hannah was the summer after she passed. This guy was walking home late at night and he passed by where her house used to
00:57:08
be. the well that she had disappeared by. And again, the one that went completely dry when her home was on
00:57:14
fire, seemed to be one of her favorite places because that's where this guy spotted her. So, that well had stayed
00:57:20
completely dry ever since the fire at Hannah's place broke out. No water whatsoever. But when this guy saw her,
00:57:28
Hannah was loading up a bucket with water and she was watering the tiger liies that were still in her yard.
00:57:34
>> He was freaked out to say the least, and he just like hurried home. And when he
00:57:38
woke up the next morning, he was probably having a hard time deciding if that was real or if he had dreamed it or
00:57:44
if he had like really gotten super smashed. >> So in order to be sure, he headed over
00:57:48
to the scene of the crime. >> Now when he got there, he was like, "Oh, okay. Phew." Because the well was still
00:57:54
all dried up. He was like, "Okay, that was totally a dream." >> Yeah. >> So he's like, "Cool, cool, cool."
00:57:58
>> But when he walks by the flowers, it was clear that the ground around them was
00:58:02
wet. >> Ooh. >> And it had not rained in days. >> She was using ghost water. Ghost Water.
00:58:09
>> So, people saw Hannah from time to time and actually one of the last times that
00:58:13
she was ever spotted was during the Civil War and allegedly PT Barnum was the one to spot her. He's always all up
00:58:22
in this [ __ ] He is. >> Remember he was in Champ. He was He was offering Champs. He wanted Champ's hide.
00:58:28
Did you also know that he was the mayor at one point of like Bridgeport, Connecticut? No, I didn't know that.
00:58:34
>> Nor did I. Wow. Yeah. Weird. Crazy. >> I know. So, he was the last one of the
00:58:39
last ones to spot her ghost at least. Um, but he saw her on a white horse with her black hair flowing in the wind. Oh,
00:58:46
hell yeah. >> Seemingly just on her way back home. >> Good for her. >> Yeah. But some legends claim that on the
00:58:51
road near the cemetery she was buried in, which is Gregory's four corners burial ground, Hannah will appear to
00:58:58
drivers on that road that's nearby. >> And when this happens, people will swerve to avoid her thinking she's a
00:59:04
real person. And when they do, they crash. >> So it's like, did they piss off Hannah
00:59:10
somehow? >> Oh, no. But that is the story of my true queen, Hannah. Crana. My true queen.
00:59:18
>> I'm obsessed with her. I love Hannah. >> I want to visit her grave. It's real.
00:59:22
Like I want to visit her to her grave. >> Yeah. I want to visit her grave. Connecticut's in New England. Let's go.
00:59:27
>> Yeah. Let's go. It's right there. Like I just spit at Connecticut. I didn't spit
00:59:30
at like you're mean. I spit it like I can reach you with my spit. >> Yes. >> Yeah. Loving loving spit.
00:59:36
>> Lovingly I spit at you. >> Yeah. I want to plant like tiger liies at her grave.
00:59:39
>> Let's go. >> Let's do it. >> I think we should. >> I would love to. >> Let's go see Hannah Cran.
00:59:44
>> All right. Well, damn. >> We're going to go do that and don't follow any ghost lights and do praise
00:59:51
Hannah. >> Yeah. And also, we do hope that you keep listening. >> And we hope you
00:59:56
>> keep it weird. But not so that you doubt my true queen or that you go follow some
01:00:01
ghost lights into purgatory because that doesn't really sound like a straight up
01:00:05
good time. >> It does. >> So, bye >> bye. Squeak.