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hey weirdos I'm Ash and I'm Elena and this right here is [Music] morbid it's more listener Tales brought
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to you buy you for you from you and all about you baby y what's up uh nothing I mean so much but nothing
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of note right now no yeah everything's just you ever feel like you're just in a state of with your professional life and
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an an ex just an anim suspended animation that's what I was trying to say what do you mean like everything's
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just on hold you know when you get in those little lull periods where like you're waiting on certain things to
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happen yeah you're just like come on yeah I we live in different places though you live on Earth and I live in
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the cloud so sometimes I don't even know when I'm in that period I'm just like look a bird
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it is honestly you're better off up there down here Earth is Earth is not cute Bleak down here you know what I
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heard actually this isn't something I should tell you but here we are oh no I was listening to uh I was just coming
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off of Earth is Bleak I was listening to um disrespectfully it's Katie Maloney's
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podcast with Dana yeah and they had Ariana on and she was talking every week they have a segment where they put
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something in the basement which we should start doing in the office it's like like the there's a fly in here
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[ __ ] terrorizing us it needs to stop oh the sound of a fly just buzz buzz buzzing makes me angry literally ignites
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every single one of my nerve endings yeah I feel exposed we literally opened the window for him to go outside to I'm
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like just get the [ __ ] out so not only is he loud and gross but he's [ __ ] stupid too he is all right maybe if we
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ignore him he'll leave because he won't feel included so they put something in the basement every week which means like
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it's like their thing that they hate or like like [ __ ] that we're getting rid of
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it like we're just not going to deal with that anymore I love that I guess Ariana's been flying a lot cuz you know
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like [ __ ] B Coastal Queen yeah and she said that she's putting turbulence in the basement because like it sucks so
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much and then she said that turbulence is just going to get worse she heard because of global warming I mean that
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makes sense cuz all turbulence is is just like air and air is getting worse because like like hot air cold air like
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all the [ __ ] that you know I mean cuz turbulence is really just like air pushing on the yeah or like bumps in the
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air kind of thing yeah but s but turbulence is okay yeah cuz you're Justin Jello cuz it can't knock you out
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of the sky I think when I heard that I said don't tell Elena don't tell Elena don't tell el told me that but do you
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does that ever happened to you or you're like don't tell that person that don't tell that and then you're like hey I
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really have to tell you something does that ever happen to you not on that level well
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but but here we are see one thing that doesn't happen to me and one thing that doesn't happen to you there you go what
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did you say suspended animation and turbulence and telling people about it telling people with fears of flying
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about it you're like hey get on a plane come on get on a plane and you're like did you know that turbulence is only
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going to get [ __ ] worse there's nothing you get I'm not going anywhere with you I don't have any trips planned
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with you as of late get on a g damn plane you should get on a plane go on vacation yeah just know that turul be
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worse after that I can't wait all right well I picked the listener Tales this week and I didn't
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even read them you didn't read them I was in place I guess cuz there's a lot of like grandparents and a lot of
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messages and signs it's very Ash you were in a place called space so aren't we all yeah it's true you want to start
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I do should I just start with the first one yep cuz I want to read the second one oh look at that it's perfect oh my
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God this is why we work so freaking well let's see so this one is cooled the time
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my dead Grandpa played Cupid for me and my boyfriend isn't that I'm kind of obsessed with that it says please keep
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this Anon if you read it on the podcast you can call me T Anon I will do that for you t it says hello my fellow witchy
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spiritual spooky [ __ ] if you read this on the Pod I think I quite literally will [ __ ] my dick from
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excitement and maybe the shock of hearing my own story so with that being said I just got done listening to
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listener Tales 886 where during my intent during my intent listening I was thinking about writing in this odd tale
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and then the story you read immediately after mentioned Kachina dolls and I knew
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that writing this not so spooky spooky tail was a must with that being said please excuse any side tangents or
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ramance blam Rambles orbl ramblings I go on the neuros spiciness is so [ __ ] strong I feel
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that on such a deep level yeah uh feel free to cut out any parts of this story that seem redundant and I will do my
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best to stay on track we will not do that I put this in a double space size 14 font puaa I mean hopefully it's a
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puaa I am not necessarily the most techsavvy gal it's a puaa it's a puaa anyways I have a quick confession I
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realized the other day that I don't even know how to make a [ __ ] puaa but you like demanded it I can't yes I can't
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even argue that fact that's hilarious guys I really would prefer if you put your stories in pus because it's just
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like easier for me and then I'm like how do you make a p so here we all are here
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we all are oh oh that's who we are you know we're just trying our best over here we don't know how to do anything no
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uh let's start with a little backstory shall we we shall in April of 2021 I started a new job in a town over from
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where I was living after a while of working there one of the men on my shift caught my eye no now I'm not typically
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one of one to make the first move because [ __ ] the embarrassment that comes along with rejection like Excuse
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me while I go crawl into the deepest darkest hole that I can find however oh do I have a story for you baby oh my God
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I won't tell it but it is a story though it's something oh I love that now however this man caught my attention
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enough that I started making it a point to talk to him every day flirt with him when possible and eventually give him my
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number good for you t I know shoot your damn shot that's [ __ ] amazing it's Boss [ __ ] behavior and I just love the
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fact that like they normally would never do something like this but they did but
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you're like I chose now I like that turns out that he had moved here from a different state about 15 00 miles away
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only a month before we started working on at the company and we were hired am measly 3 weeks apart even though I do
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wholeheartedly believe that the events of my life leading up to my employment at the same company as him were divine
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workings on the universe's part I have no clue what the falling events were caused by throwing in a side note here
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before I go further on into the story My boyfriend is the furthest thing from religious or spiritual very much a man
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of fact and believes in science and physical evidence agnostic or atheist if you if you will after months of being
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friendly Talking Etc our relationship slowly became more until by May of 2022 we were officially dating fast forward
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to November of 2023 and we take a road trip to Arizona to visit my grandma when we arrived my Grandma had had us get
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settled in what used to be my grandpa's bedroom when he was on hospice before he
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passed away in 2018 I know I'm sorry about your grandpa the room has not changed at all except for the bed all of
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his decorations are still hung on the walls and placed on the top of his dresser are watches TV and other
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seemingly random knickknacks now everything else to add in here or something else to everything I have to
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add everything else right here now something else to add in here because I feel it is extremely important to the
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story is that my grandpa worked for the Bureau of Indian Affairs specifically with the Navajo tribe in the Arizona New
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Mexico areas back in the70s during that time he was gifted many things including
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quite a few kacina dolls I've attached photos of what these dolls look like I do not believe these dolls are commonly
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seen out and about in stores and things but I could be wrong so please feel free
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to correct me I never will live your life I will never correct you live your life also I've never seen a Kachina doll
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in store regardless unless you've seen them you would not be able to conjure up an image in your mind because they have
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a very unique look to them you are 100% correct on our second night visiting while my boyfriend and I were in the
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bedroom getting ready for bed he turned to me and said can I tell you something kind of weird I told him of course and
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he went on to say this has only happened to me a couple times and it has only been with a few random moments in my
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life I muttered okay because he was starting to weird me out a bit I've had a dream about this room before I whipped
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my head up and looked at him with my brows furrowed what I tried to say it as calmly as I could he is not a spiritual
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woo woo guy so I didn't want to make him feel silly for sharing this that's very
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nice of you but now I was just fully intrigued yeah that doll he motioned with a nod of his head to the kacina
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doll in my grandpa's dresser that was placed to the side of the TV that whole dresser really the doll the TV the
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watches laid out that pot in the corner and even the large fake tree that sits off to the side I sat silent looking at
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the belongings scattered about that are now so precious to me waiting for more detail I have these dreams sometimes
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this is where he really caught my attention because out of the two years we've been together he has claimed to
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have only had one dream he can recall in those two years and he also claim names
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he doesn't dream I think he just doesn't remember them because what kind of psychopath doesn't dream no one exactly
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insert my best girlfriend I roll here I had a dream probably four maybe five years ago I know I didn't know yet this
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is him talking by the way yeah I know I didn't know you yet well I don't know if
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I would consider it a dream a vision maybe it was just kind of like a closeup of that doll's face and then it zoomed
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out and it was the whole dresser I can remember the doll and the setup of the dresser the best
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he Shrugged as if to try and make a nonchalant comment you said this was how many years ago I wanted him to repeat it
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before I started really freaking out like four or five years ago definitely five at the most my grandpa passed away
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almost exactly five years ago whoa right I got chills when I read that his face fell flat as if he was trying to hide
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any sort of signal that this had him freaked out we were visiting my grandma about 2 weeks after the 5-year
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anniversary of his passing I have had two other dreams about this kind of stuff in my life he told me he said he
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told me about the other times and I listened intently I'm still trying to figure out how he could have had
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multiple experiences like this and still not believe that there is something guiding us along our way or that there
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is a power greater than us have you ever seen a doll like that before being from
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a close southern area in a state of near Arizona the possibility was there and I
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couldn't pretend it wasn't nope there was Zero hesitation in his response he definitely hadn't seen one of those
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dolls before he dropped the conversation after that but my head was still spinning was this the universe preparing
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him for another large Monumental moment in his life so that when he lived the moment he knew he was on the right path
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or was it my grandpa's Spirit showing him a glimpse of his future that has me me in it my grandpa's way of setting me
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up to know that he is the right one for me without actually being here to give that approval that I always crave so
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sweet right you see my grandpa is and always will be my dad he's the only person in this world whose approval
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matters to me when it comes comes to my life partner maybe this was his roundabout way to ensure that I knew his
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approval was there I totally think so I fully believe that that's what that is because he knew that his approval
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mattered to you and he knew that you needed that so he was like I'm going to give it to her I fully would your
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boyfriend have had that dream and like even just going back to like the way that you asked him out and like you
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never would have really done that before like you felt confident enough to do that that's a huge part of it like I
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feel like that's such like like an intervention there like something that we just can't see because I didn't even
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think about that part that you never would have shot your shot like you did with this this guy and it's like and you
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went full force here's my [ __ ] number baby like something just told me and the
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way that you guys started the job at the same time basically like 3 weeks apart like that's I don't know I I always say
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I don't know what I believe in yeah I'm like I sit somewhere out there and but this kind of stuff just always makes me
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at least think through it what's going on here I don't know if you guys know this about me but I hella believe in
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this [ __ ] and I don't know if you knew this it was your grandpa um or is it my is my boyfriend
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simply blessed with a gift from the universe allowing him to see a glimpse of the future maybe I suppose we will
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never know but I like to think it's a little bit of everything the universe giving my grandpa the opportunity to
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push him and I both in the right direction and my boyfriend's gift opening him up to a message from Grandpa
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and the universe I love that I do too maybe next time I'll write in about all the weird spooky things that happened in
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my childhood home walking into every cupboard in the kitchen being wide open lights turning on and off on their own
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things being thrown across the room shelves literally flying off the walls please do anyway now that I'm properly
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crying thanks for reading this keep it weird but not so weird that take it away Ash not so weird that your grandpa
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doesn't divine intervention a boyfriend into your life yes I love that with all the love tea right isn't that am
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love this I love that one and also your pictures so adorable together I'm telling you and your dog it was meant to
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be also you're wearing a dress that is made for you and you look adorable I really love that dress a lot I love this
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oh your grandpa looks like such a grandpa I know like there's you know how some people you're like that's a grandpa
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that guy's a grandpa that Grandpa gives good hugs yes that Grandpa's going to sneak you cookies yeah and he's handsome
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a grandpa he's a handsome grandp handsome guy and Grandma's a Stunna oh my god did you see their wedding day
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picture I literally just opened your grandpa and Grandma's wedding day picture oh my God this looks like
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something out of old Hollywood they are gorgeous wow oh I love seeing old timey like photos like that people were just
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so much better looking back in the day it's true it's like everyone took care of business back then like when it came
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to appearance yeah they like they just did more you know like as I said here in leggings and a messy butt I'm like
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people just really cared back then I'm sitting here in like a crusty t-shirt sitting here I'm wearing like a giant
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sweatshirt and like crusty Dusty leather legs I literally have a foundation stain
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on my shirt and we're like people just like did you know like get it together people should care more about care about
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what you look like wow like I'm sitting here talking from a a position of never giving a [ __ ] about what I look like
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when I we give sometimes I properly yes sometimes but often times I'm like sorry world yeah
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more often than not I'm like it is what it is baby it is what it is oh man um I picked this next one alen
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will understand this none of you will but I'll do my best to explain it it reminded me of a lady that I used to
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live with Judy yes so that's why definitely see that yeah this next one I love that all right listener Tale the
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crime next door that shaped my child and saved me all at once howdy ladies I started your p uh started listening to
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your podcast a couple months ago and have made it all the way to episode 173 woot wo your stories and comedy make
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me uh make my very stressful job- in-law so much easier and the hour trip and rush hour traffic to downtown Dallas and
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then our ride home absolutely fly by to the point where I don't even want to get
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out of the car and go see my family totally kidding in case my husband or kids are listening I love
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y'all I love y'all I love y'all she's like don't worry I love y'all kidding I've kind of been chewing on uh
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sharing my story as it happened in what used to be a very small close-knit town and I didn't want any family members
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hearing and reliving the pain of what happened so I will use fictional names but feel free to share my name which
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is christe christe christe I love you chrisy Christy you rock never change never trigger warning in advance this is
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going to be a hard one oh boy so here it is picture it 1996 in Weatherford Texas
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it's the middle of the summer and we are on the fifth day of a 100 plus degree streak back then it was still a small
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town and my street faced the woods my friends and I would stay up late on a party line telling each other scary
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stories about the woods and daring each other to go in them the next day oh I love that right I also the Nostalgia
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within this story is like you can feel it my same house is still there today and all its Fox and Jacob hunter green
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with deep red trim glory and my handprints in the concrete that hold the fence posts are still there and so are
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my long gone perer little Footprints side note his name was Shadow after homward bound yes after the dog and
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homward bound even though he was a mut mix of chow Sharpe and Rottweiler so yeah yeah he was something all right he
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lived a good 21e life and was blind deaf and even dumber in the end but always a
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good puers 21 years that's long life wild right but the woods are long gone and have been replaced with hoyy toyy
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cookie cutter houses it was the day of my birthday in early October of 1996 and I made a discovery that forever changed
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me and somewhat skewed my view of the world and those closest to you your own family oh man when we first moved to
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Weatherford in 1993 I was about five and my elderly neighbor we'll call her Miss
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Ivy and I became close friends fast I love that right when I wasn't out riding my bike around town rollerblading at the
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local skating rink checking out a million books from the library or scaring myself trying to catch lightning
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bugs in the woods across from her house I was next door at Miss Ivy's house she introduced me to teacake Salsbury steak
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and tried her hardest to get me to enjoy uh tea iced or hot yes I know born raised and lived my entire life in Texas
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and I hate tea of any kind including sweet tea which down here means you are a heathen my husband hates tea of any
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kind too oh does he really he does not like tea That's funny um and Miss Ivy fostered my love for all things horror
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and fantasy oh Miss Ivy sounds like she sounds awesome iconique yes she too was a huge Star Trek fan and loved Captain
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Jean Luke peard yeah you got it look I'm doing the hand thing for look at that um
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she loved him as much as I do we spent many rainy days on her couch reading Mary Higgins Clark Dean Co Clive Cussler
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in any series we could get our hands on Miss Ivy was like the grandmother I had lost just a year earlier that I so
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desperately missed and needed in my life as my mother worked for GM and was in Detroit most of the year and my dad well
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let's just say I'm putting it nicely but he was not a fun person to be around oh
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that makes me sad they're only five here it makes me really sad and I'm just so happy that you had had Miss Ivy yeah as
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the years went by Miss Ivy of course aged and it got harder and harder for her to take care of herself I would
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insist on going over there three to four times a day to check on her make her tea
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and meals and make sure she was tucked in at bed in bed at night oh she was lucky to have you I know swans was still
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a big thing then so all of her food was delivered and I could just heat it up for her and put it on one of the awesome
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metal meal trays my God on the rare occasion my mother was home she would cook enough for every meal each day and
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I would take it over to Miss Ivy and sit with her so for a while so she wouldn't
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be so alone I was about to turn eight when it all happened like I said it was the day before my birthday I was eager
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to get the day going because no matter how much I had tried to convince my mother I just wanted to roller blade at
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the skating rink with my friends she insisted on getting a clown which thanks to Poltergeist I'm still terrified of
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who this day yeah no and I wanted to see if Miss Ivy could talk her out of it I wasn't close with my mother since she
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was gone so often and maybe she'd actually listen to another adult who wasn't on day 12 of a manic episode oh
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man I was an extra- large pizza on stils at 7:00 so it took me a little bit to get up and get dressed and go over to
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make Miss Ivy her breakfast and tea it was Friday and I was out of school for fall break and I just knew we'd spend
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the day watching Star Trek together since she knew it was my favorite of all our shows I was humming the opening
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theme to Star Trek when I got to her door and knocked our secret knock per usual isn't this just so sweet sounds
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like a movie yeah but there was no response I tried again just in case it uh she was in the back of the house or
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in the bathroom nothing I walked on the side of the house and noticed none of her lights were on for her this was way
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weird she was always awake by 6:00 a.m. and it was currently 7:15 a.m. I ran to the back of the house because I knew she
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always left the sliding back door unlocked for me or in case of an emergency it was locked too I knew
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something was off and flew home to wake up my parents absolutely panicked and in
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tears my mother told me I was being dramatic that Miss Ivy was old and just wanted to be left alone probably and my
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dad was babbling some nonsense about her finally wising up and hiding from the government oh and po you are just like
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panicking and you're just like can you just help me find M please yeah like don't tell me I'm being dramatic like
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this is a big deal you're seven so '90s though so '90s like you're being dramatic you're being dramatic and
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you're like no this is everything to me so I'm not being dramatic I'm just reacting to something that is very
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meaningful to me at 7 and don't tell your kids they're being dramatic because they will spend years talking about it
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in a therapy okay it's what I spent talking therapy about this morning yeah when I insisted and refused to let my
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mother go back to sleep my mother said she'd go over and try to knock as well we tried and nothing Miss Ivy didn't
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have a phone and no matter how much I insisted my mother wouldn't let me call the police I just knew something was
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wrong she made me go home and do chores to keep me distracted and out of her hair with a promise of pizza from Pizza
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Hut the stuffed crust kind had just come out the year before OMG that was really
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good oh hell yeah well Pizza H Pizza we have an inside joke where we just go you
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want pizza H Pizza Pizza H pizza and really it just means do you want a pizza H Pizza there's really no subex to that
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and now it's all your joke too there you go well lunch came and went then dinner
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and then bedtime each time I tried to get her to answer the door hope the back door was open but no nothing I cried
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myself to sleep that night thinking maybe it was me and my mom was right Miss Ivy was fed up with me and she just
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wanted to be left alone oh my God my whole heart is breaking I know I was so upset I only ate one small stuffed crust
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SCE and anyone knows that a seven-year-old chunky monkey knows that isn't normal no the next morning was my
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birthday and I bounced out of bed thinking surely even if Miss Ivy just needed a day to herself she would answer
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the door today same thing absolutely nothing and the back was still locked up tight I 100% knew that something was
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wrong at this point because hello it's my birthday she always gave me a birthday celebration outside of the ones
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with my family and friends since she never left the house and always made her fanciest of
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teacakes that and today was Swan's delivery day so I waited for the delivery time at 10:00 a.m. since my
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party wasn't until 1:00 p.m. as soon as I saw the pale yellow truck coming down my street I bolted out the front door
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and over to her house the driver Scott smiled and waved I told him what had happened the day before and he too found
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it odd he went to her front door and tried knocking as loud as he could and then we both noticed it the smell in
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case you forgot from before it was day five of over 100° weather the smell was Indescribable but once you've smelled it
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you never forget nor is there anything that ever compares to it death and a metallic sickening under tone to boot he
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didn't hesitate Another Second and ran to my house with me to call 911 we waited him holding me because I was
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sobbing while my mother was off finishing up things for the party and who the hell knows where my dad was oh
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my God you poor thing I know shout out to Scott the swan delivery driver it took the police about 3 minutes to get
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there and after the backstory of the smell the officers kicked in the front door both the officer and Scott tried to
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Shield my eyes but it was too late I saw it all oh no and this is your birthday your eth birth it's literally her eighth
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birthday oh this is where the trigger warning comes in Miss Ivy was in the middle of the kitchen and all I could
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see was what appeared to be her eye and something that looked like a big white rock it was her exposed skull oh my God
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the officer questioned all the neighbors including us and a neighbor two houses down remembered seeing a red Grand Prix
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sitting in front of her house in the we hours of the fourth that Friday the neighbor was a psych triage nurse at the
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hospital in town so like that's why they were up that early and she saw it when she was leaving for her shift I told
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told the officer I went over about 7:15 a.m. and there wasn't a car there the coroner determined that she had been
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killed between midnight and 2:00 a.m. Friday the killer had locked up all the doors and windows save for one which he
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crawled his way out of and then closed from the outside when I saw that window later that day I felt like such an idiot
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there was still some blood smudged on it and I had just completely flown by it in
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my Panic oh you were only seven and I'm happy that you didn't see that he also turned her AC down to 50 but it was an
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already old unit it was hotter than Satan's nut sack and the unit froze over and stopped working it took about a
00:25:32
month but they found out who did it her youngest son what the [ __ ] I never even
00:25:38
knew she had children they never checked on her and she never talked about them and that's when I found out about the
00:25:43
real Miss Ivy Miss Ivy was a retired ER pediatric nurse of 45 years and had three children two boys and a girl in
00:25:51
the middle she used to be married to a police officer she met at the ER but he was extremely abusive and actually went
00:25:57
to prison for a time once he was out he started looking for her again in order to protect her children and herself as
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her kids were now adults and living in different parts of the US she moved from Virginia to Weatherford Texas and
00:26:09
changed her name she cut off all contact with her children and didn't even have a
00:26:13
phone she remained unlisted in all the phone books even with her new name the night she was killed and this is
00:26:19
according to her youngest son we'll call him Teddy's confession he went to her house he never did disclose how he found
00:26:25
her but he did sadly he said his father was just released from prison and they had started talking now Teddy already
00:26:31
hated his mother and blamed her for all the abuse that he endured as a child at his father's hands I left that part out
00:26:37
but the father abused everybody in the family which as a victim of domestic abuse I do not understand his misguided
00:26:43
rage but I'm not victim blaming anyone and I cannot speak for how they deal with their own trauma anywh who he said
00:26:50
his father and him had started a new relationship during which his father apologized and said it all happened
00:26:55
because his mom was controlling and abusive to him and it was really all her fault that he was the way he was to the
00:27:01
kids oh okay it was her fault that he abused the children yeah totally Mak sense makes sense so Teddy's rage and
00:27:07
hatred deepened then Daddy of the Year suggested hey why don't we track her down and kill her what the [ __ ] I'm
00:27:14
assuming she didn't take you or her sibling or your siblings off her life insurance policies and you know those
00:27:19
are really Hefty since she was an ER nurse for 45 years oh my God again he refused to disclose how he found her but
00:27:26
that night he confronted her and she told him the exact opposite of everything his father had been feeding
00:27:31
to him over the past 2 years and that set him off he said he just felt like he stepped outside of his body and watched
00:27:37
as he bashed her head first on the kitchen counter and then when she was on the floor he continued to beat her with
00:27:43
a cast iron skillet that I forgot to put away the night before God oh the worst part of it all was he would have only
00:27:50
stood to inherit about 175,000 split three ways between the siblings as Miss Ivy the angel she had always been
00:27:58
donated over half her policy to the ER pediatric Ward at the local hospital so all over about $
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58,4 15 I know that was heavy and it did change how I looked at the world for a long time but as an adult I see the
00:28:14
Silver Lining and all this she succeeded in getting me out of an unwanted party with a terrifying clown her best
00:28:19
birthday present yet I think of her every time I watch our favorite shows especially the new peard series or the
00:28:25
newest one with Sir Patrick Stewart or read a book book by any one of our favorite authors and have tried to pass
00:28:30
on the love she showed me a complete and total stranger not to mention really weird kid to not just my children but
00:28:37
those all around me sorry for such a long one in the tangents tangent is my middle name keep it weird love Christie
00:28:44
Christy I just thought Miss Ivy's story like was so beautiful I know it was so sad [ __ ] that was like but they're bomb
00:28:52
heavy that no I'm obsessed with their BMS like and I'm so glad that she got to have that kind relationship with a child
00:29:00
without someone interfering exactly and turning it into something ugly and it's like that [ __ ] man to abuse her
00:29:07
forever and abuse their kids and blame it on her and blame it on her and convince one of the kids to kill her
00:29:13
it's like I I so wonder how they found her yeah cuz she had put every precaution yeah you wonder it makes me
00:29:20
so mad but I that bond that they had was just like so sweet that oh that just wrecked me I know
00:29:28
oh so my tale is entitled listener Tales guardian angels and the universe's repeated attempts to crush me I almost
00:29:38
couldn't say Crush yeah sometimes my mouth doesn't want to do things it's hard you know it's like don't say that
00:29:43
word yeah but here we are don't say the word Crush it's hard I like that you just all it's hard it's all hard every
00:29:51
part of it yeah it's true now it says Hey weirdos I've been binging your podcast for a few months and I'm almost
00:29:57
caught up so I clearly love it thank you you may be the best True Crime podcast I've found oh my goodness every time a
00:30:03
listener Tales episode comes up I remember that I have a few stories that you might be interested in finally I've
00:30:09
managed to get some typed up I think I've narrowed it all down to three categories lightly Supernatural
00:30:14
supernaturally spooky and bad mom dumb criminals this PDF contains the lightly Supernatural flavor of story and if
00:30:21
nothing else it may give some food food for thought I hope you enjoy I don't know if I can say your name so
00:30:28
okay cool says it here hi there you can use my name you can use the name Nick for me um I've encountered a fair bit of
00:30:37
weird stuff so if you like this maybe I'll tell you about my brief run as a ghost hunter or that time my boyfriend
00:30:43
my mother's boyfriend fell through our ceiling while hiding from the cops please tell me both of those things all
00:30:48
of those things for now I have three stories of guardian angels in the universe's repeated attempts to crush me
00:30:54
to death literally my first story takes place in the early '90s I was 7 or 8 and
00:30:59
was spending the evening at my grandmother's house she had settled me in her office in front of the small TV
00:31:04
while she was in the den just a few steps away my memory of this incident is minimal I was on the floor with the TV
00:31:11
above me on a small cabinet if I stood the cabinet would have been shorter than I was and the top of the television
00:31:16
would have been just higher than my head it was as I mentioned the early '90s so
00:31:21
the TV probably weighed almost as much as I did at that point absolutely it did I don't know what I was just asked do
00:31:27
mocker I don't know what I was watching because in my memory I'm F I'm focused on sorting pennies that's so cute the
00:31:34
rest comes from my grandmother who added that evening to her catalog of Stories of the miraculous and told it many times
00:31:40
over the next decade she heard some sort of noise and came to check on me when she reached the door to the office she
00:31:45
saw me with my hands on the TV screen holding it up and keeping it from crushing me it had somehow tipped over
00:31:51
and despite the cathod weight of it I think that's a brand I think it's like a brand of TV yeah it's like an old tube
00:31:58
TV oh man I was keeping it balanced at a precarious angle with a single lower Edge still on the stand and this is at
00:32:05
like 7 years old yeah according to my grandmother the only way I could have caught and supported the TV was with the
00:32:11
help of my guardian angel given some of the things that happen in the future I can't entirely argue with her the second
00:32:17
story was several years later I don't remember how precisely precisely how old I was but it was somewhere around 12 or
00:32:23
13 I've have always had trouble falling asleep even when I was young I would just lie and bed sometimes for hours
00:32:29
hoping exhaustion would finally drag me down on this particular night I was looking at the clouds painted on my
00:32:34
ceiling when I saw a figure at the edge of my vision the door closest to me led to the Powder Room outside of my
00:32:40
bathroom and I could see through the door to the door from The Powder Room to the hall normally I could at least now
00:32:46
the doorway leading to the hall was filled with a tall skinny figure my first thought was that it was my
00:32:51
stepfather like the figure he was tall he was as tall as the doorways skinny with curly brown hair I looked it wasn't
00:32:58
him this man had a younger face and wore a brown Tweed suit I had never seen that
00:33:04
this is scary he was a complete stranger to me but I wasn't afraid I only had a few seconds to take him in our eyes met
00:33:10
and then he was simply gone the doorway empty as if it always had been I would be like that's an intruder in my house
00:33:17
be I'd be [ __ ] terrified but just the fact that they weren't terrified yeah like I would yeah that's that's
00:33:24
terrifying that you weren't terrified but I feel like in the old house like the house we grew did you ever have
00:33:29
experiences that you were like I should be [ __ ] terrified right now but I'm not yeah absolutely yeah it's like it's
00:33:34
a weird inexplainable feeling yeah no that's scary just the fact that he was B like it makes me think of an it follows
00:33:42
yeah the one scene that gets me the most I think that movie is very scary I think
00:33:46
they do it really well that movie is [ __ ] terrifying it's very scary and the the ghosts are very scary but the
00:33:52
one scene in it follows that like really like makes my stomach churn for for some
00:33:58
weird reason is when she's walking in the bedroom and that absurdly tall man just Ducks under the doorway and just
00:34:06
like follows right behind her for some I don't know if it's like he's so tall and
00:34:12
the proximity to her how he's just like following right behind her he just juts right into the room it gets me even
00:34:20
thinking about it right now I have chills yeah same there's so many scenes in that movie though like the two
00:34:26
biggest scariest ones for me like that one scares me but not as much as the lady that pisses on the floor oh my God
00:34:32
yeah cuz that's just horrific and then the man I think he's like naked and he's standing on the roof SC the [ __ ] out
00:34:39
he's just watching that that premise is terrifying it is and it's such a good [ __ ] movie the whole the the whole
00:34:47
entire way they do it is like incredible very unsettling go watch it go watch it
00:34:51
h this isn't an ad I could see why that would remind you yeah it just thinking about this really tall
00:34:58
skinny in a suit in a brown Tweed suit yeah in the hallway just with curly hair looking at you no nope nor I don't like
00:35:09
it so this says my house had been built in the 70s and the land had likely just been Pine Forest before that so I came
00:35:16
to the conclusion that he was unlikely to be a ghost my guardian angel perhaps you're you're put a lot of faith in this
00:35:22
Guardian Angel business because I would assume that's a ghost I feel like that's a ghost that's
00:35:29
a shadow figure that's that's my sleep paralysis demon like that's what that is I wonder if it was like a a thing of
00:35:36
like hindsight now you look back cuz in that moment I I I'm trying to like distinguish if like in that moment you
00:35:42
felt like that was your guardian angel because I'm like wow that's impressive it sounds more to me like it's hindsight
00:35:47
chocking all the events up to each other that makes sense finally my long story I
00:35:53
tried to find one of the Articles written about this to confirm the date but because of how long ago was I wasn't
00:35:58
able to track down a digital version of the information my cousin s is only a couple of years older than I am she was
00:36:04
the youngest of her siblings and when her parents lived in the same small Georgia town where I grew up she and I
00:36:10
were very close practically sisters they moved away to California before I was a
00:36:14
teenager s came back to visit when she graduated from high school then decided to move back and attend the local
00:36:20
Community College we started spending time together again and while it wasn't a matter of picking up where we left off
00:36:25
it was still easy to regain that closeness the final story happened on September
00:36:29
20th 2000 if I'm not mistaken if I am mistaken then it was September 22nd 1999 I got up early for my grandmother
00:36:37
to take me to see you at the poll event that day see you at the poll is a Christian Student worship and prayer
00:36:43
meeting that occurs before school one day in September it takes place at the school flag pole and is legal as long as
00:36:50
is it is student initiated and led it was a gray Wednesday and I was feeling nauseated I don't think I stayed through
00:36:56
the entire EV and have my grandmother take me home again while I was home in bed trying to recover s bought a car a
00:37:03
used little red Coupe I was feeling a little better that afternoon so I agreed to go to church s came to pick me up her
00:37:09
boyfriend C in the passenger seat their friend R in the back seat behind C I sat
00:37:14
behind s that took me a second RCS I was feeling sick again by the end of church oh I'm sorry that you're
00:37:21
feeling sick I hate feeling nauseated so I know you're not feeling sick in this moment hopefully but it makes me think
00:37:26
of feeling nause I'm like and like not being at home too like like having a car ride between go home so s took me home
00:37:35
first I remembered spending most of the long ride home with my face against the cold glass of the window trying to keep
00:37:40
from throwing up oh once home I went inside into my room to decompress and stay near the bathroom normally s would
00:37:47
have dropped me off last because we still tried to spend as much time as we could together but that was how it had
00:37:52
been in previous rides when she was using my grandmother's car because I was sick the order had changed
00:37:57
I was still awake when I heard my mother's panicked voice on the phone I came out to see what was going on S had
00:38:03
been in an accident she had gone to take our home after me his family was one of
00:38:08
the richest in town and his driveway was basically a private road it was also newly repaved and it had been raining
00:38:13
that day one tire of the car had slipped off the high edge of the driveway and S
00:38:19
had overcorrected trying to get it back on she drove off the other side then up a tree and the car fell backwards onto
00:38:25
its roof isn't that [ __ ] in the back seat R was conscious unharmed and able to get his seat belt
00:38:33
undone he escaped though through the shattered back windshield and ran home to get helped this was 2,000 remember
00:38:40
and even for Rich Kids cell phones weren't much of a thing our town is still in the middle of nowhere and ours
00:38:45
house was even further into nowhere so even if he'd had one there probably wouldn't have been much service help
00:38:51
came C had bro had a broken arm and some cuts from the glass s was short maybe 5T
00:38:57
tall and that saved her life oh I'm really glad to hear that cuz I was worried how this was turning out her
00:39:02
seat was pulled far enough forward that when the roof had crushed it also didn't
00:39:06
it didn't also Crush her head from what I was told she was technically dead for a minute or two but she made a full
00:39:12
recovery and didn't suffer any long-term effects isn't that crazy as for me obviously I wasn't in the car and that's
00:39:19
what saved my life when the car came down it landed directly on the part of the roof behind the driver had I been in
00:39:25
the car it would have been at my chest level I I've actually visited the wreckage at the body shop before they
00:39:31
took it off to be junked I was making sure none of s's stuff was left in it the window where I had been resting my
00:39:37
head minutes before the accident had been replaced by the metal of the roof line is if they had been in that car
00:39:43
they would be dead I have something watching out for me something that lends me strength that watches out for me when
00:39:49
the monsters are coming from inside the house and something that triggers my instinct to stay home when I need to
00:39:54
stay safe guardian angel Guardian spirit whatever you want to call it I've seen the effects and maybe even seen the
00:40:00
being itself so keep it weird but don't keep it so weird that you ignore a little gut feeling sent to keep you safe
00:40:06
I love a literal gut a literal gut feeling of making you sick that last paragraph though of like whatever you
00:40:13
believe guardian angel Guardian Spirit I've seen the effect right now I I can see why you were so easily thinking that
00:40:21
that that skinny man skinny was a guardian angel cuz before I was like that's a ghost but now I'm like maybe
00:40:28
that's what a cool Guardian Angel sometimes I wonder tall man in a Tweed suit right sometimes I wonder if the the
00:40:35
kid that I saw at mom papa is mine I've always wondered that that little Dobie cuz I feel like people like I don't know
00:40:43
if I would call it like a guardian angel or like a spirit guide I think I would more call it a spirit guide like I feel
00:40:48
like people get a set of Spirit guides that's just like my personal belief I like that I like that idea yeah I'm down
00:40:55
to think that right to to at least consider that have you ever seen a full-fledged ghost seen one I can't I
00:41:03
don't know because I with sleep paralysis oh I I don't know if I've seen something or if it's been sleep
00:41:12
paralysis and definitely seen things out of the corner of my eye and I've felt things and I feel like I've maybe seen
00:41:20
something not fully though like not like looking directly at it thing yeah and if
00:41:26
I have then I assume it's sleep paralysis the only time I ever saw like full-fledged beings was one the [ __ ]
00:41:34
Viking people messing with your computer and I stand by that story today I can still see them I mean I'm pretty sure
00:41:40
there's Viking Blood in our ancestry somewhere so and your computer was maybe it's our ancestors coming back to be
00:41:47
like and then that [ __ ] kid in in the room yeah old timey newspaper boy looking kid little peaky blinders Little
00:41:55
D and I still see him like and I how old four or five maybe yeah you were young I
00:42:03
could draw him probably I mean but yeah I could I I could maybe I [ __ ] will maybe I might but yeah I don't know I I
00:42:13
want to and I feel like the reason I was able to see those like beings or whatever they are full bodied was
00:42:19
because I was so young and you don't have the like much more open to yeah you're not closed off but I feel open
00:42:26
still and I want to see something I mean maybe that's why my youngest saw skeletone probably I love skeletone and
00:42:33
the girls the older girls saw the the terrifying people with the scissorsing but I don't know I think maybe it's it's
00:42:40
a kid thing but I'm so not ready to like have kids someday and have them see some
00:42:44
[ __ ] and have to be the one responsible so experience you really learn about yourself in that moment right I learn
00:42:50
about you and your partner in that moment you're both oh Drew will be across the continent just nope bye when
00:42:59
the scissors thing John literally looked at me and he was like tag your in like he was just like I don't know what to do
00:43:04
with honestly I'll take the Super I I'll take the supernatural [ __ ] and I'll take
00:43:08
throw up those two things I can handle hey good I'm I will take one out of the two of those I mean I'll take two out of
00:43:15
the two of those cuz you got to yeah it's just the way I don't like to take one of those things yeah I don't I'm not
00:43:21
like hoping to but you just end up having to to do it yeah it's just is talking about kids kids kids Man kids
00:43:28
man well kids have moms sometimes W that was a really good one though it was so good that was very interesting yeah I
00:43:36
totally think you saw your guardian angel Nick sorry I didn't want to call you the wrong name what did you say I
00:43:41
was like Nick sorry I didn't want to call you the wrong name I was like TS no you were Nick thank you Nick C I was
00:43:49
going to transition by saying kids have moms sometimes and this next one is called my mom used your my mom used your
00:43:56
podcast to haunt me I'm intrigued and I said what what and then this one had such a beautiful surprise at the end of
00:44:02
it that I quite literally almost cried I love that okay hey you spooky wonderful
00:44:07
ladies my name is bunny yes you can say it hell you can scream it from the rooftops bunny I love that name I love
00:44:14
that name too and just a side note I have been listening to Bunny's podcast dumb blonde if you're not listening to
00:44:22
dumb blonde you're dumb she has some Fascinating People on fascinating yes I been flying through episodes she had
00:44:29
like all the mob wives on she had Alana um pumpkin and Honey Boo Boo on like that was she gets guests that are right
00:44:39
up by Alle she had Bam Margera on yeah she had B and I was like whoa jwow she gets like really good guests and it's
00:44:46
just like an it's an interesting conversation when she had like she really knows how to have a conversation
00:44:51
and with anyone it doesn't feel like a cuz it's it's not like a formal interview but it's very much an
00:44:56
interview but it doesn't feel interview no it feels like she's just having a conversation yeah she seems very down to
00:45:03
earth and I really like her yeah so go listen to Dum blonde all right well this bunny though says maybe I'll uh be able
00:45:10
to hear you since I also hail from the great masach CH M CH I like that I love that of course I need to start this off
00:45:18
with the obligatory fan girl gushing I found your podcast when you were 12 Leagues Under 12 Leagues Under the Sea
00:45:24
an OG baby hell yeah and it has been so incredibly endearing to see you both grow and prosper in this life a Elena
00:45:30
you have written a whole damn book thank you I'm so excited for book two thanks plug where you can deal it uh deal it
00:45:37
plug where you can buy it oh you can buy it uh go to the butcher game.com and you
00:45:41
can get all the the links to get it anywhere it's like everywhere Target Walmart Amazon pre Barnes & Noble book
00:45:49
Little Indie bookstores go go get we're getting so much closer to September and you don't want to be caught in September
00:45:54
without the butcher game cuz maybe you'll get it like a day or sometimes that happens when you
00:45:58
pre-order I can't guarantee it but I'm just saying like sometimes that happens that's fun which is always a fun
00:46:03
surprise and either way you'll get it on the day exactly so do it she's yeah do it she said you've also dealt with great
00:46:09
loss but you are prospering and absolutely [ __ ] killing it oh thank you very much Ash you uh you beautiful
00:46:15
spooky gal you found your Forever person and you by the time you read this got married you're a whole damn wifey for
00:46:21
Lifey now wifey for Lifey thank you you both are so incredibly inspiring and talent and talented I will always tell
00:46:28
people to go and listen to morbid a than thank you so much now this might be a long Tale But I hope you find it to be a
00:46:34
fun ride I attached a double space 14o puaa for your viewing pleasure I do apologize for any grammar or spelling
00:46:41
mistakes my brain works faster than my fingers no need to apologize not at all my mother Denise you can Absol
00:46:47
absolutely new hello hello hello you can also use her name she absolutely would have loved it unexpectedly died at the
00:46:55
end of January in 2023 I'm s so sorry bunny it truly destroyed my entire world I was a new mom at the time having had
00:47:02
my daughter 6 months before in August and my dog Gaia passed away 3 months before jeez if a dog was a soulmate he
00:47:08
she was mine and I feel like dogs can be soulmates oh 100% my mom and I were like
00:47:13
oil and water when I was a teenager but as adults we grew so close together she was my best friend she was so incredibly
00:47:20
motivated to better herself and her life she was so excited for life again she had truly found her spark so it hit my
00:47:26
it truly hit my family hard oh that's awful let's go back a couple years ago I showed my mom your podcast and she was
00:47:33
enthralled oh my mom loved all things True Crime spooky [ __ ] and loved a cult story we were listening to your
00:47:39
Bridgewater Triangle episode that was so fun right seeing I live in is it the Copa cut I think so yeah so seeing I
00:47:46
live in the Copa cut Woods which is part of it and that's how she ended up listening to every episode she had
00:47:51
untreated ADHD and you were her hyper fixation she even wrote in once oh my my God which we have yay I well I didn't
00:48:00
even find it you included it so thank you buny but on this particular summer day we were painting her apartment and
00:48:05
we were listening to the Richard Ramirez episode she physically gagged every time
00:48:09
his Sten or how gross of a human human being he had been was mentioned I didn't know my mom had the weak constitution of
00:48:16
a Victorian Dandy of a Victorian Dandy that is an amazing way wow I know so many people that have the constitution
00:48:26
of vict and dandy me too so many people uh-huh lots and lots of people that we interact with on a daily basis that have
00:48:34
the constitution of a Victorian Dandy yeah [ __ ] Victorian Dand is all right but anyway I couldn't stop laughing at
00:48:41
her I love that it was honestly the weirdest happiest memory I shared with her now we will go back to January 2023
00:48:48
and it's the Dreadful day I need to go through her apartment and all her little personal things the things that made it
00:48:53
real I walked into her apartment which no one was in besides me and I hear your podcast playing through her portable
00:48:59
speaker but the thing is her phone was in my house about 5 miles away and my phone was off so nothing could be
00:49:06
connected to that speaker I listen closely and it's the same episode that was playing the day we were painting
00:49:12
that room I am chilling all over my entire body now I got WS it's like right I was absolutely stunned but my mama
00:49:23
definitely had a flare for the dramatic so why wouldn't she choose that one that's amazing a few nights later my
00:49:28
husband was at work and I was sitting on the couch with my daughter in the living
00:49:31
room and across the room is my daughter's Nursery side note about my house as my husband is a bougie [ __ ]
00:49:36
and needs to have the fancy Alexa controlled light bulbs in every room oh John wants to do that so bad you should
00:49:42
those are cool they're fun my daughter and I were watching some movie really at 6 months old she wasn't watching just me
00:49:48
the lights in her room start flashing on and off for about 10 times in that moment found out my fight ORF flight
00:49:53
response is to freeze oh you too that's mine yeah that's sh I just go and then I
00:49:58
stay in place I would be the first to die in a horror movie I know I know me too me too
00:50:04
well we'll die together girl but I nervously ask out loud mom if that's you please stop you're scaring me and it
00:50:11
stops immediately that's your mama and she's like I'm not trying to scare you I'm sorry occasional occasionally my
00:50:18
daughter's motion activated toys would go off but that did come to an end one night when I was in bed before my
00:50:22
husband and I got the biggest wave of warmth in her signature perfume filled my nose I remember muttering I love you
00:50:29
Mama good night okay that just like made me choke down a sub yeah there's tears in Elena's eyes right now damn and I
00:50:37
drifted off into dreams of Starlight it's been quiet for a few months now but here and there I'll get little hints of
00:50:42
her saying hi and they are always welcome a side note the night my mom passed I went to bed I don't know how
00:50:48
long I laid there but I remember feeling the cold wet Boop of a dog nose on my face the Boop of a dog nose and a little
00:50:54
nudge the same way guia would always wake me up in the morning I think my girl knew how much I needed her in that
00:50:59
moment thank you uh lovely ladies for reading my tale attached was the email my mom had written I found when I had to
00:51:07
go through her things I'm not really good at goodbyes so I'll just say see you later but now obsessed with this her
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mom's listener tale which is Denise's listener tale Denise so Denise says let me start out by saying you ladies are
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wicked awesome you're Wicked awesome Denise I know the stories you tell the cases you cover are dark and fascinating
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I was binge listening to listener Tales while cleaning my apartment and reorganizing when one of the stories Hit
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me hard and I realized I'm not alone in my situation let me explain I was adopted when I was four My adoptive
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parents weren't any better than the abusive alcoholic egg donor that gave me up oh that's awful the apartment we
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lived in at the time of the adoption was on the third floor of a three family home with a huge backyard and a massive
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tree in the back I had recurring nightmares of being kidnapped by a massive vulture and not having a voice
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to scream for help fast forward to 1989 I was 17 working as a cashier and enjoying life hanging out with my
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friends being single basically Carefree this is around the time I met my first serious boyfriend we were dating for a
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bit when we decided to move in together I was in charge of finding our apartment
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so I set out to look into uh I set out to look and in my journey I walked down the street where my first home was I
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wanted to see the house and see if it still gave me the heebie gbes I got no vibes from the house and chocked it up
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to overactive imagination in my childhood I turned around and found an apartment for rent sign on the house
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directly across the street from my childhood home wa long story short we took the apartment a few months later my
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adopted father passed away the same night he came to visit me I was asleep in my bed next to my boyfriend sleeping
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when I heard him calling me he wasn't quiet about it either he made sure I heard him and woke up he was yelling
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that I did this to him I made him suffer I was supposed to never tell anyone what
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he did oh I tried waking up the boyfriend but he wouldn't wake up my quote unquote father told me he wouldn't
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be able to help me so don't bother trying to wake him up I told this piece of [ __ ] get out of my house and the
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fight ended I was pissed and yes scared because what the [ __ ] was he doing in my
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house at 2: a.m. the next day after work I met my cousin Michael at the mall like
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usual cuz that's what 17-year-olds did back then and he told me he was sorry about my father I asked him what he was
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talking about and he told me at 6:30 the previous night he had a massive heart attack and died what the [ __ ] so when
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she had that experience she didn't she thought that her dad just came into her house and was yelling at her not that he
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was dead what the [ __ ] I sat there for a bit and replayed the previous night over
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in my head and oh my God it hit me like a brick to the chest it was his spirit I
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told my cousin about my experience and he got chills I have full chills I do too we sat and talked about the
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situation and how much my quote unquote father hated me for outing his dark secret and yes it almost ruined his life
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so he wasn't going to go to hell without letting letting me know first wow isn't
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that just like [ __ ] haunting [ __ ] Flash Forward to 2006 my husband and I were living in a Tiny Town 20 minute
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drive away from his mom and stepfather my mother-in-law was in very poor health for a very long time so we would go
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visit her often she took a liking to me because I made her favorite child happy she would call us on our birthdays at
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12:01 and sing Happy Birthday to us over the phone she was a great woman who loved hummingbirds and lilacs a I know
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she sounds so sweet and I'm glad you had that experience with your husband's parents I know up in the mountains of
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Upstate New York when trees knock out the power it could take days before you get it back so you better have a
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generator my mother-in-law did it would kick on automatically when they lost power which happened a lot she was on
00:54:41
oxygen and the Machine wouldn't work without power oh that's so scary I know one night a wicked bad storm came
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through and unfortunately the generator did not kick on and my mother-in-law passed away we got a call the next
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morning from my father-in-law that something was wrong with Mom and we needed to come quick after after we got
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there we checked for a pulse and called 9911 they investigated and sent us home I fell asleep on the couch that night
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and started smelling Lila oh and that's such a distinct scent it is half in and half out of sleep my mother-in-law
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leaned over the couch and told me make sure you take care of my baby oh I told her I would opened my eyes and she was
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gone fast forward to 2013 I moved to Massachusetts and took a job bar tending my career of choice for close to 25
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years hell yeah Denise in a private club that was said to be haunted which I'm like I want to know what this is you got
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to tell me bunny right back to us bunny tell us during my job interview that was
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actually a question they asked if I was afraid of ghosts I told them I don't bother them they don't bother me I was
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told the ghost was a previous owner from way long ago when the now private club was a brothel cool huh oo I love those
00:55:46
kind of Tales the of times long ago I do too so the backstory is and this is a [ __ ] awesome backstory it's crazy but
00:55:55
it's like whoa the back story is the brothel owner Eda caught her husband with one of the working girls and killed
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him by running him over and now she's stuck there whoa Eda now every time I started to shift I would say good
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morning Eda and my boss thought I was nuts but it kept her happy cuz she never bothered me she did bother others yeah
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see you were just like no judgment Eda I'm just I'm just coming to work good morning once the guys at the bar were
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talking [ __ ] about AA and the bottle Shook on the shelves I quickly told them stop they were pissing her off oh yeah I
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had only been in Massachusetts for a few weeks and was staying with family I was
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again half asleep on the couch when I felt someone in the kitchen watching me I thought it was one of the family
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members getting a drink so I looked in and saw a shadow move away it kept happening so I got pissed and said to
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whomever it was either say something or go away well ladies this older man in a gray suit and a fedora sat on a coffee
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table in front of me and said you'll be fine you're going to go through things you don't think you're surv you'll
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survive but I promise you you will whoo I I asked him before he left who he was and he said to call him Fredo I chocked
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it up to a dream until the next night one of the female patrons uh patrons was very into spiritualism and asked me if
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Fred or Al meant anything to me I said no but she just stared at me and asked if I believed in spirits I told her but
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of course why do you ask but of course she proceeded to tell me that I have one that follows me and protects me that's
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why she asked about Fred or Al I said Alfredo Fredo for sure for short and she said that's make sense wow so I told her
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about that night before and she wasn't shocked holy [ __ ] and that's not like a
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regular name go hear that all the time exactly fast forward again to August 2021 my boyfriend Ernie passed away
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suddenly and I was heartbroken I tried to give him CPR but he was already gone oh man the night he pass had gone
00:57:45
through stuff I know you guys have gone through a lot the night he passed I wouldn't come into my apartment until
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the next morning I spent the next day taking care of things making calls and because he was so loved everyone was
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stopping by and checking on me I finally went to bed around 10:30 I had my phone
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next to me like always and before I fell asleep his text message tone unique to Ernie only went off I smiled and said
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good night baby that was his way of letting me know he was here now it's January and I'm slowly moving ahead with
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life I got really good news from my daughter and came home and told him this wonderful news I have his ashes a that
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night I felt the bed sink in next to me and at first I was freaked the [ __ ] out
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I was frozen In Fear And I asked no to nobody in particular what the [ __ ] are you doing and then I realized who it was
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it was Ernie he was a big dude he was 275 when he died told me congratulations and he was there cuz he missed sleeping
00:58:37
with me I was a bit rude and reminded him that he was dead but I didn't want him to go hey you're dead hey excuse me
00:58:43
you're dead I tried waking up a few times but I was having such great dreams about him with my daughter and me
00:58:48
spending time together and laughing and joking he passed before my daughter's wedding which was in October and he had
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been all jazzed about doing the low dance he even practiced at work and got caught
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by his friend stop I love that I'm obsessed so needless to say I know he's still here and when I least expect it or
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don't know I I need him he'll show up so ladies this is why I'm haunted I don't mind it anymore and take it as it comes
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feel free to shorten this up if you decide to use it I will continue to listen to your
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podcast because you guys keep me in stitches I owe finding your podcast to my daughter who also loves The Listener
00:59:22
tales as much as I do thanks again ladies thanks ladies again keep up the great work and keep it weird Denise
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Denise I felt like that one was so special oh that was like so special yeah and thank you bunny for sending both of
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those in oh bunny that was great and like as soon as I I that one caught my attention cuz like my mom used your
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podcast to haunt me I was like what what and then when I read through bunnies I was like oh my God that's such a fun
00:59:49
story and then to find Denise's at the bottom that's that's something El that's special like we've never had a tale like
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that and bunny I love that bunny had Denise who sounds like such a hot [ __ ] and such a cool mom and then also Ernie
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it sounds like you were close to Ernie and like I'm sorry that they're both not here anymore but I'm really glad that
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you had that even I'm glad you had that and it sounds like even though they're not here here they're here're you know
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like I feel like Ernie and your mom will come through more and more and reading that now like the M Denise's listener t
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I'm like oh that's definitely Denise doing all that stuff cuz I'm like she's like oh I get to do it now like let's go
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like you know oh Denise how special is that Denise and bunny that was that was a great one right like that was a really
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great one that was a find I loved that and I love that you both love listener tale I know thank you we would do more
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if we could uh so the last one that I'll read is called listener tale my deceased
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Grandma's like hi I'm still here dummy hey Ash Elena my name is men and first of all love your podcast my sister
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I want to make so Karin oh that's like a cool way of spelling that it is k o r i
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n I like that right intro yeah that's really cool introduce me and we've always loved all things spooky Ghostly
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murdery and our Halloween obsess I quit my corporate job in 2021 to pursue my artistic plant passions so I listen to
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you guys constantly while running all things for resting plant face what a great name for a company amazing thank
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you for keeping me a breast of all things spooky spooky and feeding my True Crime ghostly fix each week all right
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now here's the puaa attached with stories of Grandma Josephine and the pictures of Grandma Josephine baddest be
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oh Grandma Josephine a queen a literal Queen and look at the wedding picture I'm pretty I like I'm obsessed with this
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St all these pictures are amazing is this you I love me you are all amazing oh yeah um me is obsessed with Halloween
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and these are all her Halloween costumes Top Notch the prince one top [ __ ] on the Shelf is both
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amazing and horrifying all at once Mas like I you really killed it these are incredible all right let's begin a
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little background since I was a wee little girl I've been very sensitive to the Paranormal runs in the family but as
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a child I didn't really talk about it cut to now I realized I'm an intuitive dreamer and have dreams with messages
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from the dead or I'm helping the Dead and dreams with premonitions and a whole lot of other crazy [ __ ] I'm working now
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to accept and expand my gifts as I'm no longer afraid Isn't that cool I love that okay
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here's the goods my grandmother passed away suddenly in her sleep at the age of 67 on May 15th 1992 when I was 5
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although I was young I'd cry for her often when I felt alone sad scared which unfortunately was a lot when I was a kid
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oh that like breaks my heart to hear that but yay therapy for working through through that I just felt so connected to
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her even though she was only in my life a short time I was also so afraid of the
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dark would always cover my mirror before bed and had unexplainable experiences but also super afraid SL intrigued with
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the Paranormal just a normal weirdo kid skipped to college me 2005 to 2009 I found myself in a physically and
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emotionally abusive relationship I'm sorry I know me too during the super dark period I would see a ton of red
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Cardinals like a [ __ ] ton from flying past my wind Shield while I was driving one physically hitting my rearview
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mirror while I sat in a parked car wood cutouts of them randomly like they were everywhere it became a family joke
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because I would see them that often however at the time I didn't understand the significance and red Cardinals are
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super symbolic yeah aren't they supposed to be like it's a loved one yeah uh in 2009 I was about to graduate college and
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was still in this horribly abuse of relationship among other things he would tear me down about the fact that I was
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in college he'd always say i' always be in debt suck a dick bag I paid my school
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loans off four years ago [ __ ] yeah you did me hell yeah and I was wasting my time in school so you could imagine the
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joy of graduation was gone and I was just mostly beat down about it it sucks because when you're in that obviously
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like you're of course like soaking in what they're saying and like it hurts but people like that say [ __ ] like that
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to successful people because they're upset that they didn't do [ __ ] with their life and that they're not
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successful 100% they're threatened and they want to see it affect because they toce yeah and they want they it makes
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them feel like they achieved something cuz they'll never achieve anything of importance or significance so they have
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to by making you sad or feel less than so [ __ ] you dick bag yeah [ __ ] you dick
01:04:41
bag we hate you it was the week before graduation on Mother's Day weekend at the time my family had this tradition
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where we go to my grandmother's grave on Mother's Day weekend to say hi and just
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talk to her she passed away around Mother's Day and my mom did not get to see her before she passed suddenly so
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going around this time was super important for my mom that day in my head I told Grandma at her grave I wish she
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was here to see me graduate and if she could send me a sign to let me know she was watching over me boy did she ever
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the day before my graduation there was a religious ceremony at the University at
01:05:13
the time I was in the thick of organized religion ick that's I did not say that the was WR saying that's her personal
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feelings nothing out of the ordinary happened and the day um and the next day to my knowledge I graduated and had a
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lunch to celebrate I was so emotional that day self-worth was low and I remember just feeling so down that night
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even though I had just accomplished this great thing later that night my mom calls me and says hey so I didn't want
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to make you sad earlier but did you recognize the Bible verse on the program from the borate ceremony I had no idea
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what she was referring to she says the program had the verse from your grandmother's Tombstone on it and today
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is the anniversary of her death May 15th the the verse was from was one from Isaiah I have called you by name you are
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mine I immediately started to cry and told my mom I had asked Grandma to Give Me A Sign she was still here with me
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while at her grave this was my sign and I almost missed it of all the Bible vers
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is in the entire world like what and like just like the even the words in that one like I've called you by my name
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you are mine and the fact that's that's the thing and the fact of all of them in
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the world the one that's on her tombstone right and the that she passed away on the anniversary of her death
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like you can't just let that go yeah a lot of times I just feel like there's no such thing as coincidence definitely not
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like that cut to present day and Grandma still gives me signs when I need them sorry I had a hiccup the last one was
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when I decided to quit my professional dance career and was just doing a standard cry in the shower about it the
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lights flickered while I was ugly crying in the shower and for some reason I was
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like hi Grandma but also freaked out because I was home alone the next day I'm on Google Maps trying to find a
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halfway location point to interview someone for a job on my team at the time my grandparents house happened to be in
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the city that was the in between point between Dallas and Fort Worth where we were to meet I plopped the little yellow
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guy on the map in a random spot to see if I could find a coffee shop to my surprise the street view was in the
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middle of the cemetery where my grandmother is buried no come on come on I had to call my mom to confirm the name
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of the cemetery and it was it was just another sign that she was here with me while I was going through a tough time
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that's Bonkers isn't that crazy all of those things flick together I've since talked to a medium and she told me my
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grandma is one of my Spirit guides the medium gave me a specific situation that I had alone in my bedroom where I was
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watching this emotional ass music video where a woman had dementia and was lump in throat crying she said my grandma was
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there and that I shouldn't worry about that like this was a private moment alone I had not talked about it the
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medium said it was a way to prove my grandma is always with me the medium also told me that birds were another way
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she was showing up a hem Cardinals I'm sure she was like get out of that relationship idiot lastly the medium
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also told me my grandma says that I shouldn't smoke the devil's lettuce IR roll I love that she's like guiding you
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through all these hard times and showing up when she needs and she's also like stop smoking weed down the weed come on
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theil's lettuce and I love that everything else you're like oh my God Grandma of course that when you're like
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I roll okay Grandma all right anywh who I have so much comfort knowing grandma has always been with me working through
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these difficult times that must feel very comforting actually absolutely I also want to point out that if you do
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want to connect with loved ones that have passed you just have to ask and pay attention to the signs I love that y
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I'll write back someday to tell you some other spooky Tales I've had the little dead girl saying hi or the time I lived
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in a haunted house guys you got to send these I want these you guys can send them all in one p a if you feel like it
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like if it's not overwhelming to write all of that at once we're for it yeah I'm attaching a few things pick of
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beautiful grandmother Josephine she is gorgeous a queen and she just looks like a hot [ __ ] she looks like a hot [ __ ]
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yeah she's slay yeah her gravestone with the verse and my program with the same verse and some of my past Halloween
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costumes because I go all the way out love y'all Menin men I love all these these pictures of
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Grandma Josephine are like they're the most classic like 40s yes pin upy beautiful gal and she's just smiling and
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all of them like so happy the wedding picture in particular she just looks so happy I love it I love it and I'm pretty
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sure your grandpa is or like whoever she married is winking in the picture say he's winking in the picture and when I
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got tell you guys that me does Halloween correctly oh my God me does Halloween correctly parties for Halloween she goes
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all the way off truly I love it all the way off love love love wow these I love these listener Tales so much they were
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all like symbol handpick these I did I love a guardian angel I had a moment yesterday I texted
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I was like stressed out about everything in life and that we're always stressed out about that we're constantly stressed
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out about yep and also my armpit was swollen so that was scary but it turns out that I just have an infected hair
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follicle isn't that super cute yum um but I was like oh no what does this mean and I was leaving Elena's house and I
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coll I don't know if you heard me scream no I didn't I collided with the largest
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dragonfly I've ever seen I saw that dragonfly after you left it hung around okay and the dogs were trying to eat it
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out of the air I'm glad they didn't cuz I think I knew that dragonfly and I like
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I'm not kidding you I collided with it like it like skitted across my fingers like I feel like it was trying to get my
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attention and I just said to like somebody that has passed away in my life like hey if that was you like I love you
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like thank you and I was like in my head kind of doubting myself like who knows if that person that I love is like
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representing themselves by colliding into me as a dragonfly sounds a little crazy when you we it like that and then
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I'm pulling out of the street and I pull behind a car with the license plate 888
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which is like an angel number so hello hello and I just I I felt comforted and it was it was during a moment where you
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needed to be com and during a moment where that particular person like knew the situation and like knew how much I hate
01:11:34
doing certain things and you know being wrapped up with certain things things and they were always there for me
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through that see I love that yeah exactly and I believe I I think that too I think it was that person I was and I I
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just like immediate cuz that's the thing like I immediately was like all right I'm good and it was like such an
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inexplicable feeling of just like cuz I was so dressed and then it was just like
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vom and that's when you know like something has shifted yeah yeah and it was funny cuz I got home and Drew was
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like I was actually thinking of that person today like that's funny oh that's so funny yeah I love that so I totally
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believe in all that stuff and I [ __ ] love it and they were just beautiful Tales they were gorgeous Tails I loved
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it's about you guys yeah and we get to read your stories and learn more about you it's so fantastic we just take you
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