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hey weirdos I'm Ash and I'm Elena and I am John Lee Brody and this is a special listener Tales edition of morbid
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with one of our fantastic morbid Network hosts John Lee Brody of that was pretty
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scary [Music] [Laughter] thanks for being here John oh yeah thanks for having me as a as a proud
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weirdo of first of all happy five year anniversary of the more podcast because I've been a proud weirdo for those five
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years and it's the what the wood anniversary so wouldn't it be nice if we got five more years yeah if anyone else
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wants to say hi hold on Shelby is about to make an appearance and I'm gonna lose
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my mind where is Shelby oh my God look at that Corgi Shelby is she feeling so much better
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she is feeling better and I think she wants to take her nap right now she's like she's like I'm not working right
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now she's like like she knew she must have known she heard y'all's voices because she's she hears
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your girl's voices all the time because I always have the podcast on so she's like wait a minute are they here I love
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it she's like I know them why do they sound familiar I know well this is special
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because it's the five year anniversary like months and you're are like special guests of the month
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I love that and it's also aapi heritage month and it's mental health awareness month so it's a lot of we got the
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trifecta going on and it's very exciting and I've uh it's crazy because I feel like I've known you two well I have
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known you two for five years but now we actually know each other we're working together and it's a very special Dynamic
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and it's uh just it's all I have it all kind of culminate here is very very special it
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well everybody has been is pretty scary people are loving it including me and me
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I'm so glad to hear that well we got a you know we got a long road ahead and uh we'll get to our five year anniversary
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uh for that um in good time and and also there was a really positive response to
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my Instagram little mini Deep dive so I'll be doing more of those to anyone who is enjoying that there will be more
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of those coming uh I think one uh won't be coming this week so this should be uh
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more good stuff I'm glad people like it we certainly love doing it we love working with you all and we love all our
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listeners too we're so happy to have you and I love those deep Dives they're so fun those are huge there's more there's
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more trust me that might be a longer list than our list of horror movies I'm the person that's always looking at
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those little details and I like to just shine a light on those things so that people go oh wait yeah it's not just a
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happy accident that's happening there may be a calculated move in terms of why that's there I think that's awesome get
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the inside scoop yeah and I think what works with your show is that it's like such good perspectives like it's a
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different perspective than just talking like like even like we have scream and it's just like three you know us three
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idiots talking about horror movies but it's like it's fun you have no Insight whatsoever that's fun but like it's
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really fun to hear it from like professionals on either side of the situation so I think it's like a
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brilliant idea for a show oh thank you well and and it's a lot thanks to you for going for the idea because I know
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Freddie it was on a like a random general meeting three because you'll have the same manager and then he called
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me said hey I think we got this this horror podcast idea is going to go in a different way I'm like oh okay great all
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right let's log for the ride yeah and Freddie's my big brother and so to work with someone that you're really close
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with like YouTube you two are you know obviously best friends and everything that's Freddy myself and he came up in
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the industry a lot sooner than I did when he was doing she's all that I was in junior high
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yeah I mean and and everybody won every guy wanted to be Zack Seiler in high school
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yeah and none of us succeeded maybe a couple did no you guys are like the sweetest Freddy
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that really was what it was we had like a random meeting with him and we were like he is so kind and so nice and it
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was just such a good idea and we were like how do we not jump on this exactly well I'm glad you did I'm glad we're
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here and I'm glad to be I'm honored to be here for listener tales and the part of the the flagship the mothership
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podcast of The Morbid Network yes and we heard you have a tale to start us off with
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yes so this is for my good friends back home in Palatine Illinois shout out to all my friends who I went to friend high
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school with even the ones that made fun of me who are now going to be my friend because like they love morbid but
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whatever oh my God I love it you gave me so much street cred with the people that
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actually gave me a hard time it's just amazing it's funny good I'm glad screw them
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exactly but but keep listening and subscribing to morbid exactly yes please do keep on keep on keeping that going so
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there are these two haunted roads in Barrington Illinois which is about 15 minutes away from my hometown of
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Palatine Illinois and the origin stories are a little murky they kind of vary a little bit it's like the Joker in The
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Dark Knight he keeps telling a different origin story of how he got his scars so
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we don't exactly know when this originated but there's a Rocco Cuba Road which leads to this Cemetery called The
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White Cemetery so this does go back to the 1800s and whether White Cemetery means uh whites only or not I don't know
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it could be I don't know if I really want to go there that era but considering there's a very heavy
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Mafia and gangster influence in Chicago we're talking the Al Capone's and the John dillingers I'm guessing that that
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might have had something to do with it or maybe that's where they bury their victims or whatever so Cuba Road is
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known to be a haunted road which leads to the cemetery it intersects with this other world called rainbow road which
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leads to this secluded house which apparently back in the day was this prominent like Scrooge mcduck's house
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Richie Rich's house it was a symbol of this wealth that you would never ever in your wildest dreams get and the rumor is
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now that at one point it was actually a like an insane asylum and the building was abandoned there's a rumor that there
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was a house on Cuba Road that burned down years ago and the Ghost of the woman who lived there is still there and
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looking over the land and apparently gets angry if you try to get out and see where the house was um just like get off
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so long yeah she's I think she's the OG of get off my lawn I love that maybe that's why
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she's so angry because people are using her phrase and not giving her royalties which um
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that does uh that does play into the wga strike so maybe uh our old lady on the uh Cooper Road is the uh the OD of uh
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Fair practices and fair pay topical we support you maybe that's all she wanted we support well my whole interpretation
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of ghosts is we we tend to think that every ghost is going to be evil because we have like Ghostbusters we think the
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Exorcist and that that's just how they portrayed on screen but there's also Casper the Friendly Ghost who just
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tragically died as a kid and is just lingering in whip staff I'm going off of the Casper movie that came out in the
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90s remember yeah with the human version being Devin Sala and every guy was jealous of Devon
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Salvo because he's like wait every girl likes Devin Sala I don't look like Kevin
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Sala there's no hope for me it was the hand shout out to Devon anyways I digress it was by the time we all got
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our driver's licenses The rite of passage was you have to drive Cuba Road because that's the urban legend we grew
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up with and it's so fun if you're really a tough guy if you're really a manly man because remember this
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is the late 90s early 2000s people still talk like that yep if you're really a man you're gonna drive down Cuba Road
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I'm like oh okay I mean I don't know how um I was like I don't know how my anatomy
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and like this I don't know how this ties into the science of uh whether I'm a male or not but okay
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because it's high school we want to be cool yeah and um I remember as me my best friend growing up Chris Ryerson so
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shout out to Chris Ryerson who shout out is a teacher in Barrington now and wow I
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was texting him last night I'm like hey man do you remember when we drove Cuba Road with uh shout out I think it was
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our friend Lauren Jackie and Connor and I think we were trying to impress them to show them like how great we were on
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Cooper Road this is amazing already it's taking me back it's got a nostalgic feel
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too it does and it's taking me back the more I speak out loud about it it's it's
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funny how memories work they're pretty dormant in our brain but the moment you bring it up you're like oh wow like the
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whole flash of memories come back details you can roll in yeah you can like smell it yeah yeah and it was our
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other friend Pat who was also in the car so Pat Pat's the friend who you know you
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had the [ __ ] friend who but they're your [ __ ] so it's okay oh yeah absolutely and there's always one I'm
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leaving his last name out because he's a college basketball coach so I don't want
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to get him in any trouble but he's the [ __ ] friend but you know Pat you know who you are you know I love you but you
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are an [ __ ] we feel that yeah so we're driving down Cube like all right we're gonna do this thing like
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guys we got to play cool we got to be cool I didn't know I don't know how to play it cool now like let alone at the
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age of 16 17 18. what am I doing but whatever they do it on TV how hard can it be so we're driving down Cooper Road
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and right away and this is something we always heard about there's these little white and
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green orbs of light that this isn't just reflecting from our headlights or anything these things are like following
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us they're like kind of surrounding the car and it's like this is and there's no
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street lights on Cooper Road [Laughter] just defies science and all it took was one of the girls to
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say oh my god do you see that and then all of a sudden once we wish they said that and we saw that we couldn't unsee
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it and then all of a sudden in my mind I'm like uh oh wait maybe this isn't just an urban legend I don't know this
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is how my story ends like do I never like get to be Zacks either and she's all that like like no like I wasn't
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going to be prom King anyway but there was at least a chance if I was alive it's gonna happen and so now I'm like
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I'm driving in my mom's Volvo 850 which she still has to this day because you're
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incredible because we're Korean we don't get rid of anything so just it's in our
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garage shout out to her we got a shout out to my mom my mom who is the real superhero and with Mother's Day coming
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up AKA superheroes day uh she's for sure is that but all right my mom's Volvo and we're
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listening to like DMX or whatever yes mix CD mix I am literally there all of a sudden party up was not as an
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upbeat tune because it was returning it became ominous oh yes and then then again you hear of DMX's
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backstory so maybe that's all on brand it was being foretelling of the news we're gonna get about DMX uh years from
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then so we're seeing the orbs of light and then we're getting to the cemetery and I swear I saw a car turn into the
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cemetery that's weird people are here at night and we go down there there's no car now I like I swear this will happen
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I'm like okay you all saw that right like yeah there was a car I'm like yeah we saw like some car points of the
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cemetery which one that's I think a red flag when yeah we're there at eight o'clock it's pitch black on this you
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know I think maybe I don't think it's an unincorporated road but it certainly felt that way and so we get to the
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cemetery we don't see anything but we still see the orbs of light and um and this is before you could just get on
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your smartphone and Google stuff we couldn't film anything because we didn't have that capability unless I took my
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dad's like JVC video camera and made a mini movie yes which I did just not I did that all the time yeah and I used to
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edit on two VCRs and everything that's that was my start in filmmaking yeah but uh for some reason today we didn't bring
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the camera gear because we didn't think we needed it and um and then Pat named Pat was like I'm gonna go into the
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cemetery and just look myself like what what are you talking about like we agreed we'd stay in the car
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like a bad action movie in the 80s like no like don't you know what like in Last
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Action Hero don't you know what happens when the partner goes with he always gets killed like you gotta stay in the
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car you know what though classic Pat it is classic Pat yeah he he was on a different mission to really prove like
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oh yeah I'm the alpha of this group yeah sure sure Pat Uh whatever you need to tell you I love you I love you sure Jan
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so he's like he gets out of the car and we're like Chris and I are looking at each other like we're gonna you know
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like we're gonna have to go with them but we also can't leave everybody here so we're trying to figure out what's
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going on he takes two steps out of the car and it was like before Jordan peel even had the idea for
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this basically we see Paco nope he doesn't even go there and um and that was kind of the end of that but then we
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remember there's Rainbow Road and we said okay but if we're here we gotta check out Rainbow Road and which is
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crazy to me because at this point I'm I'm not gonna lie I'm a little creeped out because
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as much as people want to say there's no such thing as ghosts like you can't definitively definitively prove that
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there are or there aren't uh that's that's my interpretation of it unless you can conclusively prove just like we
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can prove two plus two equals four that you can prove that we are or not goes I'm open to all possibilities that's
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always how my brains worked yeah so that's my thinking I'm like look first of all my curfew is like 11 30. it's not
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too late to get out of here yeah I'll let no fury like a a worried Korean mom wondering where her son is on a
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Saturday night it let alone if she knew we were on some haunted road in Barrington doing whatever whatever
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you've got her Volvo I have her Volvo 850 the same car that Sally Field drove and Mrs Doubtfire just didn't want
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instead of red oh yep yeah it took you right there before the 20th Century Fox so shout out to Mrs
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Doubtfire in Sally Field so we're like all right well we're here I'm looking at my watch I'm like okay it's 10 30. I got
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another hour before I got to get everybody home and meet my curfew because I legitimately was the that kid
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who would get grounded and wouldn't be able to go out the next weekend if I was there like a minute later than my curfew
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oh yeah so like well I heard there's an insane asylum on Rainbow Road okay all right so
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we drive down there I swear I heard police lights so I'm like okay like maybe the police are shutting it down
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because too many people go there and they just want to Usher people out or maybe people who actually live there on
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Cooper Road were like man [ __ ] these guys that are trying to look around all the time it's like I'm just trying to
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live our life here like maybe there's nothing wrong so like we're like looking around
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looking around I swear we heard I swear we saw police lights and Sirens we get down further there's nothing there oh
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I'm like okay uh this is this is strange again so like well which way which way do we go to this the same Asylum and
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he's like I don't know I'm like what do you mean you don't know who's your idea like I just want to do Cuba Road you
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want to do rainbow road now what's going on I don't know why my voice is so high
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now and like I'm not exaggerating I'm I'm pretty sure like I did in that sort of
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tone but also not trying to show that I was that scared so we're turning right we don't see it we're in like pitch
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black and now I'm going from scared to kind of being like pissed I'm like what the [ __ ] like like it was enough to do
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Cuba you had you had to just take it too far now we gotta go here we look down the other side and we do see just this
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Iron Gate I'm like okay I think we oh no I think we found it and it's this really ominous
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and dark long driveway right out of a Tim Burton movie uh except you're not as welcoming movies as creepy as they are
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they're like you're still like I want to go there yeah there's a joke this was like to it this was like Bizarro Tim
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Burton yeah yeah where it's like a level below Tim Burton you shall not go and you shall not pass
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was basically the uh the thing here Pat once again is like oh my God is that it like we should hop the fence we should
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do this I'm like why are you like cool why are you giving the ideas here who brought you here oh wait it was me oh
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wait it was me because you're our [ __ ] friend again I love you Pat but still it's gonna be the running joke
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that every time I come on we'll do a shout out to my ass shout out to [ __ ] Pat yes I'm here for it
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so we we see that in like so we all like actually make a choice like okay let's let's all get out like someone's gonna
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get out of the car we all get out of the car we all it's like all for one one for
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all we gotta be let's do this so we get pretty close to this like Iron Gate and then I swear like I saw we saw like
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headlights coming towards us like oh no no like this could be a ghost car this could be this so we never got uh too far
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into exploring what the house could be or what it isn't there are legends that say some people have hopped the gate and
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they actually get into the abandoned ruins of the house and they make it down to the basement where apparently
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I have no way to confirm this or deny it so I'm just going to state that this is
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what I've heard so I'm not saying this is a fact to anybody listening but apparently if you make it to the
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basement of this supposed abandoned insane asylum there's like bloody pentagrams painted on the floor
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and stuff like that and then I remember the mob backstory of Chicago because John Dillinger and Al Capone used to
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always come up to the north suburbs to escape Chicago a little bit for a little r r or whatever but it's also very
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possible that they could have used this abandoned place to hide some of the dead
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bodies 100 you know what I mean so that's where my brain goes now back then it's like dude I gotta get I gotta get
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home for curfew that matters and I don't want to look like a wuss in front of these girls because that was so
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important to me so once we saw the headlights and we're just all like okay guys we gotta go like
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because if the cops get us like we're all screwed and we were all like athletes and we all had stuff to do and
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like if we all got in trouble that actually would be pretty dire consequences for school and me I'm
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terrified of what would happen if I got in trouble with the I'd be more afraid of my mom than the police let's just do
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that so I was like I would have been safer in jail yeah I feel like I don't want to even play with this exactly so
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that was my personal tale of Cuba and Rainbow Road and that we went a couple other times and the other times weren't
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as intense as the first time because you're going in you don't know what to expect yeah
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you've heard people tell you stories but I swear those orbs everyone I've talked to that's been
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there they say the same thing the orbs like surround your car and they follow you they're not just light refractions
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and I'm not an expert in physics or anything but again there's no strings where were these boys
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so there's a belief that these are the spirits of Cuba Road kind of being Guardians and uh I would hope that
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they're just nice ghosts and they're hoping that you're not gonna kill anybody else that's what I was kind of
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thinking that they were like surrounding your car to be like hey you should go back like don't go this way
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it was it was the Devin sour Caster basically saying like if you don't go I can't keep you I was just gonna say
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saying can I keep you that one line changes everything for everything for a whole generation
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yeah and you know it's and it can only be said by Devin Sawa Circa the 90s yeah if I try to say that any man tried to
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say it's a wrap it would be like oof let's turn into a horror movies let's go absolutely you can keep me yeah
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it's uh it's up there with my favorite line deliveries of all time it's up there with Back To The Future Three when
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Marty McFly just has his realization about being called chicken and he just looks at Mad Dog tanning and goes he's
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an [ __ ] so it's like it's up there when it's very hard with that in terms of such
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iconic line delivery so so that was my personal tale of Cuba Road rainbow to be a 17 18 year old kid who's you
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know just first of all trying to figure out who the [ __ ] he is as a person which
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I really haven't figured out I mean it's really in recent years I figured that out but trying to look cool in front of
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these girls with your friend also trying not to be the wuss of the group sort of
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thing not that I think I am but look when you're dealing with the supernatural anything goes you don't
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know what's going to happen I was gonna say I'm not trying to mess with that um so yeah and I I did put uh
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uh a thing out on my Facebook last night to any of my hometown friends if they had any uh stories they want to tell me
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that may have been intense and I would love to share a couple with you please do
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this first one is from Kristen Koenig so shout out to you Kristen Koenig who actually helped she actually planned our
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our 20-year reunion last year oh damn so shout out to you Kristen for doing that
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uh I don't know why you got tasked with such a thankless yeah I was gonna say damn appreciate you
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so she wrote this on my Facebook I drove along Cuba past the old cemetery and saw
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the floating orb of light that follows you uh also got lost search in Rainbow Row for the Asylum traveled along a
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creepy little side road that turned out to be someone's driveway once we realized and turn tried to turn around a
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man burst out of his house with a shotgun and scared the [ __ ] out of us okay and then she also mentioned that
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there is also an urban legend that if you stop on the train tracks and honk your horns three times a ghost train
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will come I love those kind of urban legends those are the most fun yep we never found the train track and we did
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look another time but we never found that and uh maybe I should probably should just go on there during the
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daytime to get a GI of the geography if I was smart back then but uh that's just
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not what happened and uh Kristen B shaml said a bunch of my friends and I drove there way back in our day late in the
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fall and we saw a faint green light not orbs more like Aurora Borealis style green light emanating from that
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graveyard a couple of guys got out and went in with a flashlight to see what was going on because they thought
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someone was pranking or left glow sticks out there but came back after a few minutes with no answers but both were
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freaked out because one of them was sure someone tapped them lightly on the shoulder he looked around and no one was
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there and our other friend uh parentheses flashlight guy wasn't close enough to have done it to this day they
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still get quiet and uncomfortable when we talk about it oh look at me the chilly Willies yeah not much
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and uh so it's it's fun to first of all hear people from people that I haven't heard from in a long time and some of
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the others share with me that they heard those same urban legends and nothing really happened but for every one of
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those there's those other stories like from the two Christians I didn't even put that down
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it's a wild wild thing and I I think that's the sort of stuff is fun and um you know but also I'm glad I'm in the
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comfort of my own home and it's just a it's a big Enigma and I kind of hope that they make a movie out of it maybe I
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gotta make that movie no you should you must I was thinking it could be uh you ever seen the Curacao movie rashamon
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so rashaman in a nutshell is basically a singular event but from different perspectives and how our perspectives
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can uh make the story a little different with the same result but the journey getting there is different oh that was
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so I figured because yeah yeah so I figured because there's so many different stories and different
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interpretations I think that's how you structure the movie it's just maybe these different Tales almost and all it
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gets juxtaposed almost Pulp Fiction style culminating into like Cuba Road and what this singular thing happening
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there and what everybody thinks they saw or didn't see oh that would be so cool I
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want to see that and then we can uh complement that with a morbid episode with a deeper dive in
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the road yeah I mean so it's just cross-promoting all right I think we have a game plan guys TM oh yeah
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that's ours so um thank you for letting me share my story of Cuba Rhodes this is uh it's
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taking me back to my teen years I love that quite a bit ago yeah that's a good one thank you for sharing I like the
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Aurora Borealis green coming out of the graveyard I could like picture them immediately I was like oh I want to go
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in there I want to go to those ruins now and see the pentagrams I know maybe field trip I was just gonna say
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field trip I would love to host you both in my hometown because we will do the Cooper Road thing but also there's
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monkey dunkers which is the only place I get donuts it's in my hometown of Palatine that's that's sold it right we
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love a donut I'm concerned or several and my cousin Natalie is like the head of marketing for Lou Malnati's pizza so
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we'll get some deep dish pizzas uh uh thrown our way as well so I just I would love to host you two in my hometown and
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be cool to just do like a little side quests with The Morbid girls hell yes see you just gotta double hell yeah
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a great great thing Shelby is part of the squad as far as hell yeah that's our girl right there
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well should we go on to some random listener tell hell yeah brother until you start us off yeah I
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love that all right so the one I'm going to start off with is called Boogeyman birdie and the haunting of room 118
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obsessed by Sarah brought to you by Sarah it says what's up you wonderful weirdos my name is
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Sarah spelled the correct way with no extrenuous consonants little winky face I love the Pod and have been skipping
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around the episodes for the last several months I've never been much into True Crime into the True Crime genre but
00:27:18
decided to give it a go when your podcast was recommended to me by a co-worker I love spooky [ __ ] but tend to
00:27:24
gravitate more towards ghost stories and paranormal type things rather than True
00:27:29
Crime because honestly the real life [ __ ] is way more terrifying because real life or real deaths accurate and it
00:27:35
freaks me out I don't always have nightmares but when I do it's the kind where you can't distinguish between
00:27:40
dreaming and being awake yes I said that like the world's most interesting man from the Dos Equis commercials staple
00:27:46
space Stay spooky my friends will do anyway I've been listening for a while but the
00:27:53
heebie-jeebies got the better of me and I had to take a break after having a nightmare involving Richard Ramirez
00:27:58
That's right The Night Stalker decided to stock at my way into his way into my dreams one night recently and proceeded
00:28:05
to chase me through the halls and classrooms of the high school where I currently teach I don't love that for
00:28:11
you being a teacher in these scare in these times is scary enough I don't need some psycho killer thrown into the mix
00:28:18
sheesh and you are right being a teacher is scary enough now and we appreciate you they don't pay me enough to deal
00:28:24
with that level of bullshitery and you would think that the terror would stop there but plot twist my mother decides
00:28:30
to make an appearance in the Scholastic hellscape my subconscious has so elegantly designed and is waiting in my
00:28:36
classroom to convince me to sit down with Mr Ramirez for a nice chat because he is and I quote a lovely young man
00:28:43
Excuse me while I schedule an emergency session with my therapist because I feel
00:28:48
like there's a lot to unpack here so Linda needless to say I stepped away from the Pod for all of about uh 24
00:28:54
hours what can I say y'all are just too good at what you do no need to fully hold on to your butts but maybe make
00:29:01
sure they are secure in case we encounter any turbulence I'm quite proud of the fact that I've
00:29:05
lived most of my life free from Supernatural natural encounters it's somewhat of achievement considering I
00:29:11
grew up in Uber rural Georgia and spent a few years of my young life involved in
00:29:16
a Pentecostal Church where belief in the Supernatural is very real think speaking
00:29:21
in tongue Spirit possession all that sort of carrying on anywho after graduating high school in way back times
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2006. I like vintage I'm 2004 so 2002. there you go 2014. oof stabbed right in the chest I attended
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Carson Newman College in another rural town in the foothills of the Appalachian or Appalachian mountains which one is it
00:29:50
I think we've been told more often than it's Appalachian I'm gonna go with that because I think that is yeah Appalachian
00:29:56
I had a softball scholarship not super relevant except to denote my tough girl status into late blooming lesbian hood
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and subsequent Detachment from my alter conservative religious upbringing Shug shrug all female athletes were uh housed
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in Butler Hall named for the late birdie Maples Butler it's a grandiose three-story brick dormitory complete
00:30:18
with classical Grecian facade oh that sounds beautiful that does I was just thinking that and in the lobby of the
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dorm hung Birdie's portrait see the first attached image and they put an image of him uh note the creep factor of
00:30:30
the eyes birdie is a woman or I meant her sorry so old Bert there she is there's birdie very Regal
00:30:38
birdie gorgeous gorgeous girly so oh Bert a former graduate and faculty member of the college had made a sizable
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contribution towards the construction of the dormitory in the early 50s apparently bestowing a ludicrous
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ludicrous amount of cash to an Institute of Higher Learning is enough to get your
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name on a building but not enough to have a say in the location of said building because the Brilliant Minds
00:31:00
behind the construction decided it was a fine idea to plop a girl's dormitory in
00:31:05
the front yard of an old as [ __ ] Cemetery sidebar it is not a fine idea side sidebar I'm still convinced there are
00:31:13
Graves under the foundation of the dorm side side sidebar the threat of dead bodies didn't deter my friends and me
00:31:19
from sledding down the cemetery hill behind behind the dorm on cafeteria trees oh my God
00:31:26
also the dorm shares a property line with an abandoned Hospital insert heebie-jeebies
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so when I moved into Butler Hall my freshman year I managed to snag a sweet sweet on a first floor of the East wing
00:31:38
of the building room 118. most residents lived on the East Wing floors because the West Halls were always vacant and we
00:31:45
were told a myriad of reasons why molds electrical issues Plumbing plot problems
00:31:50
hauntings Etc I love that it goes from mold Electrical Plumbing hauntings you know like just what have you throw that
00:31:58
in there well naturally the little asterisk about hauntings caught my attention and after some light reading
00:32:05
through the annals of the college's history I discovered that many of these stories that cropped up over the decades
00:32:10
featured the ghost of the one and only birdie Maples Butler gasp oh but it really wasn't too big a deal
00:32:18
because no one lived in those Halls right well sort of a few years before I arrived a fraternity on campus had
00:32:25
managed to obtain permission to host an annual haunted house in those abandoned Halls of Butler dorm that was actually
00:32:31
quite surprising because Carson Newman is a conservative Baptist school and this particular haunted house dubbed
00:32:38
Frightmare Manor was not some light-hearted cheap ass Carnival Fun House I'm talking scenes of demonic
00:32:44
Conjuring dismemberment Gore in abundance chicken gizzards and liver livers sign a waiver type haunted house
00:32:52
a damn that's wild complete with gallons of rather tasty albeit realistic fake blood can talk concocted from Hershey's
00:33:02
syrup peanut butter for texture corn syrup and red food dye that's interesting sounds like a good combo we
00:33:09
smelled like Reese's cups for weeks I say we because as soon as I heard about the open cast call I decided to
00:33:15
participate as an actor in The Haunt and it was totally rad or whatever the youths are saying these days I think
00:33:21
they still say rad I still say rad so that's right that's rad right I think that's rad I think so every weekend in
00:33:29
October in the entire week of Halloween residents of Butler Hall were serenaded with screaming wailing chainsaws and
00:33:36
other spooky sounds that emitted from the rooms of The West Wing from the basement to the second floor that sounds
00:33:41
awesome sounds rad sounds [ __ ] rad aside from the general creepiness of the scenes in the haunt there always seemed
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to be a presence that most of the actors myself included were aware of like something was watching us from just
00:33:55
beyond the next Shadow and occasionally we would catch drafts of icy wind blowing down the corridors despite the
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fact that the AC units on that side of the building had not worked in years yep you bet I noped my Reese's cup ass right
00:34:08
out of there as soon as the haunt closed for the night heebies and gb's Galore I
00:34:13
thought for sure I'd be rid of those heebie-jeebies once The Haunting season ended and I went back to my comfy
00:34:18
heebie-jeebie Free Zone on the East Hall nice wish you naive Childs I didn't say that she did
00:34:26
that Christmas in keeping with the spirit of the season I decided to help decorate the lobby of the dorm remember
00:34:32
the creepy portrait of dear sweet birdie yeah I hadn't forgotten her either and after a night of good wholesome Baptist
00:34:39
College beer pong my Jolly inebrien itself thought Hmm this old lady looks a little too screwgy let's deck her Halls
00:34:46
so I promptly cut out a quick Santa Claus hat and beard and taped that [ __ ] to the glass with comp with the
00:34:53
confidence confidence of Pablo [ __ ] Picasso had iPhones existed at the time you best believe I
00:34:59
would have plastered my handiwork all over the gram I stumbled my way back to my room pleased as could be and filled
00:35:06
with dare I say Christmas spirit and promptly passed the [ __ ] out we only had a few weeks left before Christmas break
00:35:12
and every time I walked past Birdie's portrait I got a good laugh at the ridiculous decorations but that was the
00:35:19
wrong thing to do I had a feeling I don't think Bernie's gonna like you you don't LOL at birdie okay birdie just has
00:35:26
that vibe that you don't LOL at birdie no about three weeks after my little craft capade the spooky started this
00:35:34
portrait looked like some looked something like the second image after I added my festive festive Decor I can't
00:35:41
talk here's the second one birdie Santa Claus Edition mind you I didn't have a roommate at the
00:35:50
time because the girl who had been my roomie got a promotion to R.A on the second floor and moved out which fist
00:35:57
pumped the air heck yeah I'll take the solo room that's gonna be sweet oh my sweet innocent summer self shaking
00:36:05
my head that night upon the stroke of you guessed it 3 A.M I was rudely awakened by distorted muffled screams
00:36:14
coming from the massive 20-inch Box TV on my dresser the same massive 20-inch TV that I had turned off prior to going
00:36:23
to bed and whose remote control rested peacefully on my desk five or six feet away from the bed where I sat now rigid
00:36:30
and heart racing confused as [ __ ] the white static illuminated the room just enough for me to see my way over to the
00:36:37
desk and retrieve the remote to turn the TV back off it took a few minutes but I
00:36:41
managed to fall back asleep still too disoriented to think clearly about the incident so she just woke up to like
00:36:48
blood curdling screams and static on her TV and she was like okay see you later good night's rest is important I guess
00:36:57
so all right Sarah priorities man priorities you know everybody's got him Sarah for chick than I I would have
00:37:03
burned my house down and I also played softball I can't claim to be that tough I played softball but this is actually
00:37:09
like this is Sarah Connor from Terminator it's a really badass that would make more sense here yeah it took
00:37:16
a few minutes but I managed to fall back asleep too disoriented of course three weeks passed with no further disruptions
00:37:22
and I thought it had merely been a fluke until it happened again same time 3 A.M
00:37:28
same [ __ ] TV turning on to static and muffled screaming I don't like that only
00:37:34
this time the closet light was on no no now I'm someone who requires complete darkness to go to sleep because ADHD be
00:37:42
[ __ ] around when there's any kind of Illumination dumb so I don't sleep with any kind of light on and the closet was
00:37:49
on the opposite side of the room for my bed and again the TV remote was on the desk this time I managed to game some
00:37:56
modicum of mental coherence to weakly vocalize what the actual [ __ ] is happening and as the last syllable
00:38:03
passed by my lips the closet light clicked off oh no no no no no no no no no as though whatever or whoever was
00:38:11
saying oh my bad bro I forgot you were asleep let me get the lights let me get the lights for you that would have
00:38:16
freaked me out so bad I feel like that was just like [ __ ] around with her I would have loved if she actually heard
00:38:22
from the closet oh my bad bro like I forgot you were asleep let me get to like I would have changed this story the
00:38:29
movie version that's like oh it's okay but at this point I'm like nah don't bother because I sure as [ __ ] ain't
00:38:37
sleeping for the rest of the night the following day I recounted the story to my good friend and fellow Butler
00:38:43
resident M who listened with interest and said as nonchalantly as can be hmm sounds like birdie is messing with you
00:38:50
great nothing says happy holidays like a good old-fashioned haunting by the Ghost
00:38:55
of Christmas Past while I was thoroughly disturbed by her Revelation my inner Dean Winchester of Supernatural Fame had
00:39:03
sparked to life and was running through old episodes of Supernatural to remember
00:39:07
how to 86 a ghost of course Salt and burn the bones brilliant or would have been if I fancied desecrating
00:39:16
bertrude's final resting place which I did not good good and actually had no idea where it was actually located even
00:39:22
better I love how that was just like yes I will just burn the bones and salt them
00:39:27
it'll be fine so I spent the next few nights anticipating her return to my room and sure enough 3 am on the nose TV
00:39:35
static closet light and oh lovely the mini fridge is now opening on its owns like birdie is rooting around for a
00:39:43
snack something about that is really funny a mini fridge just like opening and closing by itself I like that Vision
00:39:49
I like that yeah that one doesn't feel as threatening no it's that just feels silly it's because it's small yeah it's
00:39:55
it's small you know that would humanize the ghost for me I'm like oh yeah you know like in Casper when like Fatso
00:40:02
stretch and stinky they're they're eating food yes I love snacks looking for a snacks we
00:40:10
got hummus we got carrots help yourself let me know what you want me to stock in
00:40:13
there I'll do I'll just leave a Post-It exactly I got a Costco membership it's all good oh yeah what do you like
00:40:20
together it's cool bertrude what do you like I'll buy in bulk at my Wit's End I yelled into the
00:40:26
semi-darkness what the [ __ ] birdie get a life and leave me the [ __ ] alone I don't
00:40:32
know if that was quite the way you wanted to go about that yeah that was mean and swear to dog in the midst of
00:40:39
the static buzzing from the TV I hear Santa Claus is coming to town she said get the hat off of my GD portrait right
00:40:47
now then it hit me like a ton of bricks I had just yet the portrait birdie apparently was not a fan of her Jolly
00:40:56
Old Saint Nick get up and decided to seek retribution by freaking me the [ __ ] out until I removed it so I scooted my
00:41:04
flannel clad ass out the door down the hall and skidded to halt in front of the damn portrait ripping off the
00:41:09
construction paper hat and beard and one sweeping yoink I love that they did it that night they were like you know what
00:41:14
I got you yeah I'm not waiting I'll take care of this I trashed the offending paper and tape and slumped away to my
00:41:21
room the eyes of Birdie Maples Butler burning into my retreating backside bertrude I appeared cautiously around
00:41:28
the door frame into my room into my utter amazement and relief the TV was off the closet light was out and no
00:41:36
sound or sign of any disturbance could be detected birdie had left the building well not really the building but at
00:41:42
least she had returned to the West Wing seemingly appeased but there was a little posted on the fridge that said
00:41:47
get more Oreos I never heard anything else out of Bernie in my remaining time at Carson
00:41:54
Newman but I also never looked that portrait in the eye again though I could still feel her chilly gaze follow me
00:41:59
anytime I pass through the lobby so that's it I apologize for the lengthiness but what can I say we
00:42:05
English teachers are a loquacious Bunch oh I like that word I love that word yeah it feels right like loquacious oh
00:42:13
I'm gonna try that on Scrabble there you go that's a lot of points don't forget to keep it weird but not so weird that
00:42:18
you unwittingly insult the resident ghost of the oldest [ __ ] creepy ass millionaire namesake of your college
00:42:22
dormitory and she decides to haunt you right before Christmas because your drunk ass thought it would be funny to
00:42:27
dress her equally creepy ass barter to Santa Claus bye that was a good one that was impressive that was awesome great
00:42:34
Sarah you need to be writing for like every movie and TV show that the truly writing of that it was so good it was
00:42:41
really good I was there painting a picture yeah I liked that or maybe a portrait but um Gertrude portrait I love
00:42:50
it well I'm waiting for the movie version of this too maybe Nick Cage will be this investigator
00:42:56
he has to be what's going on here guys is there a ghost here you know I like how Southern you got that I know
00:43:07
so whatever man those are both fantastic and I loved them it felt right well our next one is listener Tales
00:43:16
haunted roads the time I let my teenagers talk me into dumb [ __ ] and I nope to the [ __ ] out of hatchet man Road
00:43:23
Michigan why did you no why did you yes the [ __ ] into hatchetman road yeah that's absolutely terrifying I
00:43:31
would have always noped out of there me too it says hello ladies here is my listener tale of the time I let my
00:43:37
teenage daughters talk me into doing something I knew better than to do and saw a demon ghost girl and had to nope
00:43:43
the [ __ ] out of there please excuse the bad grammar and punctuation when I started this I had a cold and my eardrum
00:43:49
ruptured as well oh that's [ __ ] awful that's horrible that's my biggest fear I
00:43:55
think I get a new biggest fear anytime somebody tells us that's awful there it is I kept myself busy for a small time
00:44:00
doing this still not tech savvy so uh yeah no still not tech savvy so I did make you but I didn't know how to double
00:44:07
space it I did make it a size 14 font for your viewing pleasure though so just know I tried and we appreciate you and
00:44:14
this is perfect I think it is double spaced hello ladies my name is Amber and yes you can say my name you can also use
00:44:21
my teenagers names because if you read this on the Pod we will all just [ __ ] ourselves just poop everywhere
00:44:27
I'm so sorry not a good visual Amber let's start literally that's some good [ __ ]
00:44:36
let's start off with the normal gushing we love you you ladies have made us laugh and cry and feel so many emotions
00:44:41
I appreciate everything you ladies do and all the time you take to making sure you have all the facts while respecting
00:44:46
all the victims and their families thank you thanks we started listening to your
00:44:49
pod during the pandemic I've never listened to podcasts before and you were the second one I'd found and I was
00:44:55
hooked then they'd listen to me or then they'd listen to it with me in the car and soon me listening without them would
00:45:01
hurt feelings because they loved you just as much as I did I love that thank you guys listener Tales are their
00:45:07
favorite and they've been begging me to send this in for a couple months so I'm finally taking the time to do it hell
00:45:12
yeah so when I was a teenager I grew up living about a mile from the creek this was the road or this was a road that the
00:45:20
pavement ended on and about a mile up was one of was a one lane bridge that was over a small Cold Creek it was stuck
00:45:26
the creek it was definitely not the most perfect area to smoke pod an underage drink a couple of beers that we've
00:45:33
hidden from our parents during the week nope as far as my kids are concerned their mother was a perfect angel who
00:45:40
would have never done things like that no and that's definitely not why they never would get away with anything
00:45:45
because I had never been there nor have I ever done that of course you have not know me either I believe that no lay
00:45:51
Jose never now fast forward to last summer when I was talking to an old friend from that time period And she
00:45:57
said something about Hatchet Man Road and I'm like where and she says the Crick Amber that place we used to hang
00:46:03
out at is one of the most haunted roads in Michigan looking back we'd never been
00:46:07
there at night except except one time when my brother's car broke down it just wouldn't start so we ended up walking
00:46:13
home and as it got dark I had been terrified I chalked it up to just being scared of the dark and my
00:46:19
brother trying to scare me so I of course tell my kids about it during one of their sleepovers where they're all
00:46:24
trying to scare each other I tell them about how the man was scared of the Apocalypse built a bomb shelter where he
00:46:30
made them all live until he slowly went mad then trying to spare his family of what he believed was coming he murdered
00:46:36
all of them with a hatchet and then killed himself damn that's dark and I love that you told that story out of
00:46:43
sleep oh I love it nighty night kids bye this turned into all four of them begging me to take them on a drive down
00:46:51
Hatchet Man Road those are some cool kids I love those kids and you're a cool Mom at first I said no but let's face it
00:46:58
I'm kind of a pushover and I love all the spooky things and I've definitely created these Monsters of mine so I cave
00:47:03
and I tell them all to load up I feel that hatchet man road is still only a hop skip and a jump away from where I
00:47:09
live now so it didn't take long for all of us to pull onto the dirt side of the road and come to a stop just a pause so
00:47:15
I could roll down the windows and turn off the radio to set the mood while Alexis started recording on my phone and
00:47:21
placed it in the placed it back in the mount it was fun creeping at all of about six
00:47:27
miles an hour and hearing all the cracks and breaks of the twigs and the chirping
00:47:30
of the Crickets I'm there I planned on trying to scare my kids like a good parent would of course asking if they
00:47:37
saw that while actually seeing nothing and if they heard that while knowing it was just their own heavy breathing you
00:47:42
know just character building I love you Amber I do too my oldest daughter Alexis who's 16 was
00:47:48
sitting in the front with me while my middle daughter Ashlyn 15 was in the back with two friends I can't wait for
00:47:54
this with my kids oh my God I can't wait until they're like 15 and 16 and I could
00:47:58
do this if you don't pick me up on the way you're fake of course I will let's go so Lex started doing the normal talk
00:48:04
to the ghosties asking if anyone was there if they were and if they wanted to talk to us they could but there was
00:48:11
nothing much so we come up to the creek and I pull over so they can get out for a minute and goof off I get out with
00:48:17
them and friend number one starts telling us that she's had some medium experiences and that she's sensitive the
00:48:23
other girls mainly Lex started rolling their eyes at her so of course I being the sensitive that I am tried to
00:48:29
validate her when we all just got a terrible feeling and heard the loudest woman scream from the woods no I'm on
00:48:38
I'm unsure of the kids at this point but me being the whole ass adult that I'm supposed to be at 35 stomach dropped and
00:48:45
I had zero issue at that point leaving a child if they did not get into the car fast enough I will leave your ass you
00:48:51
better get in this car we are leaving so as we all fumbled over each other tripping and getting into the car we
00:48:58
rolled up the windows and locked the doors because you know ghosts can't get in if the doors are law of course
00:49:05
as we flipped around and started to head out front number two and Ash were giggling in the back seat about how she
00:49:11
almost lost a shoe and what on Earth was that scream when friend number one grabbed my seat and said there's a
00:49:17
little girl and she's crying no I'd be out of there I'd be like you get out of it I'd be like out of the car out of the
00:49:22
car [ __ ] roll baby yeah no I just got all quiet cause uh [ __ ] that indeed [ __ ]
00:49:28
that oh my God that's absolutely terrifying sorry I lost my phone I would have literally if she said that I would
00:49:34
have just turned around and like [ __ ] that absolutely but then Alexis turned and looked at her all mean and says
00:49:40
you're full of it you're the only one saying those things to make yourself feel cool I hit the brakes and was just
00:49:46
like what's wrong with you and why would you say that Lex says if there's really
00:49:50
a ghost make yourself known right now I bet you won't though because you're just
00:49:54
a giant [ __ ] oh damn my jaw Hit the Floor friend number one set with the shaking voices Lexi stop you don't say
00:50:01
things like that she went full sense I even chime in and tell her to stop we were just trying to have fun and now she
00:50:08
was turning into a real jerk she then started to throw her 16 year old teenage attitude around and I just looked at her
00:50:13
and said that's it we're going home we're done you're being mean to the ghost no I tell the kids to make sure
00:50:20
that they're buckled and apologize again to friend number one who's visibly shaken and pale Alexis isn't a jerk like
00:50:25
that she loves all her friends she's a really sweet caring and compassionate kid it was at this exact moment I went
00:50:31
to turn the phone recording off when I looked at my phone that was pointed in front of the car my blood ran cold or
00:50:38
hot I don't actually recall if I knew the exact temperature but I know that I couldn't feel my legs I couldn't even
00:50:43
talk I had just hand nudged Alexis and she started freaking out and soon all the girls in the car were shrieking it
00:50:51
was all I could do to reach up and push in the two buttons that screenshot in the trees you could see the perfect
00:50:57
little image of a little girl with long hair hanging around her face just past her shoulders and in one of her hands
00:51:04
was a teddy bear I would like that at all pedal to the metal out of there goodbye see you never
00:51:13
fast enough straight up little girl with a with a teddy bear the teddy bear makes
00:51:19
it real yeah yeah yeah I know I don't like that no no no no no and then like part of me would
00:51:26
want to make sure that it was like not a real little girl just like hung up in the trees yeah oh I
00:51:32
hate it I don't like it I don't like it so I look from the phone to the actual trees
00:51:36
and there's nothing okay well I guess you checked now it's time to leave but I look back at the camera and she's still
00:51:42
[ __ ] there no it's one of those things where you can't believe your own eyes open close them rub them it doesn't
00:51:47
go away so it almost paralyzes you but there she was standing in the trees you could feel her or no no sorry you could
00:51:54
see her from head from her head to her feet black hair and a white knee-length gown with the teddy hanging from her
00:52:01
hand her eyes were all you could make of her facial features and it was the darkest blackest holes I've ever seen
00:52:08
Samara I literally hate this David I don't like it oh once I came back to the realization of what was going on and
00:52:17
gathered my bearings with teenagers screaming on all sides of me I hit the gas and very very vocally said [ __ ]
00:52:24
nope [ __ ] that no [ __ ] way we were no longer doing six miles an hour to get the actual [ __ ] out of we were actually
00:52:31
levitating we took flight it was weird all of a sudden we were just flying yeah in this moment I no longer wanted to be
00:52:38
the adult I wanted my bed my safe and my warm bed the one that has my big 230 pound Burly husband in it the same
00:52:45
husband who probably would have said no and and stuck with no because even though he's not the responsible one in
00:52:51
the relationship he is not going to go ghost hunting with teenagers at midnight nope that was my dumbass choice so we
00:52:58
finally got to the pavement the whole mile we had to drive out feeling like an absolute eternity and I head towards our
00:53:04
house it was a quiet ride until about halfway there Lex turns to one to friend number one and says I'm really sorry I
00:53:10
acted like that back there I honestly don't know why I did I just felt so angry and frustrated and she says back
00:53:17
to her that's okay it wasn't you it was him making you feel that way oh no and every single hair I have stands up on
00:53:25
the back of my neck well girls I have Sage every single one of you is getting some when we get home and so is my car
00:53:31
the rest of the trip was all chatter from the girls laughing and giggling and I just can't wait to get home and change
00:53:36
my underwear that I'm pretty sure I've shot myself in we pull into the driveway where we get out once again tripping
00:53:42
over each other to get into the house Ash immediately grabbed the sage yeah I did and lit it
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like started mirroring the phone to the TV so we could all watch the video that we'd just taken I went into my husband
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still shaky and not exactly sure if I could feel my legs yet walking up to him telling him he needed to come out and
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watch this so as we all sit there and watch the recording there is nothing the screenshot I took where the girl was you
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can only see the Blackness of where her eyes were but that's it so we all went to bed with four teenage girls sleeping
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on our bedroom floor because they were too scared to sleep alone now I don't scare easily I never really have when I
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started I was sensitive earlier I just always know if a house is haunted or not just from walking into it I've
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cleaned houses since I was a kid with my mom because she owned her own cleaning business and doing what we would call
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the empties I would I'd walk into a good handful and know I was not alone there's
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a couple great stories from the ghost who would slam doors and turn the lights off while I was in the room but would
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stop if I sang along to my MP3 player or the one where I went to walk into the basement and was so overcome with Dread
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I refused to go all the way down the stairs so while I was vacuuming the hose came undone three times the third time I
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was watching it and at eight months pregnant noped the [ __ ] out of there but this is a road of this is a road Tales
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so I'll save those for a later date hopefully by then I'll have another ghost story because I just moved into a
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house that was built in 1900 on a hill with a giant front porch overlooking the city where I can drink tea and glare
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with a cemetery as its backyard it really is just a witchy Kind of Perfect hell yeah it sounds like it anyway is
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keep it weird but not so weird that you think it'll be fun to go on a midnight Haunted Adventure with a bunch of
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teenage girls and realize that you see a little demon ghost girl and you no longer want to be the adult anymore and
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you know of yourself all the way home that was so freaky in the midwest too so like Midwest we got our haunted Rose
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yeah less themes I love it you guys have like a monopoly seriously absolutely terrifying damn Amber
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Illinois they're a little more stealth about it's a Cuba Road like yeah it doesn't sound too threatening like the
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hatchet I'm like whoa I know they're like Rainbow Road it's like that's nice that's a lot better this one's like
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Hatchet Man Road I touch it you in the face rose yeah like I'd take the orbs over the little teddy bear girl any day
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oh the teddy bear girl I don't like and the Deep black eyes it's a it's a it's a
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song I am not into it I don't like it and then this little little possible like Spirit possession too because
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saying like yeah you feel that way yeah that's what it sounded like yeah that she was suddenly being like nasty when
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she's really not yeah she was like yeah sorry I was acting like a turd back there that wasn't me and she's like no
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it's fine it was him and it's like who we never got further explanation on that was it the hatchet man
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maybe it was the hatchet man I think it's like if you took a ghost and juxtaposed that with like get out like
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it's like yes you know like when the ghosts are going to the bodies but this goes puts you in the stunk in place so
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you're fully aware what's going on but you can't do anything oh I don't like that I hate that guys you always send in
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the best freaking team you really do keep it coming so good I think that's probably all we have time for today yeah
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I gotta go pick up my kids and take them to a haunted road yeah we're going haunted shopping let's go well John
00:57:15
thank you so much for coming on and thank you for bringing stories with you too thanks for having me on and I I Adore
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both you well he does podcast shows but as humans and I can't wait till we have an in-person Meetup and we'll do it in
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my hometown at some point deep dish pizza BFF all the deep dish plug before we let you go
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well as people know that was pretty scary as every Wednesday this uh we got a we got a really fun list of uh movies
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coming out so just it's gonna be a long first season but we got other Seasons planned as well so just uh stay tuned
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and I'll be doing some more of those mini deep Dives on Instagram which uh look for that on my Instagram and also
00:57:54
Ash and Elaine are always very gracious about shared it on their Instagram stories as well so if you don't see it
00:57:58
on mine you'll see it on theirs but at some point you'll see it because we love you guys we love you and we love those
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they listen to that was pretty scary well guys we love you so much we hope you keep listening and we hope you keep
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it weird but not so weird that you go ghost no I think you should keep it so weird
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that you go ghost hunting and experience terrible things keep it this weird hell
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yeah yeah bye guys bye [Music] foreign [Music] thank you foreign [Music]