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your hair looks really good oh thank you hey weirdos I'm Ash and I'm Elena and the US yes Morad
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[Music] thank you [Music] I feel like we should leave in the part where you said my hair looked really
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good because that was a very nice moment I was gonna say it before I was gonna say it again I mean no I just like it it
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should be before the episode starts like that should just be yeah that's how the
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recording started let's let's keep it in let's keep it in keep it in take it out
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do we burp before we started no we did I know you never know not in this one at least oh yeah you know oh did you burn
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it leave it in leave it in mention it all rip also quick update uh in one of my last cases Jack Tupper I mentioned a
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[ __ ] uh horse owner named Bill Frankl and one of them or he was a horse owner oh and he hired
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Jack Tupper to be the trainer um and his name was Bill Frankl and one of our listeners said that that's
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Bethany Frankel's late father I myself need to do some dig in to make sure that's true but it could be when you
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said the name I almost was like any relation to Bethany when I wrote it I thought it but I was too involved in the
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case that I forgot to go back and look at that little part we all thought it none of us said it but like
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is that him you're like for real I think he's a very quick Google search that we
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could do it's her dad that's her dad [ __ ] look at that he was called Bobby though so I'm like Bill Bobby I mean I
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don't know people all kinds of things that's a wild little that's cray cray Tia that is correct well tibia wild
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tidbit well sorry I just got lost in a headline I was like uh you were like Hey we're
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doing something here all right so it's listener tails and you know what that means it's brought to you by you for you
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from you and all about you yay we're loosey-goosey it's listener Tails listener Tails listener
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I don't think has a theme it's just an episode with Crazy tales in it can I start yeah awesome my tale is called the
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time I was accused of being an international spy for taking a picture of a mountain that looked like a butt
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so that's why I wanted to start because they took a picture of mountain that looked like I already love this and it
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does look like a butt they sent a photo all right it says hi Ash Elena and Deb Deb just wanted to start off by saying
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how much I love the podcast I'm so glad that my co-worker recommended it to me because it's really kept me sane over
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the past few weeks as I've been dealing with a severe concussion oh my gosh and I haven't been able to do pretty much
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anything other than listen to podcasts listening to your episodes have kept me entertained and saved me from
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overwhelming boredom so thank you you're welcome you're welcome I'm not sure if this story is something you'd want to
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share on listener Tales it is but I figured you might get a kick out of it either way I attached a double space
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puttifa and some pictures to this email I've also changed the names for privacy purposes thank you for reading
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so this happened while I was on a language immersion internship program into a country uh nopa County nopa
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Country a country I gotta go a country in East Africa I've changed all the names for privacy reasons stop laughing
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on this particular day I had gone on a site visit to improve shut up it's not just me laughing my keys too I know
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everybody's laughing not just me being mean nobody's mean to me all the time please Rescue Me
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rescue her rescue me just harmonizing BRB articular day to a rural woman's banking Collective
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with some employees of the non-profit I was interning with and a woman from the UN who funded the non-profit that's
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pretty [ __ ] cool the day had already been longer than expected because we had to stop for
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about an hour on the way to the village for a road to be built oh you know just gotta pause this road is being built now
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I still have a lot of questions about the road being built because if it wasn't there in the first place why were
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we going that way that's what I was gonna ask maybe it had been built then destroyed and they were rebuilding it I
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don't know who knows we'll never know anyway we were running late because of the road situation and I was extremely
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hungry because I hadn't eaten anything all day after the woman from the UN had Regal regaled regaled regaled me with
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stories about getting typhoid from food she ate in a similar context oh that'll get you hungry that will make you not
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want to eat anything ever I felt bad for not accepting the food from the generous
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woman who offered it to me but I have already had enough stomach issues as it is and I really didn't feel like I could
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take the risk I was also starting to get nervous because the sun was starting to
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go down and I had been warned many times about the dangers of being out after dark ah so you can imagine my delight
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when my co-worker pulled the car over for no apparent reason and pointed exactly excuse me excitedly out the
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window saying look Anna what does that mountain look like being the annoyed wet blanket I was feeling like in that
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moment I replied to no monotone a butt drama it looks like a butt butt do you want to take a picture I did
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not I just wanted to get home before dark and eat something so I sat grumply in my seat as everyone else in the car
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took pictures in hindsight the mountain really did look a lot like a butt and it
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was pretty funny but I was not feeling it in that moment and it turns out that was probably a good thing for me oh man
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my annoyance quickly turned to panic though when a man in a dirty t-shirt and cargo pants stuck his arm into the
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driver's side window reached over to Juma and pulled our keys out of the ignition
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the way my entire body would shut down just ceased to exist the fight-or-flight response that I am currently feeling
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just thinking being in that position is outrageous right now gotta go naturally Juma who's in the driver's seat asked
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the man what he was doing and demanded the keys back the man responded that he was a police officer doubt it and
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couldn't give the keys back because we were a threat to National Security since we were taking pictures of the landscape
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landscape close to the border and foreigners were in the car now this was clearly [ __ ] because the village we
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had been at earlier was much closer to the border and we hadn't been taking a buttload of pictures there without issue
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no pun intended I'm also not even sure he was a police officer since he didn't give us any form of ID and was
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definitely not dressed like a police officer I wouldn't count on it yeah no I explained to him that I was not in fact
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a spy but rather a student and offered multiple times to show him my passport and Visa he was uninterested after a few
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minutes of back and forth he demanded that Juma get out of the car to quote unquote settle this I hate this I feel
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like are we gonna have a cage match what the [ __ ] this is where I started to get
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really worried I bet the police in this country did not have the best reputation
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and while I knew he probably just wanted a bribe I was scared he might beat Juma
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up if he didn't want to pay and Juma was a stubborn but not very large guy after
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a few minutes of me craning my neck to try and see what was going on next to the car unsuccessfully the next thing I
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knew Juma was getting back into the driver's seat and the police officer quote unquote was hopping into the back
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seat of our car getting real cozy with my co-workers who were now sitting four people in the back row of seats
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what we're all going to the police station to get this figured out he announced what
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what no I was actually pretty shocked by this development because up to that point I was fully
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convinced that he was not a police officer but rather a random guy trying to make a quick Buck to be honest me too
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so this would also be shocking I'm still not convinced that he's not part of this guy's insistence Juma drove
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the now very crowded car to the local police station where we went in one by one for questioning I began to feel very
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glad that I did not take any pictures of butt Mountain because they demanded to see my camera roll and had the pleasure
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and had the pleasure of seeing my progress pictures for my workout plan and a few shots of monkeys stealing
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stuff from trash cans the rest of my co-workers frantically tried to delete their butt Mountain pictures before
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their interrogation much to my chagrin the woman from the UN decided to use this moment to take a moral stance and
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refused to show them her phone because of diplomatic immunity wow being that my main goal was getting home before dark
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and getting something to eat I tried to convince her to Just Let It Go and show them her phone she had already deleted
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the pictures of buck mountains so I didn't get the big deal because she didn't speak the local language and the
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police officer didn't really speak English I got the pleasure of being her interpreter the police officer
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repeatedly demanded to know if she thought he would steal her phone and insisted that he had no reason to
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because he had his own iPhone he's like [ __ ] I have my own phone he's like I don't need your [ __ ] phone he also
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clearly did not know much or care about the UN or the idea of diplomatic immunity the whole situation was just
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ridiculous to me and I had no interest in being in the uh and being the middleman but there I was in total we
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were probably at the police station for about three hours before the quote-unquote supervisor again I have no
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idea if any of these people were actually police officers but I think the police we were at was a police station
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unclear oh what I'm so confused came to see what was going on this supervisor did have a healthy respect or fear of
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the UN and when the U.N woman told him she needed his name and badge number to report to the UN why she was checking in
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late he insisted that we leave as soon as possible with a deluge of apologies wow unfortunately I did not make it back
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before dark but did get home safe despite having to jump into some under brush filled with rats to avoid getting
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hit by a car there were no street lights on my road so cars generally couldn't see
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pedestrians after dark at this point I still have a lot of questions about what happened that day
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but I'm just happy to be able to look at look back at the story and laugh thanks
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for reading if you made it this far and keep it weird but not so weird that you pretend to be a police officer and still
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non-profit workers keys and drag them to a maybe police station for hours when they're really just tired and hungry for
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obvious reasons I can't attach any attach any pictures of butt Mountain but I've attached some pictures of the road
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being built here I I have no idea how to react to that one that's funny because I thought the
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picture that you did attach looked like a butt I was gonna say I didn't see the butt Mountain so I was I thought I was
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just missing it yeah it's not a mountain really now that I look at it it's just a
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tree and some some brush wow but now I really want to see what a wild story that's insane
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truly a wild story wow dang Anna imagine that's not your real name I know that don't worry we're not using real names
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but never but dang I just like that butt Mountain was the thing that almost got you guys
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you know that's not what I meant to say [Laughter] oh man all right well I'm gonna move on to
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listener tale my husband was kidnapped as an infant by child traffickers what what
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oh let's see what this is about it says thank you so much for the opportunity Deb hey dab dub shut up hello weirdos
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first of all my husband is alive and well and was unharmed in his kidnapping good I put the subject line as a
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question because his this was my reaction when my mother-in-law told me the story you can call me by my by a
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name I have always loved for a little girl Siggy short for a Norwegian named Sigrid oh I like that I was originally
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planning on using my real name and coming up with an attempted witty and humorous introduction considering my
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name is androgynous and is often mistaken for a man's I am not a man and unfortunately have the postpartum bodily
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scarring to prove it however for the purposes of the story and to bend to the will of my catastrophe I can never say
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that word kind of catastrophizing there you go right anxiety sounds good I'll be
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using aliases that's totally fine with us a few things before we get into it number one I feel I should be shunned
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from the podcast Universe for not having heard of your show prior to my book club
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picking the butcher in the Wren from the month of October last year hey that's awesome Elena your novel was amazing and
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I loved every bit of that book Thank you in my defense I tend to stay within my comfort zone when it comes to books
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podcasts and movies and my particular podcast love is True Crime but one story Seasons such as up and vanished and
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cereal really however yeah however that has all changed now because I cannot stop listening to your podcast thank you
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shout out to my fellow morbid weirdo listeners Lauren Aaron Andrea and Katie they all gave me permission to use their
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real names hell yeah you guys hell yeah yeah number two since listening to the show I've literally laughed out loud
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hearing Ash's unique vernacular term including terms such as mans McGee and and God indulged congrats by the way
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also being that I am a six in this I'm a sixth generation Appalachian or Appalachian okay Appalachian Mountain
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woman I can confirm you just told me how it's pronounced it's pronounced Appalachian thank you I will hold hold
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on to that now I firmly believe that anytime Appalachian is mispronounced an ancestor of mine rolls over in their
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grave saying bless their heart dripping an old southern lady condescension so for the sake of my gone but not
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forgotten family members with cool last names like icy and Zeta oh hell yeah just say it correctly folks Appalachian
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Appalachian it feels right it feels better finally this story is not mine to tell I take pride in sharing it because
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my husband was kidnapped is a great addition to two truths and a lie but ultimately the only morbid worthy
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happenings in my life have involved in my father in a ski mask trying to scare me in a local criminal trying to escape
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the law by entering my house those are pretty good I feel like a second one in particular and though both experiences
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were equally traumatizing this story is much more entertaining and just freaking
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insane I myself even found it hard to believe when I first heard it but it's as true as a dog's love for its human I
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do have a few what I've called Siggy side notes scattered throughout the story to clarify things or to add
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interesting to tidbits those are from me but the bulk of the stories from my mother-in-law's perspective so without
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further Ado here is my mother-in-law Drew's story of her five-month-old baby T kidnapped in Hawaii oh my God she
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chose the name and it made me laugh considering the podcast we are submitting this to hey Ash's fiance it
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is long so if it doesn't get played on the podcast I completely understand but I felt y'all would appreciate the read
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given the story I've attached the double space putipa another term I'm now obsessed with for your viewing ease as
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well as the newspaper article about the story so you know it's real and some picture of my mother-in-law my
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husband and I and my own little guy for reference oh my God the most beautiful child adorable so beautiful by the way
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Ash she is a Libra and I'm a Virgo okay oh we got there we go we got a Libra in here oh one more side note my dad has
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some creepy stories like my Aunt waking up in a cemetery across the street from their house as a kid and my nana
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pronounced Nana being about temporarily paralyzed by other worldly beings so if you'd like me to share those let me know
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please do we would like that keep on keeping it weird my gals Ziggy oh your family's so beautiful truly a gorgeous
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family oh my God you're a little bit all right many of us have had moments in life that we can look back on and
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realize how extremely Brave and lucky we are for having gotten through them for me the kidnapping of my child was such
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an event I'm already I just got full chills down my body my body warmed I remember the day clearly October 10th
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1989 my son was just one day shy of five months and was very much still an infant
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we had just relocated to Waki Waikiki thank you from Cupertino California we had been living with my mom in my
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unhinged stepfather and wanted a new living environment for the health and safety of my son and I I was a radio DJ
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by trade and had decided to go to Hawaii to work for my friend who was a new program director at kpoi honolulu's rock
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station a few weeks prior to this incident I had managed to secure a small studio apartment in Waikiki for tea and
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myself I recall being shocked at the extremely high cost of rent I was on the hunt for a babysitter so that I could
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work in the evening hours my general shift was going to be from about 10 pm to 2 A.M after failed attempts at
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finding care through the people I had met and after scouring the newspaper ads without success I decided to place an ad
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myself several people responded to the ad and in Hawaii a lot of ladies take on Child
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Care from their homes surely I'd be able to spot someone who was not a legitimate
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caretaker right this area is known for being very welcoming and family oriented one person in particular responded and
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left multiple messages I was going through a few others and had not called her back yet however she called me again
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sounding almost pushy about the job I should have seen that as a red flag as none of the other applicants had that
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same approach but I really needed to find a sitter and I honestly didn't think much of it I finally spoke with
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her and we talked for about 30 minutes she sounded nice she had kids of her own she was a retired nurse etc etc all the
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normal sounding stuff so we set up a time to meet in person this initial contact was right around the time of my
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birthday October 7th so it's easy to recall the events in the timeline I remember going into her apartment which
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was very close to my own it was a tall high-rise building sitting in the alawi canal in the middle of Waikiki this is
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important to the story as being familiar with this building was one of the main factors in knowing what happened to tea
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since it was close to my birthday we agreed that we agreed that this woman who we would call Stella for the purpose
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of the story would try out an hour or two with my son and see if it was a good fit for us all I was super
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overprotective of him being that I was a 25 year old single mother living 2400 miles from home holy cow therefore I
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always had anxiety when anyone else watched him aside from my mother I'm that way anyways so don't worry I
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decided it's me I decided to go out for a few hours to the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino it had
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recently opened it was supposed to be an amazing experience we decided on a date
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and time and I really looked forward to a few hours on my own when I arrived at our apartment the initial time Stella
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watched tea she was wearing a house dress was about my height of five eight was thin with bleach blonde hair and
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wore wire rimmed glasses she literally looked like a younger Grandma type and appeared to stay home most of the time
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that night for me was that might for me was everything I wanted it to be and the
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check-in calls with Stella went equally as well with her giving me frequent up updates on how tea was doing I felt very
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excited to be moving on with my life and away from living with my abusive stepfather after a few hours of dinner
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and drinks I called the cab and headed back to the apartment complex when I got back to her 21st floor apartment Stella
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quickly opened the door and invited me in the baby was sleeping soundly in a bed we had made on the floor and he
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looked peaceful and happy we talked about how she was feeling how I was feeling and confirmed that we both
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wanted to do this again in the future I scooped the baby up went down to the awaiting cab and back to our new
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apartment Stella and I continued to talk on the phone in the coming days and she always
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asked how tea was doing and what he was up to on any given day nothing seemed out of the ordinary conversations were
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normal she listened to my request and she seemed like a genuinely nice person I never once felt any weird Vibes or
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feelings when we spoke isn't that so scary that's terrifying some people just don't give off the vibe that they're a
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[ __ ] monster the next opportunity for her to watch him was on the night of October 10th I had to go to the radio
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station to train before I could go on air so I was scheduled to be there in the early evening late afternoon for
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this purpose I thought it would be a great time for Stella to watch the baby again and do another trial run before I
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had to work full time as I had done this as I had done before I bundled the baby up filled his large
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diaper bag with all the things he could possibly need and caught a taxi back to Stella's apartment everything once again
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seemed normal when we arrived and she answered the door inviting us in however it distinctly remember two things one
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she was wearing a house dress like before but this time she had regular clothes laying out on her bed which I
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could see from the living room that struck me as a little odd but I said nothing
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two she had placed two very large suitcases directly adjacent to the front door those suitcases had not been
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present in the during the previous visit I asked her about them and she said she
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was taking them downstairs in the morning to her storage unit in the garage this didn't seem unusual as many
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of these buildings had Subterranean parking with private storage units for tenants items for an additional fee the
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baby was sleepy so after sticking around for a few minutes chatting I handed him
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over to get ready to leave I recall saying something like you don't have plans to go anywhere right and she
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laughed as though the idea was Preposterous she was drinking a Coca-Cola from a glass with ice and I
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watched her Swig and refill it several times while I sat there I stood up to leave and as I left I
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remembered that the lobby of her building had a large Bank of phones I'd be meaning to call my best friend bill
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for several days and had not gotten around to it so I decided I would use the phone in the lobby to update him on
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my new job and our life in Hawaii before going to work this proved to be a very critical decision in all of this because
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had I not stopped to call him in the lobby Stella would have likely gotten away with kidnapping my five-month-old
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oh I just got full chills all over again I walked to the bank of phones that is some like Mama
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power in there that you were just like you know what I'm gonna stop right now yeah I'm not gonna wait till I get to
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the station I'm not gonna I'm gonna stop right now I walked to the bank of phones and
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remember getting him on the line immediately sounded relieved to hear from me and was asking all about the
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baby I told them about the job and the new apartment that I was excited about finding a babysitter and that I was in a
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really decent place mentally the phones were situated in the lobby so that when you use them your back was turned away
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from the front door therefore if anyone were to exit the building and walk by you you would most likely not see them
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just before bill and I said goodbye he said please take care of tea and if I were you I would go back up there one
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more time to check on him what [ __ ] bill why would you say that too like that's kind of you wouldn't think your
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friend would just say that he's just like you know what you just got a feeling this was the best piece of
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advice I've ever received I hung up the phone and jumped in the elevator heading
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back upstairs to sell his apartment I remember walking up to the door I had just left 15 minutes earlier and seeing
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that it was slightly a jar it caught me off guard and I pushed on it immediately
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calling out her name no one answered I ventured further into the apartment and realize Stella's house stress was thrown
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on the bed the clothes she had laid out earlier were gone the lights were off the TV was off and more importantly my
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son Stella in those two suitcases had vanished oh my God my heart just dropped for you truly I began to freak out and I
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could literally feel the fear and adrenaline pumping so hard in my heart this could not be happening I must have
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been seeing things wrong she had to be here where was my baby my thoughts were racing and I started hyperventilating I
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was completely overwhelmed my first thought was that perhaps she had just gone to take the garbage out they had a
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separate garbage room in these buildings requiring you to walk down the hall to throw your trash away I ran as fast as I
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could down the hall shrieking her name because I was just so scared where had this lady gone with my baby oh my God I
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jumped back on the elevator thinking I would ride down to the security desk to the lobby and ask them if they'd seen
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her or the baby when I approached the desk I asked the two men sitting there if they had seen Stella come down the
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elevator or leave the building in any way they both nodded their heads and pointed to the door I asked did she
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leave they both nodded again and one said she was carrying a baby and almost slipped on the floor nearly dropping him
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on her way out of the building I could not believe what I was hearing why why did she leave I asked the
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officer at the desk to call 9-1-1 and report a missing child I talked to the police and gave them a brief account of
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what happened all in between sobbing and hyperventilating the police assured me they were on their way after I hung up
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with the police I asked the security people to begin calling all taxi services in the area so they could
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determine which taxi may had possibly picked her up they called at least six or seven cab companies and each time
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they were told that no one had anyone that sounded like Stella or a baby in their car
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by the time I had by this time I had gone out to the front lawn in front of the apartment building and was sitting
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on the grass bawling my eyes out I've been through so much bringing this baby into the world alone just a few months
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before and thought after everything we've been through this is how it's going to end oh my God before long
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several police vehicles pulled up I recall there being a large police presence with an ambulance in tow as
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well it was during this period that I kept trying to figure out a way to make it back into the apartment building and
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up to the very top to jump off the roof I know it sounds scary but I really thought that if my baby was gone that I
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really did not want to be on this Earth anymore the police asked me questions mountains of questions how did I meet
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Stella what did she do for work what does she look like what phone numbers did I have for her how many times did
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you watch them before today and on and on I was completely overwhelmed and to this day have never cried so hard in my
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life after sitting outside with the police I could hear the radio traffic on their police scanners as the situation
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progressed I couldn't understand everything as they were using codes but evidently they were
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pursuing some leads in the case and we were on stem we were to stand by I cannot recall exactly how long we sat
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there waiting for any type of news but it seemed like two hours at least probably more I remember one of the
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officers a large Samoan man sitting next to me on the grass reassuring me everything would turn out okay I really
00:25:58
didn't believe him but I kept nodding my head just then an officer on the radio said the words my entire body had been
00:26:04
aching to hear we got him we got him we found the missing baby oh my God my whole body literally
00:26:11
just gonna say chill like I have Goosebumps on my legs right now everyone around me cheered in high-fived we were
00:26:17
all so excited and this was but this was still very much a police investigation even though they had somehow managed to
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find Tim and Stella things still needed to be sorted out and the pla the place to do that was the police station I was
00:26:29
in a squad car and driven downtown to the Honolulu Police Department it was a low slung building on a side street with
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yet another Subterranean parking structure beneath it I was led into a fairly large room that was dark inside
00:26:41
with Windows covered by dark drapes I was asked to sit at a large rectangular table in the center of the room with a
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very large reel-to-reel tape recorder in the center it was the classic we just need to ask you a few questions Mantra
00:26:52
being said to me I agreed but kept asking where my son was and when I would be able to see him
00:26:58
they asked me numerous questions over and over again framing it in different ways why did I give my child Stella to
00:27:04
Stella wasn't it true that I know wasn't it true that I no longer wanted him oh my God so she must have said she like
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sold her yup had I called to check on him while I was gone either tonight or on the previous occasion she had watched
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him I simply tried to calm myself down and answer all their questions clearly and honestly honestly to the best of my
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ability I understood they had a job to do but it was an interrogation style interview I felt confident in my heart
00:27:28
that everything would work out and that I would be getting my baby back soon suddenly there was a commotion at the
00:27:34
door of the interview room and we learned that they had arrested Stella and we're bringing her downstairs to the
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jail they wanted me to go down there and see if I could identify her I recall feeling so much anger that she
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had done this and was really looking forward to seeing her face to face as the patrol car rolled in I could clearly
00:27:51
see a set of legs kicking at the glass of the rear door of the squad car no face no torso just legs that's so creepy
00:27:58
when the car came to a stop an officer got out and walked around to let Stella out of the car they grabbed her by each
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arm and walked in my direction immediately her eyes met mine and she began cursing at me saying I had given
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her my baby that I was a liar and that she was taking care of him because I wasn't and so much other other [ __ ]
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she is Disturbed I screamed back and I think I called her every name in the book I was feeling homicidal at that
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point and really did not care about anything else aside from getting to her the police had repeatedly had to
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repeatedly hold me back as she passed by and went into the jail by this time it was dark outside and the officers
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escorted me back inside the building to wait they informed me that he had been taken
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to the hospital as a precaution to be checked out for any injuries or sign of abuse from Stella I remember sitting in
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that police station for another four or five hours oh my God it felt surreal and
00:28:49
very out of body I had a hard time thinking about what had just happened because I was in shock and I was not
00:28:54
responding to things as I usually would have after about five hours an officer came
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to get me to walk into a different area of the police department when I rounded the corner I saw tea wrapped in a sheet
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with nothing on but a diaper he saw me and started crying I walked over grabbed him and gave him my biggest longest hug
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I could imagine he immediately relaxed and he appeared to be very tired I asked the police if I could leave and
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go home and they said yes they stated Stella would be in jail for a while as they were charging her with Colonial
00:29:26
combined the two felony custodial interference in the first degree a major felony there were additional charges as
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well but that was the main charge I was contacted the next day by police and they told me the story of how she was
00:29:38
caught I was chomping at the bit to learn the story of her capture and her motive for kidnapping my child yeah
00:29:44
according to police she had gotten into the cab with the baby she had directed the cab driver to drive her to downtown
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Honolulu to Bishop Street the taxi driver immediately felt weird vibes from her as she was too old to have such a
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young baby she was on who was only clothed in a diaper and a sheet he asked who or whose baby he was how
00:30:04
old he was and whatever information he could glean from her while this guy's like great seriously she told him she
00:30:10
was caring for a friend's child because the Mom needed a break and could no longer care for him her response to his
00:30:15
questions and her vague answers really grabbed his attention good for this guy while the taxi driver was driving to the
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destination he told her he needed to make a stop for gas she agreed and he pulled over to a gas station when he got
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out he called into the taxi stand explaining that he was driving an older lady with a baby and that he was
00:30:33
concerned for the baby's welfare wow it was then that the taxi company realized this realized their driver was driving
00:30:39
around with the missing child everyone was looking for the driver was instructed to act normally and take
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Stella to wherever she wanted to go but to stay with her to find out her actual destination they pulled in front of a
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large high-rise in downtown Honolulu since she had full two full suitcases and a baby the taxi driver brilliantly
00:30:58
offered to help her take her luggage upstairs smart so he would be able to see the apartment she was entering and
00:31:04
provide valuable information to the police when he got to the apartment with her he saw an older man and the baby was
00:31:09
taken into another room oh the driver immediately contacted police with all the information he had on Stella
00:31:15
including her exact location they waited several minutes for other officers to arrive before going upstairs to confront
00:31:21
Stella and her apparent boyfriend who is part of the entire plan when they knocked no one answered at first I'm
00:31:28
certain they were wondering who could be at the door after several tries they opened the door and were confronted by
00:31:33
the police at first Stella denied knowing anything about a baby and denied knowing me like they're not going to
00:31:38
find the baby in the apartment girlfriend yeah the police asked to come and talk or to come in and talk and go
00:31:44
over the information that they had with Stella while they were in the apartment they heard a baby crying and immediately
00:31:48
knew the gig was up one of the officers walked to a closed back bedroom door and opened it opened
00:31:55
it up inside they found tea laying in a sheet and nothing more than a diaper no bottles no diaper bag nothing I'm not
00:32:02
sure what happened to the diaper bag I left with her but it was gone what both she and her boyfriend were handcuffed
00:32:07
and searched it was during this time that the police discovered passports other identification and over thirty
00:32:13
thousand dollars in cash what the [ __ ] it was clear that something nefarious was going on and both parties were
00:32:19
immediately arrested and taken into custody this is so bizarre the key to this whole story was the taxi driver if
00:32:26
he had not been alert and aware when talking to Stella he would have never stopped and called in to report what he
00:32:31
was dealing with in the taxi since it was already a major response by the police and looking for a baby and we
00:32:36
knew Stella was in a cab at some point the driver's call was the one we were all waiting for I was able to get my
00:32:42
baby back at the police station so T and I went home to our new apartment and called my father who was an experienced
00:32:47
police officer for the Sacramento Police Department and explained what happened Siggy side note my husband's Grandpa was
00:32:54
not only a Sacramento PD officer but one who had worked the Golden State killer case and retired as a captain a real
00:33:00
badass are you guys trying to kill me out here like what the story is like just the Twist and Turn seriously all of
00:33:07
it was very hard to believe and he asked me many questions and for many details after speaking he decided the best thing
00:33:13
for me was to gather my stuff and hop on the next available plane back to the mainland I must say it was very
00:33:18
disappointing as I had high hopes for my time with tea in our new state but ultimately our Island time had run its
00:33:24
course and wasn't meant to be I do not blame you we flew back to Sacramento not Cupertino there was no way I was going
00:33:30
to put myself and my child back into that unhealthy situation my father was very very well connected and was able to
00:33:36
find an apartment for me within a few days he helped us furnish it and I began looking for work we were contacted by
00:33:42
the Honolulu District Attorney's Office letting us know a victim slash witness kokua Services I'm not positive that
00:33:49
sounds right though who could assist me with the resources as I may need as well
00:33:52
as to help me through the criminal justice system in Hawaii they also told me that it might take some time for the
00:33:57
case to go to trial and that Stella had been released on bail with restrictions the [ __ ] she was not allowed to leave
00:34:03
the state for any reason and she had to check in regularly with the probation officer to stay free until trial she
00:34:09
agreed to this it took approximately two years for the case to wind its way through the court system and I was
00:34:15
surprised when I see the call that we had a trial date The Advocate told me they would be
00:34:20
needing me to travel back to Hawaii to be a witness for the prosecution oh man I was excited that I might see some
00:34:25
justice for it have been the scariest harrowing and most traumatizing event in my life it was a warm summer day as I
00:34:31
flew out to Hawaii to attend the trial my mom stayed behind to take care of tea as I had no intention of ever having him
00:34:37
step foot in Hawaii again immediately upon arrival I was called down to the victim witness offices there I met with
00:34:45
both both prosecutors and their staff I was asked to repeat the story of what happened from my purse perspective and
00:34:52
they held me to recall certain parts of their kidnapping my mind was unsteady as
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I felt I had mentally blocked out much of the incident it was not something I wanted to talk or think about but I did
00:35:01
my best in recalling the events for about three days we met every day and went over the questions they were going
00:35:07
to ask me it made certain I responded truthfully but with an emphasis on certain things that had happened it was
00:35:13
like going to school the biggest pointer they gave me was to look directly at the
00:35:16
jury when answering and to express any emotions I might be having after recalling the events of that day the
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following day was the start of the trial I remember walking into the courtroom and the entire jury box was full of
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jurors it was strange seeing Stella sitting at the defense table as I had not seen her a long time
00:35:34
I was placed on the witness stand and my testimony began it soon came to feel like I not the offended the defendant
00:35:40
was on trial it's not how often that happens the defense attorney painted a picture
00:35:46
of me that said I was a bad mom and had let Stella take the baby because I wanted to go out and party meanwhile you
00:35:52
were going to your job he also stressed that I'd willingly given tea to Stella and that the only thing she was guilty
00:35:57
of of was being concerned for the welfare of my child what was the 30 000 in cash about that yeah once it came
00:36:03
time and why was it that when you came to then the police came to the door and asked for the baby they said there was
00:36:08
no baby in the apartment exactly once it came time for the prosecution to question me immediately began crying on
00:36:14
the stand it was super emotional recalling the events one by one and having to explain my thoughts and my
00:36:19
actions at every step I made it clear that in no way had I given my baby to Stella or Stella or anyone and that she
00:36:26
never had permission to leave the apartment at any time with my child I ended up being on the witness stand for
00:36:31
three days I gave honest testimony and told the facts as I remembered them on the third day I was released as a
00:36:37
witness and sent back to my hotel to wait the next step I felt completely spent and cried several more times for
00:36:43
calling the events that I tried to push down for so long I was never allowed in the courtroom While others testified so
00:36:48
I had no idea what about what other other things had been said other than my own testimony on day four
00:36:55
we were told the verdict had been reached Siggy side note I became a Susie sleuth as my mother-in-law calls it and
00:37:01
I ended up finding the basic docket information on the case hell yeah Jerry debated for less than two hours this
00:37:08
spineless bottom feeder was done hell yeah I was asked if I wanted to return to the
00:37:13
courthouse and I declined as I was scared and nervous and just wanted it to be over so I could get back to
00:37:18
California and my baby the verdict came in that afternoon and Stella and her boyfriend were found guilty on all
00:37:24
accounts against them good her boyfriend was convicted of lesser charges because
00:37:27
his involvement had been significantly less than Stella now remember she was out on bail waiting for the trial so her
00:37:33
attorney asked that she'd be allowed to remain on bail until sentencing like she's a literal kidnapper the judge
00:37:39
agreed against the protestation of the prosecution they set a sentencing date for about two months away to allow
00:37:46
Stella to prepare for prison I don't know about that I left Hawaii and flew back home and I continued my life in
00:37:52
Sacramento and was working and going to school tea was two and a half by this time and the only cons and his only
00:37:57
concern was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles the story does not end here though I was
00:38:03
contacted by the prosecutor's office about two months after the trial and told that stuff
00:38:09
and told that Stella had jumped bail and was on the run she had somehow managed to get off the island and was on into an
00:38:16
unknown destination the way my stomach is a nulled for you the prosecutor assured me that t and I were safe and
00:38:22
they had hard leads indicating that she'd escaped to England how the [ __ ] did she get to England they had Interpol
00:38:27
and the Scotland yards searching down leads trying to locate her to bring her back to the United States for sentencing
00:38:33
as a bench warrant had been ordered by the judge in the case several more months went by and they continued to
00:38:38
search for her I was not in the loop in any of this and just assumed they would find her and bring her back after a few
00:38:43
more months had passed I called down to the victim Witness Program to inquire inquire about the sentencing status I
00:38:51
really did want to know the outcome of everything it was during this call that I learned from The Advocate that Stella
00:38:56
had been located but when they arrived to arrest her at a location in London she was found dead strangled to death
00:39:02
wow womp I was shocked and felt so many emotions about this I was not given all the details of what happened only that
00:39:10
she had been found dead by someone else it was a sad and scary conclusion to a case that would Eclipse my life for
00:39:16
several years for my recollection I was told that she had intended on selling my
00:39:20
baby she had been found with a passport 30k in cash and plane tickets upon her arrest it was clear this was a
00:39:26
trafficking case and she had no intention of keeping tea but was using him as a pawn to make money that's so
00:39:32
scary I have often wondered if she had done this stent that's what I wondered to any other people to take full
00:39:37
advantage of a young single mom living in a different state than her family with little money and resources and
00:39:42
literally kidnap her baby to try to sell him was the stuff of Television dramas and crime shows I will never forget the
00:39:49
look on my baby boy's face when they turned him back over to me from the hospital he was so scared I remember
00:39:54
that his photo was taken before we left the police station and he was turned into a news story in the Honolulu star
00:39:59
Advertiser oh my God Ziggy side note my mother-in-law says that she remember seeing a front page news story with T's
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picture on it however neither of us were able to locate it when we searched online I found the Articles pertaining
00:40:11
to T's kidnapping but most were both were small little Snippets in the crime section of the main Honolulu newspapers
00:40:17
I've attached them to my email and FYI they report that Stella was Drew's roommate which was solely untrue the
00:40:23
[ __ ] they did not interview Drew for the story for reasons unknown to her so some
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of the details are reported in an error nice my my true thanks and gratefulness go out to the Honolulu Police Department
00:40:34
for finding tea so quickly and for really pursuing a case against Stella I'm just so thankful they believe me I
00:40:40
also want to thank the honolulu's prosecutor's office for getting the conviction in court and for taking such
00:40:45
good care of me through the process T is now 33 years old happily married with a
00:40:50
toddler son I often think of this experience and cannot fathom my life if he was not found and brought back to me
00:40:56
oh I'm like gonna cry I know it is sad that all too many cases like mine do not conclude with positive results I'm a
00:41:03
very lucky girl and I thank God every day for getting me through this experience going on to live a happy
00:41:08
successful life and for making me a Grammy to the sweetest little boy on the planet ruined me holy hell what a
00:41:16
[ __ ] story holy [ __ ] I am without words it's crazy that we're just like looking at a picture of tea 33
00:41:26
and happy and he's a little boy at the center of this story my I'm like I'm feel tearing up here can you imagine
00:41:33
being his wife there's no way like I ever like I would have never known you we wouldn't have our baby
00:41:40
here oh baby I know like this little baby I know their baby is so perfect oh I just want to Smosh you baby but you
00:41:48
guys are so beautiful together in your mother-in-law is so beautiful and it's just like holy [ __ ]
00:41:55
that is on another level thank you for thank your mother-in-law Drew for writing that down that was
00:42:03
incredibly what an incredibly told story holy [ __ ] and thank you for sharing it
00:42:08
with us and thank goodness T is here and that's awesome and you guys are beautiful and I'm just
00:42:16
my whole body is like on fight or flight mode right now I'm just so stressed out
00:42:21
for your mother-in-law that is one of the craziest tales that we've ever gotten it's so scary that you have to be
00:42:27
worried about that stuff it is and it's sad that you can't trust someone to babysit your child like and it's even
00:42:33
worse than a lot of people because it takes a village absolutely you know and it's really I always feel really
00:42:38
fortunate that I have so many people around me that I trust and that I you know my kids are comfortable with and
00:42:46
that are willing to help and able to help and a lot of people don't have that no especially single mothers oh we think
00:42:52
about it constantly like John and I are constantly like how do people do this without their Village near them
00:42:57
seriously and I should say single fathers too yeah crazy wow thank you for that I feel like we need something
00:43:02
haunted after that yeah bring me a haunted [ __ ] all right thank you thank you for sharing that yeah that was
00:43:07
incredible all right we've got listener tail does a demon come with everyone's College tuition or just mine I'm
00:43:14
obsessed it says hello beautiful spooky listeners my name is Addison yes you can
00:43:20
use my name of course I have to start my listener tail off by saying how amazing
00:43:24
and inspiring y'all are thank you you all have such an amazing bond with each other and never fail to brighten my day
00:43:29
enough with all this mushy stuff though let's go down to the nitty gritty of the
00:43:33
scariest [ __ ] night of my life that I still think about to this day so hang on
00:43:37
to your tits it's going to be a wild ride remix so I'm from Greensville South Carolina
00:43:43
and attended college at the good old University of Southern Carolina I remember pulling up to my assigned dorm
00:43:49
building with my dad's car packed to the brim of an assertive absurd amount of unnecessary dwarf stuff that I plan to
00:43:55
decorate my room with but hey a girl can't have too much Decor am I right no you are right you are absolutely right a
00:44:02
short commute to the um no no on the short commute from Greenville to Columbia I was picturing my dorm to be
00:44:08
super cute and homey but boy I was wrong I stepped one foot into that apartment style dorm and took one look around
00:44:16
thinking to myself that there is no amount of Home Decor in the world to fix this place up I mean the place literally
00:44:22
looked like Satan himself lived in that very dorm was it goth maybe my roommate Elena maybe Alaska came in after me and
00:44:30
we looked at each other as if we were thinking the same thing what the actual [ __ ] my dad of course started to do the
00:44:36
typical dad inspection of the apartment and my mom kept assuring me and Elena that the place wasn't that bad mom be
00:44:42
[ __ ] for real we hugged our parents goodbye and started to make our little hell hole our own and the first few
00:44:49
months there were very little strange things that would occur cabinet doors would be open when we knew we'd left
00:44:53
them shut and the TV would turn on in the middle of the night by itself these little things didn't particularly scare
00:44:59
us because we just thought we were carelessly leaving cabinet doors open or leaving lights on Valen a few months
00:45:04
later we both found ourselves a boyfriend they are now our piece of [ __ ] exes and I digress oh [ __ ] I'm sorry we
00:45:11
both started to basically spend every night with our boyfriends because the apartment was just flat out eerie and
00:45:16
scary to be in I always felt like I was being watched and I had the feeling we weren't alone in that nasty ass storm as
00:45:22
the holidays rolled around everyone started to pack up and head home for Chris Christmas break including our
00:45:27
boyfriends so we had to tough it out and stay a few nights in the hell hole I had
00:45:31
to stay an extra few days because I had a job at a stupid ass pizza place and was scheduled to work for the rest of
00:45:37
the week I made Elena stay with me that whole week because I would rather sleep on a park bench than sleep alone in that
00:45:42
piece of [ __ ] apartment I like that I'm part of this I do too I feel good being
00:45:46
part of this with you I like it a lot she begrudgingly agreed but broke the news to me that she was leaving a day
00:45:51
early [ __ ] her I'm just kidding but still she gave me a hug grabbed her things and walked out the door I wanted
00:45:58
to break down crying but it's only one night alone how bad can it be luckily I had to work a double shift that day so I
00:46:04
wasn't in the apartment most of the day I got back around 10 pm that night and made myself some dinner sat on the couch
00:46:09
to watch my comfort show hell yeah Rick and Morty as I was eating my canned soup dinner
00:46:15
and goldfish that sounds awesome we call it girl dinner I heard what it sounded like a cabinet door opening in the
00:46:21
kitchen the place was old as dirt so literally everything creaked and made noises I've seen way too many horror
00:46:26
films in my life to get up and vestigate so I quickly ran to our room and locked
00:46:30
the door the apartment is set up where me and Elena share a big room with two twin
00:46:35
beds and the bedroom door has a big latch lock that you could not get into without a key that me and Elena tied
00:46:41
around our wrists I got in bed and listened out for any more noises and didn't hear anything so I basically
00:46:46
gaslit myself into thinking that I was being absolutely ridiculous and there was nothing there we've all done that
00:46:52
yeah I turned the lights off and got into bed my bad thoughts went away quickly as I lost as I got lost
00:46:58
scrolling through Instagram which was part of my nightly routine about 30 minutes passed by when I heard the
00:47:03
[ __ ] latch lock on my bedroom door unlock itself oh that's horrible I was frozen in fear and laid in my bed
00:47:11
paralyzed staring at my bedroom door we had blackout curtains in our room so the
00:47:15
room was literally pitch black except the light coming from my phone that barely illuminated the room
00:47:20
the door slowly started to Creak open and I shot under my covers because I wanted to become invisible to whatever
00:47:26
was on the other side of that door I started to cry and even pissed myself a little I'm such a [ __ ] I feel you I
00:47:32
would have done the same thing I knew for a fact that I locked the front door to my apartment and the door to my
00:47:37
bedroom door and the only key to get in was literally still tied around my wrist
00:47:41
all I could hear was heavy breathing and a slow shuffle like someone was dragging
00:47:46
their feet coming into the room oh I literally mustered up or excuse me I finally mustered up the courage to call
00:47:52
out Elena no answer Elena's like it's not me though it wasn't me the breathing and the shuffling got louder and louder
00:47:59
there was absolutely no way in hell that I was going to look at what or who entered my room I could hear things
00:48:05
being thrown around on the floor and I knew that it was the pillows being tossed on the ground from Elena's bed
00:48:12
then I heard the creaking from her bed as if someone was getting in bed to go to sleep what the [ __ ] the breathing
00:48:19
continued and I just sat there and Silent cried I am a religious person so I silently repeated The Lord's Prayer
00:48:26
over and over again until somehow I fell asleep I can't believe you fell asleep just holy [ __ ] there's a literal Damon
00:48:33
and the other room you're just like nighty night I woke up in the morning and looked over at Elena's bed and what
00:48:39
the [ __ ] do I see all of the pillows were on the ground and the comforter looked as if someone had slept on top of
00:48:45
it chills flooded my body because I watched Elena flawlessly make her bed before she left I went to check the
00:48:51
front door which was still locked I called my mom crying and told her what happened and without hesitation she said
00:48:57
Madison we need to bless that apartment and get that thing the [ __ ] out of there
00:49:01
I told her that I was just going to come home for now because I could not spend another minute in that place alone I
00:49:07
called Elena to tell her what happened and she completely believed me and apologized for not staying with me
00:49:12
apology not accepted [ __ ] I don't blame you Elena's like God damn it after we came back from our month break we walked
00:49:20
into the apartment to find all the cabinet and closet doors open even our refrigerator hate that we dropped our
00:49:27
stuff in the doorway and ran out of there I called my mom and I told her that we will not be staying another
00:49:32
night there and my mom said yes you are we are paying good money for you to be there thanks Mom for the guilt trip but
00:49:38
[ __ ] no I love that she's like we're gonna bless that place and then she's like you're gonna stay the [ __ ] in there
00:49:45
we paid your tuition we had a deposit on that place that we won't get back stay with that Damon damn my angel of a mom
00:49:53
drove up to Columbia that day and made me and Elena walked uh walked to the room with her as she walked through the
00:49:59
room with her Shield get out of this house you are not well welcome here and read scriptures from the Bible I'll tell
00:50:05
you what the people on our floor probably thought we were crazy as hell but [ __ ] it my mom took us to lunch and
00:50:10
dropped us back I love that she was like you guys want to get some let's go to Applebee's and dropped us
00:50:17
back off when we walked in the place it felt lighter and not as Eerie thank the lord we didn't have any more activity
00:50:24
since that day but we quickly learned from other students who resided in the building had quickly learned from
00:50:30
students who resided in the building had strange things going on in their rooms too move out day did not come soon
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enough but we survived me and Elena continued to be roommates all throughout college and are still sisters to this
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day it was beautiful as for the building that [ __ ] got torn down this year as it should thank you so much for
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listening to my tail it literally gave me chills to write this five years later as it is still the scariest thing that
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has ever happened to me I love you both and I hope you have the best day much love Addison oh Addison Addison that was
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terrific I hope you have the best day and thank goodness you were out of that [ __ ] dorm for real because holy hell
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no pun intended maybe a little pun intended a lot of the girl a lot of the girl that
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was intended wow Addison's that was a lot uh should we do one more all right let's do listen or tell of a haunted
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Airbnb told by an East coaster playing the character of a wit of the midwesterner obsessed damn sorry if I'm
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like slipping over my words I had like a dental procedure done yesterday and you
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know it [ __ ] happens you better get it together sorry uh hey Ash and Elena I Finally Found the courage to write in my
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listener tale so I hope it makes it onto the Pod it did as the phrase goes I've attached to double space podifa and some
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pictures as well for your enjoyment I look forward to more morbid episodes Yours Truly Chelsea the New Yorker who
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ended up in Wisconsin by way of Oregon also I know Massachusetts pretty well and was never a fan of mass holes but
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somehow you two make me want to visit more the bklyn Italian in me makes it hard to like Boston though you don't
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like Boston because you know what we'll forgive you you have a really cute cat Airbnb host
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that was a ghost and you know what that rhymed it does so there we go it says hey Ash and Elena I'm Chelsea you can
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use my name because I'm a 37 year old Aquarius with Leo Rising who still thinks they're 27. I love it so I love
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me some recognition flips hair I recently discovered morbid in May of 2022 but thankfully my life is
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uneventful so I was able to catch up to the present day pretty quickly I first started listening to you when I had a
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month off from work so I was painting my home and doing odd jobs around my house
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now every time I'm in a certain room or staring at my porch I think I painted that to BTK or the exterior door frames
00:52:54
I painted that to John Wayne Gacy so you're forever stuck in my home in Brighton now I'll never forget painting
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my kitchen to Albert Fish and laughing my ass off at the two of you trying to explain why they used to why they what
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why they used to use the Boy Scouts and the fact that no matter what there's always an issue with managing paperwork
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truly Boy Scouts doing police work who knew cops dropping the ball who knew who knew for the last few months I've been
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wanting to write in because I have little moments in my 100 year old Bungalow with my old man ghost who
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watches me when I've had too much to drink or with the old polish lady who insists on playing with Ivan my cat
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after 2AM I'm obsessed with you I'm obsessed with all of that and Ivan I love that name yeah if you yell at her
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that it's bedtime she stops but this one is about my Airbnb experience in Grand Rapids please give us the other ones too
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later please do I live in Milwaukee please note I was not born in Wisconsin or Wisconsin I am a New Yorker Brooklyn
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bread badass I would just want to clarify I live here because it's cheap also now I understand why you don't like
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Boston it makes sense you honestly think the dive this timepiece lesbian would live here at a free will and not
00:54:02
inflation to it most every Halloween weekend I drive over to Michigan for Saugatuck
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Douglas adult-only Halloween parade it's a must for your bucket list if you love
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The Arts the gays and damn fun weekend I do that sounds amazing I love all of those I always try to get one night in
00:54:23
Grand Rapids since it's a little less than an hour drive from the parade this one weekend I booked an Airbnb instead
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of my usual bougie Marriott Suite this house was built in the 1800s so it was freezing even though the heat was on and
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it was overall Creek it was overall creaky and creepy but so adorable I got in didn't unpacked threw my food in the
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fridge and went out exploring when I came home to cook and unwind I opened the fridge and found my chicken breasts
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wrapped in very nice Linens that had chickens embroidered on them like they were hand sewn what I stood there
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confused and triple checked my brain that I didn't do that I drank a lot at this time and smoked a lot too I could
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have done it but I know I didn't why would I cover my breasts I ignored it made dinner and went to the
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living room where I proceeded to pass out however many hours later I woke up freezing so I got up to hit the bedroom
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and I passed the bathroom where I noticed all the bathroom products were on the floor like someone went in and
00:55:19
had a hissy fit over the fact that Tresemme was the shampoo provided it was me I knew that I didn't I knew that I
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didn't do that so I took note and headed into the bedroom I love that you're just
00:55:29
like I didn't do that in the bedroom my stuff was neatly placed at the foot of the bed and one side of the comforters
00:55:35
was folded down as a way of inviting me into bed what the [ __ ] I also knew I didn't neatly Place anything and the bed
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originally did not look like this so now I'm spooked and I creep into bed totally
00:55:46
wigged out of my brain thinking is my Airbnb host a ghost yes and as I'm laying there trying to fall asleep
00:55:52
trying not to wig out I hear pacing in the kitchen as if someone is preparing a meal pots moving someone walking around
00:55:58
the island the fridge opening opening so suffice to say I did not fall asleep I also did not go out and investigate no
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[ __ ] that it can't be a mean ghost if they're trying to meal prep right I don't think so my ex-girlfriend joined
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me the next day because that's what lesbians do we break up and then take a mini vacay together just to make sure we
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know the reasons why we broke up wow if that's not the truth I love you I told her about my exhaustion and experience
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but she doesn't believe in that stuff and said I was drunk well guess who heard the meal purping after 2 A.M who's
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the drunk now still me at this time the morning of checkout I messaged the host and simply said your place is
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haunted to which she simply says hey by the way you're feeling so haunted to which she simply said yes we know and
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she's very nice which I simply said yes she felt motherly to me trying to take care of me I rated her five stars she
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rated me five stars and I left that's incredible I live in a spooky house but I'm very
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cordial with my ghosts they do nice things for me like fix my lights or play with Ivan that's awesome I'm also an
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Airbnb host and I've only been told some folks hear footsteps my medium yes I have a medium came to my home and told
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me all about the folks who live with me and how they watch me when I renovate bait and paint and they love Ivan
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sometimes Ivan and I hear walking around downstairs or we smell cologne but meh it's just the ghosts but that Airbnb
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stay was perhaps the creepiest experience I've had I'm sure the tequila did not help the situation it sure does
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if you're ever in Milwaukee and need an Airbnb in a classic 1920s Bungalow look me up if you end up going to Saugatuck I
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hope that's how you say it I'm gonna think it is for the dope ass Halloween parade make time for Grand Rapids the
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old houses are off the charts there Google Heritage Hill and thank you if you ended up reading this on the Pod I
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told my homies if you did I would make them listen to it daily for a month straight because again Aquarius Leo
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flips hair well homies get ready attaches a picture of Ivan and a picture of the front of my home that Zillow took
00:58:00
clearly during the month of October because I had it all decorated peeped that handmade life-size Michael Myers oh
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handmade I gotta see it out of all the things I've accomplished in my life this is in the top three let me see it let me
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see it right now let me see this let me see this oh my God look at that holy [ __ ] I did I didn't spot it at first but
00:58:18
then I did damn that's terrifying you should put that in the top three also Ivan is beautiful I love Ivan and I love
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it all great you are beautiful you are you are a dime piece lesbian a dime piece lesbian correctly described
00:58:34
yourself I'm obsessed with this entire story Chelsea that was this amazing story also I like the color of your
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bathroom good call I just love that your ghosts take care of you and play with your cat I know it's nice that's awesome
00:58:46
I really like that sometimes you're tired and like you love your cat but you don't want to play with them and you
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wish somebody else would one I like that your medium came and confirmed that was
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just like you know what they like you and they're gonna take care of you and play with your cat yeah I also like like
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that you have a medium I know that's fine that I just have I would also love that let's look into that I feel like
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that happen let's get a [ __ ] medium Chelsea that was great Chelsea seggy [ __ ] who else did we read from I
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don't know if we were supposed to say the first person's name nope okay and Addison yep yep you're all [ __ ]
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fantastic he killed it I love it that was a fun one that was a good one we needed those haunting ones to like you
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know be this the bread yeah those last two were the fun ones and all of them were not from no the
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that yeah crazy whoa well I guess it's time for me to go now so we hope you keep listening keep
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sending those listen to tales and we hope that you keep it weird but that's so weird that you live in a haunted
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house or you try to steal Somebody's Baby or you haunt a [ __ ] dorm room because that's really terrifying and I
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mean I think you should keep it so weird that you're a mountain that looks like a
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butt definitely be that weird yay [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] [Music]
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