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I didn't expect that and this is [Music] our tails in case you couldn't tell that's why it's so silly goofy
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laughs we just had some Wendy's up in here we had Reese's some of you are already
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yelling at me for saying Reese's oh yeah you say Reese's no I say Reese's oh hell
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yeah Mikey is giving a face do you say Reese's or Reese's there's like a big old argument that
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it's actually Reese's because of that apostrophe it makes it like we're belonging to Rhys which like I believe
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grammatically I'll give it to you but in reality no Reese's yeah it's like it's I
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don't know it's a thing because they are not Reese's Pieces even though yes that
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makes more sense as well it's Reese's species oh yeah [ __ ] yeah you will not change my mind don't try they are
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Reese's the pieces that's the way it is you know that's just the way it is things are always gonna be the same
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Reese's Pieces we're never going to get away from that well this is listener tales and guess what we hand-picked a
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bunch of good ass listen to tales for your little butt butts with the hell yeah one dub dub dub dub dub dub dub dub
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and today we decided since it's August which basically means it's fall that it is Halloween Halloween I'm ready for
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Halloween Halloween's Here and I decided that this year I think I I decorate mostly pretty early in September but
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this year September 1st oh yeah let's [ __ ] go Halloween's already started to creep into my house I'm also going to
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your worst nightmare about like my most beautiful uh mare Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween party
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yeah I'm going you're gonna have a lot of fun I mean I have the most fun and I'm going to wish that for you I think
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to manifest that for you your girl ordered a lot of years I love that thank you that makes me happy I'm glad yeah it
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does thanks and I mean it's just anything Halloween makes me happy oh all this stuff is out at like bath and body
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everywhere and like we need to go to Home Goods together yeah we got to go to so many places let's go get Halloween
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decorations we're gonna take Sheena and trid to haunted houses this year oh baby
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you know Sheena melwani that beautiful luna moth that's moth and that's my shishi so we're gonna take her to some
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haunted houses upstairs it's fun it's so fun she her she has like a genuine Terror yeah it's wonderful it's great
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it's she's a very fun person to take to a haunted house we're sick twisted people okay we are but you know here we
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are we're gonna do some Halloween Tales some of these are Loosely Halloween some
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of these just mentioned Halloween very briefly but some of them are straight up Halloween so let's go I think like
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that's basically the theme is like it says Halloween in the tale somewhere perfect so I have to start this off with
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a literal bang oh okay because this one's called listener Tales the time I got shot in the head and had no idea
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okay so alrighty whoa so the way that this listener did attach beautiful question mark font size 14 double spaced
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read time 6 minutes 57 seconds pictures included that was just in the header yeah that's a college student right they
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went for it that's somebody with a degree right yeah and you know what your name is Allison because you told me I
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better use it Allison Allison Max likes your yabos Allison in fact he loves them so hello my favorite weirdos
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to start my name is Allison and you better use it Allison Allison Allison this star this Starry I almost went very
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fast in there this story is far too ridiculous that anyone I know who hears it will absolutely know who I am anyway
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to follow in suit with all the other listeners who write in I cannot thank you both enough for being such a
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positive light even when telling some of the darkest Tales I'm a teacher hero and
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the last few years have been extremely difficult and debilitating however during this extremely tough time you and
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your podcast have given me something to consistently look forward to as both an escape and a place I can count on for
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acceptance and support hell yeah oh my God Allison I love you we accept you we support you
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you can count on us you're a teacher you're a badass we love you I've been working on submitting this story for
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almost a year because well life it sometimes gets in the way but I've been going through a lot in my personal life
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and you have both helped me realize that sometimes you just need to put your happiness in yourself first [ __ ] yeah so
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here it is [ __ ] let's go yeah Allison I wasn't sure which story I should write
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to you there was the time a kid hopped up on drugs rear-ended my car off the highway and left me trapped in a swamp
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in the dark while he tried to drive off so I sat in darkness alone until a creepy white van of men climbed down
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into the darker V and I was stuck in and saved me through a window not so creepy
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after all uh send that one in please uh the time I was one of the students accused of bringing bullets to my high
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school and was called out of class to be locked in the cafeteria and have all of
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my belongings searched by teachers police and administrators no it was not me I am just the unluckiest human and it
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just so happens that I was one of the few students out of the class when they found them because I have the bladder of
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a two-month-old and was on one of my casual trips to the bathroom from class Jesus or the time I was at work after
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school and I was trying to give directions to Vietnamese speaking parents via MapQuest to find their
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daughter's sports game no this was not going well and no it was not successful I'm so bad when suddenly a parent ran in
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the building yelling that the buildings all over the city were blowing up and we
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needed to evacuate immediately without any further context so in complete chaos confusion and fear myself and another
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teacher that was still at work had to try and Rescue all the kids that were staying after school that day from the
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gas gas explosions in Lawrence Massachusetts I remember that holy [ __ ] I definitely remember that holy [ __ ] I
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am finally I decided to go with the time I was shot in the head and had no idea it happened for months months Allison
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you got sister Allison what's going on over there so here we go it was Halloween see
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this one it actually was on Halloween a few years ago and I was at a party in Austin Massachusetts
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to set the scene this this year and every other year in college I had picked an extremely original and modest costume
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a sexy cat we've all been there multiple times it's also been just a wee bit intoxicated on rubinoff which let's be
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honest is a mere name change from drinking rubbing alcohol yeah Ruby's not where it's at at the end of the night I
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love that you just used like a cute little nickname for Ruben off you're like yeah Ruby Ruby Rubes Ruby like
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unfortunately I know Ruru all too well not good it's so casual at the end of the night after the party I was waiting
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with two of my friends on a street corner trying to hail a taxi back to the house I shared with five other girls to
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have some type of after party fun fact I recently learned from your podcast that
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apparently and in all shock to me I guess I lived in a brothel then well [ __ ] not so fun fact listener tell
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connection from terrifying home invasions listener tail when my story took place I lived on the same street in
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Boston like Emily did what and I was only about two houses down from where she lived the exact same time her house
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was broken into and I had no idea it happened that is not a fun fact that is wild also that is the story we just
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looked it up because we're like why does that sound familiar it's the one where her and her boyfriend like chased it
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would be like rapist yeah out of their house and then they were featured on like the front of the what was it the I
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think it was the herald I love The Herald and she was like I I like literally looked like [ __ ] you looked
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great you like it but you you were like what the [ __ ] I was not she was not prepared for a photo op I was not ready
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for my close-up here so that was Emily um so that's wild that you were in the same two doors down from her at the same
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time that listener till happened this is wild connection I have to say it was extremely haunting to find out that we
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had been living right next to her also in a brownstone with a fire escape up to our house holy [ __ ] additionally two of
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my roommates had actually turned where that back door opened where that back door opened into a shared bedroom with
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their beds on the opposite side of the door which in hindsight would have made us a perfect Target for that creep yep
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because that's pretty much exactly how we got into Emily's house look but back to the story
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while waiting for the taxi some people were getting a little too rowdy with their spooky spirit and alcohol
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consumption and a car drove down the street past us actually throwing beer bottles out of their car window you know
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like normal people why do people do things like that then all of a sudden and in one quick moment I heard a
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mind-numbing piercing sound blaring in both my ears just imagine a dog's worst nightmare or when you get ringing
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ringing in your ears but amplify that by a thousand my ears hurt disoriented I innocently looked at my
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friends and said hey am I bleeding oh my God my friend then proceeds to immediately rip off his shirt and wrap
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it around my head why did he do this you might ask well because blood was pouring
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out of my skull that's a good reason that's a great reason in my fine college-age drunken mind my first
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thought was that someone had hit me with one of those beer bottles causing the pain and blood I also did not even
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consider the idea that maybe I should receive some medical attention I was incorrect about both of these things
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so what exactly was my medical plan go back to our brothel put a bag of frozen peas on the wound and play some candy
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crush because for some reason I thought I was invincible especially when crushing those candies
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fast forward about a month or so later I was shopping with some of my friends and
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one of them looked at my head and goes oh my God Allison there's a huge bug coming out of your skull you know as
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friends do the way I would have shot myself if I was you Allison contrary to popular belief I personally would never
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like to imagine the mere possibility of having a bug resident in my skull no so naturally I freaked out and looked at my
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head in a mirror and what did I see something animalistic looking protruding out of my head oh my God and this is
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like a month later also Allison sent a picture she has pics it's terrific it happened not knowing what it was and
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just deciding to believe my completely medically unqualified friend that there was something disgusting and Alive
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turning me into a mutant conjoined twin I thought this case I brought this case to my mom who works in the medical field
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after speaking with my mom we did not know what it could be but we assumed we assumed that it was definitely linked
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back to that Halloween night because well on that night my head was bleeding profusely and it was in the same
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location of this quote-unquote bug we cracked the case oh my God unbeknownst to me my mom later told me that when I
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showed up at her house to inquire about the fact I was turning into a two-headed
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insect woman she left out the fact that she had actually thought there was a nine inch nail stuck in my skull and
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thought it looked like someone had shot me with a nail gun um but what if it was Mom Mom
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see a specialist to figure out what in the [ __ ] was going on come to find out this entire time I had been shot in the
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head with a BB gun and there was a bullet still lodged in my skull what the [ __ ] I had to have surgery to have it
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removed all the while I just thought someone had hit me in the head with a bottle and or Charlotte from shar's web
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was chilling in my Dome piece just imagine if I had been called down as a bullet suspect now instead of
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during high school for real they're like well I think she's got the minute got it
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on you the doctor was able to safely remove the remaining piece of the bullet which had compacted itself into my
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magically hard skull brag alert and luckily no it was not nine inches thanks again mom although I am now left with
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just a little skull where I was struck slash shot it has been a great story shared by many of my friends to peers
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and co-workers has been used in countless games of two truths and alive I was gonna say that it now serves as a
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cautionary tale to not drink Ruben off especially while dressed like a [ __ ] cat why because sometimes people might
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just decide to shoot you in the head I never found out who decided to shoot me that night or why did their cat just die
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and my outfit triggered them did I take the last pair of cat ears at the store honestly the possibilities are endless
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oh my gosh but what I did find was a silver lining I'm extremely I'm in extremely short individual hashtag
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represent Elena and I realized that based on the location where the bullet hit me if I had just been a little bit
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taller the bullet most likely would have hit me directly in my temple and I would
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have died on a street corner in cat lingerie sorry Mom and Dad that would have been really [ __ ] traumatic I
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have included a photo of the bug bullet still lodged in my skull as well as pictures of me and my pup because well I
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just love him so freaking much and no you would too I I love him so there you have it stay weird but not so weird that
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take it away Ash you go out with your friends and you're [ __ ] on rubinoff and somebody shoots you in the face and
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you have literally no idea and then you find out months later because oh my God there's a bug man crawling out of your
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head I beyond words also you're beautiful you are and your dog you're beautiful you
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are a beautiful pair the two of you that there's a legit picture of her with a BB
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gun in her head holy [ __ ] right there it's there wild Allison that was unbelievable Allison has like a really
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nice shade of blonde like I like that shade you do have a great shade of blonde look at you look at you with your
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blonde look at you you and your puppy match and I love that you look great you survived getting shot in the head you
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got tales that I would like to hear yeah please write in all those other ones because damn that if you look at the
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picture which we are the if that that is so close all right speechless yeah that
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if she was a little taller that would have hit her in the temple 100 oh God that made my head hurt oh and just oh my
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God like picturing the sound yeah no horrible I will not I'm so glad you're okay Allison seriously Allison Allison
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Allison all right I'm gonna read this one called my sleep paralysis demons remind me to engage in self-care because
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it's me I literally picked that for you I'm obsessed thank you it says hello ladies
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my name is Veronica and yes you can absolutely use my name Veronica Veronica I am a 32 year old living in Las Vegas
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uh oh you want me to say it a certain way Nevada Nevada how do you say it I never know how to
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say it it says Nevada not not Nevada Nevada okay not Nevada it's Nevada trust me after living here for over six years
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I've learned that nevadians get a little bit testy about the pronunciation everybody does they do we all get pissed
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that everyone doesn't talk the exact same way we're I don't know why but we all I mean I don't but like but
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everybody does it everybody's pissed so we don't all say the same words the same
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way across the [ __ ] board dialect I said Nevada my whole life me too I've never said Nevada and you know what
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whatever but you know what Veronica for you for you for you Nevada Nevada losing
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all meaning it truly is well it says I just want to clarify that despite what the media tells you Vegas locals do not
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live in hotels we absolutely avoid the strip out of all the costs and we know it's hotter than Satan's [ __ ] after
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eating Taco Bell late at night we don't like it either yeah I'm not gonna lie it
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kind of sucked there and I hated it I unfortunately moved here from San Diego California to fortunately begin my
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wonderful life with my now husband oh I love that congrats since moving I have graduated with my masters in human and
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social services oh yeah Veronica I'm going to say Nevada for you you earned it you got three who's
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um and I am currently working on my [ __ ] doctorate in human services focusing on prevention intervention and
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advocacy hell yeah Veronica baddest [ __ ] I have come a long way in such a short
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amount of time so I can't say I completely hate Vegas but I definitely don't plan on being here for the rest of
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my life I have attached to put a foe with a listener tail attached for your reading pleasure it's a long one but I'm
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hoping it's worth it it's it says so this is the part where I tell you guys how absolutely amazing you both
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are oh you are Veronica everyone I was gonna say look at everything you've done you're amazing you're amazing I stumbled
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upon morbid about excuse me around the pandemic and I immediately knew that I'd found my people ah as the token spooky
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[ __ ] in my family Elena I have turned everyone on to morbid including my own mother my husband will often ask me if I
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want to put the girls off oh my God and do a puzzle or just sit and talk about the episode
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we even turned our daughters 9 and 12 into morbid listeners oh my God and they love you guys we love them we love them
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we once took a road trip from Las Vegas to Southern Oregon or Oregon then down the California coast to San
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Diego and then back up to Vegas and they asked if we could listen to morbid the entire 20 plus hours of that drive I'm
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obsessed with them I promise I bet the episodes were before exposing them to certain ones usually I trust you we
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usually just go for the spooky ones when the girls are around just to be safe we'll do more of those for you we will
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we love the spooky ones now on to the reason as to why I am writing this listener tale you see I've always been a
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bit sensitive to energy whether it's people's energy or The Unexplained I wouldn't say I see dead people I'm not
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as cool as the kid in the sixth sense but I definitely sent shifts in energy or see Shadows move from the corner of
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my eye now I should note that I have always been a spooky [ __ ] I have always loved
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the Paranormal horror True Crime Etc and you honestly will probably find me with
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that type of book in my hand looking at you Elena hell yeah the butcher in the Wren at the tinyurl.com
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so just go to Barnes Noble or Target or a store near you anyway so it was pretty
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clear to me early on that not everyone is as sensitive to these things as I am I need to take a breath because I just
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said so many words at once you said a lot I'll Vamp for you while you say those words just um the second book will
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be coming out at some point so you ready for that and then you're great and you're really smart me thanks yeah you
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too okay when I was around 12 years old I began experiencing sleep paralysis oh me too that's horrible were you that
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young when it started yeah I was I think I might I was around that age I think oh
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yeah that's terrifying it started out as small episodes here and there so I dismissed it as nothing serious while I
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knew what it was I never thought it was a big deal with my episodes only happening occasionally I didn't think it
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could get any worse boy was I wrong as I got older I began to surround myself with the wrong people at 17 I went
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through a fairly abusive relationship I'm sorry oh that I kept secret for years during that time the sleep
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paralysis increased to the point where I would jolt awake screaming or crying almost every night about a year later I
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found myself in another relationship that lasted for almost seven years which also turned out to be emotionally
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abusive I'm sorry did not deserve that and I'm so sorry again my sleep paralysis became worse and there would
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be times that I would wake up completely paralyzed and feeling like I was being suffocated then in 2016 I reconnected
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with an old friend from high school that friend is now my husband oh stop I love
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that obsessed my husband and I have known each other for most of our Lives that's beautiful
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we dated shortly in high school before you moved to Nevada Nevada you deserve it you deserve it we still
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can't agree on who broke up with who back then but he a thousand percent nevertheless we stayed in touch
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occasionally throughout the years as friends in July 2016 I came out to Vegas after a breakup and asked if you wanted
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to catch up look at you [ __ ] you're just making things happen killing it today we've been together for seven
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amazing years I love that and I now have the pleasure of being a bonus mom to two
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beautifully brilliant girls that I love with all my soul oh I'm gonna cry I love
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this so much side note we got married at the courthouse on December 13th 2019. it
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was a Friday the 13th and had a big wedding on Halloween 2020. hell yeah in crayob it was amazing and our wedding
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photographer dressed up as a banana that's amazing I'm not sure how it gets any better than that it doesn't to be
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honest no it does not since being with my husband I have only had sleep paralysis once it was at the
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beginning of our relationship and we were dating long distance at the time I was in Las Vegas visiting and job
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hunting so I could move his room at the time was set up where the bed was directly next to the door this detail is
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important later it was about 4 30 in the morning and I heard him call my name this is weird because he typically
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leaves for work at 4am and it was just us in the house I remember thinking to myself that maybe he forgot something so
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I opened my eyes the second I did I quickly realized that I couldn't move I immediately knew what was going on and
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began to panic but I still heard him calling my name I began trying to wiggle my toes fingers anything that would that
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would break the paralysis but nothing worked oh that sounds like the most horrific just oh I can't imagine
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this time went on excuse me this went on for about a minute and then I began to feel a warm sensation all over my body I
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attempted to move again I still couldn't move my body but I was able to move my head I slowly turned my head toward the
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door to see if I could turn on the light and when I did I saw a solid black shadow standing in the doorway looking
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at me the door was cracked about an inch and it was still pitch black but the figure Shadow was unmistakable listen I
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know I'm absolutely blind without my glasses but my even my blind ass knew that this figure was not my boyfriend
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whatever it was it looked like it was waiting for me to acknowledge it so it could enter the room and it was calling
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me I kept thinking in my head go away you're not welcome over here here over and over in my mind it felt like forever
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but eventually the paralysis broke and I was able to move again the second it broke I looked at the door and the
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shadowy figure was gone oh while I don't have sleep paralysis anymore I'm still fairly sensitive to surrounding energy
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and I often experience lucid dreams when I'm stressed me too interesting being a
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doctoral student I think it goes without saying that it happens fairly often yeah
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I occasionally have a recurring dream of an old woman looking into the kitchen window of our home oh sounds creepy
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right well that's what I thought too but when I see her she has an oddly calming
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presence that makes me feel like she isn't here to cause any harm she never speaks never tries to enter my home she
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just looks at me and sometimes will gesture if she's trying to tell me something oh I feel like she's one of
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your early Spirit guys I kind of love her I do too I told my husband about her and at first he didn't like it I don't
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believe him either Drew would be like [ __ ] off please don't tell me that way for her period when he was younger he
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lived in Italy where he says he experienced a lot of unexplained things since then he's very hesitant about
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these types of interactions so when I told him about the old woman of my dreams he was quick to tell me not to
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let her in the house or even to speak to her then the day occurred that forced me
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to come to terms with my Sensitivity I had the dream like always the dream typically starts with me waking up in
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the middle of the night and going down and and excuse me walking downstairs to get water when I walk into the kitchen I
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see the old woman looking into our window oh that'd be so creepy I don't like that however this time something
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felt different I immediately knew something was wrong oh [ __ ] that I just I read the next time my whole body just
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went whoa oh here's what yeah this wasn't even a womp it was like I'm stressed the old woman began pointing at the
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front door as if she were telling me to open it I must have gave her oh I'm so slow I must have gave her Jesus Christ I
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must have given her a weird look because she pointed again with more urgency I shook my head and began to walk away
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when she began pounding on the window and yelling at me to let her in I know chills over my yeah my whole body's
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chilling the pounding then moved to my front door and grew louder and louder I ran into our living room which is right
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next to our kitchen and huddled up on the corner of the couch to get away from her quote-unquote I instinctively knew
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that this was not the old woman but some entity pretending to be her her and trying to enter my home suddenly the
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pounding stopped and everything went dead silent I stood up and began to start towards the stairs to go back to
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bed I know what you're thinking how the hell do you just go after bed after that
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to go back to bed after that but I don't make the rules in my dream world when I
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reached the first step I heard uh heard from the other side of the door an old woman's frail voice why won't you let me
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in oh God I called for my husband and the second I called his name I woke up and there he was snoring away right next
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to me on his side of the bed with our beagle in between us a beagle I immediately felt a sense of peace and
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looked over at my bedroom door there standing in the doorway was my cat oh he was standing facing away from us as if
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he was guarding the door I still see the old woman on occasion but she's just back to her normal self just standing
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there and never speaking her presence is still calming and I'm not afraid of her
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despite the terrifying dream she even came the nights I found out two of my uncles had passed away and she just
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smiled at me and nodded as if to tell me that they're okay now oh I got chills that's beautiful I'm happy that you
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could separate that scary ass from her from her because like you said it wasn't her my husband and I have discussed
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these events at length and I think a lot of my experiences had to do with being constantly surrounded by negative energy
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trauma and stress now when they happen if they're particularly bad I just take it as a reminder to engage in self-care
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and be mindful of what's going on in my life I love that well ladies there it is
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my long-winded story about how my sleep paralysis demon reminds me to engage in self-care and kick out the negative
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energy in my life the people-pleasing side of me says to apologize for the long story no but I already hear what
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you're going to say so I won't in typical fashion I've included pictures of our fur babies hell yeah for your
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viewing pleasure our beagle's name is Luna the black girl the little black cat is Knox Knox chunky little bodyguard
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although my daughter says he's likely my familiar oh my God I love your daughter
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and our sweet little angel rabbit is Severus Severus oh I'm sorry oh we sadly lost Severus in January 2020 but he
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still makes his presence known and yes all our animals have Harry Potter themed have a Harry Potter who's gonna ask any
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who thank you for thank you both for all that you do and for taking the time to read my story with all the love and
00:27:48
spooky Vibes Veronica Veronica oh my God your cat looks like my luxie all your animals are beautiful muffins oh my God
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I love it and you are also a beautiful muffin you're a beautiful muffin I love the one of the beagle and the cat
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sitting next to each other right that's oh my God they're so cute wow oh and Severus is adorable thanks for that
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Veronica interesting one though yeah well my next one is going to be called daddy issues death by elevator and a
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message from Beyond the Grave let's [ __ ] go girl let's go hello my wonderfully weird spooky sassy Soul
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Sisters my name is Roxy and you can use my name and any other names used in the story I'm just the biggest fan of the
00:28:31
Pod and the two of you you guys are my besties and we hang out and laugh three times a week and we've never even met
00:28:36
but it feels like chilling with my homies so that's what I'm gonna call it chilling with my hilarious spooky homies
00:28:42
while talking about murder so thank you for your delightfully morbid banter and your compassionate storytelling you guys
00:28:48
are the freaking best never ever changed and changed and Elena congratulations on
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the book thanks I saw it in Target the other day and loudly exclaimed hey I know her lol and you know I bought me a
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copy and can't wait to read it thanks I've attached a double space put a foot of my listener tail and if you read it
00:29:06
on the Pod I just might explode into a million pieces but after I put myself back together I will share it with
00:29:11
everyone I know because girlies this story is wild oh hell yeah this is a very long deeply personal story that
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twists and turns for over 20 years of my life and involves a seance An Elevator Shaft and a possible murder writing it
00:29:24
all out was strangely therapeutic oh I'm glad and I still can't believe that it all actually happened but it did this
00:29:30
reads at around 15 minutes long but it'll be worth it so strap in weirdos and hold on to your butts I feel like we
00:29:36
haven't said hold on to your butts in so long we really haven't hold on to your butts hold on to your booty so to begin
00:29:42
this story let's jump into our time machines and travel way way back to a time before the internet and social
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media and disinformation had polluted the human landscape a pure and magical era of grunge and gangster rap jelly
00:29:56
shoes and pencil thin eyebrows baby doll dresses and an MTV that actually played
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music a Time a sweet innocent 12 year old me played with pogs and Tamagotchis collected everything Lisa Frank watched
00:30:08
Dawson's Creek and plastered my walls with posters of Jonathan Taylor Thomas and Hanson Elena a golden age of
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humanity the 90s I knew you were gonna sing it oh I just felt every part of that the pogs
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oh okay what is pogs ugh it's really hard to explain they're these little I I honestly I don't know if you look
00:30:33
them up they're like little discs okay and you would collect them they had all different kind of things on them and
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then you would use a Slammer to slam the pogs it was a game but yeah the caps no
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they're called pogs oh uh but they're like you would trade them back and forth so you get like Slammers which were
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medley and kind of heavy and the pogs were like this and Slammers see well you can get them on Amazon if you want some
00:30:58
I might buy some pogs and Slammers and just show the girls and they'll be like that's weird make them play with pogs I
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don't even remember how to play I just remember trading them was it you want me to get you some I can get them
00:31:08
I just bought you some pogs and Slammers okay here you go like okay to go with it
00:31:13
like he just looked over and was like what the [ __ ] are you two talking are you guys okay all right just add a bit
00:31:19
of backstory I was living with my mom two little brothers and my stepdad whom I had always believed to be my dad dad
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my Mom married him when I was too young to remember and they had my brothers and
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we were a family and I just always thought he was my dad well then he can be your dad yeah my mom never had the
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heart to tell me about my real father and how he abandoned us when my mom was just 16 years old and very pregnant with
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me oh that's awful he was a much older man in my my mom was an infatuated young girl she was completely in love with him
00:31:48
she had believed that he loved her and would be there for her to be a father that but her teenage dreams were
00:31:53
shattered he wasn't capable of being a husband or a father he was a self selfish womanizer and he just couldn't
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be tied down so he flew the coop that's an old-timey way of saying that [ __ ] ghosted his
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pregnant teenage girlfriend for drugs women and freedom oh this absolutely devastated my mom she was 16 and
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Pregnant alone and completely heartbroken but instead of drowning in her pain and sorrow she did what she had
00:32:17
to do she grew the F up and took care of her daughter because she's a badass Queen Mama Bear and even at 16 and with
00:32:23
a broken heart she could not be stopped what a [ __ ] strong ass girly she gave me the best life she could and I
00:32:32
freaking love my mommy love that that is really that she's like touched my soul I'm so glad oh I love
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that eventually she moved on she married my stepfather when I was three and she hid her pain away and focused on her
00:32:47
family and she never told me about the man who crushed her and left her alone while she was pregnant I mean I can't
00:32:52
imagine there's ever a right time to tell your young child that their daddy isn't their daddy and that there's some
00:32:58
strange man out there that shares your DNA and looks just like you and you have the same weird walk even though you've
00:33:03
never even met oh that's weird which brings us back to 1995 when I was 12 years old and completely out of the blue
00:33:09
my we're like almost the same age girl I was 12 years old and completely out of the blue my real dad called he wanted to
00:33:16
meet me yeah that's a bad time I was shocked and confused and it took a lot of very uncomfortable conversations
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with my mother but she told me the truth about everything and told me that it was
00:33:29
up to me to decide if I wanted any type of relationship with this stranger she is such a good mama she sounds like one
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and that she would support whatever I chose she was a good mom and she wanted me to be happy oh my God I love your mom
00:33:40
at the end of it all I decided that I just had to know I don't blame you so I decided to meet him and this began a
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strange and dysfunctional relationship with a father who would later make me regret ever meeting him and leave me
00:33:52
with a lifetime of trauma and daddy issues once a deadbeat always a deadbeat I suppose it has taken Decades of
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therapy but eventually I've learned to forgive and heal he also was damaged and abandoned by his
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father and as we all know hurt people hurt people but this story isn't about him the story
00:34:10
is about his mother my guardian angel the grandmother that I never got to meet but that has loved me for my entire life
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may oh I love that name as I got to know my new dad I learned of a long-lost family that I had never met my dad had
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two younger sisters Kathy and Sandra or Sam as everyone called her they lived in
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Tacoma Washington and so did their mother may we lived in Southern California so we began writing letters
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so for Ash and any other young ones that may be listening letters are how people
00:34:39
used to communicate in the before times it's basically an email that you write on paper and put in the mailbox and then
00:34:47
literal pigeons deliver it to you LOL the 90s were wild contrary to popular belief I have written the letter before
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anyways I began to get to know my new family we talked on the phone and wrote letters for a few months and I learned
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that my grandmother may had been desperately wanting to meet me she had been furious with my father for
00:35:08
abandoning me and had begged him to do the right thing so that she could be part of her only granddaughter's life oh
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that's like heartbreaking right my father's terrible Life Choices had taken its toll on their relationship and over
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the years they had barely spoken Mae cried on the phone when she told me how badly this had hurt her and how much she
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wanted to be my grandma and makeup for all the time she had lost oh I love men so we made a plan to meet and my mother
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agreed I would fly out to Washington for my 13th birthday in a few weeks and meet
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my new family back then you had to actually buy paper tickets to fly that is really wild how much that's changed I
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was gonna say God I've never experienced so she bought them and she mailed them to me and I anxiously awaited my new
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adventure with my sweet loving new grandma and my new aunties I was so excited and I imagined all the fun
00:35:54
things we would do together and The Memories We would make everything was going to be great except that it wasn't
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fate had something else in mind oh no a couple of weeks later I'm sitting in science class and my name comes over the
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loudspeaker I'm being called to the principal's office as I opened the door to enter I see my mother there her eyes
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wet with tears she can't look at me or speak the principal or counselor or whoever the [ __ ] [ __ ] was kamuk was who
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comes over and sits down in front of me you know the cool adult way but excuse me the cool adult Way backwards in a
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chair they always think that's like an election yeah he just look dumb sit in the chair the
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right way [ __ ] he takes a moment and then he says something I'll never forget sweetheart there's no easy way to say
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this so I'm just gonna tell you straight your Grandma fell down An Elevator Shaft
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she's dead put that a little differently I feel like that yeah there's no easy way to
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tell her that but I don't know I'm also like I don't really use that in you needed to know in that moment that she
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fell down an elevator your grandmother passed away correct yeah seriously that's what he said cold as
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ice and without blinking it was chilling how this man was hired to work with children I'll never know I looked at my
00:37:06
mother she just starts sobbing now this next part still confuses me to this day I suppose being a child and having my
00:37:12
first experience with death all these grown-ups looking at me waiting for a response and the cold way in which I was
00:37:18
just told the most horrific thing I had ever heard in my life something snap crackle popped in my brain and I started
00:37:24
laughing yes laughing like a complete [ __ ] psychopath upon hearing the news of my grandmother's tragic death I began
00:37:32
laughing maniacally I would bet that counselor guy changed his methods on delivering tragic views to children
00:37:38
after that [ __ ] day I'm fairly sure I scared the absolute [ __ ] out of him and
00:37:43
he probably thinks I grew up to be serial killer but I digress I totally understand that though I'm the same way
00:37:49
I don't handle news well like that and I don't handle emotions well like that so
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yeah my mom saw her daughter's brain break into pieces and she snatched me up and yeeded me the [ __ ] out of there
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while I laughed and cried and screamed through the hallways of my middle school May was dead and I never got to meet her
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oh that hurts my heart for you the next few days were a blur I talked to my dad and my aunts and everyone was completely
00:38:11
destroyed my aunt Sam was extremely close to may she had been with her moments before this happened my dad
00:38:17
never got to make amends with his mother everyone was just in complete shock and
00:38:21
sick with grief she fell down An Elevator Shaft what the actual [ __ ] how could this happen just [ __ ] how no
00:38:29
one wanted to talk to me about the details of her death understandably I mean I was so young and this was just so
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[ __ ] up all I knew that there was that there was a faulty elevator in her apartment building and she stepped in
00:38:40
and it wasn't there oh my God she fell five stories to her death and that was it but there was so much more
00:38:47
I never got the real story until many years later when I was a grown woman but that comes later oh the next part will
00:38:54
forever just trip me the [ __ ] out so remember when I said my grandma bought me tickets to come meet her for my 13th
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birthday well I got on my first plane ever with the Paper Tickets that may had bought me and me and and I used those
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tickets to go to her funeral that's so [ __ ] so I fly to Washington my dad picks me up at the airport and takes me
00:39:12
to meet with my aunts and their husbands it's also strange and sad I don't know any of these people they hug me and they
00:39:18
cry a lot I don't really know how to act I want to cry with them but I'm mostly just confused I mean I just met all of
00:39:24
you and now we're all crying together and also she fell down An Elevator Shaft what the [ __ ] [ __ ] that's way too
00:39:30
much to process anyway after the initial awkwardness the trip actually ended up being pretty awesome and quite memorable
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I slept at May's apartment with my dad I got May's room it smelled like rose water with a touch of cigarette smoke
00:39:42
she had a cute little she had cute little [ __ ] all over her apartment you know like chachkies but mostly funny gag
00:39:48
[ __ ] like a dick clock and a tiny statue of Jesus smoking out of a box hell yeah
00:39:52
she was definitely my type of Lady my new car took me out in Seattle for my birthday
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and we all got our belly buttons pierced together remember this is 1995 so piercings were super new and I must say
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I was the coolest girl at my middle school after that trip we go to the funeral and of course super [ __ ] sad
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I meet all my great aunts and uncles and May's friends and it's also surreal and
00:40:22
strange I forever bonded with my new super cool hip funny and soon to be best friend Aunt Sam oh she is a star
00:40:29
character in this tale Sam is like 12 years older than me similar to YouTube after May died she moved back to
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California and we've been very close ever since I love that and as I've gotten older she's legit my best friend
00:40:41
slash soul sister now hell yeah it's weird because we both see May in each other she lost her mom I lost a grandma
00:40:48
I always needed but could never have and we gained each other May brought us together so can I get a [ __ ]
00:40:55
shout out to Sam [ __ ] love you girl shout out to yourself Sam for the [ __ ] win Sam Sam Sam Sam Sam Sam Sam
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so before I jump years ahead there's one more very strange and dark thing I must
00:41:09
add to the already very strange and dark and very life-changing story about the trip I took to celebrate my birthday
00:41:14
meet my family and put my grandmother to rest May was cremated she also left her
00:41:20
1994 Bronco to my dad and he needed to drive it back to Southern California along with her ashes so this trip this
00:41:27
crazy trip wraps up with a now 13 year old me in the passenger seat of maze Bronco my brand ass new dad driving me
00:41:34
from Tacoma Washington to San Diego with my cremated grandmother in a box in my [ __ ] lap you seriously can't make the
00:41:42
[ __ ] up my dudes no if that isn't morbid I don't know what it is that is morbid
00:41:47
TM and so the years passed as they do I stayed close with my new family I would go to family dinners and holidays and
00:41:53
sometimes I would hear things about May's death but it was also mysterious and so and no one want really wanted to
00:42:00
talk about it I can't blame them this story is all kinds of [ __ ] up but from what I could piece together the official
00:42:05
story was this may lived on the fifth Story of an apartment building so she had to take an elevator to go to and
00:42:11
from her place apparently the elevator the tenants used was out of service so they all had to use the service elevator
00:42:17
until it was repaired the service elevator had to be opened manually never heard of such a thing but okay super
00:42:23
sketch am I right yes so apparently after having dinner with her daughter Sam May went home to her apartment where
00:42:29
her boyfriend was waiting for her we'll call him Dave so apparently this guy Dave was living with May which is kind
00:42:35
of weird because I stayed in May's apartment and I remember no sign of The Stave anyway Sam said goodbye to May and
00:42:42
she went into the apartment building within one hour May was dead after apparently opening the faulty service
00:42:47
elevator to leave her apartment the elevator was not there and she fell five stories to her death this entire story
00:42:54
is completely full of holes and makes literally no sense right because if she was going into the apartment building
00:43:00
why was she why would she open the door and go open the elevator door and go back down yeah I know and she knew that
00:43:07
the elevator was broken right there was a lawsuit filed against the owners of the building and the elevator company
00:43:12
for gross negligence and a small settlement was given to Mae's three children after legal fees it amounted to
00:43:19
around 50 Grand a piece if you ask me that's a pretty shitty settlement after losing your mom to that kind of
00:43:24
negligence but what do I know when I got a little older and Sam and I grew closer
00:43:29
I started asking her questions about what she thought about everything and what had happened really happened to me
00:43:34
she told me that she had always had her suspicions about Dave he was super possessive and controlling he was a
00:43:40
freeloader who refused to work or pay for anything and Sam just always had a bad feeling about him and also why was
00:43:47
she leaving her apartment that night right after getting home right was there some kind of argument was she so frantic
00:43:53
and stressed that she opened the elevator door and just jumped in without checking was she afraid or was she
00:43:59
pushed and how come I never met Dave oh right could it be because he skipped town only days after May's death that's
00:44:06
right folks days after his live-in girlfriend died under very suspicious circumstances [ __ ] Dave here packed
00:44:13
up and left taking everything he could with him including draining May's bank accounts and the police never
00:44:20
investigated Dave was never heard from again except when he tried to sue my dad for May's 1990 D Ford Bronco that he
00:44:28
felt entitled to for some reason sketchy as [ __ ] Dave sketchy as [ __ ] what the
00:44:33
[ __ ] there was an investigation both by local police and a private investigator
00:44:37
hired by the family there's no evidence to prove that Dave had anything to do with May's death meaning there's no
00:44:43
proof but things still don't quite add up and we definitely have our suspicions about what really happened that night no
00:44:49
same now let's jump forward a few years to 2018 or so I know this story is taking forever but trust me it's worth
00:44:56
it in the end it's been a Ride May has been gone for over two decades I'm I'm doing hair at a really cool spot in San
00:45:04
Diego shout out to all my hairdressers out there so I'm at this team building exercise thing at the salon I work at
00:45:10
the boss lady got got a medium to cut a medium to come to the shop and do a group reading for us super fun right so
00:45:17
she gets started and kind of bounces around the room a bit before getting to me she looks at me and says there's a
00:45:22
woman coming through that wants to talk to you paternal maybe or maternal maybe a mother her name sounds like spring do
00:45:29
you know who I'm talking about chills taken aback I said May her name sounds sounds like spring oh my God the medium
00:45:37
goes on she says she's never she never knew you in life but that she's always been with you looking after you she says
00:45:44
she was there when your son was born and she watches over him too ruin me as you
00:45:48
can imagine I was overwhelmed with all the feels and the tears just started flowing like a faucet I couldn't turn
00:45:53
off I was ugly crying all up in that [ __ ] I finally got up the strength to ask can you tell me how she died there's
00:46:00
just some really weird stuff surrounding her death and her family has always wanted to know the truth oh God the
00:46:06
medium just kind of stared at me for a moment she grabbed the top of my her head and shuddered then she started to
00:46:12
speak are you sure yes please just tell me I said trying to bet my best to keep from snotting all
00:46:17
over my own face she was hit on the head and pushed killed I'm sorry the room fell silent I thanked her for
00:46:25
telling me and I ran out it was intense my dudes I immediately called Sam and we
00:46:30
cried together for a bit before deciding that we were going to do something totally crazy we were going to find out
00:46:36
the truth one way or another Sam and I would consider ourselves a bit witchy we dabble with tarot and spells and all
00:46:42
things spiritual and mysterious I [ __ ] love you too loves it we have Halloween was right around the corner
00:46:49
there it is came in yup or as the pagans call it sowin sowin is a time of year when the veil between our worlds and the
00:46:56
spirit world is the thinnest I know you both know what I'm talking about and probably could guess where I'm going
00:47:00
with this hell yeah brother so yeah we're doing a [ __ ] Seance yo squeegee board candles Circle assault the works
00:47:07
we were going to conjure up May's spirit and ask her what in the actual [ __ ] had
00:47:11
happened so we began making plans for a sowin seance and finally getting the truth it was [ __ ] on the Seance
00:47:18
started off slow we [ __ ] with the board for a while before getting anything without be before getting
00:47:23
anything beside a few words and a lot of goodbyes no one wanted to talk to us but
00:47:28
we're persistent little [ __ ] so we kept trying and eventually started chanting May's name what can I say I
00:47:33
guess the moment got away with us we called for May to come through we closed our eyes and put all our Collective
00:47:39
energy and focus on her and then it happened the air got thick and the smell of rose water with a touch of cigarette
00:47:46
smoke filled the room oh my God Sam looked up at me she's here holy [ __ ] I have full chills on my body I'm getting
00:47:54
like like you know how like your body will warm I'm getting like I'm literally my whole body is chilled right now this
00:48:02
is a [ __ ] tale this is a listener tale this is the listener tale we started asking questions more just to
00:48:09
confirm her identity than anything else it was me all right she knew my son's name she knew when she died she knew
00:48:15
Sam's birthday it was her we could smell her and feel her presence it was warm and comforting the planchette moved
00:48:22
pretty slowly at her first like it was taking a lot of energy to come through as if we were disturbing her Slumber
00:48:27
after a while Sam finally blurts out mom were you murdered the million dollar question
00:48:33
the planchette moves swiftly up the board yes Sam dissolves in the subs I put her shaking hands back onto the
00:48:41
planchette as she cried Grandma I ask do you want us to find him do you need Justice the planchette moves again no
00:48:49
and then it slowly spells out the word happy oh my God and then she was gone we can almost feel her leave the smell of
00:48:57
roses and tobacco just vanishes we hug each other and we cry we cry a lot after that night Sam and I decide to let May
00:49:04
rest we both felt that her spirit is at peace and that she's okay she's happy and she doesn't need Justice or
00:49:10
Vengeance or whatever or whatever [ __ ] Dave he has to live with what he did and
00:49:15
let me say that both Sam and myself believe wholeheartedly that that garbage human that is Dave murdered May and got
00:49:20
away with it but he will get his in Life or the next Karma doesn't forget and it
00:49:25
will find you yup Sam made all of us all of us these cute little lockets with a bit of maze ashes in them and I keep
00:49:32
mine around my rear view mirror and I give her love every day and I believe she looks after me always I never knew
00:49:37
her in life but she said such a profound effect on me and the woman I've become rest in peace May oh okay I know I'm
00:49:44
crying too I had no idea this would be such an emotional roller coaster wow I literally broke down multi several times
00:49:50
while writing this I just think it's the craziest most [ __ ] up story ever and I
00:49:54
sometimes can't even believe it's real and that it happened to me well thank you for reading my tale I hope you guys
00:49:59
enjoyed it and that it didn't traumatize you too much love both you spooky [ __ ] to itty bitty pieces stay safe
00:50:05
stay cool and always remember remember to keep it weird but not so weird that you abandon your child only to come back
00:50:11
12 years later to traumatize her more with her grandma's funeral and meeting an entire family she never knew and by
00:50:16
taking her on a 40-hour road trip with her Grandma's ashes on her lap and then being a complete asshat to her for the
00:50:21
rest of her life for leaving her dead inside and wondering why [ __ ] you Dad but do keep it so weird that you become
00:50:27
best friends with your long-lost aunt and solve your grandma's Murder by reaching into the veil into the great
00:50:32
beyond peace out weirdos Roxy Roxy you're the [ __ ] coolest Roxy holy [ __ ] Roxy that
00:50:45
[ __ ] me up that I mean May forever May forever you and Sam forever I love your relationship
00:50:56
holy cow I love that you got to have that relationship I know I love that Mae told you she's happy where she is and
00:51:03
that makes me happy that she's happy and gave you some kind of Peace yeah that just told you you know what don't worry
00:51:08
about it I'm happy where I am right everything's okay and then I've been with you always right I was there when
00:51:14
your son was born like that's beautiful like that that hurts me and like I watch
00:51:19
over him too like that's gonna make me cry I know and let me feel things you didn't get a job
00:51:24
out of it but you got a best [ __ ] friend sister oh yeah and that is [ __ ] cooler than a dad in my opinion
00:51:30
and you have the best [ __ ] mom yup and it sounds like your stepdad was pretty great too because he was just
00:51:37
your dad dad use your dad dad he could just be your dad dad he's great I did yeah it didn't he was like I'm your dad
00:51:43
just because your dad like contributed to making you doesn't mean he's your dad exactly so you you know what you're
00:51:48
killing it and I love you and I love that you're a 90s [ __ ] and I love your awesome Roxy so thank you for that Roxy
00:51:55
also brought you back [ __ ] what are these pops and Slammers now you get pogs you get POG retro caps in a neon purple
00:52:03
storage hell yeah Roxy forever oh yes you're welcome I'm so excited I'm happy for you
00:52:10
um you can get me a neopet because those just came back you actually don't purchase them at all but like make me an
00:52:16
account or something okay I'll make you an account all right cool as though we have time for one more I feel like we do
00:52:22
do you feel as though I feel as though all right I'm Gonna Keep with the trend here and do spooky Nanny saves lives I
00:52:28
love that pour one out for nannies and Grammys it says Hey weirdos and dub dub hope you
00:52:35
lovely people are doing well my name is Mickey you can use it it's a nickname for my great grandma grandfather Excuse
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me yes like the mouse I've been listening to your podcast since May of 2022. it was introduced to me by my ex
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thanks [ __ ] affectionately he parted on good terms I started from the beginning and have slowly been making my
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way through all the episodes I have a bad habit of bringing multiple episodes or binging multiple episodes and then
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forgetting all about the Pod for a few weeks please forgive me it's okay I forgive you that's okay y'all are great
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company on the super long drives I go on to visit my parents keeping me company and from going insane by myself with no
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one else to talk to but my squish mallow road trip companion but seriously you guys are so awesome and put so much
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effort into your work on the podcast it's awe-inspiring oh thanks man thank you Elena congrats on the success of
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your book thank you I have not read it yet forgive me I am a ball of anxiety TM that's okay on a good day and struggle
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with suspense suspenseful books and shows but I've heard a lot of wonderful things about it and I have added it to
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my ever-growing to read to be read list thank you Ash congrats on the engagement
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thank you and if it has happened before you read this Tale the wedding it hasn't
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but thank you I've been meaning to send this Tale in for a while now it's been sitting half finished for like three
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months but I finished it and I'm very excited to share it with you it's a bit of a lighter more wholesome tale
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compared to some others that you've read and might be a good palette cleanser after a heavy tail there you go it's
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like you knew attached is a 14 point font double space for your viewing pleasure I apologize for how absurdly
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long it is if you can't tell by now I'm a rambler through and through I hope you
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enjoy this spooky little tale about a spooky Nanny much love Mickey like the most I added like the most part Mickey
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like the mouse Mickey like the mouse hey weirdos this is a pretty long tale with
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stories in the story that's fine all about my grandma's experience with a ghost simply known as ma'am ma'am I
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think my family specifically on my mom's side a sensitive to ghosts or something
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mainly due to the members of the family having some sort of experience or interaction that was not easily
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explained for example my mom's smelling my long dead Grand great grandfather's cologne in a place he never visited
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since he died before it was built whoa that's wild I've even had an experience that maybe
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could have been a ghost in college I lived in an old frat house turned into a [ __ ] into shared housing that was
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definitely haunted but this is not about me so maybe I'll send in that one on a different day please do today however I
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wanted to offer up a more happy and comforting spooky story that my grandma told me when I was young probably like
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third or fourth grade and that I remembered recently after listening to your podcast I was able to catch up with
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her over Thanksgiving and get the full story including the history of the house I'm sure you get this all the time but
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apologies for any rambling and confusion my writing skills are mediocre at best untrue also this will probably be pretty
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long so feel free to skip over one or two of the encounters or any of the added history or commentary in
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parentheses though I have a good feeling you won't hell no and I won't anyways on
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with the story my mother grew up in a smaller City North of San Francisco in California
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with her parents and sister and a cute old little old house on a busy street in the 70s hell yeah I've added pictures at
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the end of the front of the house think cute vintagey house with a decent front yard a huge wrap around portugals and a
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pool in the backyard totally cute well I haven't looked at but I'm excited too total American Dream Home the house had
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a couple different owners before my grandparents my mom and her sister moved in and I believe at one point it was a
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government or office building at one point not really relevant but still kind of cool true my aunt was either a very
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new baby or just not born yet when they moved in and shared one of the bedrooms with my mom while my grandparents used
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the other there was an addict attic which was later converted into my grandparents new bedroom and gave my mom
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an aunt separate rooms the bedrooms were in the front of the house facing the road with the living room in the middle
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and the kitchen slash dining room and the back of the house facing the yard and an unattached garage I really hope
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this makes sense it does it does I can picture it right off the bat things started
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happening in the house that couldn't really just be explained away and I mean like right away the first night they
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spent on the house after buying it my grandma recalled waking up to hearing all the plates and other dishes that
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were not quite fully unpacked rattling away in the dining room my grandpa was either sound asleep or woke up to it as
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well and my three-year-old mom and maybe born maybe not tiny baby on were fast asleep in their room nobody else on the
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house my grandma swears it only happened that first night as well she likes to think that it was ma'am making herself
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known as a resident in the house I'm obsessed with mammals I love that she's like just so you know I'm down here
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ma'am in the house what he's not gonna get out of my house kind of way but Morena hey I'm still here you're cool to
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be here too we're gonna be roomies for a bit okay way super chill after that super chill super chill after that my
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grandma always felt a somewhat comforting presence in the house never threatening at least not towards my
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family never hostile just there and watching over them as time went on however it became very clear that while
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ma'am was watching the whole house she very clearly had a favorite my aunt oh man remember my aunt was basically a
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newborn when this all started brand new baby in the world man probably thought my grandparents needed an extra hand to
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keep herself safe and healthy my grandma thinks ma'am's love of my aunt is due to
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the fact that she was the first baby maybe to be born and raised in that house and that man saw my aunt as her
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baby too and since my aunt was also her baby she was mams to protect I love that a lot one instance of
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ma'am's protective instincts came out when my aunt was still pretty young meaning likely under a year old my
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grandma was in the front yard doing some cleaning tending to the plants and palm
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trees while my mom played nearby my aunt at the time was sleeping in a stroller parked in a Sunny Spot near the palm
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trees while my grandma's tending to the plants in the yard she suddenly got an overall overwhelming feeling of
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something telling her she needed to move my aunt's stroller she took a second to
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look at my mom and aunt mom was still playing having a good time and my aunt was still happily sleeping in the warm
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sun my grandma brushed off the feeling as you know just a weird passing thought a few seconds later however the feeling
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came back even stronger something was telling her hey you need to move that stroller right now move it oh that like
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gave me chills again this time she listened to the feeling moving my aunt and her stroller away
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from the Sunny Spot to a more shaded area this made her a little fussy but in the end was really really fortunate as
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but a few moments later a big old Palm found from frond frond from one of the trees Came Crashing to the ground
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Landing exactly where the stroller was sitting now I don't know how much you know about palm fronds but those suckers
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can get really freaking heavy I didn't know that like weigh up to a hundred pounds heavy [ __ ] I [ __ ] you not and the
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palm trees at the house were not short trees either so this big Palm front comes crashing down from probably I
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don't know 20 to 40 feet in the air weighing 50 to 100 pounds and lands in the spot my aunt was just taking a
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little nap in her stroller literally minutes before my grandma moved her damn can you [ __ ] that's terrifying your
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poor Grandma must have lost her [ __ ] yeah I'd be ruined for days I'd be like well we're agoraphobic yeah I'd be like
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well my heart stopped three times so I'm gonna have to rest no we're never leaving the house again thanks my
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grandma believes it was ma'am telling her to move the baby as if she knew the palm frond was about to fall and wanted
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to protect my aunt another instance happened when my aunt was about two-ish years old able to walk but still pretty
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young and not super aware my grandma was out running errands with my mom and my grandpa was watching my aunt at the
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house while also doing some workout back as my aunt took a nap that baby loves to
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nap she loves to nap after getting some good work done my grandpa decided to lay
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face down on a lounge chair the reclinable type you know with the bar in the back that can just adjust the height
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of the back rest oh those are the best he ended up dozing off for a while I assume it was one of the sunnier summer
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days but I'm not 100 sure suddenly he was startled awake by the feeling of an ice cold hand on his shoulder he looked
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up and saw no one near him he did however see my two-year-old Aunt toddling her way down the driveway
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toward the very busy street that they lived on my aunt must have woken up from her nap and decided to go exploring
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following the clear path from the back porch back porch door to the driveway he ran and grabbed her but had no idea
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where the cold tablet came from man was like wake up ma'am was like sir excuse me she was like your toddler's waddling
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the final incident I'll bring up happened when my mom and aunt were a bit older one night probably when my aunt
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was about three or five years old my grandma woke up in the middle of the night nothing crazy woke her up but when
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she awake she realized the lights in the living room were on that was weird seeing as she definitely turned them off
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before going to bed distinctly remembering going to each light and turning them off they didn't have a
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switch you had to manually turn uh each one on and off not wanting to waste electricity my grandma got up and went
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to turn off the lights since she was awaken up she decided to also check on my aunt and mom who were asleep in their
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room my mom was fine peacefully sleeping the night away my aunt on the other hand
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was not resting well instead she was fighting a very high fever soaked with sweat and super clammy my grandma
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doesn't remember how high it was and I don't think it required a hospital visit but it definitely could have escalated
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if it hadn't been caught when it was in the morning my grandma asked my grandpa if he had gotten up before her and
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turned on the lights then accidentally forgetting to turn them back off before heading to bed but he swore he hadn't my
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grandma believes ma'am saw my aunt was sick and turned on the lights to wake up my grandparents so they could help her
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wow [ __ ] ma'am pour whatever ma'am seriously there were a couple other instances such as a run-in with a
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babysitter who ma'am decided was not worthy of taking care of her kid as well as little things like footsteps being
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heard on the porch when nobody was there but over time as my aunt grew or got older ma'am's presence slowly faded my
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grandma believes that ma'am was tied to the attic and when they renovated it to put her to put in her in my grandpa's
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new bedroom her presence had all but disappeared now for the History Section again feel free to skip this if the
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story's too long no I'm interested I promise I won't be offended the house was originally built for a woman in the
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early 20th century who moved out west after con after Contracting a lovely little disease known as tuberculosis the
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climate in the Bay Area was thought to be the best for surviving TB and the house was built with a large wrap-around
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porch that was large enough for This Woman's bed to be left on it for her to sleep outside which was believed to help
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cure those sick with TB kind of wild when you think about it she lived in this house for a while but unfortunately
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lost it due to being unable to keep it when the Great Depression hit following the foreclosure she went to live up in
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one of the settlement slash camps on Mount Tamal Pace small pace and the house was vacant until someone else
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bought it after the house changed hands a couple times the couple who sold it to
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my grandparents had an interesting encounter they saw an older woman still alive in this case on the sidewalk oh my
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I'm gonna cry oh staring longingly at the house the couple told my grandma about this after the house was purchased
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believing it to be the original woman who owned and lost the house she must have either been a Curative TB or
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somehow kept the symptoms at Bay to live a long life my grandma believes that ma'am is the original owner of the house
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who returned to her home whether due to love for the home or unfinished business
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I'm literally gonna cry seriously she thinks ma'am never got to have a family or kids so when she saw my aunt she felt
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motherly love towards her and decided to care for the family I firmly believe ma'am existed and I like to think she's
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still checking in every so often on the house even with my mom and aunt all grown up and not living there anymore
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who knows maybe ma'am stuck with my aunt to help her watch over my two cousins while my aunt recovered from back
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surgery wherever she is I hope she knows how grateful my family is for her care and protection I hope you enjoyed this
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story remember to keep it weird Ash feel free to make your own but I thought of this one and I kind of liked it we're
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going with yours girl hell yeah so weird in fact that a super spooky but super awesome ghost nanny lives in your house
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to help you keep your kids safe and healthy love you guys picture time oh my goodness oh my gosh this house is
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beautiful it's so pretty I love it I love Mayhem oh my God those palm trees are [ __ ] massive oh my God and your
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mom and aunts are adorable oh look at them look at that pumpkin I love that pumpkin
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oh oh my God and your grandparents are adorable I Mickey that was an amazing story that was a great one to end on it
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really was what a feel-good tale we love ma'am we love may oh we love Nana's all
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across the world okay oh this was a great one it was it was feel good at one at the end it was
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