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MFM Minisode 387

June 10, 2024 /

This episode of My Favorite Murder features stories about hometown murders, family mishaps, and humorous anecdotes. Listeners share personal experiences related to crime, family dynamics, and unexpected events.

One listener recounts a chilling story about their father almost discovering a dead body while mowing a lawn, only to later learn that the homeowner had murdered her abusive husband and hidden the body in the shed.

Another story involves a dad's heroic but chaotic attempt to rescue his kids from a locked hotel room, which ended with the fire department being called to break in.

Listeners also share funny tales, including one about a friendship strained over a McDonald's Monopoly game and another about two dogs teaming up to steal fried chicken during a pivotal moment of American Idol.

The episode wraps up with a listener recalling a near-drowning experience at the beach, highlighting the importance of watching children around water.

TLDR

Listeners share chilling and humorous personal stories involving crime, family, and unexpected events.

Episode

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My favorite murder Hello! And welcome. To my favorite murder. The mini-sode. Yep, that's right.
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You looked contemplative like, what is happening on a Sunday? I don't know. Yeah, it sounded wrong when I first started saying it because it's because it's Sunday.
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Yeah. So it's all wrong. We should be napping right now. I mean, it's so sad. Or whatever people do on a Sunday.
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Read emails? Yeah, let's do that instead. Do you want to go first? Let's do it. The subject line of this email is a good old murder.
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Hello. I've been binge listening to a bunch of the minisodes recently and have been missing the
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classic hometown murders. So I figured why not write in about that time my dad almost found a dead body.
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Since the suspense is probably killing you, let's get right into it. When my dad was in high school, he regularly hung out with his friend Connor.
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And then it says different name for privacy reasons. And they say that about all the names in this.
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So none of the names in this story are real. One day while hanging out with Connor and his girlfriend Kate at Kate's house, my dad noticed the lawn was very overgrown.
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We're talking just below knee length. Hoping to make a quick buck, my dad and his friend offered to mow the lawn with the lawnmower that was in the shed
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Kate's mom quickly dismissed them and told them not to worry about it But my dad was very young and very broke, so he persisted
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Kate's mom again shut him and Connor down, saying the door to the shed is locked anyway
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And we can't find the key, so you can't even get the lawnmower out My dad, not thinking anything weird of how anxious this woman was to keep a couple teens out of her shed
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Said, oh, don't worry, we'll just take the hinges off the door and then put them back on when we're done
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Kate's mom was very obviously irritated by this and just gave them $20 and told them to go out for a nice dinner.
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My dad thought this was pretty sketchy, but let it go because he got $20. Anyway, I think it was about two or three days later when there was a story on the news about Kate's mom who was being arrested in her house.
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After digging deeper, my dad found out that Kate's mom had murdered her abusive husband, hid his body in, you guessed it, the fucking shed.
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I won't get into the court details because it was pretty personal stuff, but I do know she's in jail currently
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I don't really know how to end this, but I love you guys so much And you have no idea how much of an inspiration you are to me and so many other young women around the world
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Oh, okay. I'm ending it here by stay sexy and leave the shed alone Morgan she her oh my god of all the like times in your life when no one has ever mentioned the shed
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No, one's ever mentioned it. It's just out there Overgrown. Whatever. And this fucking teenage boy comes around and he's just like pestering you.
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Why? He's just like, I got to get into that shed, ma'am. Yeah. It's like you had a sixth sense.
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And you have to pay me. Right. Yes. Yes, exactly. Oh my God. That's wild. Wow. Okay.
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Here's a dad one. Another dad one. Hello all. I'm not going to read you the title.
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On Minnesota 372, you asked for family stories that no one will let you live down.
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I wanted to send this story for a while and you finally asked for it. Don't wait for us to ask.
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Send whatever fucking story you want at this point. There's no way that we can cover the best story topic when you have it in your heart
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and in your soul. Just send it in. If it makes you feel better, say you guys asked for sharks in your pool of stories.
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And we're like, yeah, we did. I guess so. Yeah, we sure did. I remember that. Okay.
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When I was younger, we traveled a lot for my brother's baseball games. Nights in these hotels often consisted of all of the boys hanging out in a room, the girls
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in another, and the adults in the lobby playing cards. I'm going to tell you this story the way the adults tell it, because that's the version of the story that gets told on holidays.
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One of these nights, me and two of my friends were watching Brother Bear in our hotel room.
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The movie lulled the three of us right to sleep. When the adults came to the room to go to bed, they weren't able to get into our room because one of my friends had locked the security latch on the door.
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Good. Smart. They claim to have been screaming and pounding on the door to try to wake us up so they could get inside.
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but apparently the TV was too loud or we were too asleep. After who knows how long my dad decided
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that yelling through the window of our room might be a better way to wake us up. Dad went outside
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and began climbing onto the dumpster of the hotel and then shimmied along the outside of the building before reaching our window Okay Tom Cruise and Mission Impossible You know someone at the front desk knows how to open one of those latches for sure right
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Get a second key. You're the dad. But it's the latch, the security latch. Oh, yeah, but they must have a thing.
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Watch TikTok. They show you all the time how to break into those and how you can keep yourself safe, right?
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Gotta be some sort of machine. No, maybe this is the 80s. How high off the ground this was depends entirely on who you ask.
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but my dad claims we were on the third floor. My guess it was a high first floor at the most.
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It was a 20 foot first floor. Yeah, sure. In the end, despite my dad's heroic attempt at banging
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on the window, the hotel had to call the fire department to break the latch on the door so
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they could get inside. That's a deep sleep. Do you think they drug the kids and they just never
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added that little part in there? I mean, right? They're like melatonin for you, melatonin for you.
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They're just letting it float as this hilarious family story. And they're not including the part where it's like, yes, what child could sleep through all of that?
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Right, right. A drugged child. Really quick, though, how does a hotel not have an on-site?
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I'm picturing it as like a grabber. Like one of those grabbers that you get stuff off the top shelf, but you're able to reach in and close that.
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Or I feel like a wire hanger. Like someone knows how to open those with a wire hanger at the hotel because they've had to do it before.
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Well, maybe they do now. I don't know. Yeah, I guess now, probably. The three of us were peacefully asleep and blissfully unaware of the chaos that had just ensued.
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Every time our childhood travels come up or that city comes up, my parents like to remind me that we're blacklisted from this particular hotel.
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I just like to say that as much as the story is a family joke now, I also take it as a sweet testimony to me of the lengths to which my dad would go to make sure I'm safe.
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I'm an adult now with a kid of my own, but that man would still drop everything he's doing on a dime for me.
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I'm so very grateful for him. Stay sexy and keep the volume on your hotel TV down?
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Question mark? Yeah. What's the answer here? Emily. You're right. Not every dad would go up onto, he claims, a third floor terrace and shimmy over
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to get his kids. It's like, yeah, just wait till one of them wakes up. Yeah. Go down to the hotel bar.
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Totally. That was from Emily. Good job, Emily. That was a good one. And good job, Emily's dad.
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The subject line of this email is I stopped talking to a friend because of McDonald's Monopoly.
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And it just gets right into it. I was in high school during the height of the McDonald's
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Monopoly craze and it ruined a friendship for about a month. Like many high schoolers in the
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90s, McDonald's was one of our regular places to hang out. We would often see how long we could sit
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in the restaurant before we get kicked out We could usually last an hour before the manager would either kick us out or make us buy something else During one of the Monopoly games a friend was about 50 cents short of what his meal cost
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And being the amazing person I am, I sacrificed my hard-earned money so he could eat some nuggets.
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We pulled the Monopoly tickets off our drinks and fries. And wouldn't you know it, my friend won $100.
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Holy shit. I not so jokingly said he should share some of that money with me because if it weren't for my
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50 cents, he wouldn't have won anything. The rest of the group agreed with me, but this asshole,
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quote unquote, friend of mine decided he should keep all the money. It's not like I was asking
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for a 50-50 split, but a little something would have been a nice gesture. I agree completely.
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I'm an unapologetically petty person. So I gave my friend the cold shoulder for about a month and
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wouldn't speak to him. He didn't quite understand why I was mad at him. He didn't understand the
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concept of sharing the wealth, the wealth that I helped him get. But I eventually let it go.
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Most likely, my pettiness was focused on someone else by that time. High school, am I right? I
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missed the Monopoly game because like Georgia, I was sure I was going to become a millionaire just
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for eating some fries. Now I guess I will become rich by working hard. And it just says from Shelley.
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it's written all the way across the top of the ladies. Yeah. Okay. Trash dogs are now a thing.
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haired chihuahua and eight years younger than Alice. So Alice is the older border collie,
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younger chihuahua. Alice tolerated Ethan and Ethan harassed Alice every chance he got. So you can
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imagine my surprise when they tag teamed up to get some serious needs met. It's 2002. I'm watching
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the season finale of American Idol. Will it be Justin? Will it be Kelly? Kelly. My dinner of
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choice this fateful evening? Banquet fried chicken. It says right there. Wait, I wonder if it's the
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one where it's just a box of fried chicken or if it's the chicken dinner. Oh man, those TV dinners
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hit. Vince and I definitely did that during the pandemic when we need like nostalgia,
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like comfort food. Got some TV dinners. That shit works. It's exactly the same. Those,
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like the brownie or the little apple pie square. Yep. And there's like corn in it. You have to
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pick the corn out of the brownie, but it's, do you eat it, man? It's all the same stuff.
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So good. Okay. I'm hungry now. Okay. They are about to announce the winner right after this
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commercial break. Now it's 2002 guys, no pausing, no fast forwarding through commercials. Oh my God.
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So I run to the bathroom to do my business before it's back on mission accomplished and run back to
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the table to watch the results. And what do I find? Ethan has managed to climb up on the kitchen
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table. Alice is below and somehow Alice has convinced Ethan to fling the chicken pieces
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down to her on the floor. She literally has a wing and a full breast in her mouth. As I start
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chasing her around the house. Ethan sees the situation has escalated, grabs a leg the size
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of his entire body and hops off the table to the chair and to the floor and books it behind the
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refrigerator to savor his prize. Fucking chihuahuas. Yes, no one can get him. Yeah.
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Alice managed to swallow the wing. I saved the breast and Ethan emerged victorious from behind
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the fridge with only the bone of the leg and toe. So dangerous. It was the only time those two
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collaborated willingly. I missed Kelly's victory speech. Thank you for everything you guys do.
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Gross. Oh my God, the dogs were working like a practiced unit to get that chicken.
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It's like I have two Mission Impossible stories already. Yeah, that's right. From any, I was going to say sect, but what I was trying to say was like genus.
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Yes. It just makes me think that my favorite TikTok I've seen in a really long time is, it sounds like it's a girl's voice, but it's a close up on her fork.
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And she's going, Trader Joe's makes this and the fork dips in and it looks like, you know, mac and cheese or something.
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And then this long dog nose just comes in and eats it. And she's like, like, clearly she had the whole thing set up.
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She was going to marry her. Oh, my God. I love it. The dog just ate it. Hell yeah.
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Hello all. There's too much pressure to come up with a funny intro, so let's just pretend I made
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you laugh. I thought you'd appreciate this because it's a combination of mom lies and hot dogs.
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When I was a kid, my mom found it annoying when I would repeatedly ask, what is that? Where did
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you get that? About small things, as all kids do. So she just started telling me that she invented
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everything. I love that. I know. It's so funny. I guess conversations were much more interesting
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when they went, where did you get this car? I made it. What? How? And then she told an elaborate
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story about how she made the car all on her own. Her favorite memory of this was when I asked where
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hot dogs came from. And she said, I invented them. And I believed her for way too long. Thanks,
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mom. SSD GM, Dana. Oh, my God. That's adorable. She thought her mom made hot dogs. Your mom's
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brilliant. One time Vince, my nephew Joe was spending the night when he was like four, and
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And Vince like brought him a bowl of ice cream. And I said to Joe, say thank you to Vince.
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And Joe goes, you made this? Like the thank you is for making me ice cream, not for bringing it to me.
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I'm like, no, he didn't make it, but he brought it to me. He's like, why would I thank someone for bringing me something?
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Did you make it? No, then fucking. I'll thank Ben or Jerry. And that is all. Don't try to get their glory.
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Exactly. Okay. It's called SS Shannon reporting for duty. estimated read time, three to five minutes. And then it says, quote, send us your stories of when
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you shouldn't have been allowed in the ocean, Georgia, MFM, Minnesota, 374. Yeah. And it says,
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say less. As a child of two working parents in the 90s, I can relate to all the latchkey kid
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content you both provide. Additionally, I am the dreaded middle child. I've been abandoned at a
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Denny's, trapped in a deserted stairwell for two hours. And the tale that brings us to this email
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today, forgotten at the beach. Trapped in a stairwell? That's fucked up. Yeah. That's fucked
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up. That's for like feels like for life. But I guess I'll hold off on how fucked up it is until
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we hear this beach story. You can't drown in a stairwell. Yeah, that's true. Okay. I was four
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and a half years old. Even as I type this, I can't believe how young I was. It was the summer of 91
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in Outer Banks, North Carolina. We were staying in a large beach house with my grandparents. And
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And then it says Bernadette and Herbert, A plus grandparent names. Yes, Bernadette.
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Multiple aunts, uncles, cousins, my parents, and two siblings. In the group of kids, I was the second oldest, only behind my brother.
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I won't lie. I did things for attention during the trip, but this incident was not one of them.
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Although we were technically oceanfront property, we had to hike over two dunes to get to the beach.
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Not a big deal, but as a kid, it felt like we were hiking the Sahara. After a few hours of building sandcastles and burying our feet where the waves meet the sand, it was time to head back to the house.
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I remember seeing my dad and aunt pack up our toys and towels and collect the other kids.
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And then I remember watching them walk away. Why were they leaving me? Could they not see me?
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I go to follow them when I feel the undercurrent drag me down. Oh, shit. I shut my eyes and my mouth because I hated the taste of salt water.
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When I washed up on shore, I took a deep breath, not knowing how long I had before I would be dragged under again.
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The saltwater stung as I opened my eyes, but needed to see how far my family was.
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I could see them disappear over the first dune. No, Jesus Christ. I was taken again.
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I held my breath, hoping I would get another opportunity to wash up on shore and breathe, maybe even stand.
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But when the time came, I was too exhausted. my arms and legs weren't strong enough back I went with the undertow the cycle of breathing
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when I washed up on shore to holding my breath when I sucked under continued I have no idea how
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my body knew exactly what to do it's four and a half years old I mean on an instance of being
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temporarily beached I looked off to the side and saw my uncle fishing jackpot let's lock eyes so I
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can go home and take a fucking nap on the second drive willing him to look over at me it worked
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He urgently dropped his pole and ran over. I relaxed my body knowing my work And this would be over in a moment.
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As he pulls me out, I see my dad and aunt run back towards me, clearly seeing the error of their ways when they realized they left their favorite grandchild at the beach.
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Not just at the beach, in the ocean. Fucking getting eaten by the ocean. That's it.
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I have no recollection of what happened once I was wrapped in a towel in the safety of my dad's arms, probably because the traumatic part was over.
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I also don't remember this instance stopping me from going back into the ocean ever.
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It was honestly a long lost forgotten memory until I had a fortune teller talk to me about a near death experience I had when I was a kid.
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I had no idea what she was talking about until something triggered this memory. When I asked my dad about it, he said he all caps did not remember this, but also not to tell my mom.
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Stay sexy and watch your kids around the tides. Shannon. I mean, it could have been a psychically implanted memory.
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But yeah, that is such a classic. also I think you would have to be that young to stay that calm yeah if you're a little older you
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would know how bad of a place you were in and you'd panic I think as opposed to just kind of
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like going with it yeah and then you'd be exhausted faster I mean it's like watch your kids around
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bodies of water everyone fucking knows that yeah so sad also just like they didn't even scream they
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were just like, oh, no, no one's going to help me. Here I am. I guess I'm a fish now.
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Episode Highlights

  • Dr. Death the Cowboy
    A neurosurgeon who sold confidence but left broken bodies in his wake.
    “This is a story of greed, betrayal, and a fight for justice.”
    @ 00m 51s
    June 10, 2024
  • A Murder in the Shed
    A chilling tale of a mother who murdered her abusive husband and hid his body.
    “Kate's mom had murdered her abusive husband, hid his body in the shed.”
    @ 03m 38s
    June 10, 2024
  • Hotel Lockout Chaos
    A family story of a dad's heroic attempt to rescue his kids from a locked hotel room.
    “The hotel had to call the fire department to break the latch on the door.”
    @ 06m 39s
    June 10, 2024
  • Mom's Hot Dog Invention
    A humorous childhood memory of believing your mom invented hot dogs.
    “I believed her for way too long.”
    @ 20m 24s
    June 10, 2024
  • A Childhood Memory of Hot Dogs
    A humorous anecdote about a child believing their mother invented hot dogs.
    “I invented them. And I believed her for way too long.”
    @ 20m 24s
    June 10, 2024
  • The Ocean's Grip
    A dramatic recounting of a child's struggle against the ocean's undertow.
    “I was taken again.”
    @ 23m 16s
    June 10, 2024
  • Forgotten at the Beach
    A chilling tale of a child left behind at the beach, leading to a near-drowning experience.
    “Stay sexy and watch your kids around the tides.”
    @ 24m 45s
    June 10, 2024

Episode Quotes

  • He promised to heal them. Instead, he left a trail of broken bodies.
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  • It's like you had a sixth sense.
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  • That's wild.
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  • I invented them. And I believed her for way too long.
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  • That's fucked up. Yeah. That's fucked up.
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  • Thanks for listening. Write your story in.
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Key Moments

  • Greed and Betrayal00:51
  • Hotel Lockout06:39
  • Inventing Hot Dogs20:24
  • Childhood Lies20:24
  • Forgotten at the Beach21:34
  • Ocean Struggle22:53
  • Rescue23:54
  • Childhood Reflection24:34

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