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MFM Minisode 351

September 25, 2023 /

This episode covers hometown stories, including a murder, a near-drowning incident, and a Bigfoot museum encounter. Guests share personal anecdotes about their families and experiences.

A listener recounts a chilling story about a hitchhiker who murdered a local doctor in North Louisiana. The story highlights the eerie atmosphere of the abandoned house where the murder occurred.

Another listener shares a near-tragic experience at a beach in Puerto Rico, where a wave nearly swept her baby away. She reflects on her journey as a mother and her son's growth.

In a humorous tale, a listener's mother engages in a debate with a Bigfoot museum guide about the existence of Bigfoot, leading to an awkward confrontation.

The episode concludes with lighthearted banter and encouragement for listeners to share their own stories, emphasizing the importance of community and connection.

TLDR

Listeners share hometown stories of murder, near-drowning, and a Bigfoot museum encounter, blending humor and personal reflections on family.

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All right. You want to go first? Sure. I won't read you the subject line because it gives it away.
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It just starts, hi, ladies. I love y'all. Yep, that about sums it up. Here we go.
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Growing up, my dad would occasionally take me with him to the hunting club he was part
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of in North Louisiana. It sits on 400 plus acres and is down a dirt road way off the beaten path.
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Even further down the dirt road sits an abandoned, very old house with one hell of a story.
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A man everyone called Doc lived there. In parentheses, it says he was basically the only doctor in this small town.
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He was a very generous man and would give work to hitchhikers off the highway from time to time, despite everyone telling him not to do so.
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Well, one of those times, he hired a hitchhiker to do some farm work, and the man stayed for quite a while.
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Members of the hunting club, including my dad and the owners, got to know him, and he became a familiar face.
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One of the unspoken rules at the hunting club is that 5 o'clock is cocktail time,
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where everyone gathers on the front porch to have a drink and chat before heading out for the evening hunt.
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Right? And then a parenthesis that says, it's always a good idea to not be sober when handling firearms, right?
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But I have to say, this is a very common practice. Yeah. And if you live out in the country, it's kind of like hunting is the fun thing.
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Yeah. It goes along with partying. It's like golf, except with guns. But I think they really only have like one or two.
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Then they go out, then they come back, and then they really party down. Okay. Who am I to judge?
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Look, let's be less judgmental and more afraid of drunken firearm handling. Okay.
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One day, the owners and a few hunters were on the porch enjoying their cocktails when the hitchhiker drove by.
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They flagged him down and invited him over for a drink. He obliged, and no one thought twice about the blood he had on him, because after all, it was a hunting camp, and they just assumed that he had shot a deer and got some blood on his clothes.
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After a few drinks and a chat, the man drove off. A few hours later, several cop cars flew down the dirt road and headed to Doc's place.
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As it turns out, the hitchhiker had shot Doc, hence the blood, stopped for a few casual drinks, and then went to the nearest pawn shop to sell some of Doc's guns and items.
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The shop owner recognized some of the guns and immediately called the cops to check on Doc.
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He was found dead on his living room floor. Just because of the shop owner's instinct and quick thinking, the hitchhiker was immediately caught and arrested.
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This happened about 30 years ago, and to this day, the house has been boarded up and abandoned.
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The murderino in me has always wanted to break in and explore, but I also hate snakes, so it's a real catch-22.
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Anyways, hope you enjoyed my hometown. Stay sexy and don't murder people. Thanks, Ariel.
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Yeah, that sums it up. I mean, kind of perfect. Kind of a perfectly encapsulated hometown email.
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Definitely. Well done, Ariel. That was perfect. Yeah. Good job. So let's go to a lighthearted hometown story from the 80s.
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That's what the subject is. I'd love to. Okay. Hello, friends. My dad told me this story and I thought I would share.
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My parents were born in the late 60s. And to this day, they still believe hardcore in the satanic stuff for which there was a
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panic. Well put. When they were in high school and living in Kansas, it says they've been together since
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my mom was 16, they were severely under-supervised and often got themselves into some teenage
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predicaments, usually the kind that included middle fingers towards authority. So it was rumored that there was a haunted house in which a cult performed their satanic
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rituals. So of course my parents and their friends decided that it was the perfect place to drink irresponsibly They wait until it dark and in typical horror story fashion they split up to explore using only flashlights
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The house is falling apart and it's spelled like dead mice and mold. So, of course, they decided to stay.
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My dad walks upstairs and steps into a large room. When my mom follows, she finds he is unintentionally standing in the center of a pentagram painted in red on the hardwood floor.
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There are candles in each corner and dripped wax everywhere and a all caps dark red stain right where dad is standing.
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My mom's scream whispers to him to get the fuck out of the circle. And at the exact moment, my dad looks down to see that he is in the designated sacrifice area.
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They hear a car pull into the driveway and see headlights flash across the window.
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Everyone freaks the fuck out and they run out the back door, ditching their cars and running all the way home.
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That's how you can tell they're teenagers because they just started driving. It's so new that they forgot they can drive.
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Mom and dad say it was the satanic cult coming to murder them. I think maybe more teens had similar ideas of underage illegal activity.
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Either way, my parents stayed sexy and didn't get murdered. They're still together after 38 years.
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I suppose surviving a satanic cult house really keeps the romance alive. Thanks for reading.
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Stay sexy. And on exploring haunted areas, be sure to look where you're stepping, Liz.
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I love, Liz, that your parents' relationship has been, like, girdered by Satan himself.
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That's a really, the idea that they're afraid of stuff like that or think it's real.
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And it's actually just like, but Satan is, he's in that relationship with you. It's got to be us against the world about something.
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Yeah. Yeah. Me and you and Satan against the world. Yeah. But I do love the idea.
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The first thing I thought of was that, that it's like, they're all freaked out, like,
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oh my God, Satanist practice in this house. And it's like, do you mean the seniors that came and painted that and they're trying to
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scare people? Or like the 11 year olds. I definitely did shit like that when I was a kid.
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Yeah. Just to fuck around. I mean, what's scarier, though, than like at night, the woods, a pentagram.
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Those are really the beginning of everything. Like candles that have been lit, meaning like something happened.
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one when I was a young and much more plucky mom in my 20s. A friend invited me on a trip with her
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particular beach was posted with signs that read, strong currents, riptides, no swimming.
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Got it. I won't swim. I'll just sit down and nurse my baby and meditate on the waves. In moments, baby is asleep and I lay him next to me in the sand. Perfect, relaxing. I'm at peace and all is right with the world until a giant wave rushes up to the beach at us so fast I can't even process what's happening and sucks my baby into its powerful retreat back into the ocean.
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holy shit i'm on my feet and my sweet baby is being drugged down this beach just barrel rolling
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into the ocean i'm running sure this is the last time i will see him and just like that another
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wave shoves him back up the beach and i scoop him up in my arms covered in sand and looking a mess
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so thankful for every adventure we've had in the past 18 and a half years. Here's to many more.
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I'm like getting choked up because she like she thought she lost her baby in the fucking ocean of all places.
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Stay sexy. Amber, she, her. That's beautiful. That's so good. Like, okay, if I could be guaranteed a kid like hers, you know, that I didn't break.
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You don't break. Yeah. Is a good person. I don't ruin them. Yeah, they're a good person.
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Okay. Historical hometown with murder. Hey, ladies. My hometown murder is actually a story I've heard since I was a little girl, proudly told by my mom and my aunts to all us children as inspiration, a warning to my brother and boy cousins, question mark, who knows.
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But I have long assumed that this was just family lore and perhaps an exaggerated tale at best.
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I was delighted and instantly knew I had a write-in when my brother returned home from a trip to California, where the murder was committed, with a copy of the news article from 1910 of my very true hometown murder.
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Whoa. My mom's grandpa, who was two at the time, was in the living room with his mother, Rose, who was eight months pregnant and visiting with her mother.
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when rose's husband came home he flew into a jealous rage accusing her of sleeping with the
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neighbor or the milkman this is where the details get hazy as rose's husband starts to beat his
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pregnant wife her mother takes a derringer out of her purse and shoots him dead right in the living
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room holy shit out of her purse she's got a fucking derringer and derringers am i wrong to
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remembered them to be the little guns from like the 20s that are like it's a lady gun it's a lady
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gun it's like a herald not herald and maude who are they bonnie and clyde them it's like one of
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their styles right i think so from i don't know i don't know either this was probably a very chaotic
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moment but i like to envision rose's mom as stone-faced and cool as a cucumber in this moment
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a total badass rose's mom did go to trial but she was found innocent and continued to help rose
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raise her family. I know. My family is full of crazy, take no shit women. And it seems like
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we've been that way for a while. Stay sexy, Sarah, she, her. Sarah, congratulations from
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descending from a long line of badasses. Also, I wonder if that mother had already seen some red
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flags in that husband and she had fucking had it. Yes. And she's eight months pregnant. I mean,
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Okay. It's a little long, but worth it. Okay. Okay. I'm not going to read you the subject line.
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It just starts. Hello, Karen, Georgia, Stephen, and all the exactly right team. I love people still mentioning Stephen.
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It's like, it's eternal. It was the late fall of 2011, and I was a 16-year-old junior in high school.
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My parents had split up the summer before. And then in parentheses, it says, encouraged by me.
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Don't stay together for the kids if you are visibly unhappy, because we can pick up on that, too.
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Amen. That's so true. Close parentheses. And I was primarily staying with my mom in her old family home, which was vacant at the time.
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My older sister was a freshman at the local community college, so she also lived with us.
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Although we lived in a small town in Southern Maryland, I was playing on a club volleyball team closer to Baltimore.
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That meant that two to three nights a week, my mom and I were out of the house from about 6 to 11 p.m.
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On this particular night, my sister came with us to practice in order to get some time out of the house.
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After arriving, God, I remember I would go on any errand, on any errand. Growing up in the country where you're just like, if there's absolutely nothing on TV and nothing to be done in this house, people are like, I'm going to the hardware store.
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And you're like, and I'm going with you. I'll go watch you play softball. I'm bored out of my fucking mind.
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Will there be candy bars there? Yes. Kids and candy bars. Kids and candy bars. Okay, so after arriving home from practice around 11 p.m., we began winding down for the evening.
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This looked like the three of us taking turns to shower and watch Catfish on MTV.
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As I went into the upstairs bathroom to grab some whitening strips that my mom and I had recently gone in on,
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and then in parentheses it says they're expensive, okay? Dude, for real. They are.
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I was horrified to find that almost all of the whitening strips were gone except a half-used one.
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This really set me off, and I made multiple trips downstairs to the living room,
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accusing my mom and sister of stealing the precious strips. I was going back and forth yelling at them and observing the strips to make sure that I wasn't just seeing things.
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After about the fifth time that I confronted them, I declared that if one of you did not take them,
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then someone must have broken into our house and taken them. While I thought this would surely get my mom or sister to confess,
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instead my mom got a bizarre look in her eye. She then proceeded to go upstairs, and instead of going into the bathroom, she went into her bedroom.
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I met her at the top of the stairs as I was still protesting this abomination. What happened next was probably the scariest moment of my life.
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My mom said, stay calm, but we all need to exit this house. We've been robbed. Oh, my God.
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Apparently, she discovered that some of her personal items were missing as well.
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We quickly exited the house. We had no way of knowing if the burglar was still in the house or not at this point.
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So it goes without saying that until we had gotten out of the house and into the car, we were petrified.
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So what happened? My mom's ex-boyfriend, who was a college volleyball coach that we had met at one of our tournaments, had broken into our house, stolen gift cards to local restaurants that he had given my mom, and you guessed it, whitening strips.
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I guess my mom had had her suspicions about him because she knew exactly where to look for the things that he might take.
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unfortunately we were not able to press charges because he used a hide a key which he must have
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spotted back when he and my mom were still together just think if my sister had been home
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thank goodness she decided to ride along to my practice that night he stalked some of my
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volleyball tournaments until my dad finally confronted him and got him to stay the hell
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away from us to close i am happy that my mom has had a new boyfriend for nine years now
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and he's the coolest guy ever i even started calling him my stepdad recently because he means
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so much to me. Stay sexy and always count your whitening strips. Jess, she, her. P.S.
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been with me through my battle with alcoholism, but I can proudly say that I'm now almost two and
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a half years sober and life has never been better. Wow. Congratulations, Jess. Good job.
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Good job. That could have gone so much worse if her sister was home and like surprised him. And
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that's like so many of those forensic file stories happen that way, you know? Yeah. And his thinking of like, obviously that's going to be scary. And then he's taking things
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back. Like, how dare you break up with me? I'm going to do it's just so it's such bad vibes.
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Totally. Oh, my God. Let me see if I have a mom one among my other stories. Hold on. Oh, I do. Hey, okay. This one's called My Mom versus the Bigfoot Museum Guide.
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Hello, MFM crew. I recently caught up on some early episodes and talk of cryptids
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made me think of this story. I graduated college in May and had so much time on my hands this summer
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that, listen to this, I accompanied my parents on pretty much every errand. Oh my God!
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Yes, yes. In August, we ended up in Blue Ridge, Georgia. To my absolute delight,
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we found an all caps Bigfoot Museum standing alone on the side of the highway My mom and I went in to check it out while my dad waited in the car as dads do This place would have had y in a chokehold They even explored how Bigfoot cousin
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and then it says, brother, pal, grandpa, question mark, the Yeti could have caused the Dilatov Pass incident.
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Anyway, we poked around for a bit and on the way out, my mom starts up small talk
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with the guide. My mom, this place was so funny. We had a good time. Guide. Funny?
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Uh-oh. My mom. Yeah, you know, like, it seems so serious, but you guys don't actually believe in Bigfoot, right?
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Oh, dear God. Wrong move. The guide became visibly upset, and the staff in the gift shop all perked up at this statement.
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Guide. Of course we do. The owner has devoted his life to finding Bigfoot. He even caught a juvenile Bigfoot on infrared camera over the 4th of July.
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Oh. Every artifact you've seen in here has taken years to curate. Bigfoot is absolutely real.
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For some reason, this did not register with my mom as serious still. And I watched Mortified as it went on like this for a solid five minutes.
00:26:28
No, no. By the time I had bought a t-shirt and shuttled my mom outside, I seriously thought the guide might have thrown a punch to defend the existence of our good friend, Bigfoot.
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Thanks for everything y do and for making my work road trips more bearable I even introduced my Bigfoot denying mom to your podcast on one of my drives Hey stay sexy and never bad mouth Bigfoot Fiona
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Well, not in a Bigfoot museum, Fiona's mom. Come on. You've gone to the one place you can't do that.
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Anywhere else kind of in the world, people would be like, I don't know. But like you basically went to the source.
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Totally. It's like going to the Natural History Museum and being like, but you guys don't believe
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in this, right? Jesus didn't do this. Jesus buried those dinosaur bones to trick us.
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We believe in Bigfoot. Your mom is, tell your mom we say hi. Yeah, we believe in Bigfoot.
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Episode Highlights

  • Dr. Death the Cowboy
    A charming neurosurgeon becomes a figure of trust, but his actions lead to tragedy.
    “He promised to heal them. Instead, he left a trail of broken bodies.”
    @ 00m 48s
    September 25, 2023
  • Satanic Panic Adventure
    A couple's teenage escapade leads them to a chilling discovery in a haunted house.
    “They hear a car pull into the driveway and see headlights flash across the window.”
    @ 06m 46s
    September 25, 2023
  • Surviving the Ocean
    A mother recounts a terrifying moment when her baby was swept away by the ocean.
    “Holy shit, I'm on my feet and my sweet baby is being dragged down this beach.”
    @ 13m 16s
    September 25, 2023
  • Family Lore of Murder
    A tale of a pregnant woman who defends herself against her abusive husband with a derringer.
    “Her mother takes a derringer out of her purse and shoots him dead right in the living room.”
    @ 16m 05s
    September 25, 2023
  • The Burglary Revelation
    A shocking discovery leads to a terrifying moment for Jess and her family.
    “We've been robbed.”
    @ 22m 46s
    September 25, 2023
  • Mom's Ex-Boyfriend Strikes
    The burglar turns out to be someone from their past, raising the stakes.
    “My mom's ex-boyfriend had broken into our house.”
    @ 23m 05s
    September 25, 2023
  • A New Beginning
    Jess reflects on her journey to sobriety and the positive changes in her life.
    “I'm now almost two and a half years sober.”
    @ 24m 00s
    September 25, 2023

Episode Quotes

  • He promised to heal them. Instead, he left a trail of broken bodies.
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  • Stay sexy and don't murder people.
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  • My parents stayed sexy and didn't get murdered.
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  • Stay calm, but we all need to exit this house.
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  • I guess my mom had had her suspicions about him.
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  • I can proudly say that I'm now almost two and a half years sober.
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Key Moments

  • Charming Neurosurgeon00:37
  • Greed and Betrayal00:51
  • Teenage Adventure06:10
  • Satanic Cult Encounter07:08
  • Murder in the Family15:21
  • Robbery Discovery22:46
  • Burglar's Identity Revealed23:05
  • Sobriety Celebration24:00

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