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MFM Minisode 349

September 11, 2023 /

This mini-sode of My Favorite Murder features listener stories about freak nature experiences, hometown murders, and personal encounters with ghosts and cults.

The first story recounts a kayaking incident where a listener was saved from drowning by the spirit of her aunt, who had recently passed away from ALS. The listener describes the calmness she felt during the near-drowning and how her aunt's presence guided her to safety.

Another listener shares a chilling tale from Lahaina, Hawaii, about a chief who killed his wife and maid in a fit of rage, leaving a legacy tied to the land where tiny shrimp appear annually, turning the water red.

A story from New Jersey details a gruesome murder where a woman was killed by her son-in-law, with the listener reflecting on the eerie history of the house that remains unsold due to its dark past.

TLDR

Listeners share eerie and humorous personal stories involving ghosts, murders, and unexpected relationships.

Episode

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Goodbye. Hello. And welcome to My Favorite Murder. The mini-sode. We read you your stories.
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You sent them to us. What choice do we have? What else are we going to do with them?
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Do you want to go first? Sure. Okay. This one's called Freak of Nature Literally.
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Oh. Howdy, y'all. From Iowa. Not only am I going to give you a freak nature story, but a freak nature spirit story?
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In the spring of 2019, my aunt passed away from ALS. She moved into my family's house, and my mom, a nurse practitioner, took care of her until the end.
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My aunt was my rock star, my idol, and someone I will endlessly look up to. She was such a force, I could go on forever.
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A month after her passing, I was back home visiting family when my dad suggested my boyfriend and I take a break and go kayaking.
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It had rained pretty hard the night before, but the river wasn't too high and appeared to be calm.
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We went to the local riverbank where many people inserted their kayaks and canoes.
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My dad helped us load into each of our kayaks near a dam. My boyfriend went in first and disappeared around a bend.
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As I was loading in, my dad noticed my life jacket was improperly clicked in. It was just hanging around my neck.
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As he was yelling to click in my life jacket, and I was looking back at him to see what he was yelling about,
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I didn't notice the fallen tree on the river that was acting as a vortex and sucking everything underneath it.
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Holy shit. I know. I got sucked in, and my life jacket slid off. I remember this moment very vividly because suddenly everything went into slow motion and I was very calm.
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And then I heard my aunt tell me to grab her arm. I grabbed her arm and was pulled out.
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Yes, I was literally pulled out from under a tree in a rapid river. My dad thought I was still stuck underwater and was running up and down the riverbank looking for me.
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I'll never forget the look on his face when he saw me alive. My boyfriend kept kayaking.
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just thought i'd clumsily tipped over and i'd catch up later yeah we broke up three weeks later
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anyway stay sexy donate to your local als chapter and buckle up your fucking life jacket
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agb so a ghost aunt rescued her from under a tree from drowning and her real life boyfriend
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was fucking a quarter a mile up the river. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, yeah. Thank God that didn't end of like, and he became my husband.
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Right. Wow. That was a strong kickoff of a similar strong kickoff. Okay. I won't read you the separate line because it gives it away.
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Greetings to the MFM Ohana. I've been an avid listener of the podcast for years,
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but I've been putting off sending in my hometown murder. Now my hometown of Lahaina has been swept into ashes,
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and I found myself reminiscing about this old story that used to frighten me. One day, Chief Ka'akea, forgive me if that's incorrect,
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but it's two A's at the beginning, so it seems like Ka'akea, is said to have suspected his wife, a princess, of having an extramarital affair.
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After a fit of uncontrollable fury, the princess and her loyal maid fled to the treacherous sea caves hidden amidst the eerie
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black sand beach. They concealed themselves in the depths of the mysterious cave, perched upon
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a narrow ledge, while the maid fanned the princess with a feather symbolic of royalty.
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While searching for the princess, the chief caught a glimpse of the reflection of the feather
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and followed this elusive clue to their hiding place. As the punishment for her alleged infidelity,
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he killed them right there on the spot. Once a year, tiny shrimp appear in that pool,
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turning the water red. Some say it's a reminder of the blood of the slain princess. Scientists
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just call it biology. Mahalo for letting me share the story and love to the islands right now.
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Okay, hello all, let's get right into it. I grew up in Plainfield, New Jersey, a beautiful town that benefited from an influx of wealth
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in the late 1800s and early 1900s from rich New Yorkers looking to move to the suburbs.
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This all changed after the Plainfield Rebellion in 1967, a civil disturbance associated with
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the growing discontent of the African-American citizens of the town. White occupants left Plainfield in large numbers, leaving behind their Victorian and Tudor-style
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mansions. While I was not fortunate enough to grow up in such a mansion, I got to see many of them
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as my mother drove me to school each morning. there was one particularly large mansion on a corner we often passed for years my mother would
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remark what a beautiful house it was and how it was still for sale every now and then she would
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update me that the sellers had lowered the price saying just 350 000 for such a large beautiful
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home don't you kids want to live there well the thought of not having to share one bathroom with
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my entire family was appealing something about the house gave me the creeps eventually i asked
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my mother why she and my father weren't putting in an offer on the house if she liked it so much.
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She calmly responded, oh, because of the murder. No one's going to buy that place. I'm waiting for
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the price to come down. Murder, I inquired. Yeah, she said. The woman who lived there got murdered
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by her son-in-law. He chopped off her hands in the bedroom. Oh my God. Wondering if this was going
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to be my new bedroom, I found a few old articles detailing the murder. In 1992, Mary Mason,
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then 74 years old, was strangled by her son-in-law, Mark Masters. Mary, a widow,
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had originally purchased the home and lived there with her daughter, Minka, who was also a widow,
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and her granddaughter. They renovated the space and would rent it out for weddings and other
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events. The details are not completely clear, but from what I can gather, Mark was hired as a
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handyman for the home and married Minka, the daughter. One day when Minka was home and her
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daughter was at a friend's house, Mark strangled Mary for unclear reasons, claiming it was an
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accident and threatened Minka with a gun asking for her assistance hiding the body of her mother,
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dude. An axe was found near Mary's body with both her hands severed. Minka called the police,
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an 18-hour standoff with a SWAT team ensued involving Mark firing multiple shots at the
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officers and the use of two smoke bombs to flush Mark out of the home. Close to being apprehended,
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Mark shot himself in the chest and survived. He would eventually confess to the murder and be
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sentenced to prison with a chance of parole after 15 years. He was found dead in prison after an
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apparent suicide and after recanting his confession. Numerous rumors have swirled around our town about
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his suspicious death and that the circumstances behind Mary's death might involve other family
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members. I guess we will never know. Anyway, my parents never bought the house and I never got my
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second bathroom. I can only imagine how spooky it would be to live there. And I no longer need
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to wonder where my true crime obsession comes from. Your podcast has meant the world to me.
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Thank you so much for tackling such difficult topics with thoughtfulness and humor. I also
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appreciate your continued conversation about the importance of mental health. Stay sexy and wait
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for the mortgage rates to drop Regards Hannibal he him I mean as opposed to like your old fashion like Victorian ghost That such a terrible Yeah Like terrible scenario Terrible situation
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It's like torture and murder. Totally. Just horrible. You don't want any part of that.
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I can't imagine. Yeah. Moving into a place like that. That's rough. And there are people.
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I think it happens more than people would probably even want to admit. What? That they move into a murder house?
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they would move into a house for the price and be like, we're not dealing with that part of it.
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And maybe nothing ever comes of it. But yeah. The subject line of this email is,
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God gives his biggest Wendy's to his most fucked up cult followers. Good day, Karen and Georgia. I'm writing this in between classes instead of doing my urgent
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homework because priorities are not my strong suit. I've been meaning to write this because
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I've been thinking you'll love it. Cults and water parks and a big ass Wendy's all included.
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So my family moved to my hometown when I was three and I was raised there and stayed in the
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same house until I moved for college. My housing division got bigger over time, but one thing never changed. The fucking cult out back. So sort of on the way out of the division
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through the back current day, you will see a big empty hotel tower and a bunch of secretive
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buildings and sort of set back housing units. And what this is, is the current day cult that
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owns the land. But that's not the fun part. When I was little, and my mom would drive me and my
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sister pretty much anywhere, we would always pass by a huge princess castle. And then in parentheses,
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it says, look up Heritage USA Castle if you want to see. Do you remember Heritage USA?
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No. I think it's something from my era. I'll go on to explain what it is. But I immediately remembered
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it and knew what it was. And I think I remember seeing commercials for it on network television.
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So it says, we would always ask when we would get invited to the castle and why we weren't allowed
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in for tea. Sweet mom usually just said that they would invite us one day maybe and didn't really
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say much else. Eventually, the castle was demolished in 2013. And I really didn't think
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much about it until the pandemic gave me a lot of time to be bored and do nothing. And one day it
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decided, what the fuck is up with that cult? Who are they? What do they want? And I shit you not,
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it was insane. Apparently, what used to be back there was a literal Jesus Christ themed water
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park slash theme park owned by a televangelist. And it was called Heritage USA. Oh my God. Doesn't
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sound familiar at all. No. At a certain point in time, it was the third largest theme park by
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attendance only behind the Disney parks. Wow. Did anyone else know this? And so sidebar, yes,
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I did. Okay. So it says I didn't. I mean, I wasn't alive then, but it feels like information
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that would transcend into history. I agree. I'm surprised that I think maybe I was the last
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generation and it was like a 70s, 80s thing. So this massive water park theme park was in
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operation for a while and was pretty big and successful in all of that. Eventually,
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the IRS revoked its tax exemption and the owners were embroiled in some classic fucked up
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televangelist slash religious icon scandal and the park shut down and the land was sold off to
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several groups, including another cult, which is the one currently back there. They don't know how
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to vet people to sell land to in this town, seems like. And also it's like, who would like to occupy
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this old theme park. But here's the thing I'm thinking as I'm reading this, and this is just
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a guess, that it was Jim and Tammy Faye Baker's theme park. So the cult that's currently back
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there and to some development companies who eventually built my childhood home. And then
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it's a little sideways heart. On the same property is the Upper Room Chapel, which is
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an exact recreation of the real Upper Room where the Last Supper was held. That's still there.
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But the best part is the princess castle from my childhood was also in the information that I read.
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So it wasn't really in use with the original Heritage USA and the people who bought it next used it as a go-kart slash arcade track.
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But originally, it was supposed to be the world's largest Wendy's. I could have had the world's largest Wendy's in a princess castle behind my house.
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I would be wolfing down Junior Cheeseburgers Deluxe on the reg. Anyway, if you want more info, I suggest looking it up.
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I got it. I got it right here. You were completely correct about televangelist Jim Baker and his wife, Tammy Faye Baker, being the founders of this place.
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And I think they got so big in the like the 80s that it was just like, we're going for it.
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And here we come, like Christian America. We have our own theme park. so crazy crusaders anyway if you hear i just love that they say if you want more information look it
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up okay thanks it says it's kind of crazy and a whole lot more than i remember the wendy's really
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sticks with me though yeah stay sexy and go down a water slide of holy water elizabeth and then it
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says p.s the cult there currently also doesn't maintain the road it owns that's the fastest way
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the local high school. So it's really like we still have fucking bumper cars back there.
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I would go to that water park, even though it's Christian thing. Who doesn't love a good water
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park? And it's in your backyard. Yeah. And also that aside from maybe the music that was playing
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or the vibe of the people working there, you're still just on a water slide. That's
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non-denominational, really, when it comes down to it. Well, I mean, Christians have to eat corn dogs too, right?
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00:18:11
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00:18:27
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00:18:31
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00:18:36
for a treat. It actually changes the whole game with bras. I thought I was like a something,
00:18:41
something A cup. I'm a something, something B cup, and it's just changed my bra game. I thought I just
00:18:46
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00:18:51
doesn't even feel like I'm wearing a bra. Use code MFM15 for $15 off your first purchase
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at thirdlove.com. Goodbye. While the world watches the stars at the FIFA World Cup this summer,
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00:19:08
turning heads at age 14. Making plays that end up on everyone's feed, scoring from angles that
00:19:12
don't make sense, rewriting record books that barely had time to gather dust. Because Next
00:19:17
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00:19:22
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00:19:30
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00:19:36
the future isn't some far-off concept. It's already here. Next starts now. Hyundai, an official partner of FIFA.
00:19:43
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00:19:59
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Goodbye. This is called Hello from a Hospice Social Worker. This is my last one.
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Hi to everyone. Thanks for the kind words you shared recently about hospice workers.
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Unfortunately, there is a lot of misinformation out there, so it is always good to hear positive reminders that we are a great resource for patients and families at end of life.
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One of the things I love best about hospice, and I wish was adopted by our medical system in general, not only do we address patients' physical needs, but their spiritual and emotional, and it says, that's me, needs as well.
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So each team has a nurse, chaplain, and social worker involved with the patient's care.
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Anyway, I wanted to write in about the most memorable death I have witnessed. Eva was a patient in a nursing home with ALS.
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Sadly, she had been a resident in the nursing home for over 10 years and had no real family
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involvement. In my nice social work speak, I would describe her as feisty. She was unhappy with her situation and often took it out on the faculty staff.
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The one thing she loved was Elvis. And that's the singer, not my cat. She had posters.
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What if she was obsessed with my cat? Wouldn't that be kind of? That would be incredible.
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she had posters everywhere all kinds of memorabilia and tons of cds fast forward to the
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chaplain and myself being bedside with her as she lay dying helping her transition to the next part
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of the journey i made sure she had elvis playing during her final moments and with one huge breath
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she died i went to go find the nurse to pronounce eva and she came in a few minutes later and
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confirmed the absence of her vitals and stated time of death as she was walking out of the room
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to notify the doctor and funeral home. Ava took another big breath. Yes, she came back from the dead as one last F you.
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About 10 minutes later, when she died again, for real, at that moment, her Elvis CD stopped playing
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and I knew she was gone and had finally met the king on the other side. Whoa. Stay sexy and do not go into the light
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until you are good and ready, Aaron. That's really scary. I know. Wait, so it sounded like she took her big last breath and then like was just quiet for 10 minutes and then did the same thing again.
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Yeah. Like not on purpose, but like her vitals were probably so low they were, you know, couldn't pick them up.
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Okay. This is one of my favorite subject lines ever. Meet cute, less than a three-minute read.
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I love when people do that. 2.5 minutes long. Seriously, this is, it's like the best way to sell yourself where it's just like, the thing is, it's not going to weigh you down.
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You can keep it moving. If you hate it, you haven't wasted that much time in your life.
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Yeah. Okay. It says, good day all. I'm an elder millennial as evidenced by my Hotmail email address.
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So I'm going to skip the anxiety inducing intro. Picture it. May 2009. I'm fresh out of the clink.
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And then parentheses, it says, drugs are bad and they fuck up your life, kids. close parentheses, and early in my recovery from a decade-long heroin addiction. I was trying to
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adult for the first time and be a better mother. My child, however, had a different agenda and
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tested the limits of my better parenting vow. He was a whirling dervish, never rested, hardly slept,
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and significantly increased my agility while trying to keep up with him, catch him.
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Oh my God. Yeah. Xander, my son, decided climbing the neighbor's fence was the best of times.
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He couldn't figure out how to actually get over and climb down the other side, so he'd just get up.
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top and then scream to be rescued. I'd get him down. And as soon as I wasn't looking,
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he was right back up there. As I was raised in the 80s by a mother who didn't care how I occupied
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myself as long as it was outside, and who was a firm believer in natural consequences.
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So true. I decided to take a page out of her book. I get him to the top of the fence,
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and I just let him hang there. I was just thinking that. What would happen? Right. The fence owner, an adorable lesbian who had just come out to cook on her grill,
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asked if I was going to get him down. No, let him be stuck there for a few minutes and maybe
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he'll stop climbing your fence. Well, she picked him up over the fence with my permission and got
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out the yard toys she kept for her nieces and nephew. Thanks to my rambunctious little guy,
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she and I just celebrated our 14 year anniversary. And in October, we will be married for six years.
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Oh my god. I forgot it was a meet cute. It's a meet cute story. Oh my god. But because we were so enthralled with the fact that it was only three minutes long,
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they buried the lead. Okay. This beautiful life is all due to Xander and I will be forever grateful.
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Though she did tell me years later she put him in her yard because she was afraid that I would because she was afraid that I would sue if he got hurt Fair enough I still not sure why she decided to take a chance on me
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I certainly wasn't a catch at the time, but I'm so glad she did. Stay sexy and let your children get stranded on fences?
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Michelle. Oh, my God. I did not see that coming because I forgot about the mute cute.
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I thought it was going to be some tragedy. Well, and also I love Michelle's just complete honesty and transparency where it's just like,
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I am just out of jail. I was a heroin addict. I'm trying to get my life together.
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Parenting is fucking hard. Parenting a toddler while you're doing all of that. Single parent.
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Yeah. Incredible. Thank you, Michelle. You did it, Michelle. You did it. And I mean, just great.
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Thank you. That's what people need to hear. It's like all the challenges people go up against, all the things.
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Episode Highlights

  • Dr. Death the Cowboy
    A story of greed, betrayal, and a fight for justice.
    “This is a story of greed, betrayal, and a fight for justice.”
    @ 00m 51s
    September 11, 2023
  • A Ghostly Rescue
    A near-drowning experience leads to a miraculous rescue by a deceased aunt.
    “I grabbed her arm and was pulled out.”
    @ 03m 28s
    September 11, 2023
  • The Murder House
    A chilling tale of a house with a dark past involving a gruesome murder.
    “The woman who lived there got murdered by her son-in-law.”
    @ 09m 56s
    September 11, 2023
  • Heritage USA Theme Park
    A surprising history of a cult-owned land that once housed a popular theme park.
    “Apparently, what used to be back there was a literal Jesus Christ themed water park.”
    @ 14m 25s
    September 11, 2023
  • Hospice Worker Insights
    A hospice worker shares a memorable patient story and the importance of care.
    “One of the things I love best about hospice...”
    @ 20m 31s
    September 11, 2023
  • Ava's Last Breath
    Ava takes a final breath, surprising everyone with a moment of life before passing.
    “Yes, she came back from the dead as one last F you.”
    @ 22m 07s
    September 11, 2023
  • Meet Cute Story
    A humorous tale of how a parenting challenge led to a lasting relationship.
    “This beautiful life is all due to Xander and I will be forever grateful.”
    @ 24m 59s
    September 11, 2023

Episode Quotes

  • A ghost aunt rescued her from under a tree from drowning.
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  • Murder, I inquired. Yeah, she said.
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  • It's like torture and murder.
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  • I could have had the world's largest Wendy's in a princess castle behind my house.
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  • Yes, she came back from the dead as one last F you.
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  • Nothing is insurmountable, including a fence that your toddlers climb on.
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Key Moments

  • Greed and Betrayal00:51
  • Ghostly Rescue03:28
  • Murder House History09:56
  • Hospice Care20:31
  • Final Breath21:51
  • Life Transformation23:25
  • Parenting Challenge23:40
  • Meet Cute24:59

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