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For full offer details, visit BoostMobile.com. My favorite world. Hello. and welcome to my favorite murder the mini sode there it is the title ding ding ding
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are you ready are you ready um you first me first whatever you want what do you feel let's see what
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do i have at the end do you have like a good i have a good heartwarming one at the end of one
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of them oh is it a tearjerker uh no it's funny okay whatever i don't know what that means you
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go first i have a i have a little bit of a tearjerker so if i go then you go and then i go and then you
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go, you'll be last. I'll be last. Yeah. All right. So I'll go first. Uh, this is only been doing this
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for seven years. Here's the new thing we didn't know we need. This one's called train derailment.
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Oh yeah. Uh, hello, Karen, Georgia and company insert. You're going to love this insert mushing,
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gushing and blushing or mushy mushing gushing and that is kind of gross oh that's better
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because then also it rhymes yeah that's the idea okay mushing mushing mushing bushing and bushing i'm a long time listener first time writer in our 26 year
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old child from montana i live in the quote city nearby ennis which was mentioned in another
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Murderino's story about Quake Lake. Hearing his story, I knew I had to write in about my hometown
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and how I almost went up in flames. I have ADHD, so keeping the nogging squirrels in their respective
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places is a challenge. Apologies if this is long. My story starts before I was born in Belt,
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Montana, 1976. A little preface here. My grandparents owned two houses. One was in the
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small town of Belt, and the second was 20 miles away in the back country where the ranch still
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sits today, Think Deliverance, which is a great reference to your home. It's the day after
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Thanksgiving. My grandpa and two of my uncles had gone up to the ranch to tend to the cows as calving
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was about to start. My grandma and my dad, who was 17 at the time, stayed in town for the day to get
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supplies to meet up with the rest of the family at the ranch later on. Around 3 p.m., my grandma
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and dad were walking over the bridge to the grocery store slash gas station when a blast that could be
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heard from miles away erupted, shaking the sleepy town awake. A tanker car from Burlington Northern
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Locomotive hauling propane had jumped the track as it was crossing the viaduct on the main road
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into town landing directly below. Thousands of pounds of pressurized propane exploded from the
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first car spilling into the road and down into the town. The second car struck a 500-gallon gas
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tank at the Farmers Union co-op situated near the train tracks. An ignited mixture of propane
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and gasoline was quickly racing towards the heart of the downtown belt. My grandma, dad,
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and the rest of the community were scrambling to get people to safety and prevent the fire
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from traveling and causing more damage. Luckily, the highway department, having just loaded their
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trucks with sand for the roads as it had just snowed the night before, caught wind of the
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explosion and were in route. A sand dike was quickly built, diverting the mixture into Belt
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Creek, which ran along through the center of town. According to my grandma, when the disaster was
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relatively under control, my grandpa and uncles reappeared. They heard the explosion and came back
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into town to see what happened. My grandpa found my grandma and dad and muttered, what the hell?
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Loaded the family up and headed back to the ranch as chores needed to be done. He was a delicate flower. In the aftermath, two people were killed, 22 were injured,
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200 were evacuated, and at least a dozen houses and structures were lost slash damaged,
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and Belt Creek was heavily contaminated. The probable cause was determined to be the failure
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of an overloaded rail section, which originated in the undetected transverse fixture. Then it says
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dot dot dot whatever that means Had it not snowed the night before the town of Belt would not have survived Thanks Mother Nature and your impeccable timing That my story If you ever read this I will scream cry and throw up Thank you for everything you do in advocating for all of us and pushing the tough conversations that need to be had
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Stay sexy and watch out for those overloaded rail sections. Birdie, she, her. Birdie, that is so scary. It also reminds me, I just immediately thought there's a Chris Pine,
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I think Morgan Freeman movie, Runaway Train, which is what it made me think of. But same idea
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where it's like, first of all, the idea that that's propane and gas mix, that's so scary.
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The two worst fucking things. It's like a firebomb, like rolling towards your town.
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Yeah. It's, oh, good Lord. Yeah. That was a good one. Okay. Well, I'm going to up it. I'm
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And up at a notch, the subject of this email is serial killer at my summer camp.
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Hello, my favorite ladies, pets, and mustaches. And just for your information, Georgia, that favorite has a U in it.
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So I think we know a little bit about who's writing to us. We got it. Long time listener, first time writer.
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I could honestly write a book about how much you both mean to me, but that's not why we're here, are we?
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Let's get into this. I grew up in a tiny town of Goderich, Ontario. There's no phonetic help there, so I'm probably mispronouncing that, but it looks like Godovich,
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Ontario. It's a beach town of around 8,000 people located on Lake Huron. When I was a kid, my parents never sent me to summer camp since we basically lived on
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a beach. I begged for years to go, and at the age of 10, they finally gave in. I was enrolled in a summer camp located about 20 minutes from home.
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My parents figured that if I got homesick or hated it, they could come pick me up.
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The camp itself was only one week long, but boy was that a week I'll never forget.
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The first few days were totally normal. Swimming, archery, crafts, and my favorite part of the day, evening campfire.
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Basically, we'd all sit around a campfire and sing camp songs. I think it was on the third or fourth night where things got weird.
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Usually, campfire would be about 30 to 45 minutes long. After this, we'd all go to our cabins for the evening and get ready for bed.
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This night, the campfire seemed never-ending. I swear we sang 40 verses of Kumbaya. The fire kept going as it got darker and darker outside.
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I think we're all beginning to think something was wrong, especially when the camp director came
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out to talk to us. She told us that we had, quote, new rules to follow. They were one,
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you must get a counselor to go to the bathroom with you at night. Two, you must never be alone.
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Always travel with a buddy. Three, you must stay in sight of a counselor at all times.
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Holy shit. I thought it was weird, but I just figured there was a bear or a wild animal on the loose.
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The rest of the week was normal with the exception of these rules. Saturday comes around and my family picks me up.
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I was excited to get in the car and tell my family all about my week. I don't even think I had the time to close the car door before my brother says,
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there's a serial killer on the loose. I laughed and thought he was just being my dumb older brother trying to scare me.
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I told my parents to tell him to stop it, but they didn't. Instead, my mom goes, we can talk about this when we get home, but your brother's right.
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I, of course, started crying, but more importantly, it was pissed that my parents didn't come and pick me up.
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Yeah, if that were my child, I'd be like, be right there. Yeah, that's not how I was raised.
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They'd be like, oh, you're fine. Why would they want you, of all people? Vicious.
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Any opportunity to put you in your place. When I got home, my parents locked all the doors and my dad put baseball bats in all our bedrooms.
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The murderer's name was Jesse Emerson. He was convicted of three counts of murder in the second degree in 2008.
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Apparently, many parents called the camp to let them know a serial killer was on the loose.
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But the camp ultimately decided that they didn't need to send kids home and that we'd be fine.
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Very weird choice in all caps. I honestly don't think it is a weird choice. I mean, I guess if it wasn't like at camp already, if it was just like in the area.
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No, no, I think it's a weird choice. I think, well, it would be interesting to know the facts of how close this situation was to this camp.
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That must have been a consideration. But also, like, if I worked at that camp, it'd be like, well, everyone paid and we're all here already.
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Yeah. Like, completely can see that logic. Yeah. Absolutely. Especially if it was like a bunch of 18-year-olds, which most camps usually are run by very young people.
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He was finally caught and eight days later and arrested. He's currently serving 25 years in prison.
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Although this story is terrifying to think about, it's what got me into true crime.
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Isn't that always the way? Nothing like a killer almost invading your summer camp to get a little murderino inside me to emerge.
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I love you two ladies so much. You're the highlight of my very long work commutes.
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And I feel like you're my two cool older sisters that I never had. Stay sexy and maybe pick up your kid early from summer camp if there's a killer on the loose.
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Emma, she, her. Emma, I flatly disagree. I agree. I am on your side. That is like bordering on neglect, I would say, and very traumatizing.
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But only after the fact. Yeah. Does it count as being trauma if it's just a learned thing after
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the fact and nothing actually happens to you? I don't know. Yeah. Because it's not a threat anymore.
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Right. I mean, why not take that opportunity to be grateful? How about the trauma is that your
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parents didn't care enough to come get you? They were too busy to come pick you up from extreme
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Gals, pause, and everyone else in between. And it says, you asked, you really didn't, and you shall receive.
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Dads and bomb stories. This is a tad long, but I promise it's worth it. My dad used to work at an undisclosed power supply company where he worked predominantly
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at the power plant facility. If you know anything about most power plants, they are heavily gated and you cannot just
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get in for funsies. So think top level, secure work. Well, the workers were trained to report anything suspicious to a supervisor.
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The supervisor realized that was not happening as things were left everywhere unattended and he became fed up.
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So everyone received a stern talking to about being more aware of their surroundings, blah, blah, blah, and that he may start testing them.
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Now to the juice. One day, my dad was working a shift by himself. He was riding around the plants, checking things out, you know, making sure nothing had exploded.
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Eventually, he entered a very secure part of the plant that no one was allowed to be in except for select people like employees and contractors.
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There he found an ominous bag. This bag should not have been there. And my dad was positive no one entered this area as he had been the only one around the facility.
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So he started to wonder if this was one of those tests. Trying not to get in trouble, he reported it to the supervisor,
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who was completely unaware of a mysterious bag of that nature, and informed my dad to evacuate the area immediately.
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The supervisor informed local authorities. And within minutes, the SWAT team and bomb squad was at the power plant.
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Think of people in full body armor, armored vehicles and weapons. Dropping in on a line from above.
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Ooh, so strong and capable. Swatty. Swatty. My dad had to guide them to the lonesome bag where he witnessed the SWAT team and bomb squad secure an impenetrable dome on top of the bag and explode all of the contents within.
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Oh. Everyone was sure it was a bomb and that the plant was just saved. That was until a contractor who was there earlier came back looking for his purple lunch bag that he had accidentally left behind.
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You fool. Yes. My dad blew up someone's lunch. Oh, well, stay sexy and don't leave weird bags laying around in secure environments.
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AJW. Oh, well. Oh, well. Oh, well, that's fine. Oh, shit. that's you know what i was thinking is as you were telling that i was just like this is crazy
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and it's like someone trying to blow up a power plant that's so horrifying and then it just like
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what if it was the dad's bag and he forgot he left it there just because i was trying to like
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run scenarios in my head oh how embarrassing um okay the the subject line is a little long but
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worth it the subject line of this one is unsolved shoe phone haunting dear murder folk when i was 11
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in the mid late 90s my parents were were in our freshly wall-to-wall carpeted basement watching a
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denzel washington movie from the dollar video i was upstairs in their bedroom talking to my
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girlfriend michelle on the shoe phone not sure if anyone else remembers this phone phenomenon
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but i remember thinking our shoe phone was the peak of cultural relevance relevance yes remember
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the shoe phone i don't remember a shoe phone i remember we had a duck phone and there was the
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hamburger phone. Shoe phone was like just a red high heeled shoe. It was not great for a phone
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shape. Yes. But it was kind of, you know, it was just glamorous back then, like we didn't have
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anything. So just a shoe phone was like would blow doors. Like that Sports Illustrated football phone
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was famous for like 10 years Garfield phone Garfield I mean just it so different guys that what we had back then to look forward to We had other objects turned into phones And basically it was like you had to be excited about a shoe Yeah And all I did was make calls incoming and outcoming and outgoing
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That's it. Okay. Continuing on with this story. Girlfriend Michelle was home alone at the time.
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Not unusual for a rural Illinois tween in the 90s. Michelle had one single non-shoe phone in her house.
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And it was the kitchen wall phone kind with the long curly cord. She sounded anxious when I picked up because she heard a thump while she was in the shower.
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Frankly, Michelle was always a scooch. It says a scooch, but I think they mean a scoach dramatic.
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I like a scooch. But it says scooch. I think it's funnier. It's always a scooch dramatic.
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I figured my job as boyfriend was to be supportive and reassure her that everything was fine,
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blah, blah, blah. We had maybe a 45 minute conversation about school, Dawson's Creek, etc.
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a very innocent relationship, likely in part because I turned out to be gay. It's like when I first started reading that, I was just like, oh yeah. Okay. Yes. Got it.
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Got it. Suddenly Michelle got quiet and she said she heard something again. I was thinking,
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God, more attention-seeking behavior. But after 10 minutes, but after 10 more minutes of talking,
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I heard it too. An audible thump on her end of the call. After a prolonged silence, I shakily said,
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Michelle, what was that? And she whispered, I don't know. Before I could say anything else,
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there was a third voice on the line. It's the boogeyman. It sounded robotic somehow,
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or like two or three voices were speaking simultaneously. I have no idea. Whatever it
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was, it sounded malevolent. Michelle yelled, what the fuck was that? We were both overwhelmed with
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panic. I could hear her crying. Everything was chaos. And then while Michelle and I screamed
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And hysterically, the voice started laughing. A terrible guttural sound unlike anything I've heard in my life.
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I was beside myself. Despite Michelle's protests that I shouldn't leave her alone,
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I set the shoe phone down and Trip ran down the stairs to tell my parents, who were still calmly watching Denzel in the basement.
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They were nonplussed at best, listening to their child deliver an impassioned, tear-soaked plea that his friend is going to be murdered by the boogeyman
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if we didn't do something right now, goddammit. I picked the phone back up and the line had gone dead. Mom lamely mumbled something like,
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if you're going to walk over there, be back by 10. I most certainly was not going over there to end up
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like Michelle, who I had no doubt was already dead. I called her back several times, but she didn't
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pick up. I called some of our friends. And finally, after an hour of calling and screen crying to two
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bored parents engrossed in much ado about nothing, the phone rang. It was Michelle. Apparently, she
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sprinted out of her house and ran to the neighbor's house in tears to wait for her mom. A nice neighbor
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man she had never met went through the house with a baseball bat. No one was there. To this day,
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Michelle swears she was not pranking me, and she has regularly told me that she wouldn't be mad if
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I just fessed up. Besides, she only had one landline in her house, and the boogeyman sounded
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like they were on the line with us. At my house, there was a second phone in the kitchen, but my
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parents weren't practical jokers and they likely would have given up the ruse when they saw me
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screaming and crying and flailing for over an hour. I've had a lot of time to room it in on this
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and it seems to me that there are three possibilities. Option one, someone with advanced
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technology and or some connection to the local telephone company could listen in on phone
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conversations and happen to terrorize two 11 year olds at the exact moment that something fell down
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in Michelle's house. Option two, either Michelle or my parents have been lying for 30 years.
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Please let it be number two. And one of them is secretly an amazing actor and possessed a voice
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changer that they used once and never again. Maybe Michelle had me on three way with said
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voice changer person possible, I guess, but 11 year old Michelle struggled to keep a secret for
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30 minutes, much less 30 years. Option three, something sinister was with us on the phone that
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night. Stay sexy and don't answer the footwear. Chris, he, him. And then it says, P.S. This is
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going to get you. My fiance, Jordan, and I bonded over our love of your podcast when we first met
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to your wedding, please. I mean, it's like somebody somewhere, our own separate version of that.
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I love it. That was amazing. And I'm getting this little memory. I had a very rebellious brother,
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older bratty brother who was into like weird electronics, like CB radios, you'd go to like
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Radio Shack and buy the weird things. And I remember him maybe being able to tap into someone
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else's phone line yeah the outside box yeah so maybe he the person banged on the wall and then
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did that and was just fucking with them yeah maybe it was i i'm so i would love to know like how many
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cousins michelle had or what the or a neighbor kid but also if there was just some creepy perv
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that was trying to scare her. Yeah. Ugh. So creepy. So creepy. And then I love that it turns everyone against each other
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00:24:55
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00:25:08
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Okay, this one's a deathbed confession. Lighthearted. Okay. Well, hello and welcome to my email.
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In Minnesota 295, you asked for deathbed confessions and I knew this was my moment after binge listening to the podcast the past six months.
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My grandpa, who was alive and well, shared this deathbed confession with my sister and I.
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I guess this is the type of story you tell your preteen granddaughters to fill the lulling conversation between doing your daily crossword puzzle and watching the Golf Channel.
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My grandpa's friend had gone to the hospital to say his final goodbye to one of his best friends.
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During this visit, the dying friend handed him a sealed envelope with instructions to not open it until he was at his funeral.
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The days passed the inevitable happened and my grandpa friend found himself at the funeral with said envelope Seated with two of his friends who he had told about the envelope fingers surely trembling with anticipation he opened the envelope to find a piece of paper with a single sentence
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scrawled on it. It read, I'm not really dead. And when you walk by my coffin, I'm going to reach out and grab you.
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Pranked from the other fucking side. Pranked. But he was really dead, right? Yes.
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He was really dead. Oh, my God. I love that man. I love that man. That's the funniest.
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Kind of a dad joke, too, which is like so great. It's a grandpa joke. He took a moment to write, I'm going to grab you.
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I'm going to grab you. I'm not really dead. My grandpa passed away a few years later, sans deathbed confession.
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As a now adult, I treasure these memories, moments and stories and find one of the best
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ways to honor them is to share them. So I am sharing them with you. I hope my grandpa's story brings a smile to your day and sparks that memory of your own.
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Thank you for creating a space to share stories, Amy, she, her. I mean, thank you, Amy, because that is truly one of my faves I've ever heard.
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It's so funny. The idea that somebody would be thinking about like, this is so they're thinking about other
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people. They're the ones dying and they're like, here's what this is going to be so hilarious.
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And they're going to think there's some secret in there. It's so good. It's so good.
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It's so good. And it does it like you're right. That's I think that's why we do this and we like it so much.
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Yeah. Is because it does honor those people. It honors those like the best, funniest stories and the best memories you have about whoever was in your life.
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Yeah. These are stories that you normally would never tell. They're not like or maybe you tell them at a party or you just kept them in the family.
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but now we can share them with everyone and give everyone a laugh or a cry. That was a good one.
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Mushing, mushing and gushing, whatever. Mushing and bouching. Mushing and gushing.
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Okay. Oh, so along those same lines, I'm not going to read you the subject line.
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It just starts, hey, ladies. And then in parentheses, it says, and I use that term loosely.
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Thank you. Nice one. Thank you. Good start. Okay, prior to my mom's death, she was pretty much confined to her house, except on the weekends when I would pick her up and she would stay with me.
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I spoke to her several times a day and would stop by almost every day to check on her.
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On a Wednesday, I called her several times and she did not answer the phone. After work, I stopped by her house and tried to use my key to get in, but she had the deadbolt lock enabled.
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In parentheses, it says a big no-no because I could not get in. I banged on the door and some of the windows and finally, after about 20 minutes, she opened the front door looking a hot mess.
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after I fussed at her about the lock and not answering the phone. She told me that she'd
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been sleeping all day. As I was leaving, she said, Oh, by the way, your sister and dad came by
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shocked since both had been dead for several years. I calmly asked her what they wanted or said.
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Oh my God. I'm playing along thinking she had a dream. She said, well, they said they were there
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to pick her up My response was well you still here So what happened And she said I told him that there were some things that I needed to tell you and show you and that I going to need a couple of days She died on Friday
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I think it's pretty cool that someone, you know, comes to pick you up. You know, I have that story, right? About my mom watching our next door neighbor die
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in her front room because she had breast cancer and she watched. It was so sad and it was so hard.
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My mom was a nurse. And so there was like a day nurse. And then my mom was like the night nurse
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and just sat with her. And she woke up one night and after our neighbor had been silent for like
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weeks because she was just like, you know, dying of cancer and ravaged, she woke up to hearing her
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voice and she looked up and our next door neighbor was looking out the sliding glass door, like with
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this beautiful smile on her face, like reaching toward the door and talking. And then it was the
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middle of the night. So she kind of fell back to sleep. Like she stopped. My mom fell back to sleep.
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They woke up in the morning. Our neighbor died and our neighbor's mother lived in a mobile home
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next door to their house. And so my mom was talking to our neighbor's mother. We called her
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Nani talking to her. And Nani said, it's so weird. My sister from Wisconsin called me this morning
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and said, I had this dream. So our neighbor, Joyce, her father, Jack died when she was 18 years old.
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The aunt calls Nani and says, I had this dream that Jack went up to the back porch of Joyce's
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house and went and got her and took her. And Nani's telling my mom this. And my mom is like,
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I saw that happen. Oh my God. All the chills. And my mom was like out of the Catholic church
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at this point. She was all science. She was like, not about that stuff. And she was like,
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I witnessed that. Like her dad came and got her. Oh my God. To be a witness to that.
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Oh, that's so tragic. Yeah. I really apologize because I bailed out of the middle of this email to tell my own story.
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And that's very selfish. But it is exactly what we say. Because that idea, like we all are so stuck in this plane of existence of the real world and life and how hard, whatever.
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And it's like just a simple concept, true or not, that the people who have loved you and gone before you come back to get you.
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Yeah, yeah. My Elvis coming to get me. He's waking me up like, I want a cookie. Get up.
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And you're like pushing him off the bed because you forget. Okay, here's the rest of this email.
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Sorry. Several months later, when the only thing left in her house was a hideous gold sofa and one paper clip,
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I went by the house and was sitting on that gold sofa having a good cry and was startled when she spoke to me.
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She directed me to a specific place in her bedroom and told me to lift up a specific corner of that rug that was in the room.
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And there were 10 $100 bills laying there. What the fuck? I talked to her every night before going to sleep because I know that she can hear me.
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And I always encourage her to visit. And when she does I send another email Thanks for all you do I so jealous that you know Paul Holes Keep it coming How are you ever going to replace Steven Cheryl in Texas Oh my God Cheryl how dare you with the tear
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jerkers all around? Like, how dare you? How dare you poke every nerve and possible emotion that we
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have? Seriously. Cheryl in Texas, you powerhouse. You made my eyes watery. That is hard to fucking
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do to break through all these meds to get me to like be cry is hard and you fucking did it
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Cheryl I mean of on an episode with a bunch of great ones yeah perhaps the greatest yeah
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send us your stories like that or like near-death stories that someone and they someone told you
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like what they saw or like those kind of I want to hear those please send them to my favorite
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murder at gmail yeah and thanks for being here with us i mean god those were good stay sexy
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