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Hello! Hello! And welcome to My Favorite Murder, the mini-sode. That's right. You write them, re-read them.
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It's so standardized at this point. Mm-hmm. It's an American tradition. It fucking records itself, essentially.
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It's so easy. It's so easy. It's an American tradition. Sure. Speaking of an American tradition, how about this?
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Okay. This is a NASCAR I survived. And then in parentheses, it says firsthand account.
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It says, hello to my favorite cult leaders. My name is Alexandria Alex. And unfortunately, I'm typing this email from the unfortunate state of South Carolina.
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And then it says, see what I did there? Please pray for us. In the last few weeks, we've seen everything from the horrors of Alex Murdoch and the complete stripping of women's rights.
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As a pharmacist, I make sure to stockpile generic plan B and educate as many people as professionally possible on the ever-changing landscape of women's health and what options are available.
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Amen to you. Yeah. Thank you for that. But God damn it. I want us all to stop adjusting and fucking take our rights back.
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Okay. That's a great point. Quick sidebar. But Alex, you're doing God's work. Don't stop.
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Okay, enough about my current role. Same here. I wrote in to share my own I Survived NASCAR story after listening to episode 368 about the Le Mans motor race disaster.
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This story takes place in May 2000. When I was eight years old, my uncle, who worked as a regional manager for a cable company, was gifted box seats to a NASCAR race in Concord, North Carolina at Lowe's Motor Speedway.
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This was presented as my birthday gift that year, as it would be a fun, fancy event with my aunt, uncle, mom, and older cousin.
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I say older as in 40 years older, so he wasn't there to hang out with me. My dad had to work and was unable to attend.
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Since I was eight, I paid no attention to the race, but to the complimentary cheese tray and unlimited soda.
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To be honest, at 30 years old, the same would apply if NASCAR is not my preferred choice of entertainment.
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Amen. Again. To be lucky enough to be in a box at any event is so exciting. You do not have to care about whatever event is taking place.
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The box is the shit. Anyways, after the race, as everyone was exiting, the concrete pedestrian walkway that went over four lanes of traffic collapsed.
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It injured over 100. Estimates vary from 90 to 107 people and at least 16 critically.
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Luckily, there was no traffic at the time under the walkway or the injuries would have been much more severe.
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My cousin fell the entire 17 feet to the ground. Oh, my God. My mom, aunt, and I slid down the concrete, and my uncle, who was following behind us,
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fortunately missed the collapse. Oh, that must have been horrible for that man. Holy shit.
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His whole family, he watched them all go. And they were right there when it happened.
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That is wild. The person talking was on the walkway. I mean, they were on it. Yeah.
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That is firsthand for sure. Yeah. It says, the section that collapsed was 30 feet long.
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Several victims were airlifted to hospitals in Concord and Charlotte. The injuries ranged from bruises and broken bones to head and spinal injuries, hospital officials said.
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Witnesses said bodies were lying on the ground and people were helping emergency workers attend to the injured.
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As far as I know and have researched since, no one was fatally injured. So thank God no one died.
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My cousin's injuries were severe and he is still unable to work to this day. Oh my God.
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Yeah. My aunt had broken vertebrae in her neck, but has recovered. My mom has a slipped disc in her back and has mostly recovered, but they both have flare-ups of pain every now and again.
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I was lucky and only suffered concrete burns on my left arm and knees. The scars aren't too noticeable unless I get a tan.
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We were so fortunate. After the accident my parents took me every other week to a psychiatrist But those visits didn last more than six months as I never wanted to talk about the trauma of the bridge collapse only my petrifying fear of snakes That cute Yeah yeah yeah I saw my light flash in front
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of my eyes. Anyway. But what I really need to talk about is the thing that you really can't
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control, fucking snakes. And then it just says kids. P.S. I'm no longer afraid of snakes.
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but have a healthy you-can-stay-over-there feeling towards them. It's been about 23 years, and I often forget that I was involved in the accident.
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I don't live in the area, and I don't watch NASCAR. I did go back and run a color run in graduate school, and I had to walk over the new bridge.
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I almost had a panic attack, but I did it. I kicked the bridge's ass. Congratulations.
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It was a traumatizing event, but luckily, kids are resilient, and I didn't realize how lucky I was to have survived the collapse.
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Most of the victims were adults. Thank you ladies so much for all you do, especially being open and honest when talking about mental health.
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Unfortunately, as a healthcare provider, I still see stigma among patients, but I love counseling them and saying,
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I take medication like this and it's really helped me, or even mentioning going to therapy in combination with taking medication.
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Kisses to your four-legged children, stay sexy, and don't attend professional racing events, Alex.
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Wow, Alex. That is a good one. That's a heavy one and good. Heavy and we love a survival story.
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Sure. Wow. That was like traumatizing. I guess not, but yeah. Well, maybe when she was talking about those snakes,
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she was really talking about other feelings. Snakes as a metaphor. Sure. Okay. This one's called The First Ever Ghostly Testimony.
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Karen, Georgia, Stephen, Alejandra, Hannah, Petz, and anyone else who may read this,
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covering all their bases. Thank you for everything you do, blah, blah, blah. I'm trying to look busy at work and decided to write in about my family murder slash ghost story.
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Buckle up, it's a long one. Way back in October of 1896, my great, great, great, question mark,
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Aunt Zona Hester, pronounced like Easter with an H, Hester, oh, so Hester, was living with her mother, Mary Jane,
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in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, when she met a man named Erasmus Stribling Trout Shoe.
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No. Yes. No. Erasmus, his first name's called E-R-A-S-M-U-S. Erasmus. Erasmus, Erasmus.
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This one's hard. Erasmus was a blacksmith who had recently come to town and nobody really knew a lot about him.
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They quickly fell in love and got married. Four months later, in January 1897, Erasmus was at work in the smithery, question mark?
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Smithery? Spelled differently, question mark? Forge? I don't know. He was a blacksmith and he was working.
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Anyway, he and Zona had basically an errand boy, I can't remember his name, who worked for them.
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Erasmus sent the errand boy to check on Zona and the boy found Zona laying dead at the bottom of the stairs in their home.
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He ran to tell Erasmus. Erasmus told the boy to get the doctor and then go home, and then he took off to the house.
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The local doctor got to the house to find that Erasmus had moved Zona's body up to their bedroom and was cradling her head in his lap.
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Mary Jane also came to the house and was watching the doctor and Erasmus' interaction.
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The doctor was trying to examine the body and determine a cause of death, but Erasmus wouldn't let him examine the head and neck and wouldn't let him move the body.
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Suspish. That was me, not the letter. So the doctor ruled that the death was caused by childbirth,
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which is bullshit because she wasn't pregnant. And if she had been, she wasn't far along enough.
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And also, why would her body be at the bottom of the stairs? Old timey, man. So anyway, Mary Jane is pissed.
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They have the funeral where Erasmus is acting shady and won't let anyone close and keep shoving stuff around Zona's head and neck in the casket.
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Mary Jane later said that she thought Zona's head looked, quote, unusually loose. Oh, no. Yes, shiver. So they bury her and Erasmus goes back to living life
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like normal. Well, all caps, Mary Jane was visited by Zona's ghost three different times,
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telling her she was murdered. And according to Mary Jane, even showing her a vision of her own
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murder. I wish we could see a little old timey clip of the vision. So Mary Jane goes to the
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town lawyer and the town doctor and tells them about Zona's ghost. They agree to exhume the body
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and do an autopsy. They found out that she had been violently strangled, her ligaments torn,
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two of her cervical vertebrae had been dislocated, and her windpipe crushed. There were finger-shaped bruises on her neck. Erasmus was arrested immediately,
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and during the trial, the prosecutor tried to dance around the whole ghost vision thing
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when Mary Jane testified. Erasmus's attorney was quick to bring it up to try and discredit
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at Mary Jane and make her look crazy. But that strategy bit him in the ass because the jury was
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even more convinced by the ghostly testimony. Yeah, that's right. Erasmus was convicted and taken to the town jail to wait to be taken to prison. A lynch mob formed
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and they tried to kill Erasmus, but the sheriff stopped them and they got Erasmus out. He died
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three years later in prison from tuberculosis. I've been working on a script for this story for
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about three years, so hopefully I can finish and get the movie made so I can tell her story to the
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world. She was nicknamed the Greenbrier Ghost, and there are books, plays, and even a drunk history
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about her. Anyway, sorry for the super long email. Even if this doesn't get read on the show, I just
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hope I can spread her story to one more person. I appreciate all that you do. You've kept me company
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on many long car rides throughout long days at work and through college. Anyway, stay sexy, and
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if you get murdered visit your mom as a ghost so she can get your murderer convicted Love Lydia Lydia listen to me That is a scary movie you trying to write right now Oh yeah I hope to God that that mother the first time she sees that ghost it right in her face
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Right? Right? Because that's how you would feel if you were like, did all that work to come back to tell your mother?
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I've been listening since 2020, and your podcast has been a great companion through, in quotes, unprecedented times.
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Regarding your last episode about the Meadow Mountain Massacre, I was able to live it.
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Yeah. Yeah. They did flashbacks, and I didn't realize that, but they were doing flashbacks to.
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That's true. The series was shot in Alberta, Canada, and I was one of the Arkansas women with the wagon train
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Sadly, my grandma passed away in 2016 and my grandpa in 2020. They had lived in the same house for over 60 years, a house that they had built themselves.
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So when my grandpa passed, my dad and his two sisters had a, quote, Easter egg hunt around the house.
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And boy, did they find it. After a weekend-long excursion, they finally called it quits, thinking they had searched every nook and cranny.
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But it's over two years later, and we are still finding hidden treasure throughout the house.
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Since this house was built by my grandparents, they created and knew about every single possible hiding space.
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They had money inside secret drawers, behind cupboards, holes in walls, and between pieces of two by fours in the shed.
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They really should have made a list of these in a map, or maybe they were trying to be fun.
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I don't know. I think there should be a central list always for things like this.
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Also, just because you forget, I hid cash in like a manila envelope at the beginning of quarantine.
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Yeah. Because I was like, what's going to happen? Got a bunch of cash. And then I was like,
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where'd that manila envelope go? I mean, it's there someday if you need it. I hope so. Yeah, hopefully. Perhaps my favorite part of this though,
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is that all of the money was tightly wrapped up in a tinfoil ball. Oh. So at least their money wouldn't burn.
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If the house got on fire. I don't think, I don't know. It wouldn't burn. It would roast the corn on the cob.
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Be a nice roaster. All in all, the grand total from Hidden Treasure is about $20,000.
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Shit. Yeah. Oh my God. It's safe to say Dawn and Janet didn't want anyone messing with their money.
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Anyway, I'm an ICU nurse who frequently sees some shitty things and your podcast always
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Much love, Sid, she, her. Oh my God. I would love to be a part of the team of people going over your grandparents' house
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to try to find anything. Tinfoil balls. Yeah. Yeah. I live in an old house and there's got to be secret passageways in here somewhere,
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like a secret drawer or something like that. Yeah. I'll find something one day. You should start knocking on the walls or...
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Right. You know. Yeah. Have you been in the attic? No, I haven't. It's more like a crawl space.
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Get up there. But the basement is definitely like a terrifying sight to behold. Is there really a basement?
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A California basement? Yeah. I mean, it's almost more like a dirt pile with the water heater in it.
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It's not like legit. Great place to hide 20 grand. Okay, my last one is a Mount St. Helens hometown.
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Hide it all. I was so excited to hear Karen tell the story about Mount St. Helens last week.
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My family is from a tiny town on the Oregon and Washington border about 30 minutes from the mountain.
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My mom and her sisters love to tell the story of the eruption. I think my mom was 14.
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They love to recite the song they wrote about the eruption. She blew, she blew, she blew her top.
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Writing that out. It's so funny. I wonder what it was to, like what tune. I know.
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Was it their own tune, their own original? Was it a ballad? I've learned to tune it out, so I don't remember the rest.
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They do it a lot. They must do it a lot. Another story I've heard is about a man named Harry Truman who owned a lodge at the base of the mountain and refused to leave when the evacuation order was put in place.
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He became a local celebrity during this time and ended up dying as a result of the eruption.
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So he was one of those people we talked about that was warned, but then they basically all pushed back.
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What a bummer. And then it all went down in a way no one expected. Growing up and hearing all these stories created a sense of pride and a little panic,
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and I vividly remember a beautiful spring day in 2005 when my friends and I were at track practice
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and looked to the mountain to see a huge cloud of steam and ash coming from it. Our track coaches panicked and rushed us all inside
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because they had no idea what the extent was going to be. Seconds later, we felt the small earthquake that accompanied the small eruption.
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The ash fell and we were sent home. It wasn't nearly as serious, but locals don't mess around anymore when it comes to Mount St. Helens.
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Most locals who have been in the area for a while have a story to tell about the mountain.
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My grandpa still has little vials of ash and he loves to tell about how they were trapped at home for a week because of it.
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Mount St. Helens is our little local pride and joy. and it's signed Britney. I love that.
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I want to go there now. I do too. Pretty great. There's nothing better than the first person story.
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Yeah. You wouldn't think of it, but it's like that track practice story is so compelling
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because they were actually there. What would that feel like to watch a volcano blow up near you?
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Do We Still Do Subject Lines? Hello, and welcome to my first email. I've been a longtime listener, but my mom never had.
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No shade, she just never got into the podcast world. She started chemo back in October,
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It was a mini-show. She realized why you two have been my escape for so long. I told her that I'm kind of bummed that I've never had anything crazy happen to me,
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Here we go. Yeah. It was 1977 in Massachusetts. My mom was around 11, and her and her friends decided to go into this old abandoned house
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Oh. They ran out of the house screaming to their friends in the neighborhood what they had found.
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About 10 minutes later, they went back in to show the neighborhood friends and the suitcase was gone.
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No, no, no, no. Mm-hmm. Meaning the killer was probably in the abandoned house watching them.
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I asked her if they called the police and she replied, oh, hell no, it was the 70s.
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We didn't even tell our parents. Our asses would have been beaten and grounded for the rest of the summer.
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My mom sadly lost her battle with aggressive cancer in December, nine weeks after her diagnosis.
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That's tough. Yeah, we got her story. I know. I was going to say, Shana, forgive me, but I was going to say you're like, the murderer was still in the house. It's
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like, or the bleeder. It could have been like a perverted 12-year-old that cut his finger on
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the suitcase or something. Or paint, maybe. I mean, but I only say, I say that, a qualified say that because the suitcase was gone, which means it wasn't an innocent
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thing inside that suitcase. No, someone was actually there. That's what that means.
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And that is horrifying. Yeah. You know, life is horrifying sometimes. Truly, truly.
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It means a lot to us that this podcast of us reading people's emails and telling horrible true crime stories actually does anything for anybody.
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It's very, very beautiful to us. And it means a lot to us. We appreciate that we get to be part of your lives.
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It's really weird and lovely and we're honored. We really are. So stay sexy. And don't get murdered.
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