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And welcome to My Favorite Murder. The mini-show. It's cute. It's short. It's little.
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Don't worry about it. And we read you your stuff. Ready? Okay. Do you want me to go first?
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Sure. Is that the most concise, tightest intro we've ever done for ourselves? Ever.
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Ever done. Let's talk about it for a little bit. This is unbelievable. What we just did now is the opposite of what we usually do, which is what I'm doing now.
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We usually just talk and talk. And we talk about what's up with our week and everything.
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Not this time. Up and down. Your boyfriend gets upset. But not this time. We're right to the...
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Because... Really? At the end of the day? What do you think about it? Okay, ready for this one?
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Always. Subject line is, Sinkhole tried to take my baby and avoiding cults. I've been, no greeting whatsoever.
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Great, I love it. Love it. You don't need one. I've been meaning to send in my Sinkhole story and was sparked to pause catching up on the latest episodes after hearing you mention the garbage eating cult.
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I met them. Sorry I was catching up because I spent two weeks in the woods and listening to MFM in the woods is scary as fuck.
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and and i know i shouldn't have even been in the woods in the first place surrounded by dusty white
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people but i needs my nature therapy onto the stories okay okay my cult story when i was doing
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my second attempt at college a group of friends invited me to a free dinner fucking red flag red
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flag no there there's no such thing as free dinner lunch or breakfast only this is me talking
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not the email yeah and also that's every cult in the world every religion is like come to our
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mixer spaghetti dinner come to our spaghetti dinner shaky cheese spaghetti dinner i'd be
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there in one second if i was like 23 um that's how they get you okay so we're back in the email now
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okay when we got there it was packed with people and they were serving up typical midwest hot dish
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oh my god hey vegan and meat option why i remember this who knows right away i got really weird
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vibes from this dude who had organized the meal and had his little crew with him. They started
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talking Jesus stuff and how all the food was free from the dumpster. Oh my God, that's not what you
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want to say. I laid it out of their fast because of bad vibes, gross dumpster hot dish, and I was
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so over Jesus. I had no idea it was a cult recruitment until I heard your episode. I don't
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know if anybody from school officially joined them, but I know that they held a number of dinners,
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and a few of my friends really got into going to them. I feel like my school was too into partying hard to join their cult,
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but I do know people really got into the idea of dumpster diving free food and not paying rent by squatting all over town and campus.
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Fuck. That's how they get you. The glamorous life, Sheila E. Okay, now we're back.
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My sinkhole story. Sorry, there's no second. A few weeks after my first daughter was born,
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we had to go to a midwife checkup appointment. We were broke as fuck, didn't have a car, so in the dead of summer, I had to walk with my new baby a mile to the bus stop.
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Oh, God. When the bus finally came, I was dying for some bus air conditioning, but a guy got off through the front door, halting my entrance, and I remember thinking, dude, you're supposed to get off the back door.
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There's a system here. But being a typical Midwesterner, I said nothing and just shamed him in my mind.
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Anyway, after he had gotten off the bus, we stepped on and heard a loud crash behind us.
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We turned around and the sinkhole where we were just standing. Oh, the sidewalk where we were just standing was gone.
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And so was the dude. A sinkhole had opened up and swallowed him. The bus driver radioed 911 or whoever told them what happened.
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Someone on the bus was like, back up the bus. It could open wider. And I was like, get me and my new baby off this bus.
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We all got off the bus and could hear the man screaming and the sound of water rushing to fill the hole.
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We tried to yell at him that help was on the way, but he couldn't hear us and just kept screaming
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It was all so unsettling to say the least Emergency services finally showed up and was able to get him out
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He was all bloody but able to walk and was taken away in an ambulance like a jerk
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I can help but think if he had just followed the rules Maybe he wouldn have ended up in that hole My mom later said that if we had been the ones who had ended up in the hole we would be rich for settlement
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I was just going to say, but yeah, that guy got a fucking big settlement. That's right.
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I guess that's where I get my a-hole ideas. Oh, my. That's right. It's usually hereditary.
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Yeah. Hope you like my non-murder and everybody lives stories. Lastly, I just want to say thank you for bringing to attention your struggles, mental health, addiction, eating stuff, etc.
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It feels like healing. Oh, that's nice. Also, thank you for talking about what's happening to Native American, indigenous women, people in this country and in Canada.
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Being a member of the community and working for it for a number of years, I unfortunately have more than one story of someone I know who was murdered.
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I don't think I will ever be able to write those stories in an email, but I am grateful that you two have helped give voice to the victims.
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It feels kind of awkward to send a fangirl letter, but I love you guys so much. SSDGM Tessa.
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Oh, that was a lovely, lovely email, Tessa. I feel like we have to really quickly give credit to the podcast Missing and Murdered
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because they are the ones who are doing the incredible work on the indigenous people.
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Yes. God, the 60th suite, man. That turns out to be that. Everyone listen to Missing and Murdered.
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Missing and Murdered. Well, I think because we did talk about Wind River, But that idea that that is like based on the fact that indigenous indigenous women get murdered and they're crazy rate and none of them get solved.
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No one works on them and none of them get solved. So, yeah, we could definitely be doing more.
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And we we've barely done what like lots of other podcasts have done. But as long as everyone talks about it, we can all talk about it together.
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That's right. Thanks, Tessa. Dear Karen, Georgia and Co. This isn't a murder story, but does fall under some of your categories of interest.
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namely badass grandparents, survival stories, and flash floods. In the summer...
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All our favorites. Did you know flash floods are our interest? They are now. They are now. No, it's true.
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It's just, you know, one more thing to put on the dating profile. In the summer of 1976, my grandparents, who, by the way, Karen, she gave us their names,
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and they live up to the hype, Irvin and Nancy. Irvin. Yes. Not enough Irvins anymore.
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Wait, is this story about Magic Johnson? All right. They had driven up to Estes Park, a small mountain town in Colorado, to go to their regular square dancing group.
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Of course. I know. The way my grandpa used to tell it, on the way home, a huge thunderstorm developed over the mountains, and the night was, quote, blacker than the inside of a cow.
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Irvin. Irvin. You old bullshit, are you? It was the kind of western state summer thunderstorms that are so intense that windshield wipers can't move fast enough to see clearly out of the windshield.
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Mm-hmm. Eventually, they had to pull over. They stayed in the car until a man started banging on their window and yelling at them to get out of their car and head for higher ground.
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Oh, shit. My grandparents ended up having to climb the steep canyon walls in their square dancing outfits in the pitch dark and pouring rain.
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I can fucking picture it now. Shit. Yeah. Swinger partner up the hill. And do-si-do.
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And do-si-do. As they climbed, a huge wall of water came down the canyon and swept away cars, houses, and parts of the road.
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Eventually, they had found a group of other people who had climbed up the canyon and took shelter in a van.
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They spent the night that way, stranded and waiting for the morning to be rescued.
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Down on the plains, my 19-year-old mom and her older brother had no idea what happened,
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except that their parents were supposed to be driving back through the flash-flooded canyon,
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and they hadn't arrived home. They waited out most of the night with their own grandmother
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until finally getting a call late the next morning that their parents had been rescued by a helicopter
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and taken to one of the local high schools. The Big Thompson flood was one of the worst natural disasters in Colorado history.
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The storm that caused it dumped 12 inches of rain over the canyon in four hours.
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That's a foot. Huh? That's a foot. You're fucking right! 12 inches that's not right
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12 inches as a foot did she mean 12 feet I don't know that's almost the yearly total of rain
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I don't think it could rain 12 feet in 4 hours but 12 inches of rain is like up to your calf
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well I bet it's enough we're from California you guys rain is cute here listen you can do a flood
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But I think of 12 inches of rain is plenty to do a flood. Well, a flood doctor, please email us and tell us what is a lot of rain.
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Yeah. That seems like a ton. Great. But they do say that that's almost a yearly total of rain for the area that they got it all in one night.
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Oh, shit. So they weren't able to handle it. No. On top of that, in the steep canyon, all of the water that fell on the hillsides collected in the Big Thompson River,
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which is why the flood was so swift and devastating. 143 people died and many homes were destroyed.
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Some of the cars were washed down the river with were only identifiable by their VIN number.
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The sediment in the water had completely stripped off the paint. Wow. My grandparents' car was never found.
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In 2006, three years before she died, my grandma got to meet the man who saved their lives.
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The guy who banged on the window. Really? Butch Hutchins. Of course that's his name.
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He said he had stayed away from the flood memorials because he was afraid to learn that he could have done more.
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But it's because of him that I got to meet both my grandparents. SSDGM, Maya. Wow.
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Butch Hutchins Was that the name Butch Hutchins and Nancy and Irvin our best friends see you know what it true we don take like because flooding doesn affect us that much it is hard to imagine but like
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the idea that cars were like unrecognizable and like that's i mean that's don't make me say that's
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the power of water you don't need you don't need 12 feet so you're the water doctor
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it's me ask me ama water my um do you know my first boyfriend died in a flash flood
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no yeah that's real sad it's horrible i know well he was we were we weren't together i was
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you know i was like young at the time when he dated but then we got older as you do and he
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went off to go to college and he and his best friend just got caught up in a flash flood
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swept under a fucking semi and oh my god died it's he was such a wonderful person it's really
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tragic that's horrible mike lewis we met at jewish camp oh no sad oh it's so sad and people die young
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i know okay okay ready for more bad stuff always cool this um this has all the things i like in it
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Okay. That's this one. Okay. You know, this title gives it away. Hi, friends. Earlier this year, I was riding in the car with my boss and the mayor of the tiny town
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in Tennessee where I work. Oh, that's fun. Wait, is the boss your mayor? He's your mayor.
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My boss and the mayor of the tiny... It sounds like there's three people in the car.
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I would assume there were three. They were driving me around, showing me all the sights and sharing some old Southern gossip.
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I was pretending to be interested. Then somehow sinkholes were brought up and the mayor began to tell me this story.
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I had to force myself to listen and actually get the details because all my brain was yelling was, oh, my God, Karen would love this story.
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So here goes. A few miles outside of the town where I work is a historic farm called Rock Rest Farms.
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In 1902, a man by the name of Elijah Creek bought this 630-acre property and built a stagecoach inn that served travelers along the Nashville to Louisville Pony Express line.
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There were many rumors about Elijah's origins. He claimed to be from an island in the Mediterranean off the coast of Spain, but this story was widely disbelieved.
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Regardless, the other local people found Elijah to be super creepy. Francois Michaud, the French naturalist, wrote in his diary in 1802 about his stay at Cheeks Inn,
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quote, fearing that I should witness some murdering scene, I quickly took my leave and put up in an inn about three miles further on, end quote.
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That fucker trusts his intuition. Yeah, that's right. That's how the French are.
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Yeah. They know how to make good wine and they listen to their gut. And because of that, they're very thin.
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Francois's gut wasn't wrong. Rumor had it that Elijah would rob and kill the guests in the caves behind the inn where they would store cold foods in the underground stream.
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These rumors were never confirmed, and Elijah died of natural causes in 1818. It's not known exactly when, but at some point after Elijah's death, the caves were searched for signs of the murders.
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Some jewelry and some small bones were found, but no bodies. So jump ahead to me in the car with the mayor, and he tells me.
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The mayor. it's like this person's bragging like I hung out with the mayor for the day
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like that's a really impressive awesome thing I mean when have I hung out with the mayor
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never fucking never don't even act like you've hung out with the mayor like this person
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because you haven't okay so jump ahead to me in the car with the mayor and he tells me that about 20 years ago
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there was a massive flood and during that flood there's all kinds of themes in this show
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yeah for sure a massive flood and during that flood a sinkhole located on the property
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filled completely with water, bringing to the surface a bunch of floating human bones.
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Oh my God. The bones were taken away and tested and found to be dated back to the 1800s.
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Fuck. These are believed to finally be the discovered bones of several of Elijah Creek's
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victims. He would murder and rob his victims in the caves and dispose of the bodies
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by throwing them down the sinkhole where they stayed hidden for nearly 200 years.
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Wow. A fun little fact. The stagecoach inn burned down in 1847. The inn was rebuilt and was again destroyed by Union soldiers.
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In 1952, another barn on the property was burned down. Maybe the ghosts of Elijah Cheek's pissed off victim stuck around.
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Anyways, you guys feel like some of my best friends that I get to hang out with every day on my way to work.
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And when I heard this story, I knew I had to write in. You were so right. Stay sexy and always check the sinkhole for bodies.
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Keelan. That had everything you love in it. The mayor, hanging out with the mayor, driving around with the mayor, tiny bones, tiny bones,
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little tiny bit of treasure in a cave, and then 200-year-old bones that actually prove
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an old theory that people were like, you must be insane, and suddenly it's like in your face.
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The sinkhole holds secrets, and one day the sinkhole flourishes. What you're saying is fill every sinkhole with water and let sea them bones.
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How many bodies goes away? This might be one of my favorite stories. It's shit. It reminds me of the town on fire story.
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Really? No matter what you say now, I'm going to say I don't like it. Okay. Thank you.
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I didn't really like that one. I didn't really like that one. Okay. This is called Poisonous Jell-O Rain.
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Oh, shit. Hey, y'all. My grandpa is currently in the process of moving. So we've all been doing a lot of house hunting.
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One place we found was in Oakville, Washington, south of Puget Sound. We didn't know much about Oakville.
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So we researched the town a bit to see what it like What we got was a very exciting and honestly perplexing surprise Turns out Oakville is famous for the most bizarre weather anomaly I ever heard of
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Gelatinous blob rain. What? And I just want to say for the fucking record, aliens.
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I'm 100% behind aliens that this is the cause. Ready? I'd say local chemical company.
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Yeah, but maybe there's you got to hear the weird fucking things. No, no, I'm deciding already.
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Too late. Okay. On August 7th, 1994, at about 3 a.m., the first bout of jello rain began to fall.
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It was clear like normal rain, but much unlike normal rain, it was gooey to the touch.
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Oh, my God. It smeared in windshield wipers and looked vaguely like mushy hailstones on the ground.
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This unsettling precipitation fell six times over a three-week period and covered 20 square miles.
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Oh, but that's not the weirdest part. Not only was this rain texturally fucked, but also those who came in contact with it fell very ill.
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They experienced shortness of breath, vision loss, vertigo, and nausea, which lasted for months for some.
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Several pets also died after being exposed to the goop. Samples of the Rangu were tested and found to contain human white blood cells, two kinds of bacteria, and eukaryotic cells that suggest it was part of something alive.
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But to this day, no one knows what the fuck fell from the sky. Theories include jellyfish bits blown into the air by bomb tests.
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Why would there be human DNA in it? Great question. bio warfare experiments and waste from airplanes.
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But none of these fit perfectly. I'm calling aliens. They said they said it. And I agree.
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Needless to say, we were pretty unenthused about buying a house there after reading all that.
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But I was naturally fascinated and immediately thought to tell you folks about it.
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Smart. I got my info from the Unsolved Mysteries Wiki. And there are plenty of articles about it.
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If you want to check it out for yourselves, you can't make this shit up. stay sexy and don't move to oakville lila from seattle
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human fucking that is blood cells oh human blood cells that's right not human dna that is
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so unnerving the consistency element of it is very upsetting i want to know about this the
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bacteria has to be in like i wonder where the bacteria has been seen before i wonder what the
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how eukaryotic cells means and if I'm saying it right. So many questions. Kind of sounds like the Eucharist. There's bodies of Christ. Amen in there.
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Yeah. Lila. Lila. Great. Great job. Great. Amazing. Great. What's it called? Instinct on sending it into us. Guys, we want more like that.
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Quince.com slash MFM. Goodbye. Okay. This is an I survived plus a sinkhole story. Say what? Oh, Karen's like, hello trifecta, but with two things.
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Trifecta minus one. What do they call that? Sleek. It's a bifecta. A bifecta. Hello, Karen, Georgia, Stephen, and all associated animals. I love that. That sounds like it's civic based.
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I live near the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, which is located on the southern tip of Lake Michigan.
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A very common pastime when spending a day at the beach is to run up and down the dunes.
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I'm not entirely sure why that is, as the sand is always hot as fuck. And have you ever tried to climb a sand mountain?
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It sucks. These dunes are known as living dunes because they move anywhere from a few to upwards of 20 feet per year.
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One of the more famous dunes is called Mount Baldy and is over 120 feet tall. In July of 2013, six-year-old Nathan Wassner was visiting the dunes with his family and went to climb Mount Baldy with his father when all of a sudden he fell into a sinkhole, all caps.
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The dune literally swallowed him. Oh, my God. Nightmare. Nightmare. Apparently, all the years of shifting had compromised the integrity of the surface and allowed for a giant-ass boy swallowing sinkhole.
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His father and other beachgoers immediately tried to dig him out, but they could not see or hear him, and the sand was difficult to displace.
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First responders arrived and tried to use shovels to dig Nathan out. To no avail, after a few hours, they were able to drive an excavator up the dune, start using that to dig,
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but they had to be extremely careful so as not to hurt Nathan with a giant metal claw digging thing.
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So progress was slow as they would have the excavator move a foot forward, dig around with their arms and shovels, then repeat the process for what I'm sure seemed like an eternity.
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After what I'm sure seemed like an eternity, one of the first responders felt the top of Nathan's head and was able to pull him out.
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He was found in a standing position as if he had fallen down a narrow pipe. When he was pulled out, he was cold, limp, and didn't have a pulse.
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Oh, my God, Nathan. Which wasn't terribly surprising since he had spent four hours buried in a sand sinkhole.
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That's fucking horrifying. But then, as he was in the back of a lifeguard truck on the way to the ambulance,
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the first responder noticed that a cut on the top of his head had started to bleed.
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His heart started beating again. He was rushed to a local hospital and then later airlifted to Chicago,
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where it was determined that he had suffered no brain damage. What? And, in fact, his only injuries appeared to be that cut on his head
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where someone nicked it with a shovel while they were digging and a scratch on his cheek He has no memory of the incident so he not even traumatized What the fuck Just the parents No one knows how he was able to survive that long Buried in the sand
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Mount Baldy was closed for a few years afterwards. Good. No shit. But they reopened it last summer with a big fence and warning signs around it saying that if you went inside the fence, you'd be fined.
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Pretty sure the threat of getting buried alive inside a sand dune is more of a deterrent than a fine.
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But okay. Stay sexy and away from sand dunes. kim that scares me so much that's nuts but this the sand dune god angel saved him yes they did
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also can you imagine being this parent of like the longer they search you're just like this we're
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looking for my kid's body oh that is bananas that i have to admit i read the first page of that i
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did not read the second page no and i was like steven you've got the whole world in your hands
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right now. I'm like, what is, oh, because you know better than to lead us down the stony path of
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then the child just died in the sand. Right, right, Stephen. Sometimes we like that.
00:27:48
He knows it. Well, true. Sometimes it's just like it printed out that way too. So that made it probably worse.
00:27:54
More dramatic. Because it was like you had to turn the page. I was not expecting
00:27:58
that kid for Nathan to live. I really wanted him to be in a hidden cave with Egyptian treasure.
00:28:04
It's crazy that he doesn't remember it because like, I wonder if he was just like off one another in another plane of existence. His whole interior was like,
00:28:12
we're shutting all of us down for we're going to hold for six hours and we're going to be right
00:28:17
back online. Do you need us? Knock us. Give us a knock on the head with a shovel. Just go ahead
00:28:22
and dig into my head with a shovel. Okay. This my last one's called Kentucky Meat Shower. Oh,
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yeah. Karen, Georgia, Stephen, Vince and all the pets. Oh, Vince. I was listening to the recent
00:28:34
minisode where you shared about the jello rain shower in Washington. And finally, I have a hometown
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to send you the story of the Kentucky meat shower. Here we go. Back in March 1876, on a clear night
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in Rankin, Kentucky, Mrs. Couch, I never could find her name, only her husband's, Ugg, was outside
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minding her own business doing farmy type things on her farm when all of a sudden, chunks of meat
00:29:01
started falling from the sky. The chunks were as small as a golf ball up to as big as a grapefruit.
00:29:09
I'm sure this poor woman was freaking the fuck out. She was interviewed saying the shower of
00:29:13
flesh must have been a sign from God. Yeah, probably. The next day, I don't know. Go inside.
00:29:19
Stay inside. Finish your basement. Go inside. The next day, some random dudes came to the farm
00:29:26
to investigate and said the mystery meat had the distinct taste of, quote, rancid mutton,
00:29:31
which means they ate it Who tasted it It like the cocaine rubbing it on your tooth but the meat shower Tastes it You just dab it under your tongue each side
00:29:42
And it says, no, thank you. A scientist later studied a preserved sample and said it had to be some form of gnostic or cyanobacteria that can fall when it rains.
00:29:53
Much like the story in the last hometown, which I pronounced totally wrong, by the way, in the last.
00:29:58
I got so many tweets, but I don't care. Oh, whatever that's called. Sciencey pronunciations that I don't know.
00:30:04
Oh, are you not a scientist? Did you know I'm not a scientist? Wait, no, because you've really been acting like one this whole time.
00:30:10
Yeah, and it's on my resume that I gave you for this podcast. Science, smoking, fencing.
00:30:15
The only problem with that theory is that it was a completely clear night, so it couldn't have been part of Lorraine.
00:30:21
To add further confusion to the story, a later analysis of the tissue discovered it to be either lung tissue from a horse or, all caps, a human infant.
00:30:35
And then it says apparently those tissues were indistinguishable back then. Weird.
00:30:39
So it's probably horse meat. A human infant? But, okay. Questions. Okay. Let me keep reading.
00:30:45
So what actually happened? Question mark? No one knows for certain. The favorite theory of locals in the area is that the meat from the sky was quite literally meat.
00:30:54
They think vultures flying overhead must have disgorged their stomachs all at once to cause the chunks of meat to shower down.
00:31:03
They had probably previously chowed down on an animal carcass, hopefully. And poor Mrs. Couch was just incredibly unlucky that night.
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I've lived in Kentucky for more than half my life now, and I love my weird and wonderful state.
00:31:15
hoping to see you come through here again if the world stops ending. Thanks for keeping me sane,
00:31:20
normalizing my true crime obsession, and just generally being the best. SSDGM and watch for
00:31:25
meat showers, Kayla. Kayla, I need to know, if you're going to say a meat shower, in my mind,
00:31:32
that means meat is going from as far as the eye can see to the right, as far as the eye can see
00:31:37
to the left, back and forward. So if it's vultures throwing up, did it come down within a 10-foot
00:31:45
radius right or was like is this like one person and then that's it who knows yeah because yeah
00:31:51
right because then that i there's so many theories you could start inventing yeah about what that be
00:31:56
from but i imagine that it was like when you talked about the other one that it's like rain
00:32:01
but other stuff yeah like rain goes everywhere it doesn't just no i think it was just the meat can
00:32:08
someone also like a biology major tell us if if fucking horse meat and human infant meat are at
00:32:14
all similar? Why back in the 1800s, they would have confused the two? I have to say that I bet you the scientists that theorized that was like this The chances are this looks a lot like a horse lung to me What if it was a baby
00:32:30
What if it was a baby? Oh, my God. And then the person that they worked with is like still writing it down.
00:32:36
Or it's like, no, no, no, no. Don't write down everything I say. He's thinking it and accidentally writing it at the same time.
00:32:43
You know, when you do that. That's got to be like he's like he's writing what it probably is.
00:32:47
Right. Then he accidentally wrote what he hopes it's not. Right. What would be the best case scenario and the worst case scenario?
00:32:54
Best case scenario. And then when he will quit is when it comes back. But if this ever happens again and it's human infant, I'm out.
00:33:02
I just need to know the range. I need to know the what by what did this fall in?
00:33:07
Yeah. Send us your fucking stories, please. They're so fun. They're so fun. They're getting better by the moment.
00:33:13
They really are. I had so many good ones to choose from. You can send them to my favorite murder at Gmail.
00:33:18
There's a place on the website to send them and in the fan cult as well. We love them.
00:33:24
And come and be a part of things. Listen and then get just find one noun that you can relate to your own life.
00:33:31
And that like many people did on this episode and then go, I finally have a reason to write in and write it.
00:33:35
That's right. And also you stay sexy and don't get murdered. Goodbye. Elvis, do you want a cookie?
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