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MFM Minisode 182

July 06, 2020 /

This episode of My Favorite Murder features stories about ghostly encounters, chaotic childhood memories, and bizarre family experiences. Guests share their personal anecdotes, including a haunting in a Chicago hostel, a false arrest in the British music industry, and a dramatic airplane incident involving a deceased passenger.

Shannon recounts her unsettling experience at a hostel in Chicago, where she discovered strange handprints on her legs, leading her to wonder about the building's past. Her friends provided mixed comfort, suggesting it might be a ghost.

Another story comes from Kay, who shares a wild tale about her uncle being arrested after a misunderstanding involving a kidnapping case. The story takes a humorous turn as it reveals the hidden secrets of her family's past.

Rachel tells a gripping story about her father’s unexpected involvement in a death on a flight, which led to an emergency landing and the unusual sight of a deceased passenger still seated on the plane.

Lastly, Mo shares the eerie history of Centralia, Pennsylvania, a town that has been on fire for decades due to an underground coal fire, creating a haunting atmosphere that has captivated many.

TLDR

This episode features ghost stories, chaotic childhood memories, and bizarre family incidents, including a haunting and a dramatic airplane death.

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Own the dream. My favorite murder Hello. And welcome to My Favorite Murder. The mini-sode.
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Did anyone you know ever call beers road sodas? No. You're going to take it on your way to a party?
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It sounds like a Sacramento thing. It's very floodplain behavior for sure. Road soda.
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Road soda. You have to drink on your way places because what if you get caught there in reality?
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Oh, my God. Did you guys do beer funds? Beer funds. What's that? It's when like we're about to go get beer and like everyone needs to put in beer funds.
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Beer funds. everyone throws money in and then you stand outside a grocery store or liquor store and find
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an older person willing to buy you liquor or booze. Hell yeah we did that a lot. Yeah I told
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you the story of us walking up. Please honestly stop me and Stephen can take this out if I told
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this before but in high school we did this thing one time where it was the Alpha Beta shopping
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center so it was actually kind of a really big shopping center. Alpha Beta. Alpha Beta was a very
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70s early 80s grocery store with a weird did you guys have Alpha Beta? We had an Alpha Beta
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Yeah. And it was like it was a rainbow, but it was earth tones. It couldn't have been more like 1978.
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So we're in the Alpha Beta Shopping Center, me and my friend Christine and like a bunch of our other friends.
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But Christine and I are the ones that are on task. And we have like $60 that we've collected from everybody.
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$60 in beer funds. In beer funds. Right. And we some kid that we didn't know, but was clearly another high school like junior or senior trying to get liquors like you should go over there.
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there's guys over there that'll buy for you. So we walk over to the scuzziest looking station wagon.
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That's like what the tires are kind of flat. It's way too low to the ground. And there's two dudes
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in it that look like they live on a riverbank. Like it was insanely sketchy. And we just
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immediately lean and we're like, Hey, will you buy liquor for us? And they're like, totally.
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We lean in and start listing off all of the different liquors and flavors of wine.
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We want peach schnapps, but get the peach, the fuzzy peach, not the regular peach.
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But if they don't have regular peach, you can get peppermint schnapps. Always get peppermint schnapps.
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We gave our order for literally five minutes. The guy's looking up like, uh-huh.
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Like, after a while, he just thinks it's funny. And he goes, sounds good. Takes the money.
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They throw it into reverse and drive away. Yeah, of course they do. Just without even pausing.
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It was so hilarious and borderline dangerous. Oh, guys. Nowadays, your parents just buy it for you.
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No. Yeah. Anyways. Are you ready? Yeah. Let's tell stories. The subject line of this is hostile haunting.
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Hey, everyone. I have a ghost story for you. I've had weird experiences with the supernatural throughout my life, starting when I was really
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little and things slowed down as I got older. They always do. but haven't completely stopped.
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One year in college, I went to Chicago with some of my classmates for spring break.
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We stayed at a hostel, as thrifty college kids do, and all was well until I was getting ready for bed the first night.
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After getting out of the shower, I noticed some small, strange, dark marks in various places on my legs.
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They wouldn't wipe off, and they didn't hurt, but I unsuccessfully racked my brain trying to think of what I'd done in previous days that would have caused them.
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Nothing came to mind. I just shrugged it off and went to bed. The next morning when I woke up, the marks were a little darker.
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I thought it was super weird, but I just tried to ignore it and enjoy my trip. By the end of the following day I had full handprints up and down both legs concentrated more on my calves and shins I freaked out and started crying And when I showed my friends I could tell they were all freaked out too but didn
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want to scare me more. A friend reassured me by saying that if it was a ghost, they probably would have already
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hurt me if they actually wanted to. Thanks, friend. Thanks, best friend. This is, that's so me.
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You're clamoring for some words of comfort. So you just say whatever pops into your head and don't really think about it first.
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This is comfort. I'm sure of it. I'm not sure if that actually made me feel better or not, but nothing worse happened.
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And the bruises faded after we went back home. I don't remember the name of the hostel we stayed at, so I can't really Google its history.
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But I'm still curious about what that building could have been before it was a hostel.
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I think someone said it was a girls boarding school, which would also explain the smaller than average size of the handprints.
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But I can't confirm that. I feel like a hostel is haunted enough. Like it doesn't need to be anything else.
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Anyway, stay sexy and teach social distancing to your ghosts. Shannon. Creepy. Tiny handprints.
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What I would have said if I was Shannon's trying to be comforting but actually very insensitive friend, I would have said, it's probably not a ghost.
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It's probably a really little guy that's coming in and just touching your cat. It's probably a tiny demon.
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It's fine. Don't worry about it. I think it's a grad student from down the hall that's just got real tiny little baby hands.
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It's a ghost baby demon grad student with baby tiny hands. Don't worry about it.
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calf fetish for you. So it's fine. It's a compliment. It's a compliment. You have great calves.
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That's a good story. You should look it up. Someone tell us what that means. Okay, this one's just called Hometown Story.
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It starts, so here we go. My uncle has spent his whole life working in the British music
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industry, mostly working gigs and managing bands. Who are they? One late night in the 80s, my uncle was driving
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home from work in his van. He was slow getting home, so he stopped by a payphone to call my
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grandparents and let them know he'd be home late. That night, he woke up to cops ramming down his
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door. He was promptly arrested on suspicion of extortion and kidnapping. Turns out some rich
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guy's daughter was kidnapped for ransom and was expected to negotiate at that exact payphone
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around the time my clueless uncle showed up, van and all. After searching my uncle's mini cottage
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on the edge of my grandparents' property, the police realized they had the wrong guy.
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My uncle probably could have made some sweet cash out of being falsely arrested and searched without a warrant,
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but alas, they made an agreement to pretend it never happened due to the massive bag of weed hidden under his bed.
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Just as well they didn't search my grandparents, as my grandpa was in the possession of an unregistered pistol
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he'd stolen from under the pillow of a murderous chef working at his restaurant.
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What? My grandpa had a few shifty restaurants near his sister's brothel. So there were a few wild things going on there.
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I'll save that for another time. You guys are an integral part of grounding myself when I'm drenched in sweat post PTSD
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nightmares. Thank you for gently and hilariously reminding me that it could be worse and normalizing
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getting help. We should all feel safe to discuss therapy and meds. Bless Kay. Oh, Kay.
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Kay identifies as she, her also. Okay. I just want to say that whole family should be arrested and put in prison.
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Or are they our best friends now? Or should they be our best friends? Or they should open a pot store.
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Right. Here's another idea. They open a hostel. Hey. Hey. A hostel with a sketchy restaurant at the bottom and a weed store on the top.
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And a brothel close by. Amen. Okay. The subject line of this is, well, it gives it all away.
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I'll just read. the introduction is whatever the greeting is my favorite badass podcasting babes i first want to
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start off by saying thank you for always keeping me sane i've been listening to your podcast for a
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few years now and it's gotten me through the hell that is nursing school ah yay nurses we need you
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as someone who works in a psychiatric unit i always love karen's stories about her badass
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nurse mom uh head nurse by the way now enough about me let's get to the real reason i'm writing
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you guys, in the 80s, my dad was in his early 20s. And just like Steven, he had a killer mustache.
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My dad at the time would go out to Colorado to work at my uncle's ranch. My dad was dating my
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mom at the time who lived in Illinois. So on an off week, my dad boarded what he thought would be
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a routine late night flight home. Little did he know it was far from that. My dad boarded, greeted
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his seat neighbor and sat down expecting to sleep the whole flight home. Shortly after my dad fell
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asleep. He woke up to a commotion in the row in front of him. The flight attendants were surrounding
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an elderly woman and her family trying to figure out what to do. Suddenly, the flight attendants
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asked, is there a doctor on board? Turns out the man sitting next to my dad was an ER doctor.
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He jumped up and took my dad with him. And while the doctor tended to the woman,
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my dad stood there in shock and became his assistant. According to the family, the woman had many illnesses and was very sick.
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Unfortunately, she passed. After everything was wrapped up, my dad and the doctor went back to their seats.
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Neither of them had ever dealt with death on a plane, so they just assumed everything would be handled when they landed.
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Nope. The plane took an emergency landing in the middle of nowhere so my dad and the doctor could sign a death certificate.
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What? They list the dad first. It's like, I think the doctor signed the death certificate
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and your dad was the witness. Oh my God When the plane landed my dad and the doctor were escorted off by airplane police And then in parentheses I don know their official title I think an air marshal right
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Sure. To an office to file the paperwork. My dad assumed they would also take the body off the plane when they landed, but he was wrong again.
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When they boarded back onto the plane, the woman was still sitting in her chair.
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This time she was propped up and wrapped in one of those thin airplane blankets.
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It looked like a weekend at Bernie's situation, according to my dad. The plane took off and landed safely in Illinois, where the woman was finally taken off the plane by the coroner.
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The best part of this is the coroner used the airplane blanket to cover the body while carrying her out.
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My dad was safely reunited with my mom, whom he eventually convinced to road trip back with him at the end of the week.
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Yeah. My dad has many crazy dead body stories, but this one is my favorite. Stay sexy and make sure you're not sitting next to a doctor on the plane.
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Thank you for all you do, Rachel. Can you imagine being like, well, that didn't work.
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Let's go back to our seats. What the fuck? That's so heavy. That's so heavy. Also, I love that the dad thought they would leave the body.
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It's like, sorry, she paid that ticket. You have to take her. She needs to go where she needs to go.
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Can you bring her backstage? Is there a backstage? This poor woman is just like sitting there while like their snacks are being served.
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Yeah, sorry. Those pretzels aren't going to taste too good this time. You know what?
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You can have someone you get off the plane. You can't. It's so it's a lot. It's dark.
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This one, I'm not going to say the name of it, but this is one of my favorite, like ill
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fated town stories that I've been obsessed with my whole life. So it starts. Hi, all.
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Since we're all into underground ghost towns these days, I thought I'd give you the opposite.
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A ghost town that has been on fire for over 50 years. What? I grew up near Centralia, Pennsylvania, a town that was once a busy town with a booming coal mining industry.
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It is possible the town itself was doomed from the start when in 1868, its founder, Alexander Ray, was murdered in a routine buggy ride to a nearby town.
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His death was attributed to a gang of Molly Maguires, which is a secret society of Irish immigrant activists.
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I don't know why I'm pointing at you. You know, like you, Karen. My people, yeah.
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Though they may have been framed by owners of the mines who feared the Mollies would unionize their workers.
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And then it says in parentheses, America. Cut to 100 years later in 1962 when the town decided to clean up the local dump ahead of Memorial Day celebrations.
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In true 1960s fashion, the method for cleaning the landfill was to set it on fire.
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Unlike in previous years, they were not able to put the fire out. The coal veins under the dump caught fire.
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It spread underground to other coal veins and eventually to the many abandoned mine tunnels and coal deposits under the entire town.
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There's fucking video of this online. You can see it. officials attempted to put out the fire,
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but it was nearly impossible to determine which of the many tunnels and veins were feeding the fire.
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For years, the fire burned on. The temperature of the ground became nearly 900 degrees
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and smoke and steam would pour from cracks in the ground, sinkholes, and even residents' basements.
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In 1981, a 12-year-old boy fell into a steaming sinkhole that had suddenly opened in his backyard.
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This has everything. I mean, this story, But also, they still lived it. I mean, it's like, they're like, well, where do we go?
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This is our whole town. This is our fucking town. It's not my house is on fire underground.
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It's the whole fucking place. Our earth is on fire. Our earth. Our little piece of earth.
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Yeah. We're simmering. His cousin pulled him out of the hole, which was billowing hot steam with lethal levels of carbon monoxide.
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So he survived. Residents of Centrella were divided on whether the fire posed a true risk, as many did not want to relocate from their hometown.
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After the sinkhole incident, a thousand people were relocated and 500 structures were demolished.
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It was a very painful chapter for these residents and even a few stayed behind and five or so remain today.
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Whoa. Fucking fire ghost town. I mean. Growing up, we would drive through. Their skin looks amazing.
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The steam is like. It's constant. Growing up, we would drive through Centrilla to see the eerie steam and smoke arising from the ground at the cemetery.
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Today, it looks like an overgrown field with mysterious cracked and buckling roads paved through the foundations of some homes hinting to a past not forgotten.
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It is less common now to see the smoke as it is possible the fire is nearly burned out or migrated underground.
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But the apocalyptic aura remains. Stay sexy and don't burn trash. Mo. Or Mo. M-O-W.
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Amazing. Don't burn trash. god i would love to see video of that from when it was at its height because i think that um there's
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a video game is it a silent hill that's based on they designed the landscape of that video game
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based on that city wow this is definitely like no they did they did that's right i just thought yeah
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millennial um so good that's so great yeah i think there's like like 80s video like geraldo
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Rivera did a special on it or some shit. And I just remember seeing it and being like, I'm totally
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looking fire ghost town. When I was just home in Petaluma, we one night because my cousin Stevie
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and Kim came over and we all ate dinner. And we all started telling stories about the dump,
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which is where like, because we lived so far out in the country, there was no garbage pickup,
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you had to take your own garbage to the dump. Amazing. And it was like a thing that we did
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like once a month my dad always be like want to go to the dumps with me And you always say yes because it was like a you know poor people amusement park essentially And it was like that when I started getting obsessed with like what would eventually be vintage stores
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But at the time, I would stand on the edge of that big pit. Did you go through things?
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What if there's something down there? Well, no, it was like a 30-foot drop between where you pull.
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Because it was old school dump where you, my dad would back the truck up to the edge of this pit.
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And you just dump everything out. Like Lovely Bones style. Exactly. Like refrigerators and stuff.
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Well, it was a city-run thing, so you couldn't dump paint there. There was a slightly extra area.
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But in the 70s, it was like, go put whatever you want out there. Like, have that.
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Sometimes it caught on fire. Sometimes it didn't. Sometimes it would be treasure.
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I mean, it would just scan. Remember, at least where I'm from, in Orange County,
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they would have a, like, at the new year, they'd have a Christmas tree fire. Everyone brought their Christmas trees.
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I only remember this once, so maybe it really didn't go well. But, and we're Jewish,
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so, like, we didn't have anything to bring. I think we just went to watch the Christmas tree fire. Sure,
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like a bonfire, it sounds like. But, like, a huge fucking towering thing of Christmas trees.
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Must have smelled amazing. Yeah. Yankee Candle Store. Okay. Yeah. Your turn? Lasties? Okay, yeah. I love you,
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centralia good job i love you i mean what uh oh truly if you ever want to make up a place where
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you're from do that centralia it's me it's it's me i'm from centralia it's me what do you expect
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i live in a hostel now why is it always chaos when we link up because nobody plans anything bro
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Pets age zero to 10. This is the subject line of this is a kids say the darndest things story.
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Lighthearted. so i i was listening to the minisode about the girl who told her teacher my dad beat me
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and i immediately chuckled because there's some because something similar happened to me
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my mother parentheses a badass trauma icu nurse who worked on the south side of chicago while i
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was growing up holy shit just a warrior props to all chicago nurses um was at work one day when i
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was very young, leaving me at home with my dad. My dad was swinging me around in circles.
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What? Sorry. My dad was swinging me around in circles in our backyard when pop goes my elbow
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dislocating it. Also known as a nursemaid's elbow, a fairly common injury in younger children.
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They're so pliable, little kids. They really are. My dad told me that I looked at him in horror and
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screamed you broke my arm which was my first full sentence according to my dad so she's a or yeah i
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think it's she because it's gina a little enough baby two that's like two yeah that it's like first
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sentence area you broke my friend says screaming you broke my arm which was uh my dad freaked out
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and called my mom who told him to simply take me to the er so they can pop it back into place
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I can't. She keeps screaming, you broke my arm. They're going to think I'm beating her,
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my dad frantically replied. My mother ended up clocking out for lunch, driving home,
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popping my arm back into place in a matter of seconds and leaving to finish her shift.
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My mom was always calm in emergency situations, like when my dad cut the tip of his finger off
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in a sausage grinder, or when she saved a man from choking to death at a fish fry by performing CPR.
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She's incredible and the reason both my younger brother and I are now ER nurses Holy shit
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It's a dynasty. Except for your dad. Except for your dad. Except for your dad. He's useless.
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He runs a business breaking children's arms. He runs a child's mafia business. It's pretty adorable, actually.
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It's actually, they only borrow quarters from each other. Oh, precious. You guys are the absolute fucking best.
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Thank you for being you, Gina. I love that story I love that story Send us those you guys
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Send us nurse mom stories Always send nurse mom stories Also if you send us a story
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And you talk about your mother, father, grandpa, grandma Please tell us their names
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That's right Well speaking of grandpa I have one and I don't think his name's in this
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That's okay Oh also what about If you ever found anything amazing at the dump In the 70s or 80s
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I would like to hear that story Because that's my dream amazing or horrible yeah i mean like absolutely horrible or you know creepy or whatever but like
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if you have a good dumps going to the dumps story people who live out in the country i'm talking to
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you let's hear them if there's like a town dump rumor we want to hear about that yeah okay this
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one i'm not going to read the title it just says hi no bullshit just hi this happened to a friend
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of mine and I've never been so jealous. His grandfather on his mother's side was getting up
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in years and developed dementia. He started telling wild stories of exotic countries
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he'd visited for work and crazy investigations he'd conducted there. Following doctor's orders, when he got into these stories,
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his family had to reorient him by saying, no grandpa you worked for the phone company remember As an engineer you traveled a little but only in this country So they just completely ruined his hopes and dementia dreams
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They just negated his whole fantasy. Fast forward a few months and Grandpa sadly passed away.
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While cleaning out his house and moving his belongings, his children lifted up the mattress to find, all caps,
00:26:04
his fucking CIA badge and identification. What? Yep. All those stories were 100% true.
00:26:11
He did work for the Bell Atlantic phone company, but it was unclear to his family whether the CIA had assigned him there to assist with phone tapping or he started there and the CIA hired him because they thought he'd be helpful, a helpful resource.
00:26:24
Either way, the phone company is a complete front for the CIA. Phones aren't even real.
00:26:33
Phones aren't even real. Oh, my God. My head hurts. either way they started putting together weird details that suddenly made sense for example that
00:26:45
he'd gone for weeks at a time quote lecturing and that one time he'd had a few drinks and
00:26:50
hypnotized slash brainwashed a woman in the middle of a party they couldn't get any details about his
00:26:57
work but it's still the coolest damn thing ever stay sexy and and don't not believe your grandpa's
00:27:03
wild stories kate kate kate if that's true and it better be that's the best thing of all time
00:27:10
because this was my only i flinched at the idea what's a cia badge isn't the right with cia is
00:27:16
that no one knows you work there sure i guess they wouldn't be like wearing your laminate they don't
00:27:21
have like a sash like a miss america sash it's actually looks like a cinnabon shirt but it just
00:27:28
says cia and smell it smells so good it one of those like auto insurance things that people stand on the arrows that guys stand on the corner and flip and stuff But it points to you and says I in the CIA
00:27:40
Me. That's your badge. That's your badge. Your badge is a whole guy that can do sign acrobatics.
00:27:46
You know what? Everyone right now make a fake CIA badge and put it under your mattress just in case something
00:27:51
happens to you. Just to fuck with your family. Let's fucking do it. It makes sense, though, because I bet you this is my theory.
00:27:58
the way dementia usually works is your, I think, your brain goes backwards in time,
00:28:05
like it erodes. So your memories become more and more from before. So maybe it was like he worked
00:28:11
in his 20s or 30s or 40s or whatever, in the CIA, and then just kind of like went into
00:28:17
wiretapping, which is much easier and more low key in his later years. Yeah. And it's like, yeah, that's what his brain is remembering. And he's forgotten that he's not
00:28:26
supposed to talk about it. Yes. So he think, oh, my God, the whole part of his brain that says
00:28:31
Ixnay, you have to put that in the vault, like the vault door opened. That's right. And then he
00:28:36
was just like, guys, you wouldn't believe the shit I've done. Oh, my God. I love I'm sorry,
00:28:42
but that's a real upside. It is a terrible disease. It is. Bless his heart. Send us your
00:28:48
stories. There's so many options at this point. If you don't have a story, send it and we'll make it we'll start making the thing because i bet it's good nouns and adjectives
00:28:57
and you'll be fine that's right just just uh yeah but yeah thank you just thank you and stay sexy
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Episode Highlights

  • 2026 Nissan Rogue Features
    The 2026 Nissan Rogue boasts impressive all-wheel drive and turbo torque, making it a standout in its class.
    “It moves moves. Rogue doesn't mess around.”
    @ 00m 23s
    July 06, 2020
  • Haunted Hostel Experience
    A ghostly encounter at a hostel leaves a lasting impression with mysterious handprints appearing on legs.
    “I had full handprints up and down both legs.”
    @ 05m 51s
    July 06, 2020
  • Bizarre Flight Incident
    A routine flight turns chaotic when a passenger dies mid-air, leading to an emergency landing.
    “The plane took an emergency landing in the middle of nowhere.”
    @ 11m 41s
    July 06, 2020
  • Fire Ghost Town
    Centralia, Pennsylvania, has been burning underground for over 50 years, creating a ghost town.
    “A ghost town that has been on fire for over 50 years.”
    @ 13m 46s
    July 06, 2020
  • The Chaos of Childhood
    A humorous tale of a childhood injury leads to a heartwarming family story.
    “I can't. She keeps screaming, you broke my arm.”
    @ 23m 27s
    July 06, 2020
  • A Family's Hidden Legacy
    A grandfather's wild stories turn out to be true, revealing a secret CIA past.
    “They just negated his whole fantasy.”
    @ 25m 52s
    July 06, 2020

Episode Quotes

  • You're locked into a lot of things you can't change.
    MFM Minisode 182
  • It's probably a tiny demon.
    MFM Minisode 182
  • Can you imagine being like, well, that didn't work?
    MFM Minisode 182
  • I sucked in negativity like a sponge.
    MFM Minisode 182
  • My mom was always calm in emergency situations.
    MFM Minisode 182
  • Phones aren't even real.
    MFM Minisode 182

Key Moments

  • Rogue Features00:21
  • Ghost Story05:05
  • Flight Emergency11:30
  • Centralia Fire13:46
  • Negativity Absorbed20:43
  • Childhood Injury22:39
  • Grandpa's Secrets26:07
  • Phones Aren't Real26:33

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