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MFM Minisode 174

May 11, 2020 /

This minisode of My Favorite Murder features stories about ghostly encounters, bank robberies, and heartfelt messages in bottles. Hosts Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark share listener-submitted tales that blend humor with the macabre.

One story recounts a listener's sister who saw a ghostly figure, described as a tall man with a handlebar mustache, whispering the word "beans". Later, they discovered a family photo of the man who had been murdered in the 1800s, raising questions about the sister's experience.

Another tale involves a listener's mother who, after being robbed multiple times at her bank, chased a robber down the street, only to be threatened with a gun. The story highlights her bravery and the absurdity of the situation.

A listener shares a touching story about their father finding a message in a bottle written by a man diagnosed with cancer, wishing for his family's well-being. This story emphasizes the importance of connection and caring for others.

The episode concludes with humorous anecdotes about a light bulb burglar and a listener's grandfather who had a ghostly encounter, showcasing the blend of humor and horror that defines the podcast.

TLDR

Listeners share ghost stories, bank robberies, and heartfelt messages in bottles.

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And welcome to the minisode. Of My Favorite Murder. That's right. We did it backwards.
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Tricked ya. It's tricked ya day. there's a very good chance I've forgotten how to do mini sobs a very good chance it's been like a
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birthdays when this comes out it's gonna be your birthday today monday that's right may 11th happy
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birthday thank you wishing you a good year and health wealth and happiness thank you so much
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yeah you want to go first because it's your birthday yeah is that my big present perfect
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hi karen georgia steven and a potpourri of animals when my older sister was about 10 she came down
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the stairs in the middle of the night to my mom's room crying that she saw a strange man at the foot
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of her bed she describes him as a tall dark-haired man with a handlebar mustache whispering beans
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in a deep soft whispering beans the word beans the word beans like refried it's you you can imagine when i started reading this email i was like yeah well here's here's my
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favorite one of all my mom brushed it off as a nightmare and sent her back to bed
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the next night she came down around the same time saying the man had come back This happened over and over for about two weeks until finally the visit stopped.
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About a year or so later, my mom got a big box of old family photos from her great aunt that had recently passed away.
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She began to hang them up chronologically one by one down the main staircase in our foyer.
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My sister came to see her progress when she gasped at the sight of one of the photos.
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This is beans! My mom and I examined the photo and the man was exactly as my sister described.
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tall, slim, dark haired, and with that iconic handled bar mustache. My mom got the strangest
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look on her face and began to tell us the story of how this was the only member of our family
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ever to be murdered. He was a pharmacist in a small town in Ohio, a few towns over from us,
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back in the 1800s. There was a feud happening between two families in the town, and supposedly
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one side broke into the pharmacy and switched around a few of the medicines to try to mess
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with the other side. My great, great, great, truly not going to keep going because this is already long as fuck,
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uncle, took what he thought was his medication and wound up being poisoned and killed.
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Holy shit. We ended up finding the death certificate on Ancestry.com and everything.
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There was no way my sister could have seen that picture before, but also she was 10
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and known to, as my dad says, storytell. So who's to say? Anyways, love y'all. Peace, love, beans.
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Anna. Oh, man, I was really hoping like he was a bean farmer or there was going to be some connection to beans.
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But that's OK. It's still good. I mean, I think maybe that was the thing he was craving.
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Like that's what he was supposed to have for dinner right before he took his medicine.
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And then he's like, he's left in eternal, you know, whatever. Maybe the guy who killed him was his nickname was Beans.
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Yes, that's got to be it. Let's think of four more variables that could be happening in this story.
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Perfect. OK, good one. What if he thought the little girl's name was Beans because she looked like a bean?
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What if he was named Beans and he's mad that the dog didn't protect him? What if he's a vegan?
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Okay. Hey, Karen in Georgia. Love you. Love what you do. Love mental health visibility.
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All right. Enough with the flattery. Let's get to it. I'm currently sheltering. We'll rush through the flattery all the time.
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They rush and rush. Like we don like it Yeah I currently sheltering in place with my aunt and uncle in Aurora Oregon I had to get out of my 500 square foot apartment all by myself in Seattle where things are pretty rough
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I've tried for years to get family members to talk to me about murder, but they all look at me cross-eyed and tell me I should get into something a little less heavy, like gardening.
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Anyway, I was going for a walk with my Aunt Lynn through the beautiful Oregon countryside next to the river, and we walked by a house, and my aunt says to me,
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You know, a man who used to live here was recently found dead in his home, and he'd been dead for 18 months before anyone found him.
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And in all caps, I'm sorry, what? I said, say more right now. Apparently, she's been holding out on me for over two decades.
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One of the original members of the Mickey Mouse Club, Dennis Day, used to live down the street from my family, and he moved to Phoenix with his long-term partner, Henry Caswell.
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Dennis appeared during the original first episodes of the Mickey Mouse Club in the 1950s.
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I looked up some videos and he was a damn cute tap dancer. Dennis and Henry moved to Phoenix and in their old age, hired some dude to stay in the house
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with them and help with chores, cooking, all that jazz. The dude they hired, Daniel Berta, is a dick.
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He was knocked down with the chores and slacked off constantly. So obviously Dennis and Henry wanted him to get the fuck out.
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But guess what? Daniel wouldn't leave. Eventually, Henry had to be admitted to an assisted living facility because of dementia.
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So when he told caretakers that he thinks his husband is missing, he was dismissed.
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they didn't believe him that bastard daniel burda murdered dennis shoved him under a giant heap of
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clothes and left him there for 18 months burda continued to live in the house with the dead
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body for months and he used cleaning supplies to cover up the leaking fluids because quote it smelled
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like death and then says what a dick they caught the fucker he's been arrested on charges of second
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degree manslaughter criminally negligent homicide criminal mistreatment and abuse of a corpse and he
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confessed thankfully anyway i hope the story rocks your world at least a little bit because my jaw was
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on the floor for days thank you for everything y'all do to normalize the love of the macabre
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and normalize mental health conversations stay sexy and please check in on your neighbors
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caitlin oh i remember reading that story uh-huh because well we used to watch the mickey mouse
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club every day after school because it was in reruns and so it's kind of stuck out to me but
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also i don't understand those people i mean obviously there's a lot of issues going on
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how you could live in the house with a person that you killed it's just such a sign of how
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cut off you are from definitely it's hideous yeah and then to complain that it smelled like dead
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bodies because so you've tried to cover it up to fucking complain about anything shut up yeah
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just shut up and go to jail yeah okay um the subject line of this one is my mom tried her
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hand at vigilantism light-hearted hello to lighten up these quarantine times i've got a story for you
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that's got all your favorite things 80s moms hot robbers and people staying sexy and not getting
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murdered back in the 80s my mom was 20 or 21 working in a bank as a bank teller for a summer
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job she'd only been working at the bank for a few months but had already been robbed three times
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since the bank wanted to keep everyone safe during the robbery protocol was to just sit quietly and
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give the robbers what they wanted and not to alert anyone of the robbery until the robbers had left.
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This meant that three times a man had just walked up to my mom, slid a note that said something along
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the lines of this is a robbery, give me all your cash, and then casually walked out with the money.
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This didn't sit well with my mom, who has a strong sense of right and wrong and doesn't like seeing
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people get away with bullshit. One day as my mom was at the teller desk, a very handsome man walked
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into the bank. My mom was hoping he'd stop at her desk and she was elated when he did. She was over
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the moon when he slid his phone number to her across the desk. Imagine her dismay when she
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unfolds the paper to see that it wasn't his phone number, but another, this is a robbery note.
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My mom gave him the cash and watched him walk out of the bank. But for whatever reason, she decided
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she wasn't going to let this robber get away with it. She ran out the door screaming, someone call
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the police this man just robbed a bank no she followed him for a few blocks screaming behind him
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until he turned around waving a gun at her and said lady you gotta stop or i have to shoot you
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needless to say she headed back to the bank and shortly thereafter the police arrived
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she gave them a statement and description of the man and while they laughed at her brazenness they
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told her under no uncertain circumstances that it was very dumb and she should never chase a bank
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robber again. Anyways, I think she quit that job shortly after. But I'd like to think that word
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got out about the crazy screaming bank teller and that robberies dropped significantly at that
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branch after the incident. Stay sexy and don't risk your life for minimum wage, Paige. Yes,
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shout out to my friend Karina. We work together, but I haven't seen her since lockdown and I miss
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her terribly. Well, that's nice. Sneaking a shout out at the end. You did the work,
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You get the shout out. That's right. Okay. This one's called Message in a Motherfucking Bottle.
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Sweet salutations and well wishes. Let's jump right in, shall we? Recently, while talking with my dad, Bob, such a dad name, about interesting things we found on our local beaches, he reminded me of this gem.
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While out metal detecting one day, my dad came across a small white pill bottle sticking out from the sand.
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He's always been against picking up strange pieces of garbage in public places. It's a good rule.
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Yeah. For some odd reason, scooped this baby up. Since the cap was still on, he shook it to see if anything was inside.
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He heard what he said sounded like rice rattling and decided to open it. Not only was the rice in there, along with some green herbs,
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but there was also a piece of paper with a handwritten message. That's right, y'all, a motherfucking message in a bottle.
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After freaking out about it with my stepmom, he took the message to work the next day to see if anyone could decipher it.
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You see, the message was written in Spanish, and my dad is a middle-aged white man who doesn't know a lick of Spanish
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outside of you are a shithead and other meaningless phrases he learned back in high school.
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One co-worker tried to read it but couldn't understand the specific dialect that it was written in.
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That when his co Jorge tried to take a stab at it While reading it Jorge started crying He looked up at my dad and said the man who wrote this is from my hometown in Cuba
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No! So not only did my dad find a fucking message in a bottle, but the man reading it to my dad is from the same town as its origins?
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In today's odds, I would say that's one in a million. The message was written by a man who had been diagnosed with cancer.
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He was wishing for good health and prosperity for his family, especially his wife and children, after he could no longer be with them.
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Unfortunately, that's all we know of him. There's no way for us to be able to reach out and find any more information.
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We're not sure if this man is alive or what happened to him, but I hope he is at peace wherever he is and that his family is faring well.
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In times like these, it struck a chord with my heart. So much shit is happening and affecting so many people all around the world.
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I want to do exactly what this guy did and send out wishes for good health and prosperity to anyone who may need it and physically help those around me when I can.
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Look out for your neighbors and do what you got to do so we can all get through this safely.
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Sorry this email was so long, but I just had to share it. Thank you for continuing this podcast and bringing light and laughter during this crisis.
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Stay sexy and always pick up the garbage on the beach. You never know what you might find.
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Emily in Florida. Oh, that's so good. I love that Jorge is all touched. And like that, what are the odds of that coincidence?
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This last one is like an update line. So remember when we talked about the light bulb burglar that was going up to people's,
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and that was like in Sacramento, going into people's forches and stealing their light bulbs?
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Yes. So we got an update. Okay. Hello, ladies. I was doing the dishes and listening to the latest mini-sode when you read the story of
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the light bulb burglar in Sacramento. I grew up in Sacramento and most of my family still lives there.
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When I heard the email about the light bulb burglar, I had to sit down and write immediately.
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My cousin is one of those very smart, very clueless people who can make two plus two equal five with some mad shit,
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but doesn't have the common sense to not open the door to a stranger at 1230 at night.
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My cousin lives in South Sacramento in a house with two other single women in their 20s and two giant chocolate labs.
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Thank God. One night last year, she heard some rustling on the front porch and the dogs began the low growl.
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that big dogs make. So my sweet, clueless cousin goes to the door and looks out the people to see a mid-20s man
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unscrewing her porch light. This is where a normal person would call the cops, but not her.
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What does she do? She opens the door. No. No, no, no. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Luckily, this screen was still shut and locked.
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With the two dogs growling behind her, she asked him what he was doing. He froze and then stammered that he was out of light bulb.
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So my genius cousin told him she needed that one on her porch, but she had more.
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She went and got him one, opened this green door, and gave him a light bulb. He said thank you and left.
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It wasn't until he had gone that she realized how badly things could have gone. The rest of the family is just glad that she has those big, scary-sounding dogs, Michelle.
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P.S. I was born in Sacramento in the late 80s, and my parents grew up here in the 60s and 70s.
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It wasn't until I began listening to your podcast that I truly began to understand the paranoias and quirks that my parents have regarding deadbolts and sticks and windows.
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Turns out that they have they must have some very justified PTSD from growing up in the heyday of Sacramento serial killers.
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Yeah. So the light bulb thing, I was going to say to a bunch of people commented and said that that's actually some people who are burglars will ahead a couple days ahead of time, take the light bulb out, then come back in the dark and burglarize the place.
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So that's another reason they do it. Burglars or you know people that like to slit your throat I mean there all kinds of reasons to get rid of the light I can believe she gave him light bulbs
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Hold on one second. You're stealing from me. Let me help you steal. Do you like a soft white or do you like a brighter bulb?
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Look, I've got 60. I've got 70 watt, but we can go down. I have a beautiful pink 20 watt bulb.
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Is it for outdoors? Because is it for the bedroom? Is it for your murder room? Okay, this one's called Spooky Halloween in May.
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Hey there, a few months ago, my grandpa passed away. And while thinking about him, I remembered this ghost story that he told us about a few years ago.
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And I thought I would share. My grandpa was a 99 year old World War Two veteran who survived to see an entire century 1920 to 2020.
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He could make friends with anyone and was also the most flirtatious man I've ever met.
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A few years before he died, my parents and I took an excursion to his hometown so he could show us the house he grew up in,
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where he went to school and visit his parents gravestones a few nights before we left on this
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trip he had a strange dream apparently when he was in high school a girl at a school was killed
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in a car accident he knew her the way everyone knows everyone in a small town high school this
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girl appeared to him in his dream and asked him to visit her grave site her parents were long gone
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and she told him that no one had visited her grave in years and that she was lonely the next morning
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he told my mom that this girl had what this girl had said and asked if he could go see her grave
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when he visited the cemetery. My mom agreed and proceeded to contact the cemetery
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to see if they had a map of sorts with the plot names. My grandpa told her that it wasn't necessary
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because he knew where she was buried. My mom asked him to clarify since he said he barely knew her.
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And he told her that the girl in the dream had given instructions to her burial site.
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She had described her headstone and given him landmarks in the cemetery to be able to find her.
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Long story short, after we arrived at the cemetery and went to his parents' headstone,
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my grandpa proceeded to walk almost directly over to where this girl's headstone was located.
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He stood there for a minute and said a prayer for her, and then we left. To think that poor girl contacted my grandpa to ask him to visit her
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because there wasn't really anyone else alive who could remember her? Wild. Before I close this out, I want to give a special shout out to all morgue and funeral home employees.
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They're essential employees who are being directly exposed to COVID-19 every single day.
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When COVID patients die, they are sent to morgues or directly to funeral homes, and those employees have to either cremate or embalm the deceased while potentially being exposed.
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They also have to figure out how to arrange funeral services with the family members
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to let them properly grieve their loved ones without endangering themselves or anyone attending.
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Many funeral homes are refusing COVID cases because of the risks, so small family funeral homes like the one my mom has worked at for almost 15 years are being overwhelmed.
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My mom is a super badass and is being so cautious to protect herself and others while doing her absolute best to make sure that families are being able to say proper goodbyes to their loved ones.
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She's truly the best and makes me so proud to be her daughter. Happy Mother's Day.
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Thanks for all you guys do. SSDGM, Claire. I love that. That's awesome. That's the kind of job that people aren't talking about that's just as definitely essential.
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Yeah. But again, it's death, so no one wants to talk about it. People act like there's the stigma.
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But yeah, thank you to all funeral home workers, people. And then what an overwhelming situation and position to be in to work in that.
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Must be so scary. You have to be so brave even if you're you don't want to be. Yeah.
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I can't imagine. I just found out my cousin, Annie Galindo, is that she intubates people for a living.
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She's an anesthesiologist, but she also lives in intubation. So she is completely, completely on the front lines.
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And she's always been a badass. used to be she's amazing i love my cousin annie so shout out to her too i mean incredible
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everybody doing everything and fighting out there for us so we're so grateful thanks you guys send
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us your stories whatever they may be to my favorite murder at gmail or on our website or
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wherever yay and happy birthday karen thanks georgia um it's gonna be another great 50 i can't
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leave my fucking 50 we're gonna have the biggest party this summer oh my god we're gonna have the
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best party it's gonna you know what we should do is go to the um island where they tried to have
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the fire fest and we're going to make it like what they tried to make it yes ham sandwiches
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have to put a pin in sending the invitation yeah until you know until people can stop um
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going out and not wearing masks and pretending that that's their choice it's so crazy
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it's so crazy someone tweeted today that they saw they reopened the trails and like the hiking
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things around los angeles because you can socially distance and there was two joggers not wearing
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masks and there was a for like a forestry like a ranger standing there going hey you need to and
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they both flip them off as they jogged by fuck those guys fuck those guys and you know that's
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the kind of people who aren't wearing masks is the people who will flip off a fucking park ranger
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well because they believe that they don't have like if they feel like they're fine then they
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don't have to which isn't the point you guys the point is not to spread it in case you have it to
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other people and you don't know if you're an asymptomatic carrier right it's very simple
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can i just have this one thing do it for karen's freaking out because steven's freaking out because we keep talking over each other oh really he's like no no i'm
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i'm i was i went to target today and it's just like lines around the block like today right now
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is the worst time to go anywhere if you can stay home right now. Because people who now think things are open and normal again are wearing –
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masks and just acting like it's normal walking to target or walk into a place and then just pull
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their mask off as if all of a sudden it's yeah what we need to do is keep the parking lot safe
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thank you yeah good job the air feel free inside the store well you know what it is though this is
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like such high level denial because there are some people that are so scared of this that what
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they're saying is it's not really happening yeah and they need they need to go out and scream at
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people and use their anger to defend when actually they're just going, I'm so scared. I don't know
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what to do with myself. That's a good point. Yeah. So it definitely attacks people.
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For your birthday. For Kara's birthday. For my birthday. Oh my God. What if it's like,
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I start the purge. I start the purge against non-masked people. Oh no. It's not your choice.
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That's my only point. Don't hurt anybody. Don't even say anything to them because that's what
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They want a lot of those people that do that. It's like they go out. Yeah. Say something to me.
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And it's like, you know, you're saying it to yourself. You're saying it without saying a word.
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You're lonely and scared is the one thing I would say. But don't even say that. All right.
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Episode Highlights

  • Message in a Bottle
    A dad finds a message in a bottle with a heartfelt note from a cancer patient.
    “Not only did my dad find a fucking message in a bottle, but...”
    @ 11m 10s
    May 11, 2020
  • Light Bulb Burglar Update
    A cousin unwittingly helps a burglar by giving him a light bulb.
    “She opened the door... and gave him a light bulb.”
    @ 16m 59s
    May 11, 2020
  • Ghostly Grave Visit
    A grandpa receives a message from a deceased girl in a dream, leading him to her grave.
    “To think that poor girl contacted my grandpa to ask him to visit her.”
    @ 20m 04s
    May 11, 2020
  • Shout Out to Essential Workers
    A heartfelt tribute to morgue and funeral home employees during COVID-19.
    “They're essential employees who are being directly exposed to COVID-19 every single day.”
    @ 20m 09s
    May 11, 2020
  • Celebrating Courage
    A daughter praises her mother for her bravery in the funeral industry.
    “My mom is a super badass and is being so cautious to protect herself and others.”
    @ 20m 40s
    May 11, 2020
  • A Call for Awareness
    Discussion on the stigma surrounding death and essential workers.
    “But again, it's death, so no one wants to talk about it.”
    @ 21m 03s
    May 11, 2020
  • The Reality of Denial
    Exploring the denial some people have about the pandemic.
    “This is like such high level denial because there are some people that are so scared of this.”
    @ 24m 17s
    May 11, 2020

Episode Quotes

  • That's right, we did it backwards.
    MFM Minisode 174
  • Holy shit.
    MFM Minisode 174
  • Peace, love, beans.
    MFM Minisode 174
  • She's truly the best and makes me so proud to be her daughter.
    MFM Minisode 174
  • Must be so scary.
    MFM Minisode 174
  • It's crazy.
    MFM Minisode 174

Key Moments

  • Goodbye00:46
  • Birthday Wishes02:21
  • Message Found11:10
  • Ghostly Visit20:04
  • Essential Workers Tribute20:09
  • Mother's Day Pride20:49
  • Pandemic Denial24:17
  • Support and Love25:23

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