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hello ladies and animals so this isn't necessarily a hometown however it's an experience i had as a
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kid that i will never forget we love those okay so let me start by saying i was around eight years
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old and was a confident and observational little girl now 15 years later a confident murderina
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yay just quick sidebar i love it when people try to do uh like the feminization of murderina
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is murderina as if this is a Latin based word when this word is from the Simpsons. This is
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Ned Flanders talk from a Halloween episode calling people saying hi diddly ho murderinos. Right. There's no
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you don't need to put an A on the end. Yeah. And like gender is a construct anyways.
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Hey man, get with it. It's 2020. Yeah. Anyhow, I grew up in San Jose, California in a lovely
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little neighborhood where everybody knows everybody. As a kid, I would always play outside
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whether it was with neighbors, friends or by myself this might sound bizarre but i used to love playing in my dad's old jeep
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wrangler you know the kind that has the hard uh shell that you can take the hard shell top off
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yes no maybe well anyway no that's on the page i'm telling her yes and the answer is yes um anyway
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a jeep wrangler without a hard shell has a metal bar roll cage inside i hope this makes sense because
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that's the only way i know how to describe it lol okay so when i was a kid i used to use my dad's
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Jeep as a little playground and do flips on the bar and pretend to be a gymnast. God bless her.
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Okay, now getting to the important part of the story. So one summer day, I was playing in my
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dad's Jeep and this black car with a man and woman inside pulls up. I looked at them for a
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few seconds and decided to keep playing. The woman got out of the passenger side and walks toward me.
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She has long, straight, dark black hair and looked a little scary. But at the time,
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I thought I was super cool. So I tried to act like I was tough. So she said, and I will never forget these words.
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Hi there. You look like such a beautiful, sweet little girl. Can you help us? My sassy ass slash confident eight year old self replied.
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Thanks, but why should I help you? Oh my God, the 80s. And she said, oh, we just need some directions.
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Can you come over to our car and show us on the map? And in that moment, I knew this bitch was up to something, so I screamed,
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Mom! And the lady took off running to the car, and the couple sped away, leaving tire marks in front of our house.
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Oh, my God. My mom came out just in time to see them drive off and take down the license plate.
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Turns out it was a stolen car, and we still don't know anything about the couple.
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Well, cheers to not being kidnapped. Also, my apologies for my poor spelling grammatical errors.
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Stay sexy and don't get murdered. Haley A. Wow, what a memory to have I know, isn't that crazy?
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Yeah And what a great, badass little 8-year-old who already knew what to do She's like, I'm a gymnast, don't fuck with me
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She's like, I will kick you right in your kidnapping hair Your beautiful kidnapping hair
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You're gorgeous, long, luxurious Okay, I'm not going to tell you the name of this one
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Okay My pieces I know, it's complicated Hello all My older sister went to a community college outside of Iowa City, Iowa
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and would travel into Iowa City with some of her friends to party with people at the University of Iowa,
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which is located in Iowa City. Jesus, got that out of the way. One fateful drive to or from Iowa City, I can't remember,
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she was driving with four of her friends when all of a sudden they were pulled over.
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They couldn't figure out why it was taking so long for the officer to come and tell them why they were being pulled over.
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Then several other police cars were swarming them with their guns drawn, Whoa crying and confused They were each handcuffed and put into police cars Whoa As they sitting in the cars the officers came over and said there had been a mistake and that they thought that my sister was driving a stolen vehicle
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Why did they think that? Okay, all caps. Because our last name is stolen. The cop ran her plate and saw the word stolen popped up,
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so he freaked out and pulled them over without a second thought. It's something that she will never forget
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And to make matters even worse, the cops were dicks to them And offered no apology for the incident
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That's something It needs to get worked on on many levels It's stolen And on another note, my mother's maiden name is Wiener
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My siblings and I hit the last name jackpot Can you imagine the engagement announcement
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In the newspaper of stolen Wiener Stolen Wiener Anyways, love y'all and everything you've done
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Stay sexy and change your last name, Maddie Sounds good I should have said that for last.
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Amazing. Okay. The subject line is just escaped convict. Okay. Hey, you guys. Perfection.
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Yeah. My hometown is Alden, New York, so Buffalo, which is basically a cult. In the summer of 2006, Ralph Bucky Phillips escaped from the county jail.
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He cut through the metal roof of the kitchen with a can opener, took a guard's uniform, and escaped.
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My uncle is a New York state trooper who assured us that we shouldn't be concerned because he was only in jail for a parole violation and was considered non-dangerous.
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Supposedly, he was set to be released two weeks after his escape. Dude, just stick around for two more weeks.
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Bucky, don't be crazy. Because of this, the community found his escape and manhunt to be a big joke.
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I saw Run Bucky Run spray painted on nearby bridges. There were T-shirts and posters of Run Bucky Run.
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Don't shoot, not Bucky. and some restaurants in the area even started naming food after him.
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Man, we got to move to a small town. That's where the shit really kicks off. It is.
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It's the good stuff. Let's do it. Or we just have to start like really communicating more intensely with people in this large town.
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All right. Be like, guys, okay, so here's the convict's name from this morning. Yeah, spray painted on a shirt.
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Okay. We're getting paid for it. So a couple months into the manhunt, Bucky shot a state trooper named Sean Brown.
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This is when the manhunt went from funny to scary, as many of them do. Throughout the manhunt, Bucky shot two more state troopers, Donald Baker and Joseph Longobardo.
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Longobardo did not survive his injuries. After a long summer of constant helicopters flying overhead, police roadblocks, tons of extra state troopers in the area and random sightings called in everywhere from north from the north towns to the south towns.
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Bucky, surrounded by police, turned himself in without firing any more bullets. And he pleaded guilty as hell.
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No shit. But I think he literally said guilty as hell. Oh, fuck. That's what it sounds like.
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OK. everyone has a story or connection from that summer of being near a sighting or having their cabins or the woods behind their house searched.
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Stay sexy. And remember, an escaped convict is no joke. Yeah. And they didn't sign a name.
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Okay. I don't want to live in a small town anymore. Right. That just ended it for you.
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Yeah. Shit, man. Right. That's scary. This one's called grandparents, knives, hips,
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UK story. Perfect. Hi, MFM gang. This isn't totally my story, but my husband is happy for me to share it.
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So my husband's grandparents were proper soulmates. They did everything together ever since the day they met and were still so in love after so many years.
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Grandma has stabbed your grandpa. You need to come home now. No explanation. That's all the information my mother-in-law gave.
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Myself and my husband rushed across the country, UK, so it's not that big of a deal,
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in our little car, only to arrive to find that actually both grandparents were in the hospital.
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It turns out that they were cooking together in the evening and my husband's grandma felt herself
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slip. Attempting to save herself from falling, she grabbed her and then it says 92 year old
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husband trying to get him to catch her and instead had accidentally stabbed him with the knife she
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was holding. Oh no. She then proceeded to fall and break her hip, knocking her husband over and he
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referred to as a quote, very minor stabbing. And so they had their matching hip replacements and
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everything you do. So pumped to see you in London, Emily. Okay, can I just say this to Emily's mother
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it. The time I almost probably got murdered when I was 11. Dear friends, mustached and non-mustached.
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I love it forever. And that means we're all, that means all of us. Yeah, that's all of us.
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I'll get to it. I grew up on a gravel road in the middle of nowhere, Iowa. Seriously,
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the nearest town with a grocery store was 13 miles away. Oh my God. Love it. So when I turned 11,
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apparently I was a hot commodity for all the country folk because that magical age
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meant I could now babysit their children and they didn't have to, quote, drive into town to pick up their babysitter.
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Eleven. Shit. So one night I was babysitting a baby. Like, I was in charge of a six-month-old
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and I was eleven. What were they thinking? What has anybody ever been fucking thinking?
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Have you ever thought in your fucking life? Try it. Can you imagine having a baby?
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You're looking to it. You're like, this is the most precious thing on the planet to me.
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You there. What are you in third grade? Yeah. Hold this for five hours. Make sure it doesn't die.
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See you later. We're going to go out to the disco. Oh, by the way, there's all these ways you can die.
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Right. Okay. Eat whatever you want. Anyway, we're going to Olive Garden. Okay. So, so, so.
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Okay. Oh, I was in charge of six months old when I was 11. Just a couple miles down the same gravel road from my house.
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I had fed the baby and was sitting in the living room watching TV when I noticed a weird reflection on the screen.
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It wasn't me or the baby. so I turned around and looked out the window directly behind my head
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I shit you not there was a man's grinning face fucking looking right back at me I screamed he started laughing and then I got up and ran to the back door to lock it
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because why would an 11 year old need to have the door locked right in the middle of nowhere
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at night in the middle of nowhere I literally just beat him to the door He started banging on the door, screaming out how he knew I was alone.
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Miraculously enough, I managed to still have a hold of the baby, who was screaming her head off at this point, of course.
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I grabbed their cordless phone, didn't have one of those at my house yet, and ran into the bathroom and locking the door.
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Did I call 911, you ask? Why, no, I did not. I called my fucking dad because my 11-year-old baby, murdering no brain,
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knew that my dad had a gun, and he'd get there faster than the sheriff's office.
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So clearly they chose the perfect babysitter who can handle almost any situation.
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I hysterically explained to my dad what was happening, and he told me to stay put, call 911, and he was on his way.
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Meanwhile, crazy-eyed, shouty McMurderface was still running around the house, screaming and banging on doors and windows.
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Apparently sorry approximately one minute later I hear my dad very loud muffler caprice classic come barreling into the driveway Then I hear yelling Finally he knocks on the door and yells it okay for me to come out
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When dude saw my dad and his giant shotgun jump out of the car, he took off into a cornfield.
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Yeah, he did. How very Iowa of him, it says in the email. The cops finally got there, took mine and my dad's statements, followed the footprints
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into the cornfield, then decided, meh, it's probably just some meth head. Everything's fine.
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No further investigation here, folks. Nope. The baby's parents came home to cops in their driveway, my dad and his gun,
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and me standing there with their daughter wrapped in a blanket, all staring into a fucking cornfield at 8 p.m.
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I guess it didn't bother them too bad because I babysat their kid for the next six years.
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Are you kidding me? I would never go back there. Yep, I actually kept babysitting because $2 an hour was very good money back then.
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And bizarrely enough, this incident wasn't enough to convince my parents to ever get locks on their doors.
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What the fuck is wrong with the 80s? Midwest trustworthiness strikes again. Sorry this was so long.
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I tried to edit it down as much as possible. Side note, I'm a forensic DNA analyst at a crime lab and I listen to the podcast at work.
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Anywho, thanks for being cool and have a spooky Halloween. Oops. Stay sexy and always call your dad instead of 911 and maybe don't live on gravel roads in meth country, Katie.
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Oh, my God. That. Twist and turns and cornfields. I love it. I mean, I'm sorry I love the stories of 11-year-olds in peril because it always pays off so nicely.
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It does. Yeah. Especially when they're babysitting infants. Babysitting babies. All right.
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I'm not going to tell you the name of this. This is a leftover from our Halloween that I just loved so much I wanted to read.
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Great. Hello, booze and ghouls. No, I should have thrown it away. Was that supposed to be boys and girls?
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Yeah, but it was booze and girls. So let's spook right to it. Oh, God. Please stop it.
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My parents first. This is a long one. I'm sorry. No. My parents' first home was located in a canyon in Southern California, which unfortunately, like most of California, had a habit of catching on fire from time to time.
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Yeah. They were lucky enough to avoid any fires while they lived in the home, but the previous owners were not so lucky.
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Supposedly, it had caught fire a couple different times, and one of those times, somebody died due to smoke inhalation.
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My mom told me that from the moment they moved into the house, weird things would happen.
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Doors closing mysteriously. Drawers in the kitchen would randomly be open again after she swears she closed them.
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Her toothbrush would show up in odd places. Toilets randomly flushing and faucets turning on.
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That's legit fucking spook. Yeah. Right? For sure. You know, typical ghost shenanigans.
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Then they started to find their sinks and bathtub randomly filled with water and other weird ghost shenanigans again.
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But whatever gets your ghost rocks off, I guess. she was creeped out but she is as they say more spiritual than religious and decided it was either
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a harmless spirit but more likely just weird coincidences in their home that is until one day
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she realized all of the furniture in her house was just a few inches too far from the walls
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no she thought she was just being overly anal about placement so she pushed it back and went
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on her merry way a few days later she noticed it again and pushed it back again a few days later
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again. Now thoroughly creeped out my mom and had my dad go through their house with a level to see
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if it was the old flooring or if their foundation was crooked. Nope. My mom told me she believed that
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whoever died in the home was trying to push the furniture away from the wall so they wouldn't
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catch fire in case of the fire. Super creepy. A few months go by and they decide to take a month
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long trip. When they came home, all of their furniture was pushed entirely to the middle of
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each room. All the drawers and cupboards were open and their bathtub and all of their sinks
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were full of water. Holy shit. Now completely freaked out by her spirit friends, my mom cleaned
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everything up, saged the shit out of their home and made my dad bolt all their furniture to the
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made my dad bolt all the furniture down. After that, it all stopped. Good. One day I was talking
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to my dad in our non haunted family home and a door slammed shut. I laughed and told my dad that
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their ghost was back for the younger generation of his family. He just stared at me blankly. I said,
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Dad, the ghost, the ghost that haunted your first home, the ghost that would fill sinks up with
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water, the ghost that put all your furniture in the middle of the room. He stared at me for a
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second more as if waiting for me to go on about all of the hauntings he experienced before bursting
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out laughing and said, No, I was just fucking with your mom. He did it? Apparently, with a lot of
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my dad faked haunted my mom for over a year after they moved into their first home and even gave
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his friend keys to the house to move the furniture while they were gone what the fuck he said he was
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so relieved when she finally saged the damn place so he could stop stay sexy and don't get fake
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point of shit out of your wife what weirdo so like and not letting her off the hook it's like
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this trusting thing that you don't have anymore in the person that you love could you imagine no like oh my god if vince did that to me but also it would mean that vince would
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be enjoying your fear it's and i wouldn't know for like weird i wouldn't know i would just think
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that our house was haunted. Also, then it makes me think of, like, the one million ghost shows
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that are on the History Channel or whatever, where, like, what if the majority of those
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are bored husbands? Yeah, and they're like, oh, shit, this has gone too far. She called fucking TLC or whatever.
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Look, there's water in the sink. She's like, I gotta keep doing it because that's...
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Calling in fucking. They were single-handedly responsible for the drought three years ago.
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