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Check it out. Instagram, my favorite murder. Goodbye. Hello. Oh, hello and welcome.
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This is my favorite murder, the mini-sode. This is a special spooky Halloween. Spooky Halloween.
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That's my friend Patty Riley, who I lived in the haunted house with. For some reason, and I think it was because there was like a card somebody got sent,
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but we used to say that to each other spooky halloween instead of happy halloween
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spooky halloween everybody okay we're reading you your scary ghost stories guys you knocked it out
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way to go i'm terrified are you ready yes okay this first one i'm going to i'm going to censor
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the subject line okay so i'm just going to tell you the subject line is trick or treat okay but
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That's not the whole one. Okay. Dear MFM team. I love it. I love that official borderline military feel to that greeting.
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A long time listener. Love the show. Love your pets. And I love the community. After listening to Georgia's Halloween story last week, I had to share my favorite memory
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of a tainted Halloween treat. I grew up in Canton, Ohio, which is a working class town about an hour south of Cleveland.
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We're famous for the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Who cares? and for showing up on lists like worst American cities to live in and most dangerous small cities.
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Oh my God. Love it. Okay. To set the scene, it's 1991. I'm nine years old and I'm trick or treating with my six-year-old brother in the nicer part of our neighborhood.
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We walk up to our aunt's house and get our candy. Mom tells us to go to the next few houses and she'll catch up as she finishes talking to my aunt.
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She finishes her Chablis. Yep. And her big long Benson Hedges Lights 100. That's right.
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Thrilled with this newfound trick-or-treat freedom, we head off. However, we quickly realize there's a problem.
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We look up the walkway to the next house, and we see the neighbor. Picture Bob from Twin Peaks.
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Oh, no. Sitting on the front stairs. He looks scary, but it's free candy, right?
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Right. My little brother and I look at each other in horror as Bob reaches his grimy hand into a large bag of potato chips
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and proceeds to place handfuls of loose potato chips into the trick-or-treater candy bag.
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Oh, my God. That's disgusting. We freeze because we're supposed to be polite and take the nice man's potato chips, right?
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Wrong. We turned around and hightailed it the fuck out of there. This psycho is giving children handfuls of loose potato chips.
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Run. To this day, my little brother and I dissolve into a pile of giggles at the thought of that creep and his loose potato chips.
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Were the chips plan A? Did he run out of candy and turn to what he considered the next best option?
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Were the chips plan A? Was he just trolling the neighborhood? We'll never know. SSDGM and happy Halloween, Christina.
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That's great. Loose potato chips. Loose potato chips in a trick-or-treat bag. Just sullying all the candy you have so far.
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Just ruin. Ruining it. Okay. This is called some spooky shit for Halloween. and then a sidebar cats know oh that's right Elvis yes Elvis um hi guys and gals no hi guy and gals
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oh I thought now that it almost Halloween it would be a good time for me to write in about my spooky paranormal experience I grew up in a small town in Colorado in a house that was super far away from other houses and it was unanimously agreed was haunted as hell
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All of the spooky was reported happening in the same room, the TV room in the basement.
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Of course, the stories mostly happened during parties with my friends hearing fucked up things
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or people acting weird in the wee hours of the morning. Except one time when a hippie lady stayed with us down there and told us she heard things
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screaming in the walls which we decided to blame on raccoons and move on they're a good catch all
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those raccoons goodbye my personal experience happened when i was about 17 my parents were out
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of town and decided to leave me in the enormous haunted house alone my dad was allergic to cats
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so they had to stay outside in our garage but i was spooked so i brought the homies inside
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it's fucking right that's right when uh we went downstairs because they're really going to help
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you when you get killed cats milling around as you're murdered i'm just like so sad at the idea
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of a fucking garage full of cats just like nothing as a cat person makes me more sad no um
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homies inside we went downstairs to watch some tv and i settled into the couch facing the tv with
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my back to the majority of the room one of my cats mistake one of my cats tito was on my lap
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and uncharacteristically really on edge he kept jolting up and staring over my shoulder at the
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same corner. I would turn around and look where he was looking and of course nothing was there,
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but he would just stare. He did this several times. He would go from purring and drooling
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in my lap to high alert with all his hair on end and staring at the same fucking corner over my
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shoulder. Then suddenly he hissed and bolted out of the room. I decided not today, Satan,
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and booked it upstairs to my room where he was waiting for me on my bed acting like nothing
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happened. So I got in bed and finally calmed down and I'd fall asleep. The next thing I knew,
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I had opened my eyes and my nose was an inch away from a wall. As I started to come to, I realized where I was.
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That's right. I fucking slept walked to the corner in the basement. I freaked out.
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I'm freaking out. And sprinted upstairs and launched in my bed. I checked my phone.
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It was roughly 3.03 a.m. in the morning, meaning that I must have been in the corner almost exactly at 3 a.m.
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No. The witching hour. Is it? I mean, yeah. Nothing like that has ever happened to me since
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and we are now selling the home. My mom used to tell my sister and I that the spirits have watched us grow up
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and so aren't a threat to us but might be mad about something else. But still, fuck that corner.
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Thanks for the awesome podcast. Stay sexy and trust your cat, Taylor. And then next to Taylor in parentheses, it says girl.
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Girl. Taylor girl. Girl. Taylor's a female. Taylor girl. That was a good story. That's right.
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Trust your cats. God, that's upsetting. To fucking sleepwalk and then wake up in the basement in a corner.
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In the bad corner. Like if I woke up and I had sleptwalked to the pod loft, which is a relatively like spirit free safe place, I would be freaked out.
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Oh, yeah. No, no, no. There's no good place. You could sleepwalk to the freezer where all the ice cream is and still be freaking the fuck out.
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Right. But to the fucking corner where your cat was pissing at? To the Blair Witch corner where the bad children go right before they're murdered?
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Exactly. At 3 or 4 a.m.? That's right. spooky Halloween spooky Halloween okay this next one is subject line
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my crazy neighbor a Halloween tale hello MFM family a while back you asked for crazy neighbor stories
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did we? I bet we didn't I love it I'm proud of the past yes please do it I love it
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and with Halloween coming up I figured I'd send this one in I grew up in a small Pennsylvania town
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in a quiet neighborhood There was never a lot going on, so we had to do what we could to entertain ourselves.
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From my neighbor's catty corner from us, this meant getting really into the holidays, especially Halloween.
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Think Haunted House in their garage, crazy long decor, blasting the theme from Halloween as soon as the sun started to go down.
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Quite frankly, it was amazing. Okay, now, I'm sorry to sidebar this already, but I told you and Vince this when we were on tour,
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but the last time we recorded in the pod loft at george's house i went when we were done and
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we're always done at like 11 10 30 i went down to my car that was parked in her garage and somebody
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was sitting in their car in the garage in the creepy ass garage of my like my apartment building
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has a fucking creepy like 80s japanese horror movie garage yes it's very uh it just seems like
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some where a bad thing would happen somebody was sitting in their car blasting the themed halloween
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That's so fucked up. So it was, I could tell if you were sitting in the car, it would be making your ears bleed.
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But outside the car, it was just plain loud. Oh my God, who? And at first I was like, haha, it's October and somebody's.
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And then as I was getting on my way to the car, I wanted to get into the car so bad.
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And my car unlocks automatically when you approach it because I have the key. And I still was trying to open it with the key because I was so freaked out by the time I got there.
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Because that music is so fucking. it's like who would do that it's just that it's bad keyboard yes that one right yes no i'm doing
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your version's perfect thank you okay anyway that's my personal experience yes spooky elvis
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elvis is so spooky okay and oh they said about the neighbor's decorations quite frankly it was
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amazing one halloween when i was in high school a group of friends and i were at my house preparing
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to go out trick-or-treating. And then in parentheses, too old? I think you're never too old to score some free candy.
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That's right. There was a knock on the side door, so thinking it was a friend of mine or an appropriately
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aged trick-or-treater, I went to answer it. Standing on the other side of our glass storm door silhouetted in the dark was a full man dressed as Michael Myers No He didn say a word He just stood there brandishing a knife and staring at me No And yes the Halloween theme was playing from across the street
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Naturally, I immediately gasped and ran away. My friends all freaked out when I told them,
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and then freaked out even more when Mike showed up at the window. What a dick. He didn't speak.
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He just stood there. We continued to run around the house, only to have him appear at the windows,
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until we realized some time had passed, and we had no idea where he had gone. So after losing our shit for a while,
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one of my guy friends decided he was going to be macho and go, macho is a parenthesis, or quotes,
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and go see where this fucker had gone and went outside. He came back five minutes later with a weird look on his face
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and told us to follow him around the side of the house. There we found my neighbor at the bottom of our stone cellar stairs,
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masked by his side, clutching his broken ankle. What? He had fallen in. while trying to sneak around our house in the dark.
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Luckily, he wasn't more injured because he seriously could have broken his neck,
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falling seven feet down the stairs to the bottom. That is not how I expected this to end.
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The knife ended up being fake, of course. Thank God. Or else that could have also ended really badly.
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Oh, my God. Needless to say, he ended up needing physical therapy and he never tried to scare us like that again.
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Stay sexy and maybe leave your neighbors alone, Allison. what a fucking dick that's what you get you fucking grown man for trying to scare a little
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kiss seriously he fucking paid the price immediately running around trying to scare them
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and he fucking just fell down seven fucking oh what a piece of shit i love i love that so much
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oh i love that so much so funny being an adult sucks i mean you know what would be really funny
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is if this new version of halloween came out the new jamie lee curtis which is apparently like
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breaking box office records and so huge and amazing but it would be funny if like that's
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the way they finally stop michael meyer he trips yeah they just do a little funny pit
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uh a trap pit for him yeah or what if he it's not on purpose though he like trips over like
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the neighbor cat tries to like cuddle up with him and like tries up his legs and he falls and
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starts crying he's like i hurt myself and i hurt other people i don't want to hurt other people
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I just wanted attention. He like, he walking through backyards, you know, there's that one great shot of him and
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he's like in between the sheets that are blowing in the wind. Yes. And then he walks forward and chokes himself on one of the laundry lines.
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Caught up in the sheets. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Okay. This is called Friendly Ghost Story, Chicago.
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Hi, MFM fan. Thank you so much for making ghost stories fair game for minisodes because I have been
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so excited to share this old ghost story that has been passed through generations of my family.
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Sweet. You people are the best. Okay, here it is. So it was smack dab in the middle of the
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Great Depression in Chicago, and my great grandpa was struggling, like everyone else,
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to provide food and shelter for his wife and several small children. One day he heard word
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that a local bank had a job available. He immediately dropped what he was doing and
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sprinted to the bank. But already a huge crowd of men had gathered who all wanted the job.
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And then it says in parentheses, what a messed up time. it really was tell me about it no women uh couldn't work there okay he waited for hours but
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never made it to the front of the line and eventually the boss man from the bank announced
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that the job had been filled and they should all go home totally defeated my great grandpa went to
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the local pub sure and then it says good for you grandpa as he is sitting drinking a beer the man
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sat down next to him at a bar he ordered a drink and they got to talking after several minutes of
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chatting the man out of the blue goes you should go back to the bank they have a job available
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My great grandpa was like, no, I was just there and they hired someone else. The man was like, nope, they have a job available.
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And my great grandpa was like, no, they don't. This continues. And I guess my great grandpa was pretty annoyed with the guy.
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Eventually he was like, fine, whatever, I'll go back. He thought that the guy was completely bonkers, but something in him made him walk back to the bank.
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Like expected, when he got back, it was bank business as usual. There was no crowd and the posting for the job had been taken down.
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He was about to turn around and leave when the bank doors open and the bank boss man is ushering someone out.
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Then he pointed to my great grandpa and said, you here for the job? My great grandpa was in shock, but somehow pulled himself together enough to ace an interview and get hired.
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Turns out that the guy, the boss man was ushered outside was the one they who they had originally hired, but something didn't work out.
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As soon as my great grandpa was done with the paperwork at the bank, he ran back to the pub because he wanted to find the man who sat next to him to thank him for somehow knowing the bank job would be open again.
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you're crying already i'm going to cry but when he got back the man was gone he asked the bartender
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did you know the man who was sitting next to me i need i need to find him and the bartender said
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i don't know what you're talking about there hasn't been anybody sitting next to you sorry
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that's exactly right that's exactly right i thought you were crazy because you were talking
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to yourself the whole time no my great-grandpa was totally confused as he walked home my family
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convinced that that bank job saved him and his family and so also my mom my siblings and me my
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irish catholic family thinks the mysterious man was an angel but i don't know friendly ghost seems
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more likely to me stay sexy and always do what your friendly pub ghost tells you to do bridget
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can i say bridget what i think it was yes because in the great depression and the crash of 1929
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all those bankers killed themselves and i bet you as a fucking banker from that bank
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and it's the reason one of the jobs was open and he fucking went there. It was his job.
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It was his job or his bank. Because why would he even be in that bank or know or haunt that bank?
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I love it. Scary. I love it. I should have seen that one for last. Shit, sorry. No, because there's this one.
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Okay, go. Because these are all so good. I know. Good job Stephen Good job picking those Stephen Stephen you did it Stephen hasn been here for 25 years Why are you talking to yourself Georgia There no Now what that voice
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Now I'm foghorn leghorn all of a sudden. We've gone completely away from an old miner.
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Okay. A ghost strangled my boyfriend and I puked. That's the subject line. Enough said.
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I once threw up a whole cranberry and chicken salad in a packed restaurant because of a ghost.
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here's what led up to that shining moment shit about five months before the vomiting incident
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i was sleeping in my boyfriend's room his room was always brightly lit from an obnoxious street
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light that shone in through his window like a floodlight fuck that shit uh around four no shades
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in your town yeah um around 4 15 a.m i woke to the sound of my boyfriend yelling no no and
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struggling in his bed i looked over and straddling his chest was a man in full air force attire oh
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my God, looked old fashioned and retro with both hands around my boyfriend's neck throttling
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him as my boyfriend appeared to struggle and yell. I started screaming at the top of my lungs and bolted out the front door to run and get
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help. This was the mid 90s. No cell phones for us. Early murder. You know, my boyfriend ran down the street after me, shouting at me to stop and telling
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me it says mansplaining in parentheses. It's not mansplaining that I must have had a nightmare.
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Bullshit. I know what I saw, and I definitely wasn't dreaming. I refused to ever sleep in his house again.
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For the next several days, I was so rattled that I would shake every time I thought of
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what happened. Oh, my God. That's post-traumatic stress disorder. Fast forward five months later, and we were in a new restaurant in town, which had vintage
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photos posted all over the place. After lunch, we walked around and took a look at some of these pictures.
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After a little while, my boyfriend said, look, it's a picture of my house. in addition to the framed photo of the house.
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Yes, get ready. There was also an inset picture of this soldier who used to live in that house
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and who had apparently died in World War II. It was the fucking man ghost that strangled my boyfriend months prior.
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I shit you not. He used to live in that house before he was killed. It gave me such a shock
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that I threw up my entire lunch right then and there and I ran out of the restaurant
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and had a major panic attack. Oh my God. It was a small town scene that people like to gossip about.
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The moral of the story is bring your barf bag with you after you've seen a ghost try to kill your boyfriend just to be safe
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ssdgm ladies lolo what the fuck i love it how satisfying to actually see it be it that's like
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something out of a movie and then you know it's so much more satisfying like that her being like
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that's him and trying to explain it it's just vomiting like that's like there's like the best
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way to get anything across is be like i'm i am so freaked out that i vomited like that's not
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something like baby remember i was telling you about that guy no yeah that's that's you can't
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argue that no it wasn't a dream yeah because of the worst dreams you've ever had you've never
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projectile vomited because of seeing a picture you can't mansplain projectile vomiting the idea
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that she's running out of the house screaming and he's trying to say don't do this anymore
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and it's mansplaining. Amazing. One more? Yes. You got one? Elvis is... I don't want to stop.
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This week on the podcast, I am sitting down with Ray Porter, the narrator of Andy Weir's audiobook Project Hail Mary,
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massive sci-fi adventure about survival and science and what happens when you wake up alone very far from Earth.
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I really had to make a decision because I caught myself getting that frog in my throat and starting to get teary as I'm narrating some of these sections.
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And it's like, OK, yo, yo, yo, is this indulgent? And I really thought about it.
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I was like, no, at this point, it would kind of be betraying the trust the author and the listener have in telling this story if I don't go through it.
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But there's places in this book that deeply emotionally affected me. And I left it on the mic.
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Oh, this one's creepy. This one's creepy just because of, like, the description of the ghost.
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Okay. Okay. It's called A Dead Camper? Question mark? Uh-oh. Hey, Georgia, Karen, Stephen, and all animals.
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Multiple L's. Huge trend of the show, and since it's October, I'm relisting to last year's ghost stories.
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They put little squiggly lines in the episode. In the event you do something similar this year or a creepy minisode sometime, I hope you find this creepy, too.
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I was born and raised in a very small town in New Hampshire, home of good old H.H. Holmes.
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Back in the early 1900s, our property was a summer camp for boys. Oh, wow. Just the worst idea.
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The smells everywhere. Our house's foundation was literally built around the old swimming pool.
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In our front yard, the concrete from the pool was covered with stones, but as the years passed, they fell off and revealed more paint from the pool.
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There's also weird things on our property, like a set of old wooden stairs built into a huge hill on just one side.
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No! Creepy. We had a good amount of land. What's that under there? I don't know!
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And in the backyard, my dad cleared it out to create bike trails and jumps for us.
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Rad. Anyways, when I was probably 12, my friend and I were riding our bikes and rode all the way down to where the clearing ended and the woods began.
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At the same exact time, we both came to a sudden stop and skidded off our bikes, basically staring at the woods, wondering what in the creepy ass hell we were looking at.
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Right at the tree line, there was a boy staring back at us who looked to be around nine years old.
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It was very dirty with shaggy brown hair. He was completely naked except for a shirt made out of fabric.
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Ew. Other than the makeshift shirt. Skirt. It says skirt, not shirt. Okay. Can I?
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So he's naked, but he's wearing a little skirt. Yeah. Okay. Like a wild boy. I like that better than if he was wearing a shirt with no pants like Porky Pig.
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Yeah, like naked from the waist down little boy. That's bad, bad. No, no, no, no.
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That's emergency situation. Skirt. Okay, skirt. Okay. Is it a grass skirt? Other than a makeshift skirt made out of fabric.
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Okay. Probably old timey. All he had was a dog that was already running away from us.
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He started us for a good 30 seconds before gently shaking his head. I don't know if I would call it a nod.
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And then he ran after his dog. We both freaked out, ran back home to tell our parents who believed us enough to go and check the woods, but obviously didn't see anything.
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I never saw him again, but it's always stuck with me. There's always been weird things that have happened at my house.
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Two of my other friends from childhood have said they thought my house was creepy, too.
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No shit. Yeah. I looked into my house as much as I could. All I really found was evidence of a wealthy businessman back in the day
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opening a camp that was for boys to teach them about hunting, archery, etc. No. After that, I can't find anything else.
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I even worked with my town's historical department, but they can't find much more either.
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My town is small. Everyone knows everyone and whose kids are whose. There no missing children at the time or ever basically It wasn any of my neighbors or classmates and I never seen that kind of dog before around town I like to think it a boy from the camp that either died there or ran away and died
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and was a, and then squiggly lines, ghost. Thanks for reading. Stay sexy. Don't get murdered.
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Katie. He was a ghost. It was a ghost. It was a little boy ghost who is living his best life, like best ghost life out in the
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woods. A wild child. He's got his fucking trusty hound with him. But why is he nodding his head?
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he's just like yep you saw me oh he was yes nodding he said it wasn't like a yes he said i
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nodded nodded his head i don't know if i would call it a nod of shaking his head i don't know
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if i would call it a nod shaking his head is creepy shaking is like stay away from this forest
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or something you're not supposed to be here because what if that you know what that reminds
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me of is fox island which is in the um upper peninsula in michigan is that the michigan
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killers what is it the oakland uh oakland child killer and that was that weird connection to
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they started an underprivileged boys camp on an island where they flew kids in the kids couldn't
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get back off the island most of the kids were underprivileged in some way and they fucking
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were molesting them they flew in sex perverts to fucking just have their yes and it like
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wealthy fucking oh my god this is like it's the 40s version but back when no one would have
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reported it and it goes to the fucking top it goes to the top it goes all the way to top oh my god
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what if that wealthy businessman who started that fucking camp for boys was named h.h.
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it was his first pass do you have another one also why would you build yes i do um why would
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you build no over a pool no no no no there's all sorts of problems it's foundationally and
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And spiritually. Earthquakely? Earthquakely? Spiritually? Foundationally? Okay, give me one second because this one.
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Yes. Okay. I'm excited. I'm not going to redo the subject line. Hi, Karen, Georgia, Stephen, and relevant furry creatures.
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Okay. All right. This story takes place back when my husband and I moved into our first house in Silmar,
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a suburb of LA. We know it very well. We know what Silmar is. Don't explain. Don't mansplain.
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Don't mansplain. Still marred me. We had been in a house for a few months and had just pulled together our music room.
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Well, well. Oh. We were jamming one night Oh Awesome Hubs on guitar me on drums with my back to the wall Sounds Is this a fucking invitation to come jam Is it a ghost email from Karen Carpenter
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All of a sudden he stops mid song. I think it was misfits hybrid moment. Oh, my God.
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Why are you my new best friends? So cool. And stares intently at the wall about two feet to my right.
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I, of course, freak out thinking there's a bug right next to me. Yeah. Only to discover that there is a smallish bubble under the paint on the wall.
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What the fuck? Curious. It says that on the email. Curious. I poked at it with my finger and it was squishy.
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Like there was liquid inside. We got a box cutter and cut a little hole in the bubble and a dark, thick liquid came oozing out and down the wall.
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Your wall is bleeding. Was this blood? Sewage. We had no idea. Horrified, we left it there and immediately started calling people to come out and investigate.
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A plumber came the next day and cut open the wall only to discover it was not blood and it was not sewage.
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It was honey. Honey. Oh, shit! That's right. Inside our wall was the melting remains of a beehive and hundreds of dead bees.
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Later, I put the pieces together of how it happened. before we moved in there were some holes in the outside wall of the house which we asked the
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previous owners to patch up as a contingency yeah so they did and in doing so they trapped
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the hive in there bee murderers we would never have known the hive was even there except for
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that it was 900 degrees outside that day we were playing music so the sun just melted the remnants
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inside the wall wow gross took days to clean out the sticky mess and quite sad to see all those
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dead creatures that are so crucial to our ecosystem it's true fun fact it had the same
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smell like when you drive by a beer factory oh maybe the honey fermented i don't know thanks
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for reading a big group of friends and i will be at your la show on halloween yay wait stay sexy
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and save the bees leah oh my god is that a good one and what a bummer that they had this like free
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fucking source of honey yeah then they couldn't use if they'd only kept them alive they could have
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tapped that little bubble that's right and just had a little like like there's a little bit of
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asbestos paint lead paint in there yeah but yeah there isn't everything don't worry about it and
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you like making a warm cup of tea and then you just go down to the jam room yeah and then what was her name leah and you like hey bees and they like hey leah yeah what up what up we still working real hard for you fucking killed it last night on the drum oh shit girl you can jam on the missus girl these bees have the deepest voices yeah what up girl
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kind of bros because they're from southern california they're bros they have backwards
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visors on their head yeah and they're just like leah we just want to make honey and chill
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that's right you play music that's right leah oh my god i mean i wish we could do this all night
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long guys keep sending us stories like this because well you know whenever we get these
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ideas for send us your whatever is we pepper them in whenever they come we just sure we just like
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read what's good we like good like it's almost just like it's like don't mansplain us the mini
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