Listener Tales 115: Halloween Tales

Weirdos! It's almost HalloWEEEEEEEEN! So grab your pillowcase, don your spookiest costume, and get ready to be treated to some iconic listener tales! To celebrate the most wonderful time of the year, Deb has curated a batch of spooky tales that are BY you FOR you and ALL ABOUT YOU! Don't forget to check out the YOUTUBE version to fully experience the iconic costumes, because Ash & Alaina are serving this month! If you’ve got a listener tale please send it to Deb by emailing us at [email protected] with “Listener Tales” somewhere in the subject line, and if you share pictures, please let us know if we can share them with fellow weirdos! :)

• 0:00Speaker 00

  Something wicked is brewing behind the walls of a remote Gothic manor. Victorian Psycho follows an eccentric governess whose arrival sets off a bloody string of strange and deliciously disturbing events. Micah Monroe stars as Winifred Noddy, a woman with a dark past and a vicious appetite for bloodshed, giving in to her most violent urges. What follows is a gruesome parade of savagery, butchered bodies, and increasingly grotesque acts of violence. Also starring Jason Isaacs, Thomason Mackenzie, and Ruth Wilson. Victorian Psycho is coming only to theaters November 13th.

• 0:38Speaker 00

  Calling all vampires, it's time to satisfy that eternal thirst at Burger King. Sink your fangs into the new Vampire's Bite Strawberry and Sprite. Refreshing Sprite swirled with bold strawberry flavor and served with a Sour Punch Candy straw for that extra bite. Sip if you dare. Vampire's Bite Strawberry and Sprite is here for a limited time at participating US Burger King restaurants while supplies last. Visit BK.com to learn more. Sponsored by Burger King.

• 1:08Speaker 00

  Here's one holiday mystery officially solved. What to get the man in your life? The Old Spice Holiday Gift Pack is that perfect gift that he's actually going to use. It's also a great value since each ready to gift pack includes four, one, two, three, four, honey, full-size products. There's a deodorant, body wash, body spray, and a shampoo. Choose from scents including Swagger's Cedarwood scent and Fiji's Palm Tree and Coconut scent. Old Spice makes holiday shopping easy, leaving more time for building that epic backyard snow fort. I'm obsessed with that. I will absolutely be putting this in Drew's stocking. Buy Old Spice Holiday Packs for a limited time to give the gift of scent this holiday season.

• 1:51Speaker 01

  Hey weirdos, I'm Carrie White.

• 1:53Speaker 00

  I'm the Sea Hag from Widows Bay.

• 1:55Speaker 01

  This, this is morbid.

• 2:12Speaker 00

  It's morbid. We're wounded.

• 2:15Speaker 01

  I'm sticking to myself.

• 2:16Speaker 00

  I, yeah, you are a masterpiece, though.

• 2:20Speaker 01

  So are you.

• 2:21Speaker 00

  Thank you.

• 2:21Speaker 01

  To be quite honest.

• 2:22Speaker 00

  We love being covered in blood.

• 2:24Speaker 01

  Yep.

• 2:24Speaker 00

  Like fake wounds.

• 2:26Speaker 01

  Yep.

• 2:27Speaker 00

  Fake blood, obviously.

• 2:28Speaker 01

  The uglier the better.

• 2:29Speaker 00

  Yeah, just being ugly and bloody is the most fun ever.

• 2:32Speaker 01

  It really is.

• 2:33Speaker 00

  It's cool that this is our job.

• 2:34Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 2:35Speaker 00

  I love it.

• 2:35Speaker 01

  It is. And hopefully like halfway through this, I can just go, and something in your house will break.

• 2:40Speaker 00

  Oh, that'd be crazy. Wait.

• 2:42Speaker 01

  All right, so it's all manifest.

• 2:43Speaker 00

  Right in if that happens.

• 2:44Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 2:45Speaker 00

  I'm not gonna kill any of you because it's a, it's an interesting way to go.

• 2:49Speaker 01

  And you have to do something to get killed.

• 2:52Speaker 00

  That's true.

• 2:52Speaker 01

  She doesn't, she doesn't just go after anyone.

• 2:55Speaker 00

  I know. I was really sad. I wanted to get tooth decay because in the, in the show, her teeth are like fucked up.

• 3:00Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 3:01Speaker 00

  But I couldn't get tooth decay in time. It's, it's harder than you think.

• 3:04Speaker 01

  It's a common problem.

• 3:05Speaker 00

  It is.

• 3:05Speaker 01

  You know, you know what I, you know what I did use though for this entire look on my face? The Anastasia Soft Glam Palette, which I said, if only Anastasia knew. I mean, if anything's soft glam, I would say this.

• 3:21Speaker 00

  What do you think?

• 3:23Speaker 01

  Like, I don't think that was her intention.

• 3:24Speaker 00

  Maybe not.

• 3:25Speaker 01

  Build about the palette.

• 3:26Speaker 00

  Maybe it was.

• 3:27Speaker 01

  You don't know her life.

• 3:27Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 3:28Speaker 01

  We don't know. I'm sticking to things, so.

• 3:30Speaker 00

  My hair is sticking in my wounds.

• 3:31Speaker 01

  My hair is.

• 3:34Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 3:34Speaker 01

  Also, that's not only is real hair, that's a wig.

• 3:36Speaker 00

  No.

• 3:36Speaker 01

  Which like, isn't that crazy?

• 3:38Speaker 00

  Cause it looks like your exact real hair color.

• 3:40Speaker 01

  It does. It was kinda crazy.

• 3:41Speaker 00

  But I'm so glad that you got.

• 3:43Speaker 01

  For picking it up.

• 3:44Speaker 00

  Yeah, she literally, Deb Deb ran out this morning because we were like, maybe we shouldn't put all that blood in your hair.

• 3:48Speaker 01

  I was like, you know what? I don't really wanna try to get this viscous sticky blood out of my hair.

• 3:53Speaker 00

  Getting it off your body alone.

• 3:55Speaker 01

  Yeah, it's gonna be an experience and I have to pick my kids up.

• 3:58Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 3:59Speaker 01

  So.

• 3:59Speaker 00

  John thinks that she should take them to dance like that.

• 4:02Speaker 01

  And I agree.

• 4:03Speaker 00

  I think it'd be funny.

• 4:04Speaker 01

  And I said, I was like, I should just walk into the waiting room like this and just sit down and just be like, hey, guys.

• 4:09Speaker 00

  I mean, the kids are wearing their costumes.

• 4:11Speaker 01

  And anytime someone says something to me, just go.

• 4:14Speaker 00

  I like it.

• 4:15Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 4:15Speaker 00

  I think it'd be funny.

• 4:16Speaker 01

  If I wouldn't get like arrested.

• 4:18Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 4:19Speaker 01

  I would do it.

• 4:19Speaker 00

  I know.

• 4:20Speaker 01

  You know?

• 4:20Speaker 00

  Yeah, that's the, that's the tough thing about life is you have to consider being arrested.

• 4:24Speaker 01

  You know? Well, welcome to our Halloween listener tale. All that being said.

• 4:29Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 4:29Speaker 01

  You sent in your spookiest tales.

• 4:32Speaker 00

  You did.

• 4:32Speaker 01

  And we're gonna read them.

• 4:33Speaker 00

  We sure are.

• 4:34Speaker 01

  And you usually go first. I'll scroll for you.

• 4:36Speaker 00

  I was gonna say, she's got a, the Sea Hag has to scroll for me.

• 4:39Speaker 01

  The Sea Hag is willing.

• 4:41Speaker 00

  Cause I've been through it.

• 4:42Speaker 01

  I know. I've, I meant to get yucca nails too.

• 4:44Speaker 00

  Yucca nails. Instead you have cute nails.

• 4:46Speaker 01

  I do. Shout out to Helly.

• 4:47Speaker 00

  Techie Nail Salon.

• 4:50Speaker 01

  All right, let's start with this one because it's called The Time I Brandished a Bop It. And I've never met a bop it that I couldn't beat the shit out of, so I feel.

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  You're like freakishly good at bop it.

• 5:02Speaker 01

  I am. That's something I will, I will love that.

• 5:05Speaker 00

  Freakishly. Not to call Carrie a freak five minutes in, but.

• 5:08Speaker 01

  Yeah, not, not to, not to trigger me, but.

• 5:11Speaker 00

  Don't, don't do that.

• 5:12Speaker 01

  But I can fuck up a bop it.

• 5:13Speaker 00

  Yeah. You're always like setting high scores for the children.

• 5:16Speaker 01

  Yeah, it, it's one of those things where if I go into a house and there's a bop it and it's like, high score or 40, I'm like, and then I set it to high score 100 and nobody can beat it.

• 5:25Speaker 00

  As you should.

• 5:26Speaker 01

  So I feel qualified to do this one.

• 5:27Speaker 00

  She is.

• 5:28Speaker 01

  All right, let's see if I can read with blood in my ass.

• 5:30Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 5:31Speaker 01

  Let me set the scene. It's Halloween day in October 2008 and the financial crisis is in full swing.

• 5:37Speaker 00

  Spooky.

• 5:38Speaker 01

  Ooh. I'm just a moody teen in the suburbs of Philadelphia with my scene hair, layered tops, and royal blue skinny jeans. We are transitioning from MySpace to Facebook at a rapid rate. Blockbuster just got Avatar and The Vampire Diaries is changing lives.

• 5:54Speaker 00

  I gotta watch that.

• 5:54Speaker 01

  A simpler time. I actually have never watched The Vampire Diaries.

• 5:58Speaker 00

  No, I haven't either.

• 5:58Speaker 01

  And I feel crazy for it.

• 6:00Speaker 00

  I wanna watch it and everybody says I look like one of the girls from there.

• 6:02Speaker 01

  Yeah, it's true.

• 6:03Speaker 00

  Probably not right now, but.

• 6:04Speaker 01

  A simpler time, if you will, minus the financial crisis. They're probably blue. Sorry, adults.

• 6:09Speaker 00

  Yeah, probably.

• 6:09Speaker 01

  Halloween fell on a Friday this year, which meant I was free to go hang in someone's basement just as soon as I finished babysitting. Sorry, a thing of blood just dripped right down my nose.

• 6:18Speaker 00

  Gorgeous.

• 6:19Speaker 01

  Like literally.

• 6:20Speaker 00

  Yeah, I saw that. It's coming down the middle now. It might get in your mouth.

• 6:23Speaker 01

  Sorry, I don't, I'm committed to the fucking bit.

• 6:25Speaker 00

  She's about it.

• 6:27Speaker 01

  So it fell on a Friday. She could hang out in someone's basement just as soon as I finished babysitting my neighbor's two boys. What more could a teen want? So it's six-ish and I'm walking down to the house for the babysitting job. The sun is setting and there's a cool crisp breeze, the most perfect Halloween night.

• 6:42Speaker 00

  I love it.

• 6:43Speaker 01

  This family had moved in a few years prior to the house at the end of the block.

• 6:48Speaker 01

  I, I said that with one full breath, but it was actually two separate thoughts. A family had moved in a few years prior and they had moved into the house at the end of their block.

• 6:57Speaker 00

  There you go.

• 6:58Speaker 01

  It sat at the end of the street down a long winding driveway that weaved through the trees. It was completely secluded from the main road and a good 15 to 20 minute walk from my house. I didn't mind the walk, especially because it was such a beautiful evening, obviously. When I eventually arrived, the parents run me through the usual spiel. Pizza's out, soda in the fridge, and head out for their Halloween party. The two boys, let's call them Drake and Josh.

• 7:23Speaker 00

  Iconic.

• 7:23Speaker 01

  Were always angels. Drake was probably six and Josh was four. I babysat these boys frequently and honestly say I never had any issues with them. The night started out normal, fort building and Halloween movies on TV with the lights out for the cozy spooky vibe.

• 7:38Speaker 00

  Y'all.

• 7:39Speaker 01

  Everything was going swimmingly until I casually saw a figure run from one side of the backyard to the other and into the woods surrounding the house.

• 7:46Speaker 00

  That will change the vibe.

• 7:48Speaker 01

  Nice.

• 7:49Speaker 00

  That'll, that'll in fact kill the vibe, likely.

• 7:51Speaker 01

  The house was shaped like a square and had a beautiful old wraparound porch that overlooked the wooded area.

• 7:56Speaker 00

  Oh, that feels like so like scream and Halloween.

• 7:59Speaker 01

  When she goes out on the porch. Yeah. This meant the entire first floor was pretty much covered in windows with three sliding glass doors that opened to said porch.

• 8:09Speaker 00

  That's horrific.

• 8:10Speaker 01

  Normally this home was idyllic and peaceful, but to me in that moment, it started to feel very unsafe and very exposed.

• 8:17Speaker 00

  Yeah, windows are tough.

• 8:18Speaker 01

  No. Now, I wasn't overly concerned yet because whatever it was seemed to be passing through and wasn't heading towards the house. I also tried to rationalize that it was probably a deer or some other animal. I understand that. As casually as I could, I asked the boys to please clean up and head upstairs to get ready for bed, a little early. Being the sweet baby angels that they were, they didn't protest and went straight upstairs.

• 8:40Speaker 00

  Oh, this is a so far good babysitting gig.

• 8:43Speaker 01

  Once I knew they were upstairs, I slowly started walking through the downstairs, making sure windows and doors were closed and locked.

• 8:48Speaker 00

  Nice.

• 8:49Speaker 01

  I didn't dare turn the lights on. The house felt like a fishbowl on a good day. And if, if there was someone out there watching us, I did not wanna draw them closer. Mind you, I was shaking like a leaf and doing my best to keep it together. I would have been shitting my pants.

• 9:01Speaker 00

  I would have called the parents and said, I'm actually leaving.

• 9:03Speaker 01

  Yeah, I'm actually, I'm gonna leave your kids here.

• 9:05Speaker 00

  Bye.

• 9:06Speaker 01

  Everything seemed fine and I was starting to relax. Maybe this was just a weird guy on Halloween night doing whatever weird guys do.

• 9:13Speaker 00

  And that thought made you relax?

• 9:15Speaker 01

  That's a valid thought, though.

• 9:17Speaker 00

  It's a valid thought, but not a relaxing one.

• 9:21Speaker 01

  That is until I heard what sounded like an animal slam right into the window.

• 9:25Speaker 00

  No.

• 9:26Speaker 01

  I turned around and at the opposite window, there was a dark figure standing pressed against the glass.

• 9:31Speaker 00

  No.

• 9:31Speaker 01

  It was hard to see clearly, but I looked, it looked like a man cupping his eyes with his hands to peek inside.

• 9:37Speaker 00

  No.

• 9:38Speaker 01

  When I tell you I dropped to the floor, I literally hit the deck so hard, I knocked the wind out of myself. I immediately started feeling around my pockets for trusty hot pink razor phone.

• 9:47Speaker 00

  Oh.

• 9:48Speaker 01

  I'm so jealous you had one. I didn't.

• 9:51Speaker 00

  I never, I don't know if I had a razor phone either. I can't remember.

• 9:53Speaker 01

  Yeah, I didn't have one. But then remembered I had given it to one of the boys so they could play games while getting ready for bed. Big oh shit.

• 10:00Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 10:01Speaker 01

  So there I was, flat as a pancake on the kitchen floor, hiding from whoever was outside. My friends and I consider ourselves tough, cold-hearted, cool teens, but in that moment, I felt more terror than I had ever felt before and deeply regretted ever acting badass.

• 10:15Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 10:16Speaker 01

  After a few minutes on the floor and gathering some newfound bravery in the dark, if only for the kiddos, I bolted upstairs to retrieve my phone. The kids were already in their beds. They shared a room. They preferred to be together, even though the house had plenty of rooms. Like, come on.

• 10:29Speaker 00

  That's cute.

• 10:30Speaker 01

  I shut their door, telling them to keep the lights off and they could watch their little box TV as long as they wanted, but to please not come out. Back in the hallway, I tried both parents' cell phones, but both went straight to voicemail.

• 10:43Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 10:43Speaker 01

  That's so unsafe.

• 10:44Speaker 00

  That's not good.

• 10:45Speaker 01

  What are you doing?

• 10:46Speaker 00

  Two thousand eight. It's a financial crisis.

• 10:47Speaker 01

  Trying not to blow this out of proportion, I sat down on the top step to get a grip. That's when I heard the sliding glass door open downstairs.

• 10:55Speaker 00

  No.

• 10:56Speaker 01

  Followed by footsteps. I decided that now is a great time to blow things out of proportion.

• 11:02Speaker 00

  Y'all.

• 11:02Speaker 01

  I frantically dialed nine one one and practically whisper screamed to the operator that there was a man in the home I was babysitting in and to hurry the fuck up.

• 11:10Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 11:11Speaker 01

  The footsteps were getting closer and I was just frozen in fear at the top of the stairs. I could hear the man reach the bottom of the staircase, slowly start walking up and approach the landing hallway at the stairs.

• 11:21Speaker 00

  Go get a knife.

• 11:22Speaker 01

  The stairs were in L shape, so he couldn't see straight up to me until he turned at the landing.

• 11:27Speaker 00

  Get a knife.

• 11:28Speaker 01

  Not knowing what to do, I s- get a knife.

• 11:31Speaker 00

  Get a knife.

• 11:31Speaker 01

  I slid backwards off the top step towards the wall and hit my tailbone hard on a piece of plastic.

• 11:37Speaker 00

  That's not what I told you to do.

• 11:38Speaker 01

  That's not getting a knife.

• 11:39Speaker 00

  No.

• 11:39Speaker 01

  Shit, I thought he definitely heard that. At this point, the man had practically reached the top of the stairs. I guess he was not planning on being met by a terrified teen girl. All of a sudden, from behind my back, a voice yelled, "Pull it!"

• 11:53Speaker 01

  I had backed my way.

• 11:55Speaker 00

  Oh, no.

• 11:56Speaker 01

  Into a freaking bop it.

• 11:58Speaker 00

  Oh, my god.

• 11:59Speaker 01

  Neither I nor Mr. Intruder was expecting this.

• 12:02Speaker 00

  Hey, weird things can become a weapon when you need them to.

• 12:05Speaker 01

  And that's a pretty good weapon. A bop it is a bop it is a bop it. Okay, whatever way you gotta use that, you use it.

• 12:11Speaker 00

  Yeah, bop his head right in.

• 12:12Speaker 01

  And you know what? She took a split second to grab the bop it and swung it as hard as she could right into his shins.

• 12:17Speaker 00

  Period. Oh, in the shin. That was kinda smart.

• 12:20Speaker 01

  Right? More shocked and confused than injured, he lost his footing, turned around and started booking it down the steps. All while the bop it man was politely asking us to select a game mode.

• 12:30Speaker 00

  I'm obsessed.

• 12:31Speaker 01

  I truly do not know what came over me, but armed with a bop it, I suddenly had a surge of confidence. I ran down the stairs after him, screaming absolute nonsense at the top of my lungs. In hindsight, not great. In the moment, fell right.

• 12:43Speaker 00

  Yeah, whatever.

• 12:44Speaker 01

  The man took off out the back sliding door and into the woods.

• 12:47Speaker 00

  Oh, my god.

• 12:48Speaker 01

  Right around then, the cops and the kids' parents were pulling into the driveway. I screamed and pointed in the direction he ran and the police took off after him. Turns out, he was the adult son of another neighbor who returned back and had been squatting in their shed out back. I guess he figured no one was home when he saw the parents' car pull out of the driveway. And since he had the lights off, he, we had the lights off, he assumed the kids were gone too.

• 13:11Speaker 00

  So he was just like bopping lol into their houses when they were gone?

• 13:15Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 13:16Speaker 00

  Ew!

• 13:17Speaker 01

  Yeah. No. You gotta get some cameras.

• 13:20Speaker 00

  What the fu- and also like why, like the adult son of another neighbor, go live in your own house.

• 13:24Speaker 01

  Exactly.

• 13:24Speaker 00

  Don't live at my house.

• 13:25Speaker 01

  Thankfully, the boys never left their room again. Absolute angels. And didn't hear a thing like over SpongeBob. Anyways, this was actually written up in the town paper. My mom has a copy of it and if I find it, I'll send it to you. They left out the bop it part, which in my opinion is the finest word.

• 13:41Speaker 00

  Yeah, that's bullshit.

• 13:41Speaker 01

  But hey, can't win them all, right? Thanks for reading my tale. Keep it weird.

• 13:45Speaker 00

  I ca- I would never babysit again.

• 13:48Speaker 01

  I would too.

• 13:49Speaker 00

  And babysit again.

• 13:50Speaker 01

  On Halloween night?

• 13:52Speaker 00

  Sorry.

• 13:52Speaker 01

  Is your eyeball okay?

• 13:53Speaker 00

  I keep getting a glove of blood in my eye.

• 13:56Speaker 01

  Oh, no.

• 13:57Speaker 00

  Your eye looks healthy.

• 13:58Speaker 01

  I'm good.

• 14:00Speaker 00

  Remember when I poked your eye the other night? Your eye looks healthy. I literally shoved my acrylic-

• 14:06Speaker 01

  My brain.

• 14:06Speaker 00

  No, I don't. I went to hug someone and I'm over the top clearly. My nail went into the corner of her.

• 14:13Speaker 01

  Literally?

• 14:14Speaker 00

  Like up and like literally, I said, "Oh!"

• 14:17Speaker 01

  Like it was literally like that thing of like you touch two neurons together and like something happened.

• 14:22Speaker 00

  I know, I felt things you should never feel with your bare hands.

• 14:25Speaker 01

  Like I'm sure you sure I like did something weird when she did it.

• 14:28Speaker 00

  My nails must be really clean because I do wash my hands a lot and I always like really go underneath them. So as to not get the flu and be yucky. So the fact that you didn't get any kind of eye disease from my nails is pretty impressive.

• 14:40Speaker 01

  It is pretty impressive.

• 14:41Speaker 00

  Pretty impressive. All right, shall we move on?

• 14:45Speaker 01

  Let's move on. That was a good one.

• 14:46Speaker 00

  That was a really good one. And honestly, again, like really, I told you to get a knife, but I underestimated you with that bop it.

• 14:52Speaker 01

  It's true.

• 14:53Speaker 00

  Good, good use of weapon. Okay, tale number two, The Strange Events of Curdle Quick Falls.

• 14:59Speaker 01

  Curdle Quick Falls?

• 15:01Speaker 00

  Curdle Quick.

• 15:02Speaker 01

  And The Strange Events of Curdle Quick Falls?

• 15:05Speaker 00

  I can't.

• 15:06Speaker 01

  Like something I wanna listen to.

• 15:07Speaker 00

  I can't decide. Yeah, I wanna listen to that a lot. The door just closed, so that was scary.

• 15:13Speaker 00

  Was the door open? Questions.

• 15:16Speaker 01

  Who can be sure?

• 15:16Speaker 00

  I, I, how do drag queens-

• 15:18Speaker 01

  We don't have the answer to.

• 15:19Speaker 00

  How do like drag queens survive when they have like long wigs on like this and like they have to like turn their heads?

• 15:24Speaker 01

  I know.

• 15:25Speaker 00

  Like you can't be quick.

• 15:26Speaker 01

  They're better than all of us, to be quite honest.

• 15:27Speaker 00

  Yeah, queens forever.

• 15:30Speaker 00

  But yeah, I can't decide if I like how curdle quick feels in my mouth or not.

• 15:32Speaker 01

  Curdle quick. I don't like it in my mouth.

• 15:35Speaker 00

  I don't think I like it either.

• 15:36Speaker 01

  But it sounds scary.

• 15:37Speaker 00

  Anyways.

• 15:38Speaker 01

  Cause it's curdling quick.

• 15:39Speaker 00

  Curdle quick.

• 15:41Speaker 01

  Okay. Curdle is a disgusting word.

• 15:43Speaker 00

  It really is, cause you picture it.

• 15:44Speaker 01

  Worse than moist, I think.

• 15:46Speaker 00

  Yeah, curdle is. Curdle should be outlawed.

• 15:48Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 15:49Speaker 00

  Well, that's the bad on that.

• 15:51Speaker 01

  That is the bad on that.

• 15:52Speaker 00

  If you can see my yoga pants, no you can't.

• 15:54Speaker 01

  Sorry, I'm gonna put my little thing over here.

• 15:56Speaker 00

  So, hey weirdos, it's Boom Boom Sauce Daniel again.

• 15:59Speaker 01

  Hell, yeah! Boom Boom Sauce Daniel.

• 16:01Speaker 00

  Boom Boom Sauce.

• 16:02Speaker 01

  We tried Boom Boom Sauce.

• 16:04Speaker 00

  When we went to Pennsylvania, we tried it. Here's the thing. I didn't think it was like incredible.

• 16:09Speaker 01

  I thought it was really good.

• 16:10Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 16:10Speaker 01

  It just didn't bother my stomach at all.

• 16:12Speaker 00

  I, you know what? I will say I didn't try nearly enough because I am a Daniel and I would've shit my pants.

• 16:18Speaker 01

  You would've. So I think you just needed more.

• 16:19Speaker 00

  Maybe I needed more.

• 16:20Speaker 01

  We'll go back to Pennsylvania.

• 16:21Speaker 00

  I personally really like the Wendy's Signature Sauce.

• 16:25Speaker 01

  That is pretty good.

• 16:26Speaker 00

  I'm obsessed with it right now.

• 16:27Speaker 01

  I really like the Domino's Slice Sauce.

• 16:29Speaker 00

  I really like that too and I think it's actually similar to the Wendy's Signature Sauce.

• 16:34Speaker 01

  Sauce.

• 16:34Speaker 00

  Sauce with hash and a little, okay. It's Boom Boom Sauce Daniel again.

• 16:39Speaker 01

  Hell, yeah, Daniel.

• 16:40Speaker 00

  First, I almost shit my pants again when I was driving home from work and heard you guys- Never stop shitting your pants. And heard you guys read my last listener tale. You guys made my day.

• 16:49Speaker 01

  Aww.

• 16:50Speaker 00

  As for my husband, this was the first time he heard this story. And I'm officially not allowed to eat Boom Boom Sauce anymore. Don't worry, I have connections. Ha ha. Oh, and also, I feel like it was absolutely rude of me not to share my pumpkin spice espresso martini recipe. So I promise every time I submit a listener tale, I will include a cocktail recipe to go with it.

• 17:09Speaker 01

  Wow.

• 17:10Speaker 00

  Daniel.

• 17:10Speaker 01

  Daniel forever.

• 17:12Speaker 00

  Anywho, I saw that you two were looking for Halloween tales and oh, boy, do I have one for you.

• 17:17Speaker 01

  I bet you do.

• 17:17Speaker 00

  Actually, I have two. However, I'm gonna send you one now and another later because these two stories are on completely different spectrums. One involves a Ouija board and the other involved Disney characters.

• 17:27Speaker 01

  Whoa.

• 17:27Speaker 00

  I promise you, when I send the other one, you'll understand. For this listener tale, we're gonna have a little bit of a history lesson. But also, we're gonna take a very dark turn. Today, our cocktail is called demise. Whenever you see a word in bold, italicized or underlined, take a sip.

• 17:44Speaker 01

  Ooh.

• 17:44Speaker 00

  Okay, so this is Daniel's recipe. Two ounces of vodka, two ounces of cranberry juice, one ounce of cherry juice. Combine all of the ingredients together in a shaker, fill it with ice and strain it, shake it, and then strain it into a shot glass evenly. And only do that if you're twenty one or over. Yay.

• 18:01Speaker 00

  So, I felt like, um, never mind. So pour yourself a drink, buckle, buckle up, and here we go. Deep in the rolling hills of central New York lies, oh, the Catskill Mountains. In the seventeen sixties, the Native American trails were used by European settlers to branch out and build farmland and sanctuaries during the revolution. Many of these farmlands became thriving towns today. However, there is one village that was lost or forgotten.

• 18:28Speaker 01

  Dun dun dun.

• 18:29Speaker 00

  Dun dun dun. However, there's one village that was lost or forgotten. It's not even possible to find it on the map.

• 18:34Speaker 01

  Oh, no.

• 18:35Speaker 00

  It could barely be classified as ruins. Now, what happened here? I've been asking myself this for years and I still don't have any answers. I've searched all over for answers on what happened to this village, but it's as if it's been erased from history completely. It was Halloween morning, two thousand nine. I love that we're going chronologically.

• 18:52Speaker 01

  Two thousand nine.

• 18:53Speaker 00

  Cause last, it was, last tale, it was Halloween two thousand eight.

• 18:55Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 18:56Speaker 00

  Look at that. This is the next one, two thousand ten, Deborah. Wow, fired.

• 19:00Speaker 01

  Sure.

• 19:01Speaker 00

  She said, "I don't fucking know."

• 19:02Speaker 01

  Did that on purpose.

• 19:04Speaker 00

  I was a senior in high school and a group of friends and I decided to enjoy what was left of the fall foliage and go on a hiking and camping trip. This would probably be our last one before we went off to college next year. Our group includes me, Daniel, Avalon, Sierra, Trent, Marcus and April.

• 19:19Speaker 01

  That's a cool group.

• 19:20Speaker 00

  I like that.

• 19:21Speaker 01

  Right there.

• 19:22Speaker 00

  I won't list last names for privacy reasons, so while we were packing, we made sure to bring all the essentials. Tents, food, first aid kit, sleeping bag, flashlights, water, et cetera. Because it was Halloween, Sierra thought it would be fun to bring a Ouija board. You never know when you might need it. April brought holy water, sage and incense because she didn't want any of, want any of that bad juju or fuckery in her tent.

• 19:42Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 19:42Speaker 00

  Now, we couldn't decide where to go hiking because we've been out to most of the hiking spots in the Catskills. So we decided to just get in my friend's car, drive through the area until we found a random hiking trail that we hadn't been to before. And after three hours of driving, we finally came across an unknown parking area. Beyond it was a hiking trail. This looked like a perfect place to stop. We made sure we brought a map and compass with us and placed a spot on the map as we, as where we parked to, as to where we parked our car. I got through that. Thank you for being with me.

• 20:13Speaker 01

  Good job.

• 20:13Speaker 00

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• 23:05Speaker 00

  As we began the hike, we agreed to stay on the trail. No detours. I feel like somebody made a detour. After three hours of hiking, we decided to stop and take a 10 minute break. We broke out the snacks, lit up a joint and we all, we all just took in the beautiful autumn day. Suddenly we heard the faint sound of running water. We noticed it was coming from the east side of the trail. So we decided to leave a muffin, haha, yes, a muffin on a rock, so we could locate where we were.

• 23:34Speaker 00

  What if somebody eats that muffin? Am I missing like, is this like a euphemism or something? No, it says, haha, yes. Just like an actual muffin. All right. I thought I was just old and I was missing something. What if, what if an animal eats that muffin though, you guys? If I was an animal, I would eat that muffin. I am an animal and I did eat that muffin. I'm gonna go eat that muffin. Retroactively, consider the muffin ate. I'm gonna make some muffins, actually. Now that we're talking about them. What does he say in Mean Girl? Is your muffin buttered? Oh yeah. Would you like us to assign someone to butter your muffin? I watched that movie Far Too Young. She say, go shave your back.

• 24:10Speaker 00

  Bye, Jason. You're, yeah. You can go shave your back now. Bye, Jason.

• 24:17Speaker 00

  All right. So we walked east for about 20 minutes after placing a muffin. Came across an enormous stunning waterfall. Stunning. Stunning. It was so beautiful. We decided this would be the perfect time to go skinny dipping. Ooh. Without hesitation, we all stripped and jumped into the pool of water at the bottom of the waterfall. It was so fucking cold, but it felt so nice. I, it honestly felt and smelled like the purest water I've ever seen. We can come back here for drinking water, I screamed. I took a sip and it tasted so pure. The lovely Marcus chimed in, sorry, I peed. Ew, you drank Marcus's pee. Well, that would. I'm sticking to myself. Oh, I can, I can literally feel that for you. Well, that was lovely while it lasted.

• 24:58Speaker 00

  We finally got out of the water after half an hour and then realized we didn't bring any fucking towels. So what did we do? We stopped, dropped and rolled until we were somewhat dry.

• 25:11Speaker 00

  What, Daniel? Daniel, you had me at boom boom sauce. You lost me at rolling in the woods to get dry.

• 25:20Speaker 00

  You, you've lost me, Daniel. I hope you get me back. Daniel, I'm gonna need you to lay out the logic of that. You rolled around in the dirt? Yucka. Daniel. I don't like that at all. I thought I felt sticky. Yeah. All right. Well, we love you still. We love you, Daniel, but that was a choice. Then you guys got dressed and headed west toward the trail. Dirty. Dirty, very dirty, much like myself. After half an hour of walking west, we did not come across the muffin that we had left out because Ash ate it. Retroactively, we left it right on top of the rock that was located between two small oak trees. We did not find that rock or the trees. Freaking out, we decided to walk north until we came across another trail. There had to be one out here.

• 26:05Speaker 00

  It was about five o'clock and the sun was starting to go down. The sun. Not the sun. Oh my God. We knew we'd better make camp and get a fire going. Still, without a trail, we came across an opening in the forest. However, it was unlike any spot we'd ever seen before. All around us, there were rotten, disheveled pieces of debris that looked like the remains of log cabins. In the center of the opening was a giant circular stone. What was this place? Don't go there. That's giving like wrong turn shit. Yeah, it really is. Before it could get dark, we set up all our tents, built a small fire where the stone was and had dinner. We split up and walked around. You're like, yeah, let's just set where this stone is that looks ominous and ritualistic. Let's use it for like a dinner table.

• 26:50Speaker 00

  Dinner there. Daniel. Daniel, we split up and walked around the area. Oh no, not your eye. It's gonna happen a few times. Just keep, just keep swimming. It is what it is. If you wanna put, I don't know if this will help, but if you wanna spray some setting spray on that towel and then kinda like. I think I'm okay. Okay. We owe you. If you wanna spray yourself with setting spray, it might stop moving. I feel like. It might make it move again. I don't really know. Yeah, I was gonna say, I don't, I don't know how it would work. Yeah, I don't blame you. Okay. So we split up and walked around the area to check out what these logs were used for. Maybe we could use it for firewood. Avalon, Sierra and I went one way. Trent, Marcus and April went the other way. One of the habitats was still somewhat together.

• 27:35Speaker 00

  It was falling apart completely, but not as bad as the others. We crawled inside a dilapidated building and looked around. Daniel, the boom boom sauce is one choice. This is another. I think your husband's gonna be more mad about this. Yeah. There was more debris, stones and even a pistol. I put the pistol back. I am playing with guns, even if it is ancient. And we crawled back out. Someone's gonna kill you. Yeah. We walked back toward the campsite and I stepped on one of the large pieces of stone. On it was carved, Kirtle Quick Falls. You guys, get your asses over here. I could hear April scream. Something wasn't right. She had a weird tone in her voice. We ran in her direction, but couldn't find them or in their direction. We called for them and followed their voices. We ran further into the woods.

• 28:20Speaker 00

  By now it was fully dark and we were looking for their flashlights. Finally we found them and they're looking to the ground in a state of horror. We all flashed our lights to the ground and what we saw turned our skin cold. Teeth. Hundreds of teeth. Human teeth all over the ground. I know it was human because Marcus pulled out a random bag of raccoon teeth, don't ask, and said, well, it's not raccoon. No, we're not gonna say, don't ask. I kind of love that. We're not gonna say, don't ask, Daniel. You're not gonna say he pulled out another bag of another kind of teeth? Don't ask about it though? Don't ask. I'm asking. That's not cool. I'm asking, Daniel. What is that? I will not be cool. Don't be all uncool. I am not cool.

• 29:04Speaker 00

  I'm not cool. That's why they poured pig's blood on me. I'm not cool. What's with the raccoon teeth? Tell me. There's a bag of them. Why he just had a bag of them on his person? Do you remember when we thought we stumbled across a bunch of human teeth?

• 29:22Speaker 00

  Why he just had a bag of them on his person? Do you remember when we thought we stumbled across a bunch of human teeth?

• 29:32Speaker 00

  It's, let's see how to tell the story. So it was. How do you tell that story? I'm telling it now. It was topical. It was topical. It is topical because it was Halloween. It was. And we had a space where we were filming. It was like, what? That was probably like five years ago now. Yeah, it was Halloween. Yeah, it was Halloween when we did like the Australia show and then we did like a Europe show. So we had like three days of shows.

• 30:01Speaker 00

  And I can't explain why, but there was fake teeth in one of our bags.

• 30:08Speaker 00

  And neither of us knew it. Cause they weren't, they weren't, yeah, neither of us put it there. Somebody else put them there. And it also wasn't a prank. Just figure that out. But at some point, somebody's bag like broke and we were packing up to leave. It was just human teeth on the floor. And it had to have been like two in the morning. And I think Drew was like, ah, I just found a tooth. And we were like, what? We were like, we know who lives here, but like, they wouldn't have teeth here.

• 30:39Speaker 00

  They wouldn't have teeth just scattered on the floor. And then we figured out whose fake teeth they were and we don't talk to them anymore.

• 30:50Speaker 00

  And that's the tea. Don't ask.

• 30:56Speaker 00

  Oh, your eyes getting a little squinty, Mama.

• 30:58Speaker 01

  Oh, it's because it just stuck together.

• 30:59Speaker 00

  Oh, okay, okay. Oh, man. So, after seeing those teeth, I had no clue how I was gonna sleep tonight. It had to be shared.

• 31:11Speaker 01

  Out here.

• 31:13Speaker 00

  Thought to myself, this place looks like it's been abandoned for at least a hundred years. Of course, we're safe. We walked back to the campsite and sat by the fire. You just sat, like you didn't just go home.

• 31:24Speaker 01

  You just found some human teeth.

• 31:26Speaker 00

  And then you sat by the fire.

• 31:27Speaker 01

  You guys are are unflappable in a way I can't describe.

• 31:30Speaker 00

  Unflappable. Listen to this shit. As we sat on the stone, Sierra pulled out the Ouija board. Anyone up for some Halloween fun?

• 31:37Speaker 01

  Honestly, at this point, sure, let's go.

• 31:39Speaker 00

  I'd say, Mama, no.

• 31:40Speaker 01

  Why not? We're here. We already have teeth.

• 31:43Speaker 00

  I did just do my first Ouija board.

• 31:45Speaker 01

  She did.

• 31:45Speaker 00

  I did. And, um, check out Two Girls, One Ghost Feed on Saturday. Yeah, if you want to find out more about that. Uh, every, this is crazy, though. Everyone else was enthusiastic. I, however, was not. Not after seeing those teeth.

• 31:59Speaker 01

  The right response, Dan.

• 32:00Speaker 00

  That's valid. If you see teeth in the woods and you can confirm that they're human because you have raccoon teeth to compare them against, don't do a Ouija board is your next step.

• 32:09Speaker 01

  I also like that. Well, they're not raccoon teeth. The only other plausible explanation is human.

• 32:16Speaker 00

  Well, maybe somebody was like.

• 32:19Speaker 01

  Raccoon?

• 32:20Speaker 00

  No.

• 32:20Speaker 01

  No, they look more like human.

• 32:22Speaker 00

  They look more like yours. Oh, man. So April wasn't too thrilled, but she took a few shots of tequila and it put her into the festive spirit. But in the spirit of Halloween, why not? So we set up the board and we placed our fingers on it. Is there anyone trying to communicate? Sierra asked. We waited a few minutes. Nothing. She tried again. Nothing. April pulled out the incense and lit it, hoping it would help. Let me try, Avalon demanded. Is there anyone trying to communicate?

• 32:49Speaker 01

  Come on.

• 32:50Speaker 00

  Hello? I did just burp through that. Hello? I'm trash. Nothing happened on the board, but it instantly got much colder. It had to have dropped at least fifteen degrees. As we all let go of the planchette, the wind picked up and knocked the game off the stone.

• 33:07Speaker 01

  Oh, no.

• 33:08Speaker 00

  We chased after it and when we caught up, there it was, lying face up with the planchette hovering over. Yes. Everyone thought it was coincidental, but not me.

• 33:17Speaker 01

  Not Daniel.

• 33:17Speaker 00

  We took the board back over to the stone and set it up again. We were trying to determine what to ask next. When I finally thought of the perfect question, we all placed our fingers back on the planchette and I asked, what is your name? We waited patiently for a few minutes before the board started to move very slowly. A, B, I, G, A, L, E. Abigail with an E.

• 33:40Speaker 01

  Ooh, I like that. Abigail.

• 33:42Speaker 00

  Abigail. We all thought somebody was moving it, but we all denied it. What happened to you? I asked. We waited patiently again, and this time, we waited for about ten minutes. As we waited, we noted that the fire was, we noticed that the fire was getting smaller and smaller. What happened to you? I asked again. We kept waiting for a response, but nothing. Suddenly, the fire got so small, it eventually went out. We sat there with our fingers shaking on the planchette with nothing but the night surrounding us. Nothing but dead silence. Uh, no wind sitting, stirring the trees, no moonlight, no sounds coming from the wildlife in the woods. Nothing but midnight air chilling us to the bone.

• 34:20Speaker 01

  Cinematic, Daniel.

• 34:22Speaker 00

  Bitch.

• 34:22Speaker 01

  Cinematic.

• 34:24Speaker 00

  Gladious. Suddenly, we hear a light movement coming from behind Sierra. As we look in her dire- direction, we see nothing, but it wasn't nothing. For when we all looked at Sierra, we all saw the faint condensation of breathing over her shoulder.

• 34:44Speaker 00

  It was heavy.

• 34:45Speaker 01

  About that and when I saw Mark Rober.

• 34:47Speaker 00

  Condensation of breathing.

• 34:49Speaker 01

  Why you can see your breath. It's because you're putting too many water particles into the air and it can't hold it, so it makes a cloud.

• 34:56Speaker 00

  The more you know.

• 34:57Speaker 01

  Science.

• 34:58Speaker 00

  Science with Carrie. That's cool. It was heavy and it was pronounced because the air couldn't handle it. I freaked out.

• 35:05Speaker 01

  Absolute.

• 35:06Speaker 00

  Wasn't up for the task.

• 35:07Speaker 01

  Wasn't up.

• 35:08Speaker 00

  You can't expect air to just do everything. I freaked the absolute fuck out, whipped out my flashlight and pointed it at Sierra. Nothing. There was nothing behind her.

• 35:16Speaker 01

  Ooh.

• 35:17Speaker 00

  Fuck this, April screamed. She got her sage holy water and started blessing everything. We all took a shot of holy water. Are you supposed to do that?

• 35:26Speaker 01

  What is in holy water?

• 35:28Speaker 00

  Holy water? I mean, you guys already rolled in the dirt of the woods.

• 35:31Speaker 01

  Yeah, I guess. I mean, why not?

• 35:32Speaker 00

  But we were all afraid that April would probably waterboard us with that shit. At this point, it was time for fucking bed. Enough spooky shit for one night. We got in our tents. Me, Avalon and Sierra shared one. Trent, Marcus and April shared the other, as we all went, and we all went to bed. I know I wasn't going to sleep well after that, so I popped a melatonin and after about a half an hour, I fell asleep. Now, this is probably the most fucked up dream I've ever had in my life. I was dressed in colonial clothes, sitting at a table inside of a house with a family of five. There was a man, a woman and two children. All of us were sitting at the table, eating dinner. In the corner, there was an old woman slouching in her chair toward the fire. After dinner, the man and woman put their kids to bed. Good night, Abigail.

• 36:15Speaker 01

  Oh, with an E.

• 36:17Speaker 00

  With an E, they said to the old woman and went up to bed. While I sat there at the table, the woman remained in her chair. After a while, she stood up, grabbed a knife and lit a candle, put the knife in her dress and walked away.

• 36:31Speaker 00

  Stay ready, I guess.

• 36:35Speaker 01

  You never know.

• 36:36Speaker 00

  Always be prepared.

• 36:37Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 36:37Speaker 00

  That's what our last listener could have used.

• 36:39Speaker 01

  Exactly.

• 36:39Speaker 00

  Her dress. When she came back, she was followed by the two children. Wouldn't it be so funny if she had a bop in her dress? Old timey colonial woman. When she came back, she was followed by the two children, but they didn't stop at the table. They walked right out the front door. I don't like it.

• 36:56Speaker 01

  I don't know about Abigail.

• 36:57Speaker 00

  Abigail.

• 36:58Speaker 01

  Abigail.

• 36:59Speaker 00

  I stood up and I.

• 37:00Speaker 01

  Swallowing blood, sorry.

• 37:02Speaker 00

  I couldn't let it go. It was great. Abigail.

• 37:05Speaker 01

  I don't know about Abigail.

• 37:07Speaker 00

  I'm swallowing blood, okay? I stood up and followed them, and when I walked outside, the old lady was surrounded by a large group of children. Gladys?

• 37:14Speaker 01

  Uh-oh.

• 37:15Speaker 00

  The parents, I'm guessing, were all asleep. She smiled at all of the children and they smiled back. Then she looked directly at me as if I had no business being there. After making direct eye contact with me, she smiled, turned away and walked into the woods with the children all following her.

• 37:32Speaker 01

  She's the Pied Piper.

• 37:33Speaker 00

  She's Gladys. Walking through the woods, the old woman pulled out the knife, cut her hand, cuts her hand, and begins brushing her blood across the skin of each of the children.

• 37:49Speaker 01

  I don't like it. I don't like this.

• 37:51Speaker 00

  Then they were walking off as if in a trance. After a few moments, they came across a waterfall. Walking toward the waterfall, the full moon was shining down on all of them. I hid behind the trees. That's what I would do, too. The children gathered around the old woman in the light of the moon, all of them staring at the moon in a trance with a handprint of blood on them. Gazing at the children, then looking to the moon, the old woman broke her concentration and then looked directly at me, again smiling. She let out a cackle.

• 38:22Speaker 00

  And then she blew out the candle. Screams. We were all awoken by the sound of screams.

• 38:27Speaker 01

  Screams.

• 38:29Speaker 00

  We were all awoken by the sound of screaming coming from every direction. We jumped out of our sleeping bags, ran out of the tents and looked around. Panicking, we shined our flashlights all over the place, looking for the source of the screams. We had all heard it, every single one of us. I looked down at my shirt and I was completely soaked with sweat. My shirt was absolutely soaked. Trying to calm down, we all decided to squeeze into one tent for the rest of the night. None of us got any sleep whatsoever. Finally, the sun was rising. We wanted to get the fuck out of there as fast as we could. We shoved the tents, sleeping bags and everything into our packs as fast as possible, got the compass out and decided to walk south until we found something. After a few hours, the impossible happened.

• 39:12Speaker 00

  We found the rock with the fucking muffin on top of it because Ash was only kidding and she didn't retroactively eat it. Sitting right between the two trees.

• 39:19Speaker 01

  I would have ate it.

• 39:20Speaker 00

  Fuck that muffin, I screamed.

• 39:22Speaker 01

  Fuck that muffin.

• 39:24Speaker 00

  No one touched it, no bugs, no animals, nothing. I picked up the muffin and threw it at the tree just to let off some steam. We finally knew where.

• 39:35Speaker 00

  We finally knew where we were and could head back to the car safely. We were all so physically tired and emotionally drained from what had happened, but we were alive. We knew where we were and we could make it home safely. I sat beside the rock for a few moments, thanking my lucky fucking stars when I noticed something strange. Again.

• 39:54Speaker 01

  Another strange thing?

• 39:55Speaker 00

  The rock that the muffin was on top of looked like it had been burned. Then I looked closer and what I saw made my fucking blood run cold. Carved on the rock read Abigail Skinner, seventeen seventy-four.

• 40:08Speaker 01

  With an E.

• 40:09Speaker 00

  With an E. Absolutely fucking not. I have never hauled ass so fucking hard in my life. I honestly could have won the Boston Marathon with how fast I was running. On top of that, I had a giant pebble in my shoe. I was sure my foot was bleeding at this point, but we finally got to the fucking car and I could breathe. I sat on the ground, took my pack off and put my head between my legs. It got to the point where I was hyperventilating, thankful to be alive, but I could not believe what had just happened.

• 40:35Speaker 01

  No.

• 40:36Speaker 00

  Then we began the journey back home. Thankfully, Trent had some of his hash brownie left over, and I gobbled that down. I was finally feeling a little more relaxed as we drove home. After an hour, we stopped for gas. While we went inside to grab snacks, I stayed outside and filled up. As the car was filling up, I slid my shoe off to see if I was bleeding. There was more blood than I had expected. I quickly bandaged it up with a first aid kit and then went to get the rock out of my, and then went to grab the rock out of my shoe. Only, I didn't pull out a rock.

• 41:07Speaker 01

  Nope.

• 41:08Speaker 00

  I pulled out a tooth.

• 41:10Speaker 01

  A raccoon tooth.

• 41:12Speaker 00

  I think human.

• 41:13Speaker 01

  Raccoon.

• 41:14Speaker 00

  Human. I've been haunted by the, and scarred by this for years.

• 41:19Speaker 01

  He had a tooth in his, I'm sorry, I blew past that. He had a tooth in his fucking shoe? You had a tooth in your shoe?

• 41:25Speaker 00

  Oh, and it was probably like one of those like, like really bad, um, like, like rooted ones.

• 41:30Speaker 01

  Like the ones that are like thick, like crazy roots.

• 41:33Speaker 00

  Long.

• 41:34Speaker 01

  Oh, my god.

• 41:36Speaker 00

  Ew. I hate it.

• 41:38Speaker 01

  No, I don't, you don't recover from that.

• 41:40Speaker 00

  Yeah. I didn't think something like this would be possible, but when I looked further into it, you can only imagine how many villages have been lost, not just in the Catskills, but in all of New England. Anywho, if you read the second one, thank you so much. Below, I will attach my pumpkin spice latte espresso martini recipe for you all to enjoy.

• 41:59Speaker 01

  Daniel comes bearing gifts.

• 42:00Speaker 00

  Period. Two cocktails for one.

• 42:02Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 42:03Speaker 00

  Thank you for being such amazing people. No, thank you, Daniel.

• 42:06Speaker 01

  Daniel, we love you.

• 42:07Speaker 00

  Stay weird, make good choices, and don't end up on forensic files. If you do, give me a shout out. It is my bedtime show. Remember, no Friday is a bad Friday unless you are Jesus and have the best Halloween ever. All my love, Daniel, or as my mom calls me, dipshit Daniel. The shoe fits.

• 42:24Speaker 01

  Your stories are cray cray.

• 42:25Speaker 00

  You're also an incredible storyteller.

• 42:27Speaker 01

  You really are.

• 42:28Speaker 00

  I don't know why I can't speak, but you're an amazing storyteller.

• 42:30Speaker 01

  A tooth in your shoe, Daniel.

• 42:32Speaker 00

  A tooth in your shoe goes crazy.

• 42:33Speaker 01

  It's like a pox on your house, but it's a tooth in your shoe.

• 42:36Speaker 00

  A tooth in your shoe. I'm gonna start saying that now.

• 42:38Speaker 01

  I like that better than a pox on your house. Yeah, that's good.

• 42:41Speaker 00

  Oh, my god, I can't wait for this.

• 42:42Speaker 01

  Ew, what is that?

• 42:43Speaker 00

  It's hair.

• 42:44Speaker 01

  Oh, that looks so disgusting.

• 42:48Speaker 00

  Sorry, it was bothering me. Uh, it's also stuck to here.

• 42:52Speaker 01

  Giant glob, just like coming down from your chin.

• 42:55Speaker 00

  How do I?

• 42:56Speaker 01

  It's dry, though.

• 42:57Speaker 00

  Oh, I feel it.

• 42:58Speaker 01

  No, there's another one. Oh, there, oh, oh, oh, there they all are.

• 43:05Speaker 00

  Wow.

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• 44:24Speaker 00

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• 45:30Speaker 00

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• 46:01Speaker 00

  Okay, your turn.

• 46:03Speaker 01

  Okay.

• 46:03Speaker 00

  Okay, Carrie.

• 46:04Speaker 01

  This one's called Halloween Listener Tale.

• 46:07Speaker 00

  Straight to the point.

• 46:08Speaker 01

  I like that. Uh, hi, weirdos. My name is Morgan. Feel free to use my name.

• 46:12Speaker 00

  Oh, you have a big glob coming down from your nose. Oh, there it goes, there it goes, there it goes. It's going.

• 46:18Speaker 01

  Ploop.

• 46:19Speaker 00

  I feel it.

• 46:20Speaker 01

  Ew, it looks like a booger.

• 46:22Speaker 00

  It's hell.

• 46:25Speaker 01

  I just discovered your podcast last month, and I'm obsessed, like, binging constantly now. Thankfully, I listened to a recent episode encouraging to send listener tales and wanted to share my spooky tale with you.

• 46:37Speaker 00

  Do it, Morgan.

• 46:38Speaker 01

  So this happened when I was a teenager, like, seventh grade, I think. It was October, so it was in full spooky season mode.

• 46:45Speaker 00

  Was it 2010, Morgan?

• 46:46Speaker 01

  It was. I'm, that's canon.

• 46:48Speaker 00

  It better be.

• 46:48Speaker 01

  I was sleeping over a friend's house, and her mom was a nurse that worked inpatient at a local hospital. We, of course, were staying up late, binging on Too Much Sugar and watching scary movies, as teens do.

• 46:59Speaker 00

  Yeah, girl.

• 46:59Speaker 01

  My friend's mom came home from work around 11:00 PM, and you could tell she just looked kind of on edge. She didn't say anything to us when she walked in and just kind of looked distant. I was pretty close to this friend and her family, so I could instantly tell something was off.

• 47:13Speaker 00

  I mean, Halloween, as a nurse, must absolutely suck.

• 47:16Speaker 01

  My friend asked her mom, who we'll call Sandy, what's up? And she came in and sat down by us, still in her scrubs. Yuck.

• 47:26Speaker 01

  Don't sit on your couch.

• 47:27Speaker 00

  Oh, yeah.

• 47:29Speaker 01

  What did he say?

• 47:31Speaker 00

  Later.

• 47:32Speaker 01

  Sit on your couch later, after you showered. Nobody yell at me. I also wore scrubs, so I get it.

• 47:37Speaker 00

  Yours, yours had like dead people on them.

• 47:39Speaker 01

  Mine were even worse.

• 47:42Speaker 01

  Sandy goes, oh, I just kind of had a weird night, and gave us a faint smile. We asked her what happened, and she was reluctant to tell us. But of course, we kept pushing until she finally agreed to let us in. She told us she had an elderly male patient that night, who we'll say went by the name of John. John, unfortunately, was not doing well and was sedated much of her shift. She cared for him more of the days, uh, most of his days, until he passed away in the early evening. After his family came and said their goodbye, it was time to take John's body to the morgue.

• 48:12Speaker 00

  To Elena.

• 48:13Speaker 01

  To me. It was part of Sandy's job to assist with cleaning and prepping the body to help transfer. Sandy started removing all of the, his lines and telemetry leads, the lines that monitor, uh, monitor heart rate and waves up on the monitor. John's body was taken to the morgue, and Sandy was continuing to clean up the room when all of a sudden, the heart waves on the monitor started again.

• 48:35Speaker 00

  No, thank you.

• 48:36Speaker 01

  Making a beep every time a wave would form. Again, John was no longer hooked up to the machine. And even if he was, those waves would not be forming as he had already passed. Sandy said the room felt ice cold.

• 48:49Speaker 00

  I don't like it.

• 48:50Speaker 01

  Sandy was a pretty deeply religious woman, and she knew that the patient's listed preferred religion was Catholicism. She called the hospital's on-call priest to come to the room and say a blessing. She never expected what would come next.

• 49:02Speaker 00

  Oh, bitch. I love, when a priest shows up?

• 49:05Speaker 01

  Ah, it's so spooky.

• 49:06Speaker 00

  It's gonna get fucked up.

• 49:06Speaker 01

  Priests are the spookiest, and they don't even know.

• 49:08Speaker 00

  They are. They don't even realize it.

• 49:10Speaker 01

  Do you think they do?

• 49:11Speaker 00

  I would. If I was a priest, I'd be like, I'm hella spooky.

• 49:14Speaker 01

  If you were a priest, is a crazy thought. If Elena was a priest, everybody.

• 49:19Speaker 00

  If I was a priest.

• 49:21Speaker 01

  Wow. It's like Beyonce's If I Was.

• 49:23Speaker 00

  Watch Midnight Mass if you haven't, speaking of priests. I always am yelling about Midnight Mass.

• 49:27Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 49:28Speaker 00

  Doesn't get enough love.

• 49:29Speaker 01

  If I was a priest.

• 49:30Speaker 00

  If I was a priest.

• 49:31Speaker 01

  The priest came to the room and also observed the waveforms on the heart monitor. He began saying a prayer, and the waveform started going crazy, increasing in speed, beeping frantically, and when the priest finished, it stopped completely.

• 49:45Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 49:45Speaker 01

  The priest then asked out loud, is this John? And the monitor displayed a single waveform, letting out a single beep. The priest then stated, I'm going to ask you some more questions. If the answer is yes, why is the priest doing a Ouija board?

• 49:58Speaker 00

  I was literally just gonna say, why is he holding a seance?

• 50:01Speaker 01

  I need to.

• 50:01Speaker 00

  The priest is holding a seance. I just spit. I actually just spit, because that's so wild.

• 50:05Speaker 01

  The priest is holding a seance. What is happening?

• 50:10Speaker 00

  Hello?

• 50:10Speaker 01

  I would be so put off by that. I'd be like, what is going on?

• 50:13Speaker 00

  Especially if you were Catholic.

• 50:14Speaker 01

  Like, I feel like you'd be like, can you stop talking to the dead person?

• 50:18Speaker 00

  On Halloween?

• 50:19Speaker 01

  So he said, if the answer is yes, give us a single beep, bitch. If the answer is no, give us two beeps. The priest began, he didn't say bitch, I did. The priest began asking basic questions.

• 50:31Speaker 00

  He's a wily priest.

• 50:32Speaker 01

  So that priest, the wily priest, began asking basic questions such as, is this your birthday? And are you a male? And included questions that both the priest and Sandy knew were incorrect.

• 50:43Speaker 00

  Oh.

• 50:43Speaker 01

  The machine provided the correct number of beeps every single time. Sandy said the questioning lasted about 15 minutes until the priest asked one final question, asking, is there anyone that can help you get to the light? The monitor did not beep, but only showed a single flat line, as you would see if someone no longer had a heartbeat. Sandy said that after that, nothing else happened in that room for the rest of the night. As Sandy was driving home, she decided to pray for John and his family, asking God to help John find his way to heaven. She said the entire drive, she felt that someone was sitting in the backseat, but every time she looked, nobody was there.

• 51:25Speaker 00

  Gross. Ooh, there was a creek. Yeah, I don't like that.

• 51:28Speaker 01

  Sandy told us all of this when we got home. And initially, my friend and I were like, oh, yeah, okay, it's Halloween time. You got us. But something on her face told us that she was not kidding around at all.

• 51:38Speaker 00

  I love that you're like, okay, Sandy.

• 51:40Speaker 01

  Okay, Sandy.

• 51:41Speaker 00

  All right.

• 51:41Speaker 01

  Crazy Sandy. She said, good night, and we went downstairs to their finished basement to sleep, but we were not asleep for long. A few hours later, I woke up to their dog whining. As I looked up, the dog was staring up at the wall, looking up at some decorative metal trays that were screwed into the wall. He then started barking, and my friend woke up. We tried to call the dog over to settle him, but he would not move. All of a sudden, we heard a loud noise, ting, ting, ting, ting, and saw screws fall to the floor along with the decorative metal trays off the wall.

• 52:13Speaker 00

  Ew.

• 52:14Speaker 01

  We screamed, as there was no way that metal tray would just magically become unscrewed to the wall.

• 52:19Speaker 00

  No.

• 52:19Speaker 01

  Sandy and my friend's father came running as they heard the crashing of the metal tray to the floor, followed by our screams. We all huddled together and looked down at the tray, and I see that it's an old Coca-Cola tray that says in big font, "Thank you." I looked up to Sandy, and she just lets out a smile. I like that. I like the way of describing that, letting out a smile. Like, you keep it in sometimes.

• 52:41Speaker 00

  Yeah, I like it.

• 52:43Speaker 01

  She told us she truly believed that was John saying, "Thank you for the care and for the prayers." After this experience, my friends said they never had anything else happen like that in the home and never felt anything malicious. I myself now work in a hospital and have had multiple experiences after a patient passes. I think hospitals can sometimes be viewed as a holding place between life and afterlife. I like to think that John was able to cross over, and Sandy was a contributor to that process.

• 53:10Speaker 00

  I like that.

• 53:11Speaker 01

  Thanks for listening, and hope you all had the spookiest October ever.

• 53:16Speaker 00

  You know what? It wasn't spooky enough.

• 53:18Speaker 01

  Here's the thing, it really wasn't.

• 53:19Speaker 00

  We didn't do enough.

• 53:21Speaker 01

  It really wasn't.

• 53:22Speaker 00

  It was busy. It was a good October.

• 53:23Speaker 01

  It was a great October. It was just very busy.

• 53:25Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 53:26Speaker 01

  Um, also, I have something to say about this.

• 53:29Speaker 00

  I'm nervous.

• 53:30Speaker 01

  So, when the freaky ass priest said, "Can someone help you cross over?" And the line was like, "No."

• 53:37Speaker 00

  What if that was somebody being like, "Don't, don't help him."

• 53:41Speaker 01

  Well, they didn't say no.

• 53:42Speaker 00

  It didn't say anything, because remember, it was one beep for yes, two for no. Maybe it didn't know.

• 53:48Speaker 01

  And then we just, like, crossed him over.

• 53:51Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 53:51Speaker 01

  I'm just devil's advocating.

• 53:53Speaker 00

  It's true. Yeah, I don't know. I don't even know if she, like, meant to cross him over. I think she was just like, prayers up.

• 53:59Speaker 01

  Yes, I think Sandy was pure of heart and intention.

• 54:01Speaker 00

  She was like, whatever you want, dog.

• 54:03Speaker 01

  I don't know about that priest, though.

• 54:05Speaker 00

  The priest was not pure of intention.

• 54:07Speaker 01

  I got.

• 54:07Speaker 00

  I actually don't know if he was a priest.

• 54:09Speaker 01

  I don't think that was a priest.

• 54:10Speaker 00

  I think that was like, maybe a custodian in costume.

• 54:13Speaker 01

  So you brought in Zach Bacon's in costume.

• 54:17Speaker 00

  Tale number four, Elena. It's time.

• 54:19Speaker 01

  It's time.

• 54:20Speaker 00

  It starts with saying, "What's up?"

• 54:24Speaker 01

  It's my favorite thing from Scary Movie.

• 54:26Speaker 00

  What's up?

• 54:27Speaker 01

  Oh, what a time.

• 54:29Speaker 00

  And howdy from down in the deep south, Texas.

• 54:32Speaker 01

  Texas ass.

• 54:33Speaker 00

  You wrote it that way. I didn't say it like that. Yes, I spell it that way on purpose, but that is a story for another podcast. Ha ha, you can use my name. It's Luna.

• 54:39Speaker 01

  Ooh, pretty name.

• 54:40Speaker 00

  It's a gorgeous name.

• 54:41Speaker 01

  The moon.

• 54:42Speaker 00

  You mysterious and mystical maidens of the macabre. That felt so good coming out of my mouth. "Mysterious and mystical maidens of the macabre," I love alliteration. "I've gotten me through two family losses, two moves, an engagement, and a pregnancy."

• 54:56Speaker 01

  Whoa.

• 54:56Speaker 00

  "Without your consent, diligent oft-" uh, it's constant.

• 55:00Speaker 01

  I was just gonna say, without my consent.

• 55:02Speaker 00

  Without our consent, what'd you do?

• 55:04Speaker 01

  I was like, what the hell?

• 55:04Speaker 00

  "Without your constant diligent, often grueling work, many of us would likely have gone insane over the past half a decade."

• 55:10Speaker 01

  I appreciate that.

• 55:11Speaker 00

  Thank you. "You're truly a blessing to those of us who enjoy true crime and spooky stories, but need a little dose of the warm and fuzzies."

• 55:19Speaker 00

  So, la la la, we are awesome. But enough of the adoration. Lol.

• 55:27Speaker 01

  Lol.

• 55:28Speaker 00

  "I'm here to share a special Halloween haunting with you that my friend and I not only witnessed together, but have tried desperately since to convince ourselves it wasn't real."

• 55:36Speaker 01

  It was real.

• 55:37Speaker 00

  "I have waited many moons, many lunas, to tell you this tale, as I didn't want to believe in the supernatural entities or cryptid creatures of the unknown."

• 55:45Speaker 01

  Ooh.

• 55:46Speaker 00

  "It was a very dark night on All Hallows' Eve, and my friends," we call, well, we can call her Kathy for this story. "Kathy's parents decided to host a party, and my friend could invite whoever, but we lived in the middle of the countryside, and not many people our age had cars. We were still in high school at the time, but luckily, I had an older friend with a car who came to pick me up and take me over to Kathy's. We'll call her this friend, Wesley."

• 56:08Speaker 01

  Wesley.

• 56:09Speaker 00

  "So, being the only teens at the party, we inevitably got bored sitting around and watching adults drink and have fun. So of course, we decided to go do some spooky stuff. I mean, it's Halloween and the sticks, for fuck's sake." Needless to say, we only got to the spooky place, uh, we go to the only spooky place we know, the over-century-old cemetery behind the auto parts shop. Now, keep in mind, this was over a decade ago, back in the 2010s. We got to the 2010s.

• 56:35Speaker 01

  The 2010s, we made it.

• 56:37Speaker 00

  Chronological. So we're talking headstones that date back to the late 1700s and early 1800s. There are even infant graves and family plots.

• 56:47Speaker 01

  Oh, that's sad. Hate that.

• 56:49Speaker 00

  "My friend Kathy and I are quite witchy and spiritual, her even more so than I, who keeps a healthy amount of skepticism usually. This event, however, made me a true believer in dark energies and entities being capable of manifesting themselves. See, because as we slowly branch off and explore the cemetery, Kathy bending down to examine the graves closer and whisper prayers over them, Wesley playing guitar and sauntering around casually as the designated driver along for fun."

• 57:15Speaker 01

  Wesley is a vibe.

• 57:17Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 57:18Speaker 01

  Walking around a cemetery with a guitar, just strumming his guitar.

• 57:21Speaker 00

  I feel we all knew that one kid in high school who always had an instrument with them. And usually, it was a guitar.

• 57:27Speaker 01

  Uh, wow, Wesley, okay. Okay, Wesley.

• 57:30Speaker 00

  Okay, Wesley, we see you.

• 57:31Speaker 01

  We see you, Wesley.

• 57:32Speaker 00

  "I, on the other hand, was drawn to a large tree with a solitary headstone beneath it. A CD was hanging down from one of the branches above the headstone, catching the light from the auto parts store." I don't know why I said auto parts.

• 57:45Speaker 01

  Auto port.

• 57:45Speaker 00

  Auto port.

• 57:46Speaker 01

  Port.

• 57:47Speaker 00

  "As well as my attention, like a beacon calling to me silently in an otherwise pitch-black surrounding."

• 57:53Speaker 01

  Oh.

• 57:54Speaker 00

  Okay. "Then I noticed an oddly shaped black mass huddled behind the headstone, and I freeze, my skin prickling as the hairs stand on end. My now fully alert and widened eyes fixate on the two red dots centered in what looks like a head shape atop the massive crouching shadow."

• 58:15Speaker 01

  Huh.

• 58:16Speaker 00

  What? What did you just say?

• 58:18Speaker 01

  I don't know about that.

• 58:20Speaker 00

  "I call Kathy over, and she instantly notices my panicked tone, so she immediately joins me at my side. That's when I point to what I'm staring at, my eyes now watering with tears of absolute terror as my mind attempts to process what I'm seeing, but my logic refuses to accept it." "What's that?" I whispered to Kathy, and her demeanor mirrors my own. She grabs my arm as the CD is caught by the wind and starts swaying above the figure hidden in the darkness. But her notice of it seems to cause a reaction, and it stands up.

• 58:53Speaker 01

  What?

• 58:54Speaker 00

  "I've never seen anything like it before, an almost Slenderman-type of shadowy figure looming, almost as large as the entire trunk of the tree beside it, still crouching to avoid branches above it as it draws closer to us. And we grab one another's hand and turn, tail screaming and..." Turned tails, that's what's it say?

• 59:15Speaker 01

  Yeah, turned tails, like, turn around.

• 59:16Speaker 00

  Like, turn your booty?

• 59:17Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 59:17Speaker 00

  Uh, turned tails, screaming and running to the car. Of course, Wesley's confused and still watching from the cemetery.

• 59:23Speaker 01

  Yeah, he's just, he's strumming a song.

• 59:24Speaker 00

  He's just playing a jam.

• 59:25Speaker 01

  Yeah, Wesley's in the vibe.

• 59:27Speaker 00

  "We jump into the car and slam our doors shut, me in the front passenger, Kathy behind me in the backseat. We were frantic, frightened half to death, and pleading for Wesley to get in the car and drive us out of there. Then the parking lot lights to the auto parts store next to us turn off, and we are shrouded in darkness once again. Mind you, it's after midnight at this point, and no other cars are around. The closest residential neighborhood was miles away, not close enough to get by, to get to by foot for sure, and we didn't hear or see any signs of anyone else in the area. If Wesley had left the keys in the car, I would have likely driven off without him at this rate.

• 1:00:06Speaker 01

  Oh, damn.

• 1:00:07Speaker 00

  But he casually walks over, still strumming his guitar."

• 1:00:09Speaker 01

  Okay, that would get annoying.

• 1:00:11Speaker 00

  I would kill him with that guitar.

• 1:00:12Speaker 01

  Wesley, I'm over it. Yeah, I'm over it now.

• 1:00:14Speaker 00

  "All the while, he's calling out to whatever spirits or entities may be lingering and apologizing for disturbing them."

• 1:00:20Speaker 01

  Come on.

• 1:00:21Speaker 00

  Yeah, you're annoying, Wesley. But Kathy and I are just yelling for him to get in so we can leave.

• 1:00:25Speaker 01

  As you should.

• 1:00:26Speaker 00

  "He has one foot in the guitar."

• 1:00:31Speaker 00

  That's good old Wesley.

• 1:00:33Speaker 01

  He basically does.

• 1:00:34Speaker 00

  Good old Wesley.

• 1:00:35Speaker 01

  One foot in the guitar at all times.

• 1:00:37Speaker 00

  One foot in the car, guitar in the trunk, and he's still apologizing for bothering the spirits.

• 1:00:43Speaker 01

  Stop it. You're annoying me.

• 1:00:44Speaker 00

  And wishing them well when the lights all turn back on again. And some, and that seems to be enough to convince him to leave. But it's too late. Kathy and I can sense it. There is something in the backseat with her.

• 1:00:54Speaker 01

  Oh.

• 1:00:55Speaker 00

  All we do is exchange knowing looks and I attempt to reach back and hold her hand. It's a bit of a drive. You're just like, I'm gonna hold your hand about this.

• 1:01:03Speaker 01

  Yeah, I mean, can you try to do what you gotta do?

• 1:01:05Speaker 00

  This is on the car. It's a bit of a drive back to her house and we remain nearly silent the whole time. Once we get back, we sage the car and ourselves. But despite our best efforts, we both had some intense nightmares for a couple of weeks. And Kathy still felt as if something bad had been following her around her house ever since then.

• 1:01:23Speaker 01

  Ooh.

• 1:01:24Speaker 00

  That's fucked up.

• 1:01:25Speaker 01

  That's really fucked up.

• 1:01:26Speaker 00

  There's no solution there.

• 1:01:27Speaker 01

  Yeah, that's it.

• 1:01:28Speaker 00

  Oh.

• 1:01:29Speaker 01

  Just like, sorry.

• 1:01:31Speaker 00

  If you've run this far, I thank you so damn much because this is a story I rejected for years because of how much of a close encounter it felt like at the time.

• 1:01:38Speaker 01

  Huh.

• 1:01:39Speaker 00

  Kathy has since moved to California to pursue a music and modeling career.

• 1:01:43Speaker 01

  Oh, girl.

• 1:01:44Speaker 00

  And I now have a beautiful family, not unlike Elena.

• 1:01:46Speaker 01

  Aww. Congrats.

• 1:01:48Speaker 00

  Speaking of the bestselling author, I just bought The Butcher and Wren and I'm starting on it today.

• 1:01:52Speaker 01

  Hey.

• 1:01:53Speaker 00

  There's two more in the series, mama.

• 1:01:54Speaker 01

  Let's go.

• 1:01:55Speaker 00

  The rainy weather certainly seems appropriate for it.

• 1:01:58Speaker 01

  It does.

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  If I hear this on the pod, I will squeal like a schoolgirl and run around telling everyone. I'm listening. Hope you enjoyed my spooky tale of the giant shadow creature in an old ass haunted cemetery that likes to scare girls. Lots of love, light and laughter. Luna.

• 1:02:11Speaker 01

  Luna.

• 1:02:12Speaker 00

  Babes, those were spooky fucking weird fucking scary.

• 1:02:18Speaker 01

  Halloween.

• 1:02:20Speaker 00

  Halloween.

• 1:02:21Speaker 01

  Tales. I liked that.

• 1:02:23Speaker 00

  I liked those a lot.

• 1:02:24Speaker 01

  That was fun.

• 1:02:25Speaker 00

  That was fun. I can't wait to take this wig off.

• 1:02:27Speaker 01

  I'm pretty excited to get clean.

• 1:02:29Speaker 00

  I can't even imagine.

• 1:02:31Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:02:31Speaker 00

  I'm gonna peel off a wound.

• 1:02:33Speaker 01

  Those were great.

• 1:02:34Speaker 00

  They were wonderful.

• 1:02:37Speaker 01

  I just wanted to do it.

• 1:02:38Speaker 00

  Those were awesome. We love you.

• 1:02:40Speaker 01

  We hope you keep listening.

• 1:02:41Speaker 00

  And we hope you.

• 1:02:42Speaker 01

  Keep it weird.

• 1:02:45Speaker 00

  But not so weird that you don't start a podcast and make this your life.

• 1:02:48Speaker 01

  Exactly. And happy Halloween.

• 1:02:50Speaker 00

  Happy Halloween.

• 1:02:51Speaker 01

  Be safe and be spooky and have fun.

• 1:02:53Speaker 00

  Get candy and check it and eat it all.

• 1:02:55Speaker 01

  Yay.

• 1:02:56Speaker 00

  Peace.

• 1:03:05Speaker 02

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