Episode 305 - Ghost Stories Generated by Artificial Intelligence ChatGPT

We're trying something a little funky today... asking artificial intelligence to create ghost stories based on prompts provided to us by our most haunted friends on Patreon & a dash of our own intellect. What was birthed... was.... something. Three baby witches stumble into an abandoned church and discover their only way out alive is through a sacrifice. Chad (Chat GPT) dished up some solidly spooky ghost stories of a demon dog who exhausts the dark entity that owns them, a vengeful slavic witch with a basket full of eyeballs and eternity to seek revenge on a small village, a hotel of spectral characters with one of the biggest dead divas we've ever encountered, black eyed kids creeping the streets, and our personal favorite, Spectral Frequencies: a podcasts for ghosts by ghosts. We're giving Chad 5 stars for his effort in creating quirky characters, unexpected twists, and a script that makes us want to re-enact these tales Drunk-History-style. Have ghost stories of your own? E-mail them to us at [email protected] Encounters episodes are released every Thursday at 9am PST/12pm EST. Corinne and Sabrina hand select a couple of paranormal encounters from our inbox to read in each episode, from demons, to cryptids, to aliens, to creepy kids... the list goes on and on. If you have a story of your own that you'd like us to share on an upcoming episode, we invite you to email them to us! Edited and produced by Jaimi Ryan, original music by Arms Akimbo! This episode is sponsored by IQBar, Orgain, Boll and Branch, Apostrophe and Nutrafol. Start the New Year off right with IQBAR’s brain-and-body-boosting bars, hydration mixes, and mushroom coffees. Their Ultimate Sampler Pack includes all three! And right now, IQBAR is offering our special podcast listeners 20% off all IQBAR products, plus get FREE shipping. Just text TGOG to 64000. Message and data rates may apply. See terms for details. Orgain is famous for their Organic Plant Protein Powder. It packs 21 grams of complete protein with all nine essential amino acids. If you want more protein, give Orgain Organic Plant Protein Powder a try. Head to Orgain.com/TGOG30 and use code TGOG30 for 30% off your order. If you really want to change the way you sleep, you need to upgrade to Boll & Branch’s 100% organic cotton sheets. Get 15% off, plus free shipping on your first set of sheets at BollAndBranch.com/TGOG Apostrophe is an online platform that connects you with an expert dermatology team to get customized acne and dermatology treatment for your unique skin. To get started, just go to Apostrophe.com/TGOG and click Get Started, then use our code TGOG at sign up and you’ll get your first visit for only five dollars! Nutrafol is the #1 dermatologist-recommended hair growth supplement brand, trusted by over 1 million people. See thicker, stronger, faster growing hair with less shedding in just 3-6 months with Nutrafol. For a limited time, Nutrafol is offering our listeners ten dollars off your first month’s subscription and free shipping when you go to Nutrafol.com and enter the promo code TGOG If you enjoy our show, please consider joining our Patreon, rating and reviewing on iTunes & Spotify and following us on social media! Youtube, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and Discord. Edited and produced by Jaimi Ryan, original music by Arms Akimbo! Disclaimer: the use of white sage and smudging is a closed practice. If you’re looking to cleanse your space, here are some great alternatives! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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• 2:26Corinne Vien?

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• 2:31Corinne Vien?

  It's giving Major You're About to Die vibes.

• 2:35Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Heavy oak doors of the church groaned open seemingly on their own. The air in the church was thick with the smell of damp wood and something sweet, like overripe fruit left in the sun too long. Candles flickered on their own, though no one had been around to light them. Do you think it's a portal? As if summoned by Buffy's sarcasm, the floor beneath them gave way, and a figure stepped out of the shadows. It was a tall, robed being with a face that looked like someone had drawn a smiley face on an egg and then decided it wasn't creepy enough.

• 3:05Corinne Vien?

  Oh, ew.

• 3:06Speaker 04

  To escape, you must make a sacrifice.

• 3:10Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  What if we gave you a partial one, like just a part of me that thinks it's a good idea to text my ex?

• 3:14Speaker 04

  This is not how sacrifices work.

• 3:40Corinne Vien?

  Howdy.

• 3:41Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Hello.

• 3:42Corinne Vien?

  I'm excited for this one.

• 3:43Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  This one's gonna be fun.

• 3:45Corinne Vien?

  It's two girls, one ghost.

• 3:46Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Two girls, one ghost.

• 3:49Corinne Vien?

  Wow.

• 3:50Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  You just did an emphasis, so I tried to like match it with the girl.

• 3:53Corinne Vien?

  Yeah, that makes sense. Well, because in my mind, halfway through the sentence, I was like, wait. I normally say this is two girls, one ghost, but I said it's two girls, one ghost. So I was like, this is weird. Halfway through, and then I just lost my mind.

• 4:05Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  It's exciting. It's new. It's different, but we're the same.

• 4:08Corinne Vien?

  Yeah, it's new. It's different. We said we swapped the for it.

• 4:13Corinne Vien?

  This is how to keep things fresh.

• 4:14Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Corinne is super fresh today. I mean, look at your outfit.

• 4:18Corinne Vien?

  Thanks. This is the outfit that I told you my mom bought me.

• 4:20Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  You match our office so perfectly.

• 4:22Corinne Vien?

  Yeah. Yep. Don't I look so put together?

• 4:24Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Like you could become a green screen.

• 4:26Corinne Vien?

  I like that.

• 4:26Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Like your body could just be a floating thing.

• 4:28Corinne Vien?

  Oh, I wish we were floating heads. We, our podcast would be so much better if we were just floating heads every week.

• 4:35Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Jamie, um, do you know how to do green screen stuff? Cause maybe one day we just wear green.

• 4:40Corinne Vien?

  Do that, like a Halloween episode for just heads.

• 4:43Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Just heads.

• 4:43Corinne Vien?

  We have to figure it out.

• 4:44Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I love that.

• 4:45Corinne Vien?

  I'm determined.

• 4:46Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Okay, that's Corinne, I'm Sabrina.

• 4:47Corinne Vien?

  Hello. And this is the Cheetah Girls. Cheetah Girls, Cheetah Sistas. Cheetah Girls, Cheetah Sistas.

• 4:52Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I promised that I would wear my TikTok pants and y'all, I've worn them every day.

• 4:58Corinne Vien?

  I didn't wear my Shrek outfit. I said I was going to.

• 5:01Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  You'll have to do an outfit change later.

• 5:03Corinne Vien?

  I'm gonna do it again. I'll keep promising until it happens.

• 5:06Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Until it happens.

• 5:07Corinne Vien?

  Yeah.

• 5:07Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Well, yeah, these are my magical pants that I haven't taken off. I love them so much. They're so soft.

• 5:13Corinne Vien?

  Yeah. You're just gonna stroke your leg the whole time?

• 5:16Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  My co-star did say to do thirst traps today, so.

• 5:19Corinne Vien?

  Did it? I'm thirst trapping. How weird your co-star was the other day. Sabrina and I have to figure something out for our Patreon holiday cards, because we kind of like alternate years of who has to stuff all the envelopes and stamp everything. It was supposed to be my year this year, you had to do it again.

• 5:34Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  And we had to do double what we did last year. And so they're in my trunk right now. I'm gonna drop them off at USPS, but it was so weird. My co-star, the morning of like.

• 5:45Corinne Vien?

  Who sent me a picture of you stuffing.

• 5:47Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Stuffing and stamping. For hours. I did like a complete, I recorded some of it and I put together a video, like sped up of it. I think it's like an hour of filming and that's only like the times that I actually put my camera up.

• 6:02Corinne Vien?

  How long did it take you? Cause I feel like you were going fast, because you were like, I've been doing this for eight hours. And it took me two or three years ago, eight hours to do it. And we had significant, well, I was also adding.

• 6:11Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Done.

• 6:12Corinne Vien?

  I was stuffing other things in those ones.

• 6:13Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I'm still not done.

• 6:14Corinne Vien?

  Oh, okay.

• 6:16Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I think I finished like 2,000 and I have like maybe whatever's left, left.

• 6:23Corinne Vien?

  We've gotta figure this out next year.

• 6:24Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  And the boxes are fricking heavy. I was like carrying them downstairs. Yeah, anyway. But my co-star, I opened the app, because every morning I check my co-star, because I'm dependent on astrology and letting it guide me.

• 6:37Corinne Vien?

  Rather be dependent on astrology than people.

• 6:40Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah, I'm dependent on people too, though.

• 6:44Corinne Vien?

  Astrology feels like you're dependent, it's like almost a dependency on yourself. Like it's kind of like a-

• 6:49Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  That's true. But so CoStar has this feature where when you open it, like every day it has a list of do's and a list of don'ts. And there's like three do's, three don'ts. And the other day when I opened it, it literally said do stamps, envelopes, and I can't remember what the third one was. But I was like, how does it know?

• 7:07Corinne Vien?

  Oh, I was like, let me reference what it was. But of course, our-

• 7:10Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Actually, I think I have photos on my-

• 7:13Corinne Vien?

  Yeah, I want to see what you're-

• 7:14Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Oh yeah, do stamps, envelopes, and secret notes. And also keep in mind, this is the day that I wrote for therapy. I was writing letters to my parents that like I was gonna rip up. So they were secret notes that I literally didn't share with anyone.

• 7:28Corinne Vien?

  Oh my gosh. Did it feel therapeutic?

• 7:30Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah, it made me angry too.

• 7:32Corinne Vien?

  Yeah. My mom had me do that in middle school. She'd have me write like letters and notes. Or like literally would print out pictures-

• 7:41Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah.

• 7:41Corinne Vien?

  And cut the people out of the pictures that were hurting me and would like rip them up and burn them.

• 7:47Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  This is witchcraft. This is a great segue because this, we are baby witches here. We are still in our infancy, but we are baby witches. And it's so wild thinking back to doing that and like my notes thing. It is a form of witchcraft. Like you're energetically purging yourself of harm or hurt that someone has caused you. And you're like giving it to the universe and saying-

• 8:09Corinne Vien?

  Yeah.

• 8:10Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  It's no longer mine. I do not hold on to this feeling, these resentments anymore. And-

• 8:16Corinne Vien?

  Good riddance. Good riddance. I like it. It's kind of like a death of self, starting fresh moment too.

• 8:22Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah.

• 8:22Corinne Vien?

  And also I feel like it can just be like a fun bonding thing too, because I'm thinking back to one of the first times I was at Brian's parents' house. Brian's mom has this group of close friends from college and all of the ladies came over. And they all burned, I can't remember what it was, but it was like some like letters or like something that they had from, that they all had from college. It was just like, they had like a burning ritual in the backyard.

• 8:46Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  See, we're all witches.

• 8:48Corinne Vien?

  Yeah. It just comes naturally-

• 8:50Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  It does.

• 8:50Corinne Vien?

  -to everyone.

• 8:51Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Have you done anything intuitively witchy? Or to practice witchiness in the last week?

• 8:59Corinne Vien?

  No, but I I kind of got like lost in thought yesterday about requesting something of our listeners, which I'm going to right now. Do it. So you know how like there's animal communicators? And they'll communicate with animals who are alive? Are there baby communicators? Cause I need someone to tell Noah a few things, kind of desperately. So.

• 9:23Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I'm sure. Yeah. Why not? Right?

• 9:26Corinne Vien?

  Yeah. So if anyone is a baby communicator, can you let me know ASAP? Because this boy is about to start daycare and it is not going to go well. And I need him to be prepped. That was my hope of witchiness in others to help me.

• 9:40Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Well, that's the best thing about our little community, our coven, as we shall call it. We can rely on one another and depend on one another and do a shared energetic sharing.

• 9:51Corinne Vien?

  Yeah. Oh, I did find, remember a while back, I was telling you about how I went to the spiritual wellness? And I met this woman and she had done like past life regressions and all this stuff. And this guy that had been abducted by UFOs and like whatever, all this stuff. I did some researching because I was like, I can't remember her name. And I lost her business card, of course. And I did find her contact. So I feel like, oh, maybe we should go.

• 10:16Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Hell, yeah.

• 10:17Corinne Vien?

  And she's local. She's right here.

• 10:18Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I really want to. That would be so fun.

• 10:21Corinne Vien?

  Have you done? Well, I feel like you're always doing witchy stuff.

• 10:23Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I've started cooking again.

• 10:25Corinne Vien?

  Nice. Good.

• 10:26Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I've been taking baths.

• 10:28Corinne Vien?

  That's very therapeutic.

• 10:30Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Very calming, therapeutic, although I don't know, like baths in theory are great. And like, there's like probably in the like amount of time that I'm in it, probably like 15% of it. I'm like, wow, this is magical and so enjoyable. But then I'm like, my tits are exposed. And then I like flip around and I like.

• 10:49Corinne Vien?

  Things.

• 10:49Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  And I start to, and then I'm like.

• 10:51Corinne Vien?

  Water is moving in places you're not used to it moving into.

• 10:54Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Then I get cold.

• 10:55Corinne Vien?

  That's the problem. I think hot tubs. Hot tubs are where we need to be.

• 10:59Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  About hot tubs. My co-star the other day said, do hot tubs.

• 11:02Corinne Vien?

  Damn it, we need a hot tub.

• 11:04Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Today's thirst trap, the other day was hot tubs. What's tomorrow gonna be?

• 11:08Corinne Vien?

  I don't know. I'm curious. Oh my God, I almost stood up again.

• 11:11Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  You can stand up, you're allowed.

• 11:13Corinne Vien?

  Um, I was gonna save something and then I forgot, so.

• 11:16Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Well, if you have been doing anything witchy, this community, we're all trying to like, explore and develop our own intuitiveness and abilities to connect to the earth and to the universe. So share with us what you're doing and we'll share with everyone else and kind of spread the wealth of knowledge.

• 11:34Corinne Vien?

  Oh my gosh, wait, I remembered what I was gonna say.

• 11:36Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  What were you gonna say?

• 11:37Corinne Vien?

  And of course, I don't have the username, but I saved it. And again, I will link it in the show notes. But all of these people are talking about the UFOs and orbs and drones or whatever in the sky, the plasma.

• 11:48Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Apparently, there was one, or there were some in Marblehead.

• 11:51Corinne Vien?

  Really?

• 11:51Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  It was front page news of the Marblehead Weekly.

• 11:53Corinne Vien?

  Damn it, you need to start looking out your windows.

• 11:55Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I need to just go outside.

• 11:57Corinne Vien?

  I was looking out the windows the other night. I was like, I gotta see if they come. I wanna see them.

• 12:01Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Okay, so what were the users saying?

• 12:03Corinne Vien?

  Okay, well, there's this one, I kinda got like lost in this one thread.

• 12:08Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah.

• 12:08Corinne Vien?

  This one woman was saying how her four-year-old or five-year-old has started making really strange comments and is not really like acting themselves when they're speaking about these things. And her child has said that they, I think it's her daughter, that she, uh, used to live in the sun. And the sun is trying to tell us something, like the orbs are basically like, the sun is trying to tell us something. Something is wrong with it, but we can't send anybody up into space to try to communicate with the sun or figure it out because it's dangerous. We have to go to the sun's brother. So everyone's like, who the fuck is the brother?

• 12:48Corinne Vien?

  And I guess in like North mythology, it's the moon. So now people are like, look to the moon, look to the moon, go to the moon again. And her daughter said some other stuff and I'm like trying to remember what it is. But there's these like really weird things and it's like all kind of aligning with what's happening. And she's like, I have never discussed this with my daughter. She's no access to like

• 13:08Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Where is this coming from?

• 13:08Corinne Vien?

  Learning about orbs and like all of these things. And her daughter's referencing like All the things that are going on. And then I got so lost in the comment section because it's just comment after comment after comment about people's children making very strange proclamations that perfectly aligned with what's happening. It's like all of these kids that are under the age of like seven or whatever are suddenly remembering things or being like, oh, at night I talk to to the sun or like I talked to the angels and they said this. Oh, and her daughter also said that we need to start to like figure out what's going on and to help us and the sun. We have to start connecting to our ancestors. And she was like, my daughter knows the word ancestors and to like connect to ancestors.

• 13:51Corinne Vien?

  She was like, it was really weird. She started like mumbling and like not really speaking like herself when she was saying all these things. So yeah, she's like, maybe it's just the imagination of like a five year old or four year old kid. Or maybe it's something more, but I'm just posting it here. And yeah, the whole comment section is all of these people being like, oh, my God, my kid has started saying really weird shit recently, too. So either it's extremely entertaining or something is going on in the well, something's definitely going on.

• 14:15Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Something's definitely going on. But what is the sun trying to communicate to us?

• 14:20Corinne Vien?

  I don't know, but I think it's, it's interesting.

• 14:22Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Geez.

• 14:23Corinne Vien?

  And then, of course, I got super jazzed that you got me that like Navy SEAL like bunker survival guide or whatever.

• 14:30Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah.

• 14:31Corinne Vien?

  Because the deeper I got into all of these like kids saying weird things, everyone's talking about how there might be like a, well, essentially like a, I forget what exactly the event was called, but like in the 1800s, remember? There was like this big solar flare thing and it was the summer that no crops basically came because everybody lived in darkness.

• 14:49Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Interstellar.

• 14:50Corinne Vien?

  Yeah, but it was like a real event where like, it was like solar activity and like maybe a volcanic eruption. I'm kind of talking out my ass here.

• 14:57Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  So you need to start making a garden this spring. You have to.

• 15:01Corinne Vien?

  Yes. And then I gotta, I gotta store it in jars in the basement. Everybody go buy your like

• 15:06Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Start canning.

• 15:07Corinne Vien?

  15 gallon rice buckets at Costco. Yeah, because basically everyone's like, oh, my God, this is gonna be a reapy.

• 15:12Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  We're baby witches and like.

• 15:15Corinne Vien?

  You're a baby witch. I'm a conspiracy theorist.

• 15:17Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Doomsday prepper.

• 15:18Corinne Vien?

  It is what it is. At least I have the awareness of liking to get lost in these sort of things.

• 15:26Corinne Vien?

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• 16:10Corinne Vien?

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• 16:52Corinne Vien?

  order. That's the best offer you'll find, but you have to use our code TGOG30 for 30% off. One last time, for 30% off, head to orgain.com/tgog30 and use our code TGOG30. You do have the awareness, but I still kind of get lost. You still get very lost. But I take in all of the conspiracies, which I think is good. It's not like I'm like, I'm full on on one where I'm like, kind of in the delusion of it. I just am like, whoa, this is so cool. And if this is true. Then the other ones must be true. That well, no, well, then I'm prepared because I've learned everything about it. I don't like to be surprised. I like preparation. Yeah, that's why you're, do you want to say preparation? That's why I'm a Navy SEAL.

• 17:35Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  You know what I was thinking about, speaking of witchcraft, you have done something witchy lately.

• 17:39Corinne Vien?

  What did I do?

• 17:40Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Tried to do reflexology to make me poop, and I would like you to try it again because this girl's backed up.

• 17:47Corinne Vien?

  Really? Do you want me to do it right now?

• 17:49Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Sure. You want to do it while I tell everyone what we're doing today?

• 17:51Corinne Vien?

  Yeah, sure. This is also, I don't know if this is the proper adult reflexology. This is the infant reflexology that I use on my child.

• 17:58Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  And I'm a baby. Today, I'm baby.

• 18:01Corinne Vien?

  You're a baby.

• 18:02Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  You're a mother.

• 18:02Corinne Vien?

  Okay.

• 18:03Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Okay, so today, we decided to do something really fun, uh, using our good friend Chad.

• 18:10Corinne Vien?

  Chad.

• 18:11Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  And using our Patreon members, we asked everyone on Patreon to give us prompts. And this is distracting, like, it feels so good. So like, I'm having a hard time talking to.

• 18:21Corinne Vien?

  My parents were here yesterday and they watched me give Noah a bath, and I always give him a foot massage. And he loves it. He like gives me the other foot and he's like, ooh, ooh, like coo's at me while I do it.

• 18:30Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I'm cooing at you right now.

• 18:32Corinne Vien?

  I give a lot of foot massages. I give foot massages to everyone and no one gives them to me.

• 18:36Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I'll give you one. It just won't be a poop one.

• 18:40Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  So we had our Patreon donors give us prompts to feed to ChatGPT, to Chad. And we are gonna create stories and read them to you.

• 18:50Corinne Vien?

  Yes.

• 18:51Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Okay, do this one.

• 18:53Corinne Vien?

  Well, you didn't want to poop out just one of your sides?

• 18:55Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  One of your poop holes?

• 18:56Corinne Vien?

  One of your poop holes?

• 18:57Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  That's how it works. You guys, girls don't poop.

• 19:01Corinne Vien?

  They shit.

• 19:04Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  They poop their pants.

• 19:05Corinne Vien?

  And diarrhea.

• 19:06Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I would take anything. A pebble.

• 19:10Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Um, okay, so yeah, we have prompts and Chad.

• 19:15Corinne Vien?

  And all of you. So thank you, everyone. I'm like far away from the microphone the whole time. I'm almost done with my poop reflexology.

• 19:22Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Thanks so much. See, you are a witch.

• 19:24Corinne Vien?

  I should learn reflexology. I, I enjoy it.

• 19:26Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  See, and maybe palm reading.

• 19:28Corinne Vien?

  We both stood up at the same time. We almost kissed. Kiss, kiss, kiss.

• 19:33Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Kiss, kiss, kiss. That's what everyone's wanting. So, thank you to our Patreon members for giving us prompts. We got a lot of them. There's like forty seven comments.

• 19:42Corinne Vien?

  I know, I really liked reading them.

• 19:44Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah.

• 19:44Corinne Vien?

  And also some of them, I was like, how dare you just leave this as a comment and not just write your own book or film? Because some people had incredible ideas.

• 19:53Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  And some of them were, like, I was like, you really just wrote the story.

• 19:55Corinne Vien?

  Yeah, like it was flushed out.

• 19:57Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah.

• 19:57Corinne Vien?

  One hundred percent.

• 19:58Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  It's fleshy.

• 20:00Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Okay, so this is a prompt that I gave. Can you create an extremely original five-minute ghost story that will induce nightmares, that really emphasizes the horror and paranormal aspects, but has some humorous, laugh-out-loud and absurd moments using the following prompt? And I also added in some Patreon member names. Buffy, Sabrina, and Corinne are on a hike in the woods. A hike they've done many times before, when all of a sudden they stumble upon an abandoned church that's surrounded by a quaint cemetery. This abandoned church is a bit of an urban legend. It shows up on a road you've traveled often. When these three baby witches, Buffy, Sabrina, and Corinne, decide to explore, they enter a portal to another dimension. The only way out is a sacrifice.

• 20:45Corinne Vien?

  Ooh, okay. This sounds good.

• 20:48Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  All right.

• 20:49Corinne Vien?

  And this also feels very YA, like the YA where you're like 10 years old or whatever. And you have a book series where the books are like 100 pages or whatever. But this totally feels like one of those mystery books.

• 21:00Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Also, I have not read it at all. I basically just had Chad.

• 21:05Corinne Vien?

  Yeah, that's what we agreed on. We would not manipulate Chad. We let him choose what he wants.

• 21:12Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  And then it's authentic, live experience altogether. Not live for you, but you know what I mean. Okay. Buffy, Sabrina, and Corinne weren't just best friends. They were a trio of baby witches, as they affectionately called themselves. Sabrina carried a flask of moon water because hydration is magical.

• 21:32Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Corinne had a-

• 21:32Corinne Vien?

  Thanks, Chad. Remember to stay hydrated. It will help you poop.

• 21:36Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  It will. I have been staying very hydrated. That's the thing that's pissing me off. Corinne had a satchel stuffed with crystals and snack bars. And Buffy wielded a hiking stick she swore was enchanted, but mainly used to poke at mushrooms. Of course, you have the snacks.

• 21:50Corinne Vien?

  Yeah, I know. Thanks. Thanks for fat shaming Chad.

• 21:56Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  They hike this forest trail every week, and the familiar crunch of leaves underfoot was as comforting as the bickering over who forgot to charge the flashlight. But this time, something was off. Uh, did that church always exist here? Buffy pointed with her stick at a looming structure nestled among the trees. It was ancient, its steeple leaning at a precarious angle as if it might topple over at any second. Surrounding it was a small cemetery filled with lopsided gravestones. Their inscriptions worn smooth by time. Prince Quinted. Nope, pretty sure we would remember the haunted church aesthetic being part of our hike. It's giving Major You're About to Die vibes, Sabrina whispered, taking a cautious sip of her moon water. I love the tone that you have in this.

• 22:42Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  It's giving Major You're About to Die vibes.

• 22:49Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  But it's also kind of cute, Corinne offered.

• 22:52Corinne Vien?

  Oh, wow.

• 22:53Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Cute? Buffy spun on her heel. It looks like Tim Burton's Fever Dream. Before anyone could vote on whether cute or cursed was the better descriptor, the heavy oak doors of the church groaned open seemingly on their own. Okay, I'm just gonna say it, Buffy muttered. It's begging us to go inside.

• 23:09Corinne Vien?

  Wow.

• 23:10Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Buffy!

• 23:10Corinne Vien?

  Begging us to leave!

• 23:12Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Sabrina continued.

• 23:14Corinne Vien?

  Wow, this is actually, so if I could rewrite this, Buffy would actually be you.

• 23:19Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah, we can rewrite it.

• 23:21Corinne Vien?

  Yeah, because I cannot believe that you in this story are like, no, and have the tip in this. Like, you are, you are Buffy, truly.

• 23:27Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  And you are Sabrina.

• 23:29Corinne Vien?

  And I'm Sabrina.

• 23:30Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah.

• 23:30Corinne Vien?

  And Corinne.

• 23:34Corinne Vien?

  We don't really know Buffy, so Buffy, let us know who you are.

• 23:37Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Naturally, they went inside. The air in the church was thick with the smell of damp wood and something sweet, like overripe fruit left in the sun too long. Candles flickered on their own, though no one had been around to light them. Do you think it's a portal, Corinne asked, her voice echoing off the vaulted ceiling.

• 23:53Corinne Vien?

  Straight into conspiracy. That makes sense.

• 23:56Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  To another dimension?

• 23:57Corinne Vien?

  Sure.

• 23:58Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Or maybe to the nearest horror movie cliche, Buffy quipped, poking at a pew with her stick. I love Buffy's stick.

• 24:05Corinne Vien?

  A pew? Like a church pew?

• 24:06Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Mm-hmm.

• 24:07Corinne Vien?

  Wow, so like, everything is still inside of this thing?

• 24:09Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  As if summoned by Buffy's sarcasm, the floor beneath them gave way. One moment, they were standing on creaky wooden planks, and the next, they were falling down, down, down, until they landed in a heap on what felt like cold stone.

• 24:22Corinne Vien?

  Ow, my sacral chakra! Corinne groaned, untangling herself from Sabrina's bag strap. I feel it in my sacral chakra. Oh, my god!

• 24:32Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Good news, we're alive, Buffy said, brushing dirt off her jeans.

• 24:35Corinne Vien?

  Yeah, but our chakras are misaligned.

• 24:37Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Bad news, we're definitely not in Kansas anymore. The room they had landed in was cavernous, with walls covered in strange carvings.

• 24:45Corinne Vien?

  Also, can I just have some appreciation for Chad for having a reference to The Wizard of Oz slash Wicked?

• 24:51Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah.

• 24:52Corinne Vien?

  Because Wicked is all the rage right now. So, good job, Chad.

• 24:55Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I'm already a big fan of these stories.

• 24:56Corinne Vien?

  Yeah, this is, he knows how to make a little clickbait moment for, for social media.

• 25:02Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  It glowed faintly, pulsating in time with an eerie, guttural chant echoing from somewhere unseen. Yep, definitely a portal, Sabrina muttered, eyeing the glowing symbols. And a figure stepped out of the shadows. It was a tall, robed being with a face that looked like someone had drawn a smiley face on an egg and then decided it wasn't creepy enough.

• 25:21Corinne Vien?

  Oh, ew.

• 25:23Speaker 04

  Welcome, travelers.

• 25:24Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  The figure intoned its voice gravelly and oddly cheerful.

• 25:28Speaker 04

  To escape, you must make a sacrifice.

• 25:31Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  The trio exchanged uneasy glances.

• 25:34Corinne Vien?

  Okay, but like, can it be symbolic? Buffy asked.

• 25:38Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah, I have some chips in my bag, Corinne offered, rummaging through her satchel. Salt and vinegar, top tier.

• 25:44Corinne Vien?

  That's 100% Chad understands me. That is my flavor. Salt and vinegar, number one. Barbecue, number two. Mesquite barbecue.

• 25:52Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I'm a specific.

• 25:53Corinne Vien?

  And sour cumin and onion, number one.

• 25:54Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Mmm.

• 25:55Corinne Vien?

  No, I'll.

• 25:55Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  But it has to be, like, this very specifically, very, like, thickly coated.

• 25:59Corinne Vien?

  Yeah, and specific brands, because not everyone gets it. Sometimes it's too artificial.

• 26:02Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I agree. The robe figure sighed, as if explaining something so obvious to toddlers.

• 26:07Speaker 04

  No, no, not snacks.

• 26:10Corinne Vien?

  No, Harry!

• 26:11Speaker 04

  A true sacrifice, something meaningful.

• 26:15Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Sabrina frowned. Meaningful, like, my Netflix password? Because that's sacred to me. The figure groaned, the sound echoing like a dying engine.

• 26:24Speaker 04

  I meant a soul.

• 26:27Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  A defined soul, Buffy said, twirling her stick, like, what if we gave you a partial one? Like, just a part of me that thinks it's a good idea to text my ex?

• 26:35Corinne Vien?

  I like this. I like Buffy.

• 26:37Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Or my attachment to iced coffee, Corinne added solemnly.

• 26:41Corinne Vien?

  Oh, called out.

• 26:42Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  The figure paused. It's eyeless, face unreadable.

• 26:45Speaker 04

  This is not how sacrifices work.

• 26:49Corinne Vien?

  This is exactly how I feel like it would play out if we were abducted or actually encountered anything like this. We'd be like, wait, but there's so many different possibilities here. So we have to go down every sort of like scenario. And I want there's going to be a lot of like back and forth banter. It's not just like, yeah, sure.

• 27:05Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I want this to be our podcast moving forward. We don't do ghost stories, maybe we just do Chad stories.

• 27:10Corinne Vien?

  Chad.

• 27:11Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Jess's attention reached its peak. Sorry, we broke the tension. A small, scruffy dog trotted up from behind the robe figure.

• 27:17Corinne Vien?

  Toto?

• 27:18Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  And it had glowing red eyes and a wagging tail. Is that a hellhound, Sabrina gasped? Or a demon chihuahua, Buffy whispered. The dog let out a tiny guttural growl, then barked. A sound so absurdly high pitched it shattered the ominous atmosphere. Buddy snorted, I can't, it's too cute.

• 27:37Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  The dog yapped again, wagging its tail so hard its whole body wiggled.

• 27:40Speaker 04

  I shall take him as your sacrifice, the robe figure declared.

• 27:44Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Absolutely not, Sabrina shouted, scooping up the dog. We are not sacrificing this baby. The figure sighed, pinching its nonexistent nose.

• 27:53Corinne Vien?

  I'm just picturing the egg with the smiley face.

• 27:55Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah.

• 27:55Speaker 04

  Fine, you may go, but take the cursed beast with you. He's exhausting.

• 28:02Corinne Vien?

  This is so YA. I love this.

• 28:06Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  With a blinding flash, the trio was back in the woods. The abandoned church gone, the dog, now mysteriously normal eyed, yipped happily in Sabrina's arm. Did we just adopt a demon dog? Buffy asked, staring at the wiggling ball of fur. Yep, Sabrina said, beaming, and his name is Kevin. Corinne sighed, shaking her head.

• 28:25Corinne Vien?

  This is like the movie Up. They named the, they named the creature Kevin, did they?

• 28:29Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah, the big bird. Corinne sighed, shaking her head. We are never hiking again, are we? Nope, Buffy said, as Kevin licked her face with a tongue that briefly shimmered. The end.

• 28:40Corinne Vien?

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• 29:23Corinne Vien?

  I've been sleeping on it for the past few weeks. Normally I change out with another sheet set, but this time I'm just like washing them, drying them, putting them right back on the bed. Also, Boll & Branch has a 30-night guarantee, so you can try Boll & Branch sheets for an entire month. You can seriously wash, style, feel the difference for yourself, risk-free, and if it doesn't change the way you sleep, you can send them back for a full refund. So now's your chance to change the way you sleep with Boll & Branch. Get 15% off plus free shipping on your first set of sheets at bollandbranch.com/tgog. That's Boll & Branch, B-O-L-L-A-N-D, branch.com/tgog to save 15%. Exclusions apply. See site for details. Chad, I'm impressed. That was better than I thought Chad would do. I liked that.

• 30:08Corinne Vien?

  That was quite enjoyable. That was really good.

• 30:11Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  And I really, I felt very like we could act that out. Like our idea of doing, what's the drunk, oh, drunk history.

• 30:18Corinne Vien?

  Drunk history.

• 30:19Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Like where we act things out. I almost feel like we could have done that.

• 30:23Corinne Vien?

  I wanted it to be like drunk history meets the horrible reenactments that they do when, like all those shows that are like my celebrity haunting, or just even like the true crime reenactments where it's like.

• 30:36Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Like on Friends and Files.

• 30:37Corinne Vien?

  It's just so bad.

• 30:38Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  And it's also kind of like cringe.

• 30:39Corinne Vien?

  Yeah.

• 30:40Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Where you're like, do we need to reenact this?

• 30:42Corinne Vien?

  And do we need to be having someone pretend that they're finding their like loved one dead again?

• 30:47Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Dead.

• 30:48Corinne Vien?

  Like, you can just tell that part of the story without entertainment and glorifying.

• 30:52Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  So while we don't like that, I want to take the element of the bad acting.

• 30:55Corinne Vien?

  We're doing the paranormal, fun, Buffy, Serena Corrin in the woods.

• 30:59Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Right.

• 31:00Corinne Vien?

  Baby witches.

• 31:01Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Where it's like, it's Twilight first movie where it's kind of like green, you know?

• 31:06Corinne Vien?

  It does have a green filter.

• 31:07Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah. I mean, our room is green.

• 31:09Corinne Vien?

  That's true.

• 31:10Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  We like green.

• 31:11Corinne Vien?

  Green. Okay, so the prompt was, can you create a five-minute ghost story that will induce nightmares that really emphasizes the horror and paranormal aspect using the following prompt? In a remote Slavic village, legend speaks of a vengeful spirit named Maggie, who haunts the village rooftops at night. The spirit carries a basket filled with human eyes, offers these eerie treasures to the villagers in exchange for their souls.

• 31:36Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Dun, dun, dun. This one might not be as funny.

• 31:39Corinne Vien?

  No, but this is supposed to be serious.

• 31:41Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Very scary, spooky scary.

• 31:43Corinne Vien?

  In the heart of a remote Slavic village nestled deep within an ancient forest, the nights were never silent. The winds whispered old songs of mourning, and the villagers locked their doors tight, clutching talismans and muttering prayers to keep the darkness at bay. For they all knew of Maggie, the rooftop spirit, whose tale was as old as the village itself. Maggie had once been a healer, a midwife who walked amongst the people with kindness in her hands and wisdom in her heart.

• 32:13Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Maggie went to the dark side?

• 32:14Corinne Vien?

  She did. What did they do to Maggie? Wait, this is basically the Grinch.

• 32:21Corinne Vien?

  But kindness could not save her from the jealous whispers that painted her as a witch. When the crops failed and a plague swept the village, the townsfolk, desperate for a scapegoat, turned to her. They dragged her to the forest's edge, tied her to a birch tree, and left her to the crows. As the birds pecked away her eyes.

• 32:41Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  How dare you, crows!

• 32:42Corinne Vien?

  She cursed them all with her final breath, vowing to return for what they had stolen. And return she did.

• 32:50Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Fuck, yeah. Maggie's the hero of this story.

• 32:53Corinne Vien?

  This is like the OG Cinderella as well.

• 32:55Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  See, the proof is that while we love these Chad stories.

• 32:59Corinne Vien?

  They take from what already exists.

• 33:00Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  They're not original.

• 33:01Corinne Vien?

  Yeah. Now, when the moon hung low and the village rooftops were shrouded in shadows, Maggie would appear. Her arrival was heralded by the soft creak of tiles shifting under unseen feet and the faint tip-tap, tip-tap of her clawed fingers dragging across the wooden eaves.

• 33:27Corinne Vien?

  In her skeletal hands, she carried a woven basket overflowing with eyes, plucked from the sockets of her past victims. It was said that Maggie would peer down from the rooftops, her eyeless sockets weeping blackened tears as she offered her gruesome treasures to those she watched.

• 33:45Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  But she gave eyeballs to people?

• 33:46Corinne Vien?

  I guess. Accept one, and your soul was hers, bound to wander the rooftops with her until the end of days. So why would you ever accept?

• 33:56Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Maybe because the alternative was she plucks her eyes out and just leaves you to die? I guess, yeah. It's like, join me or die.

• 34:04Corinne Vien?

  Okay, we have a new person coming in.

• 34:05Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Oh.

• 34:06Corinne Vien?

  Late one autumn night, Peter, spelled P-E-T-Y-R.

• 34:10Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I mean, we are in Slovenia.

• 34:12Corinne Vien?

  So is that like Petra or whatever? I don't know. We're calling him Peter.

• 34:15Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  It's Peter, yeah, yeah. I think Petra would be like the female version.

• 34:19Corinne Vien?

  Okay.

• 34:19Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  It might be Peter.

• 34:20Corinne Vien?

  Peter.

• 34:21Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Peter.

• 34:22Corinne Vien?

  Late one autumn night, Peter, a village hunter, sat alone by the dying embers of his fire. The chill of the evening crept into his bones, but it was not the cold that made his hands tremble. His son lay upstairs, feverish and near death, the village healer helpless to stop the sickness. Desperation clung to him like a shroud. When he heard the first creak of the roof, his breath caught. He'd never dared look before, but tonight despair outweighed fear. He stepped outside, the bitter wind slicing through him, and craned his neck upward. And there, perched like a grotesque gargoyle against the moonlight, was Maggie. Her form was barely human, a gaunt, twisting shadow draped in tattered cloth. Her face, if it could still be called that,

• 35:05Corinne Vien?

  bore the hollow sockets of her missing eyes, endlessly dripping black. Yet her mouth was a gaping grin, stretched impossibly wide, filled with dragged, bloodstained teeth.

• 35:16Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Why do I feel like this is gonna turn into a love story? Or I want it to.

• 35:19Corinne Vien?

  Or like she saves the feverish dying boy. She extended her bony arm, the basket dangling precariously from her fingers, and inside, dozens of eyes gleamed, reflecting the moonlight like tiny, unblinking stars.

• 35:32Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Oh, I was picturing them like still moving around and looking.

• 35:36Corinne Vien?

  Yeah. Peter, she crooned, her voice raspy. Her voice a raspy symphony of sorrow and malice. Take one, just one, and your boy will live.

• 35:48Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  You're giving sexy, sexy Maggie.

• 35:51Corinne Vien?

  Eyeless sexy Maggie.

• 35:53Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Ooh, Peter. Peter, just take one.

• 35:57Corinne Vien?

  Take one of my treats. His knees buckled, but he didn't fall. He stared at the basket mesmerized by the way all of the eyes seemed to shift, to blink as if alive. His son's labored breaths echoed in his mind, mingling with the phantom cries of long-dead villagers who'd succumbed to Maggie's bargain. "What happens to me?" he whispered, his voice barely audible over the wind. She tilted her head, the sound of cracking bones echoing through the still night. "He will walk with me, Peter, forever. But your boy will grow strong. His eyes will never meet my gaze." Oh.

• 36:30Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Oh, I would take that sacrifice.

• 36:32Corinne Vien?

  Me too. Immediately, yes. The temptation clawed at him. What was one life for another? His son's life for his own? The silence stretched, heavy and suffocating, until at last he reached up, trembling fingers hovering over the basket. "Peter, no!" A voice, his wife's, broke through the haze of dread. She stood in the doorway clutching her son. His fever was gone, his cheeks flushed with newfound health. The boy's wide, tear-filled eyes met his father's pleading silently, and the spell shattered. Peter stumbled back, his hands falling to his side, and Maggie let out an ear-piercing screech, her grin twisting into a snarl. The basket tipped, spilling its contents, eyes tumbled onto the roof and rolled into the shadows, vanishing like drops of ink into water. The eyes spilled everywhere? Yes.

• 37:17Corinne Vien?

  Toppling over like a little golf ball, just rolling everywhere. Marbles. "You will regret this," she hissed, her voice carrying the weight of centuries of wrath. And with a final, bone-chilling wail, she vanished into the night, leaving only the faint creak of tiles and the lingering scent of decay. The next morning, Peter awoke to find his roof sagging under the weight of something heavy. When he climbed up to inspect it, his heart turned to ice. Dozens of eyes had been nailed to the shingles, their glassy stares fixed towards his home. From that day on, the rooftops of the village were never silent, and Maggie's shadow was always close, waiting for the moment when Peter's courage or his love might fail.

• 38:01Corinne Vien?

  Wait, this is wild because it's like, it almost seems to me that Maggie puts a spell over someone and they believe-

• 38:09Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  She's like a siren.

• 38:10Corinne Vien?

  Yes. So like, maybe his son was never sick at all, but because of Maggie's arrival, suddenly he's like in this new reality, believing something completely different.

• 38:19Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Interesting.

• 38:19Corinne Vien?

  And that's how she gets so many people to agree to something.

• 38:23Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  See, I really want Maggie to be the hero. I want a redemption story.

• 38:27Corinne Vien?

  Cause she was the healer. I thought she was gonna come in and heal. And then it was like, you know?

• 38:30Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Which we could, we could ask-

• 38:32Corinne Vien?

  Her heart grows three sizes.

• 38:33Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  We could ask for a part two and have, be like, can you continue this story, but give Maggie redemption? Maybe do like, can you continue this in a two-minute story where Maggie gets redemption? See, we get to manipulate the story.

• 38:48Corinne Vien?

  Okay. I wrote, can you continue this in a two-minute story where Maggie gets a redemption arc, all of the Grinch?

• 38:53Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yes.

• 38:54Corinne Vien?

  The rooftops of the village remained her domain, but something changed in Maggie. The night after Peter defied her, she returned to the woods to rage against her curse. She screamed at the trees, tore at her tattered robes, and flung her basket of eyes into the undergrowth.

• 39:07Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  And she just went naked and running through the woods?

• 39:10Corinne Vien?

  Cause she's a witch.

• 39:10Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  And she's angry.

• 39:11Corinne Vien?

  Her fury was boundless, but beneath it was something unfamiliar, a crack in her resolve. Why hadn't Peter taken her bargain? What had he seen in the boy's eyes that was worth more than his own soul? As she brooded, a faint sound drew her attention, a soft, childlike laughter. Turning, she saw a ghostly figure standing amongst the trees, a young girl, no more than ten, with pale, glowing eyes that pierced Maggie's hollow sockets. A white walker? Maggie froze. Who are you? She rasped, her voice trembling for the first time in centuries. The girl smiled. I'm Dasha, one of the lives you spared long ago. Do you remember? I was the girl you healed when the fever swept through the village.

• 39:53Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I just got chills.

• 39:53Corinne Vien?

  Me too. Thank you, Chad.

• 39:56Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  All Maggie had to do was write secret letters and burn them. Release her anger. Yes.

• 40:02Corinne Vien?

  Maggie's skeletal frame stiffened as memories she buried clawed their way to the surface. Dasha had been one of the many that she'd tried to save, even when the villagers turned against her.

• 40:11Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Oh.

• 40:12Corinne Vien?

  "You shouldn't be here," Maggie hissed. "I'm nothing but a curse now." "You're more than that," Dasha said, stepping closer. "You've forgotten who you were. Kindness, love, sacrifice. That's why you came back, isn't it? Not for revenge. You wanted to remember you."

• 40:27Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Oh. Oh, my gosh. Dasha!

• 40:30Corinne Vien?

  Maggie's-

• 40:30Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  See, the kids know.

• 40:31Corinne Vien?

  The kids know. They know everything. Maggie's clawed hands fell to her sides, the rage that had fueled her for so long ebbed, replaced by a deep ache that she couldn't name. Dasha reached out, her spectral hands brushing Maggie's basket. It began to glow, the eyes inside transforming into tiny orbs of light. They floated upward, scattering into the trees like fireflies. "They don't need to fear you anymore," Dasha said softly. "Show them who you truly are."

• 40:58Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  This is magical.

• 40:59Corinne Vien?

  That night, Maggie returned to the rooftops, but not as a vengeful spirit. Her gnarled form softened, her hollow sockets now filled with a faint, flickering light.

• 41:08Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  She had a glow up.

• 41:09Corinne Vien?

  Echoes of the souls that she had freed. She no longer carried the basket. Instead, she left small gifts on the villagers' doorsteps. This is Santa Claus's origin story.

• 41:19Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah.

• 41:20Corinne Vien?

  Herbs to ward off illnesses, carved wooden charms for protection, and flowers that only bloomed in moonlight. When Peter saw her shadow on his roof, he climbed to meet her. For the first time, he did not tremble. "Why are you here?" he asked. "To give back what was taken," she said, her voice no longer rasped, but a gentle whisper. "I only wanted them to remember I was once one of them." From that night on, Maggie became the villagers' silent guardian. The winds still whispered her name, but now they carried her blessings. And though she still walked the rooftops, it was no longer to haunt, but to protect.

• 41:57Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Snaps for Maggie.

• 41:59Corinne Vien?

  Maggie, we had to give you a good ending.

• 42:01Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  We did. We, that's beautiful.

• 42:03Corinne Vien?

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• 43:27Corinne Vien?

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• 43:51Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Oh, this is fun. I could do this all day.

• 43:53Corinne Vien?

  I know. This is really great. This is gonna make bedtime stories so much more fun.

• 43:57Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Oh, absolutely.

• 43:58Corinne Vien?

  It's like your kid's like, can you tell me a story about a princess and a cat? And, but they go to Mars with suitcases and you're like, yes, I can.

• 44:07Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Easy.

• 44:08Corinne Vien?

  And it will be curated in two seconds.

• 44:10Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yep. Okay, so this one, I combined a bunch of different aspects from different prompts that people had given us on Patreon.

• 44:17Corinne Vien?

  Perfect.

• 44:18Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Okay, so this is the prompt I gave Chad. Create a short, five-minute ghost story or scary tale based on a mix of random, silly, and creative prompts that will be provided. Each story should blend these unexpected elements into something funny, quirky, surprising, and sometimes a little scary. The tone should be lighthearted and entertaining with enough suspense and twists to keep it engaging and memorable. Here are the prompts. One, a stray cat named Hillary who can see the ghosts of a serial killer's victims. Two girls, Reagan and Maria, visit a remote area of the Mexico countryside and stay at the Nightfall Hotel that is known to be haunted, but is more sinister than they thought. Reagan grew up hearing the story of how her mother one day seemed to lose her mind. That in a fit of madness, she ran from her home and out into the desert.

• 45:03Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  But Reagan knows, she saw her, she saw them. They dragged her into the dark. For years, she had tried to convince herself that this wasn't true, that she had not seen anything, that they hadn't seen her, that they weren't still watching her. But as stranger and stranger, things begin to happen. Her mother's spirit haunts her, begging to be saved, and she can't deny the truth any longer. The dark beckons her to enter. And then the last part, the ghost of a pompous celebrity named Alicia, who hates having to mingle with the normal people.

• 45:33Corinne Vien?

  So, we have no idea how this is gonna go.

• 45:35Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah, that is such a mixed bag. Chad called it "The Shadows of Nightfall." Reagan and Maria, college friends with a penchant for the paranormal, had heard rumors about the Nightfall Hotel. Nestled deep in the Mexican countryside, it was said to be the most haunted place in the region. But that was part of the fun. Reagan needed a break from the dark memories of her mother's disappearance, and Maria thought it would make great social media content.

• 45:59Corinne Vien?

  Nice.

• 46:00Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  The moment they arrived, the hotel loomed over them like a stone sentinel. Its cracked windows and sagging balconies whispered of forgotten tragedies. Yet the staff was oddly cheerful, especially a stray cat that darted around the lobby. The bellboy mentioned that the cat's name was Hillary and casually added, she's been here for years and she knows all of the hotel's secrets. That night, as Maria set up her tripod to record their ghost hunt, Reagan wandered around to the balcony. The cool air carried the faint scent of burning sage. Below, Hillary, the cat, prowled the courtyard, her green eyes glowing like lanterns in the moonlight. And then Reagan saw them. Shadows flickering like smoke began to form in the courtyard. They weren't human.

• 46:43Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  They were misshapen, twisted with gaping mouths and clawed hands. They surrounded Hillary, but the cat remained calm, staring them down with an eerie confidence. Reagan stumbled backward, and her breath caught in her throat. Reagan, Maria called from the other room. You have got to see this. Inside, Maria had her camera pointed at the corner of the room, and there stood the translucent figure of a woman, dripping with diamonds and oozing with disdain. Ugh, the spirit sneered. Another night with peasants. Oh my god, what a bitch. Reagan blinked. What is happening? I'm Alicia, the ghost groaned, flicking her hair over her shoulder. Actress, model, muse.

• 47:25Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I died at this miserable hotel, and now I'm stuck with the likes of you. Wow. Before Reagan could process the absurdity, Alicia froze, her glamour fading into terror. Oh no, not them. They're coming. Oh my god. The shadows oozed through the walls, crawling like tar. One grabbed Alicia, pulling her toward the dark. She screamed, a piercing cry that sent shivers through Reagan's spine. Help me, peasants!

• 47:54Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Alicia, there's a reason you're trapped here forever. I am pretty sure our Patreon owner named Alicia, gave us this prompt, so I named the ghost after her. Sorry, Alicia. Hey, Alicia, you gave this to us. Hillary the cat appeared in the doorway, her fur bristling. She hissed at the shadows swiping with claws that seemed to glow. The creatures recoiled, retreating into the cracks of the floor. Alicia slumped onto the bed, visibly shaken. I never thought I'd say this, but thank you, feline. Hillary ignored her, jumping into Reagan's lap. Her purring was a strained comfort as Reagan's mind raced. Outside the window, Reagan's mother's ghost appeared. Pale, frail, and desperate. She pointed toward the desert beyond the hotel where the shadows writhed like a living storm.

• 48:37Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  "They're waiting for you," her voice whispered.

• 48:40Corinne Vien?

  "That's so scary."

• 48:42Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Reagan clutched the cat tighter. For years, she had pretended it wasn't real, that her mother had simply lost her mind and ran away. But the truth caught at her now. The shadows had taken her, and now they wanted Reagan. Maria, finally shaken from her influencer ambitions, whispered, "What do we do?" Reagan's voice was steady. Alicia groaned. "Oh lovely, a desert expedition with two amateurs and a glorified house pet." Hillary meowed indignantly, her green eyes narrowing. She seemed ready to lead the way. And so armed with a sarcastic ghost, a cat who could see the dead, and a camera rolling just in case, Reagan and Maria stepped into the night, following a trail of whispers and shadows toward whatever awaited them in the dark. The desert stretched endlessly, its silence broken only by the crunch of sand beneath their feet.

• 49:27Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Moonlight painted the landscape silver, but ahead, the shadows churned like a living void. Hillary led the way, her tail flicking with purpose, while Alicia trailed behind, floating in a state of perpetual annoyance. "Well, Alicia, you didn't have to come."

• 49:42Corinne Vien?

  "Yeah, Alicia, get with it."

• 49:44Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  "This is ridiculous," Alicia muttered. "I could be haunting a villa in Malibu, but no, I'm stuck chasing shadows in this wasteland with two mortals and a flea bag."

• 49:53Corinne Vien?

  "This is like just such a personal reference, but when I was 12, I was in a middle school play that one of my teachers had written. Like, she wrote her own play, and we all acted it out. And I was cast as Honey Hotchkiss, which was exactly Alicia in this story. And it was like set in a hotel."

• 50:12Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  "So you have the acting chops to be Alicia?"

• 50:14Corinne Vien?

  "I guess, yeah. I loved being Honey Hotchkiss until everyone started calling me Honey Crotchiss."

• 50:19Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  "That's pretty... I get it."

• 50:21Corinne Vien?

  "I don't know why my teacher just like, you know, you're making a play for middle schoolers."

• 50:25Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  "Yeah, well, she was not... no, she was making a play for herself. And then she was like, 'I have an idea. I'll make my middle schoolers do it.'"

• 50:35Corinne Vien?

  Free acting.

• 50:35Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Live table read. Reagan ignored Alicia again, her eyes fixed on her mother's ghost. The apparition hovered just ahead, her face flickering between desperation and fear. Maria clutched the camera like a talisman, whispering, "This is totally going viral if we survive." As they approached the swirling mass of darkness, the air grew colder. A low, guttural hum vibrated through the stand. Hillary stopped abruptly, her fur standing on end. She hissed at the shadows, but this time, they didn't retreat. Instead, the void parted, revealing a stone altar carved with jagged symbols. Is this Lion Witch in the Wardrobe?

• 51:09Corinne Vien?

  Yeah.

• 51:10Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  On the altar lay a rusted locket, Reagan's mother's locket. Reagan's breath caught. "That's hers." Before anyone could stop her, she stepped forward. The shadows coalesced, forming towering figures with hollow eyes and gaping mouths. They didn't move, but they seemed to watch, waiting. A voice echoed, low and cold. "You have come good." Reagan swallowed hard. "What do you want? Why did you take my mother?" One of the figures tilted its head. "She was chosen, a vessel, but she was weak. You are not."

• 51:42Corinne Vien?

  "What the hell?"

• 51:43Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  The shadows surged closer, their forms unraveling like smoke, tendrils reaching for Reagan. Hillary leapt forward, her claws glowing faintly as she swiped at the darkness. The shadows recoiled with a hiss, but their laughter echoed in the air. "You cannot stop what has already begun."

• 52:00Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Suddenly, Reagan's mother's ghost appeared, her form flickering more brightly. "Reagan, you have to destroy the locket." "It's Harry Potter."

• 52:09Corinne Vien?

  "It is, and it's also kind of Haunted Mansion."

• 52:11Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  "It is." Reagan hesitated. The locket had been her mother's most prized possession, a keepsake of their family, but- "No!" her mother screamed. Maria shoved Reagan out of her stupor. "Do it, Reagan!" Reagan grabbed the locket, but the moment her fingers touched it, searing pain shot up her arm. Images flashed in her mind, her mother running through the desert, the shadows dragging her into the dark. And a sinister figure whispering, "She is not enough. Bring the child." Reagan screamed and threw the locket to the ground. "Hillary, do your thing." The cat, as if understanding, leapt onto the- And with an ear splitting yowl, she swiped the locket, her claws glowing with an otherworldly light. The locket shattered, releasing a burst of energy that sent the shadows writhing and

• 52:52Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  retreating into the desert. The air crumbled and the air stilled. Reagan's mother's ghost smiled, her form becoming more solid. You did it. You broke their hold. Reagan fell to her knees, tears streaming down her face. I thought I lost you forever. Her mother knelt beside her, placing a cold, ghostly hand on her cheek. I'll always be with you, but you need to go. The desert doesn't let go easily. As her mother's spirit began to fade, Alicia floated closer, looking uncharacteristically shaken. Well, that was unpleasant. Do you have any idea what shadows do to a complexion? That's actually a funny line. Yeah. Well, sometimes it makes it snatched. Right. Yeah, that's called contour and it's actually great.

• 53:34Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Have you heard of it, Alicia? Maria finally exhaled. So, we survived? Hillary meowed, licking her paw as if to say, of course we did. The four of them, two humans, a snobby ghost, and a heroic stray cat began the trek back to the Nightfall Hotel, the first rays of dawn breaking over the horizon. As they walked, Reagan glanced back. The desert was now empty, but she couldn't shake the feeling that the shadows weren't entirely gone. And somewhere far beneath the sand, something left. Would you like to continue? Or have an epilogue? This could lead to new hauntings, a curse, or even a connection to the hotel itself. That's what Chad said. Chad? Chad is clearly liking this story. Chad's like, should we continue? Let's do more.

• 54:16Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I like the dynamic of like the cat. Like it feels YA again. Yeah, you know? It does. I feel like the one that I read was a little bit more like Grimm's Brothers Fairy Tale, like a little more traditional. And the two that you have are very YA, which I love. Well, you get to create a new one. Okay, I wrote, can you create an extremely original five-minute ghost story that will induce nightmares and really emphasize the horror and paranormal aspects of the following? It should be dark, sinister, and have a big twist. Think Haunting of Hill House, Get Out, or Talk to Me. Please include the following names in the story and use the following prompts and themes. Names: Camila, Christine, and Kate, who gave the prompt and theme ideas. And the prompts were Black Eyed Kids, The Witching Hour, and Ghosts Who Have a Podcast Where They Interview Each Other About Humans in Their Lives.

• 55:03Corinne Vien?

  This, okay. When I was pregnant, my hair was so nice. Then I gave birth and then my hair left my body. And everyone's like, don't worry, it will grow back. And I was sitting here for many months saying, okay, when? And then finally I was like, I'm gonna use Nutraful. That is how I'm gonna get my hair back. Nutraful is a number one dermatologist recommended hair growth supplement brand trusted by over one million people. You can see thicker, stronger, faster growing hair with less shedding in just three to six months with Nutraful. And everyone's root causes for hair thinning can be different. So obviously there's no one size fits all approach to hair growth that just doesn't cut it. And Nutraful has multiple formulas that are tailored to give your hair what it needs to grow throughout the different stages. So like for me, I ordered the postpartum.

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• 56:54Corinne Vien?

  It was the kind of cold night that wrapped around your bones and wouldn't let go. Camila shivered as she tightened her scarf and glanced at her phone. 3:03 a.m. The witching hour. Christine had dared her to walk home alone after their late night ghost tour.

• 57:07Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  That's so mean.

• 57:09Corinne Vien?

  It's just for fun, Christine had teased. Portsmouth isn't that haunted.

• 57:13Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Ooh, are we in Portsmouth, New Hampshire?

• 57:15Corinne Vien?

  It is pretty haunted.

• 57:16Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Are we in the UK? Where are we?

• 57:18Corinne Vien?

  But now, alone, under the dim glow of flickering streetlights, Camila regretted her provado. Somewhere behind her, boots scraped the cobblestones. She whipped her head around, but nothing. Just the fog rolling in off the harbor, swallowing sound and sight alike.

• 57:34Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Ooh.

• 57:35Corinne Vien?

  The eerie silence shattered with a voice, childlike, yet off. "Excuse me, miss." Two kids stood under lamp posts that flickered like a dying firefly.

• 57:46Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  "May we borrow your telegraph, please?"

• 57:49Corinne Vien?

  They couldn't have been older than 10. The girl, with tangled hair and hollow cheeks, held her brother's hand. He clutched a scratched plastic recorder, the kind that you would find in a kindergarten classroom. "We're lost," said the girl. Her voice sounded like nails dragged over velvet. "Can you help us?" Camila's heart thudded. Something wasn't right. She couldn't see their eyes. Their heads were tilted just enough that the shadows cloaked their faces. She took a cautious step back. "Where are your parents?" The boy raised his face. His eyes were flat, endless, black, empty voids. "Just let us in," he hissed.

• 58:26Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Into what? You're outside.

• 58:29Corinne Vien?

  A chill raced down Camila's spine. "Let us in? She didn't live here. She wasn't going home." The words just didn't make sense. Unless, were they asking for her consent to something? "No," Camila said, her voice trembling, and she turned and bolted, her footsteps echoing in the deserted streets. Christine was waiting for her in their Airbnb, a cozy colonial house tucked between historic shops. "Took you long enough," she joked, sipping her wine. "That the ghosts got you." "I think they almost did," Camila stammered, locking the door behind her. She relied the encounter with the black-eyed kids, but Christine waved it off. "Ugh, local legends," she said. "They're just trying to spook tourists."

• 59:05Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Christine!

• 59:06Corinne Vien?

  Yeah, a bunch of kids out in the middle of the night.

• 59:08Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I'm mad at Christine.

• 59:09Corinne Vien?

  I'm gonna get the tourists.

• 59:10Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I'm mad at Christine, even though I know it's not the real Christine from Patreon.

• 59:16Corinne Vien?

  But Camila couldn't shake the feeling of being watched. Even when Christine fell asleep, Camila stayed awake, the encounter replaying in her mind. At 3:33 a.m., the lights flickered and the air turned icy. The sounds of static crackled from the corner of the room. Camila turned to see Christine's laptop glowing faintly, though it had been shut off an hour ago. The static grew louder, morphing into garbled voices.

• 59:39Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah, it's very Poltergeist.

• 59:42Corinne Vien?

  Yeah. Welcome back to Spectral Frequencies, Stop! the only podcast for ghosts by ghosts. Camila froze.

• 59:50Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I forgot about that part of it.

• 59:52Corinne Vien?

  She couldn't breathe, couldn't move as the spectral broadcast played. "We've got a special guest tonight," the host said, his voice a mix of radio static and deep growls. "Say hello, Kate." A new voice joined, one dripping with malice. "Hello, everyone. I'm Kate, and I've been watching the most interesting human." Christine stirred in her sleep, her face twisting into a grimace. And the voice continued. "She's curious, fearless, too fearless. I like her." Camila's blood ran cold. Kate wasn't talking about Christine, right? "I've been waiting for her to notice me," Kate purred.

• 1:00:29Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Oh my god.

• 1:00:30Corinne Vien?

  "Maybe I'll invite her to stay with us forever." The hosts chuckled. "What about the other one?" "Oh," Kate said, her voice sharpening. "Christine? She's already mine."

• 1:00:42Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Shut up.

• 1:00:43Corinne Vien?

  As that, Christine sat upright, her eyes wide, her mouth opening in a silent scream. Her hands clawed at her throat as if something unseen was choking her. And Camila screamed, rushing to her friend's side, but the fingers passed through Christine's body like smoke. Christine's head turned slowly towards Camila, her lips curling into a grin that wasn't her own. "You should have let them in," she whispered in Kate's voice. The room plunged into darkness. Camila woke up on the cobblestones. Her breath fogged in the air. The world was silent, empty. The town seemed frozen in time. And her phone read 3:03 a.m. She stumbled towards the Airbnb, but it was gone, replaced by decaying ruin.

• 1:01:24Corinne Vien?

  A sign hung crooked on the doorway, "The Midnight Broadcast Studio." The faint sound of voices floated on the wind. The podcast was still playing. And from the corner of her eye, she saw two children, their black eyes glinting as they smiled. "Let us in," they whispered. And this time, Camila couldn't run.

• 1:01:45Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  That's it?

• 1:01:45Corinne Vien?

  That's it.

• 1:01:50Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  The spectral broadcast is my favorite thing that's ever happened.

• 1:01:53Corinne Vien?

  I know. Like, welcome back.

• 1:01:55Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  And the way that that's used to haunt people.

• 1:01:57Corinne Vien?

  Yeah.

• 1:01:58Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Is genius.

• 1:01:59Corinne Vien?

  Brilliant, brilliant. I love this story so much.

• 1:02:03Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Also, what a good idea to have a podcast of ghosts talking about people.

• 1:02:07Corinne Vien?

  Right.

• 1:02:08Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Brilliant idea.

• 1:02:09Corinne Vien?

  We're stealing it.

• 1:02:10Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Chad already did.

• 1:02:12Corinne Vien?

  Well, Chad didn't create it, which listener gave that prompt.

• 1:02:15Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  That was from Kate.

• 1:02:16Corinne Vien?

  Kate?

• 1:02:17Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  It's funny, because Kate is who they used.

• 1:02:19Corinne Vien?

  Yeah.

• 1:02:19Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah, for, for the ghost.

• 1:02:21Corinne Vien?

  I love this so much.

• 1:02:23Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  This was such a fun idea for an episode. Now I truly just like want to make our entire podcast this.

• 1:02:29Corinne Vien?

  Yeah.

• 1:02:30Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Also Izzy had responded to Kate's prompt on Patreon and wrote, "Okay, wait, I need an April Fools' episode to be a whole hour of this, about like ghosts."

• 1:02:39Corinne Vien?

  Oh, like you and I being ghosts, talking about humans?

• 1:02:42Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  It's a good idea. Let's clock it.

• 1:02:43Corinne Vien?

  Yeah.

• 1:02:44Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  We'll remember that.

• 1:02:45Corinne Vien?

  Yeah.

• 1:02:45Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  If you remember our last April Fools' episode.

• 1:02:48Corinne Vien?

  That doesn't exist. It never happened.

• 1:02:50Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  It never happened.

• 1:02:51Corinne Vien?

  That was just our other podcast.

• 1:02:52Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  We would never talk about it.

• 1:02:53Corinne Vien?

  But that would be fun to like actually dress up as ghosts or like, like.

• 1:02:56Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  We'll be the floating, that's the floating heads episode!

• 1:02:59Corinne Vien?

  Oh my god.

• 1:03:01Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Well, thank you everyone on Patreon for giving us the prompts for this episode.

• 1:03:05Corinne Vien?

  Yeah, there were so many more too. That was so good.

• 1:03:08Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  We could do plenty more episodes like this.

• 1:03:11Corinne Vien?

  I know. And it just is proof of how creative everyone is and this makes me want people to.

• 1:03:16Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Write stories?

• 1:03:17Corinne Vien?

  Write stories.

• 1:03:18Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Well, we put them away, but we have, when I went to the P O Box last, I opened all of these packages and there were like four books sent to us. And I was like, oh, how nice. But no, they are the authors themselves.

• 1:03:30Corinne Vien?

  Yes.

• 1:03:31Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Who are our listeners, who have written books about the paranormal or whatever it may be. Like, they're not all paranormal. You guys are all so talented. It's incredible.

• 1:03:40Corinne Vien?

  Yeah, I love that.

• 1:03:41Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  So keep sending us your books. We will read them. And send us your ghost stories. And if you, let us know if you liked this format of an episode, because we'll do it again if you like it.

• 1:03:50Corinne Vien?

  Yeah. We like to try different things every once in a while.

• 1:03:53Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Yeah. See?

• 1:03:54Corinne Vien?

  We're new.

• 1:03:55Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  We are keeping things fresh.

• 1:03:56Corinne Vien?

  We're keeping things fresh.

• 1:03:58Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Because it's Two Girls, One Ghost.

• 1:04:01Corinne Vien?

  How do we change the end?

• 1:04:02Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  You'll have to just do something different, but the same. Hold on to your chair.

• 1:04:06Corinne Vien?

  Now I feel really pressured.

• 1:04:08Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Keep yourself grounded.

• 1:04:09Corinne Vien?

  Keep yourself grounded. But first, shout out to Jamie for editing this episode. Thank you, Jamie. And y'all will see us on the other side.

• 1:04:22Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I don't like that one as much.

• 1:04:23Corinne Vien?

  Should I ask Chad?

• 1:04:26Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  This is literally like, I was having this conversation the other day about how in like 20 years, we're gonna have, we're all gonna have like chips in our brain that are basically chat GPT. But then, like, we're not gonna need as much conversation with other people because we're all gonna have the, like, access to information, you know?

• 1:04:42Corinne Vien?

  Yeah.

• 1:04:43Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Whereas like, I like to talk to people who have different knowledge that they can share with me. But if we all have access to knowledge endlessly, we're gonna be awful.

• 1:04:53Corinne Vien?

  I know. It also makes me, the one thing that I do want technology to be able to do is, you know, like, the glass. I think there's a Black Mirror episode of this where it's like, everybody's memories, they can pull back and replay what someone's seeing. I would love for my eyes to always be recording things. And then you get to like choose, like maybe if it's like, it records every 24 hours and then it races. And you get to choose for those 24 hours, like what you keep for memories.

• 1:05:18Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I like that. You could just set up cameras in your house or hire a whole camera crew to follow you around all the time.

• 1:05:25Corinne Vien?

  Okay, I asked Chad to give us podcast sign offs similar to See You on the Other Side for a Paranormal Podcast. And I'm gonna give you a couple of options.

• 1:05:34Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Okay.

• 1:05:34Corinne Vien?

  And we'll say it.

• 1:05:35Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Okay.

• 1:05:35Corinne Vien?

  Okay, keep your candles lit and your doors locked. May your nights be quiet and your ghosts be friendly.

• 1:05:40Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  Oh.

• 1:05:41Corinne Vien?

  And remember, the veil is always thinner than you think.

• 1:05:44Sabrina Deana-Roga?

  I like that one.

• 1:05:45Corinne Vien?

  Okay. And remember, the veil is always thinner than you think.

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