Listener Tales 77 | Morbid | Podcast | Forensic Files

I didn't expect that and this is [Music] our tails in case you couldn't tell that's why it's so silly goofy
laughs we just had some Wendy's up in here we had Reese's some of you are already
yelling at me for saying Reese's oh yeah you say Reese's no I say Reese's oh hell
yeah Mikey is giving a face do you say Reese's or Reese's there's like a big old argument that
it's actually Reese's because of that apostrophe it makes it like we're belonging to Rhys which like I believe
grammatically I'll give it to you but in reality no Reese's yeah it's like it's I
don't know it's a thing because they are not Reese's Pieces even though yes that
makes more sense as well it's Reese's species oh yeah [ __ ] yeah you will not change my mind don't try they are
Reese's the pieces that's the way it is you know that's just the way it is things are always gonna be the same
Reese's Pieces we're never going to get away from that well this is listener tales and guess what we hand-picked a
bunch of good ass listen to tales for your little butt butts with the hell yeah one dub dub dub dub dub dub dub dub
and today we decided since it's August which basically means it's fall that it is Halloween Halloween I'm ready for
Halloween Halloween's Here and I decided that this year I think I I decorate mostly pretty early in September but
this year September 1st oh yeah let's [ __ ] go Halloween's already started to creep into my house I'm also going to
your worst nightmare about like my most beautiful uh mare Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween party
yeah I'm going you're gonna have a lot of fun I mean I have the most fun and I'm going to wish that for you I think
to manifest that for you your girl ordered a lot of years I love that thank you that makes me happy I'm glad yeah it
does thanks and I mean it's just anything Halloween makes me happy oh all this stuff is out at like bath and body
everywhere and like we need to go to Home Goods together yeah we got to go to so many places let's go get Halloween
decorations we're gonna take Sheena and trid to haunted houses this year oh baby
you know Sheena melwani that beautiful luna moth that's moth and that's my shishi so we're gonna take her to some
haunted houses upstairs it's fun it's so fun she her she has like a genuine Terror yeah it's wonderful it's great
it's she's a very fun person to take to a haunted house we're sick twisted people okay we are but you know here we
are we're gonna do some Halloween Tales some of these are Loosely Halloween some
of these just mentioned Halloween very briefly but some of them are straight up Halloween so let's go I think like
that's basically the theme is like it says Halloween in the tale somewhere perfect so I have to start this off with
a literal bang oh okay because this one's called listener Tales the time I got shot in the head and had no idea
okay so alrighty whoa so the way that this listener did attach beautiful question mark font size 14 double spaced
read time 6 minutes 57 seconds pictures included that was just in the header yeah that's a college student right they
went for it that's somebody with a degree right yeah and you know what your name is Allison because you told me I
better use it Allison Allison Max likes your yabos Allison in fact he loves them so hello my favorite weirdos
to start my name is Allison and you better use it Allison Allison Allison this star this Starry I almost went very
fast in there this story is far too ridiculous that anyone I know who hears it will absolutely know who I am anyway
to follow in suit with all the other listeners who write in I cannot thank you both enough for being such a
positive light even when telling some of the darkest Tales I'm a teacher hero and
the last few years have been extremely difficult and debilitating however during this extremely tough time you and
your podcast have given me something to consistently look forward to as both an escape and a place I can count on for
acceptance and support hell yeah oh my God Allison I love you we accept you we support you
you can count on us you're a teacher you're a badass we love you I've been working on submitting this story for
almost a year because well life it sometimes gets in the way but I've been going through a lot in my personal life
and you have both helped me realize that sometimes you just need to put your happiness in yourself first [ __ ] yeah so
here it is [ __ ] let's go yeah Allison I wasn't sure which story I should write
to you there was the time a kid hopped up on drugs rear-ended my car off the highway and left me trapped in a swamp
in the dark while he tried to drive off so I sat in darkness alone until a creepy white van of men climbed down
into the darker V and I was stuck in and saved me through a window not so creepy
after all uh send that one in please uh the time I was one of the students accused of bringing bullets to my high
school and was called out of class to be locked in the cafeteria and have all of
my belongings searched by teachers police and administrators no it was not me I am just the unluckiest human and it
just so happens that I was one of the few students out of the class when they found them because I have the bladder of
a two-month-old and was on one of my casual trips to the bathroom from class Jesus or the time I was at work after
school and I was trying to give directions to Vietnamese speaking parents via MapQuest to find their
daughter's sports game no this was not going well and no it was not successful I'm so bad when suddenly a parent ran in
the building yelling that the buildings all over the city were blowing up and we
needed to evacuate immediately without any further context so in complete chaos confusion and fear myself and another
teacher that was still at work had to try and Rescue all the kids that were staying after school that day from the
gas gas explosions in Lawrence Massachusetts I remember that holy [ __ ] I definitely remember that holy [ __ ] I
am finally I decided to go with the time I was shot in the head and had no idea it happened for months months Allison
you got sister Allison what's going on over there so here we go it was Halloween see
this one it actually was on Halloween a few years ago and I was at a party in Austin Massachusetts
to set the scene this this year and every other year in college I had picked an extremely original and modest costume
a sexy cat we've all been there multiple times it's also been just a wee bit intoxicated on rubinoff which let's be
honest is a mere name change from drinking rubbing alcohol yeah Ruby's not where it's at at the end of the night I
love that you just used like a cute little nickname for Ruben off you're like yeah Ruby Ruby Rubes Ruby like
unfortunately I know Ruru all too well not good it's so casual at the end of the night after the party I was waiting
with two of my friends on a street corner trying to hail a taxi back to the house I shared with five other girls to
have some type of after party fun fact I recently learned from your podcast that
apparently and in all shock to me I guess I lived in a brothel then well [ __ ] not so fun fact listener tell
connection from terrifying home invasions listener tail when my story took place I lived on the same street in
Boston like Emily did what and I was only about two houses down from where she lived the exact same time her house
was broken into and I had no idea it happened that is not a fun fact that is wild also that is the story we just
looked it up because we're like why does that sound familiar it's the one where her and her boyfriend like chased it
would be like rapist yeah out of their house and then they were featured on like the front of the what was it the I
think it was the herald I love The Herald and she was like I I like literally looked like [ __ ] you looked
great you like it but you you were like what the [ __ ] I was not she was not prepared for a photo op I was not ready
for my close-up here so that was Emily um so that's wild that you were in the same two doors down from her at the same
time that listener till happened this is wild connection I have to say it was extremely haunting to find out that we
had been living right next to her also in a brownstone with a fire escape up to our house holy [ __ ] additionally two of
my roommates had actually turned where that back door opened where that back door opened into a shared bedroom with
their beds on the opposite side of the door which in hindsight would have made us a perfect Target for that creep yep
because that's pretty much exactly how we got into Emily's house look but back to the story
while waiting for the taxi some people were getting a little too rowdy with their spooky spirit and alcohol
consumption and a car drove down the street past us actually throwing beer bottles out of their car window you know
like normal people why do people do things like that then all of a sudden and in one quick moment I heard a
mind-numbing piercing sound blaring in both my ears just imagine a dog's worst nightmare or when you get ringing
ringing in your ears but amplify that by a thousand my ears hurt disoriented I innocently looked at my
friends and said hey am I bleeding oh my God my friend then proceeds to immediately rip off his shirt and wrap
it around my head why did he do this you might ask well because blood was pouring
out of my skull that's a good reason that's a great reason in my fine college-age drunken mind my first
thought was that someone had hit me with one of those beer bottles causing the pain and blood I also did not even
consider the idea that maybe I should receive some medical attention I was incorrect about both of these things
so what exactly was my medical plan go back to our brothel put a bag of frozen peas on the wound and play some candy
crush because for some reason I thought I was invincible especially when crushing those candies
fast forward about a month or so later I was shopping with some of my friends and
one of them looked at my head and goes oh my God Allison there's a huge bug coming out of your skull you know as
friends do the way I would have shot myself if I was you Allison contrary to popular belief I personally would never
like to imagine the mere possibility of having a bug resident in my skull no so naturally I freaked out and looked at my
head in a mirror and what did I see something animalistic looking protruding out of my head oh my God and this is
like a month later also Allison sent a picture she has pics it's terrific it happened not knowing what it was and
just deciding to believe my completely medically unqualified friend that there was something disgusting and Alive
turning me into a mutant conjoined twin I thought this case I brought this case to my mom who works in the medical field
after speaking with my mom we did not know what it could be but we assumed we assumed that it was definitely linked
back to that Halloween night because well on that night my head was bleeding profusely and it was in the same
location of this quote-unquote bug we cracked the case oh my God unbeknownst to me my mom later told me that when I
showed up at her house to inquire about the fact I was turning into a two-headed
insect woman she left out the fact that she had actually thought there was a nine inch nail stuck in my skull and
thought it looked like someone had shot me with a nail gun um but what if it was Mom Mom
see a specialist to figure out what in the [ __ ] was going on come to find out this entire time I had been shot in the
head with a BB gun and there was a bullet still lodged in my skull what the [ __ ] I had to have surgery to have it
removed all the while I just thought someone had hit me in the head with a bottle and or Charlotte from shar's web
was chilling in my Dome piece just imagine if I had been called down as a bullet suspect now instead of
during high school for real they're like well I think she's got the minute got it
on you the doctor was able to safely remove the remaining piece of the bullet which had compacted itself into my
magically hard skull brag alert and luckily no it was not nine inches thanks again mom although I am now left with
just a little skull where I was struck slash shot it has been a great story shared by many of my friends to peers
and co-workers has been used in countless games of two truths and alive I was gonna say that it now serves as a
cautionary tale to not drink Ruben off especially while dressed like a [ __ ] cat why because sometimes people might
just decide to shoot you in the head I never found out who decided to shoot me that night or why did their cat just die
and my outfit triggered them did I take the last pair of cat ears at the store honestly the possibilities are endless
oh my gosh but what I did find was a silver lining I'm extremely I'm in extremely short individual hashtag
represent Elena and I realized that based on the location where the bullet hit me if I had just been a little bit
taller the bullet most likely would have hit me directly in my temple and I would
have died on a street corner in cat lingerie sorry Mom and Dad that would have been really [ __ ] traumatic I
have included a photo of the bug bullet still lodged in my skull as well as pictures of me and my pup because well I
just love him so freaking much and no you would too I I love him so there you have it stay weird but not so weird that
take it away Ash you go out with your friends and you're [ __ ] on rubinoff and somebody shoots you in the face and
you have literally no idea and then you find out months later because oh my God there's a bug man crawling out of your
head I beyond words also you're beautiful you are and your dog you're beautiful you
are a beautiful pair the two of you that there's a legit picture of her with a BB
gun in her head holy [ __ ] right there it's there wild Allison that was unbelievable Allison has like a really
nice shade of blonde like I like that shade you do have a great shade of blonde look at you look at you with your
blonde look at you you and your puppy match and I love that you look great you survived getting shot in the head you
got tales that I would like to hear yeah please write in all those other ones because damn that if you look at the
picture which we are the if that that is so close all right speechless yeah that
if she was a little taller that would have hit her in the temple 100 oh God that made my head hurt oh and just oh my
God like picturing the sound yeah no horrible I will not I'm so glad you're okay Allison seriously Allison Allison
Allison all right I'm gonna read this one called my sleep paralysis demons remind me to engage in self-care because
it's me I literally picked that for you I'm obsessed thank you it says hello ladies
my name is Veronica and yes you can absolutely use my name Veronica Veronica I am a 32 year old living in Las Vegas
uh oh you want me to say it a certain way Nevada Nevada how do you say it I never know how to
say it it says Nevada not not Nevada Nevada okay not Nevada it's Nevada trust me after living here for over six years
I've learned that nevadians get a little bit testy about the pronunciation everybody does they do we all get pissed
that everyone doesn't talk the exact same way we're I don't know why but we all I mean I don't but like but
everybody does it everybody's pissed so we don't all say the same words the same
way across the [ __ ] board dialect I said Nevada my whole life me too I've never said Nevada and you know what
whatever but you know what Veronica for you for you for you Nevada Nevada losing
all meaning it truly is well it says I just want to clarify that despite what the media tells you Vegas locals do not
live in hotels we absolutely avoid the strip out of all the costs and we know it's hotter than Satan's [ __ ] after
eating Taco Bell late at night we don't like it either yeah I'm not gonna lie it
kind of sucked there and I hated it I unfortunately moved here from San Diego California to fortunately begin my
wonderful life with my now husband oh I love that congrats since moving I have graduated with my masters in human and
social services oh yeah Veronica I'm going to say Nevada for you you earned it you got three who's
um and I am currently working on my [ __ ] doctorate in human services focusing on prevention intervention and
advocacy hell yeah Veronica baddest [ __ ] I have come a long way in such a short
amount of time so I can't say I completely hate Vegas but I definitely don't plan on being here for the rest of
my life I have attached to put a foe with a listener tail attached for your reading pleasure it's a long one but I'm
hoping it's worth it it's it says so this is the part where I tell you guys how absolutely amazing you both
are oh you are Veronica everyone I was gonna say look at everything you've done you're amazing you're amazing I stumbled
upon morbid about excuse me around the pandemic and I immediately knew that I'd found my people ah as the token spooky
[ __ ] in my family Elena I have turned everyone on to morbid including my own mother my husband will often ask me if I
want to put the girls off oh my God and do a puzzle or just sit and talk about the episode
we even turned our daughters 9 and 12 into morbid listeners oh my God and they love you guys we love them we love them
we once took a road trip from Las Vegas to Southern Oregon or Oregon then down the California coast to San
Diego and then back up to Vegas and they asked if we could listen to morbid the entire 20 plus hours of that drive I'm
obsessed with them I promise I bet the episodes were before exposing them to certain ones usually I trust you we
usually just go for the spooky ones when the girls are around just to be safe we'll do more of those for you we will
we love the spooky ones now on to the reason as to why I am writing this listener tale you see I've always been a
bit sensitive to energy whether it's people's energy or The Unexplained I wouldn't say I see dead people I'm not
as cool as the kid in the sixth sense but I definitely sent shifts in energy or see Shadows move from the corner of
my eye now I should note that I have always been a spooky [ __ ] I have always loved
the Paranormal horror True Crime Etc and you honestly will probably find me with
that type of book in my hand looking at you Elena hell yeah the butcher in the Wren at the tinyurl.com
so just go to Barnes Noble or Target or a store near you anyway so it was pretty
clear to me early on that not everyone is as sensitive to these things as I am I need to take a breath because I just
said so many words at once you said a lot I'll Vamp for you while you say those words just um the second book will
be coming out at some point so you ready for that and then you're great and you're really smart me thanks yeah you
too okay when I was around 12 years old I began experiencing sleep paralysis oh me too that's horrible were you that
young when it started yeah I was I think I might I was around that age I think oh
yeah that's terrifying it started out as small episodes here and there so I dismissed it as nothing serious while I
knew what it was I never thought it was a big deal with my episodes only happening occasionally I didn't think it
could get any worse boy was I wrong as I got older I began to surround myself with the wrong people at 17 I went
through a fairly abusive relationship I'm sorry oh that I kept secret for years during that time the sleep
paralysis increased to the point where I would jolt awake screaming or crying almost every night about a year later I
found myself in another relationship that lasted for almost seven years which also turned out to be emotionally
abusive I'm sorry did not deserve that and I'm so sorry again my sleep paralysis became worse and there would
be times that I would wake up completely paralyzed and feeling like I was being suffocated then in 2016 I reconnected
with an old friend from high school that friend is now my husband oh stop I love
that obsessed my husband and I have known each other for most of our Lives that's beautiful
we dated shortly in high school before you moved to Nevada Nevada you deserve it you deserve it we still
can't agree on who broke up with who back then but he a thousand percent nevertheless we stayed in touch
occasionally throughout the years as friends in July 2016 I came out to Vegas after a breakup and asked if you wanted
to catch up look at you [ __ ] you're just making things happen killing it today we've been together for seven
amazing years I love that and I now have the pleasure of being a bonus mom to two
beautifully brilliant girls that I love with all my soul oh I'm gonna cry I love
this so much side note we got married at the courthouse on December 13th 2019. it
was a Friday the 13th and had a big wedding on Halloween 2020. hell yeah in crayob it was amazing and our wedding
photographer dressed up as a banana that's amazing I'm not sure how it gets any better than that it doesn't to be
honest no it does not since being with my husband I have only had sleep paralysis once it was at the
beginning of our relationship and we were dating long distance at the time I was in Las Vegas visiting and job
hunting so I could move his room at the time was set up where the bed was directly next to the door this detail is
important later it was about 4 30 in the morning and I heard him call my name this is weird because he typically
leaves for work at 4am and it was just us in the house I remember thinking to myself that maybe he forgot something so
I opened my eyes the second I did I quickly realized that I couldn't move I immediately knew what was going on and
began to panic but I still heard him calling my name I began trying to wiggle my toes fingers anything that would that
would break the paralysis but nothing worked oh that sounds like the most horrific just oh I can't imagine
this time went on excuse me this went on for about a minute and then I began to feel a warm sensation all over my body I
attempted to move again I still couldn't move my body but I was able to move my head I slowly turned my head toward the
door to see if I could turn on the light and when I did I saw a solid black shadow standing in the doorway looking
at me the door was cracked about an inch and it was still pitch black but the figure Shadow was unmistakable listen I
know I'm absolutely blind without my glasses but my even my blind ass knew that this figure was not my boyfriend
whatever it was it looked like it was waiting for me to acknowledge it so it could enter the room and it was calling
me I kept thinking in my head go away you're not welcome over here here over and over in my mind it felt like forever
but eventually the paralysis broke and I was able to move again the second it broke I looked at the door and the
shadowy figure was gone oh while I don't have sleep paralysis anymore I'm still fairly sensitive to surrounding energy
and I often experience lucid dreams when I'm stressed me too interesting being a
doctoral student I think it goes without saying that it happens fairly often yeah
I occasionally have a recurring dream of an old woman looking into the kitchen window of our home oh sounds creepy
right well that's what I thought too but when I see her she has an oddly calming
presence that makes me feel like she isn't here to cause any harm she never speaks never tries to enter my home she
just looks at me and sometimes will gesture if she's trying to tell me something oh I feel like she's one of
your early Spirit guys I kind of love her I do too I told my husband about her and at first he didn't like it I don't
believe him either Drew would be like [ __ ] off please don't tell me that way for her period when he was younger he
lived in Italy where he says he experienced a lot of unexplained things since then he's very hesitant about
these types of interactions so when I told him about the old woman of my dreams he was quick to tell me not to
let her in the house or even to speak to her then the day occurred that forced me
to come to terms with my Sensitivity I had the dream like always the dream typically starts with me waking up in
the middle of the night and going down and and excuse me walking downstairs to get water when I walk into the kitchen I
see the old woman looking into our window oh that'd be so creepy I don't like that however this time something
felt different I immediately knew something was wrong oh [ __ ] that I just I read the next time my whole body just
went whoa oh here's what yeah this wasn't even a womp it was like I'm stressed the old woman began pointing at the
front door as if she were telling me to open it I must have gave her oh I'm so slow I must have gave her Jesus Christ I
must have given her a weird look because she pointed again with more urgency I shook my head and began to walk away
when she began pounding on the window and yelling at me to let her in I know chills over my yeah my whole body's
chilling the pounding then moved to my front door and grew louder and louder I ran into our living room which is right
next to our kitchen and huddled up on the corner of the couch to get away from her quote-unquote I instinctively knew
that this was not the old woman but some entity pretending to be her her and trying to enter my home suddenly the
pounding stopped and everything went dead silent I stood up and began to start towards the stairs to go back to
bed I know what you're thinking how the hell do you just go after bed after that
to go back to bed after that but I don't make the rules in my dream world when I
reached the first step I heard uh heard from the other side of the door an old woman's frail voice why won't you let me
in oh God I called for my husband and the second I called his name I woke up and there he was snoring away right next
to me on his side of the bed with our beagle in between us a beagle I immediately felt a sense of peace and
looked over at my bedroom door there standing in the doorway was my cat oh he was standing facing away from us as if
he was guarding the door I still see the old woman on occasion but she's just back to her normal self just standing
there and never speaking her presence is still calming and I'm not afraid of her
despite the terrifying dream she even came the nights I found out two of my uncles had passed away and she just
smiled at me and nodded as if to tell me that they're okay now oh I got chills that's beautiful I'm happy that you
could separate that scary ass from her from her because like you said it wasn't her my husband and I have discussed
these events at length and I think a lot of my experiences had to do with being constantly surrounded by negative energy
trauma and stress now when they happen if they're particularly bad I just take it as a reminder to engage in self-care
and be mindful of what's going on in my life I love that well ladies there it is
my long-winded story about how my sleep paralysis demon reminds me to engage in self-care and kick out the negative
energy in my life the people-pleasing side of me says to apologize for the long story no but I already hear what
you're going to say so I won't in typical fashion I've included pictures of our fur babies hell yeah for your
viewing pleasure our beagle's name is Luna the black girl the little black cat is Knox Knox chunky little bodyguard
although my daughter says he's likely my familiar oh my God I love your daughter
and our sweet little angel rabbit is Severus Severus oh I'm sorry oh we sadly lost Severus in January 2020 but he
still makes his presence known and yes all our animals have Harry Potter themed have a Harry Potter who's gonna ask any
who thank you for thank you both for all that you do and for taking the time to read my story with all the love and
spooky Vibes Veronica Veronica oh my God your cat looks like my luxie all your animals are beautiful muffins oh my God
I love it and you are also a beautiful muffin you're a beautiful muffin I love the one of the beagle and the cat
sitting next to each other right that's oh my God they're so cute wow oh and Severus is adorable thanks for that
Veronica interesting one though yeah well my next one is going to be called daddy issues death by elevator and a
message from Beyond the Grave let's [ __ ] go girl let's go hello my wonderfully weird spooky sassy Soul
Sisters my name is Roxy and you can use my name and any other names used in the story I'm just the biggest fan of the
Pod and the two of you you guys are my besties and we hang out and laugh three times a week and we've never even met
but it feels like chilling with my homies so that's what I'm gonna call it chilling with my hilarious spooky homies
while talking about murder so thank you for your delightfully morbid banter and your compassionate storytelling you guys
are the freaking best never ever changed and changed and Elena congratulations on
the book thanks I saw it in Target the other day and loudly exclaimed hey I know her lol and you know I bought me a
copy and can't wait to read it thanks I've attached a double space put a foot of my listener tail and if you read it
on the Pod I just might explode into a million pieces but after I put myself back together I will share it with
everyone I know because girlies this story is wild oh hell yeah this is a very long deeply personal story that
twists and turns for over 20 years of my life and involves a seance An Elevator Shaft and a possible murder writing it
all out was strangely therapeutic oh I'm glad and I still can't believe that it all actually happened but it did this
reads at around 15 minutes long but it'll be worth it so strap in weirdos and hold on to your butts I feel like we
haven't said hold on to your butts in so long we really haven't hold on to your butts hold on to your booty so to begin
this story let's jump into our time machines and travel way way back to a time before the internet and social
media and disinformation had polluted the human landscape a pure and magical era of grunge and gangster rap jelly
shoes and pencil thin eyebrows baby doll dresses and an MTV that actually played
music a Time a sweet innocent 12 year old me played with pogs and Tamagotchis collected everything Lisa Frank watched
Dawson's Creek and plastered my walls with posters of Jonathan Taylor Thomas and Hanson Elena a golden age of
humanity the 90s I knew you were gonna sing it oh I just felt every part of that the pogs
oh okay what is pogs ugh it's really hard to explain they're these little I I honestly I don't know if you look
them up they're like little discs okay and you would collect them they had all different kind of things on them and
then you would use a Slammer to slam the pogs it was a game but yeah the caps no
they're called pogs oh uh but they're like you would trade them back and forth so you get like Slammers which were
medley and kind of heavy and the pogs were like this and Slammers see well you can get them on Amazon if you want some
I might buy some pogs and Slammers and just show the girls and they'll be like that's weird make them play with pogs I
don't even remember how to play I just remember trading them was it you want me to get you some I can get them
I just bought you some pogs and Slammers okay here you go like okay to go with it
like he just looked over and was like what the [ __ ] are you two talking are you guys okay all right just add a bit
of backstory I was living with my mom two little brothers and my stepdad whom I had always believed to be my dad dad
my Mom married him when I was too young to remember and they had my brothers and
we were a family and I just always thought he was my dad well then he can be your dad yeah my mom never had the
heart to tell me about my real father and how he abandoned us when my mom was just 16 years old and very pregnant with
me oh that's awful he was a much older man in my my mom was an infatuated young girl she was completely in love with him
she had believed that he loved her and would be there for her to be a father that but her teenage dreams were
shattered he wasn't capable of being a husband or a father he was a self selfish womanizer and he just couldn't
be tied down so he flew the coop that's an old-timey way of saying that [ __ ] ghosted his
pregnant teenage girlfriend for drugs women and freedom oh this absolutely devastated my mom she was 16 and
Pregnant alone and completely heartbroken but instead of drowning in her pain and sorrow she did what she had
to do she grew the F up and took care of her daughter because she's a badass Queen Mama Bear and even at 16 and with
a broken heart she could not be stopped what a [ __ ] strong ass girly she gave me the best life she could and I
freaking love my mommy love that that is really that she's like touched my soul I'm so glad oh I love
that eventually she moved on she married my stepfather when I was three and she hid her pain away and focused on her
family and she never told me about the man who crushed her and left her alone while she was pregnant I mean I can't
imagine there's ever a right time to tell your young child that their daddy isn't their daddy and that there's some
strange man out there that shares your DNA and looks just like you and you have the same weird walk even though you've
never even met oh that's weird which brings us back to 1995 when I was 12 years old and completely out of the blue
my we're like almost the same age girl I was 12 years old and completely out of the blue my real dad called he wanted to
meet me yeah that's a bad time I was shocked and confused and it took a lot of very uncomfortable conversations
with my mother but she told me the truth about everything and told me that it was
up to me to decide if I wanted any type of relationship with this stranger she is such a good mama she sounds like one
and that she would support whatever I chose she was a good mom and she wanted me to be happy oh my God I love your mom
at the end of it all I decided that I just had to know I don't blame you so I decided to meet him and this began a
strange and dysfunctional relationship with a father who would later make me regret ever meeting him and leave me
with a lifetime of trauma and daddy issues once a deadbeat always a deadbeat I suppose it has taken Decades of
therapy but eventually I've learned to forgive and heal he also was damaged and abandoned by his
father and as we all know hurt people hurt people but this story isn't about him the story
is about his mother my guardian angel the grandmother that I never got to meet but that has loved me for my entire life
may oh I love that name as I got to know my new dad I learned of a long-lost family that I had never met my dad had
two younger sisters Kathy and Sandra or Sam as everyone called her they lived in
Tacoma Washington and so did their mother may we lived in Southern California so we began writing letters
so for Ash and any other young ones that may be listening letters are how people
used to communicate in the before times it's basically an email that you write on paper and put in the mailbox and then
literal pigeons deliver it to you LOL the 90s were wild contrary to popular belief I have written the letter before
anyways I began to get to know my new family we talked on the phone and wrote letters for a few months and I learned
that my grandmother may had been desperately wanting to meet me she had been furious with my father for
abandoning me and had begged him to do the right thing so that she could be part of her only granddaughter's life oh
that's like heartbreaking right my father's terrible Life Choices had taken its toll on their relationship and over
the years they had barely spoken Mae cried on the phone when she told me how badly this had hurt her and how much she
wanted to be my grandma and makeup for all the time she had lost oh I love men so we made a plan to meet and my mother
agreed I would fly out to Washington for my 13th birthday in a few weeks and meet
my new family back then you had to actually buy paper tickets to fly that is really wild how much that's changed I
was gonna say God I've never experienced so she bought them and she mailed them to me and I anxiously awaited my new
adventure with my sweet loving new grandma and my new aunties I was so excited and I imagined all the fun
things we would do together and The Memories We would make everything was going to be great except that it wasn't
fate had something else in mind oh no a couple of weeks later I'm sitting in science class and my name comes over the
loudspeaker I'm being called to the principal's office as I opened the door to enter I see my mother there her eyes
wet with tears she can't look at me or speak the principal or counselor or whoever the [ __ ] [ __ ] was kamuk was who
comes over and sits down in front of me you know the cool adult way but excuse me the cool adult Way backwards in a
chair they always think that's like an election yeah he just look dumb sit in the chair the
right way [ __ ] he takes a moment and then he says something I'll never forget sweetheart there's no easy way to say
this so I'm just gonna tell you straight your Grandma fell down An Elevator Shaft
she's dead put that a little differently I feel like that yeah there's no easy way to
tell her that but I don't know I'm also like I don't really use that in you needed to know in that moment that she
fell down an elevator your grandmother passed away correct yeah seriously that's what he said cold as
ice and without blinking it was chilling how this man was hired to work with children I'll never know I looked at my
mother she just starts sobbing now this next part still confuses me to this day I suppose being a child and having my
first experience with death all these grown-ups looking at me waiting for a response and the cold way in which I was
just told the most horrific thing I had ever heard in my life something snap crackle popped in my brain and I started
laughing yes laughing like a complete [ __ ] psychopath upon hearing the news of my grandmother's tragic death I began
laughing maniacally I would bet that counselor guy changed his methods on delivering tragic views to children
after that [ __ ] day I'm fairly sure I scared the absolute [ __ ] out of him and
he probably thinks I grew up to be serial killer but I digress I totally understand that though I'm the same way
I don't handle news well like that and I don't handle emotions well like that so
yeah my mom saw her daughter's brain break into pieces and she snatched me up and yeeded me the [ __ ] out of there
while I laughed and cried and screamed through the hallways of my middle school May was dead and I never got to meet her
oh that hurts my heart for you the next few days were a blur I talked to my dad and my aunts and everyone was completely
destroyed my aunt Sam was extremely close to may she had been with her moments before this happened my dad
never got to make amends with his mother everyone was just in complete shock and
sick with grief she fell down An Elevator Shaft what the actual [ __ ] how could this happen just [ __ ] how no
one wanted to talk to me about the details of her death understandably I mean I was so young and this was just so
[ __ ] up all I knew that there was that there was a faulty elevator in her apartment building and she stepped in
and it wasn't there oh my God she fell five stories to her death and that was it but there was so much more
I never got the real story until many years later when I was a grown woman but that comes later oh the next part will
forever just trip me the [ __ ] out so remember when I said my grandma bought me tickets to come meet her for my 13th
birthday well I got on my first plane ever with the Paper Tickets that may had bought me and me and and I used those
tickets to go to her funeral that's so [ __ ] so I fly to Washington my dad picks me up at the airport and takes me
to meet with my aunts and their husbands it's also strange and sad I don't know any of these people they hug me and they
cry a lot I don't really know how to act I want to cry with them but I'm mostly just confused I mean I just met all of
you and now we're all crying together and also she fell down An Elevator Shaft what the [ __ ] [ __ ] that's way too
much to process anyway after the initial awkwardness the trip actually ended up being pretty awesome and quite memorable
I slept at May's apartment with my dad I got May's room it smelled like rose water with a touch of cigarette smoke
she had a cute little she had cute little [ __ ] all over her apartment you know like chachkies but mostly funny gag
[ __ ] like a dick clock and a tiny statue of Jesus smoking out of a box hell yeah
she was definitely my type of Lady my new car took me out in Seattle for my birthday
and we all got our belly buttons pierced together remember this is 1995 so piercings were super new and I must say
I was the coolest girl at my middle school after that trip we go to the funeral and of course super [ __ ] sad
I meet all my great aunts and uncles and May's friends and it's also surreal and
strange I forever bonded with my new super cool hip funny and soon to be best friend Aunt Sam oh she is a star
character in this tale Sam is like 12 years older than me similar to YouTube after May died she moved back to
California and we've been very close ever since I love that and as I've gotten older she's legit my best friend
slash soul sister now hell yeah it's weird because we both see May in each other she lost her mom I lost a grandma
I always needed but could never have and we gained each other May brought us together so can I get a [ __ ]
shout out to Sam [ __ ] love you girl shout out to yourself Sam for the [ __ ] win Sam Sam Sam Sam Sam Sam Sam
so before I jump years ahead there's one more very strange and dark thing I must
add to the already very strange and dark and very life-changing story about the trip I took to celebrate my birthday
meet my family and put my grandmother to rest May was cremated she also left her
1994 Bronco to my dad and he needed to drive it back to Southern California along with her ashes so this trip this
crazy trip wraps up with a now 13 year old me in the passenger seat of maze Bronco my brand ass new dad driving me
from Tacoma Washington to San Diego with my cremated grandmother in a box in my [ __ ] lap you seriously can't make the
[ __ ] up my dudes no if that isn't morbid I don't know what it is that is morbid
TM and so the years passed as they do I stayed close with my new family I would go to family dinners and holidays and
sometimes I would hear things about May's death but it was also mysterious and so and no one want really wanted to
talk about it I can't blame them this story is all kinds of [ __ ] up but from what I could piece together the official
story was this may lived on the fifth Story of an apartment building so she had to take an elevator to go to and
from her place apparently the elevator the tenants used was out of service so they all had to use the service elevator
until it was repaired the service elevator had to be opened manually never heard of such a thing but okay super
sketch am I right yes so apparently after having dinner with her daughter Sam May went home to her apartment where
her boyfriend was waiting for her we'll call him Dave so apparently this guy Dave was living with May which is kind
of weird because I stayed in May's apartment and I remember no sign of The Stave anyway Sam said goodbye to May and
she went into the apartment building within one hour May was dead after apparently opening the faulty service
elevator to leave her apartment the elevator was not there and she fell five stories to her death this entire story
is completely full of holes and makes literally no sense right because if she was going into the apartment building
why was she why would she open the door and go open the elevator door and go back down yeah I know and she knew that
the elevator was broken right there was a lawsuit filed against the owners of the building and the elevator company
for gross negligence and a small settlement was given to Mae's three children after legal fees it amounted to
around 50 Grand a piece if you ask me that's a pretty shitty settlement after losing your mom to that kind of
negligence but what do I know when I got a little older and Sam and I grew closer
I started asking her questions about what she thought about everything and what had happened really happened to me
she told me that she had always had her suspicions about Dave he was super possessive and controlling he was a
freeloader who refused to work or pay for anything and Sam just always had a bad feeling about him and also why was
she leaving her apartment that night right after getting home right was there some kind of argument was she so frantic
and stressed that she opened the elevator door and just jumped in without checking was she afraid or was she
pushed and how come I never met Dave oh right could it be because he skipped town only days after May's death that's
right folks days after his live-in girlfriend died under very suspicious circumstances [ __ ] Dave here packed
up and left taking everything he could with him including draining May's bank accounts and the police never
investigated Dave was never heard from again except when he tried to sue my dad for May's 1990 D Ford Bronco that he
felt entitled to for some reason sketchy as [ __ ] Dave sketchy as [ __ ] what the
[ __ ] there was an investigation both by local police and a private investigator
hired by the family there's no evidence to prove that Dave had anything to do with May's death meaning there's no
proof but things still don't quite add up and we definitely have our suspicions about what really happened that night no
same now let's jump forward a few years to 2018 or so I know this story is taking forever but trust me it's worth
it in the end it's been a Ride May has been gone for over two decades I'm I'm doing hair at a really cool spot in San
Diego shout out to all my hairdressers out there so I'm at this team building exercise thing at the salon I work at
the boss lady got got a medium to cut a medium to come to the shop and do a group reading for us super fun right so
she gets started and kind of bounces around the room a bit before getting to me she looks at me and says there's a
woman coming through that wants to talk to you paternal maybe or maternal maybe a mother her name sounds like spring do
you know who I'm talking about chills taken aback I said May her name sounds sounds like spring oh my God the medium
goes on she says she's never she never knew you in life but that she's always been with you looking after you she says
she was there when your son was born and she watches over him too ruin me as you
can imagine I was overwhelmed with all the feels and the tears just started flowing like a faucet I couldn't turn
off I was ugly crying all up in that [ __ ] I finally got up the strength to ask can you tell me how she died there's
just some really weird stuff surrounding her death and her family has always wanted to know the truth oh God the
medium just kind of stared at me for a moment she grabbed the top of my her head and shuddered then she started to
speak are you sure yes please just tell me I said trying to bet my best to keep from snotting all
over my own face she was hit on the head and pushed killed I'm sorry the room fell silent I thanked her for
telling me and I ran out it was intense my dudes I immediately called Sam and we
cried together for a bit before deciding that we were going to do something totally crazy we were going to find out
the truth one way or another Sam and I would consider ourselves a bit witchy we dabble with tarot and spells and all
things spiritual and mysterious I [ __ ] love you too loves it we have Halloween was right around the corner
there it is came in yup or as the pagans call it sowin sowin is a time of year when the veil between our worlds and the
spirit world is the thinnest I know you both know what I'm talking about and probably could guess where I'm going
with this hell yeah brother so yeah we're doing a [ __ ] Seance yo squeegee board candles Circle assault the works
we were going to conjure up May's spirit and ask her what in the actual [ __ ] had
happened so we began making plans for a sowin seance and finally getting the truth it was [ __ ] on the Seance
started off slow we [ __ ] with the board for a while before getting anything without be before getting
anything beside a few words and a lot of goodbyes no one wanted to talk to us but
we're persistent little [ __ ] so we kept trying and eventually started chanting May's name what can I say I
guess the moment got away with us we called for May to come through we closed our eyes and put all our Collective
energy and focus on her and then it happened the air got thick and the smell of rose water with a touch of cigarette
smoke filled the room oh my God Sam looked up at me she's here holy [ __ ] I have full chills on my body I'm getting
like like you know how like your body will warm I'm getting like I'm literally my whole body is chilled right now this
is a [ __ ] tale this is a listener tale this is the listener tale we started asking questions more just to
confirm her identity than anything else it was me all right she knew my son's name she knew when she died she knew
Sam's birthday it was her we could smell her and feel her presence it was warm and comforting the planchette moved
pretty slowly at her first like it was taking a lot of energy to come through as if we were disturbing her Slumber
after a while Sam finally blurts out mom were you murdered the million dollar question
the planchette moves swiftly up the board yes Sam dissolves in the subs I put her shaking hands back onto the
planchette as she cried Grandma I ask do you want us to find him do you need Justice the planchette moves again no
and then it slowly spells out the word happy oh my God and then she was gone we can almost feel her leave the smell of
roses and tobacco just vanishes we hug each other and we cry we cry a lot after that night Sam and I decide to let May
rest we both felt that her spirit is at peace and that she's okay she's happy and she doesn't need Justice or
Vengeance or whatever or whatever [ __ ] Dave he has to live with what he did and
let me say that both Sam and myself believe wholeheartedly that that garbage human that is Dave murdered May and got
away with it but he will get his in Life or the next Karma doesn't forget and it
will find you yup Sam made all of us all of us these cute little lockets with a bit of maze ashes in them and I keep
mine around my rear view mirror and I give her love every day and I believe she looks after me always I never knew
her in life but she said such a profound effect on me and the woman I've become rest in peace May oh okay I know I'm
crying too I had no idea this would be such an emotional roller coaster wow I literally broke down multi several times
while writing this I just think it's the craziest most [ __ ] up story ever and I
sometimes can't even believe it's real and that it happened to me well thank you for reading my tale I hope you guys
enjoyed it and that it didn't traumatize you too much love both you spooky [ __ ] to itty bitty pieces stay safe
stay cool and always remember remember to keep it weird but not so weird that you abandon your child only to come back
12 years later to traumatize her more with her grandma's funeral and meeting an entire family she never knew and by
taking her on a 40-hour road trip with her Grandma's ashes on her lap and then being a complete asshat to her for the
rest of her life for leaving her dead inside and wondering why [ __ ] you Dad but do keep it so weird that you become
best friends with your long-lost aunt and solve your grandma's Murder by reaching into the veil into the great
beyond peace out weirdos Roxy Roxy you're the [ __ ] coolest Roxy holy [ __ ] Roxy that
[ __ ] me up that I mean May forever May forever you and Sam forever I love your relationship
holy cow I love that you got to have that relationship I know I love that Mae told you she's happy where she is and
that makes me happy that she's happy and gave you some kind of Peace yeah that just told you you know what don't worry
about it I'm happy where I am right everything's okay and then I've been with you always right I was there when
your son was born like that's beautiful like that that hurts me and like I watch
over him too like that's gonna make me cry I know and let me feel things you didn't get a job
out of it but you got a best [ __ ] friend sister oh yeah and that is [ __ ] cooler than a dad in my opinion
and you have the best [ __ ] mom yup and it sounds like your stepdad was pretty great too because he was just
your dad dad use your dad dad he could just be your dad dad he's great I did yeah it didn't he was like I'm your dad
just because your dad like contributed to making you doesn't mean he's your dad exactly so you you know what you're
killing it and I love you and I love that you're a 90s [ __ ] and I love your awesome Roxy so thank you for that Roxy
also brought you back [ __ ] what are these pops and Slammers now you get pogs you get POG retro caps in a neon purple
storage hell yeah Roxy forever oh yes you're welcome I'm so excited I'm happy for you
um you can get me a neopet because those just came back you actually don't purchase them at all but like make me an
account or something okay I'll make you an account all right cool as though we have time for one more I feel like we do
do you feel as though I feel as though all right I'm Gonna Keep with the trend here and do spooky Nanny saves lives I
love that pour one out for nannies and Grammys it says Hey weirdos and dub dub hope you
lovely people are doing well my name is Mickey you can use it it's a nickname for my great grandma grandfather Excuse
me yes like the mouse I've been listening to your podcast since May of 2022. it was introduced to me by my ex
thanks [ __ ] affectionately he parted on good terms I started from the beginning and have slowly been making my
way through all the episodes I have a bad habit of bringing multiple episodes or binging multiple episodes and then
forgetting all about the Pod for a few weeks please forgive me it's okay I forgive you that's okay y'all are great
company on the super long drives I go on to visit my parents keeping me company and from going insane by myself with no
one else to talk to but my squish mallow road trip companion but seriously you guys are so awesome and put so much
effort into your work on the podcast it's awe-inspiring oh thanks man thank you Elena congrats on the success of
your book thank you I have not read it yet forgive me I am a ball of anxiety TM that's okay on a good day and struggle
with suspense suspenseful books and shows but I've heard a lot of wonderful things about it and I have added it to
my ever-growing to read to be read list thank you Ash congrats on the engagement
thank you and if it has happened before you read this Tale the wedding it hasn't
but thank you I've been meaning to send this Tale in for a while now it's been sitting half finished for like three
months but I finished it and I'm very excited to share it with you it's a bit of a lighter more wholesome tale
compared to some others that you've read and might be a good palette cleanser after a heavy tail there you go it's
like you knew attached is a 14 point font double space for your viewing pleasure I apologize for how absurdly
long it is if you can't tell by now I'm a rambler through and through I hope you
enjoy this spooky little tale about a spooky Nanny much love Mickey like the most I added like the most part Mickey
like the mouse Mickey like the mouse hey weirdos this is a pretty long tale with
stories in the story that's fine all about my grandma's experience with a ghost simply known as ma'am ma'am I
think my family specifically on my mom's side a sensitive to ghosts or something
mainly due to the members of the family having some sort of experience or interaction that was not easily
explained for example my mom's smelling my long dead Grand great grandfather's cologne in a place he never visited
since he died before it was built whoa that's wild I've even had an experience that maybe
could have been a ghost in college I lived in an old frat house turned into a [ __ ] into shared housing that was
definitely haunted but this is not about me so maybe I'll send in that one on a different day please do today however I
wanted to offer up a more happy and comforting spooky story that my grandma told me when I was young probably like
third or fourth grade and that I remembered recently after listening to your podcast I was able to catch up with
her over Thanksgiving and get the full story including the history of the house I'm sure you get this all the time but
apologies for any rambling and confusion my writing skills are mediocre at best untrue also this will probably be pretty
long so feel free to skip over one or two of the encounters or any of the added history or commentary in
parentheses though I have a good feeling you won't hell no and I won't anyways on
with the story my mother grew up in a smaller City North of San Francisco in California
with her parents and sister and a cute old little old house on a busy street in the 70s hell yeah I've added pictures at
the end of the front of the house think cute vintagey house with a decent front yard a huge wrap around portugals and a
pool in the backyard totally cute well I haven't looked at but I'm excited too total American Dream Home the house had
a couple different owners before my grandparents my mom and her sister moved in and I believe at one point it was a
government or office building at one point not really relevant but still kind of cool true my aunt was either a very
new baby or just not born yet when they moved in and shared one of the bedrooms with my mom while my grandparents used
the other there was an addict attic which was later converted into my grandparents new bedroom and gave my mom
an aunt separate rooms the bedrooms were in the front of the house facing the road with the living room in the middle
and the kitchen slash dining room and the back of the house facing the yard and an unattached garage I really hope
this makes sense it does it does I can picture it right off the bat things started
happening in the house that couldn't really just be explained away and I mean like right away the first night they
spent on the house after buying it my grandma recalled waking up to hearing all the plates and other dishes that
were not quite fully unpacked rattling away in the dining room my grandpa was either sound asleep or woke up to it as
well and my three-year-old mom and maybe born maybe not tiny baby on were fast asleep in their room nobody else on the
house my grandma swears it only happened that first night as well she likes to think that it was ma'am making herself
known as a resident in the house I'm obsessed with mammals I love that she's like just so you know I'm down here
ma'am in the house what he's not gonna get out of my house kind of way but Morena hey I'm still here you're cool to
be here too we're gonna be roomies for a bit okay way super chill after that super chill super chill after that my
grandma always felt a somewhat comforting presence in the house never threatening at least not towards my
family never hostile just there and watching over them as time went on however it became very clear that while
ma'am was watching the whole house she very clearly had a favorite my aunt oh man remember my aunt was basically a
newborn when this all started brand new baby in the world man probably thought my grandparents needed an extra hand to
keep herself safe and healthy my grandma thinks ma'am's love of my aunt is due to
the fact that she was the first baby maybe to be born and raised in that house and that man saw my aunt as her
baby too and since my aunt was also her baby she was mams to protect I love that a lot one instance of
ma'am's protective instincts came out when my aunt was still pretty young meaning likely under a year old my
grandma was in the front yard doing some cleaning tending to the plants and palm
trees while my mom played nearby my aunt at the time was sleeping in a stroller parked in a Sunny Spot near the palm
trees while my grandma's tending to the plants in the yard she suddenly got an overall overwhelming feeling of
something telling her she needed to move my aunt's stroller she took a second to
look at my mom and aunt mom was still playing having a good time and my aunt was still happily sleeping in the warm
sun my grandma brushed off the feeling as you know just a weird passing thought a few seconds later however the feeling
came back even stronger something was telling her hey you need to move that stroller right now move it oh that like
gave me chills again this time she listened to the feeling moving my aunt and her stroller away
from the Sunny Spot to a more shaded area this made her a little fussy but in the end was really really fortunate as
but a few moments later a big old Palm found from frond frond from one of the trees Came Crashing to the ground
Landing exactly where the stroller was sitting now I don't know how much you know about palm fronds but those suckers
can get really freaking heavy I didn't know that like weigh up to a hundred pounds heavy [ __ ] I [ __ ] you not and the
palm trees at the house were not short trees either so this big Palm front comes crashing down from probably I
don't know 20 to 40 feet in the air weighing 50 to 100 pounds and lands in the spot my aunt was just taking a
little nap in her stroller literally minutes before my grandma moved her damn can you [ __ ] that's terrifying your
poor Grandma must have lost her [ __ ] yeah I'd be ruined for days I'd be like well we're agoraphobic yeah I'd be like
well my heart stopped three times so I'm gonna have to rest no we're never leaving the house again thanks my
grandma believes it was ma'am telling her to move the baby as if she knew the palm frond was about to fall and wanted
to protect my aunt another instance happened when my aunt was about two-ish years old able to walk but still pretty
young and not super aware my grandma was out running errands with my mom and my grandpa was watching my aunt at the
house while also doing some workout back as my aunt took a nap that baby loves to
nap she loves to nap after getting some good work done my grandpa decided to lay
face down on a lounge chair the reclinable type you know with the bar in the back that can just adjust the height
of the back rest oh those are the best he ended up dozing off for a while I assume it was one of the sunnier summer
days but I'm not 100 sure suddenly he was startled awake by the feeling of an ice cold hand on his shoulder he looked
up and saw no one near him he did however see my two-year-old Aunt toddling her way down the driveway
toward the very busy street that they lived on my aunt must have woken up from her nap and decided to go exploring
following the clear path from the back porch back porch door to the driveway he ran and grabbed her but had no idea
where the cold tablet came from man was like wake up ma'am was like sir excuse me she was like your toddler's waddling
the final incident I'll bring up happened when my mom and aunt were a bit older one night probably when my aunt
was about three or five years old my grandma woke up in the middle of the night nothing crazy woke her up but when
she awake she realized the lights in the living room were on that was weird seeing as she definitely turned them off
before going to bed distinctly remembering going to each light and turning them off they didn't have a
switch you had to manually turn uh each one on and off not wanting to waste electricity my grandma got up and went
to turn off the lights since she was awaken up she decided to also check on my aunt and mom who were asleep in their
room my mom was fine peacefully sleeping the night away my aunt on the other hand
was not resting well instead she was fighting a very high fever soaked with sweat and super clammy my grandma
doesn't remember how high it was and I don't think it required a hospital visit but it definitely could have escalated
if it hadn't been caught when it was in the morning my grandma asked my grandpa if he had gotten up before her and
turned on the lights then accidentally forgetting to turn them back off before heading to bed but he swore he hadn't my
grandma believes ma'am saw my aunt was sick and turned on the lights to wake up my grandparents so they could help her
wow [ __ ] ma'am pour whatever ma'am seriously there were a couple other instances such as a run-in with a
babysitter who ma'am decided was not worthy of taking care of her kid as well as little things like footsteps being
heard on the porch when nobody was there but over time as my aunt grew or got older ma'am's presence slowly faded my
grandma believes that ma'am was tied to the attic and when they renovated it to put her to put in her in my grandpa's
new bedroom her presence had all but disappeared now for the History Section again feel free to skip this if the
story's too long no I'm interested I promise I won't be offended the house was originally built for a woman in the
early 20th century who moved out west after con after Contracting a lovely little disease known as tuberculosis the
climate in the Bay Area was thought to be the best for surviving TB and the house was built with a large wrap-around
porch that was large enough for This Woman's bed to be left on it for her to sleep outside which was believed to help
cure those sick with TB kind of wild when you think about it she lived in this house for a while but unfortunately
lost it due to being unable to keep it when the Great Depression hit following the foreclosure she went to live up in
one of the settlement slash camps on Mount Tamal Pace small pace and the house was vacant until someone else
bought it after the house changed hands a couple times the couple who sold it to
my grandparents had an interesting encounter they saw an older woman still alive in this case on the sidewalk oh my
I'm gonna cry oh staring longingly at the house the couple told my grandma about this after the house was purchased
believing it to be the original woman who owned and lost the house she must have either been a Curative TB or
somehow kept the symptoms at Bay to live a long life my grandma believes that ma'am is the original owner of the house
who returned to her home whether due to love for the home or unfinished business
I'm literally gonna cry seriously she thinks ma'am never got to have a family or kids so when she saw my aunt she felt
motherly love towards her and decided to care for the family I firmly believe ma'am existed and I like to think she's
still checking in every so often on the house even with my mom and aunt all grown up and not living there anymore
who knows maybe ma'am stuck with my aunt to help her watch over my two cousins while my aunt recovered from back
surgery wherever she is I hope she knows how grateful my family is for her care and protection I hope you enjoyed this
story remember to keep it weird Ash feel free to make your own but I thought of this one and I kind of liked it we're
going with yours girl hell yeah so weird in fact that a super spooky but super awesome ghost nanny lives in your house
to help you keep your kids safe and healthy love you guys picture time oh my goodness oh my gosh this house is
beautiful it's so pretty I love it I love Mayhem oh my God those palm trees are [ __ ] massive oh my God and your
mom and aunts are adorable oh look at them look at that pumpkin I love that pumpkin
oh oh my God and your grandparents are adorable I Mickey that was an amazing story that was a great one to end on it
really was what a feel-good tale we love ma'am we love may oh we love Nana's all
across the world okay oh this was a great one it was it was feel good at one at the end it was
we love you guys and um we love when you send your listener Tails if you have a listener tail that you want to send in
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It's Listener Tales 77 AND it's August so you know what that means.... It is obviously time for Halloween tales! This week we have a spook-a-dook installment filled with tales of bullet wounds that go undetected, sleep paralysis&demons, deaths by elevators, and spooky nanny's. If you have a listener tale you’d like to send in please send it to Morbidpodcast@gmail.com

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Brief Summary

Listener tales include a shooting incident, sleep paralysis, and a ghostly nanny protecting a family.

Key points

Listener Tales: Shot in the Head. Allison shares her wild story of being shot in the head with a BB gun, leading to unexpected medical revelations.
Halloween Party Gone Wrong. Allison recounts a Halloween party where she ended up with a bullet in her skull.
Abusive Relationships. The narrator reflects on their experiences with emotionally abusive relationships and sleep paralysis.
Reconnecting with Love. After years of struggle, the narrator finds love and happiness with their husband.
The Creepy Old Woman Dream. The narrator shares a chilling dream about an old woman who seems to have a calming presence.
A Heartbreaking Loss. The narrator learns of their grandmother's tragic death just before meeting her for the first time.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

Sometimes you just need to put your happiness in yourself first.

Allison reflects on personal growth and self-care.

5:20WatchAug 29, 2023

Tension

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