Listener Tales 82 | Morbid | Podcast | Forensic Files

hey weirdos my name happens to be Ash and I'm Elena and this is [Music] morbid hey is yeah that's actually
listener Tales um which is still under the morbid branch and it's brought to you by you for you from you and all
about [Applause] you there's my garage featuring special guest the garage hey she's so hot right now come
on down open up my there it opened I lost it you know what's fun about these listener Tales today they're
from the 90s I picked up what you were putting down there I knew you did were you gonna
do that I was that's why I was waiting I was like I didn't even see you like doing the Bop little thing but I was
like was the '90s yeah I also just pisant toed in here and it smells so good it does we needed a cleanse in this
not like a cleanse of our bodies but like a cleanse of our souls yeah it's been a crazy ass day what a day yeah
it's been a Dizzle it's it's been a Dizz information overload truly but you know
we cleansed yeah and it's 2024 and we're in a place of move on from all that [ __ ]
we're in a place of just be cool don't all like uncool that's just our Vibe now it's also the countess's vibe and if you
don't get that then I don't even know what you've been doing for the last six years the Countess the Countess we're
going to see her I can't wait but you know what what let's talk some listener Tales from the '90s and I think we
should start with one that I'm a little excited about cuz it looks horrifying oh
um it's called the reason I hate camping I'm scared cuz I also don't like camping same so I'm very excited to hear
this one I also love any kind of like summer camp horror like throw me in a summer camp yeah it's giving Friday the
13th yeah I'm always for it m uh so this one says says hello beautiful spooky besties I'm sending this listener tale
for the second time because the first time honestly sucked so I rewrote it and hope it's good enough this time it was
great the first time I bet it was if so we're Our Own Worst critics you know if so I will be listening to the episode on
my way to the store to get my new pants because I will have for sure [ __ ] well get in the car baby get some nice
pants pentalon more of it is by far my favorite podcast and you said favorite in like the British way the OU and I
love that and I have listened to every damn episode aside from catching up on listener Tales I explain that in my
double space 14 P font puaa for your reading pleasure oh I'd tell you girls to cut out any parts you think suck but
I know you [ __ ] won't so [ __ ] it read the whole damn thing my dudes we will I
have attached a few photos of me and my sister I'm the younger one significantly
shorter one who's also in the story we are younger in these photos than in the story as as it's all we have left after
a house fire took everything from us when I was nine oh my God I'm so sad I'm so sorry but this picture is beautiful
it is as well as a photo of us now I also attached a photo of my pup oh hell yeah my pup Kyle I love that come on
Kyle Kyle and my cat named Goose oh my God I love the name Goose for any animal that is not a goose instead that is
absolutely not a goose I love it sorry if all the quality sucks I'm sending this from my cell phone because my
teenage son has kidnapped my laptop love Aaron no everything looks great to me looks phenomenal to me your cat is so
beautiful I want a gray cat so badly but then I would have four cats and telling
people that I have three cats is already enough looks for me I love your animals
I love your you and your sister are so cute I love you and your sister I love Kyle and I love
Goose so hello weirdo fellow weirdos excuse me please excuse the inevitable spelling and grammar mistakes as I'm
writing this on a tiny little cell phone screen o ouch my name is Aaron and my sister's name is Cassandra we are both
part of this spooky tale and you're welcome to use our real name should this be creepy enough to use for listener
Tales this is a little long but worth it I promise it's actually not even long it's pretty damn short at least I think
it is I I haven't finished writing it yet so [ __ ] it we'll see how long it is at the
end you went back and forth to so many different places that Journey you just took yourself on was really fun you know
you were like no actually it's [ __ ] medium how about that you were like you know what [ __ ] it it's as long as it is
okay and it's not even that long yet cuz I haven't finished it yay I guess I did
did space it far apart so it's easier to read I got you girls I'm no writer so sorry if this sucks actually I'm not
[ __ ] it good for you don't apologize to anyone yeah 2024 I'm no amazing writer
like you Elena oh thank you untrue you are the butcher in the ren was incredibly amazing and I can't wait for
book two oh my goodness just you wait thank you so much it's heating up in these parts just you wait I hope you
both realize what a light you bring to such terrible and spooky stories and what an amazing job you do bringing
humor to your listeners and I love how much you speak on the family of victims and do what you can when you can to help
wow that was really nice thank you I've been here since the panda sandwich that's probably the best one
that I've heard the panda sandwich of 2020 and although I refuse to listen to The Listener Tales I've recently started
binging them after I ran out of episodes to listen to and have come to truly enjoy them gotcha dare I say they are my
favorite now I'm telling you I'm telling you the the girlies who get it get it and it's like whenever somebody's like I
the amount of times we have read in a listener tale I used to avoid these like the plague and now they are my favorite
give them a chance that's the thing you guys are the scariest and the funniest y
so it's like I don't know why you guys don't want to listen to you I don't know because you guys rule so it's like these
rule tals love scary and you should love them yeah glad that you do now I'm glad
everybody's coming around here uh so it says I have a certificate in criminal psychology hell yeah
and I'm fascinated by what makes these terrible [ __ ] waffles tick I liked that
whole sentence what makes them do what they do I'm also an advocate for the legalization and monitoring of sex
workings in CA in Canada in order to protect and help these women stuck in hard times and hard places in life
you're lovely you are I spent half my life in BC and with the highway of Tears so close I feel like I we could do more
to protect all these women in our country especially those who society and the police see as less important agreed
you are bad ass and I wholeheartedly agree a little about me and my sister she goes by a cat we grew up in Ontario
Canada and we're full-blown latchkey kids what whatever our parents my mom worked three jobs and dad was an abusive
alcohol alcoholic I'm sorry who luckily was only part of my life for the first 10 years before my badass mom packed us
up in the middle of the night and yeed us the [ __ ] away from him hell yeah Mama
good for her it was a different time in the '90s you two babes know so we were very often and left unsupervised in my
mom's defense I the baby of the family had three older siblings and my oldest sibling is 8 years older than me it was
her understanding we all took care of each other because we led her to believe this but me and the cat often were left
to do whatever the [ __ ] we wanted most of the time so anyways here my little story I know it isn't as crazy as a lot
of the other stories you tell so maybe this one can be a bit of a pallet cleanser between some truly awful Tales
nope we're starting off with it okay so here we go let's get in the way back machine all the way back to
1999 even though it still feels like the '90s was just a few short years ago it really does things were different in the
9s me and my family lived in a house in Kitchener Ontario Canada that was at the
end of a double culdesac it looked like boobs from an aerial V Bes behind the houses was a large green belt I'm not
sure what it that it's if it's called the same thing in the States but essentially it's a plot of protected
land that can't be built on conservation land is what we call it that's what we call it yeah large field and at the back
of the field on the other side of the green belt from my home there was a small area of trees with a tiny Creek
that ran through it 99% of my time outside of school was spent here day in and day out building forts from sticks
and mud with my sister and a few other neighborhood kids a the '90s so much fun a lot of the older kids in the area Ed
this place to smoke and drink and Destroy every gosh darn Stick Fort we build some of these forts took weeks to
build I wish I had photos they sound awesome we would go inside to eat sleep and that's about it damn damn do I miss
the '90s same the summer before I turned eight and Cat turned 12 our birthdays are in September Virgo baby so innocent
and dumb we decided it would be a [ __ ] Splendid idea to grab my parents' tiny Twan tent and Pitch it in the fields
right up against the woods at the back of the green belt why good [ __ ] question kids be dumb yo our house was
within ey shot so our mom let us do it because again '90s me and my sister along with two of our friends who were
close to our age crammed ourselves into this tent made for two with snacks and flashlights and that's about it so
prepared we did bring a small diary lock to lock the zipper because of course that will keep us safe and a gosh Dam I
love how they a diary lock if anybody remembers those tiny tiny little locks and they were like this will stop them
and you could also probably just like break it open with your sheer force you could literally just RI that open we
told ghost stories ate junk and had no plans on sleeping that night here's where it gets [ __ ] and probably why to
this day I hate I [ __ ] hate camping your girl's down with a camper so she's got four walls and locks but even that
is pushing it yep funny thing is I Married an avid Outdoorsman and go abs and he absolutely loves camping but
luckily our four-year-old daughter didn't fall far from the tree and is always down to go pamp oo I call it
glamping this was before everyone aged six and up had a [ __ ] cell phone so we heard some movement outside our tent
we were freaked we tried to stay quiet and pretend we were asleep bright ideal little dumb asses I didn't say that you
did well imagine like you little [ __ ] idiots good idea you little [ __ ] idiots well then we started to hear
ripping sounds think Nails on a chalkboard because that's what it sounded like in our terrorized State
nobody wanted to move to see what was going on so I the youngest in the group peaked my sweet little head out of the
blankets to see what was happening whoever this Maniac was because we never found out slipped a huge butcher knife
Up Inside the Rain cover of the tent so we could see what he was using to terrorize a few little babies what the
[ __ ] oh my God then he's you're telling me this isn't as [ __ ] up as some of our other Tales cly it certainly is then
he started vigorously shaking the tent pulling the poles out of the ground and allowing the tent to drape over our tiny
little bodies when I say we were freaked I can't even explain how scary this was
the man I'm guessing man because the boy voice started whispering no here kitty kitty kitty no and poking us with the
huge knife not hard enough to hurt just hard enough for us to feel it what the [ __ ] we stayed silent aside from our
tiny whis whimpers that we just couldn't hold in this went on for a good 10 to 15
minutes then it stopped it just stopped we laid there for what felt like eternity just to be sure the man was
gone my sister slowly unzipped the tent and we all flew out of there like bats out of hell someone sure little fire
under our asses and bolted back to the culdesac and to our respective houses Not Looking Back even once my God
luckily our front door was unlocked '90s and me and my friend my sister ran to bed the same bed because [ __ ] no we were
not sleeping alone after that no we never told anybody about this what we were afraid we wouldn't be able to camp
out again our parents knew the you want to go camping again and she said but like what the [ __ ] kid you weren't going
to camp out again after that anyway that's what I'm saying it very well could have been one of the neighborhood
boys [ __ ] with us but none of the boys ever hinted towards their involvement or even mentioned it and
also if that was one of the neighborhood boys [ __ ] with you they had psychological problems yeah they've been
arrested for murder hop most of the time when the boys [ __ ] with us they were more than happy to brag about it now
that I'm a grown adult with my own two kids I some sometimes wonder how we all survived growing up in the '90s I could
never allow my young kids to camp out alone in a field no matter how close to our house it was hell I don't even like
when they ask to camp out in the living room because it's further than my bedroom that from my bedroom than their
bedrooms are and closer to the front door than my bedroom I feel you so hard on that yeah we had a lot of crazy times
in this house like the time my school went on lockdown due to a man with a gun outside the school screaming and yelling
telling a teacher in the school to come the [ __ ] out and meet their fate all because his kid was suspended for
bullying apple tree you know and the school failed to call my mom and tell her what was going on so when she got
home at 600 p.m. and no kids had been home yet she was freaking out oh my God your poor mom or the time me and cat ran
away took a fairy to a little island near our home and spent the day there then getting home my dad was on the
phone with the police reporting us missing '90s though they probably would have told him to wait 24 hours anyway I
love that you all just went on the ferry together and we're like let's go to a little Island like see you later and
telling my drunk ass Dad we followed a man onto the fery who we thought was him he was drunk he believed us Incredible
or the time my oldest sister or the time my oldest sister did my makeup and hair
and made me wear her clothing because she wanted to go to the fire hall a teen hangout spot where there was dancing and
live music but you had to be 13 and I was only eight the [ __ ] it's just me little 8-year-old
girlly at the fire hall fire hall I what did you do this weekend I would to the fire hall and the idiot kids there paid
me money to say bad words here's $5 say [ __ ] say [ __ ] 10 bucks say [ __ ] I walked home alone because they
that place is not my vibe of course not at 8 years old damn we were dumbass kids
hope you need some good cash though anyway that's all keep it weird but not so weird that you decide to camp in the
middle of field in the middle of the city with no protection and no ability to defend yourself against a creepy man
in the dark with a knife love you [ __ ] XOXO eron love you too Aron I'm glad you made it I love you Aon forever
very glad Aaron is still here with us everybody because they paid me to say that win why didn't you and your friends
ever give me money to say [ __ ] what you're a bad sister I'm a bad sister I never brought you to the fire hall I
know what the hell sorry never you never brought me anywhere Aon that was I don't
know why you thought that that tail was going to be a paler I mean it was it was
hilarious but also terrifying deeply deeply terrifying that was really funny though wow all right my next one is
listener Tale the time the Lord and Savior broke into my house oh I got to hear this one hi my fellow weirdos I did
all the good stuff in my double spaced 14o puaa so just read that it's a crazy listener tale for sure I also included
the newspaper article from the story and a photo of me and my quotquot quote mom
friends who just can't get enough of y'all also a photo of my husband and I and the kiddos and the pup I really want
you to understand my vibe I suppose happy reading look you Vibe I love your Vibe your fourth of July pick is great
what I'm assuming is Halloween is absolutely iconic oh my God the kids are so cute the puppy is incredible look at
him just standing on his back feet like that he looks like there is a Victorian child locked in
it I love that that does happen that for your puppy I love that for us I want to
know your puppy's name but the the name tag is blurry but the way that they're standing is Iconic yeah it's pretty
amazing and honestly I'm never going to get past this Halloween costume it's everything right in the world you and
your husband by the way cuz you guys can't see this her husband and her were um the Fairy Godmother in Cinderella for
Halloween and he was Cinderella it's pretty amazing obsess amazing love that a lot okay
let's see we have hi my weirdo dudes Q the gushy I love you man stuff and that we should
all totally be best friend stuff as you do love you guys in all capacities and with my within my group of mom friends
drinking wine and saying oh [ __ ] Have you listened to the new episode of morbid yet is pretty much the highlight
of our Suburban lives that's so cool I love that you can use my name and all names Associated within this tale
because it happened a million years ago in 1993 I love 1900 I love it when I was
eight wow um also by the way while we were reading that last one cuz that was 1999 that was 25 years ago yeah I hate
that yeah I Googled it cuz I can't do mental math I also have to say I was also eight in 1993 hey that's cool so
what's up girl I just want to say um I wasn't alive so let's all move past that real
quick but I was on my way few years later you were not I was a star in the sky maybe PS
psaps and perap I think I was going to say p eventually you were and perhaps I think they youed it thank you all right
I also included the newspaper article from when this happened it is it is on the front page in my small town this was
big news also included our a few photos at double space ptaa and the article since it serves as proof that this
batchet story I'm about to tell you actually happened and it wasn't just a figment of my overactive 8-year-old
imagination my name is Dany with an i and my father is Danny with a Y just to make things
confusing I think it's iconic bit of a story I won't apologize for the length of this all because I know you will not
accept it anyway let not no we won't I grew up in Boulder Creek California not Colorado like everybody usually assumes
I would have I said Creek there is a creek attached to it not just Boulder it's in the Santa Cruz mountains or
Santa Carla if you get nasty I said if you get nasty if you get nasty it's just if you're nasty are you going to get
nasty h no I grew up a couple miles away from Big Bas in State Park which is home
to some of the old oldest redwood trees on Earth it's beyond beautiful my family
Homestead consisted of 11 and2 acres of forest on a hill with two houses on the property which my family owned one and
my parents best friends own the otheres love this it was beautiful and Incredibly private we technically had
neighbors but they were literally few and far between it was a long uh hoof up and up or down the mountain to go to a
neighbor's house as Serene as all of this was it's also a wonderful area to be getting away with some [ __ ] and there
were a handful of drugs shacks and meth labs up in our mountains sometimes we would play the game firework or meth lab
explosion oh that old game I know I played that too no I actually haven't our house in the forest was an A-frame
house I love those with a Gable pitched roof that had all glass windows in the front that surrounded our front door and
20 foot ceilings D you're speaking my language it was built by an artist in 1979 and it was my hippie parents Dream
Home it sounds G I hope it's still in your fan because that sounds iconic I everything about you is just iconic and
I can't stop Danny with an i Danny with an i and Danny with a Y so hold on to your butts now guys I'm holding in the
wee hours of the night on Thursday December 16th 1993 my little 8-year-old self lay asleep on the couch in the
living room first mistake true looking out into the forest with all the windows I had been hom sick with the flu all
week so the couch was where I had been posted up all of a sudden I was woken up to a tap tap tap on the glass and
looking at me through the windows Bast in the light from the neon porch light was the most terrifying mountain man I
had ever seen oh God long hair beard and old army fatigue jacket he Taps on the window again and we lock in a gaze he
sees me and I see him he has the biggest blackest eyes I've seen to date oh then
he waves as if he knows me and turns the handle on my front door it's unlocked because of course it is nice parents
I didn't say that you did and he lets himself inside oh my God I'm so upset right now standing on the super70s
hippie tile of our foyer is this man and I am paralyzed oh my God no he turns to me
and outstretched his arms and says Don't Be Afraid child I am Jesus you must follow me I promise you he's not no he's
definitely not I know I know this that's so scary I yelled for my dad as loud as
I could which was only like a quivering whisper my dad Danny and my mom L hear me and came running down the stairs with
our doation or as your youngest likes to say doation how cute is that isn't that
so cute Max and t-shirts and zero pants on either on by either of them those are
some parents right there hell yeah everyone in my house sleeps naked except for me and I still can't do and still to
this day I can't like what if somebody walks in your house and saying they are Jesus I digress so my dad says who the
[ __ ] are you and what do you want the man then informs him that he is in fact Jesus the follower and that we must
follow him this is really scary this is the most upsetting thing ever my dad grabs a broom that's leaning against the
wall in the hallway got do what you got to do and with Max grinning and burying his teeth at this mountain maniac my dad
shoves the broom handle into the man's gut and tells him follow his ass back up the
road I think it's important to remind you all that my father has no pants on full-blown Donald Duck in it fullblown
Donald Duck in it just being like follow his ass up up the road this is amazing I have this memory
for forever and now you will all have it too thank you so much for that gift I'm
happy that's that's a good one Denny we didn't earn that gift I appreciate it though the way you just bestowed it upon
us happy 2024 be be cool and and you're doing that yeah you are cool my sister now
emerges from her room she was 21 but was still living at home at the time she's wrapped up in a sheet cuz she too sleeps
naked and just screams get the [ __ ] out she has little to no idea that she was
speaking to Jesus at the time so your family is so reckless and I love it so much just talking to Jesus like
she comes out naked with a she like get the [ __ ] out like no one's fearing this they're
just like so this dude listened to the broom man my sister and yeated himself out of
my house as super pissed off Jesus my dad heard him ranting and raving all the way up the hill as he stood outside at
2: a.m. with no pants on proudly defending his family I truly love my hippie dad and always will I always will
as well so now what we call the cops and wait the near police police station is something like 10 miles away it's a long
wait while we're waiting for the cops Jesus decides to take himself on a little adventure to our neighbor's house
over the ridge it's probably about a 10-minute walk for any sane person but I don't really know how long it took for
Jesus their house is locked properly like normal people so he breaks into their home and begins to ransack it he's
pissed off and breaking and smashing everything in their home my neighbors that's so scary my neighbors are
terrified at the noise and lock themselves in their rooms and scramble to get their gun it's the woods
everybody has guns makes sense while they're locked in their bedroom he finds their car keys and Jesus Take the Wheel
he steals their little blue Hond to CRX D just said Jesus Jesus Take the Wheel you're hilarious D Love D meanwhile the
police arrive at our home they're taking our statements when they get the call about my neighbor's house and realize
how close it is they call for backup and say they'll be back to finish our statement as soon as they check out
what's going on across the ridge the officer drives over to their place he arrived so quickly that my neighbors
thought it was still Jesus and they fired their gun oh my God in the air in the air out their bedroom window to try
to scare whatever burglar man off of their property everyone was was okay but like [ __ ] chaos right right the cops
announced themselves and had to calm down our neighbor who was apologizing profusely to the police as he told my
dad about the whole thing the next day can you even imagine shooting at the cops and living to tell the tale I can't
not many people can me either this [ __ ] was bananas I remember hearing the gunshots and thinking oh my God they
killed the cops that wasn't the case but I have full-blown anxiety now as an adult and this may just be the night the
night the seeds of my anxiety were planted you know what I'm going to go with you yes yes it was meanwhile
where's Jesus he's taking the nice 5 mile drive down to Boulder Creek this is amazing to me because this guy was high
as [ __ ] so high his pupils were the size of nickels that's why his eyes were the
blackest you've seen today yeah that was his pupils the drive from my house to Boulder Creek is a narrow two-lane windy
road and I'm shocked that he didn't end up driving into anything or anyone when he did make it to Boulder Creek he
stopped the car in the middle of the two lanes down uh in sorry when he he Jes Jesus Christ when he did make it to that
Jesus Christ that me not you and the star of the story when he did make it to Boulder
Creek he stopped the car in the middle of the two lanes downtown strip he then decided it would be a good idea to pop
into Joe's Bar for a beer in a game of absolutely Jesus can do as Jesus pleases he was spreading the word Joe's was not
open but the owner and bartender Virgil and the owner Karen were still inside closing up for the night Virgil and
Karen this is just right when the bartender tells him that they're closed behind the glass at the front door quote
unquote Jesus gets pissed he walks across the street uh into a restaurant at the time called the old basham's
house that had tons of antiques and decorations on the wall and a plethora of antique guns he then steals an
antique machine gun off the wall and he now gets back into my neighbor's wow I just got super back into my neighbors
that was wild I don't know what happened there back into my neighbors I don't know what kind of soul that was Honda
CRX gets into position and drives it through the glass front of Joe's Bar oh the only thing that stopped him from
going all the way through the back was the pool table he drove the 75 ft length of out of the bar he gets out dusts
himself off points the gun at the bartender who was ducking with the owner behind the bar and Demands a beer and
also a game of pool Oh my he throws an actual fit throwing glasses from the bar when they again tell him no which like
honestly if you're ever in this situation just give the [ __ ] man and be like go play po I'm actually leaving
for the night he says he's a millionaire and can pay for the damage right so Virgil being the sweetest
bartender ever he was also a family friend who has since passed RP Virgil RP he poured him a beer and he let him sit
and drink it honestly the safest thing to do in that situation for Virgil so now all the police backup has arrived at
my house and the neighbor's house when all their radios go off all at once incident in downtown Boulder Creek the
whole side of our Mountain was lit up in red and blue lights as all but one officer left to go to this new incident
as the last officer is talking to my father on the front porch my mom sister and I are all huddled on the couch with
the most what the actual [ __ ] looks on our faces I've ever seen we don't see much action on our quiet mountain and
this was a lot for anywhere this was a lot yeah my dad comes in after what seems
like my dad comes in after what seems like ever he has pants on now oh okay that's what made me laugh and he says he
has to go with this officer to possibly identify the person that they have in custody in downtown Boulder Creek my dad
gets there with the officer takes one look and was like yep that's Jesus that's him it turns out Jesus wandered
down from a secret meth lab in the woods to our house after a drug dealer and him
had gotten into a big fight man this just keeps on raveling you're also so lucky to be alive holy [ __ ] absolutely
like everybody in the sit everybody is we were just the first porch light he saw he was arrested and held on 10K bail
and the daylight broke I remember that all of us were just shooketh Karen and the own Karen the owner of Joe's was set
to have their annual Christmas spaghetti feed that Friday at the bar which she still had because the whole Community
came together to help clean up the damage the families that were in need that she adopted still got their gifts
that year too a bright spot in the story I did however get to enjoy my 15 minutes
of fame at school when I recovered from the flu because I had the tale that everyone wanted to hear oh yeah you did
Joe's Bar has since rebuilt and I've enjoyed a cocktail or two there in my adult years I highly recommend it if you
ever find yourself in Boulder Creek oh fun fact the video for fight song by Rachel platon was partially filmed in
Boulder Creek and the bar she's at in the video is Joe's oh I want to see it I do too still to this day they have a
sign in their bar that reads not a drive-through bar that's hilarious I love that good humor can get
you through anything I suppose it sure can oh yeah years later when I was 15 my mom and I were at the Boulder Creek Art
and Wine Festival my mom points to a man and says do you know who that is my mom
was the local mail carrier and knew everybody so I was like no who usually the answer was oh that's so and so and
you know so and so's mom but this time my mom looked at me seriously and says that's
Jesus she then yelled over over to him and forced oh my God this mom is a queen she then yelled over to him and forced
him to come over and apologize to tr for traumatizing me when I was and the apology was almost more
traumatic than him trying to turn me into one of his followers oh my God a he was drunk and crying and it was sad oh
so he's I mean you could tell this guy was going through it I mean he endangered a lot of people that night
that's not okay no but it's like if he was still going through it in this kind of vibe that long after it's like that
guy was struggling yeah definitely and it's sad that it doesn't sound like he got the help that he needed going to say
it doesn't look like he got better no um it was honestly sad I forgave him that day he had a problem but the legend of
my anxiety will live on forever I now live in the damn suburbs and I lock my [ __ ] door at night I have now
unironic I have now un ironically a bearded husband an 8-year-old and a six-year-old boy and I don't think they
would be able to handle Mountain life LOL at least not the one I lived no I don't think many of us would I couldn't
I have many other stories like ones about trying to get onto the Lockheed Martin property that was just up the
road from us as a teenager and all the weird lights we used to see in the sky over it but that's for another day send
them on send it to us it's like a send it to Daryl thing but different but to us us so that's my
tale if you read this on the podcast I have some depend prepared for myself and my my three mom friends cuz they will
all excuse me we will all collectively [ __ ] our pants shout out Taran Michelle
and Amber Taran Michelle and Amber get some dep pens Taran Michelle Amber and Danny with an ey hell yeah thank you too
for all that you do and for my 40th and a couple years my gal Pals and I are planning a trip to Salem hell yeah to
pay our respect to our witchy freethinking sisters of yester year so you know come hang with us lots of love
to you guys and yours and keep it weird but not so weird that you tell your 8-year-old girl that you're Jesus in
their foyer at 2 a.m. all the love and less Sinister babe Vibes Danny oh my God I'm obsessed with you
also while you guys are in Salem if you haven't gone yet which you definitely have so never mind oh they yeah but
anybody else that goes to Salem go to the Black Veil uh shop of Dre and wonder or actually maybe not cuz she said
didn't Danny say a couple of years hold on and this was January what did you say
yeah I know you're right so maybe you haven't okay great so if you haven't it's going to be so much fun yeah go to
the Blackville shop and wonder go to Emporium tell we sent you is it Emporium 32 I always get the number wrong it is
32 32 y um oh go to housewitch oh yes it's like um like German house yep there's all
kinds of great things oh have dinner at Ledger oh my goodness yeah is the brussel sprout the Brussels sprout the
Brussels sprout and they make a mean espresso Martini the everything there was ideal it was so good so good also
nocturn that's another oh and nocturn yeah nocturn is awesome and there's probably some that we're forgetting you
know you've got a lot of a lot of places to hit and happy birthday in a couple years um all right so Danny you rule
your family rules that was hilarious and also uh horrifying and also sad but also
uh uplifting at times so thank you for all that it was all of the above um so let's talk about a local Boston listener
tale let's do it don't squeeze is this don't squeeze my charman like toilet paper don't squeeze my charman a
haunting uh let's see it says hold on I'm going to open the Pua do it hi Ash Elena my name is Amy no
need to change my name because there are probably 400 Amy in the Boston area so I'm not really outing myself I've
changed everyone else's name in the story though just for privacy's sake thank you both for being such great
storytellers and for giving people like me who reluctantly call themselves Believers in the Paranormal a platform
to share our Tales you're welcome thank you for sharing them with us I've pasted
my story below and attached it as a Pua P I've been meaning to share this story with you for a while but this summer two
things happened that made me finally get off my butt and do it one my former roomate from the story and I finally got
together for the first time in about 10 years reminiscing and laughing about the
absurdity of these events and two when the tea shut down this summer I had to drive to work in Harvard Square along
with half of Boston's North Shore oh God every day Wes would send me on a slightly different route through Medford
and Somerville to avoid traffic but no matter which street I started down I would somehow end up driving by the
house in this story the first time it felt like an odd coincidence by the third time it was creepy and weird and I
felt like the house was still trying to tell me something all these years later oh I want to know exactly where it is
this story takes place in what was once the most densely populated city in America Summerville Massachusetts
Summerville we love a sumerville moment Somerville for my non- Bostonian Somerville is kind of Boston kind of not
it's not perfect way to describe it though kind of Boston kind of not everybody that's not from Boston will
tell you that they are in Boston when they're in Summerville but you are not but that's why it's kind of Boston but
kind of not it's the next city over from Cambridge in plus years ago when the story takes place it was still upand
coming as they say rents were fairly cheap and the streets were filled with a mix of local townies think Whitey bugia
beets Italian mafia oh and 20s something transplants looking for a decent place to live that was walkable to the tea
with bars and restaurants nearby uh my two roommate I was going to do this whole thing with like the fullon Boston
accent but I'm not going to assult your ears why my two I cuz I thought about it
when I said when I was like bars and restaurants I think you should do it my two roommates let's call them Caroline
and Jamie and I lived on the first floor of a fairly typical flaw the first flaw
of a fairly of a fairly typical free family house or as we massholes call it a triple Deca triple triple de kid by
fairly fairly typical I mean each floor had a separate apartment our apartment had three bedrooms mine was a converted
dining room a pink tiled bathroom from the 1920s I love it and a kitchen that was mostly a big open room the size of a
bedroom with just a table a free standing oven in fridge and a microwave on a cart against the um against the fir
wall it was connected to a vintage yellow and green tiled Butler's Pantry I'm loving this containing the sink and
all the kitchen cabinets there was a back door to the driveway in the corner of the kitchen that we used as our
primary entrance our landlord had added exciting enhancements like industrial jade green
Carpeting and metallic sponge painted walls oh I want to know who the [ __ ] said let's sponge sponge paint this wall
love a sponge paint oh I hate it I know it used to be the thing I know there were self-proclaimed ministers living on
the second floor who held regular religious services and sometimes let people live in our shared basement oh
that's fun it was quirky but the rent was cheap the ministers were nice and except for the one time she called the
bomb squad to diffuse a su suspicious package our third floor nebor neighbor kept to herself except at one huge time
this is very sumf it is honestly it was 199 99 and cell phones weren't really a thing among young and poor graduate
students so my roommates and I communicated to each other with notes left on a large think the size of an
average flat screen TV whiteboard that one of us had salvaged from the neighbor's trash we had propped this
monstrosity on top of the microwave and left each other basic sometimes passive aggressive notes about bills du or who
needed to get their old food out of the fridge Etc uh roommates I've never had a
roommate it's an experience yeah uh keep in mind that my roommates and I were fairly friendly acquaintances more than
friends oof that sounds like a [ __ ] nightmare my only roommates were like actual friends yeah um and that I was
the only link between the two of them Oo we got along and hung out sometime together sometimes but weren't
long-standing BFFs or anything maybe that awkward formality that comes from sharing a Liv living space with relative
strangers is the reason it took each of us so long to admit that our apartment was a spooky nightmare we'll never know
we moved in at the beginning of June I was working at a magazine for the summer and had started dating someone long
distance my roommates were living similar young 207 something lives and we often talk walk to Davis Square to grab
I love this I love it yeah I'm like we're all just like a we get donuts from there sometimes we do uh we often walked
to Davis Square to grab beers together or Bagels on weekend mornings life was good Caroline and I had just come from a
horrible living situation with another person the year before so I initially chocked up the odd feeling I'd get here
and there to in the apartment as leftover trauma from my previous living situation and the feeling of wooziness
in the front hall was attributed to that crazy metallic sponge paint on the walls
combined with old uneven floors making me feel like I was in a fun house I get it fast forward a few months the
longdistance boyfriend had stayed over for a weekend visit I took him to the airport around 5:00 a.m. the following
Monday before we left home he wrote a quick thank you to my roommates what what a we love a thankful King we do he
wrote a quick thank you to my roommates on that giant whiteboard in the kitchen I returned home less than an hour later
to a still quiet house everything was as I had left it except that the Whiteboard
was no longer propped up on the microwave it was laying face up about 8 ft across the room I could not for the
life of me understand how heavy particle board backed whiteboard could land face
up across the room but I told myself that writing the thank you note had made the board unstable and caused it to fall
you know something somehow that note was different from the other notes we wrote
to each other all the time it was Heavy with importance yeah you know um I went it was Heavy with gratefulness yeah with
gratitude with appreciation I went about my day and tried to convince myself that
I was just being dramatic needless to say I never mentioned it to my roommates about a week or so later Caroline and I
were sitting in the living room watching TV while Jamie was eating her dinner at
the kitchen table we suddenly heard Jamie say oh followed by a few rapidly escalating O's and Oz and holy [ __ ] and
then a loud crash like what the [ __ ] happened Caroline and I ran down the hall to the kitchen only to find the
Whiteboard once again lying face up on the floor in the same location as before only this time Jamie had watched it
slowly Rock itself one corner at a time off the top of the microwave and then literally fly across the room that's
absolutely terrifying it was then that we all came clean to each other about the weird experiences we'd been having
in the house the feeling of someone standing over our shoulder in the bathroom the odd feeling in the front
hall in the front closet Caroline came to us a few days later to tell us that someone had just called her name in the
hallway goodbye some weeks after that when Jaime's boyfriend Curtis was was spending the night her printer turned on
at 2: a.m. and started printing only there was no paper in the printer they got into a fight over whether or not
they should put paper in to see what the messages would what messages would come
through Curtis won and no paper was ever added I would be team Curtis oh [ __ ] that I would have been like put paper in
that [ __ ] we know Jim's room would sometimes take on the odor of manure oh God while Caroline's room always smelled
like fresh flowers so they did not [ __ ] with Jamie no I was convinced that the
ghost was an old woman weeks passed Caroline got a job offer in Vermont and moved out Curtis moved in weird things
kept happening but nothing was too traumatizing and as I said in the beginning the rent was cheap and the
location was good heck we even had the rare luxury of off street parking oh wow see you don't give that up so one night
when Jaime's college roommate was visiting I was woken by a blood Cur curdling scream coming from the bathroom
oh gosh after a night of bar hopping in Boston the poor girl had come back to our apartment and was brushing her teeth
at the sink when the medicine cabinet door began repeatedly opening and closing on its own I get that that's
like pretty scary but like you don't need to scream about it like you're in my house don't be annoying I feel like
that was like too much that was Pik me behavior that was Pik me Behavior we're just like I don't know
Jamie's college roommate I don't know can you tell we grew up in a haunted house were like that's nothing get over
it Jamie consulted a friend of hers who had done some casual ghost hunting on the Southshore as a teen she's always
had an interesting mix of friends his advice was that we had to take the house take back our house and tell the ghosts
that we live there now and it had to leave us alone his exact words were you need to tell the ghost this is my house
leave me alone I think you have to say it nicer I feel like you should Curtis Jamie and I all agreed that we weren't
anywhere close to being ready to confront this spirit so we just went about our lives with the minor
inconvenience of feeling like we were sharing our home with a fourth unseen roommate I feel that one day I was
getting ready to meet friends at the local Second Run movie theater to see ironically the six cents remember when
there were second run theaters when you could see a cheap movie like 6 months after its initial release oh that shit's
awesome I didn't even know that was a thing yeah I think this particular movie was popular enough that it took more
like 10 months to get the cheap theater but I digress so there I was getting ready to go I changed my clothes was
brushed my teeth uneventfully and sat down on the toilet to go to the bathroom I was just finishing up my business and
was about to reach for the toilet paper when it happened so it is charman the freaking toilet paper roll
started unrolling on its own before I even had a chance to touch it it's kind of nice and no for your debunkers out
there this was not a single turn like maybe you just knocked it with your elbow situation the roll just kept
rotating until the paper hit the floor and started accordion folding in on itself see that's like nice because
they're like oh my gosh here you go I got you but also please don't be in the bathroom with me no and also I can I can
get my own toilet paper definitely and also like that's bad for the plumbing so like let's calm down exactly and also
toilet paper is expensive so can we not can't there's a lot here yeah at first I
just watched it unroll in disbelief I'm just picturing you sitting on a toilet just being like just watching it unroll
like just silence open mou gaze at it like a full minute of just watching this like accordion on itself like furrowed
brow and then for some reason I started getting pissed I mean seriously couldn't
I have some privacy on the toilet at least I've since had three kids and realized the answer to that rhetorical
question is actually no but I was young and naive then this was the last straw nobody was going to squeeze my charman I
mustered all the courage I could and channeled one my one summer of acting camp to confidently declare this is my
house leave my toilet paper Al alone the first attempt at taking I I love that that was your last stop that's my toilet
paper the first attempt at taking back my power SLB came out as more of a shaky squeak but then I said it again more
strongly and then yeed out of that house as fast as I could ionic unbelievably that really was the last spooky thing to
happen to me in that house maybe it's because the six sense transformed my feelings on the ghost a bit maybe they
really are just kind Souls that have unfinished business and I should have been more should be more empathetic
maybe it's because I had started dating my now Husband by then and was spending less and less time in the apartment or
maybe the ghost actually listen to me and started respecting boundaries a bit more maybe he went to therapy we all
moved out the following Summer and the house has since been renovated and turn into condos I've done some stocking on
Zillow it's currently on the market for nearly 1 million if anyone's looking for
a new place to live damn in Summerville either way after the odd driving routs this summer brought me face to face with
the house again and again I feel like maybe the ghost is still trying to send me a message so if anyone buys a first
floor condo in Somerville in the next few months that you end up discovering is haunted make sure you keep paper in
your printer or white board in your kitchen and maybe you can finally get to the bottom of this mystery thanks for
listening and I I'll as always keep it weird I loved that one I really loved that that was so much fun Amy you guys
are [ __ ] funny you are and you know what I I stand by it Jamie's college roommate needed to take it down a notch
yeah you know absolutely I think that girl Hest guest she was it was just Jamie's college roommate visiting oh
yeah exactly so like you can be honest with us was she a lot she was a pig me was she a lot absolutely she was a lot
she was I know it's okay it's all right I bet she's grown out of that when you're College friends come to visit or
like you know like when other people's College friends come to visit and you're just like G are getting weird I used to
get in so much trouble for expressing my feelings oh boy anyways anyways anyways my next one
is called listener tale neighborhood UFO summer of 1995 let's go it says hello there I am a
longtime listener and have wanted to share this story for quite some time but I am lazy so I never got a a goodbye I
never got around to writing it until now y for being sick with Co and being so bored locked isolated in my apartment
while we have an unusually warm fall attached you will find my story well not mine but my neighborhood story from a
strange summer in 1995 I hope that you enjoy it I save it as a putaa 14 font double spaced sorry if there are any
spelling or Grim errors Grim I know thanks so much and hope to hear from you lovely ladies also again Ash was not
born during this but I was on the way I think you were on the way right yeah well in the summer of 1995 I wasn't you
weren't but I was I was about to be on the way that's true I was 10 wow so that [ __ ] goes crazy that does go crazy
Caleb would say all right well the neighborhood UFO story I absolutely love the podcast thank you thanks and I
thought you would both enjoy hearing this account from the summer of 1995 from a little town in Michigan when
multiple neighbors all saw lights in the sky oh I love that my name is Billy you
can use my name and any other names my pronouns are he him thank you to quote this to quote Sophia from The Golden
Girls picture it Michigan 1995 I already love you bil I grew up at a very small town in
Michigan dirt roads lots of fields and farms at night the only light came from the moon and stars I kind of love that I
do too sounds kind of beautiful beautiful my direct neighbors were my aunt and uncle and three cousins to say
that the area was conservative is an understatement any mention of paranormal things were laughed at and shunned and
the same goes for anything queer related but I digressed and moved away the day after graduation good for you man love
that for you when the lights were first spotted it came from the neighbors the husband Joe and daughter were outside at
night bringing in groceries and they both saw three orange lights they were above their cornfield off in the
distance that's where I want to see spooky UFO lights above a cornfield always the lights just sat there not
moving there was not any sound the lights were about 100 fet or so above the corn I love that they're just like
hanging out over the corn they with knobs it has the juice it has the juice can imagine a more beautiful
thing it's cold I can't help about it are you leaving this out when I tried it with butter everything changed that's
the best part of it and yes I know all the words anyways they moved into the house and when Joe looked back outside
the lights were higher in the sky and moving away very slowly toward the South he got his wife and they watched them
until they were past the woods and out of sight Joe said that they were three lights in a triangular shape they always
are he did not see a craft or object that they were attached to but said they stayed in the same shape AP as they
hovered and then moved this of course made it into the neighborhood gossip and it was joked about but not taken very
seriously Joe Poor Joe about a week later my father and Uncle were returning from a quick trip to the store and they
saw three orange lights above the woods on what would be my uncle's Farm they stopped the truck and watched like the
previous time as Joe and his family had witnessed the lights just hovered they didn't move and there was no noise the
lights then quickly moved off and out of sight my uncle who was driving drove the
rest of the way to his house with my dad and when they pulled into the driveway the lights were hovering above my
uncle's Barn the barn sat back probably about 1,000 ft from the house oo I love this and I just picture a cow being
lifted up in a beam that was in a really good cow impression I was I was just going to let
it go and you know the sad thing was that I like really tried it's not always they're not always going to be hits no
Moo's got to be kind of deep it does it needs to be from within yeah you know what my dog Sydney is half cow I'm
pretty sure and she can do a sick cow impression she can it's actually pretty [ __ ] crazy it's wild but anyway they
both got out of the truck and stood there watching my dad said that he saw the lights were on a triangular object
the object was so dark that you could only tell it was there because it was darker than the night sky my uncle said
that the shape was quote like if three yellow school buses were in a triangle oo I had to put that in because it still
makes me laugh to think that that is how he came up with the size as I said before country folk I love that my uncle
and father went into the house to get my aunt and mother when they came out it was gone so my mom and aunt as well as
me and my cousins made fun of them and asked how many beers they drank on the drive later that night the electricity
in the neighborhood started acting very strange we had gone back home and the lights would get extremely bright and
then darken the TV would go dark then come back on that happened occasionally it was the country and when it was
really hot or storms were happening electricity would act weird my mom called my aunt and she said the same
thing was happening there but that myt aunt and my uncle's phone kept ringing when they would pick it up it would be
really loud static as my mom and aunt were talking another neighbor picked up we had party lines back then when the
entire neighborhood was on a single phone line so you could have to pick up the phone and listen to see if other
people were already on a call before making your call Wa I didn't even know that was a thing that's wild the country
party lines party lines but she heard my mom she like oh hey Joe I need to use the phone excuse me this is important
that's so wild can you imagine having to like have a private conversation though
that's a real country and you just never know who's listening like I guess nobody
could like cook a scheme up if I was a kid I would just be listening to that party line 247 absolutely be harri at
the spying writing down everybody's gossip oh my God it would be so easy to do prank calls too that's fun oh man can
we time travel back to Michigan in 1995 we'll figure it out we will but but as my mom
and my aunt were talking another neighbor picked up she heard my mom and aunt talking and asked if they were
having issues with the electricity you could just join into like hey like oh hey this from down the street I don't
really remember any resolve to it I think it was just the neighborhood woman talking but I do remember that my dad
seemed quite tense about it but he didn't say anything for the next two to 3 weeks multiple neighbors saw the
lights either moving through the sky or hovering in various spots my cousin who was 5 years older than me who was 19 at
the time said he saw the lights move across the field while he watched from his bedroom another neighbor said that
his cows I can't even do it I tried it again it got better this time did it so I feel
like you're on the right track oh hopefully he says cows again yeah cows you can just say it at the end another
neighbor said that his cows and horses would start acting really strange and make lots of noise at night then he
would see the lights on Fridays all the neighbors would usually get together at someone's house for cards and
socializing I [ __ ] love this right I'm obsessed with this we kids would play and there would usually be a fire
everybody sat around I love how like like that's so kind and and nice the talk was soon of everyone seeing the
lights having electrical issues phone issues and barn animals and pets acting weird one neighbor said that his entire
family saw the lights over their barn and then the object craft whatever hit their house with what they said was the
brightest Spotlight that it was so bright you couldn't even see W then it just went off and the lights were gone
that's the only time I heard that happening I wish I could tell you something exciting like missing time
crop circles seeing Grays or the lights chasing people but really that was it it's still pretty exciting to me I love
it for about a month the lights appeared almost everyone in the neighborhood talked about seeing them and then as
soon as it all started it just stopped I like to think that our neighborhood was
just so boring that the aliens thought nope not intelligent life here and moved on but I digress in all of this my
mother and I never saw the lights man bummer I think the aliens were just like everything seems all right here so like
let's move on they're like you know what this is a chill individual they seem like they're getting along Town yeah
just move on today no one talks about that summer or the lights my father and Uncle have both passed away I'm sorry
rest in peace they are the only two that ever continued to talk about it but they
would never say UFO just the lights I like that better it's way more eerie I personally am a believer in the
Paranormal I lived in a very haunted house in my early 20s and my father and a few other relatives visit me in my
dream I love that they're what I call check-ins from time time I love it I hope you enjoyed this and it would be
really cool if it made it on the Pod thanks again for all that you do and for creating a community that is safe
for all people of every background to share their experiences from Billy Billy Billy I'm so glad that everybody feels
that way and say cow again no okay that was a little lateral I feel where it's supposed to come from
but it's not it's not do it's hard you don't have like multiple stomachs don't cows have multiple stomachs no that's
definitely not where it's supposed to come from I think they have like a deep theirs is like very
like but guys this was a great episode of listener Tales if I do say so myself and I can because this is all about you
guys so you created a great episode yeah brought to you by you for you from you and all about you and we are obsessed
with you love the '90s tales keep them coming cuz those are really fun and nostalgic yeah if you guys want to send
in a '90s tale just put it in the um in the in the title line subject line that's what it's called um and in the
meantime we hope you keep listening and we hope you keep it we but not wor that you don't send us your 90s Tales because
I really want to hear them because I was only alive for like 3 years of the 9s and I don't remember any of it don't go
camping don't pretend you're Jesus breaking into people's houses don't take somebody's toilet paper and unravel it
and don't be strange lights that don't tell anybody what you're doing no be Str lights that don't tell people what
you're doing but get a party line with your neighborhood maybe I don't know if we
can suggest that do it like do it do it okay bye that was a good one to you

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Brief Summary

Listener tales from the '90s include camping fears, a break-in by a man claiming to be Jesus, and UFO sightings in Michigan.

Key points

Listener Tales from the '90s. The hosts dive into listener-submitted tales from the '90s, starting with a camping horror story.
Camping Horror Story. A listener recounts a terrifying camping experience involving a mysterious figure with a knife.
Childhood Adventures. The hosts reminisce about their childhood antics, including a ferry ride that led to a police report.
The Night Jesus Came to Visit. A mountain man breaks into a family's home claiming to be Jesus, leading to chaos.
The Aftermath of Chaos. The community bands together after the wild events, showcasing resilience and humor.
The Mysterious Whiteboard Incident. A thank you note causes a whiteboard to mysteriously fall across the room.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

I hope you both realize what a light you bring to such terrible stories.

A listener expresses gratitude for the hosts' humor and sensitivity.

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Tension

65/ 100Some tension

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