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hey weirdos I'm Ash and I'm Elena and this is [Music] morbid listener tals that's the new listener tale song that's
it it's like the mini morbid song but it's it's not better it's not better oh you just brought that back out I saw
somebody um you can download that as I don't know who I don't know from who but somebody tagged me in an insta pick that
um like it's like a cell phone ringtone honestly that HS me I remember that I feel that that's a different time in my
life that is that's a different time in all of our Liv people ask me to sing that sometimes I'm like I love you so
much that was from a different era yeah she was Disturbed yeah that like Taylor Swift has eras we also have eras yeah
and that's she likes to be in her eras but we leave ours behind yeah and you know what that's that's a good one to
leave in the dust and my personal opinion I think I'm hurting a lot of people's feelings right now cuz people
got really emotionally attached to that song it's true and you know it's that's the thing it's F like that's a great
Nostalgia bomb of like yes that was a wonderful moment in time we just don't we We Grew From that I don't know her we
grew out of that yeah that was a seed we are some kind of flowering plant now yeah we're like a snap dragon yeah just
that's what came to me snap but I don't I said I that's what my first thought was actually venus fly trap but then I
was like I'm not eating flies no I don't want to do that either to be quite honest I I think Snap Dragons that was
smart on your part I think they're pretty aren't they snap absolutely they sound pretty
oh they're [ __ ] beautiful I can't have them cuz I have cats oh hell yeah yeah that's what we are yes um look at
us I was I was going to say I was the corpse flower and I I only bloom once every like 10 years and you better get
here cuz then I go to sleep but and also it smells like a rotting corpse so I was
that's what I was I was like don't those smell bad no they do they literally they
get their name but because they smell like decomposition oh mama they're all so heinous looking and they're huge damn
what the [ __ ] kind of flower is this yeah it's gnarly where do these grow yeah they there's only a few around like
there's a few around here like at places for real at I shouldn't say few there's
like really you have to travel to see one like they have them at place there is I don't know where though but I
wanted to see it the last time and I didn't get to and I would like to see it this time I want to see one I don't want
to smell it yeah I want to smell it I want to see if it's good for you if it's the same how far away can can you can
smell one half a mile away it's gnarly I'm wearing a mask I'm excited about it that's going to be our
next I don't know when the next one is blooming wow and they bloom only for 24 to 36 hours you have to get like it's a
big deal that's why it's so amazing to see cuz it's just this thing near suddenly we're like corpse flower near
me let me let me find one usually at like you know botanical gardens you know like very fancy places there's one at
the Frank Zoo that's that's a drive but that's a drive but you know what worth it yeah you know take a take a whole
last day trip oh this was three four years ago just kidding it might still be there though well no it probably died
right but I think they like rebloom they' be doing that you're right okay well we'll we'll look into this
later sorry that was a live look into our PL really that's a live look into how we a
conversation it it just Trails into like where can we find this thing and go for
the whole day I'm about to do some steady research after this hell yeah so wait one more thing this one is 4 feet
tall they're huge that's what I mean they're like big yeah it looks like it almost looks like a oversized aloe plant
before it grows yeah it kind of does you're right yeah okay I got to get out of here so Sor it's it's listener Tales
which are brought to you by you for you from you and all about you exactly and I
had to make that happen of course we can't go into it without that NE the first one that we found just look
looks iconic oh yeah cuz Deb Deb as we all know helps us like organize the listener Tales I said Deb Deb really put
a folder together and she found the perfect listener tale she sure did it is entitled a priest stole my great
grandmother's Godmother's grimoire question mark like what a priest is in this a grimoire I looked really briefly
there's Witches Witches of course if there's a grimoire there's witches what the what do we do in here and it's from
Sarah which is a very witch name immediately I was like of course it's from Sarah like come on uh Sarah said
it's okay to use Sarah's name so s hi Sarah hey um and this says attached as a you wrote a long email as well that was
very kind and I we appreciated it it's just very it's there seemed like there might have been some personal moments
that I just didn't want to like yeah we didn't know if we were we didn't want to
assume that you wanted it all on the Pod so I'll just read attached it's a double
space puaa typed up on my phone so I hope it comes through okay it did it's perfect with some of the weird tales
that string through the generations of women on my maternal side approximately 10-minute read enjoy so let's get into
this growing up I always heard the stories of premonitions ghosts and curses and they all started with my
great-grandmother's godmother I'm already in I'm so in in 1906 my great grandmother Alma oh cool name was born
into a farming family on the outskirts of the city for Wisconsin this is the typical story nothing special nothing
out of the ordinary well aside from the fact that Alma's mother Annie named a very peculiar friend as godmother that
friend let's call her Jenny was known to be a witch can I just say you should always name a very peculiar friend as
your child's God you should and that's how you know you're doing it right yeah don't ever go out of those guidelines a
very peculiar friends a very peculiar who you can't actually name yeah like that's who you should do now I'm
choosing the name Jenny because I cannot remember what my nana Dolores thought daughter of Alma told me her name was
curse little me for not writing that [ __ ] down Jenny had been labeled as a witch her whole life since being a small
girl when she put a curse on a nasty little brat who was a terror and Bully to everyone in school iconic Behavior
Jenny's the baddest [ __ ] Jenny told the girl that she would experience the pain
that she inflicted on others and that it would quote unquote bind her oh my God Jenny Jenny is Sarah from the craft
She's Everything allegedly that girl was unable to go to the bathroom for 3 weeks
and when she did find some relief it was accidental like she had simultaneously become constipated and in continent at
the same time whoa wow damn and that and this is with Jenny just going not saying
like I'm going to inflict this pain on you you're going to receive what you are putting out yeah that's all she said was
you are going to get it back and she she got it back she done did it now this was
probably the late 1800s W my favorite time so medicine obviously wasn't what it was now but
doctors could find nothing wrong with the girl she just couldn't poop the girl's Mom finally went to Jenny and
Jenny's mother begging them to do something about it pleading for her daughter's Health to return as she had
started throwing up too got to come out somehow it's coming out apparently Jenny's mom just kind of gave Jenny a
look like come on really Jenny side got up placed a hand on The Afflicted girl and said I forgive you wow I got chills
I was just going to the way my Nana said it that little girl had to run to the bathroom so fast she
almost created a gus through the room she grapped us that she cropped there were other youthful Jenny
stories but that one is the most clear in my head I understand why Jenny never went on to have kids of her own so when
her best friend had a daughter oh Jenny was smitten Alma was supposed to learn from Jenny be taught the ways in order
to pass down the tradition now I don't have much that stands out in my memory for stories Direct L involving Alma
other than the final story of Jenny which Alma was present for as magical as Jenny may have been she was not immune
to the effects of time Jenny was on her deathbed in a hospital all but gone not conscious or communicating anymore when
her breathing became a death rattle they called for the hospital's resident holy
man a priest to pray over her the priest was caught off guard shocked that he had
been called into the room when he saw her like he knew she didn't subscribe to his beliefs at least not in the way he
deemed quote unquote right he prayed in Latin quickly as he wanted to get out of
there he finished the prayer and then before he left noticed the book on her bedside table quote no one can have this
book he said before tossing his jacket over the book as to not touch it and picked it up ready to leave with it I
can only assume that this book was a book of shadows of s sorts her gommo and he took it from her and those who loved
her I would have fought that man I would [ __ ] that guy up so the moment he turned
to leave Jenny's final breath escaped her body a sheer black Shaw was draped across her body while she was laying in
bed this Shaw was always with her always worn like a security blanket or a favorite accessory oh my God she so cool
right in that moment of Jenny's final breath the shell rippled down from Jenny's body ACR down across her legs
and towards the doorway with where the priest was before cascading down the floor where it remained motionless the
movement was described as that of a light wind blowing through but there was no wind there was no draft and there was
no more Jenny my body is simply waling all the way through this imagine your family telling you these Tales like this
is see my Goosebumps this is a tale this is insane I'm covered head to toe this is such a story oh my God I like can't
get rid of these Goosebump we all believe this was the spirit of Jenny making a final attempt to get her book
back oh yeah I like to think she haunted him till the day he died for taking what
didn't belong to him I think we were all a little mad at that still I don't blame
you now on to my Dolores I absolutely idolize this woman and even now thinking of her I have tears forming in my eyes I
still feel her warmth and love like she's still here Dolores was a very strong woman driven independent
beautiful and full of love she was also incredibly gifted in gardening and Animal Care always making some sort of
Salve or medicinal herb Blends bringing animals back from the brink of death and
rescuing the injured creatures that no one else would consider I [ __ ] love Dolores I love I love Jenny I love Alma
I remember times of helping her in the garden when we would just stop what we were doing because there was a toad in
the way and we would talk to them until they move you guys are the most magical [ __ ] beings Practical Magic this is
or when we would be drinking tea at the kitchen table and a bird would crash into the window Nana would race outside
and hold the little bird whispering to them and stroking their feathers until they would slowly come out of the stun
State they would linger after just looking at her as she spoke she would say okay it's time and they would fly
I'm going to start sobbing right now I'm screaming inside oh my go a favorite story of mine is when Dolores was
driving the family's old crappy car into town I think at this time she had her first three babies no older than
toddlers in the back seat the car broke down and it was the middle of a downpour
very heavy rain she got out to see if she could tell what was wrong but she wasn't exactly a mechanic in cell phones
that obviously didn't exist there were no houses nearby and she couldn't leave her babies alone in the car as she was
looking under the hood a man approached asking what the trouble was Nana said the man was odd not scary but strange
yet she trusted him fully he didn't even look at the car but asked do you have a
Coke bottle in your car she thought that was a weird question because why would she be driving around with an empty
glass bottle he encouraged her to check she popped the trunk and by some miracle
there was a glass Sprite bottle he instructed her to tap a certain spot on the engine using the bottle and to try
starting the car it worked the weird random stranger was right Dolores not having much herself was always the giver
and insisted on giving the man money for his help he smiled softly and said that
won't be necessary but thank you oh she turned to reach into her car for some cash ready to shove it into the kind
man's hands when she turned back he was gone and there was no way he could have just vanished into the house because the
nearest one was football fields distance away what the [ __ ] something else you
need to know about the man is that he did not touch the car once he did not touch her he did not touch the bottle
and even though it was a heavy downpour the man wasn't wet not even a little it's almost like he wasn't there at all
I my I can't like the chills will not Escape I don't these are tals that just need to exist in the world like these
are just wow this is these are like beautiful magical like I'm loving this I love this tale other notable moments
surrounding my nana are the times she predicted what would come to be like when she told everyone a plane was going
to land in the field next to the house and it happened because the plane ran out of gas little hobby plane or when
she declared Mary is in trouble right before the phone rang and it was indeed her daughter Mary crying on the other
end in Texas or when she always used to tell me don't fall in love which I now take as a warning of my previous abusive
relationship oh my gosh I'm so sorry you were an abusive relationship I know I'm
sorry too my nana passed away in January 2019 I'm sorry as happens with time and
passing she isn't part of a daily conversation or even or thoughts even it happens time moves on and yet there have
been occasions when I'll have a random dream of her I'll see my mom and say hey I had a dream about Nana on Tuesday and
Mom will look at me with a serious expression and say you're kidding I had a dream of her on Tuesday this is always
out of the blue it's not like we were just talking about her or something maybe she's visiting us in her dreams I
suddenly just got this like overwhelming feeling of like I'm going to cry right now you have tears in your ey Ash
literally has Tears In Her Eyes I'm telling you breaking news Ash has tears yet again Ash is crying but I don't know
I'm just like it's beautiful like I miss your n for missor like damn so not sure
what it is we have I don't know if I even fully buy into it but I don't have an explanation for these things either
maybe it's all because of my great-grandmother's godmother or maybe that just made us all more open to the
possibilities the regular feelings of deja vu and the lost or injured animals that always seem to find me remind me
that this might just be the fate of women in my family and I think I'm okay with that I hope you enjoyed some of
these weird little Tales I'm taking a trip to Boston with my boyfriend next month and he's taking me on a day trip
to Salem because he knows how fast ated I am by the witchy stuff in history half
of me is hoping I feel something spooky and the other half of me is hoping a ghosty doesn't follow me home anyway
keep it weird but not so weird that you steal a book of shadows from a dying woman's bedside table because bro that's
just [ __ ] up but do keep it so weird that when you die you become a friendly roadside assistant who helps weary
Travelers absolutely keep it that weird wow those were beautiful in a way I Can't Describe I can't even explain and
you told them beautifully I could picture all of that in my head beautiful away with words write something I was
going to say I feel sit down and write you Haven already yeah you need to write like a book about like Dolores and Jenny
andma like a beautiful children's book about the witchy women in your family because I would read my kids that book
yeah Sarah please do it I encourage you that whole story just gave me like such a feel like a feeling I genuinely can't
describe but in a weird way I feel like nostalgic for your nana Dolores and for Jenny yes like I'm like I feel like I
knew them me too like that like filled me up yeah you filled my cup Sarah I appreciate that wow damn damn Sarah
honestly that story is just that that story about Jenny just blew my [ __ ] mind and I'm obsessed with the traveler
because I don't know if like we'll have to have Mikey on to do to tell his story
he needs somebody who 100% like saved saved his life I feel like in Ro after after a road incident as well and it's
definitely some type of spirit guide or some kind of guardian or some kind of something we can't explain and he will
tell you this story and it's beautiful and amazing and it reminded me of that that's another tale that like made me
want to cry when Mikey told us that so we'll have to have Mikey on for a listener tail and he can cuz cuz you
guys I know you want to probably hear Mikey oh yeah cuz and you should he's wonderful it'd be great so thank you
Sarah for that wow that was great damn okay I'm going to read the one about cats next cuz I don't know if you know
this about me but I do love cats what you like cats and if you've recently listened to the old episodes I used to
not like cats so it's confusing yeah I I guess I proclaimed once that I like hated cats which I used to but then we
really wanted an animal and I was Drew was like let's get a cat and I was like I've never met a nice cat and then and
then you I met three you met three nice guys and I'm now obsessed and I'm not a big cat person like I've always been not
really a cat person same but me and Franklin oh you have a Vibe we have a bond so Franklin they've turned me
around Franklin will like kiss me like if I like make like a he literally like kisses me like he doesn't like lick me
but like he Bops his mouth onto my mouth and it's beautiful it's beautiful and it's beautiful and don't make it weird
he did that to Elena the other day and I'm not Kidd I'm the only person he does that too I was so excited he tries to
like if anybody even so much as touches him he's a little cranky and he tries to
B him that's why I love him yeah I think that's why we get along cuz I think we're both like cranky little cranky
cats just cranky cats together I love my cats but when he tried to kiss you I was
like that is not your mother I know and I was like noin we're Bros but I think it's also the witch in us I think so but
so yeah this is about a cat it's called listener tale haunted by Mr Mayor the cat Mr May the cat I can say your name
this is from Carson says hello weirdos from the dark Lagoon known as the Bridgewater Triangle
oh [ __ ] for your reading pleasure I have provided this excellent double space size 14 font Pua look at you this this
story takes about XX minutes to read I don't what's XX I think um you maybe you meant to put in a story amount but you
didn't oh that's like a time and that's okay XX is not a Roman numeral I mean it
is a Roman numeral but I don't know if that's what they were meaning that would be big I think I think it's 10 isn't it
no that's V nope hold on I'm V is five sorry I'm not up on Roman numerals it's 20 so I don't say think but we'll find
out um yeah it's okay anyways hold on to your butts before we get into this here
are my accolades for you oh my God I love you are you ready okay good I've listened to your show since you covered
Katherine KN and I was instantly like holy [ __ ] balls these humans are hilarious and this show is so [ __ ]
gross I'm in on an honest note that I won't even try asking you to skip your show has helped me through some very
hard times and I'm so grateful for you both thank you thank you thank you thank you you're beautiful now on to my
ghostly tale I am a fellow Bridgewater Triangle dweller H yeah but before I lived in the middle of nowhere no cell
service dial up internet internet ass mountains of Ohio oh that's where I lived before yes exactly between creepy
Mountain hitchhikers that I used to pick up in my ill- guided youth to strange UFO sightings that I kned the [ __ ] away
from to Spooky ghosties in my haunted ass Bridgewater Triangle Apartments I have a metric [ __ ] ton of tales I could
tell you but but alas let's not focus on those tales and instead focus on these t
a i LS Tales I'm obsessed as I tell you the sweet story of being haunted by my beloved cat oh I'm going to cry I know
I'm going to cry on this I'm very weirdly emotional today my NE that set us off and that set us off so when my
then partner now sp sp now spous happen to be that you're my spouse that was a soul it was like a villainous
transatlantic ACC my spouse you're my spouse my then partner now spouse quick sidebar my spouse refers prefers to be
called my cowboy because as they say I upgraded from partner and now I'm your cowboy how do you I'm stop I upgraded
from partner no I'm your cowboy howdy hey I'm I love you I love both of you this is beautiful but anyways when my
then partner now cowboy and I moved into our first apartment we did what any young queer couple would do and
highlighted High tailed it to the animal shelter to adopt a [ __ ] cat that's what you did that's exact we didn't even
have a [ __ ] couch yet and we were like cat cat cat I need a cat we had a chair for the first 3 months we lived in
our apartment and also a cat and a cat we were determined to find our perfect fur baby who would happily give us
cuddles purs and love forever more well [ __ ] us because when we lay our eyes upon this Scrump Scrump squishiest
angriest cat in the whole [ __ ] place we were instantly smitten and he was coming home with us now this cat had
been through it in his two years of life he was uh rescued from a feral cat colony where the shelter worker said
other cats were grooming him bringing him food and taking care of his every need therefore he was deemed by shelter
staff Mr Mayor I'm there he was like clean me bring me food go get me every could you cut my fingernails Emperor I
love him while the rest of Mr May's colony was sent away to be part of the shelter's barn cat program where feral
cats who cannot be domesticated are adopted to Farmers who need to keep down the Vermin population our beautiful sack
of fur was deemed unable to survive on his own and was not eligible by this I mean he was missing two ribs oh my God
he was born with legs that were too short and a tail that was too short and therefore had difficulty with balance
and also had asthma oh my God but just like that feral colony of cats our feral self said I'mma take care of this hunger
chunk I'm going take care of you I love this so began the next 3 years of our life which we fully and entirely
dedicated to this cat it took 6 months to let us pet him a full year for him to sit with us on the couch a year and a
half before he would sleep on us at night and two years before he would ever let another human besides my cowboy and
me pet him but with each of his milestones we slowly learned that we were correct we had adopted literally
the best cat ever oh yeah he slowly showed us how silly and sweet he was and we when we adopted two other cats are we
the same human I was going to say wow the same human he was instantly in love with them and followed them everywhere
Franklin does not feel the same about not although he was cuddling with Lux yesterday and I was like somebody call
the local media call the authorities anyway our three cats oh my God I love this so much our three cats and we
became a [ __ ] tight-knit family every person who owns more than one cat was always shocked at how much our cats
loved each other I am and we would always say Mr Mayor refused to be anything but loved oh Mr Mayor by the
time he was five his favorite activities included playing with his siblings by flopping on the ground and Bunny kicking
in the air as they casually walked by snuggling with me while making snorting pig sounds and dragging his open mouth
across our arms as we slept making us wake up with an arm full of nasty slopper I'm obsessed it didn't matter to
us that this cat couldn't clean his own own butt or that he couldn't climb up a cat tower he was happy as could be with
us when he suddenly got very sick and within one day's time had passed away at the nearby emergency vet I'm so sorry
they said his immune system hadn't been able to fend off whatever kind of kitty illness he had gotten that's awful cuz
that's not a long time with a cat at all we were devastated and brought his body
home so that the other cats could sniff him and know what happened so that they wouldn't have to wonder where their
brother went I'm going to [ __ ] cry right now oh my God you guys are doing aash oh my God and when I hear people
say that animals don't have emotions I always talk about how hard my other two cats took the passing of Mr Mar I'm
going to start sobbing one of them didn't sleep for 3 days and we ended up having to take her
to the vet where they said she had depression the other began to pee outside the litter box and would spend
weeks screaming at the door like he was waiting for his brother to come home and
a somebody who has had a good amount of loss in my life nothing has ever caused grief like the grief I felt losing that
cat okay that is so valid and I want you to know that because I have also had loss in my life and I can tell you right
now I have never felt what I felt holding Bailey while she died it's a different kind of I will never be able
to describe or handle that feeling again like I know we got two other dogs so it's like I we opened ourselves up for
that eventually in life but it's like I telling you and John said the same we were shocked at how that
grief was like nothing I have ever felt because I think in a lot of ways like having an animal is so similar to having
a child they're with you all the time and they rely on you yeah it's like losing a child yeah it's like CU that
was our first thing that's your this first baby that me and John took care of together and dogs are so similar to
babies like you get up with them in the night you got to take care of SLE for weeks we couldn't take a shower without
her crying she wanted to be with us like sleep trating them and it's like it's wild and even my kids like one of my
kids the other night started to cry because she misses she all of a sudden just miss Bubba yeah hard and was just
upset about it and it's like so it like hit hard so that is a very valid thing absolutely and everything you went
through with this cat like like it you took so long to like bond with Mr Mayor you did so much you put in the time you
put in the effort it's a very valid thing to say I just had to tell you no it's true and it's a different Bond
entirely so I get some people aren't going to get it and that's that's whatever it's not for them to get just
know I get it get you I get it dude so suffice to say we were all devastated and so were all of the friends and
family who had come to love and watch this little guy's journey of learning he was safe and loved there were so many
people who wanted to say their goodbyes to this cat that we had a zoom funeral it was Co times and 42 people came to
tell their favorite Mr Mayor stories some people don't have that many people real as we stood with the iPad by where
we had buried him under a flowering tree in the yard that's beautiful there he rested for four more years and the
wheels of Life kept on going until it came time for us to move we'd been renting from my in-law's old house and
they wanted to sell it so we finally struck out on our own we began packing and got a real estate agent to help us
buy our first home but as the days went on something that had never happened for
our entire time living in this house started to happen we were being haunted holy [ __ ] my spouse and I would feel
like we were constantly being watched we felt like we were seeing shadow figures
constantly out of the corners of our eyes things were suddenly flying off shelves and tables at one point we were
both standing in our living room and watched as all of a sudden a cup on the nearby table flung itself off the table
and across the room wow and if that's not a cat I was going to say and we have cats and that's a cat so we were both
[ __ ] our britches of course and called up our witchy friend with a quick SOS ghost invasion they came over the
next day and we were like the house is mad at us for and they smiled at us and said it's not
the house it's the land like something in the land doesn't want you to leave I'm going to St right now I hope you
were able to remedy this I know I really hope immediately and without warning my
spouse and I began both began to cry like a sobbing crying now I'm a literal sprinkler so this was no surprise for me
relatable a soft breeze on a gentle day can make me cry over the [ __ ] beauty of nature oh my God I am your spouse and
I am you my spouse nah this [ __ ] is from Boston and therefore is repressed as [ __ ] I've
only seen them cry maybe four times in our decade long relationship and here out of nowhere was number five this was
literally John with me like he was like oh my God you're sobbing it's so true we
both looked at each other sobbing and though a great deal of sad boy sobs said excuse me through a great deal of sad
boy so said in perfect Unison it's Mr Mayor this cat had never moved in in his life and was probably so scared seeing
us pack up all his familiar and favorite things into boxes and in typical cat fashion was letting us know his worry by
knocking [ __ ] off a table that makes so much sense our goddess Witch of a Divine
friend replied I think he wants to know he can come with you and he wants you to
bring something too from his grave side note don't worry weirdos we did not unbury the cat corpse we follow ashy's
advice in this house of don't be so weird that honestly I wouldn't have said a damn thing I wouldn't I was going to
be like you know what go get him yeah go get so don't worry immediately after this we went out to the grave and what
do we find but a little metal bird that must have flown off something nearby hanging from the tree directly over his
grave it had never been there before but there it was wow we took the bird and told our baby boy he's always welcome to
come with us and we would never leave without him oh my God and oh wow this is really getting me this is so sad oh and
so sweet I know I'm just picturing my cats now and all oh oh oh God Jesus chist I was like don't picture your and
all of a sudden poof no more heavy feeling no more [ __ ] getting knocked over no more shadowy figures we moved
into our new place with ease and set up a small table with a framed picture of Mr May's paw prints we have that for
Bubba yeah and now the little metal bird now we light an incense for him every day and let him know how much we still
love him you're such good like animal people you are since then the only haunting that happens from our Mr Mar is
every now and then we'll walk into our bedroom and see our cats cuddling and for oh my God [ __ ] is totally crying is
full crying and for just oh cuz it's like so personal cuz I'm like I have three cats too I know and for just a
moment out of the corner of my eyes I'll see a third Mr May shaped lump there snuggled in next to them like he always
was in life I love that I'm sobbing I love I love you and your cats I love you and your cats
God unfortunately this did not end our scary haunting experiences because the building that we moved into is next door
to a graveyard across the street from a mortuary and the building I live in has creepy children's laughter on the
staircase in the middle of the night I'm Not Crying Now ghost shadow figures in the hallways and a ghost girl in the
elevator who will scream at you and trap you inside according to the old man who
lives next door that's the greatest sentence I've ever heard uttered right there according to the old man who lives
next to and then the followup is so [ __ ] us I guess I guess I need to call my badass witch friend again with the SOS I
can't go downstairs without choosing between the ghostly gigglers or a demon woman help but these are stories for
another time send them in I hope you enjoyed hearing about my beautiful Mr Mayor and our happy haunting if you read
this on the podcast I will probably [ __ ] my whole butt [ __ ] my whole butt off and
then I'll have nothing left to hold when you tell these scared stories so whoops
keep it weird Carson Carson Carson you [ __ ] ruined me with that story you ruined us and also again another great
Storyteller another beautifully told tale and what a what beautiful animal people you two are seriously I'm like
sobbing out in these streets you need to read please read something horrific I was going to say I'm going to find
something gnarly please oh my God there's a harboring fugitive store I think literally just clicked that all
right let's see that whole time all I could picture was Frankie Remy and luxie oh
sobs all right let's see this one's called the time my family was harboring a fugitive and there's pictures of a dog
yeah there's dog named Mo named Mo I'm obsessed hey beautiful ladies I've attached a double space puaa my weird
ass taale I hope you guys read it because it was fun to write you two are the spoopiest creepiest most beautiful
people around I'm so happy that you two have each other in this life oh wow that
was lovely I found myself listening to the podcast every day it's comforting relaxing and overall just downright
awesome I recommend commend it to everyone I can keep it weird P.S I've also attached some pics some picky piics
of my sweet rescue pup one from the day I brought him home and the other to show
how he's thriving he is th wow and the difference I know he so nervous before Oh and then he's he's this very like you
he's beautiful and he's you can tell he's so unsure and like very nervous and scared and then the picture now is him
fully decked out for his birthday happy as can be with a giant like birthday cake bone in front of him with his name
on it I'm obsessed so you know what you're killing it you're absolutely killing it wonderful animal owner I love
all the happy animal owners right oh okay spoopy ladies my name is Ellie I love that name it's so pretty and yes
you can use it thank you this will be a long story although try to shorten it as
much as I can lots of backstory though I'd love to spell my guts and tell you how incredible you two are but you
already know that we have shenanigans get to off we go I love you let's hop in our way back machine and travel to a
time of Farmville Jersey Shore and Kate Goselin being fed up with John's breathing oh my God the fact that that's
a literal thing do you remember the one where she was like you're literally Brea
what is your breathing going on and what didn't she like yell at one of the kids
for breathing too loud or like something like that too and I was like Wow thing calm down that show is wild that the
fact that that I I can't even go back there cuz I could not ever watched that show and then wait really quickly John's
Ed Hardy era oh the Ed Hardy era that everyone went through the Jersey Shore of it all too so it says I was 17 and a
senior in high school going to school with the same kids since fourth grade it was a time of aim chat rooms and
Facebook was a new upand cominging site I can't remember exactly how I met the antagonist of our story but I do know it
was online let's call this guy Tyler Tyler was from Illinois and I lived in small upper class upper middle class
Pennsylvanian Town my family didn't exactly fit the mold of this town with my single mother working diligently as
an RN to raise three kids what a badass my mother is an angel but she's quite naive and I being her daughter am the
same duh let's fast forward to when Tyler showed up to my door my dumbass 17-year-old self obviously must have
given him my address at some point so stupid let me add here that this could be used as a cautionary tale for kids
today okay so at least he was who he said he was ne's help won needed at this point he didn't oh man the original
Catfish movie I watched that recently wild that's a horror film it's such a trip to watch now it is a trip to watch
and it's scary it is horrifying scary when you watch it it is horrifying yeah oh he didn't have anywhere to stay and
yes he was planning on staying so I begged my mom to let him stay with us in our house she eventually said yes
although I don't think it took too much convincing I knew that he and his dad had been having problems so I assumed
that's why he wanted to get away from home I also knew that he had stolen a car before face palm to the [ __ ]
forehead Emoji did I mention I was dumb I thought I I thought I love this prick so I fell for the whole I'll never do it
again I've learned my lesson Spiel I was [ __ ] star eyed I have fixed the bad boy I I have fixed the bad boy [ __ ]
score am I right you know what you were 17 and we've all been there yeah we've all been there that I'm I'm going to fix
face oh God the amount and also the amount of people you think you love before you realize like what love truly
is and you're like oh I didn't love that [ __ ] and that just that fix him phase
that we all went through or like some of us went through I want blank it you all
I think most of us at least I definitely went through a giant fix him face and can confirm did not fix him don't know
not [ __ ] did not fix him because you know what it's not up to anybody else to fix someone you got to fix yourself you
got fix yourself you can't love yourself RuPaul says how in the hell are you going to love somebody else exactly
speaking of RuPaul quick little side note just for the parents out there have you watched the tiny Chef show love
RuPaul is in it I love and also please watch the tiny Chef show tiny Chef is you'll be laughing your ass off it's
amazing my kids thought it was hilarious I love it so go watch that let's go tiny
Chef is so cute so cute a couple days of him moping around my poor innocent mom's
house and what's that a new Myspace message I'm hunched over our desktop computer in the corner of our dining
room reading this message it says something like good afternoon Ellie my name is Officer so and so I'm writing
this to let you know that we are looking for Tyler liar liar pants on fire we have we have reason to believe he's with
you and want to know want you to know if he is that is cons he is Con that that is considered harboring a fugitive and
your mother could be in serious legal trouble she Andor you could be arrested please call me at blah blah blah number
oh oh my God imagine getting that message at 17 years old what was my first thought after reading this
obviously I ignored the part that said [ __ ] fugitive and instead yelled over my shoulder hey Tyler come look at this
if I could smack the crap out of my younger self I would he was reading the message over my shoulder on our
monstrosity of a computer looking nervous as H double hockey sticks he played it off though saying he Pro it
was probably his dad trying to get him to come home because the message came from a blank profile okay shrug on with
life without another thought ignorance is bliss I guess but not for long the next day was Friday this is where our
story gets ju see oh no he said he wanted to trade his Jeep in for a new truck this struck me as odd but I'm 17
okay I'm dumb and live in a bubble after school yes this stranger um fugitive was
in our home alone while we were at all we were at work in school jump scare oh my God I happily rode with him in this
car lot to this car lot about 20 minutes away he I mean we Tess drove a 90s something Chevy Silverado you know the
one the one that your Grandpa probably drove we pulled back into the lot and he went inside when he came out he said
they told him he couldn't trade his vehicle with an outof state license did this make sense to me nope sure didn't
but again I'm dumb I'm just a little 17-year-old baby who knows nothing about how the world works and believes
everything that anyone tells me yep we drove back to my house in his hunk of a of a junk jeep that night he told me he
was going back to the car lot to tomorrow to quote sign papers for the trade wait wait wait what happened to
the out of state license debacle Tyler said the salesperson called and it was all hunky dory now okay okay I believe
that as the loving caring and most perfect girlfriend that I was I asked if he wanted me to go with him you would
have thought that Pennywise jumped out of the closet to scare him when he yelled no he said you probably got stuff
to do here I'll just go weird but okay what happened the next morning he pulled into my mom's driveway in Grandpa's
truck in all its Glory I went to greet him and what did I see uh do they always leave the dealer plates on shrug I don't
know I'm just a baby just a baby I'm just a baby I do remember asking him about it and he explained that he would
have to go back again to quote unquote finish the paperwork and get the new plates dude I thought that's what you
were doing today whatever have I mentioned yet that my sister was in the hospital today ready to deliver my first
nephew I didn't well she was and we're on our way now in this weird ass truck the hospital was in another town about
an hour away and we had to take almost all back roads to get there we were driving up a hill because duh this is
Western Pennsylvania when the truck runs out of gas another indication that I should have known what was going on I
don't think car lots fill the tanks for a test drive here for any test drives here and there I call my dad and he
leaves the hospital to bring us some Go Go Juice the bad feeling I had about stupid old Tyler and this whole
situation was getting worse we get on the road again and finally join my family at the hospital after hours in
the waiting room we hear a wretched scream from the delivery room and boom the first grandbaby in our family was
born my incredible nephew Nikolai Nikolai welcome Nikolai also the fact that the fugitive Tyler was just there
for that he there a great story a story you're like hey my first nephew a fugitive was there a fugitive was there
for that it was around 10 p.m. before we all left did I mention that it's my older brother's birthday I didn't well
it is oh my God what is happening in your life in the excitement of the day in the new B we didn't get to celebrate
my brother my mom asked Tyler and I to stop and pick up a cake on our way home I quickly ran into the grocery store and
the only cake I could find was a Valentine's themed heart cake wow that's weird I know today Valentine's Day and
my nephew was just born heart cake it is we are all at the tail end of our drive
when I get a call from my mom I answer yellow my mom in the most serious tone I've ever heard come out of her mouth
where are you me jokingly oh you know we're in Ohio somewhere my mom mom Ellie where are you me I'm kidding we're on
the highway geez we're one exit away mom come home right now okay so that was weird right I told Tyler about the weird
call and he was strangely silent we got them to the main intersection in town where you had two options to get to my
house either go straight and take the first right or take a right at the intersection and go around the block
that way we were sitting at the red light for a few long moments in silence no traffic around but a set of
headlights in the post office parking lot the post office was ahead of us where we would turn onto my road all of
a sudden Tyler turned on his right turn signal and turned that's that's odd why did you go this way I asked because I
wanted to go this way what a weirdo I thought as we pulled onto the D into the driveway heart-shaped cake resting
innocently on the floor two sets of headlights pulling behind us I said aloud wow it's pretty late for Tom's
friends to be coming over my brother was one of the popular kids and his friends
were always coming to to pick him up to go to a party here or there that's what it had to be right wrong very wrong oh
no the moment the truck was shifted into park about a 100 police came out of everywhere I mean everywhere I looked
through the windshield and saw the barrels of two shotguns pointing at us oh my God on the driver's side of the
truck was three officers with their handguns pointed at the truck along with more officers on the passenger side you
poor thing cops came out from behind my beloved Blue Spruce Pine Tree in the yard off our patio where they had been
hiding and from all sides of the garage two men also came from both cop cars behind us I froze I was more terrified
than I had ever been in my short little 17 years when people say their lives Flash before their eyes I now know what
you mean my only thought was I'm going to jail because of this car stealing little [ __ ] in an instant the cops
ripped open the driver's side door and yanked him to the ground hitting his head on the corner of the door good I
thought [ __ ] him up whoop whoop this bastard has ruined my life I was too afraid to move during this whole ordeal
so I didn't move a single muscle other than my super strong tear Ducks hole I was balling in the middle seat of this
stupid truck with the driver's door wide open staring at the red and white frosted cake finally a young cop
probably the Newbie unlucky enough to have to deal with the hysterical girl opened the passenger door and sheep said
you can get out now through tears that I can only compare to Niagara Falls sourcing for my eyeballs I asked C can I
bring the cake because evidence man I don't know with an unimpressed look and a slight roll of his eyes he said uh sure
so there I was standing in my driveway with a morally tainted Valentine's Day birthday cake and 30 police standing
around feeling more embarrassed and confused than I'd ever been in my life why aren't I in handcuffs shouldn't they
be calling me Bonnie and him Clyde is this a dream am I going to get tackled by an NF fell linebacker sized police
officer if I head towards the side door of the house so again I didn't move until I was told to do so Tyler was in
the back of the police car that definitely wasn't one of my brother's friends coming to pick him up for a
birthday celebration in the woods somewhere and I was finally told I could go inside inside to my safe quiet home
my mom and brothers were in the kitchen where I set the precious cake on the counter and without a word I went to my
room I need to be alone now we didn't speak a word about what happened for years
years how from what I understand Tyler's dad told the police I didn't know anything looking back I should have
listened to the uneasy feeling I had about the whole situation and I definitely shouldn't have ever let him
stay at my house or duh given him my address in the first place teenagers are so stupid I'm sure there's lots of
police work that went into this as well because before police hauled off the turd stain named Tyler they told me that
the US Marshals were looking for him what the [ __ ] us Marshalls what/ who did I get involved with the world may
never know I need to know he did write me several times from jail or maybe prison he was saying how sorry he was
and that he loved me blah blah blah eventually I received a letter addressing another girl the envelope was
addressed to me but the letter inside said SE dear someone else's name the letter was asking about their daughter
and saying he loved his other girl and would marry her Wick a Wile Wile what oh my God I was told by a friend in
law enforcement that the people monitoring prisoners male will sometimes accidentally switch letters when they
see inmates writing to multiple women like that and that's why they're real ones a real one right there like a real
one let me let you know what's going on I was never considering continuing anything with this hardd Manchild he was
19 so technically a man but not really at all but I wrote [ __ ] you across that
letter and mailed it back him in jail/ prison icon my only hope is that the same people were monitoring the mail the
day that day and saw it I didn't think to look him up online until quite recently actually he had many charges
including multiple burglary and burglary attempts I forget what the others were but they were all stupid and it's very
scary to think that this guy was in our home and it was my fault wow on the bright side my younger brother has been
a police officer for about 8 years and said that the moment he was watching through our patio door and saw 30 m
offic Ambush us mostly Tyler he knew what he wanted to do when he grew up crying laughing emojis I hope you read
this and your younger listeners remember not to let strangers into your home and
don't be as despicably ignorant as I was things could have turned out much much worse and that is true it could have
turned out a lot worse thank you ladies so much for all your hard work I love you tons your BFF Ellie Ellie it's for
it's for me that you and your family didn't talk about this for years I love that you just walked in you placed that
tainted Valentine's Day cake on the counter and then just wordlessly walked into your room he said I I'm a head out
you said I don't I don't think we need to revisit this and they said okay you guys just woke up the next morning and
went about your lives that's a family right there that would be like we know you're ashamed so we're so we're not
going to talk about want to talk about it we're not going to talk about it just moving on I was like damn those are real
ones right there yeah like damn wow Ellie what a tale that is wild all right we have our next listener tale and I
just have to say that I really love the ending of this one the ending of this one I got to read it ahead of time it is
Phenom it's great all right so here it goes okay this one is from Ben by the way so it says okay here it goes of all
my paranormal experiences I've only had two that were undeniable thankfully both
were with another person to verify my friend Kenny and I had met up for a hang out and sleepover whenever we got
together we would usually smoke a pack of cigarettes drink some beers and stay up late talking about Cryptids
paranormal things girls and music this night was no different me Kenny and our friend Adam were in a rap group called
Channel 3:00 a.m. amazing I love that amazing I'm not sure if we had formed the group at this point in our lives
though we may have just been rapping together we were just hanging out maybe we were just rapping together earlier in
the night we had wrapped over some live music my brother Nate and other room roommates Britain and Ryan were playing
they were on fire it was an amazingly fun and creative time it sounded like Explosions in the Sky mixed with weird
diss disson chanting that came in and out of focus depending on what part of the sonic wave they were riding I love
that I love that the music room was in our basement everyone was feeling really inspired that night the run-on sentence
of a song we were making lasted a couple hours and was so Dynamic and full I remember Adam saying some things that
were so profound it felt like he was literally possessed by a dead philosopher after blessing us with his spooky wisdom
Adam walked home and everyone other than Kenny and I went to bed I slept on a twin bed in a small bedroom sandwiched
between Ryan's room and a large living room I had set up Kenny on the ground with a blanket and pillow just because
my bed was too small to fit us both my laptop was sitting open on a coffee table next to my feet by my closet as I
sat on my bed contemplating if another beer would help me sleep Kenny turns and asks me if I want to channel an
interdimensional being what an amazing question to ask right before bed too like you're just about to go to bed
you're like on second thought do you like want to channel in a interdimensional being and you're like
dude I was going to say that yeah weird Jinx I stared at him blankly where he sat on the floor and the glow of my
laptop screen he said screen he said that he'd done it before once using a YouTube video I laughed but agreed to
watch the video with him like sure like sure why not there's YouTubes for everything outside my room was a long
hallway in a bathroom directly and in front of the door my brother's room was directly across from Ryan's at the end
of the hall Britain lived under the living room next to a set of stairs that led to the music room our porch in the
backyard although I had responded to Kenny like I was ready to make fun of him for the whole thing the truth was I
was also scared as soon as I said yes to allowing my Consciousness to channel this being I gulped like a cartoon mouse
about to sneak past a sleeping cat he navigated to the video that somehow wasn't buried in a dark corner of the
web or in a corner of the dark web it loaded up and started to play what I can only describe as a comfortingly corny
brainwash tape I love that strange images started to play on the screen I remember there were depictions of scared
geometry oh scared geometry terrified geometry the geometry was like oh I was I'm a terrified
Rus depictions of sacred geometry although the terrified Rob would be so much better temples maybe the allseeing
eye that sort of thing a digitally disguised voice started to speak the voice explained that the images and
sounds would be used to help Channel an interdimensional being called a neth into our living space I no don't do that
don't Channel [ __ ] into bring a NE into your living space I don't know about there's already enough people in your
living space unless they're going to pay rent don't that yeah help out with the bills yeah the voice also explained that
the being would dissipate or leave after about an hour okay all right all right so it's just like a quick little visit
just going hang an hour could be a long time depending on the interdimensional being depending on their disposition
yeah like what's neth about you know but the worrying electronic noises behind the video made me feel a bit entranced
but I still looked away and scoffed to show Kenny I still wasn't buying it you're like I don't give a [ __ ] I don't
know about NE the voice I don't know about NE the voice on the video started to get mushier and less pronounced and
repeated seemingly random words from earlier on it seemed like the person who made the video wanted it to appear hokey
like a science fiction movie from the 8s love that the video voice repeated enter
enter enter now now now now and began to Peter off as the electronic humming noises got louder this is so intense it
really is suddenly the high-pitched humming noise was the only thing I could still hear other than a faint echo in my
head of the voice enter enter enter silence filled the room as the video went dark I turned the light on and was
about to say something to crack a joke about the video to lighten the mood when I was abruptly cut off by the doorknob
thrashing back and forth doorknob being twisted left and right as fast as possible
noises yeah there you go this went on for a good 10 seconds I would have reacted quicker but I was just so
shocked when I finally recovered I ran to the door and flung it open there was no one outside in the hallway neth was
outside in that hallway yeah 100% you couldn't perceive NE it's not no one it's neth see you don't know about NE
you don't know about NE there were no lights on no sounds no people I quietly checked on my roommates but they were
all still asleep in their rooms there was no possible human way anyone could have Twisted the door knob and then hid
that fast even if they had ducked into the bathroom across across the hall needless to say I had a very very hard
time sleeping that night I still feel shaken when I think about it even though it happened well over a decade ago
that's because you met NES that's exactly why you know you met NES you absolutely you know you did Ben you have
met NES Ben you perceived NES did even for just an hour but with all of that being said hey Ruby Ben has something to
ask you I'm screaming we're g we're giving a pause yes this is a pause this is a pause
hopefully something some things are being put into place right now okay and [Music]
then Ruby and bed just got engag happy engagement happy engagement to Ben and Ruby hard the most beautiful
couple I've ever seen I love you guys your art together that was my favorite ending of a listener tale ever this is
so cool to be able to do this and know that you what is happening right now like my heart in the future my heart
just started racing like I was getting like a proposal like I'm so excited I'm so excited for you guys I can't wait to
see pictures and please send us pictures and I just love your love and you guys are the cutest couple ever and everybody
if you're listening to this right now just like Raise Your Glass or raise whatever you got to Ruby and bed to Ruby
and B to Ruby and bed I have a very funky looking coffee right now mine is literally IC coffee water but cheers to
Ruby and Ben and you got to drink girl else it's bad luck oh I got to drink hold on sorry I don't want to drink I
really committed to taking a sip of that coffee I swe you guys but that's because
Ruby and Ben for life love you guys so much it was so cool of you to involve Us in that and I hope you're like sobbing
right now Ruby and Ben and I hope you have the loveliest happiest lives together Chin Chin hell yeah and you
know what maybe neth can come to the engagement party please invite neth to the wedding please play that
interdimensional demon video at one of the wedding celebration stay for an hour it'll be fun yeah you know exactly just
play Single Ladies for him and it'll be great nef loves that dance he does I just know he knows the whole thing I
know it well guys with all of that excitement we hope that you keep listening and we hope you it weird but
not so weird that you don't get engaged while listening to listener Tales because you should keep it so weird that
you always get engaged while listening to listener Tales Ben and Ruby for life this is so precious I love
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Weirdos! Get cozy and get ready to listen to our 83rd batch of Listener Tales! They're brought to you BY you, FOR you, FROM you, and ALL ABOUT YOU!

In this episode we have a family of witchy women, get visits from spirits of four-legged family who passed over the rainbow bridge, abandon a morally tainted valentine birthday cake, and get AGGRESSIVELY RSVP'd by an entity from another realm!

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Brief Summary

Listener tales include a stolen grimoire, a haunted cat, a fugitive encounter, and a surprise engagement proposal.

Key points

The Tale of Jenny the Witch. A story about a witch named Jenny who cursed a bully, leading to unexpected consequences.
Dolores and the Mysterious Stranger. A miraculous encounter with a stranger who helped Dolores fix her car during a storm.
Family Connections Beyond Death. A touching reflection on dreams of loved ones who have passed away, hinting at their presence.
A Heartfelt Tribute to Mr. Mayor. A listener shares their emotional journey with their beloved cat, Mr. Mayor, who brought joy and love into their lives before passing away unexpectedly.
The Haunting Aftermath. After moving, the couple experiences strange occurrences in their new home, leading to a touching connection with their late cat.
A Message from the Police. Receiving a shocking message from the police about a fugitive named Tyler changes everything.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

You should always name a very peculiar friend as your child's God.

On naming a godmother.

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