Listener Tales 88 | Morbid | Podcast | Forensic Files

hey weirdos I'm Ash and I'm Elena and this right here is [Music] morbid it's more listener Tales brought
to you buy you for you from you and all about you baby y what's up uh nothing I mean so much but nothing
of note right now no yeah everything's just you ever feel like you're just in a state of with your professional life and
an an ex just an anim suspended animation that's what I was trying to say what do you mean like everything's
just on hold you know when you get in those little lull periods where like you're waiting on certain things to
happen yeah you're just like come on yeah I we live in different places though you live on Earth and I live in
the cloud so sometimes I don't even know when I'm in that period I'm just like look a bird
it is honestly you're better off up there down here Earth is Earth is not cute Bleak down here you know what I
heard actually this isn't something I should tell you but here we are oh no I was listening to uh I was just coming
off of Earth is Bleak I was listening to um disrespectfully it's Katie Maloney's
podcast with Dana yeah and they had Ariana on and she was talking every week they have a segment where they put
something in the basement which we should start doing in the office it's like like the there's a fly in here
[ __ ] terrorizing us it needs to stop oh the sound of a fly just buzz buzz buzzing makes me angry literally ignites
every single one of my nerve endings yeah I feel exposed we literally opened the window for him to go outside to I'm
like just get the [ __ ] out so not only is he loud and gross but he's [ __ ] stupid too he is all right maybe if we
ignore him he'll leave because he won't feel included so they put something in the basement every week which means like
it's like their thing that they hate or like like [ __ ] that we're getting rid of
it like we're just not going to deal with that anymore I love that I guess Ariana's been flying a lot cuz you know
like [ __ ] B Coastal Queen yeah and she said that she's putting turbulence in the basement because like it sucks so
much and then she said that turbulence is just going to get worse she heard because of global warming I mean that
makes sense cuz all turbulence is is just like air and air is getting worse because like like hot air cold air like
all the [ __ ] that you know I mean cuz turbulence is really just like air pushing on the yeah or like bumps in the
air kind of thing yeah but s but turbulence is okay yeah cuz you're Justin Jello cuz it can't knock you out
of the sky I think when I heard that I said don't tell Elena don't tell Elena don't tell el told me that but do you
does that ever happened to you or you're like don't tell that person that don't tell that and then you're like hey I
really have to tell you something does that ever happen to you not on that level well
but but here we are see one thing that doesn't happen to me and one thing that doesn't happen to you there you go what
did you say suspended animation and turbulence and telling people about it telling people with fears of flying
about it you're like hey get on a plane come on get on a plane and you're like did you know that turbulence is only
going to get [ __ ] worse there's nothing you get I'm not going anywhere with you I don't have any trips planned
with you as of late get on a g damn plane you should get on a plane go on vacation yeah just know that turul be
worse after that I can't wait all right well I picked the listener Tales this week and I didn't
even read them you didn't read them I was in place I guess cuz there's a lot of like grandparents and a lot of
messages and signs it's very Ash you were in a place called space so aren't we all yeah it's true you want to start
I do should I just start with the first one yep cuz I want to read the second one oh look at that it's perfect oh my
God this is why we work so freaking well let's see so this one is cooled the time
my dead Grandpa played Cupid for me and my boyfriend isn't that I'm kind of obsessed with that it says please keep
this Anon if you read it on the podcast you can call me T Anon I will do that for you t it says hello my fellow witchy
spiritual spooky [ __ ] if you read this on the Pod I think I quite literally will [ __ ] my dick from
excitement and maybe the shock of hearing my own story so with that being said I just got done listening to
listener Tales 886 where during my intent during my intent listening I was thinking about writing in this odd tale
and then the story you read immediately after mentioned Kachina dolls and I knew
that writing this not so spooky spooky tail was a must with that being said please excuse any side tangents or
ramance blam Rambles orbl ramblings I go on the neuros spiciness is so [ __ ] strong I feel
that on such a deep level yeah uh feel free to cut out any parts of this story that seem redundant and I will do my
best to stay on track we will not do that I put this in a double space size 14 font puaa I mean hopefully it's a
puaa I am not necessarily the most techsavvy gal it's a puaa it's a puaa anyways I have a quick confession I
realized the other day that I don't even know how to make a [ __ ] puaa but you like demanded it I can't yes I can't
even argue that fact that's hilarious guys I really would prefer if you put your stories in pus because it's just
like easier for me and then I'm like how do you make a p so here we all are here
we all are oh oh that's who we are you know we're just trying our best over here we don't know how to do anything no
uh let's start with a little backstory shall we we shall in April of 2021 I started a new job in a town over from
where I was living after a while of working there one of the men on my shift caught my eye no now I'm not typically
one of one to make the first move because [ __ ] the embarrassment that comes along with rejection like Excuse
me while I go crawl into the deepest darkest hole that I can find however oh do I have a story for you baby oh my God
I won't tell it but it is a story though it's something oh I love that now however this man caught my attention
enough that I started making it a point to talk to him every day flirt with him when possible and eventually give him my
number good for you t I know shoot your damn shot that's [ __ ] amazing it's Boss [ __ ] behavior and I just love the
fact that like they normally would never do something like this but they did but
you're like I chose now I like that turns out that he had moved here from a different state about 15 00 miles away
only a month before we started working on at the company and we were hired am measly 3 weeks apart even though I do
wholeheartedly believe that the events of my life leading up to my employment at the same company as him were divine
workings on the universe's part I have no clue what the falling events were caused by throwing in a side note here
before I go further on into the story My boyfriend is the furthest thing from religious or spiritual very much a man
of fact and believes in science and physical evidence agnostic or atheist if you if you will after months of being
friendly Talking Etc our relationship slowly became more until by May of 2022 we were officially dating fast forward
to November of 2023 and we take a road trip to Arizona to visit my grandma when we arrived my Grandma had had us get
settled in what used to be my grandpa's bedroom when he was on hospice before he
passed away in 2018 I know I'm sorry about your grandpa the room has not changed at all except for the bed all of
his decorations are still hung on the walls and placed on the top of his dresser are watches TV and other
seemingly random knickknacks now everything else to add in here or something else to everything I have to
add everything else right here now something else to add in here because I feel it is extremely important to the
story is that my grandpa worked for the Bureau of Indian Affairs specifically with the Navajo tribe in the Arizona New
Mexico areas back in the70s during that time he was gifted many things including
quite a few kacina dolls I've attached photos of what these dolls look like I do not believe these dolls are commonly
seen out and about in stores and things but I could be wrong so please feel free
to correct me I never will live your life I will never correct you live your life also I've never seen a Kachina doll
in store regardless unless you've seen them you would not be able to conjure up an image in your mind because they have
a very unique look to them you are 100% correct on our second night visiting while my boyfriend and I were in the
bedroom getting ready for bed he turned to me and said can I tell you something kind of weird I told him of course and
he went on to say this has only happened to me a couple times and it has only been with a few random moments in my
life I muttered okay because he was starting to weird me out a bit I've had a dream about this room before I whipped
my head up and looked at him with my brows furrowed what I tried to say it as calmly as I could he is not a spiritual
woo woo guy so I didn't want to make him feel silly for sharing this that's very
nice of you but now I was just fully intrigued yeah that doll he motioned with a nod of his head to the kacina
doll in my grandpa's dresser that was placed to the side of the TV that whole dresser really the doll the TV the
watches laid out that pot in the corner and even the large fake tree that sits off to the side I sat silent looking at
the belongings scattered about that are now so precious to me waiting for more detail I have these dreams sometimes
this is where he really caught my attention because out of the two years we've been together he has claimed to
have only had one dream he can recall in those two years and he also claim names
he doesn't dream I think he just doesn't remember them because what kind of psychopath doesn't dream no one exactly
insert my best girlfriend I roll here I had a dream probably four maybe five years ago I know I didn't know yet this
is him talking by the way yeah I know I didn't know you yet well I don't know if
I would consider it a dream a vision maybe it was just kind of like a closeup of that doll's face and then it zoomed
out and it was the whole dresser I can remember the doll and the setup of the dresser the best
he Shrugged as if to try and make a nonchalant comment you said this was how many years ago I wanted him to repeat it
before I started really freaking out like four or five years ago definitely five at the most my grandpa passed away
almost exactly five years ago whoa right I got chills when I read that his face fell flat as if he was trying to hide
any sort of signal that this had him freaked out we were visiting my grandma about 2 weeks after the 5-year
anniversary of his passing I have had two other dreams about this kind of stuff in my life he told me he said he
told me about the other times and I listened intently I'm still trying to figure out how he could have had
multiple experiences like this and still not believe that there is something guiding us along our way or that there
is a power greater than us have you ever seen a doll like that before being from
a close southern area in a state of near Arizona the possibility was there and I
couldn't pretend it wasn't nope there was Zero hesitation in his response he definitely hadn't seen one of those
dolls before he dropped the conversation after that but my head was still spinning was this the universe preparing
him for another large Monumental moment in his life so that when he lived the moment he knew he was on the right path
or was it my grandpa's Spirit showing him a glimpse of his future that has me me in it my grandpa's way of setting me
up to know that he is the right one for me without actually being here to give that approval that I always crave so
sweet right you see my grandpa is and always will be my dad he's the only person in this world whose approval
matters to me when it comes comes to my life partner maybe this was his roundabout way to ensure that I knew his
approval was there I totally think so I fully believe that that's what that is because he knew that his approval
mattered to you and he knew that you needed that so he was like I'm going to give it to her I fully would your
boyfriend have had that dream and like even just going back to like the way that you asked him out and like you
never would have really done that before like you felt confident enough to do that that's a huge part of it like I
feel like that's such like like an intervention there like something that we just can't see because I didn't even
think about that part that you never would have shot your shot like you did with this this guy and it's like and you
went full force here's my [ __ ] number baby like something just told me and the
way that you guys started the job at the same time basically like 3 weeks apart like that's I don't know I I always say
I don't know what I believe in yeah I'm like I sit somewhere out there and but this kind of stuff just always makes me
at least think through it what's going on here I don't know if you guys know this about me but I hella believe in
this [ __ ] and I don't know if you knew this it was your grandpa um or is it my is my boyfriend
simply blessed with a gift from the universe allowing him to see a glimpse of the future maybe I suppose we will
never know but I like to think it's a little bit of everything the universe giving my grandpa the opportunity to
push him and I both in the right direction and my boyfriend's gift opening him up to a message from Grandpa
and the universe I love that I do too maybe next time I'll write in about all the weird spooky things that happened in
my childhood home walking into every cupboard in the kitchen being wide open lights turning on and off on their own
things being thrown across the room shelves literally flying off the walls please do anyway now that I'm properly
crying thanks for reading this keep it weird but not so weird that take it away Ash not so weird that your grandpa
doesn't divine intervention a boyfriend into your life yes I love that with all the love tea right isn't that am
love this I love that one and also your pictures so adorable together I'm telling you and your dog it was meant to
be also you're wearing a dress that is made for you and you look adorable I really love that dress a lot I love this
oh your grandpa looks like such a grandpa I know like there's you know how some people you're like that's a grandpa
that guy's a grandpa that Grandpa gives good hugs yes that Grandpa's going to sneak you cookies yeah and he's handsome
a grandpa he's a handsome grandp handsome guy and Grandma's a Stunna oh my god did you see their wedding day
picture I literally just opened your grandpa and Grandma's wedding day picture oh my God this looks like
something out of old Hollywood they are gorgeous wow oh I love seeing old timey like photos like that people were just
so much better looking back in the day it's true it's like everyone took care of business back then like when it came
to appearance yeah they like they just did more you know like as I said here in leggings and a messy butt I'm like
people just really cared back then I'm sitting here in like a crusty t-shirt sitting here I'm wearing like a giant
sweatshirt and like crusty Dusty leather legs I literally have a foundation stain
on my shirt and we're like people just like did you know like get it together people should care more about care about
what you look like wow like I'm sitting here talking from a a position of never giving a [ __ ] about what I look like
when I we give sometimes I properly yes sometimes but often times I'm like sorry world yeah
more often than not I'm like it is what it is baby it is what it is oh man um I picked this next one alen
will understand this none of you will but I'll do my best to explain it it reminded me of a lady that I used to
live with Judy yes so that's why definitely see that yeah this next one I love that all right listener Tale the
crime next door that shaped my child and saved me all at once howdy ladies I started your p uh started listening to
your podcast a couple months ago and have made it all the way to episode 173 woot wo your stories and comedy make
me uh make my very stressful job- in-law so much easier and the hour trip and rush hour traffic to downtown Dallas and
then our ride home absolutely fly by to the point where I don't even want to get
out of the car and go see my family totally kidding in case my husband or kids are listening I love
y'all I love y'all I love y'all she's like don't worry I love y'all kidding I've kind of been chewing on uh
sharing my story as it happened in what used to be a very small close-knit town and I didn't want any family members
hearing and reliving the pain of what happened so I will use fictional names but feel free to share my name which
is christe christe christe I love you chrisy Christy you rock never change never trigger warning in advance this is
going to be a hard one oh boy so here it is picture it 1996 in Weatherford Texas
it's the middle of the summer and we are on the fifth day of a 100 plus degree streak back then it was still a small
town and my street faced the woods my friends and I would stay up late on a party line telling each other scary
stories about the woods and daring each other to go in them the next day oh I love that right I also the Nostalgia
within this story is like you can feel it my same house is still there today and all its Fox and Jacob hunter green
with deep red trim glory and my handprints in the concrete that hold the fence posts are still there and so are
my long gone perer little Footprints side note his name was Shadow after homward bound yes after the dog and
homward bound even though he was a mut mix of chow Sharpe and Rottweiler so yeah yeah he was something all right he
lived a good 21e life and was blind deaf and even dumber in the end but always a
good puers 21 years that's long life wild right but the woods are long gone and have been replaced with hoyy toyy
cookie cutter houses it was the day of my birthday in early October of 1996 and I made a discovery that forever changed
me and somewhat skewed my view of the world and those closest to you your own family oh man when we first moved to
Weatherford in 1993 I was about five and my elderly neighbor we'll call her Miss
Ivy and I became close friends fast I love that right when I wasn't out riding my bike around town rollerblading at the
local skating rink checking out a million books from the library or scaring myself trying to catch lightning
bugs in the woods across from her house I was next door at Miss Ivy's house she introduced me to teacake Salsbury steak
and tried her hardest to get me to enjoy uh tea iced or hot yes I know born raised and lived my entire life in Texas
and I hate tea of any kind including sweet tea which down here means you are a heathen my husband hates tea of any
kind too oh does he really he does not like tea That's funny um and Miss Ivy fostered my love for all things horror
and fantasy oh Miss Ivy sounds like she sounds awesome iconique yes she too was a huge Star Trek fan and loved Captain
Jean Luke peard yeah you got it look I'm doing the hand thing for look at that um
she loved him as much as I do we spent many rainy days on her couch reading Mary Higgins Clark Dean Co Clive Cussler
in any series we could get our hands on Miss Ivy was like the grandmother I had lost just a year earlier that I so
desperately missed and needed in my life as my mother worked for GM and was in Detroit most of the year and my dad well
let's just say I'm putting it nicely but he was not a fun person to be around oh
that makes me sad they're only five here it makes me really sad and I'm just so happy that you had had Miss Ivy yeah as
the years went by Miss Ivy of course aged and it got harder and harder for her to take care of herself I would
insist on going over there three to four times a day to check on her make her tea
and meals and make sure she was tucked in at bed in bed at night oh she was lucky to have you I know swans was still
a big thing then so all of her food was delivered and I could just heat it up for her and put it on one of the awesome
metal meal trays my God on the rare occasion my mother was home she would cook enough for every meal each day and
I would take it over to Miss Ivy and sit with her so for a while so she wouldn't
be so alone I was about to turn eight when it all happened like I said it was the day before my birthday I was eager
to get the day going because no matter how much I had tried to convince my mother I just wanted to roller blade at
the skating rink with my friends she insisted on getting a clown which thanks to Poltergeist I'm still terrified of
who this day yeah no and I wanted to see if Miss Ivy could talk her out of it I wasn't close with my mother since she
was gone so often and maybe she'd actually listen to another adult who wasn't on day 12 of a manic episode oh
man I was an extra- large pizza on stils at 7:00 so it took me a little bit to get up and get dressed and go over to
make Miss Ivy her breakfast and tea it was Friday and I was out of school for fall break and I just knew we'd spend
the day watching Star Trek together since she knew it was my favorite of all our shows I was humming the opening
theme to Star Trek when I got to her door and knocked our secret knock per usual isn't this just so sweet sounds
like a movie yeah but there was no response I tried again just in case it uh she was in the back of the house or
in the bathroom nothing I walked on the side of the house and noticed none of her lights were on for her this was way
weird she was always awake by 6:00 a.m. and it was currently 7:15 a.m. I ran to the back of the house because I knew she
always left the sliding back door unlocked for me or in case of an emergency it was locked too I knew
something was off and flew home to wake up my parents absolutely panicked and in
tears my mother told me I was being dramatic that Miss Ivy was old and just wanted to be left alone probably and my
dad was babbling some nonsense about her finally wising up and hiding from the government oh and po you are just like
panicking and you're just like can you just help me find M please yeah like don't tell me I'm being dramatic like
this is a big deal you're seven so '90s though so '90s like you're being dramatic you're being dramatic and
you're like no this is everything to me so I'm not being dramatic I'm just reacting to something that is very
meaningful to me at 7 and don't tell your kids they're being dramatic because they will spend years talking about it
in a therapy okay it's what I spent talking therapy about this morning yeah when I insisted and refused to let my
mother go back to sleep my mother said she'd go over and try to knock as well we tried and nothing Miss Ivy didn't
have a phone and no matter how much I insisted my mother wouldn't let me call the police I just knew something was
wrong she made me go home and do chores to keep me distracted and out of her hair with a promise of pizza from Pizza
Hut the stuffed crust kind had just come out the year before OMG that was really
good oh hell yeah well Pizza H Pizza we have an inside joke where we just go you
want pizza H Pizza Pizza H pizza and really it just means do you want a pizza H Pizza there's really no subex to that
and now it's all your joke too there you go well lunch came and went then dinner
and then bedtime each time I tried to get her to answer the door hope the back door was open but no nothing I cried
myself to sleep that night thinking maybe it was me and my mom was right Miss Ivy was fed up with me and she just
wanted to be left alone oh my God my whole heart is breaking I know I was so upset I only ate one small stuffed crust
SCE and anyone knows that a seven-year-old chunky monkey knows that isn't normal no the next morning was my
birthday and I bounced out of bed thinking surely even if Miss Ivy just needed a day to herself she would answer
the door today same thing absolutely nothing and the back was still locked up tight I 100% knew that something was
wrong at this point because hello it's my birthday she always gave me a birthday celebration outside of the ones
with my family and friends since she never left the house and always made her fanciest of
teacakes that and today was Swan's delivery day so I waited for the delivery time at 10:00 a.m. since my
party wasn't until 1:00 p.m. as soon as I saw the pale yellow truck coming down my street I bolted out the front door
and over to her house the driver Scott smiled and waved I told him what had happened the day before and he too found
it odd he went to her front door and tried knocking as loud as he could and then we both noticed it the smell in
case you forgot from before it was day five of over 100° weather the smell was Indescribable but once you've smelled it
you never forget nor is there anything that ever compares to it death and a metallic sickening under tone to boot he
didn't hesitate Another Second and ran to my house with me to call 911 we waited him holding me because I was
sobbing while my mother was off finishing up things for the party and who the hell knows where my dad was oh
my God you poor thing I know shout out to Scott the swan delivery driver it took the police about 3 minutes to get
there and after the backstory of the smell the officers kicked in the front door both the officer and Scott tried to
Shield my eyes but it was too late I saw it all oh no and this is your birthday your eth birth it's literally her eighth
birthday oh this is where the trigger warning comes in Miss Ivy was in the middle of the kitchen and all I could
see was what appeared to be her eye and something that looked like a big white rock it was her exposed skull oh my God
the officer questioned all the neighbors including us and a neighbor two houses down remembered seeing a red Grand Prix
sitting in front of her house in the we hours of the fourth that Friday the neighbor was a psych triage nurse at the
hospital in town so like that's why they were up that early and she saw it when she was leaving for her shift I told
told the officer I went over about 7:15 a.m. and there wasn't a car there the coroner determined that she had been
killed between midnight and 2:00 a.m. Friday the killer had locked up all the doors and windows save for one which he
crawled his way out of and then closed from the outside when I saw that window later that day I felt like such an idiot
there was still some blood smudged on it and I had just completely flown by it in
my Panic oh you were only seven and I'm happy that you didn't see that he also turned her AC down to 50 but it was an
already old unit it was hotter than Satan's nut sack and the unit froze over and stopped working it took about a
month but they found out who did it her youngest son what the [ __ ] I never even
knew she had children they never checked on her and she never talked about them and that's when I found out about the
real Miss Ivy Miss Ivy was a retired ER pediatric nurse of 45 years and had three children two boys and a girl in
the middle she used to be married to a police officer she met at the ER but he was extremely abusive and actually went
to prison for a time once he was out he started looking for her again in order to protect her children and herself as
her kids were now adults and living in different parts of the US she moved from Virginia to Weatherford Texas and
changed her name she cut off all contact with her children and didn't even have a
phone she remained unlisted in all the phone books even with her new name the night she was killed and this is
according to her youngest son we'll call him Teddy's confession he went to her house he never did disclose how he found
her but he did sadly he said his father was just released from prison and they had started talking now Teddy already
hated his mother and blamed her for all the abuse that he endured as a child at his father's hands I left that part out
but the father abused everybody in the family which as a victim of domestic abuse I do not understand his misguided
rage but I'm not victim blaming anyone and I cannot speak for how they deal with their own trauma anywh who he said
his father and him had started a new relationship during which his father apologized and said it all happened
because his mom was controlling and abusive to him and it was really all her fault that he was the way he was to the
kids oh okay it was her fault that he abused the children yeah totally Mak sense makes sense so Teddy's rage and
hatred deepened then Daddy of the Year suggested hey why don't we track her down and kill her what the [ __ ] I'm
assuming she didn't take you or her sibling or your siblings off her life insurance policies and you know those
are really Hefty since she was an ER nurse for 45 years oh my God again he refused to disclose how he found her but
that night he confronted her and she told him the exact opposite of everything his father had been feeding
to him over the past 2 years and that set him off he said he just felt like he stepped outside of his body and watched
as he bashed her head first on the kitchen counter and then when she was on the floor he continued to beat her with
a cast iron skillet that I forgot to put away the night before God oh the worst part of it all was he would have only
stood to inherit about 175,000 split three ways between the siblings as Miss Ivy the angel she had always been
donated over half her policy to the ER pediatric Ward at the local hospital so all over about $
58,4 15 I know that was heavy and it did change how I looked at the world for a long time but as an adult I see the
Silver Lining and all this she succeeded in getting me out of an unwanted party with a terrifying clown her best
birthday present yet I think of her every time I watch our favorite shows especially the new peard series or the
newest one with Sir Patrick Stewart or read a book book by any one of our favorite authors and have tried to pass
on the love she showed me a complete and total stranger not to mention really weird kid to not just my children but
those all around me sorry for such a long one in the tangents tangent is my middle name keep it weird love Christie
Christy I just thought Miss Ivy's story like was so beautiful I know it was so sad [ __ ] that was like but they're bomb
heavy that no I'm obsessed with their BMS like and I'm so glad that she got to have that kind relationship with a child
without someone interfering exactly and turning it into something ugly and it's like that [ __ ] man to abuse her
forever and abuse their kids and blame it on her and blame it on her and convince one of the kids to kill her
it's like I I so wonder how they found her yeah cuz she had put every precaution yeah you wonder it makes me
so mad but I that bond that they had was just like so sweet that oh that just wrecked me I know
oh so my tale is entitled listener Tales guardian angels and the universe's repeated attempts to crush me I almost
couldn't say Crush yeah sometimes my mouth doesn't want to do things it's hard you know it's like don't say that
word yeah but here we are don't say the word Crush it's hard I like that you just all it's hard it's all hard every
part of it yeah it's true now it says Hey weirdos I've been binging your podcast for a few months and I'm almost
caught up so I clearly love it thank you you may be the best True Crime podcast I've found oh my goodness every time a
listener Tales episode comes up I remember that I have a few stories that you might be interested in finally I've
managed to get some typed up I think I've narrowed it all down to three categories lightly Supernatural
supernaturally spooky and bad mom dumb criminals this PDF contains the lightly Supernatural flavor of story and if
nothing else it may give some food food for thought I hope you enjoy I don't know if I can say your name so
okay cool says it here hi there you can use my name you can use the name Nick for me um I've encountered a fair bit of
weird stuff so if you like this maybe I'll tell you about my brief run as a ghost hunter or that time my boyfriend
my mother's boyfriend fell through our ceiling while hiding from the cops please tell me both of those things all
of those things for now I have three stories of guardian angels in the universe's repeated attempts to crush me
to death literally my first story takes place in the early '90s I was 7 or 8 and
was spending the evening at my grandmother's house she had settled me in her office in front of the small TV
while she was in the den just a few steps away my memory of this incident is minimal I was on the floor with the TV
above me on a small cabinet if I stood the cabinet would have been shorter than I was and the top of the television
would have been just higher than my head it was as I mentioned the early '90s so
the TV probably weighed almost as much as I did at that point absolutely it did I don't know what I was just asked do
mocker I don't know what I was watching because in my memory I'm F I'm focused on sorting pennies that's so cute the
rest comes from my grandmother who added that evening to her catalog of Stories of the miraculous and told it many times
over the next decade she heard some sort of noise and came to check on me when she reached the door to the office she
saw me with my hands on the TV screen holding it up and keeping it from crushing me it had somehow tipped over
and despite the cathod weight of it I think that's a brand I think it's like a brand of TV yeah it's like an old tube
TV oh man I was keeping it balanced at a precarious angle with a single lower Edge still on the stand and this is at
like 7 years old yeah according to my grandmother the only way I could have caught and supported the TV was with the
help of my guardian angel given some of the things that happen in the future I can't entirely argue with her the second
story was several years later I don't remember how precisely precisely how old I was but it was somewhere around 12 or
13 I've have always had trouble falling asleep even when I was young I would just lie and bed sometimes for hours
hoping exhaustion would finally drag me down on this particular night I was looking at the clouds painted on my
ceiling when I saw a figure at the edge of my vision the door closest to me led to the Powder Room outside of my
bathroom and I could see through the door to the door from The Powder Room to the hall normally I could at least now
the doorway leading to the hall was filled with a tall skinny figure my first thought was that it was my
stepfather like the figure he was tall he was as tall as the doorways skinny with curly brown hair I looked it wasn't
him this man had a younger face and wore a brown Tweed suit I had never seen that
this is scary he was a complete stranger to me but I wasn't afraid I only had a few seconds to take him in our eyes met
and then he was simply gone the doorway empty as if it always had been I would be like that's an intruder in my house
be I'd be [ __ ] terrified but just the fact that they weren't terrified yeah like I would yeah that's that's
terrifying that you weren't terrified but I feel like in the old house like the house we grew did you ever have
experiences that you were like I should be [ __ ] terrified right now but I'm not yeah absolutely yeah it's like it's
a weird inexplainable feeling yeah no that's scary just the fact that he was B like it makes me think of an it follows
yeah the one scene that gets me the most I think that movie is very scary I think
they do it really well that movie is [ __ ] terrifying it's very scary and the the ghosts are very scary but the
one scene in it follows that like really like makes my stomach churn for for some
weird reason is when she's walking in the bedroom and that absurdly tall man just Ducks under the doorway and just
like follows right behind her for some I don't know if it's like he's so tall and
the proximity to her how he's just like following right behind her he just juts right into the room it gets me even
thinking about it right now I have chills yeah same there's so many scenes in that movie though like the two
biggest scariest ones for me like that one scares me but not as much as the lady that pisses on the floor oh my God
yeah cuz that's just horrific and then the man I think he's like naked and he's standing on the roof SC the [ __ ] out
he's just watching that that premise is terrifying it is and it's such a good [ __ ] movie the whole the the whole
entire way they do it is like incredible very unsettling go watch it go watch it
h this isn't an ad I could see why that would remind you yeah it just thinking about this really tall
skinny in a suit in a brown Tweed suit yeah in the hallway just with curly hair looking at you no nope nor I don't like
it so this says my house had been built in the 70s and the land had likely just been Pine Forest before that so I came
to the conclusion that he was unlikely to be a ghost my guardian angel perhaps you're you're put a lot of faith in this
Guardian Angel business because I would assume that's a ghost I feel like that's a ghost that's
a shadow figure that's that's my sleep paralysis demon like that's what that is I wonder if it was like a a thing of
like hindsight now you look back cuz in that moment I I I'm trying to like distinguish if like in that moment you
felt like that was your guardian angel because I'm like wow that's impressive it sounds more to me like it's hindsight
chocking all the events up to each other that makes sense finally my long story I
tried to find one of the Articles written about this to confirm the date but because of how long ago was I wasn't
able to track down a digital version of the information my cousin s is only a couple of years older than I am she was
the youngest of her siblings and when her parents lived in the same small Georgia town where I grew up she and I
were very close practically sisters they moved away to California before I was a
teenager s came back to visit when she graduated from high school then decided to move back and attend the local
Community College we started spending time together again and while it wasn't a matter of picking up where we left off
it was still easy to regain that closeness the final story happened on September
20th 2000 if I'm not mistaken if I am mistaken then it was September 22nd 1999 I got up early for my grandmother
to take me to see you at the poll event that day see you at the poll is a Christian Student worship and prayer
meeting that occurs before school one day in September it takes place at the school flag pole and is legal as long as
is it is student initiated and led it was a gray Wednesday and I was feeling nauseated I don't think I stayed through
the entire EV and have my grandmother take me home again while I was home in bed trying to recover s bought a car a
used little red Coupe I was feeling a little better that afternoon so I agreed to go to church s came to pick me up her
boyfriend C in the passenger seat their friend R in the back seat behind C I sat
behind s that took me a second RCS I was feeling sick again by the end of church oh I'm sorry that you're
feeling sick I hate feeling nauseated so I know you're not feeling sick in this moment hopefully but it makes me think
of feeling nause I'm like and like not being at home too like like having a car ride between go home so s took me home
first I remembered spending most of the long ride home with my face against the cold glass of the window trying to keep
from throwing up oh once home I went inside into my room to decompress and stay near the bathroom normally s would
have dropped me off last because we still tried to spend as much time as we could together but that was how it had
been in previous rides when she was using my grandmother's car because I was sick the order had changed
I was still awake when I heard my mother's panicked voice on the phone I came out to see what was going on S had
been in an accident she had gone to take our home after me his family was one of
the richest in town and his driveway was basically a private road it was also newly repaved and it had been raining
that day one tire of the car had slipped off the high edge of the driveway and S
had overcorrected trying to get it back on she drove off the other side then up a tree and the car fell backwards onto
its roof isn't that [ __ ] in the back seat R was conscious unharmed and able to get his seat belt
undone he escaped though through the shattered back windshield and ran home to get helped this was 2,000 remember
and even for Rich Kids cell phones weren't much of a thing our town is still in the middle of nowhere and ours
house was even further into nowhere so even if he'd had one there probably wouldn't have been much service help
came C had bro had a broken arm and some cuts from the glass s was short maybe 5T
tall and that saved her life oh I'm really glad to hear that cuz I was worried how this was turning out her
seat was pulled far enough forward that when the roof had crushed it also didn't
it didn't also Crush her head from what I was told she was technically dead for a minute or two but she made a full
recovery and didn't suffer any long-term effects isn't that crazy as for me obviously I wasn't in the car and that's
what saved my life when the car came down it landed directly on the part of the roof behind the driver had I been in
the car it would have been at my chest level I I've actually visited the wreckage at the body shop before they
took it off to be junked I was making sure none of s's stuff was left in it the window where I had been resting my
head minutes before the accident had been replaced by the metal of the roof line is if they had been in that car
they would be dead I have something watching out for me something that lends me strength that watches out for me when
the monsters are coming from inside the house and something that triggers my instinct to stay home when I need to
stay safe guardian angel Guardian spirit whatever you want to call it I've seen the effects and maybe even seen the
being itself so keep it weird but don't keep it so weird that you ignore a little gut feeling sent to keep you safe
I love a literal gut a literal gut feeling of making you sick that last paragraph though of like whatever you
believe guardian angel Guardian Spirit I've seen the effect right now I I can see why you were so easily thinking that
that that skinny man skinny was a guardian angel cuz before I was like that's a ghost but now I'm like maybe
that's what a cool Guardian Angel sometimes I wonder tall man in a Tweed suit right sometimes I wonder if the the
kid that I saw at mom papa is mine I've always wondered that that little Dobie cuz I feel like people like I don't know
if I would call it like a guardian angel or like a spirit guide I think I would more call it a spirit guide like I feel
like people get a set of Spirit guides that's just like my personal belief I like that I like that idea yeah I'm down
to think that right to to at least consider that have you ever seen a full-fledged ghost seen one I can't I
don't know because I with sleep paralysis oh I I don't know if I've seen something or if it's been sleep
paralysis and definitely seen things out of the corner of my eye and I've felt things and I feel like I've maybe seen
something not fully though like not like looking directly at it thing yeah and if
I have then I assume it's sleep paralysis the only time I ever saw like full-fledged beings was one the [ __ ]
Viking people messing with your computer and I stand by that story today I can still see them I mean I'm pretty sure
there's Viking Blood in our ancestry somewhere so and your computer was maybe it's our ancestors coming back to be
like and then that [ __ ] kid in in the room yeah old timey newspaper boy looking kid little peaky blinders Little
D and I still see him like and I how old four or five maybe yeah you were young I
could draw him probably I mean but yeah I could I I could maybe I [ __ ] will maybe I might but yeah I don't know I I
want to and I feel like the reason I was able to see those like beings or whatever they are full bodied was
because I was so young and you don't have the like much more open to yeah you're not closed off but I feel open
still and I want to see something I mean maybe that's why my youngest saw skeletone probably I love skeletone and
the girls the older girls saw the the terrifying people with the scissorsing but I don't know I think maybe it's it's
a kid thing but I'm so not ready to like have kids someday and have them see some
[ __ ] and have to be the one responsible so experience you really learn about yourself in that moment right I learn
about you and your partner in that moment you're both oh Drew will be across the continent just nope bye when
the scissors thing John literally looked at me and he was like tag your in like he was just like I don't know what to do
with honestly I'll take the Super I I'll take the supernatural [ __ ] and I'll take
throw up those two things I can handle hey good I'm I will take one out of the two of those I mean I'll take two out of
the two of those cuz you got to yeah it's just the way I don't like to take one of those things yeah I don't I'm not
like hoping to but you just end up having to to do it yeah it's just is talking about kids kids kids Man kids
man well kids have moms sometimes W that was a really good one though it was so good that was very interesting yeah I
totally think you saw your guardian angel Nick sorry I didn't want to call you the wrong name what did you say I
was like Nick sorry I didn't want to call you the wrong name I was like TS no you were Nick thank you Nick C I was
going to transition by saying kids have moms sometimes and this next one is called my mom used your my mom used your
podcast to haunt me I'm intrigued and I said what what and then this one had such a beautiful surprise at the end of
it that I quite literally almost cried I love that okay hey you spooky wonderful
ladies my name is bunny yes you can say it hell you can scream it from the rooftops bunny I love that name I love
that name too and just a side note I have been listening to Bunny's podcast dumb blonde if you're not listening to
dumb blonde you're dumb she has some Fascinating People on fascinating yes I been flying through episodes she had
like all the mob wives on she had Alana um pumpkin and Honey Boo Boo on like that was she gets guests that are right
up by Alle she had Bam Margera on yeah she had B and I was like whoa jwow she gets like really good guests and it's
just like an it's an interesting conversation when she had like she really knows how to have a conversation
and with anyone it doesn't feel like a cuz it's it's not like a formal interview but it's very much an
interview but it doesn't feel interview no it feels like she's just having a conversation yeah she seems very down to
earth and I really like her yeah so go listen to Dum blonde all right well this bunny though says maybe I'll uh be able
to hear you since I also hail from the great masach CH M CH I like that I love that of course I need to start this off
with the obligatory fan girl gushing I found your podcast when you were 12 Leagues Under 12 Leagues Under the Sea
an OG baby hell yeah and it has been so incredibly endearing to see you both grow and prosper in this life a Elena
you have written a whole damn book thank you I'm so excited for book two thanks plug where you can deal it uh deal it
plug where you can buy it oh you can buy it uh go to the butcher game.com and you
can get all the the links to get it anywhere it's like everywhere Target Walmart Amazon pre Barnes & Noble book
Little Indie bookstores go go get we're getting so much closer to September and you don't want to be caught in September
without the butcher game cuz maybe you'll get it like a day or sometimes that happens when you
pre-order I can't guarantee it but I'm just saying like sometimes that happens that's fun which is always a fun
surprise and either way you'll get it on the day exactly so do it she's yeah do it she said you've also dealt with great
loss but you are prospering and absolutely [ __ ] killing it oh thank you very much Ash you uh you beautiful
spooky gal you found your Forever person and you by the time you read this got married you're a whole damn wifey for
Lifey now wifey for Lifey thank you you both are so incredibly inspiring and talent and talented I will always tell
people to go and listen to morbid a than thank you so much now this might be a long Tale But I hope you find it to be a
fun ride I attached a double space 14o puaa for your viewing pleasure I do apologize for any grammar or spelling
mistakes my brain works faster than my fingers no need to apologize not at all my mother Denise you can Absol
absolutely new hello hello hello you can also use her name she absolutely would have loved it unexpectedly died at the
end of January in 2023 I'm s so sorry bunny it truly destroyed my entire world I was a new mom at the time having had
my daughter 6 months before in August and my dog Gaia passed away 3 months before jeez if a dog was a soulmate he
she was mine and I feel like dogs can be soulmates oh 100% my mom and I were like
oil and water when I was a teenager but as adults we grew so close together she was my best friend she was so incredibly
motivated to better herself and her life she was so excited for life again she had truly found her spark so it hit my
it truly hit my family hard oh that's awful let's go back a couple years ago I showed my mom your podcast and she was
enthralled oh my mom loved all things True Crime spooky [ __ ] and loved a cult story we were listening to your
Bridgewater Triangle episode that was so fun right seeing I live in is it the Copa cut I think so yeah so seeing I
live in the Copa cut Woods which is part of it and that's how she ended up listening to every episode she had
untreated ADHD and you were her hyper fixation she even wrote in once oh my my God which we have yay I well I didn't
even find it you included it so thank you buny but on this particular summer day we were painting her apartment and
we were listening to the Richard Ramirez episode she physically gagged every time
his Sten or how gross of a human human being he had been was mentioned I didn't know my mom had the weak constitution of
a Victorian Dandy of a Victorian Dandy that is an amazing way wow I know so many people that have the constitution
of vict and dandy me too so many people uh-huh lots and lots of people that we interact with on a daily basis that have
the constitution of a Victorian Dandy yeah [ __ ] Victorian Dand is all right but anyway I couldn't stop laughing at
her I love that it was honestly the weirdest happiest memory I shared with her now we will go back to January 2023
and it's the Dreadful day I need to go through her apartment and all her little personal things the things that made it
real I walked into her apartment which no one was in besides me and I hear your podcast playing through her portable
speaker but the thing is her phone was in my house about 5 miles away and my phone was off so nothing could be
connected to that speaker I listen closely and it's the same episode that was playing the day we were painting
that room I am chilling all over my entire body now I got WS it's like right I was absolutely stunned but my mama
definitely had a flare for the dramatic so why wouldn't she choose that one that's amazing a few nights later my
husband was at work and I was sitting on the couch with my daughter in the living
room and across the room is my daughter's Nursery side note about my house as my husband is a bougie [ __ ]
and needs to have the fancy Alexa controlled light bulbs in every room oh John wants to do that so bad you should
those are cool they're fun my daughter and I were watching some movie really at 6 months old she wasn't watching just me
the lights in her room start flashing on and off for about 10 times in that moment found out my fight ORF flight
response is to freeze oh you too that's mine yeah that's sh I just go and then I
stay in place I would be the first to die in a horror movie I know I know me too me too
well we'll die together girl but I nervously ask out loud mom if that's you please stop you're scaring me and it
stops immediately that's your mama and she's like I'm not trying to scare you I'm sorry occasional occasionally my
daughter's motion activated toys would go off but that did come to an end one night when I was in bed before my
husband and I got the biggest wave of warmth in her signature perfume filled my nose I remember muttering I love you
Mama good night okay that just like made me choke down a sub yeah there's tears in Elena's eyes right now damn and I
drifted off into dreams of Starlight it's been quiet for a few months now but here and there I'll get little hints of
her saying hi and they are always welcome a side note the night my mom passed I went to bed I don't know how
long I laid there but I remember feeling the cold wet Boop of a dog nose on my face the Boop of a dog nose and a little
nudge the same way guia would always wake me up in the morning I think my girl knew how much I needed her in that
moment thank you uh lovely ladies for reading my tale attached was the email my mom had written I found when I had to
go through her things I'm not really good at goodbyes so I'll just say see you later but now obsessed with this her
mom's listener tale which is Denise's listener tale Denise so Denise says let me start out by saying you ladies are
wicked awesome you're Wicked awesome Denise I know the stories you tell the cases you cover are dark and fascinating
I was binge listening to listener Tales while cleaning my apartment and reorganizing when one of the stories Hit
me hard and I realized I'm not alone in my situation let me explain I was adopted when I was four My adoptive
parents weren't any better than the abusive alcoholic egg donor that gave me up oh that's awful the apartment we
lived in at the time of the adoption was on the third floor of a three family home with a huge backyard and a massive
tree in the back I had recurring nightmares of being kidnapped by a massive vulture and not having a voice
to scream for help fast forward to 1989 I was 17 working as a cashier and enjoying life hanging out with my
friends being single basically Carefree this is around the time I met my first serious boyfriend we were dating for a
bit when we decided to move in together I was in charge of finding our apartment
so I set out to look into uh I set out to look and in my journey I walked down the street where my first home was I
wanted to see the house and see if it still gave me the heebie gbes I got no vibes from the house and chocked it up
to overactive imagination in my childhood I turned around and found an apartment for rent sign on the house
directly across the street from my childhood home wa long story short we took the apartment a few months later my
adopted father passed away the same night he came to visit me I was asleep in my bed next to my boyfriend sleeping
when I heard him calling me he wasn't quiet about it either he made sure I heard him and woke up he was yelling
that I did this to him I made him suffer I was supposed to never tell anyone what
he did oh I tried waking up the boyfriend but he wouldn't wake up my quote unquote father told me he wouldn't
be able to help me so don't bother trying to wake him up I told this piece of [ __ ] get out of my house and the
fight ended I was pissed and yes scared because what the [ __ ] was he doing in my
house at 2: a.m. the next day after work I met my cousin Michael at the mall like
usual cuz that's what 17-year-olds did back then and he told me he was sorry about my father I asked him what he was
talking about and he told me at 6:30 the previous night he had a massive heart attack and died what the [ __ ] so when
she had that experience she didn't she thought that her dad just came into her house and was yelling at her not that he
was dead what the [ __ ] I sat there for a bit and replayed the previous night over
in my head and oh my God it hit me like a brick to the chest it was his spirit I
told my cousin about my experience and he got chills I have full chills I do too we sat and talked about the
situation and how much my quote unquote father hated me for outing his dark secret and yes it almost ruined his life
so he wasn't going to go to hell without letting letting me know first wow isn't
that just like [ __ ] haunting [ __ ] Flash Forward to 2006 my husband and I were living in a Tiny Town 20 minute
drive away from his mom and stepfather my mother-in-law was in very poor health for a very long time so we would go
visit her often she took a liking to me because I made her favorite child happy she would call us on our birthdays at
12:01 and sing Happy Birthday to us over the phone she was a great woman who loved hummingbirds and lilacs a I know
she sounds so sweet and I'm glad you had that experience with your husband's parents I know up in the mountains of
Upstate New York when trees knock out the power it could take days before you get it back so you better have a
generator my mother-in-law did it would kick on automatically when they lost power which happened a lot she was on
oxygen and the Machine wouldn't work without power oh that's so scary I know one night a wicked bad storm came
through and unfortunately the generator did not kick on and my mother-in-law passed away we got a call the next
morning from my father-in-law that something was wrong with Mom and we needed to come quick after after we got
there we checked for a pulse and called 9911 they investigated and sent us home I fell asleep on the couch that night
and started smelling Lila oh and that's such a distinct scent it is half in and half out of sleep my mother-in-law
leaned over the couch and told me make sure you take care of my baby oh I told her I would opened my eyes and she was
gone fast forward to 2013 I moved to Massachusetts and took a job bar tending my career of choice for close to 25
years hell yeah Denise in a private club that was said to be haunted which I'm like I want to know what this is you got
to tell me bunny right back to us bunny tell us during my job interview that was
actually a question they asked if I was afraid of ghosts I told them I don't bother them they don't bother me I was
told the ghost was a previous owner from way long ago when the now private club was a brothel cool huh oo I love those
kind of Tales the of times long ago I do too so the backstory is and this is a [ __ ] awesome backstory it's crazy but
it's like whoa the back story is the brothel owner Eda caught her husband with one of the working girls and killed
him by running him over and now she's stuck there whoa Eda now every time I started to shift I would say good
morning Eda and my boss thought I was nuts but it kept her happy cuz she never bothered me she did bother others yeah
see you were just like no judgment Eda I'm just I'm just coming to work good morning once the guys at the bar were
talking [ __ ] about AA and the bottle Shook on the shelves I quickly told them stop they were pissing her off oh yeah I
had only been in Massachusetts for a few weeks and was staying with family I was
again half asleep on the couch when I felt someone in the kitchen watching me I thought it was one of the family
members getting a drink so I looked in and saw a shadow move away it kept happening so I got pissed and said to
whomever it was either say something or go away well ladies this older man in a gray suit and a fedora sat on a coffee
table in front of me and said you'll be fine you're going to go through things you don't think you're surv you'll
survive but I promise you you will whoo I I asked him before he left who he was and he said to call him Fredo I chocked
it up to a dream until the next night one of the female patrons uh patrons was very into spiritualism and asked me if
Fred or Al meant anything to me I said no but she just stared at me and asked if I believed in spirits I told her but
of course why do you ask but of course she proceeded to tell me that I have one that follows me and protects me that's
why she asked about Fred or Al I said Alfredo Fredo for sure for short and she said that's make sense wow so I told her
about that night before and she wasn't shocked holy [ __ ] and that's not like a
regular name go hear that all the time exactly fast forward again to August 2021 my boyfriend Ernie passed away
suddenly and I was heartbroken I tried to give him CPR but he was already gone oh man the night he pass had gone
through stuff I know you guys have gone through a lot the night he passed I wouldn't come into my apartment until
the next morning I spent the next day taking care of things making calls and because he was so loved everyone was
stopping by and checking on me I finally went to bed around 10:30 I had my phone
next to me like always and before I fell asleep his text message tone unique to Ernie only went off I smiled and said
good night baby that was his way of letting me know he was here now it's January and I'm slowly moving ahead with
life I got really good news from my daughter and came home and told him this wonderful news I have his ashes a that
night I felt the bed sink in next to me and at first I was freaked the [ __ ] out
I was frozen In Fear And I asked no to nobody in particular what the [ __ ] are you doing and then I realized who it was
it was Ernie he was a big dude he was 275 when he died told me congratulations and he was there cuz he missed sleeping
with me I was a bit rude and reminded him that he was dead but I didn't want him to go hey you're dead hey excuse me
you're dead I tried waking up a few times but I was having such great dreams about him with my daughter and me
spending time together and laughing and joking he passed before my daughter's wedding which was in October and he had
been all jazzed about doing the low dance he even practiced at work and got caught
by his friend stop I love that I'm obsessed so needless to say I know he's still here and when I least expect it or
don't know I I need him he'll show up so ladies this is why I'm haunted I don't mind it anymore and take it as it comes
feel free to shorten this up if you decide to use it I will continue to listen to your
podcast because you guys keep me in stitches I owe finding your podcast to my daughter who also loves The Listener
tales as much as I do thanks again ladies thanks ladies again keep up the great work and keep it weird Denise
Denise I felt like that one was so special oh that was like so special yeah and thank you bunny for sending both of
those in oh bunny that was great and like as soon as I I that one caught my attention cuz like my mom used your
podcast to haunt me I was like what what and then when I read through bunnies I was like oh my God that's such a fun
story and then to find Denise's at the bottom that's that's something El that's special like we've never had a tale like
that and bunny I love that bunny had Denise who sounds like such a hot [ __ ] and such a cool mom and then also Ernie
it sounds like you were close to Ernie and like I'm sorry that they're both not here anymore but I'm really glad that
you had that even I'm glad you had that and it sounds like even though they're not here here they're here're you know
like I feel like Ernie and your mom will come through more and more and reading that now like the M Denise's listener t
I'm like oh that's definitely Denise doing all that stuff cuz I'm like she's like oh I get to do it now like let's go
like you know oh Denise how special is that Denise and bunny that was that was a great one right like that was a really
great one that was a find I loved that and I love that you both love listener tale I know thank you we would do more
if we could uh so the last one that I'll read is called listener tale my deceased
Grandma's like hi I'm still here dummy hey Ash Elena my name is men and first of all love your podcast my sister
I want to make so Karin oh that's like a cool way of spelling that it is k o r i
n I like that right intro yeah that's really cool introduce me and we've always loved all things spooky Ghostly
murdery and our Halloween obsess I quit my corporate job in 2021 to pursue my artistic plant passions so I listen to
you guys constantly while running all things for resting plant face what a great name for a company amazing thank
you for keeping me a breast of all things spooky spooky and feeding my True Crime ghostly fix each week all right
now here's the puaa attached with stories of Grandma Josephine and the pictures of Grandma Josephine baddest be
oh Grandma Josephine a queen a literal Queen and look at the wedding picture I'm pretty I like I'm obsessed with this
St all these pictures are amazing is this you I love me you are all amazing oh yeah um me is obsessed with Halloween
and these are all her Halloween costumes Top Notch the prince one top [ __ ] on the Shelf is both
amazing and horrifying all at once Mas like I you really killed it these are incredible all right let's begin a
little background since I was a wee little girl I've been very sensitive to the Paranormal runs in the family but as
a child I didn't really talk about it cut to now I realized I'm an intuitive dreamer and have dreams with messages
from the dead or I'm helping the Dead and dreams with premonitions and a whole lot of other crazy [ __ ] I'm working now
to accept and expand my gifts as I'm no longer afraid Isn't that cool I love that okay
here's the goods my grandmother passed away suddenly in her sleep at the age of 67 on May 15th 1992 when I was 5
although I was young I'd cry for her often when I felt alone sad scared which unfortunately was a lot when I was a kid
oh that like breaks my heart to hear that but yay therapy for working through through that I just felt so connected to
her even though she was only in my life a short time I was also so afraid of the
dark would always cover my mirror before bed and had unexplainable experiences but also super afraid SL intrigued with
the Paranormal just a normal weirdo kid skipped to college me 2005 to 2009 I found myself in a physically and
emotionally abusive relationship I'm sorry I know me too during the super dark period I would see a ton of red
Cardinals like a [ __ ] ton from flying past my wind Shield while I was driving one physically hitting my rearview
mirror while I sat in a parked car wood cutouts of them randomly like they were everywhere it became a family joke
because I would see them that often however at the time I didn't understand the significance and red Cardinals are
super symbolic yeah aren't they supposed to be like it's a loved one yeah uh in 2009 I was about to graduate college and
was still in this horribly abuse of relationship among other things he would tear me down about the fact that I was
in college he'd always say i' always be in debt suck a dick bag I paid my school
loans off four years ago [ __ ] yeah you did me hell yeah and I was wasting my time in school so you could imagine the
joy of graduation was gone and I was just mostly beat down about it it sucks because when you're in that obviously
like you're of course like soaking in what they're saying and like it hurts but people like that say [ __ ] like that
to successful people because they're upset that they didn't do [ __ ] with their life and that they're not
successful 100% they're threatened and they want to see it affect because they toce yeah and they want they it makes
them feel like they achieved something cuz they'll never achieve anything of importance or significance so they have
to by making you sad or feel less than so [ __ ] you dick bag yeah [ __ ] you dick
bag we hate you it was the week before graduation on Mother's Day weekend at the time my family had this tradition
where we go to my grandmother's grave on Mother's Day weekend to say hi and just
talk to her she passed away around Mother's Day and my mom did not get to see her before she passed suddenly so
going around this time was super important for my mom that day in my head I told Grandma at her grave I wish she
was here to see me graduate and if she could send me a sign to let me know she was watching over me boy did she ever
the day before my graduation there was a religious ceremony at the University at
the time I was in the thick of organized religion ick that's I did not say that the was WR saying that's her personal
feelings nothing out of the ordinary happened and the day um and the next day to my knowledge I graduated and had a
lunch to celebrate I was so emotional that day self-worth was low and I remember just feeling so down that night
even though I had just accomplished this great thing later that night my mom calls me and says hey so I didn't want
to make you sad earlier but did you recognize the Bible verse on the program from the borate ceremony I had no idea
what she was referring to she says the program had the verse from your grandmother's Tombstone on it and today
is the anniversary of her death May 15th the the verse was from was one from Isaiah I have called you by name you are
mine I immediately started to cry and told my mom I had asked Grandma to Give Me A Sign she was still here with me
while at her grave this was my sign and I almost missed it of all the Bible vers
is in the entire world like what and like just like the even the words in that one like I've called you by my name
you are mine and the fact that's that's the thing and the fact of all of them in
the world the one that's on her tombstone right and the that she passed away on the anniversary of her death
like you can't just let that go yeah a lot of times I just feel like there's no such thing as coincidence definitely not
like that cut to present day and Grandma still gives me signs when I need them sorry I had a hiccup the last one was
when I decided to quit my professional dance career and was just doing a standard cry in the shower about it the
lights flickered while I was ugly crying in the shower and for some reason I was
like hi Grandma but also freaked out because I was home alone the next day I'm on Google Maps trying to find a
halfway location point to interview someone for a job on my team at the time my grandparents house happened to be in
the city that was the in between point between Dallas and Fort Worth where we were to meet I plopped the little yellow
guy on the map in a random spot to see if I could find a coffee shop to my surprise the street view was in the
middle of the cemetery where my grandmother is buried no come on come on I had to call my mom to confirm the name
of the cemetery and it was it was just another sign that she was here with me while I was going through a tough time
that's Bonkers isn't that crazy all of those things flick together I've since talked to a medium and she told me my
grandma is one of my Spirit guides the medium gave me a specific situation that I had alone in my bedroom where I was
watching this emotional ass music video where a woman had dementia and was lump in throat crying she said my grandma was
there and that I shouldn't worry about that like this was a private moment alone I had not talked about it the
medium said it was a way to prove my grandma is always with me the medium also told me that birds were another way
she was showing up a hem Cardinals I'm sure she was like get out of that relationship idiot lastly the medium
also told me my grandma says that I shouldn't smoke the devil's lettuce IR roll I love that she's like guiding you
through all these hard times and showing up when she needs and she's also like stop smoking weed down the weed come on
theil's lettuce and I love that everything else you're like oh my God Grandma of course that when you're like
I roll okay Grandma all right anywh who I have so much comfort knowing grandma has always been with me working through
these difficult times that must feel very comforting actually absolutely I also want to point out that if you do
want to connect with loved ones that have passed you just have to ask and pay attention to the signs I love that y
I'll write back someday to tell you some other spooky Tales I've had the little dead girl saying hi or the time I lived
in a haunted house guys you got to send these I want these you guys can send them all in one p a if you feel like it
like if it's not overwhelming to write all of that at once we're for it yeah I'm attaching a few things pick of
beautiful grandmother Josephine she is gorgeous a queen and she just looks like a hot [ __ ] she looks like a hot [ __ ]
yeah she's slay yeah her gravestone with the verse and my program with the same verse and some of my past Halloween
costumes because I go all the way out love y'all Menin men I love all these these pictures of
Grandma Josephine are like they're the most classic like 40s yes pin upy beautiful gal and she's just smiling and
all of them like so happy the wedding picture in particular she just looks so happy I love it I love it and I'm pretty
sure your grandpa is or like whoever she married is winking in the picture say he's winking in the picture and when I
got tell you guys that me does Halloween correctly oh my God me does Halloween correctly parties for Halloween she goes
all the way off truly I love it all the way off love love love wow these I love these listener Tales so much they were
all like symbol handpick these I did I love a guardian angel I had a moment yesterday I texted
I was like stressed out about everything in life and that we're always stressed out about that we're constantly stressed
out about yep and also my armpit was swollen so that was scary but it turns out that I just have an infected hair
follicle isn't that super cute yum um but I was like oh no what does this mean and I was leaving Elena's house and I
coll I don't know if you heard me scream no I didn't I collided with the largest
dragonfly I've ever seen I saw that dragonfly after you left it hung around okay and the dogs were trying to eat it
out of the air I'm glad they didn't cuz I think I knew that dragonfly and I like
I'm not kidding you I collided with it like it like skitted across my fingers like I feel like it was trying to get my
attention and I just said to like somebody that has passed away in my life like hey if that was you like I love you
like thank you and I was like in my head kind of doubting myself like who knows if that person that I love is like
representing themselves by colliding into me as a dragonfly sounds a little crazy when you we it like that and then
I'm pulling out of the street and I pull behind a car with the license plate 888
which is like an angel number so hello hello and I just I I felt comforted and it was it was during a moment where you
needed to be com and during a moment where that particular person like knew the situation and like knew how much I hate
doing certain things and you know being wrapped up with certain things things and they were always there for me
through that see I love that yeah exactly and I believe I I think that too I think it was that person I was and I I
just like immediate cuz that's the thing like I immediately was like all right I'm good and it was like such an
inexplicable feeling of just like cuz I was so dressed and then it was just like
vom and that's when you know like something has shifted yeah yeah and it was funny cuz I got home and Drew was
like I was actually thinking of that person today like that's funny oh that's so funny yeah I love that so I totally
believe in all that stuff and I [ __ ] love it and they were just beautiful Tales they were gorgeous Tails I loved
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Weirdos! It's Listener Tales, and you know what THAT means! it's brought to you BY you, For you, FROM you, and ALLLLL about you! Today, it's Ash's pick and we've got a batch of tales about signs! We have deceased matchmakers, a traumatic birthday, a story about gut feelings, Ghosts that use MORBID to haunt their loved ones, and a grandmother who sends signs for her granddaughter to stop smoking the devils lettuce.

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Brief Summary

Listeners share emotional tales of spiritual connections and personal loss, highlighting the influence of deceased loved ones in their lives.

Key points

Suspended Animation. A conversation about feeling stuck in life and waiting for change.
Divine Intervention. A listener shares a story about a significant dream involving a deceased grandparent.
Listener Tale: Cupid's Grandpa. A listener recounts a story of their grandpa's spirit guiding their relationship.
Miss Ivy's Tragic Fate. A beloved figure in the narrator's life is found dead on their birthday.
A Heartbreaking Bond. The narrator reflects on the special relationship with Miss Ivy.
The Guardian Angel. A miraculous moment where the narrator saves themselves from a falling TV.

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