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hey weirdos I'm Elena and I'm Ash and this is d [Music] ma what would it be backwards hold M RB
a this is diom this is Di [Music] welcome to diom diom this is uh this is different it's
we switch places you know it's uh Manic Monday instead of Freaky Friday yeah it's nuts Monday it's
nut oh this is uncomfortable we hate it um everyone around us has different opinions everyone around us hates it my
daughter would not speak to us she would not and I was like you love us as each as like who we are I walked downstairs
and my dog and uh Sydney barked and growled at me and ran at me like who are you Intruder walking into my house cuz I
don't let's be honest I you don't look like me I don't look like ash um I look various
things I you look like a lot of things I do I look like I've caused a lot of issues you look you look like you stay
causing issues I REM what' you say I remain causing issues I don't know what I look like but
it's not you you just look like you just look chill I mean you're pretty chill and with a widows I drew this on draw on
widow's PE that like didn't come with one I said oh wait the missing piece we need a Widow's Peak I have a gos shirt a
GH shirt for Ghost and it's pink so it has a little bit as little Sparkle Ash there's nothing of alinaa in this get up
Ash even put bronzer on me of for the first time I've never worn bronzer I don't have any bronzer on right now and
I feel naked I didn't overline my lips Noe I did you did you actually look great with an overlined lip oh my God
thank you you're welcome um oh we forgot to put long nails on Elena we did [Music]
all right we're back we said if you're not wearing Nails then you're not doing drag and we're doing drag today
honey although my nails have never looked like that thank you and if they fall off I go immediately to my boy heli
nail ninja we're just going to let it go today just going to let it go today you
know sometimes you got to work through it all right well it's a take time off to remove Nails no I never do now you
can't do it I only when I take my day off it's listener Tales it's brought you by you for you from you and all about
you I probably should have said that but I don't remember that that's okay so I I
can't do it I can't be Ash you know what few can who can you know just me yeah but we have listener Tales today just
fixing you are like me today you're getting distracted yeah I'm getting to see I'm like you have to find something
to fiddle with forti I will don't you worry so should I start um Ash or should you Elena go ahead I hate it I hate it
so start all right start are you going to do my hair flip hold on no don't reveal conceal don't
reveal don't let them [Laughter] know okay hold on oh the her orphy is hering we do a little one just a little
one mine is not that dramatic it's more dramatic no it's not bring down a little
bit all right you've never flipped your weave off so I haven't ever F we I'm crying I'm
literally crying but that's because I'm an empath all right this one is oh by the
way marry Chrysler and happy uh oh wait you wouldn't say that I'm mer chras happy U happy U there you go happy U is
what Ela would say I hope your holidays have been so gorgeous I hope you're all so
gorgeous that really is a me say what I what do I say I feel like I would just say [ __ ]
[Laughter] you I'm crying I'm literally crying what things do you say that's about it
covered it leave hold on I'm I'm St I'm literally crying what other things do you say [ __ ]
you I think you covered it that R the gamut wait wait wait Tobias come on the show oh that
too okay okay okay oh my God I'm literally crying lit have tears in my eyes I do too oh oh
this is an unhinged one everybody that's what it's supposed to be all right so like we said hope your holidays were
gorgeous [ __ ] you this one says Sarah thean the boogan something like that the ban the Bogan no
it's boo banan it's Ian or I in it's both like it's like buen buan buen bout it's lost
all meeting never had one in the beginning going to say I didn't know what anyway lost oh not another nail you
got to go see hel so to start off this story I have to give some background on my great grandma B she was a very quiet
person who kept to herself a lot when she did talk it was usually to ask a question criticize something or talk
about what she called the boans bans well however you spell it that's what she called ghosts oh I like that okay
she had a lot of encounters with ghosts in her lifetime most I can't remember because I was young and she rarely spoke
one encounter I do remember was when she was in the hospital Hospital a man came
to her bed and told her it's not your time yet now a little background of the ghosting question here Sarah I grew up
in a haunted house there were certain rooms that would just creep us out and we'd feel something in them same
relatable yeah my house used to be a doctor's office where autopsies were performed and is over a hundred years
old so that may play a part in it that's so cool maybe I don't remember this too
well but when I was very little my parents would find me in my room seemingly by myself and when asked what
I was doing I would say I'm playing with Sarah she seemed friendly and other family members had seen her on occasion
as well one of the most notable was when my mom came home when the house was empty and saw a little girl staring out
the window of one of the rooms that gave us the creeps my oldest brother saw her
and may have used to play with her as well but I don't quite remember this happened on Christmas when I was very
little I used to sleep in my brother's room for Christmas Eve in this particular Christmas Grandma B was to
sleep on a cot in that room as well as well as she was staying over for the holiday now I overheard my parents
talking about Grandma bee staying over and they had to use the phrase sleeps with her eyes open to indicate that she
was a light sleeper little me had no idea what that meant and in my mind I was shocked taking it very literally
like she's just laying there like How could somebody sleep with their eyes open so I decided that night
Christmas night I was going to see for myself I stayed up in my brother's top bunk quietly waiting for for patiently
and quietly waiting for Grandma be to fall asleep then I snuck down the ladder to have a peek I stood over my grandma
be to see if she really did sleep with her eyes open Grandma be my grandma be did I say that intense no but it just
sounds like that Grandma be Grandma be her eyes were closed as I was looking and then suddenly shot open I absolutely
booked it out of the room and into the bathroom to hide as I was frightened being caught standing over her after a
while hiding in the bathroom I went back back to bed and fell asleep the next morning she told everyone that she had
seen Sarah the boan standing over her that night Sarah thean Sarah thean I kept silent but years after she
continued to tell that story and I kept my secret until she passed away probably
almost 20 years later I finally told my family and everybody was shocked and very amused that I was the ghost my
Grandma had seen that night thean thean I love it I like that I like that short sweetened to the point that is and
that's very that's very Christmas that is so Christmasy Christmas ghost story where it's like I'm the boan it's
Christmas Tom Foolery I think I feel like bgan is a is a thing like that's a thing that they do call Spirits I think
Bans are brutish hairy orc quag crossbreed sometimes known as Spider Killers you know what I was about to say
that huh but then I didn't want to come off as a know at all you know I know usually that's my
job it is the bans is also a movie it's Ian oh but they're like yucky and then in the trolls movie there's bogans there
are bogans that's why I thought you were talking about bogans I like the bogans the bogans the bogans your turn Ash so
Ash's turn and it's GNA be listener toow can i ph a friend listener TS Christmas
edition Christmas and it says attached you will find a puaa of my Christmas edition listener Tales I hope you enjoy
I will who knows I right it says hello my spooky obsessed friends love you and your podcast so much I love you thank
you I don't know if I can say your name yet so I'm not going to say it don't say
it yet all of the congratulations on all of the things marriages new and old kids
cats books giving me nightmares for a week Etc thanks for all that the last is not an easy thing to do so truly
congrats how you may ask was it the John Wayne gasy episodes no how about a spooky Road also no Dennis Raider hell
no the scariest thing about that ass hat is his hair line that's true what then that failed pirate Carl [ __ ] pans Ram
no he was creepy he was crazy yeah can't put my finger on why he tripped the night terror switch however I did not
sleep for several nights thank you he was a wild one so I get that one no he really was that's that's valid he's an
underrated scary one for sure my name is Leanne go ahead and use it see there you
go today I'm offering you you an example of my dad's questionable parenting choices in the form of a listener Tale
Christmas edition let's get after it this is the story of when my dad had my sister and I get pizza delivered to a
murder scene first a bit of context of how my dad just is he and our mom split when my sister and I were very young and
my dad never remarried so his gauge on all things child related can be far from standard at times not in an abusive way
more of a they are clean and Alive therefore therefore they are just fine kind of way it's kind of like um the guy
the doad and overboard exactly just like you know it's fine our mom moved to the
Midwest and we spent our lives flying between the two dad in California mom in Indiana Michigan oh that must have been
so interesting CU you're seeing like totally different areas and flying that much it's Christmas Eve 1991 I was 11
and my sister was about to turned 13 at this time in his 20 years with the sheriff's department as a patrol officer
that you buried the lead there you really did really did cuz when you said to a murder scene get pizza delivered to
a murder scene I was like did your dad murder someone and then call you to bring pizza that's explains it this
explains it now know my dad worked days aka the worst six months of his working life who works days it is the absolute
worst thing ever both quotes my dad firmly stands by to this day I kind of get that I know I get that so it's
around lunchtime and my older sister and I are sitting around the house most likely watching absolute trash TV
because while there was never food in the house we had all the cable channels we were waiting for our dad to get off
work to take us to our family's yearly Christmas party when the phone rings it's our dad and he needs us to do him a
favor now this is very odd because no matter his work shift hours whenever he needed something from us he would just
swing by the house because we lived in his Patrol area side note this meant it was also okay to leave his two kids home
alone while working graveyard ship because quote if anything happens I will be the first to know we live in my
patrol area I mean and then it says questionable parents valid valid questionable yeah
valid all at the same time so Dad is on the phone and has a task for us to complete and we must follow his
instructions exactly as they are given to us these instructions were as follows call the pizza Hutton Lakeside ask for
the manager explain we are the daughters of one of the officers that just hauled
ass out of the restaurant request for delivery to the following address don't actually remember it so let's just say 1
2 3 4 crazy Street in East County San Diego stress the fact that whomever delivers the pizza is not to pass the
first Patrol block car on the Block under any circumstances that part was extremely important I love that in all
this time he called you guys to reiterate that information he could have just called the pizza people himself yep
now at this point my sister and I are following these instructions to the very letter as this whole situation is
freaking us out big time everything about it was just off and strange an hour maybe two go by and dad calls again
pissed he said he gave us specific instructions and they needed to be followed and they were not oh now he has
a quote unquote mess to deal with and doesn't need this today now we're not only confused but we're also scared our
dad only yelled at us if we broke something while fighting in the house so getting chewed out by him was not
standard operating procedure we continue to wait for our dad to get home all well
trying to figure out what the hell is going on several more hours go by finally our dad gets home from work and
apologizes to us saying he's sorry for yelling that's good parenting that is good parenting that he stopped by the
Pizza Hut prior to coming home and spoke with the manager and that she told him we did fall follow his exact
instructions and that she is very sorry her dumbass employee can't simple follow
simple instructions all right the specific instruction of not to go past the first patrol car why was this
important you might ask Well turns out the delivery address was a few doors down from a murder scene uh so this is
what went down on this Christmas Eve 1991 also this is the most early '90s parenting ever truly while sitting down
for lunch A call came out over the radio of shots fired man down this is when my
dad and his fellow Patrol officers on duty ran out of the restaurant to get to the scene once they arrive they find out
that two tweaked out people had been fighting out front of one of the houses on crazy Street at some point person a
went into his house and left person B outside in the yard person B was not done fighting he was he was like he said
I'm ready to go he said I still got energy and found something to stand on to look through a front window of person
A's house where he was met with a shotgun blast straight to the face oh my God holy [ __ ] yikes fell straight back
into the yard missing most of his head and face human debris all over the front yard why the upset phone call you may
ask well the delivery driver did not follow instructions walked right past the first patrol car under the yellow
tape and right up to my dad oh no when my dad sees him he asks in a very direct forceful manner what the [ __ ] do you
think you're doing get behind the tape now stupid delivery kid makes some joke about how word is this is a crime scene
and that someone might get shot might have got shot and my dad responded by saying yeah that guy right there and
pointed to the dead dude a few feet away I mean your dad is the most '90s don't be an idiot don't make a joke of a crime
scene unless you want to get scarred for life you just walked under a yellow tape
get out of here who do you think whatever you see is your own fault at this point like where was anybody
telling you no one's stopping you at this point the deliver driver almost dropped the pizza started screaming
throwing up and basically having a massive panic attack which is the thing our dad quote didn't have time for right
now in all fairness dumbass should have followed directions and what ass hat thinks it's okay to cross under yellow
crime scene tape because quote I want to see what's going on yeah my sister sat on the couch listening to this
explanation of things completely dumbfounded we could not believe that our dad a law enforcement officer had
his children get pizza delivered to a crime scene as if this is a 100% normal thing to do I have no words other than
Highly Questionable parenting keep it weird my dudes but not so weird you still want lunch while working a murder
scene and therefore have your kids get you delivery P.S it was pizza for all the law enforcement officers on scene
not just our dad they're a whole group of weirdos that I've known my whole entire life Lord help
us what a '90s t that was an amazing '90s tale I've never heard of a more '90s father that was great and I love
your dad oh man that's great I bet your dad is awesome yeah def I bet he like got as he got older he got awesome yeah
definitely all right my next one is listener tale holiday Hanukkah ghost it's a miracle just kidding it's a puaa
a miracle a miracle truly a miracle I know puas are a miracle they are all right so it says hi lovely ladies I
initially sent this back in April when I was new tier show and had just heard last year's holiday listener tale
episodes uh listener Tales episode since then I have become so much older and wiser and I'm therefore resending this
as a double spaced puao at um and at the appropriate time of year and I'm not going to apologize for the fact that
it's really long never see I've learned so much from you you have when you said you hadn't heard many Hanukkah related
ghost stories I knew I had to chime in by the way said this is my time to shine my time baby by the way hi my name is
Emma and you can use it because it would be so thrilling to hear it coming from your beautiful voices is that creepy no
Emma Emma Emma Emma Emma Emma Emma Emma Emma Emma Emma first I have to say that since April I
have listened to every episode and have become a hardcore follower thank you you
it's so nice to find such a badass couple or yeah it's so nice to find such a badass couple of women in this very
malale dominated genre yes thank you I mean oh my God thanks yes I especially appreciate your sisterly relationship
it's really at its peak today oh no it's really on on display it's on display every day I and it reminds me of my own
relationship with my younger brother as a historian I really value all the research you do to bring your stories
into life and Dave I was going to say shout out to Dave to Dave as a histo oh I was going to read the same thing as a
histori yeah just one more time I have to give a special shout out to the Lake shaie Amusement Park episode I love that
episode that was such a good episode whoa I haven't been that terrified since well my own ghostly experiences which I
am going to share with you right now hell yeah I am playing with my hair more than you ever would and I can't stop
should I be playing with mine obviously okay uh okay starting at the beginning I
grew up in a oh Queen an Victorian in San Francisco Wake Up San Francisco when my parents bought the house in the early
'90s I was eight my sister was four and my brother had just been born from the beginning my parents knew something was
up the realtor told them that the novelist who lived up the street none other than Danielle Steel whoa shut up
had just sent a ghost Hunter /p Paranormal Investigator to every house on our street for research for her new
book about ghosts that is wild I wonder which book in particular it was I don't know but what what a like what a life to
Le what a flex that is a flex they just knocking on doors being like ah so M steel down the road sent us to research
your house she'd like to know if your house is haunted damn that's great the realtor was thrilled to inform my
parents that ghost had in fact been found in their new house y one of the defining features of my parents house is
that it has a super long creepy hallway love it my mom and my brother's Nursery were on the opposite end of the long
hallway for my parents room oh no sorry my room and My Brother's Nursery were on
the opposite end um of the long hallway from my parents' room thanks Mom and Dad
and we were quick to discover that was the more haunted end of the house thanks thanks again Yik many of the standards
uh occurred in those early days you know lights flickering doors opening Elena I
know you can relate to all of the times as a teenager I literally said out loud okay ghost I need to sleep now please
stop opening my door I literally have said that before I was like I really got to get sleep after having to get up
three times yep as a child the sound of someone walking up and down the creaky hallway was unmistakable I would lie in
bed and listen to listen to the sound of someone slowly approaching my room from
the far end of the house yeah that's like when cuz I moved into Elena's room after she moved out and you could hear
the footsteps all night but going up the stairs so you would have this moment where you were like is it burglar or is
it the ghost to be killed you just never know no she was always the ghost yeah and it sounded like work boots yeah it
did like heavy work boots mhm some days my mom sister and I would remark about how the previous night had been
particularly noisy to the effect of did you hear the hallway last night oh yeah you did too did you hear the hallway was
bumping last night that hallway went crazy my dad was always the unbeliever don't worry we'll Circle back on that
one the most frightening thing I remember happening constantly as a young child though was when I was when I would
hear people putting dishes away in the kitchen oo about halfway down the hallway there was a banister to the
staircase that used to be the maid staircase or the back stairs to the kitchen I remember telling myself my
parents must be unloading the dishwasher even though it was late I would creep out of my room and peer over the
banister down into the kitchen to see all the lights off oh no nope no parents just oh and hearing the clanging of
dishes while the lights are pitch black yeah that's horrifying no makes me think
of the six sense yes oh that scene oh so freaky just some ghost dinner parties yeah when I went to college my little
brother took over my bedroom it's hilarious cuz I was just saying when you literally the same thing many years
later he was already when he was already in college himself I mentioned the putting away the dishes noises his face
went completely pale he said what I heard that all the time too I can't believe you never mentioned that to me
you guys got to talk more I know seriously that was some serious confirmation that it wasn't just the
fancies of Danielle Steel haunting me as a child no I'm sure you're dying to hear
about the Hanukkah part by now let's go as you have mentioned Elena our ghosts also like to join the party we saw way
more activity during and after big parties and of course Renovations oh yes you probably want to know what made my
dad a Believer I do I do I really do yeah we do it wasn't the Footsteps in the hallway or my door opening or the
dishes or the secret door in the wall of the basement excuse me bury the lead there sister girl what then in
parenthesis yep or finding whiskey bottles and newspapers from the early 1900s in the rafters during guess what
Renovations my God that must have been so cool so cool no it wasn't those things it was the Hanukkah party that
went on after we all went to bed it was a Han party after you went to bed I kind
of love that I love it well the end of the hallway where my bedroom was is still to this day for sure a hot spot
the dining room is the place that as children we always avoided and held our breath whenever we had to switch on or
off the lights huh it had the most haunted look as it had all the original mahogany wall paneling from the 19th
century oh my God I just felt like more were Rose in that moment oh I love that I need to see it please send a picture I
want to see it's the place also with the most ghostly Vibes love it it is obv where my parents hosted company so one
Hanukkah night I came into the city with some friends when I was in college at Berkeley and my mom made lot
keys for a group of about 10 to 15 people including some family friends some I have a burp I knew it was coming
so sorry I mean that's very me it's us that's very it's us something to know about my mom is that she's legally blind
so a she would deaf not have been putting dishes away in the dark at any point in my childhood and B she has a
very unique way unique way of checking to make sure all the candles are out at the end of the night my parents are very
fire cautious ours too this is very weird we weren't allowed to have candles like uh my mom your grand my grandmother
yeah they would not let us ever she she yeah so when we would all go up to bed if the manura was not done burning yet
you don't blow out those candles nuh-uh oh yeah my parents would put it in the sink to finish burning without you know
burning the house down oh that's pretty smart anyone else do this fellow Jews cuz that would scare me yeah leaving a
candle of any kind lit yeah I never even thought of that Debbie was saying that um her and Pat her husband uh used to
bet on which candle would go out first so they would they wouldn't go to bed at all they just wait for the candles to
burn out that makes sense I get that I know that's smart though the sink trick yeah the sink trick is very smart pretty
safe cuz if it falls it's in the sink like the sink's not going to light on fire I mean to my knowledge you're like
n water's right there yeah uh anyway point being my parents were very fire conscious and even after my dad checked
my mom would go around feeling the Wicks of the candles on the table with her fingers to make sure they were not only
out but not even hot anymore that is some badass mom and right there she's like I'm just going to I'm just going to
Palm the flame if there is one Palm the flame damn does she have fingertips anymore seriously so this night after
celebrating the miracle of fried food when my friends and I had gone back to college and my parents had long gone to
bed my dad you know the unbeliever was woken up around 2 or 3 by a tapping on the front door no also some fun news our
front door is 500 lb of 10t tall cast iron and glass I need photos of this house seriously that need G photos
photos photos I need them I need pictures I love it my dad described the noise as somebody tapping a fingernail
on the glass door repeatedly one of these one of these fingernail you say one of these got stuck to me that was
weird it's literally just a post it but I didn't like it anyway nail I know it felt it gave that don't shatter the
illusion it gave that Vibe uh um hi bye nope yeah that's how I feel he went down the front stairs and
heard it again then whipped his head around as he heard my mom's cell phone charging in the corner suddenly power
off o as he turned his head to the open door of the living room there was one candle in the middle of the dining room
table still lit and Illuminating the ghost Tonica dinner party I'm obsessed guess what my dad believes now around
the same time he was scanning photos for my Grandma's birthday slide show yes when scanning was a thing we did yeah
it's so funny cuz I thought you meant like looking oh my God like scanning a room uh and claims that a picture showed
up on the screen that was not on the scanner bed in fact no one had ever seen it before it was a picture of the dining
room with someone we don't know sitting in the chairs from a time before we owned the house shut the [ __ ] up I love
that that is terrifying I love that love I love that that was a literal ghost Hanukkah party in the middle of the
night yes like they were literally like hey hey just having a little party just show up that's incredible that's amazing
now between then and my uh latest story I met my husband while living in Albuquerque New Mexico we moved in
together into a uh rented gorgeous octagonal is that how you say octagonal OCT octagonal victorium because that's
something you can do as a graduate student in Albuquerque crazy cheap rent we thought it was so cool that they were
always shooting breaking bad right across the street am I dating myself yes I am hell yeah yes I'm 35 hi Elena hi
what's up you're a I mean I'm so I'm so young she's so old shut up oh excuse me [ __ ] you I told my then
boyfriend now husband about my experiences growing up in a haunted house and he was intrigued but like many
boyfriends before thought it was more of a funny story than a scary one yeah he had never had any scary scary Ghost
Encounters yet uhoh you were about to bring it to him literally the first night we slept in the bedroom we were
falling asleep when we were jolted out of bed to a truly horrifying sound it was like the walls started cracking all
around us but like in a clockwise circle like this cracking would sweep around the room in a circle from one side to
the other enveloping Us in the bed what the [ __ ] never figured out what that was
I love I'm obsessed that anticlimactic isn't even the right word it's just like nonchalant is f i love just never
figured out what that was no chalant to be found we're going to move on from that wow we would frequently see Shadows
moving in the dining room which was a separate room with a swinging door on each end and each of those little pass
through Windows into the middle of the kitchen while standing in the kitchen we would catch the shadows out of the
corner of our eye through the little window I think I remember you talking about dining rooms in in particular in
one spooky episode probably probably yeah I'm sure at some point the kitchen was the room where things would
literally move we would put our phones down in there then it would be gone we'd search the house for 20 minutes and then
come back to find it in the same place where we left it that's [ __ ] up things would move and fall on the floor when we
were sitting in the living room with our backs turned to the kitchen once I actually saw a plastic bag come up and
out of a drawer and fall onto the flooor and thought cool that's what those noises are wow again not a chalant to be
found no or actually the most shalant to be found really but the worst was when the uh sorry was but the worst was the
shared hallucinations SL dreams my husband and I would have O Let's get into it love a shared hallucination SL
dream we both have you ever had one with some no but I I love the idea of them it's a great idea they're awesome we
would both frequently wake up to Dark Shadow with a Sinister presentence standing in the corner of our bedroom
that sounds like it sucks I don't like it we would both also see some sort of spitting plate above our heads in bed
what after years of living in my parents house I never felt a Sinister present from those ghosties I was comforted by
the movie The Others thinking that ghost didn't know that they were haunting us a
that's kind of how I feel about M Papa's house yeah they're not trying to bum you
out I always just think they lived here first also that's the garage if you hear
it yeah they're just going about their business you know yeah it's like res um I was going to say residential haunting
I thought you were going to say Resident Evil and I was like what h no interesting I was going to I meant to
say residual hauntings but I said residential that makes more sense you just thought Resident Evil you know that
kind of was an aism you all right you're pretty it's seeping into my it's the blond It's the blonde we actually
bleached Elena's Hair you my real hair oh my God one time we did that's no you guys saw when I did my head flip it
almost went FL all right all right all right but that Albuquerque bedroom was dark my
husband shared the feeling we could not wait to get out of there so by the time we were staying at my parents house when
I was pregnant with my son in 2019 congrats my husband had no longer thought the ghosts were some cool
backstory he had his own haunting experiences and while he never had heard anything too out of the ordinary in my
parents house he believed my stories it's good man right there it is he also said he never felt anything Sinister
like he did in Albuquerque sin until I was pregnant Sinister Vibe uh oh then it became sinister sinister BBY B literally
Sinister BBY something changed at that point I had started sleeping with noise cancelling headphones on because hi
pregnancy aka the time when you don't sleep before you have a baby and then you don't sleep some more oh it's a
beautiful time the first time I slept at my parents house when I was pregnant I was upstairs on the third floor which
used to be the maid's quarters in the Victorian days I started staying in there when I was in town when my brother
took over my old room as it tends to be less spooky up there it's interesting that the third floor is less less spooky
I know you would think it would be the most spooky yeah right I feel like the and the oh no oh girl I feel like the
extr manicure wreck the house are always the spookiest yeah the bottom and the top
yes things in the middle are usually just what they are yeah you know just like the meat of the H the meat the meat
of the sand the bread the bread is the scariest yeah the the ha hogi that's that's the meat in the
middle that your brain just did some [ __ ] that was I liked that the haunted hogy yeah TM we're putting it on a shirt
someday yeah someday uh anyway La I guess the ghost weren't that thrilled with that development because I woke up
in the middle of the night to the feeling of someone's hands squeezing my knee nope I hate that I told myself it
was sleep paralysis and didn't move for a few minutes though my thought was oh [ __ ] do ghost like babies something oh
no when I came back 5 months later for my baby shower my husband was with me and I was much more pregnant I could not
get comfortable in the full-size bed with him so I woke him up and made him relocate to my old bedroom where my mom
and dad had put a king bed temporarily because of yep Renovations oh my God sleeping pregnant not sleeping pregnant
is such an experience that must be a lot the more pregnant you get the more you're just like get the [ __ ] away from
me everybody it's kind of like it's just getting you ready when for when the baby
comes cuz then you're never going to sleep K makes you real ready yeah it's it's like conditioning It is Well I put
my headphones on and told myself I was too prous for this [ __ ] you were but 5 minutes later my husband woke me up take
off your headphones uh that feeling in my stomach I knew what was going on what' you hear I asked him oh no he said
my dad must be walking up and down the hallway never mind I didn't really want to move so Prager so I said okay 5
minutes later okay that's it he shook me awake I heard the shuffling sound in the
hallway and I could deal with it until I heard it come into the room I don't love
that the shuffling steps came down the hall and straight into the room to the foot of our bed despite the fact that
the bedroom door was still closed no I knew exactly the sound he was talking about all right we're going back
upstairs I said I know exactly what you're talking about and it's never and it's never my dad no matter how many
times I told myself that it was growing up it's just never my dad I love that she's just telling her husband that
she's like I'm going to be real I'm going to be frank I'm going to be Fran this with you right now that's not Dad
it's never my dad it's never going to be my dad never was my dad it's just I love
it's just just never my dad just never my dad well I hope you enjoyed my spooky hkah Tales thanks so much and keep it
weird but not so weird that you move from one haunted house to another one in New Mexico because they film Breaking
Bad across the street you know where the scenes where Walter meets Lydia at the cafe and then you move out because
there's um somebody who's not doing well living in the backyard stalking you yep
skipped that part and also a shadowy presence in your bedroom and things move themselves in the kitchen with the
little pass through window to the haunted dining room and then get pregnant and have GH uh be way too into
your unborn child okay this took me 3 hours to Rite hope you like it bye Emma if you can't tell I'm an Elena Fain girl
oh oh Emma I love you PS since writing this to you I was contacted by an old friend from middle school who told me
she has Vivid memories of hiding in the bathroom because she was too afraid to cross the Haunted Hallway to get back to
my bedroom since she could sense that there was something lurking out there more confirmation PPS uh also since
writing this I bought a new house congratulations yay I researched the owners for fun there was one owner who
was an Irish immigrant and a cop who died in a shootout in the 1940s and he lived there the longest I definitely
stood alone in the living room feeling The Vibes and shamelessly asked the real estate agent if they knew of any
hauntings before we signed like a long time alone feeling The Vibes and I said aloud are you there Sergeant necessary
and happy to report only Good Vibes I love picturing you in the middle of your living I'm just going are you there
Sergeant it's me Margaret it's me it's me Emma Good Vibes though I like the Good Vibes I love that a lot that was a
great story I love it ml you rule and that was amazing I'm trying to see I'm going to I'm going to move past
Christmas to another holiday what's the holiday just because this one involves a
foot so I feel like it's necessary necessary question mark uh listener tals that time we found a foot on the 4th of
July oh okay I mean how can I not go to that one all right you know well let's go to this hey weirdos I'm Nicole and
yes you can use my name shout out to my cousin Kayla who is a fellow listener and also on the weirdest river trip of
our lifetime I mean I really hope it doesn't get any weirder than this okay first a little background every year my
family floats the river near my grandparents house for the 4th of July that's fun for those of you who aren't
from the Midwest me floating the river usually involves put putting in Upstream on a local River with some type of
flotation device or small boat you get to enjoy the beautiful scenery typically hot weather and at least for my f
friends and family partying your way Downstream until you reach your predetermined destination all right
don't worry we always designate a driver or have a pickup ready don't drive and drink and drive my friends yeah great
great are great great great great don't our family usually uses a combination of
canoes tied together inflatable tubes and kayaks oh that sounds fun that does sound fun this particular trip for
normal paddlers would be 3 to 4 hours with short breaks that sounds like a lot that my arms hurt right now from that I
you would hate this yeah you would too you would hate this for sure we would hate this we would I think you would
hate I would hate this as well as Ash yeah yeah you would hate that so much yeah okay that's what I
thought I would like the I would like the partying part and the floating part earlier in my life I think these days I
think I'd be like I'm too tired could you be just like a floater and everyone else does no cuz I can't I couldn't
float for like 3 to 4 hours I feel like I would Panic me too uh however when 90%
of the adults are highly intoxicated and you're stopping at every Sandbar for PE
breaks we usually expect six to seven hour trip no no we had roughly 20 people on this year's trip with kids seven kids
under eight years old one to two coolers in each canoe stereo hooked up and old rock gems blasting this is my happy
place most of my favorite summer memories have been made in this section of the we're going to Google it we're
going to Google I don't want to ruin your your River yeah hold up hold up we're going to have Google say it to you
Mak nope Mak Maka that's fine to say makoka so most of my favorite summer memories have been made in this section
of the makoka river Mak makok quite honestly this included and I feel this is a safe space for me to say that given
what happens next yeah this is always a safe space it is so back to the trip in question about 45 minutes into our
7-hour float we all have a solid buzz on when my cousin floating ahead of the group in his kayak notices a boot
floating just beneath the surface of the water the water is Muddy but pretty clear this time of year he tells my
brother who's slightly closer to what he assumes is just a stuck boot thinking he
had just found a random shoe my brother grabs the boot out of the water and I [ __ ] you not there is an entire tibia
fibula covered in a dirty Sandy sock sticking straight out of the tide boot what hello blink blink hey perfect
job thank you back what what EXC wait what would you would say what the [ __ ] that's what you would
say I love falling up with that's what you you were like nailed it you did you nailed it nailed
ited nailed it nailed it so um oh my God that's oh my my God that's crazy what the [ __ ] um shocked at the sight of a
human [ __ ] leg my brother dropped the boot back he said not today honestly not
today we floating we floating the two guys stared at each other for a minute and then yelled for our parents who were
in a group of canoes tied together nearby and all the commotion the music gets turned down they were like turned
down the like we need to see and my mom yells to me that they found a foot hey they found a foot we found a foot
imagine you got a buzz on in somebody yells to you that they found a foot how do you move past that you sober
up real quick yeah that's a sobering moment now at this point in time I was in my own world about 20 ft behind the
group talking with my friend when I finally figured out what she was saying I was positive this was just my family
playing a joke on me I would think so too me too of course I paddled over with my kayak to see what was going on
because even if it was a joke I needed to see what they were talking about as I'm paddling Downstream I spot this
dirty boot floating along the near the canoes after making sure my 5-year-old wasn't an eyesight oh my God I pulled
the boot out of the water and sure enough there is a [ __ ] human leg hanging out of this boot that the
thought of that image is just too much I dropped it back in the water because like what do you do I don't know now the
group is yelling at me half saying to leave it and the other half saying to call 911 I look over at my mom who nods
at me as if to say do it want mom being my morbid self thanks ladies you bet I pull the boot back out of the water and
throw it on my kayak stop it I'm proud of you so here I am 50 minutes into a 7-hour float with a
right lower leg on my kayak oh my God no one had cell service and to be honest we
were a little worried the DNR wouldn't be cool with our general lack of life jackets and planned alcohol consumption
it's planned and you have a drive there you go after talking with my uncle who is an EMT and my mom a nurse we decided
I would paddle back Upstream to the nearby Sandbar where we could easily reach later via gravel road again I
already have a buzz on and my ass how to now how to now paddle Upstream oh no I'm
not an athletic girl so this took a bit once I reached the beach I set the foot down in a clearly visible place I could
later identify for the police the whole time I'm paddling all I could all I could think was oh my God I can't wait
to tell l I'm obsessed because even though we're not best friends in real life we are in my head life as morbid of
a discovery we made our family still enjoyed a full day on the river and had a blast you guys are Reckless and I love
it I love it I would be so worried that the rest of the mans was somewhere under
show us yeah after we got off the river at 600 p.m. my uncle called in our Discovery we sobered up a bit and went
down to the scene to give our statements to the sheriff's deputies picture a fairly intoxicated sunburnt mother of
two with a morbid Fascination for all all things True Crime trying to set the scene for the deputy like I'm on I'm
some type of professional who doesn't just listen to a lot of podcasts and watch too many murder documentaries this
is actually wild this is a this is a story and I love it I would pay money to watch that body cam footage I would too
the next morning my brother went out out to the scene and showed investigators specifically where we had pulled out the
boot while he was there they dug into the sand and found pieces of denim a few weeks later we found out they excavated
the area and did recover a body so he was floating with you he was floating with you my my fear confirmed yes after
a few months they confirmed the body was that of a missing man from the area who
was last seen in November 2020 damn even though this whole experience was wild and a story I will tell around the
bonfire for years to come it was not lost on any of us the impact our discovery made I only hope we brought
this Man's family a little Justice at this point there's never been yeah a little piece sorry at this point there
has never been an official C of death release that I know of and although there's lots of rumors for what may have
happened out of respect for his this Man's family I won't speculate good on you sometime when I'm not running on
fumes I will send in my best ghosty stories please do please do turns out I'm fa fairly sensitive and Spirits good
and bad I almost said fairly turns out I'm fairly sensitive that's so me that's very you um in spirits good and bad
really dig my vibes both my children are similar and keeping our home cleared and
cleansed in a is a constant battle about 2 years ago I saw several mediums and ended up needing to perform a ritual to
remove a negative attachment from a past life oh send over that information yeah
things have gotten much easier since then and my life has transformed into something truly beautiful that I didn't
know was possible oh that just made my heart love this so full love you both and look forward to seeing a new episode
every time they pop up thank you for all the time and energy you put in the podcast it has gotten me through many
long work days and house cleaning days stay weird weirdos I feel like I could like feel her energy through the
and that I love you you have great energy Nicole that was great energy yeah it filled me with happiness I loved that
is this you on the river in your Gmail thing is it I think oh no that's a pool oh okay but I still love you floating in
a pool wow all right so listener Tales a light-hearted sign from the afterlife not after Life After Life Christmas Tale
Life After Life do you believe in life after life do I need to just move it into a thing I
can see we'll just keep I believe that Li is in your hair I really don't think you're strong enough oh Li I'm a
hairdresser so I know about lice I actually there was a lice um like there was a lice scare out of my salon
once and I thought that we were going to get to leave but we couldn't you couldn't you had to stay that was
unfortunate fight through the life anyways listener tal is a lighthearted sign from the afterlife Christmas Tale
about life hey weirdos I'm Katie you can use my real name Katie Katie Katie I am
typing on my phone and can't figure out how to type how to double space this [ __ ] so I did my best you know what your
best is all right it's great it's great it's short and sweet so hopefully that makes it less strenuous on the eyeballs
blind is a bad over here so I can feel the pain I feel like all I do is listen to morbit day in and day out one could
say I'm obsessed I'm obsessed with you obsessed with you we're obsessed with you hell yeah um lots of eye rolls for
my husband when I shush him for trying to talk to me when he gets home from work and I'm deep in an episode
priorities Trio that [ __ ] let's get in anyways let's get into it starts sad but
don't worry it gets better cool when I was in fifth grade my brother Kevin passed away from is it gleo blastoma yes
oh I'm so sorry it's the most aggressive type of brain cancer I was one of six kids and
it was a tough year for all of us especially my parents having lost a child I can't imagine no we knew the
holidays could be would be particularly rough when it comes to Christmas my mom loves wrangling as many of us to help
decorate the house as she can as you can imagine with six kids we have all sorts
of Christmas ornaments on the tree I know from school age my favorite being my older my older sister's preschool
ornament that is literally just a piece of Scotch tape on a string with a raisin
hanging from it everything gets hung up it's like the SNL the SNL CHR back of the Christmas tree skin my mother-in-law
says that to us every Christmas it's so funny I'm obsessed messed with just the peach piece of Scotch
tape and a Racin hanging does that the back that [ __ ] is right that [ __ ] is so
right cuz if my kids made that I'd be like let's put on the tree we have a lot we have a lot of ornaments with our
names on them and we we scour the box to find our respective ornaments and Hing them up so one morning right around
Christmas time the Year my brother passed away my dad came to us and said you'll never believe what happened last
night as a brief backstory my brother absolutely loved the 9s karate movies Bruce Levi he sounds amazing watched
them constantly especially when he was sick and home all the time it was a running joke in our family that those
karate movies were always on my dad said he was laying on the couch in the family
room watching TV after we had all gone to bed and heard what he thought was the doorbell ring he got up to check and no
one was there before even making it to the couch the TV in our living room yeah late 19 1990s early 2000s we had two
gigantic 9,000lb box TVs livein large clicked on and it was AB absolutely blasting a karate movie oh that was him
now this TV had channels 1 through 10 so basic so basic shocked it wasn't black and white and the movie was on a channel
he saw on the main TV as being in the hundreds yeah like how how yeah he shut it off quick so as not to wake the rest
of us up halfway back to the family room it clicks on again full volume blasting
the karate movie I love that that what a badass sign to send to your family too a
movie I love love it uh he shut it off again and finally made it back to the couch and decided to have a little chat
with my brother at that moment oh my God my heart he explained to him how hard it
had been without him and how much everyone missed him he asked my brother for a sign before he could even blink
something fell from the Christmas tree my dad got up and sure enough a heart-shaped or I'm going to literally
cry right now a heart-shaped ornament with my brother's name on it had fallen from the tree to the family room floor
it gives me goosebumps just thinking about it believe what you will about this kind of spooky stuff but in that
moment I think we all felt peace for the first time that year no I have actual Goosebumps bumps of the goose variety
like full I figured a happy little Goosebump story would be a good palette cleanser if you will I seriously love
you guys so much and we love you and your family please continue to keep it Wicked weird oh yes picture of the
ornament included just for funsies oh my God Katie oh wow oh my God I just got chills all
over again seriously oh and I wonder if they glued it back together I know it kind of looks like that actually there
might be a little crack in it but I can't tell if it's the light but I think it is that is that's him the fact that
you're first the karate movie happened and then your dad was like we miss you and it's been hard like can we have a
sign and immediately his ornament and like like Katie just said there was six kids in that family yeah of all the orn
ornaments yeah all over I mean our tree is three kids and it's like a billion ornaments I can't imagine six throughout
the years and that that age no for that one to fall that's special that's really
really special that's a Christmas [ __ ] miracle oh we love you guys we love Christmas we love Fourth of
July we love floating and you know we love floating we love each other clearly cuz we really dedicated ourselves to
this I Love Nails You Love Nails I love a manicure so this was amazing it was so much fun
loved it can't wait to get out of this yes love you love you so much hate this you in something like this back at you
do you want this yeah okay cool I do yeah I do yeah um but yeah so we hope you keep listening and we hope you keep
it weird but not so weird that you find a severed foot while you're just trying to
float and get a little buzz on on the 4th of July and also keep it a little weird that you get this light-hearted
ornament that's a signed from your brother and also he's playing karate movies in the background CU that's fun
and there's some good karate especially FES for me I love karate movies karate movies forever uh also Grandma being in
thean keep it that weird because boans are weird and that's awesome um send Pizza to a crime scene but only if
someone requests you to do so and follow the [ __ ] instructions also ghostly Hanukkah parties sign me up let's go
where's the lock keys I love it keep it that weird and we love you guys oh my God I almost lit that on Fire Imagine oh
my God [Music] [Applause] [Music] goodbye I feel like myself again I literally threw that off and it
like went to the and then they diedit that would be the perfect Ed du tail RS into flames

Happy New Year, weirdos, and we're celebrating the holidays with Holiday tales brought TO you, BY you, For you, FROM you, and ALLLLL about you!

Today we have boogens, a Hanukkah haunting, horrible Fourth of July discovery, delivery people getting waaaaay much more than a tip, and messages from Beyond sent via ornament! Don't forget to check out the VIDEO from this episode available on YouTube on 1/2/2025!

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Brief Summary

Listener tales include ghost stories, a severed foot, and a Christmas miracle.

Key points

Christmas Eve Pizza Delivery to a Crime Scene. A dad's questionable parenting leads to a pizza delivery at a murder scene.
Haunted House Features. The house has a long, creepy hallway and a history of ghostly encounters.
Ghostly Dinner Parties. The ghosts seem to enjoy joining in on family celebrations, especially during Hanukkah.
Dad Becomes a Believer. After a spooky incident, the dad finally believes in the house's hauntings.
Shared Hallucinations. The couple experiences shared hallucinations of sinister shadows in their bedroom.
New House, Good Vibes. The narrator buys a new house and checks for any hauntings before signing.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

I hate it, I hate it!

Elena expresses her discomfort with the situation.

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Tension

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