The Glove Guy (With Jordan Bonaparte from The Night Time Podcast) | Morbid | Podcast | Forensic Files

hey weirdos I'm Ash and I'm Elena and I'm Jordan and this is [Music] morbid woo a special episode with Jordan
of the nighttime podcast I'm happy to be here but we just wanted to let you know
that the content that we are going to be sharing today is um a bit explicit e for
explicit e for explicit you don't want those kiddos in the car for this one no not this one so Jordan you have quite a
tale to tell us today I dare say the craziest story that's ever been told I love it and that's that's said like
there's high expectations coming into this podcast but I think I got one for you
I think you do we both agree in un we do as always before we get into the glove guy though I I'm always curious in this
sort of thing is it seems like every town in the world has their own little like urban legend story that's maybe
true maybe isn't maybe it's a weirdo maybe it's some odd thing that happened is there any in your town either of you
we did have one we do but we can't tell I won't say who it is obviously I won't say but it was like a guy that everybody
had all kind of crazy stories about when in reality I'm pretty sure it was like just an old guy who had been through it
and was probably you know dealing with like mental illness of some kind but of course kids are kids but people used to
like you know ring on his ring his doorbell and like beep when they went by his house and all that and it was it's
it's actually kind of sad now that I think about it that took a dark turn and I think if it was 300 years ago they
would be labeled like you know like a witch or some crazy thing like that oh yeah but now it's a whole different vibe
and that's kind of the way I see the story of the glove guy so I live in Halifax Nova Scotia which is a city on
the east coast of Canada I kind of describe it as like I don't know like Boston's like younger Tamer smaller
brother who grew up with like you know spoiled that yeah it's a university city it's a it's a great place to be but
since I've been here I moved here in 2001 and I remember one of the first stories I heard and I should I should
contextualize it by saying when I moved to Halifax that was kind of like me coming to the big city so I expected you
know crime and danger one of the first stories that I heard that kind of made me feel weird is people saying like if
you go downtown at night you got to watch out for the glove guy and I thought the glove guy like what is that
that sounds ominous as hell does sound ominous as hell and the story that I was told was was simply it was this man who
drove around downtown late at night looking to pick up men uh as a way to like uh engage in some kind of like
leather glove fetish this guy had okay and I thought this sounds weird it's probably not true it's probably some
kind of like old wives tale to scare people out of hitchhiking or something like that y so that that's kind of like
the the background of of how this old thing starts but it's it was very like common knowledge like people talked
about this guy all the time I would hear it and thought there's no way that's true someone would have arrested him so
I don't know if you use Reddit but in in Halifax there's like a a a a group on Reddit that is all about like Halifax
news and Halifax lifestyle and a post was made to the Helifax Reddit that it was the headline or the
title of the post was something like warning to Men of Helifax colon late night glove salesman and I in
this post IM imediately blew up and I think to this day it is like the most commented on and upvoted post in the
history of the Halifax based wow oh my God yeah and it's it's a man explaining his encounter
with the glove guy and I read it and I thought like wow like this this guy sounds really believable but it wasn't
this poster that convinced me the whole story was true it was the comments underneath it was one person after
another recounting like the exact same story with all of the same elements in it to the point that it almost seems
like it was just the same guy telling the story you know 40 different ways using slight changes in fact one of the
people underneath it one of the comments that stood up to me said uh they're they're addressing the person who made
the post they said I didn't believe you until I read the 14th identical comment here there's no way that this is just
people making this up yeah so now's our chance to get initiated into him so rather than read you this post I did a
series of episodes about the glove guy and one of the first people I reached out to was the guy who made this post
and he he told me the story in a little more detail than what he posted on Reddit so uh I have a couple stories
I'll share as we go and they're going to kind of ramp up in intensity so let's start light with the story that kind of
opened my eyes to like oh [ __ ] this is real oh [ __ ] this is actually happening
um we're all adults here do we have any rules about bad Lang sexuality never never good well buckle
up so here Here Comes this guy we'll call this guy the Reddit guy uh okay so my my experience with the
glove guy um it was probably 2: in the morning end of the night out but I was walking home on my own H and I was
actually walking down towards like the taxis kind of pull up and this other guy pulls up kind of right next to me uh
nice kind of looking car black SUV um well-dressed guy and uh he said hey man are you going somewhere do you need a
lift my first thought it wasn't I wasn't even I didn't feel alarmed at all I was
like oh sweet this guy's just like running his own Uber service like I'm into that so I was like yeah man like
I'm heading this way I'm just going out out of to and kind of said where I was going he said yeah hop in I'm going that
way so I was like okay cool um so I got in the car and uh I actually gave him 10
bucks I was like so you just kind of Uber around town on your own do you and he was like yeah man I just like drive
around picking people up and like give people rides at night and I was like okay cool so uh yeah anyway quite
quickly as he was driving he kind of said so this is my deal like I give people rides and uh I also sell gloves
and like this is my thing selling gloves and um I've got these great leather gloves like do you drive do you need
driving gloves like all about the driving gloves and he had like these gloves on himself and I was kind of like
okay this guy's kind of kind of quirky but whatever you know seems like a friendly guy so he as he was driving me
he was like yeah just like try on my gloves here and he reaches over into the back seat and he brings out this like
briefcase almost of gloves different sizes different styles leather gloves and he said yeah this is my business
they're all handmade like they're high quality driving gloves like why don't you try some on and I was like okay well
this guy's giving me a ride home so I'll humor him and uh you know check out his
glove business and I'm not going to buy any gloves but uh he was like yeah that's my this is my biggest size like
uh you try these ones on and I tried them on and it was like the tightest thing I've ever had on um pipe leather
glove on my hand and uh he was uh he just said yeah just like work it in and stretch it out and uh you'll kind of you
know you'll get a feel for it and uh I'm most of the way home by this point I'm trying to like sit this glove on my hand
and he he just says yeah just like pull down pull down on the palum side of your
hand and kind of stretch it out like this and kind of work your fingers and uh so I start doing this
like trying to fit this glove on I'm like what is this guy talking about like this glove is never GNA fit me um and
we're kind of pulling onto my road and he's breathing like really heavily as I'm like trying of work this glove onto
my hand and um quite quickly it just became apparent to me it was like getting something out of it um sexual
like he was really into me like putting this leather glove on and at that point I was just like okay this is just weird
as hell like um anyway so I said yeah this this is this is good man like thanks for the ride I'm just going to
just going to get out here and uh I actually got out the car and like walked around the corner like away from my
house and hid in like my neighbor's backyard until I saw him drive off and he sat there for like a good five
minutes before he drove off um but yeah it was very like it went from being um just kind of a little bit weird you know
this guy's kind of quirky's selling me his gloves whatever to um all of a sudden I was like oh my God he's like
I'm being victimized in a way like he's getting something out of me trying this glove on like he doesn't want me to buy
this glove at all he wants me to spank him with it or something you know um anyway I got out and I I went home and I
messaged my my roommate I was like I think I like I think this guy kind of like took advantage of me last night
almost uh with this these leather gloves and uh and she said oh yeah that's the glove guy and I was just like oh so you
know about this guy like he's he's Infamous kind of thing and uh yeah it turned out like she told me her friend
had had an interaction with him and I looked it up online and there was a few other eddit posts about him and I was
just like oh this guy's does this every night to random young men in Halifax and
has been doing it for years and uh yeah there's just so many stories about this guy and all the other weird stuff that
he's done with people how are you both feeling I also feel victimized have so many
first of all that guy has a great voice let's get that out of the way right away
I love that and two like I feel so bad that he's like oh [ __ ] like I was just victimized by something like that's got
to be such like a weird feeling that you're like I didn't even realize it like looking back on it and that's kind
of a theme that comes up throughout it it's everybody I think since it's so weird and bizarre and since it's
targeting men I think people are quick to like laugh it off and be like oh like the guy is crazy I can't believe you saw
him but scary if this was the other way around I think if it was a woman in the car um it would be on the news you know
the next day 100% And it should be treated the same like it's still cuz the thing is it's like dude if you like
watching guys put on leather gloves like just find consensual people who will be
like sure I'll put on leather gloves for you like I'm sure someone will do that for you like don't victimize people to
get it done yeah no no King shaming at all but King shaming no but like get a consensual person thing you're bound to
find someone somewhere yeah and now in this story that I just shared that we've only dipped our feet into how crazy this
is going to get this is easily the most innocuous of the stories that we'll share what when I heard when I read this
guy's story I'm like I'm going to do a podcast episode about it like this is you know too much and I I thought I'm
not going to like try to figure out who the glove guy is and dox this guy I wanted to stick with kind of like the
legend of the glove guy and hear what yeah you know the different experiences people had with them so the way I did
that was I put a post up on my Facebook page with a picture of his business card
because he actually gives people a business card that has like a phone number and a picture of gloves I think
and I said put a picture of that up and I said like have you had an experience with the glove man if so email me and I
put that up say like 7:00 at night I woke up the next next morning I look at my phone and it was like I'm not even
exaggerating it was like 60 emails from people all telling the exact same story like here's what happened to me oh my
God and that's when I realized like oh man like I stepped in it I got a story on my hands so what I what I did is I
just arranged interviews with as many people as were willing to talk to me and just like we're doing it now they were
all Zoom interviews so I'd like you know I could see their faces and I just have
to mention that because the guys that came on the show and told me their story about their encounters with the glove
guy every one of them were like big tall dark hair handsome it looked like I was
interviewing like one after another like a like a professional hockey team or something wow so the glove guy has a
type that's what you're saying so clearly yeah it was like I wish I could share the photos because as you look at
the guys you're like oh my God that's like you know a bunch of like kind of male models or something yeah like
clearly picking a certain kind of guy mhm um oh are you brave enough to into it yes
because I'm thinking like if that's tame the fact that he had to like hide in somebody's yard to like cuz he was so
scared by it like freaked out by it that's so sad and that's a teame experience wow I'm sure you both have
had weird drives home from an odd cab or something Have you ever had anything where you're like don't drop me off at
my house like a couple doors down and I'm going to act like this is my house I don't think I've ever had that but I'm
also a crazy person and I just like won't use Uber by myself I don't know that I've ever yeah I've never ubered by
myself I won't do it by myself that was like the one thing that me and my friends were pretty smart about and I
never ubered back to my own house I Uber to other people's house yeah so there's
that yeah but I think uh women have that ingrained in them don't go home alone don't get the cab alone guys that's not
as much the thing and oh yeah and I don't know if you can tell from that message I don't think he said it
specifically at the time that all these stories were set we didn't have Uber and
Halifax it was like Outlaw or whatever so we had actual cabs and and we didn't have Uber but a lot of people in Halifax
since it's a university city and there's a lot of tourists coming they don't know
that so a lot of people that we'll hear from in this episode are people who believed he was maybe an Uber or some
Uber like service but you feel like you can trust it and especially as like a big male you're like yeah I'll get into
the subber and he said too it was like a nice car a nicely dressed man you don't
expect it to be to get that weird yeah and that's another side of this the stories we going to hear it's always a
nice car but it's a different car and I believe I don't know for sure but I believe they're all rentals is my
understanding interesting oh that's interesting an odd way to spend every weekend but yes here we go so we heard
from the Reddit guy which was the first guy that kind of The Whistleblower uh from my point of view but let's move on
to he from he is someone uh he was visiting Halifax from a neighboring City and again we have a busy night life here
so we have a lot of people coming to Halifax from out of pro Province he I think he was coming from New Brunswick
which is like the next door neighbor Province here's uh here's what happened to so I was downtown with uh some of my
buddies they're they're down studying at Dal and SM so we were out at uh out at a
bar and having a couple drinks I wasn't really feeling it so I thought I'd take off and go get a Willies poutin I was
just got my Willies poutin and I was on my way uh back to my buddy's place he about a 20- minute walk so I was on my
way and all of a sudden this this black Jeep pulls up beside me and Buddy puts down the window and yells out do you
need a drive so I kind of looked at it for a second I was like are you a cab and he's like uh yeah yeah so I was like
oh perfect yeah sure I love a drive and uh wasn't my smar decision but I drunkenly believed him so I hopped in
and uh I just I I told him that I only had the 10 bucks on me he's like he know that's fine don't worry about it okay so
I threw in the GPS and I was just directing them and the drive to my buddy's place was was fine it was
whenever we got there that it got weird he uh he's like before you leave like before you leave you got to try my
gloves and he was like falling over his words he was very like intense and he's like you guys out my
gloves and I was like gloves he's like yeah yeah yeah I make gloves you got you got to try them on I was like okay all
right man I'll try on your gloves so he digs in the back back seat has this big box full of gloves and he gets me this
real small pair and I got holes in in the knuckles these leather pair of gloves and I was like I don't know if
those are going to fit me man he's like no no just just pull them pull them on like they'll fit they'll fit okay so I I
tried putting these gloves on and of course they didn't fit I like all right man like I I can't put these on they're
not going to fit me he's like all right I got another pair just just just just wait one second just wait one second
he's getting more and more kind of intense and he reaches in the back and he gets a pair of gloves and before he
hands them to me he sniffs them and he's like it's like oh it's good leather I make these gloves that do really really
good quality gloves like I make it really good leather I was like all right man like I I was at this point I was
getting pretty sketched out I was drunk and I it really sobered me up at this point this weird interaction with so I
um I was I'll try on these gloves but then I'm taking off okay so I I put I put on one of the gloves and I was like
yeah man it's uh it's a nice glove it's like it's definitely good leather I'm sure he's like you got to put the other
one on I was like ah no I got a pretty good feel for it like I I think that's that's good I got to take off my Bud's
probably wondering where I am so I took off the glove make sure the door is unlocked and then just took off did he
say like all right see you later or was it the kind of thing where you just like
walked away as he was continuing to try to get you to put the gloves on he like well he didn't he wanted he
really wanted my business afterwards he's like I'll take my card like don't like you can get a hold of me he gave me
his card like you ever want gloves like feel free to call or email he's I got a website like I sell all across free
shipping across the world and I was just like this guy is not but did you get a sense that like he was getting something
from seeing you struggle to put on the glove or anything like did you feel like no he he he was getting really excited
he like he was having a hard time talking like just me like trying to put on the glove like I could just feel him
watching me like I don't know how else to explain it like he was just he was staring intely watching me try to put
these gloves on I felt pretty dirty and unclean like I did I actually went inside and washed my hands right after
like he he made me pretty uncomfortable and what then again like you wouldn't have known anything about glove guy not
being from Halifax what did you say and but your buddies are here like what did you say to them and how did they
react I I I never heard of him ever before and I I walked in to my buddy's place and I was like you'll never
believe what just [ __ ] happened they're like did you get picked up by glove guy I was like they yeah he picked
me up and then they they kind of gave me a recap of who he was and like how he's
been around and stuff for a while and I I would have believed them if they told me other watch so basically the exact
same story right yeah and I love how everyone's just like oh guy it's like big foot they're like like he's like oh
my God this like hairy guy just high-fived me in the woods and they're like oh that's Bigfoot of course like
it's the same same thing like everybody's just like yeah it's him and the stories as they came through to me
all of them kind of had that same format like I wasn't I was walking alone from downtown I was drunk I wasn't sure if he
was a cab or not and he was kind of vague about it the drive seemed normal the gloves start the gloves are too
small always and then it you know there's usually one little element that mixes it up though like in that story
with I think the the element that was unique was the smelling of the glove and I think that is really creepy it's that
that adds a little bit I hate that so much it's also like he walks in and says to his buddies like oh holy [ __ ] this
just happened they're like oh it's glove guy if someone is visiting you maybe tell them beforehand about this glove
guy like we probably should have let you know just so you know yeah and that he said he felt like dirty like very
unclean I'm like cuz so many like women a lot of times like will describe that feeling when like a man usually does
something very uncomfortable in your presence and you're like E I felt dirty and to hear a man say that like uh like
I don't know what this feeling is I feel weird it's like there certainly unique it's not something the average guy would
would have experienced I can't think of many times if any that I would have had that kind of experience but for again
for a woman like being cat called or whatever yeah it's like you you've all been through it and I think again that's
a part of why people resort to when they've exper have an experience with glove guy they resort to finding kind of
the humor in it like the stories we've heard so far there's a lot of like chuckling and laughing yeah but if this
was a woman in the car with him and the same thing was reversed they would not be laughing no but it's the same thing
they're doing the same thing that a lot of women who go through uncomfortable situations do which is like you put it
on yourself which is like I feel dirty and it's like well you didn't do anything like you're like but you end up
feeling like it's somehow like shameful for you yeah the laughing I think is just in a way uncomfortable like uh what
this feeling is like a trauma response like let's make this a little bit of a joke cuz it I don't want to like really
go into it and it's like the whole this doesn't us isn't something usually men talk about or experience and if they do
experience it they don't talk about it so it's like I think they're feeling like oh like I don't know how to express
this right are you are you surprised like given the two stories we've heard so far he hasn't got like the [ __ ]
kicked out of them yet that's kind of where I'm surprised that has yeah I kind of am but then you you see why because
these people are just so confused and I think that's part of it for this guy yeah and so far these men seem like
they're just the kind of men that are like like kind of people who are like okay like I don't know like you're a
little weird but I'm just going to leave like they don't seem like they're they seem like they're more just like
confused they seem like nice guys they're just like what the fu but I'm surprised he didn't pick up the wrong
person that would I bet you it's happened I haven't heard from that person but I bet you it's happened you
have to thing yeah yeah let's get to the next one this one is interesting because
it's it's a guy named who's a d J around Halifax but he he was familiar with the
glove guy story so when he got in the car and it started he knew what was going on so he got to kind of play with
it a little bit oh man well it was after drunken night downtown and anyways I was uh me and my
buddies we all parted away so they went back to Dartmouth and anyways I was going to wait for a cab um anyways
waiting for a cab and then this guy pulls up just waiting for a cab I was like yeah he's like oh I just got off
work I'll I'll uh I'll drive you I was also you know fairly intoxicated but the way he said like that I kind of assumed
oh this guy is a cab driver but maybe he took his light off or something so I get
in the car or the car and you know first think this guy was really cool because he picked me up and then I was like you
know I'll even give you some 20 20 bucks or whatever he's like all right cool and
then uh yeah we get driving and then yeah he's just like uh you like gloves I was like what
so then he opens up the glove compartment and uh pulls out a pair of gloves and then it's just a light bulb
kind of clicks I'm like wait a minute is this that [ __ ] that glove guy that weirdo that I seen the thing on right
I'm starting to think holy [ __ ] I'm in this guy's cab or his car like I'm actually like in the same car as this
guy like this is the guy so I pull out my phone and I actually start texting my friend he
looked like he was like he was trying to peer at my phone like trying to see what
I was doing right so I kind of tilted it towards me because then I'm really getting kind of weirded out at this
point right he's like uh oh you're probably uh you're probably trying to Google me aren't
you I was like no no I'm like you know what I actually I don't got data so I couldn't even do
that and it's like okay this guy's yeah this is weird this guy is a weirdo anyway so we started driving I was going
up to um this point I lived in Clayton Park so I was going to get him just take me to the bank up at uh Clayton Park
there by the McDonald's anyways he starts going these weird directions that like the almost the complete opposite
direction of where I was going and then he pulls over I'm like okay what is going on I'm kind of freaking out a
little bit he's like don't worry I'm gonna get you home I'm gonna get you home but first just try on these
gloves I'm just like you know what I'm just gonna go with this guy I'm just gonna [ __ ] do what he says make him
happy because I felt like for a minute I was in like Jeffrey D's car or something
right and uh yeah I'm putting the gloves on he's yeah yeah see just stretch it just like that you just pull it back
yeah nice like that yeah yeah he's like kind of breathing heavy and [ __ ] right it was really weird
I'm thinking at this point like is this guy like getting off to this right now because he seems to be enjoying me W
like watching me put these gloves on and then I see this this Patty wagon drive by I'm thinking is this my chance do I
just get out the car and just run to this cop like I don't know what to do right now and uh so yeah then yeah he
you know puts the takes the gloves back and then we keep going so then he you know starts driving start going up
towards uh Clayton per okay we're going the right direction cool so I'm just trying to make conversation just
whatever you know then yeah he's like yeah try on these gloves I'm like no no right no no no try them on
so I put the gloves on I'm like okay yeah the yeah these feel really nice yeah so I take them off and he's like no
no keep them on all right yeah no no keep them on so I just keep them on and we get to the
bank and then uh yeah so I was like yeah I'm right back I'm gonna go get your money he's
like oh no no keep keep the gloves on keep wearing them I was like no man I'm going to the bank it's 5 o'clock in the
morning and you want me to wear sketchy leather gloves I'm like no like that's sketchy I'm was thinking
maybe this guy will think that you know I'm suggesting that someone might think I'm trying to rob the place or whatever
I don't know right just trying to make up any excuses this like I don't want to keep your [ __ ] gloves I don't want to
necessarily piss them off and say that I'm trying to be nice about the situation yeah so anyways uh he's like
okay okay so I get out and you know I go and grab 20 bucks at the thing you know
I'm just I mean I could have just took off running but I'm like no I'm just I told this guy give give him 20 bucks
give him his 20 and you know he'll leave me alone when I came back to the car he
just like went and unlocked the passenger side door I was like no no no roll on the window but here you go man
here's a 20 give yourself a good night he's like all right man you too so he's like do you want to ride I'm like no no
no I'm good I'm gonna walk from here so yeah I I was like there's no way I'm leaving this guy back to my apartment
and um walk up the stairs I'm looking behind me the guy's still there so as soon as I get up the stairs I just turn
take a left and just run I just start running down the street um but yeah and then I got home
and I messaged my buddies I'm like you are not going to believe what the happened to me and
[Laughter] yeah it's a shame people who listen to your podcast aren't able to see your
faces reacting this I know we are recording this we should post a couple we definitely should because it's also
he just said like the that he was trying he was like you know what I'm just going
to go with this to not piss him off the amount of times we have done that another thing that like many people can
relate to but especially a lot of women can relate to like I'm just I don't want
to piss this person off so I'm just not going to say anything or I'm just going to go with it it's like a survival
ination a little bit and or at least avoid kind of ramping it up to that where you're like no mhm right and when
he said do you like gloves I was like I just want somebody to be like no I actually hate gloves no interest in
gloves I actually yeah like I have I have severe Trauma from gloves I don't want to look at them like now all of
those people Trauma from gloves after the I can't even look at leather gloves after this let alone like the idea of
like thin small ones that you really need to work your hand in like that is disgusting to me my God no that's so I
have such a good pair of nice leather gloves too that I was wearing all day yesterday cuz it's so cold here well
yeah cuz they're so fashionable yeah and they look now I'm going to look at them
different you are going to look at them different but they're not tainted though
they're not not yet no these uh these are different gloves all together with a lot of different kind of meaning behind
the size and fit it seems and that's what I was picturing driving gloves yeah that's what I was picturing before you
he even said it does he actually have a website that you've stumbled across or is that just a yeah he does he did it it
was a very like rudimentary basic website with a lot of photos of different pairs of gloves that it seems
like he's made all which is a very kind of Freddy Krueger kind of thing to do yeah a skill but and he had a business
card that he gave out uh there was a YouTube channel and the YouTube channel I don't believe it's still up but it is
one of the eeriest things imagine a still camera it's this is from a horror movie imagine a still camera on a tripod
just pointed at a blank wall a man with sunglasses on and a leather jacket walks
up to the camera and holds like dangles a pair of gloves in front of the camera pulls them on tight and then just like
fist into Palm pulls them off and puts another pair on emotionless and it is some of the creepiest stuff ever what
the [ __ ] why isn't that a horror movie and why fist to Palm like why I think just to feel the crack of leather I was
going to say it's something about the feeling definitely or the sound I hate it so
much well buckle up we are about to get into well maybe not the dark well obviously it's the second darkest but
this story that we're about to share I'm going to use the name Craig this guy I disguised his voice a little bit and
give him a fake name um that was a part of the deal but his experience with the glove guy is completely nuts and this is
where at the end of this we're going to have to make a tough decision about the future of morbid because there's a short
recording of glove guy that we can choose to play or not oh my God man it's like Choose Your Own Adventure choose
your scare reader beware we'll get into it first let's hear uh let's hear Craig's completely unhinged encounter
with glove guy you ready yes no but yes yes so I was just having a regular night
downtown with my buddies long and short of it is I wind up walking home alone it's chilly out I'm only wearing a short
sleeve shirt um so I'm trying to flag down any cab that I see all of them are zoom in right past me when uh all of a
sudden the black SUV kind of just pulls up next to me and uh I just hear this kind of low nasy voice just kind of say
you're you're looking for a drive and I look and it looks like a pretty nice car
it's a well-dressed guy and I'm trying to kind of calculate what's going on here he doesn't have the taxi thing on
top of his car uh but I assumed he was one he was some kind of uber service and um and I think he could see me kind of
weighing these options So eventually he just says where are you going and I just
tell him I'm going to X Place uh to which he says I'm going in that direction anyways so that's kind of a red flag
right there at the same time it's cold out I'm wearing a t-shirt I'm pretty hammered so I hit the fck it button for
better for worse and I hop in the car uh one of the first things I noticed in my car is that he's wearing a pair of
leather gloves in June and he has them on the wheel and that seemed a little weird to me uh the first thing he does
when I buckle up my seat belt is open the glove compartment at which point God knows how many pairs of the gloves
spilled onto my lap it was like they were packed to the teeth with these leather gloves that all just spilled
onto my lap and he almost CR atically starts requesting that I'm trying that I start trying them on and he's pulling
out specific pairs saying try these on try these on I'm kind of hesitant at first like what what is going on here
and uh he reassures me by saying oh I'm a glove salesman I'm a glove salesman here's my card I'm a glove salesman I'm
kind of like okay I don't I don't give a [ __ ] it's getting me home then like just
take me home so I TR on the first pair and he starts driving they're a little a little too small um he doesn't doesn't
seem to give a [ __ ] about the road he just seems very fixated on my opinions of these gloves and he's very intently
watching um we get a little further down and he offers me a bottle of coke like this pre-opened bottle and I'm gonna
call it like a murky orangish beige brown color so instead of drinking it I open it and smell it and it smells like
it's more liquor than alcohol honestly so I hand it back to him and he just kind of like I think he said something
like I'm not trying to root yet like in his nasy voice and then he grabs the bottle and as proof that he wasn't
trying to rofy me with one hand on the wheel he just takes a giant slug of his bottle that he has um at this point kind
of like oh [ __ ] like what what is going on this middle-aged man has me in his car and he's flying down the street
drunk driving going a little bit over the speed bum it uh this this is the time when I start
considering like okay I'm bigger than this guy like I'm not I'm not exactly a small dude and this guy's like I could
definitely I'd feel comfortable in a confrontation against this guy on the other hand he's got his hand on the
wheel and he's driving way over the speed limit God knows what's gonna happen if he veers off into something i'
say to him like that was my house and his response is do you want some coke and I just I'm
like what and he opens the not glove compartment pun intended uh the like middle thing in between the seats he
pulls out a very significant amount of cocaine and like ask me if I want some of this I say pretty much no because uh
as far as I'm concerned this dude's trying to knock me out so that he can uh do some kinky [ __ ] with me and Le like
leather dungeon that he has back in his place so I say no to that and before I know it we're heading into the South End
Halifax and this is when I start wearing like weighing the pros and cons of do I
like try to take out this guy and bigger than him at the same time he's got like
cocaine in this compartment he's got he's wearing gloves uh in any case I chose not to do
that based on the fact that I didn't want him to veer into a tree I didn't want to get stabbed in the neck with a
needle and wake up with a gag ball in my mouth so I I messaged a friend instead and I just kind of said to them like I
need you to call me right now and I I got them to fake that their house might be broken into and they were afraid and
they were only about a block away so he grudgingly kind of agreed to drop me off [ __ ] was getting very weird
at this point but he stopped the car and before he let me out of the car he kind of locked the doors on the car and
you know those locks that like disappear uh instead of just going down they disappear he had those locks and that's
kind of a oh [ __ ] moment when the locks disappear and then he kind of just like
looked at me and just said okay like like uh well like I we should get each other's number like put your number in
my phone and my first thought is okay I'll just give this this weirdo one digit off and I'll be good to go and he
just says it is weird I can't emphasize how weird his voice was but okay and I'm
gonna call it to make sure it's the right number and then I'm like oh [ __ ] like this is she's really getting weird
but I'll just do anything to get out of this goddamn steel box on Wheels so I'm away from this dude right now so I enter
my real number in his phone just thinking that as soon as I get out of the C I'm gonna block this number um I
enter my number he calls it which is creepy as [ __ ] it rings and he lets me out of the car um but as soon before I
even got up the steps of my friend's house that I was at I just blocked his number right away so that for me I
assumed that was going to be the end of the story I mean I've got it in the back
of my mind that he knows the general vicinity that I that I live but I'm not too worried about it based on the fact
that I blocked his number it sounds like he does this on a weekly basis so I think I'm going to be okay and then in
the weeks that followed I started receiving calls from unknown numbers at around four or five in the morning on
only Saturdays and Sundays and eventually it says to dawn on me I'm like oh [ __ ] I know this guy is blowing
up my goddamn phone so I just kind of uh dumb for a little while I mean obviously
if you're being woken up at 4 in the morning through an unnown number that you know is
a a glove salesman who who probably wants to tie you up with the same leather he uses to produce his gloves
it's not the most comforting thought but I was I'm gonna say about two months into this of him calling me on a weekly
basis i' finally get a voicemail um against my better judgment I listen to the voicemail and what I
heard was kind of just the most vile grotesque thing I've ever heard all directed at
me I need to hear this do you have it of course I have it but this is the decision that you need to make when I
say he says how vile and disturbing it is this will be the most vile and disturbing thing ever aired on morbid if
we do this well and also his that lock thing reminded me of the collector The Bone Collector
when he like I don't know if you've seen that movie the guy like he like he picks
people up in a cab and that's how he kidnaps people and when they he will lock the doors and when they go to
unlock it he shaved them into like little points so you end up like slicing your finger and you can't open and I I
immediately thought of that I was like oh God that's so awful [ __ ] what I'm picturing is like the kind of lock where
it's like a little like metal pin that sticks up from a hole and when you lock it from the driver's seat it drops into
the hole so you can't grab and unlock it yourself giving this guy your number and
him checking it before you get out of the car is that is so real though but have you I was going to say that's
happened to you me too and I got caught like with the no cuz I gave you gave fake number and they called it and I was
like oops I'm on silent bye runs off I've just been in the experience where they're like and I'm
going to call you so you're like let me just give you my real [ __ ] number then I was like go ahead you're going to
be embarrassed not me so uh I will tell you that this guy did go on to change his number as a result
of this whole spectacle that he had to do that we're beating around the bush you want to do it I'm so scared but
yes here we go I'm so scared but if we're just like oh yeah people have said that to us what if we listen to it we're
like that wasn't that bad all right here it comes [Music] wow I'm never going to be invited back
am I cuz I genuinely like cuz the way these men are relaying these stories is doing
it in a way like a humorous way like they're trying to be like what the [ __ ] like this guy has significant amount of
coke and it's like there's just being funny but like when you listen to the actual like what's happening you're like
this is terrifying fued and what a trauma iing experience like this guy literally was trying to contemplate
whether he was going to die if this guy veered off the road to kill them both or
if he could attack him if he needed to like these are things nobody should have to deal with and it's like I feel so bad
and then to deal with that afterwards oh no thank you we even talk about pop bottle too like to pass someone a pop
bottle I have a drink of this where it's clearly the wrong color of coke like what like what and then just be like you
want some coke and just like wa did you just say that wasn't the darkest one is there still one left yeah that's not the
darkest one this is so I feel so B whole other story that happened cuz what what
went on is I initially planned to do an episode called The Legend of the glove guy which told these stories of people
who had experiences with him and was and I was making a point to not name his business or give his name or anything
like the glove guy himself and I just kept it about kind of the urban legend that surrounds them and you know what
people have experienced and what stories are told so I released my first episode and to say all hell broke loose
was a complete understatement glove guy found out about my episode and he absolutely did not appreciate the
exposure of what he was doing he was sending me and a bunch of other people like these unhinged messages emails in
all caps runon sentences and one of the people he reached out to it was CBC which is like our Canadian like
our biggest news company in Canada the Canadian broadcast Corporation he wrote he seemed to have contacted them in some
way to let them know that like this whole thing happened with some podcast who um spouted out lies about him and he
seemed to tell them that but I'm suing them or I sued them and now I own the podcast so it quickly turned into this
kind of like hey claiming ownership of the podcast and him writing me letter messages like asking me to stop using
the name nighttime cuz he owned it now and I just kind of ignored it um but here's where it gets
wild is as this all was happening like when I was doing the Original Episode I learned that there was more to the glove
guy I found out who he was and what his business was called and I found out that
he actually did have a criminal record related to this whole late night glove stuff but I made point to like I'm not
even airing that in the episode because I want to keep it kind of light into the
style of the way the stories are told yeah but when he went on the he went to the news and uh he said like I've never
been in trouble I've you know I hadn't done anything wrong I'm just passionate about the sales of gloves and people are
taking that the wrong way what he did uh to me as a way of I don't know to get back at me or
something is he started putting registrations for the name the nighttime podcast
in different government directories as a way to claim ownership or at least look like he actually owns
the podcast and this it's kind of hard to explain it but basically in Nova Scotia certain businesses are required
to register with the government and appear in this directory that shows like the name of the business the type of the
business and who the owner is so he he put night time on there with his name his actual name his home address his
phone number and he was using that as a way to say like here is proof that that I now own the podcast and that episode's
you know a lie and it's going to be taken down what uh and it was bordering on extortion to the point that I called
the police and it it got to the point where any email I would get from him I was just forwarding to the police and
not responding because it was just so unhinge the stuff that I was getting but to clear my name or maybe because I'm
petty little bit I'm gonna do one more episode about the glove guy and I did a follow-up episode that was just a way to
kind of say like the prior versions of the stories are a bit light but and told a bit light
but it is very dark and I had gone to the courth actually I wrote to the police and said like you know can you
give me any information about this guy and they were quick to tell me um there was charges against him and how to get
the and they explain how I could get the uh court documents so I did and I managed to get in touch with a young man
who actually um went to the police and went through the courts and had the glove guy formally charged up until the
point that I released the episode I don't think people knew about this young man or this story because again the the
version of the story that was shared is like he seems like a harmless guy but he's really weird yeah know I won't play
you the whole uh telling of the story by the guy this guy named but I'll get kind
of the main part that explains um what actually happened but him and I did a full episode together so the
actual conversation's like a half hour or so but this will explain to you how far it actually went with who was a
young man in Halifax was according to him extremely inebriated leaving downtown the same story plays out
someone offer he's waiting for a cab couldn't find one someone pulls pulls up and offers him a ride and he assumes
it's a cab and gets in oh no but along the way here's where it goes in this is the darkest one oh
no and I got and before I play it I will say as well you'll notice immediately a
difference in tone the other people are like kind of light and laughing this guy
his voice is shaking and you'll hear it oh yeah and I got on the drive just past
my house and I took off the gloves and I was just about to get out and he's like
hey can you 100% make sure like these are the gloves you want I was like I just tried them on he said well just
work them in a little bit more make sure those are the gloves you like so I was like okay whatever I'll do one last time
done go home and sleep so so you were feeling pretty weird by now I guess yeah I felt like he kind of came off like he
was trying to hit on me and at the same time really trying to get me to either you know work in these gloves to the
point where I'm going to rip them or he just really wants me buy these gloves and work them in like okay
so I got and pull uh about four or five houses past mine cuz I don't like strangers knowing where I live MH yeah
so when he got pull I made sure try on the glove so I got the glove again I put it on and I'm working it on I'm
stretching the gloves and I was doing this for about 10 maybe 15 minutes before I finally looked over and I was
really trying to focus in on what he was doing and I just remember him leaning back and I remember seeing his penis was
out and he was is jerking it oh as soon as I seen that I took off the glove I opened up the door I shut it and
I ran through my neighbor's yard and I cut back to my house so you just took off right away
yeah oh wow that escalated yeah poor kid so clearly the difference in style of telling the
story oh you can it's such an immediate difference cuz that is such an escalation like the
other ones were like yeah he seemed like he was getting a little like you know FL
and breathing heavy and like a little excited but that is like that's on another level yeah this guy that we just
heard from he went to the police and actually had the the actual glove guy charged and the glove guy pled guilty to
I think it was like indecent exposure was the charge against him uh as far as I know that was the only time he was
charged in relation to like this actual activity yeah related to the to the gloves but it's it's no surprise like
when I I knew that story and i' heard that story early on and I was like I don't want to go there because it's like
it changes kind of the nature of the whole thing yeah it gets real dark when I did my second follow-up episode I put
that out as a way to I guess show that for one I wasn't just targeting this local guy with a fetish but also to show
how serious it it actually is and yeah oh my gosh yeah and I think most of them are although like I think with some of
the earlier stories of someone is just kind of vaguely kidnapping you in their car and forcing these gloves on you I
don't know if there's actually a crime there but it's oh it's so close every every close cuz you think it's like
almost like imprisonment in some way like almost a kidnapping thing cuz it's like he's not taking you where he said
he would take you right yeah so you almost are like it's walking that L just tiptoeing right across the line
I will say like we've heard here probably I don't know like five or six stories I probably had at the time that
I did my two episodes I probably had 30 of them and I still get them to this day
it's I did those episodes almost two years ago I think I got one three weeks ago uh someone was sending me like I do
this series of episodes that we call creep encounters and it's not specific the glove guy it's just people sharing
stories of encountering a creep and I just happened to get one of the creep encounter stories last week or two weeks
ago it was clearly someone telling me the story about an encounter with glove guy so it's like and these are recent
encounters like he's still out there doing this it seems it yeah I I don't know for sure but it seems like I have
ones from probably a year or so ago I haven't heard anything very much lately I've I've heard rumors that he left
Halifax I don't know if that's true I don't want to run into him and I certainly don't want to find out so
you're just like you know what whatever but I'll tell but we now have Uber and Halifax allowed now so maybe that put
him out of business oh maybe one would hope like again every one of those stories they seem to be like maybe he's
Uber I don't know yeah and it's that like weird up in the air right yeah like they're not back like in the time that a
lot of these stories took place in Halifax since we didn't have Uber and we have a ton of students and a lot of bars
and stuff when you get out of a nightclub at you know 2 in the morning it's really hard to get a cab you're
waving around and roaming around so it would have been such an easy way to pre on you know to get someone in your car
that's like the easiest time to do it right but now with Uber and stuff and Halifax it's probably not as easy and
it's like you know that these people are coming out inebriated likely so they're
not going to be in their best decision-making moment yeah every one of them had been drinking that you talked
to every heard from everyone was drinking everyone was alone and everyone just needed to drive home and ended up
getting in a situation where they're like I'm not going to push it with this guy but when I get the right chance I'm
going to get out of here he picked the most vulnerable time place and like victim essentially it's so weird though
that he was so confident that these guys weren't going to attack him anyway cuz like you said these are like bigger guys
yeah every one of them would have been people where I'm like where I would have thought like like and I'm not a small
guy but all of these were people where I would have thought like this is not someone I'm going to try to force my
weird fetish on right right but I guess when you have a captive audience in your car it's a
whole whatever else was going on with this guy if you had not heard the different
stories told if you had just heard there's this guy driving around G trying to get people to get gloves on would you
believe it honestly at this point in life yes right now yeah here yes like five years
ago no but and it's so specific too that's the thing like the trying on gloves is so specific that I'm like I
feel like that has to be true yeah yeah it it it's so weird because everyone it's the exact same story it's just the
fetish simply seems to be watching people struggle to get their hand in a like a leather fetish of some sort yeah
a very specific leather fetish it's something very Niche again when when forced on to someone that is
horrifying that's your thing just find somebody who also that's their thing someone Will consent to trying on
leather gloves for you yeah there has people there that's would be you would put likea gloves it's somewhere below
high heels but definely a circuit there is of course it seems like that's part of it that like they're not consenting I
know I was just going to say I think that's part of it is that you're the power Dynamic I think is is part of it
and that definitely changes it all because there's like the locks that are like flush with the that you can't get
out once I hit that it's like the give me your number and I'm going to call to make sure you gave me your number like
a power thing here and it's fear-based for sure yeah and it's and I'm surprised not a lot is done about it by like again
there was the one charge laid against him but he seems to be careful enough that he's not getting himself in enough
trouble but it's so weird and I think that gets you a pass and I'll tell you like there was that whole situation with
him uh registering the nighttime podcast as a business and all these different directories I was trying to get those
those listings down just in case it confused anyone so I was dealing with the government like contacting them and
being like you know this is here's the story you know sit down for this this is what's going on and uh I couldn't get
them to take the directories down so I eventually just ignored the whole situation and sto responding to his him
his emails but I did do a Freedom of Information Act request on all the com communication the Nova Scotia government
had surrounding the registration of a business called the nighttime podcast and I got like this big package of
emails from the different officials going back and forth to their lawyers being like what do we do with this
situation and you could see every one of them like the email would start with like this is weird but me this is weird
they didn't know what to do with it and eventually they just did what I did and just ignored the whole thing this is
Uncharted Territory it's weird too that like you did the podcast and you didn't name him you didn't like out him and
anyway and then he kind of just outed himself yeah yeah he outed himself and went on the news talking about it and if
you read like if you do a Google search for like glove guy Halifax nighttime podcast or Jordan bonapart you'll find
like there's two articles one is on CBC and one is vice vice magazine and both of the Articles include uh quotes from
him that are some of the most insane things you've ever heard and and they they include the quotes in their article
so it's uh pretty clear to Anyone who reads it what's going on but man it's something else wow and is there is this
it is this the end of The Saga or is there is there more do you hope so I of after everything happened with the
copyright registration and him coming at me I was like I need to get my ducks in
a row because this guy is wild so it gave me a good excuse to deal with all the business side of stuff like getting
the trademark for nighttime and stuff and that's all settled um I think what's next is I'm going to do a third maybe
fourth episode about this where I'm just going to AR out the rest of the stories
I have cuz I have a folder on my desktop that's just been eating a hole in my desktop full of glove guy stories uh I'm
going to put them out there and I think I'll probably do it after you release your episode because I'm sure people
will want to hear will want to hear more I was going to say a certain subsect of people it's
good that you're putting it out there cuz people need to hear that this guy is out there careful you know hell yeah
like I think the the stories are entertaining because they're so nuts but it is a public service people should
know if you're going we this MP buten are taught you do that not so much yeah maybe it's a wakeup
call yeah just humans in general don't get in a car with someone you don't know truly cuz here like we said before like
hearing their thoughts after the experience is so like I'm like we get it like I'm just like we get that like
that's exactly your thoughts after a weird experience and like don't blame yourself um you do like kind of listener
stories where listeners share it's often like Supernatural and stuff but have you
ever had anything like this not like this we get some we get some listeners who are like I shouldn't have gotten in
a car like that that night they always and I always feel bad because they blame themselves at the end they're always
like I was stupid I shouldn't have done that and it's like well it sucks that the world is like this and that you
can't do that but all most of us have been there where you're like [ __ ] probably shouldn't have done that but
nothing like glove guy no I've never heard a story like glove guy but it could be a horror movie and I El I know
you you're right into horror this could easily be adapted to a horror movie I can imagine the scene at the beginning
where he's stitching the gloves yes with the sunglasses pulling the leather and everything like you can just see this
whole scene and the sunglasses and the setting up the camera yeah I hate it so yeah it's cinematic the whole
thing I feel bad for the people who got in the car with them but again they all seem to be taking it and stride everyone
except one of the guys we heard from was able to laugh at it when they got which
hopefully they're able to like just be like that was a weird moment in life Yeah that poor last I mean poor all of
them but that poor last guy he really went through it yeah yeah I I did that interview with him in person and it was
like I've I've interviewed like sex assault victims in the past or victims of sex trafficking and his like the way
he presented and the way he told the story was just like the other stories that I heard from people who you know
one I can think of particularly I talked to on my show that was a victim of child
sex trafficking and the way she described the story it was with the same kind of flow and emotion that that he
told his so there's no doubt in my mind that it's traumatized that guy couldn't it like that's so disturbing cuz there
doesn't need to be like contact it's like this guy assault it's that's so traumatizing absolutely yeah wow wow
what is story Jordan I don't I don't know how to recover from this one well I think I'm the opposite of like the
Halifax tourism person I I just come on every couple years and remind morbit listeners that it's really crazy here
hey everybody news from Canada last time I was last time I was on we did Lindsay
savano the American woman who tried to commit the mass shooting in Halifax who was eligible for parole in about one
year from now so heard that story buckle up oh man that's another one that's just
I know that's another scary one Jordan you have wild stories you do but we're always down to hear them but that's why
we welcome you back all the time and again you're welcome any time hey you're perfect for morbid you
are uh definitely a weirdo yeah yeah you absolutely are you fit the bill and everybody go listen a night
time I appreciate it so much and uh hope to do it again soon and I hope to have you both on my show soon yeah yeah we
would love to that'd be fun let's do it in the meantime go listen to nighttime and we hope you keep listening listening
and we hope you keep it weird but not so weird as the glove guy that's not weird that's consent
would be weird without consent it's just wrong it's just wrong exactly perfect way to put that wrong wow
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Trigger warning: Please be aware that adult subject matter is discussed within this episode and is not recommended for young listeners.

Jordan Bonaparte from the Night Time Podcast joins us to talk about his deep dive into the lore of the nefarious 'Glove Guy'. Initially, he thought the man to be little more than an urban legend and published a post asking for people to tell about their experiences. Men of Halifax, Canada, flooded his inquiry with stories claiming to have EXTREMELY strange late night interactions with the man. The stories are odd, but what Jordan experienced after his podcast released was truly unexpected.

Resources:

Author unknown. 2016. Warning men of Halifax: The Glove Man. Accessed April 08, 2024. https://www.reddit.com/r/halifax/comments/6qqr7c/warning_men_of_halifax_the_glove_man/.

Bonaparte, Jordan. 2024. "The Halifax Glove Guy." Night Time Podcast. Halifax, Nova Scotia, April 11-14. Accessed April 08, 2024. https://www.nighttimepodcast.com/episodes/gloveguy.

Jackson Weaver. 2019. How a podcast on Halifax's 'Glove Guy' led to an intellectual property dispute. July 12. Accessed April 08, 2024. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/nighttime-podcast-name-disputed-1.5203527.

Lamoureux, Mack, and MJ Banias. 2019. This Late-Night Glove Salesman Masturbating Story Is Very Weird But Also True. August 30. Accessed April 08, 2024. https://www.vice.com/en/article/3kxb9n/this-late-night-glove-salesman-masturbating-story-is-very-weird-but-also-true.

Love the Gloves. No date. Love the Gloves. Accessed April 08, 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20180715035720/http://lovethegloves.com/.

—. 2013. LoveTheGloves Halifax, Nova Scotia. Accessed April 08, 2024. https://www.youtube.com/@lovethegloveshalifaxnovasc6534?app=desktop.

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Brief Summary

The episode discusses the unsettling urban legend of Halifax's glove guy, who preys on young men with a glove fetish during late-night rides.

Key points

The Legend of the Glove Guy. A mysterious figure in Halifax known for his unsettling encounters with young men.
The Glove Guy's Infamy. The glove guy's reputation spreads through Reddit, revealing multiple similar stories.
A Disturbing Encounter. A man's unsettling experience with the glove guy in a black SUV.
The Glove Guy Encounter. A man recounts a bizarre and unsettling ride with a glove salesman.
Creepy Glove Video. A description of an eerie video featuring a man with gloves.
The Vile Voicemail. A voicemail reveals the most grotesque thing ever heard, leading to a chilling decision.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

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Describing the legend of the glove guy.

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