Morbid - Episode 386: Fairy Lights, Witches & Curses OH MY!

Episode Date: November 2, 2022

Urban legends for Halloween? YOU BETCHA! Alaina brings us an urban legend straight out of the Louisiana Bayou- she really can’t get enough of that place, eh? Le Feu Follet is a really pretty set of words, but don’t you go following them into the dark. Even if you are listening to Death Cab For Cutie. And while we’re on this path of warning you about things you should and shouldn’t do, let me tell ya don't mess with Queen Hannah Cranna. She’s not noble, but she is a witch and she will fuck with your ability to make a good pie. If that's a little vague press play and Ash will clear it all up for you!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Hey, Weirdo, Zimeh, and I'm Elena and this is morbid. At night. At night. Alina won't get that reference, but at night. SpongeBob. Oh my god. It's always SpongeBob. I was going to say you shouldn't be surprised at this point. I almost said it. I was almost like's always SpongeBob. I was gonna say you shouldn't be surprised at this point.

I almost said it. I was almost like a sad SpongeBob. If I say it's a reference you're not gonna get, I feel like eight out of 10 times is probably SpongeBob. Yeah, I could see that. Yeah, that's awesome. So checks. Or a hip wrap song,

which I probably won't get. That's what I try. So today we're doing kind of like a spooky legend. Right? Yeah. Episode we're doing kind of like Miss Mosh, a spooky legend. Mishmosh. A smishmosh.

A smishmosh. Yeah, we figured like Halloween legends. Halloween. Halloween. Halloween. And legends, they just We've seen Halloween. In legends, they just go hand in hand. They do, and it just felt right.

Because we haven't really done anything like Halloween related. No, on the pod. I mean, we do not. We've never done so spooky things. But we've been doing just a lot of like true crime cases. So we're like, you know what, let's bring it to a place of Halloween. A place of spookiness. Yeah.

A place of weird. A place of Elena and spookiness. Yeah. A place of weird. A place of Elena and Dash. Which by the way, speaking of spooky and weird and awesome, we went to the Salem Nightfare the other night. Dude, it was so much fun. Ryan and Matt do, from the Blackvale, they're the ones who put it on. They do such an amazing job.

It's insane. Like shout out to them. And all the vendors and like everybody who makes it on, they do such an amazing job. It's insane. Like shout out to them. And all the vendors and like everybody who makes it happen, it's just like, it's one of the Elena literally walked in there and she was like, I wanna live here. Yeah, I texted John because he was home with the kids and I was like, because they were sleeping

and one of us had to stay home because we're kind of like, short-handed with help this week. But I texted him because he was like, how is it? And I was like, I'm not kidding you. I feel like this is the inside of my mind. It all went absolutely.

And it felt like it was. Oh my God, I have to still impact the candles that I got there. And when I do, I need to shout out the woman who makes those candles. Because she was telling us how she does it and everything. And she sets intentions and all this stuff, and they're so beautiful, and they smell so good.

Yeah. I can't wait to light one. It's just like spooky Etsy come to life. Mm-hmm. Yeah. It's just these amazing vendors, like so many cool things. It's like good food and tarot card readings.

It's just, it's everything just delightful that you can want. And it's at the Salem Pioneer Village, which makes it just spooky and awesome. It was so rad. It was also the start to like a really awesome weekend for me. Yeah. Like this past weekend was one of the best weekends I've had. Wow. Look at you. Because I got to do that with you and like a bunch of our spooky fun friends. Yeah. And then the next day we got to go to Drew's cousin's

bachelor at and she's just like the sweetest human and all her sisters are so cool. I loved them. And it was like so fun hanging out with them. And then yesterday I got to hang out with you and our family. Exactly. It was like so wonderful. And we got to go to a haunted house finally.

And we got to play Sheena and Tread. Yes. Oh wow, the way that I almost just outed Tread's identity. I was just, that's why I went, you said, you said, you said, pump the that I almost just outed Trid, I didn't know that. I was just, that's why I went, we love you said, you said, you said pump the brakes, it's a Trid. Oh man, that was a close call. Yeah, if you guys aren't following

Sheena Melwani and Trid, the real Indian dad. Yeah, you gotta do it. Go follow their TikTok, go check them out, they're hilarious. And also they happen to be like the sweetest, most amazing people in real life. So they've become recently like some of our new best friends. And it's really exciting.

And it was Sheena's first haunted house ever. So it was really fun to bring her to that. I felt so, I feel like so important bringing her to her first haunted house. I know and also it was so much fun. It was, it was needed. We haven't hit one this year. No. It just, it hasn't worked out. You know, people have been sick.

Kids have been sick. It just hasn't been a thing that we could do. Yeah. And we've just been so busy that it just isn't working out. And finally, I know. It was after all the kids went to sleep. And I was like, you know what, let's go. We can go.

Hell yeah. Yeah. And we, Elena and I used to go to a haunted house literally every weekend in October. Like it was our thing that we did together. And we'd Elena and I used to go to a haunted house literally every weekend in October. Like it was our thing that we did together and we'd like invite whoever. But we always went no matter what. And the past couple of years, it's been COVID and kids and busy and craziness. It's like next year, we got to get back on our grind.

Get back on it, you know? But we met a ton of you guys at the Night Fair, too. Yes. And I just wanted to say you guys were awesome, and it was really cool to meet you, and you kind of made our nights, so thanks for being rad. Yeah, it was just, it just felt right.

Good weekend. It felt right. Every time somebody came up and was like, oh my god, hey, it was like, we would meet here. Oh, really? I was like, yeah, like this feels right. That's our good meet to with people. Yeah.

So thanks for being awesome and saying hi to us because that was really cool. It was so fun. And I hope you guys had fun at the night fair too. And I hope everybody had a good weekend no matter what they did. And you know what? It's Halloween spooky random legend time.

I think this episode goes on like a Wednesday. People are going to be like, it's literally the middle of the week. It is. You know? Yeah. Yeah. But you know it's coming. Whatever. like, it's literally the middle of the week. It is, you know? Yeah. But you know it's coming. Whatever.

Yeah, Halloween's coming. Oh. I know, you were so confused. Yeah, it's, what time is it? It's late. I don't even know. Yeah. Who knows?

It's like eight, 30 p.m. So I'm very happy. Yeah, I'm sure you're gonna. It's way past my bedtime. But do you wanna start or should I? No. Whoa. I'd never start a case. All right. Oh my. Wow, do you wanna start or should I? No. Whoa.

I'd never start this. Okay. All right. Oh my. Wow, if you could see her face right now, everybody. No. Whoa. Okay.

Well, I'm going to be covering a little bit, like just a little, little handful, little scoop of fairy lights. Ooh, the legends of fairy lights. You do that. I have a joke for you. Okay. I'm not joke for you. Okay. I'm not like Michael Scott. I'm superstitious.

Yeah. So that's why you have to start. Oh, I see. Okay. That took me a second. It also took me a second to form the joke. And that's why I had to interrupt you and tell the joke on a bad spot. Very nice. But I had to do what I had to do. Because I was in first my brain was going to the actual quote, like,

I'm not superstitious, but I'm a little superstitious. So I got confused, but I like it. Okay. In retrospectively, I'm laughing right now. Alrighty. Like, he's set up a bitch. Tell me about you. Tell me about your fairies.

And remind me not to tell a joke when it's too late. So we're gonna have Stu and a tight 10 up in here. So yeah, I'm gonna talk about some fairy lights. Particularly, I'm going to start with ones from Louisiana. Oh, do you like that place or something? I do. I think Louisiana's great. TinyWarel.com slash the butcher in the ran.

Thank you. You're welcome. But these are called La Foufaleis. Ooh. Kind of like a Benye, but different. Not at all like a Benye, but I prefer. I would like a Benye now. I've never had a Benye.

A Benye. Benet. Benet. No, these are called La Foufaleis. And these entities are also known as the cagin fairies or the swamp fairies. And it may sound beautiful, but it has a truly sinister motive

for appearing to unsuspecting victims. So back the fuck up. Yeah, these sounds great, but no. So this word is obviously French. I don't know if you could tell. Oh, that's weird. I thought it was German. La fufa l'aise.

It's obviously French. And it has a few different translations. I've seen Marshfire, but I've also seen Crazy Fire, which I think Crazy Fire kind of like fits better. I like that. Now, a lot of people with Cajun heritage today, especially in the Louisiana area, have probably heard tales of these entities

from their parents, grandparents, you know, the like. They're the kind of tales that come with a strong lesson tales of these entities from their parents, grandparents, you know, the like. They're the kind of tales that come with a strong lesson of not following things into the swamp, or the woods. Lessons are important. They are, you know, stay out of the swamps and just don't be a crazy little wander, you know?

That's actually like exactly who I am. Yeah, don't be a crazy little wanderer. Too late. Not in these parts. Now, these little things are balls of light, usually very small, but sometimes they can be a little bigger. Like, some of them are the size of like a quarter. And then some of them can be like a cantaloupe size.

Like a cantaloupe, you say? And they'll look like a flickering flame. Cantaloupe are pretty big, I'm pretty big. A flickering cantaloupe flame? Yeah, but they're far away. They start up far away. So you'll see them and they just kind of vary in size. Now, they appear in the darkness of the Louisiana Bayou

and they just kind of like dance along the tree line. And initially, these lights were seen as a good home in that first, because people were like, oh, lights, that's great. Let's say, always good. Sounds good. And the story can sometimes vary depending on who is telling it. but there is a strong consistency

with the important parts of the stories when it comes to where these came from. Some people believe that these fires are the spirits of babies that died unbaptized or died while they were still nursing. Oh. Yeah. And these aren't like grown people who weren't baptized as babies. These are babies who are not baptized

and died as babies. Oh. Yeah. That's what these are. She said, let me clarify. I was like, you're confused. And I was so thank you. Okay.

Or these are babies who died while they were still nursing. Oh, that's terrible. And they now have to like wander around in some kind of purgatory state. I hate that. Now, a lot of these tales, kind of tales regarding them are scary

and have a really hopeless feeling to them. If they're not babies, then some people believe that these are just spirits of those who died. They lived terrible lives, like did wicked things in their lives. And they entered purgatory and then were spit back

into the earthly realm because their lives were so filled with sin that they're now forced into this punishment afterlife. Damn, you're so bad, you can't even hang out in purgatory. We spit you out of purgatory. Like neither one of them are taking you. Who the hell gets spit out of purgatory? Apparently the people who turn into Lafoufaleis.

But Lafoufaleis, so beautiful. It does sound beautiful. That's their game. So others believe that these are bright, like these are the spirits of loved ones who have died. And this was their way of returning home to pass on a message or to comfort those who are struggling with their loss. All right, so so far we've got dead babies, which is absolutely terrible. We've got weak and human beings. So terrible that they can't even hang out in purgatory. And now I have a loved one.

Well, this is what it is. This is where the issue lies. This is a trap. They are all traps. You are compelled by these lights to follow them, but you will never quite reach them, and they're just not good. They appear to be seen as what you want them to be,

loved ones to comfort you and bring you news from beyond, like they try to make themselves into what you need them to be, but they are not your loved ones. They are not anything good. They are masking as such, and are in fact there to lure you into the swamps to your fucking ones. They are not anything good. They are masking as such and are in fact there to lure you into the swamps to your fucking death. Well, that's why they shouldn't have gotten kicked out of purgatory, leave them there so they can't fuck with me in mine. So even though the people who would believe these were their loved ones were being tricked by these entities, what they are is they

really are like evil things. So I don't think, and the whole like babies and purgatory thing, I think it's just like a whole other series of issues, but I think it's, it seems to me like the one that fits right is these, because these are evil, like they're not good. Like so they're- Frank from Hellraiser. Yeah, exactly, like he would definitely be one of the you.

I'm a horror queen. Wow. Yeah, it's me Ash, I watch Look at you. I'm a horror queen. Wow. Yeah, it's me Ash. I watch horror movies now. I introduced Ash to Hellraiser like what last week? Yeah, like two weeks ago, two weeks ago for the first time she had seen it and she loved it.

I really liked it. I was so proud. I was so proud. Mom, I was real proud. I was like, that's my girl. That's my girl. That's my girl. Next on screen, just like quick diversion.

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So like, I really am becoming a true horror head. And guys, now's the time to go listen to, listen to screen if you're not listening. All right, come on. Go ahead, It's fun. Hey there, fellow podcast listener. It's Elena and Ash. And we're taking you back to the days before streaming services. Whoa. You know, when you would come home from high school, and it was only a few hours until that TV show, everyone was watching was about to come on. Well, in 1999, that show was Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

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Exactly. And once they have you, they keep you. Oh, they're not letting you go. I did not like the little eye thing that you just did. They keep you. They keep you. I don't look at me like that. They keep you.

And they lead you further and further into the swamps, making sure that you lose your way. That you're paying attention to them, you're not paying attention to where you're going. And when you realize how far you have wandered, it's always too late. Oh my damn. You're either lost or you will fall into the swamp and drown. Those are the two alcohols. Wow. And some legends even say, I found a few things that say, they'll try to lure you into the swamps and into briars or sharp prickly bushes to get you torn to pieces. Jesus Christ.

Yeah. Again, like hell, Reiser. Exactly. Whoa. Yeah. It is just sent to bites. No, maybe. These could be just pinhead and like butterball over there. My man.

But my man. Now, they have also been associated, though, with treasure, treasure-seeking people. OK. So there are stories that say it was common for high-ranking pirates to kill a crew member before they would bury their treasure. They would then throw the body of this crew member into the hole with the treasure.

And this person, this act, would connect this dead man's soul to the treasure forever. And they are now forced into the job of guarding the treasure until the pirates come back to claim it. Why do I kind of love that ex-narrally? Is it not so gnarly like they murder? Yes.

One of their crewmates throw him in the hole and he's now bound to this treasure. That's some pirates of the treasure. That's some pirates of the Caribbean. That's some pirate shit. Yeah, we should cover like some pirates. We gotta cover some pirate stories. There are some crazy ones lingering out there in the depths. Yo ho ho. Yo ho ho in a bottle of rum. Oh, boy. Maybe. There you go. Ark. Did you just become pirates? We did. We did. Remember when everybody would get excited about speak

like a pirate day, or everybody would get excited about on Facebook, they would let you change your language to pirate? I do briefly remember the Facebook thing. And I think instead of like, what do you, because you know how like when you would put up a status update, it would say like what's on your mind? What's on your mind?

It would change to like what yeebie plunder in. There's something. That must have been when Facebook like first had one. And I think I was like a little bit after that. And everyone was like real into it. They're like, all the pirate. It says what yeebie plunder in right now. I kind of love that. It was funny.

We were like, we were a simpler couple back then. When you would just get into like poke fights on Facebook. It was a simpler time. It was a beautiful time. Yeah, poking used to be a way of just get into like poke fights on Facebook. Yeah, it was a simpler time. It was a beautiful time. Yeah, poking used to be a way of like flirtation. Back in my day. Oh yeah, it was a much simpler time.

But enough of that. So these spirits that are now connected to this treasure are said to become Lafouville. Especially when the treasure was finally claimed by the pirates that initially buried it because they would still stay and guard the place that the treasure was. Then they would lure other people toward the treasure place only to lead them to certain death and bury them alive.

Alrighty. So people think they're being led to buried treasure. There's a tale of like these two guys, I read it in a few different sources, these two guys were working on a railroad together. They were friends. They saw the Lafoufileis and they were like, oh, we have to follow them because maybe they're going to lead us to treasure. And they followed. In the Lafoufile, went into the dirt, like, led them of stray, went into the dirt and they were like, that must be where the treasure is. So they started digging and they were working on the railroads so they had shovels. All the live long day. They ended up banging into something that like, holy shit, it's treasure.

They got so excited that one of them was greedy and decided to knock the other one out with a shovel to take the treasure for themselves. Oh, that's fake, us fuck. But when he got to the treasure, he opened it up and it was a La Foufile, who was fucking with him, and that La Foufile killed him. And then his friend woke up and ran back to the railroad and was like, holy shit, what happened? And they never found the other friend again. So he was a fucking greedy shithead. And he got eaten by the La Foufile. Eaton, you said. I said the Lafoufale, but it's just Lafoufale, because that's two thus.

Whoa, but so don't follow the Lafoufale, and if you follow the Lafoufale with a friend, don't get fucking greedy, because one of you is gonna die. Wow, this is a cautionary tale. Yeah, and you might be thinking to yourself right now. Well, shit. Yeah, is this it? I'm usually thinking to yourself right now, well shit, yeah, is this it?

I'm usually thinking to myself, well shit. If they appear, do I have a choice, or is it just my fate to follow them? Like, are they gonna force me to follow them? Yeah, what are my options? Like, what do I do here? I'm saying, well, some locals believe that you can, you actually can fight against their otherworldly power

and keep yourself from becoming a victim of the swamp fairies. With a little one-two punch. No, not a one-two punch. They don't give a shit about that. They're like, get the fuck outta here with your little hands. Why was that so funny? They don't give a shit about that. They don't care about that.

Who fool on your one-two punch asshole? I'm fufile. I don't care about your little like boop boop hands. So apparently these little entities, though, they don't care about you throwing hands, but they do care about iron. They cannot cross anything iron. Oh.

Not sure why. So if you're seeing one and you're feeling the pull of their power, you have to put something iron between you. Usually it's recommended that you drive something into the ground, that's iron, like a blade, or I read a lot of people use iron needles. And this is interesting because it works, the way that it works is the

fufa-lay are compelled to try to fit through the eye of the needle. They try to fit through it. Why does that sound familiar to me? Well, I'll get, I'll tell you, because you probably remember it from a couple of other things. So they'll try to get through the eye of the needle, and then they will spend a lot of time and effort trying to do this, and they'll momentarily lose sight of the fact that they came here initially to lure you into the swamp to watch you die a horrific slow death. It's kind of like you lure them into the eye of the needle and then actually you have a horrific slow death. You play their own game. So when they're distracted, you can run as far away as humanly needle and that's them. You're a horrific slow to. You play their own game.

So when they're distracted, you can run as far away as humanly possible and never look back. This works a lot like the legends that include leaving a lot of things outside your door for spirits to count. That might be what you're thinking about. We've covered things before. Like these key, we've covered some of these

like keepaway methods for spirits. Yeah, like Salon. Yeah. Now one of these I found actually, because I started looking into other ones, because I thought the same thing. I was like, that sounds so familiar. Yeah. I think I was thinking of all these different cultures and legends that would be like, they will count this many things outside your door and forget that they're coming in

to her. Now one of these that I found terrifying and fascinating is the Haint, which is an evil ghost from Gullah Gichi culture found in the south near like Florida, Georgia, North and South Carolina area. These Haints have a method and these Haints are like evil ghosts and they have a method of killing their victims by chasing them until they die of exhaustion. That's my worst fucking nightmare. That's their goal. They just exhaust you to death. I mean, life is already doing that to me, so can you not? So can you not. But you can keep these away, it's said by a few methods.

First, you can apparently use newspaper as wallpaper. Or you can read pages of books as wallpaper, which sounds kind of cool. Also not my vibe. Because the hate just has to read every single word. They will stop and have to read every single word in these papers. So the more papers, the better. They will never be able to get you. The someone come up and they'll be banished.

Awesome vibe. You can also leave sand, rice, or a broom outside your home because the hate will have to count every grain of sand or rice, and they will have to count every bristle in the broom. And they get confused really easily so they'll have to start over a bunch of times. The more things you can leave out for them to count, the better. All right. You can also paint your porch ceiling or floor, paint blue.

Oh my God. Because it makes them think that it's water and that's something they can't go past. Mm-hmm. Isn't that interesting? That is interesting. Yeah. And those, you will still find porches,

especially in the south. Yeah. It's like in the Carolinas and stuff, you'll find a ton of porches have that blue. I found that out a couple of years ago. I knew somebody who had like a blue roof on their porch. Yeah. Now this brings us back to iron and the fufelays.

Yes. They can't pass iron, so you can sometimes what trick them with whatever you have to put in the ground. They will at least pause to think it over and you can get out of there. Well, kale count. Kale, there you go. Ha ha ha. Iron rich.

Iron rich kale. Yeah. So apparently they can also enter your home, though, which is terrifying. No, thanks. Can I give them something to count? You can. So there's a thought that La Fufa-Lai

really love to terrorize children. Great. Particularly infants. Yeah, see, I don't, that's why I don't think they're babies. Yeah, they're dicks. So if your baby wakes up with rosy cheeks, it's thought that the fufilei came into your home at night and stole some of your infants' breath.

And that's why their cheeks are a little rosy. Not just that they're a warm sleeper. No, fufilei. So in order to make sure that doesn't happen again, or happen at all, really. Yes. It's suggested that you scatter mustard seeds on the floor of the nursery,

because again, Lafoufale will stop to count them all. And eventually the sun will rise, and they will be banished another day. Okay. Of course, you now have mustard seeds all over the floor of your nursery, but hey, your baby still has oxygen, so that's a good toss up in my book.

Although like mustard seeds do kind of seem like they would be a choking hazard. So... Well, your baby's in the crib. Yeah, they do. Baby's second out of the crib. Not as an infant. Not as an infant. This is like infant.

Infants. This is an toddler. This is infant. So they're swaddled. Like, you got a swaddler in there. Oh, I love the little swaddled babies. I love the little swaddled baby mushy sw the little swaddled baby moushies. I feel like I could just like smell that.

I know, like smell a little swaddled babe. No, that was all interesting to me, but then while searching for information about these things, I kept coming across like things like it that were like really, I want to do like a whole episode, I swear on these kind of things, because that is very interesting.

And I kept finding them from all over the world. And there are the will of the wisps in Scotland, which I'm going to talk about in a second. But those are the ones that I knew about growing up. Like, Ma, I used to talk about them. And then one I hadn't heard of is from Denmark. And they are literally called the jackal lanterns. But they're not. But they're not pumpkins.

They are lights as well. And they're said to, and this is Denmark, they're said to be spirits of unrighteous men. Are you righteous? No. I'm a jackal lantern actually. Now these unrighteous men come back because they were kicked out of the other realm and said back to earth. They make it their goal to lure travelers off their paths and lead them into bogs and marshes and swamps so that they drown alone. Also, don't you dare point at one if you see it. If you point at one, they will always see you pointing

at them no matter what and they will seek you out. Well, you are pointing right now, so I suggest you stop pointing right at you. Well, there's three fingers pointing right there. Yeah, you. All right now, so I suggest you stop pointing right at you. Well, there's three fingers pointing right there. Yeah, you. All right, that's funny. Now, it's the same concept, but this time it's grown unrighteous men

and the way to stop them is not with iron, but by turning your cap inside out, what if I don't have a cap? Well, what's funny to me is like, so basically a rally cap will send these assholes packing. Yeah. Do you remember? Yeah, she's thinking her head.

She literally was like, I was like, I'll read it. Yeah, I don't remember. When playing like baseball or softball, a rally cap was like, you put your head inside out when you're not doing great because you're your aim and your manifesting a rally. Do you remember that I was the girl on the softball team who convinced everybody to make matching bows and then we all wore those to games and then the softball coaches really didn't like me for that. I do remember you're welcome. But softball, but make it

fashion is still funny that like Arali cap is like I'm turned inside out cap to manifest Arali. Okay, need one. And that will send the Jagalands gone like packing. Is there anything else I can do or that's my only, that's it. That's all I could find. So if you don't have a cap, I guess you're shit out of luck. Well, shit. But that's awesome. Now back to the will of the Wisps because those, I just love those. Ma, I talked about these.

Ma, and I remember dad telling me a story about the will of the Wisps because they are from Scotland. I never heard them talk about these. Now I'm interested. It's probably the closest thing I knew to La Foufele. Okay. They originate in Scotland and they're kind of the same idea. They're fairy lights that lead people astray to their device. And they are sometimes referred to as Ignis Bautis, I believe. I'm probably saying that wrong, but it's Latin. And it's Latin for... Just don't say it though. I was just going to say it. It's probably good that I can't say that, so that's really great. It's Latin for foolish fire.

And it makes sense, that's exactly what it is. So travelers or just any wary victim would see what looked like a flickering flame of a lantern or a candle over the moors or bogs or marshland, they would feel compelled to follow it. And sometimes it gave the impression of someone needing help. Oh. Yeah. So it like prays on peoples like need to help others. And sometimes it gave the impression of someone needing help. Oh. Yeah. So it like prays on people's like need to help others.

Oh right. Or something you just needed to go and check out. Like something interesting. And like, and these little lights are very like playful. They're like fairy lights. And in that first, they bounce and jump and like really invite you. They're like check me out.

They're like girl, let's go. Damn it. And I'm never going to look at a firefly the same. No're like, check me out. They're like, girl, let's go. Damn it. I'm never gonna look at a firefly the same. No, that's, truly. Now, these, the well of the whips, are bad omen. And seeing one can mean you or someone you know is about to die. Oh, shit.

Yeah. And they're also said to possibly lead someone to maybe see Fay, which can be, ooh, ooh, ooh. Or, yeah, you don't wanna fuck with Faye. No, you do not. And they also will lead you to leprechauns. Huh, so that seems like bullshit to me, but that, cause that's more than like the,

like the Irish version of things. But there's like a little buried treasure bit here too that in Scotland it says like you could find treasure too. So I guess that lies up with like leprechauns. Or you could die. Truth. So I guess that would lie. Treasure. But like Lappercones. Or you could die. Truth. So it's a real 50-50 shot. Yeah.

Now, it's the origin of Will of the Wisps that really interested me at first. It's just like an interesting story. Apparently the legend says that there was a man named Willem who was an asshole. Willem? Willem, there you go. He did all sorts of bad things while he was alive. And when it was time for him to shuffle off this mortal coil, he went to meet Saint Peter

at the pearly gates and his, the film of his life were old before him. And it was a flop. This film sucked. Critics hated it. Rotten tomatoes gave it a 10% at best. The letterbox score was even worse. It was just so.

So same Peter was like my guy, we can't let you in with those kind of numbers. You can't come in here. Well shit. So he was like, you have to try this shit again, William. He was like, you gotta, William. It's actually, it is William and William and different sources you see, but I got William.

Get you a boy who could do this. Exactly. So he sent William back to Earth to give it another try. Oh, okay. So you better shape the fuck up, sir. The city it fucked it up again. I bet he did. In fact, he was even worse this time around.

Oh, no. So he peed in any city, right? So he peed in that. He was like, get out when he came back. That's fuck. He kicked him out, not back to Earth, but banished him from the other place too. So he was walking around purgatory, and the devil shows up.

He said, hey, and the devil was like, wow, you're pathetic. And he gave him a burning piece of brimstone, and he was like, here, it's fucking cold in here. Hold that. As the devil would. He was like, it's cold in purgatory. Here's some fucking fiery brimstone to hold onto. Hope it keeps you warm. would he was like it's cold in purgatory. Here's some fucking fiery brimstone to hold on to like Hope it keeps you warm. I don't think the level would like help you out like well

And he gave it to him and he was like don't be a dick and then he just left Here's some fiery rock try to make something of yourself in purgatory I want to know what the devil was doing in purgatory. Well will I think he just got he probably like toots in there a little bit And is like how's everybody doing like he's really just a dick In there do you guys follow Satan on tiktok? My god you should follow Satan on tiktok. I know his true identity, but I won't spoil it hilarious It's so you got to follow it, but he basically said don't be a dick here some fire your rock. Mm-hmm Like yeah, take something to do it. You will with that

But will took this as an opportunity to enact his bitter revenge on the world, which might have been the devil's plan all along. Because he knew that Willem was a dick. So he set up. Here's some firey rock, Biennyskai. And then he just left. Yeah, like what? But he continues his reign of terror now using his brimstone rock, gifted by Lucifer,

to lure travelers into the bogs to die. Mmm, nice will. Now, I'm not going to ruin this by pointing out that all of these lights can possibly be attributed to swamp gas and bioluminescent mushrooms analogy. But you like just did, though. It's spirits, happy fucking Halloween. I love that. And that's the end of mine. That was really funny. And you said, us, the odds are gone. All right.

Well, I, very like, I am a witch. Oh, yeah, you do. I have a witch because it's fucking Halloween. A witch and a curse and a, ooh. Yeah, that's actually, I wish it a few curses and always a, ooh, it's my story. All right, well mine is the legend of Hannah Kranah, aka the wicked witch of Monroe.

Hannah Kranah. Hannah Kranah, hey girl. I fucking love her to be honest. Already love her. All right, so like I said, the Hannah Kranah legend comes to us from Monroe, Connecticut, much like the Warrens. Hey, close by.

Nail. So Hannah was a lady who was born way back in 1783. One who was said to be a witch. Now luckily for Hannah, like by the time she was doing her witchy thing, people in New England had already seen the hysteria caused in Salem by the witch trials. So they were a little more hesitant to bring women that they believed to be witches to trial. That's so nice of them.

Yeah, they were like, we saw how this went and I think instead we'll just spread some rumors throughout town and mess with them from afar. Oh, there you go. Yes. So again, they saw that it was a flop the first time around and they were like, let's not repeat that. They said, we're not in our flop era. No, we are not. We're in our fucking bitch ass era.

So let's spread rumors and run them up. Are we in our, they might be in our bitch ass era again. It seems like the whole world is in that bitch ass era. Very much in a bitch ass era at this moment in time. But back then, they were not in their flop era. They were again in their bitch ass era. And that was the case with Miss Hannah. They bullied her from afar. Now, it's a bit of a mystery woman, even when it comes to her name,

because some sources say that she was married to a man named Joseph Hovey, and her grave actually even says that she's the wife of that man's. But I also found an article on newspapers.com. And it referred to her husband as Silas Crana. So I was trying to figure out if Silas was like Mr. or Sir or something like that, but it seems to be a name. And now that's weird. That's interesting because nobody really knows when Hannah became known as Hannah Crana.

Some people say that it was a nickname given to her in like a jockey way. But I mean, I guess it really doesn't matter that much because throughout the year She's more known as the Wicked Witch of Monroe. Whoa. So the house that she and her husband lived on was on Kragley. I hope I'm saying that right Kragley Hill and Monroe, Connecticut. Now evidently these days what is left of their home We'll get more of that later is guarded guarded by different sized snakes to this day. Damn. Now Hannah's story seems to start with the death of her husband. So there are two very different accounts of how she killed the man. Neither has been proven to be true, but let's explore both, shall we?

Let's look at both. So story one says that Hannah's husband went out for a walk one night, and he drifted a little too far from home Now somehow he Stumbled over and fell off the edge of a cliff In Connecticut In Connecticut And when you said drifted too far from home I just pictured him like clinging to a piece of drift wood and just like drifting. No, he's just walking, walking.

He's just slow-lead, or thin, tucked in away. I don't wanna get sued. Um, his body was found the next day and immediately people thought that Hannah had something to do with it. Hannah Kranel. They thought Hannah Kranel. They thought Hannah Kranel.

They did. And they said she put some kind of spell on him that led to his death. The spell must have disoriented him so much that it just left him walking blindly to this cliff, having no idea what he was actually doing. Damn. So that could be it. Could be it.

Or the other variation of the story is pretty dark. In this version, Hannah's husband part takes a little too often in excessive drinking, and she's through with it. She's had enough. Well, she's had a cranna. She's had a cranna. She doesn't need this. And she's not here for your shit. No, she's through with it. She's had enough. Well, she's Hannah Krenna. She's Hannah Krenna. She doesn't need this. And she's not here for your shit.

No, she's not. So he comes home one day and they get into it because she's like, hey, you smell like booze again and I'm kind of sick of this shit. Yeah. So they start fighting. They bring their argument outside because she says you won't take this outside

and they walk toward the cliff and things get more and more heated until finally Hannah grabs her husband. Apparently she's very strong, Michael. And she tosses him over the agenda. Oh my God. No, holy shit. Allegedly. I'm laughing just because of like the thought of this like I'm picturing Hannah

Kranna. Yeah. And my head is like a very small woman. Yeah, me too. I don't know why. Just like it just came to my brain that way. Particularly. And then I'm just picturing her like hoisting, me too. I don't know why. Just like it just came to my brain that way. Petite girl. And then I'm just picturing her like, hoisting this man. Me too. Like, like, uh, Louisa. Yes. From the Puggin in Toronto. Like she does with the,

with the donkeys. Hannah's the strong one and she's not nervous. She knows she's not. She's as strong as the crust of the earth is. So Native Americans watched her be as strong as the crust of the earth is. From the bottom of the cliff as this happened, even though Hannah thought that nobody had seen, but words spread around town either way, whether she tossed him over the cliff herself or if she concocted some kind of spell

that made him do it. So either way, he went over a cliff. He did, yeah, in Connecticut, similarly. And there were a couple of people who really actually did want her persecuted for witchcraft, but for one reason or another that never happened. But some people think that's because

the local authorities were so scared of her. Yeah. That they didn't wanna press the issue and try their luck. I mean, there's two choices here. She either be witch to the man off a cliff, or she hoisted him above her head and tossed, launched him off a cliff. May I say yeet it, the man.

The asters. There, I understand why they were a little hesitant to get involved in that whole thing. And we're only bawling because this is a legend. It's a legend. This is all legends. Yes, it's hilarious. So Hannah's husband, he was said to have died in May,

and she wasn't seen again until that next October. Well, she disappeared for a little while. And then she came back for spooky season. She did, because she's Hannah Krike. She was Hannah Krike, it's Halloween bitches. Yes. Now when she was spotted, there were two men riding past her. And according to the new town B newspaper,

she was, quote, dressed in white flowing garments and with disheveled hair standing in the swamp near the road in the rear of her home. I love that for her. She is now a swamp peg. And that's pretty great. Also a swamp banshee.

Maybe she didn't kill her husband. And maybe she was just a little distraught that the man's yeeted. Also a swamp banshee. Maybe she didn't kill her husband. And maybe she was just a little distraught that the man's yeeted himself over a cliff. So she was just having a quick moment in the swamp and you could just let her have at it. Yeah, let her grieve in the swamp, man. Let me grieve in the swamp so that I know it's real. Let me, like, she's having a hot banshee summer.

Okay, she had a hot banshee summer. It's October now. Next summer, you heard it here first. I am having a hot banshee summer. That's what Hannah Krenna was doing. Don't at me. She was just finishing off her hot banshee summer. She was stepping into spooky season

by stepping into the swamp. Yes. It was just her moment. Like everybody needed the letter, have her run. Let her live. Yeah. But they didn't want to let her live. Like everybody needed the letter, have her room. Let her live. Yeah. But they didn't want to let her live. And after that sighting, people would see her

from time to time. And we're kind of started to spread because people weren't seeing her too often. And a lot of the times, the sightings would be really late at night. So people really kind of started to latch onto this idea that she was a witch. And they wouldn't see her again until that next spring. Now, she came back with a mother fucking bang. And maybe she wouldn't have, or if it

weren't for like a little neighborly dispute, maybe she would have just continued hanging out and minding her own GD business. But apparently. One of her neighbors' cattle had gotten into her yard and messed up some of her flowers. Now she took great pride in her garden. She grew tiger lilies and she was like, don't fuck with them. Do you know how hard it is to keep a plant alive? Yes, I do.

Because I became a plant mom this past year. Plant parents of the world. I tip my hat to you because that shit is hard. It is. That shit is fucking hard. Because so many plants are different and like some like that just takes a lot of commitment. Some like that weather, some you can't water too much, some you have to give the water it amount, some you can't even fucking water.

Like who knew you couldn't leave a fricking cactus in your bathroom and that it would be too steamy in there and that you would kill a cactus, but even though nobody can kill a cactus, I'm not nobody can kill a cactus, I'm not speaking from personal experience. Yeah, who knew? Apparently you. Who knew? I don't know.

Who knew? By any way, Hanna. Hanna, Hanna. She got into dispute with her neighbor because she was like, Hey, you're being careless, you gotta watch your cattle and not let them eat my shit or my tiger lilies.

And this guy was not hearing her side of the story at all. He didn't give a shit. Oh no. So she got real angry, a real angry. He laughed in her face and told her she was an old woman without a husband and what would she even do to stop him? That is literally like tie and clueless, your virgin who can't drive.

Like that's your orange woman with no husband. Like that is so gnarly. Like what is the Connecticut version of that? Like dudes. My guy, that is not nice. Yeah, that hit different. Like that's like really, I would ask of that. I did. I did. My guy, that is not nice. Yeah, that hit different. Like, really, I would ask your ass. Yeah.

I would learn dark magic if I didn't know it. I mean, that would be it. She showed him. Damn. Because according again to the new town B, from December 7, 1900, Hannah, quote, with strangely flashing eyes and a voice tense in its vindictiveness cried with an outstretched menacing arm

My curse upon you and my curse upon your crop. I Love Hannah Krenna Hannah Krenna is my mother ethane girl Because I don't think she killed her husband. Poor do I think it was an accident I think he stumbled off a cliff in Connecticut. I think he was her husband. Or do I think it was an accident saying he stumbled off a cliff in Connecticut? I think he was known to drink. And I think she is, she's Carson. Yeah.

I think she was pushed into this. And on that day, I became a witch. There you go. You know, TikTok. Yeah. You know, TikTok. Hello, look at us TikTok. Of course she does.

Hannah knows all. She'd be a great TikTok. Of course she does. Hannah knows all. She'd be a great TikToker. I'd follow her. I would. I could show you how to grow tagger lilies. She would have an Etsy shop for she, for sure she would. I wish she would say it for she, she would buy shit from it.

Yes. Yes. Yeah, she'd be at the knife fair. All right, well listen, she would have. But before that feeble day, this man's crop was growing quite nicely, you know how it goes. You know how it goes. Yeah, of course.

Your crop grows in so nicely. I love when my crop grows nicely. So why does that sound like gross? I don't know. It sounds like dirty in a way. Then you can make anything dirty. It's truth. The Morse However, the morning after the curse was uttered, the man woke up to a very different set

of crop. I bet he did. I know you're probably supposed to say crops, but saying crop and making it feel plural is fun for me. Cool. Every last one of his potatoes had died. And the ground. I know, like how dare it, like Hannah, I love you, but not the potatoes.

That was a misstep, Hannah. But it wasn't, nothing Hannah does as a misstep in my opinion. I am. I love a potato. I do too, but you can get them from another guy who won't tell you that you're old or that you don't have a husband to defend you. I forgot about that, that's bad.

So Pupu on him, all of his potatoes were dead, and the ground was littered with stinky oozing dead potatoes. You. Much like he deserved. So a while later, after trying everything he possibly could to make his potatoes grow again, and having all of his attempts fail, that motherfucker went with his tail between his legs

to go apologize to Mizhanna. I was just gonna say you should go apologize. And he did. And met your wrongdoing. He admitted his wrongdoing, and I respect that. I do too. So she told him, thank you for the apology and mark my words.

Next year's crop will be beneficial to you, my dude. Look at this forgiving queen. Forgiving queen. Look at she sees growth. She gives chances. She sees growth. Yeah, she rewards it. Well, listen, the next year, the man was walking through the neighborhood

and Hannah gave him a little hello and back into Mover. And she said to him, go out tonight at 10 o'clock to your crops and you will see a significant change from last year. So he did. He went out to those crops. And as he stood there, he heard some kind of rustling in the distance.

But then the sound got louder and louder and he stood there in awe. The corn was literally growing as he watched it. And by the time it was done, it was at least 20 inches taller than when he'd first gotten there. That's a significant change. One might say. So as he stood there, probably with his jaw on the ground,

Hannah just came walking out of the stock. Yeah, she did. And she said to him, and this is a quote again from the new town B newspaper because they had the best information on this. They had the scoop of scoop. They did. It was written in 1900 and it was so much fun. I love this. But she told him, quote, always remember that as others due to me, even so I do to them, good for good, evil for evil. Oh, a little law of return from my witch bitches out there. I'm with Hannah.

I am too, team Hannah. I am a great believer in the rule of three by three. Mm-hmm. So Theodore Beach and Isaac Nichols, two local farmers would soon learn all about Hannah's philosophy. They were passing her house one day and they called out to her in a real nasty tone, kind of doubting how powerful she was because obviously this farmer before them had been like,

holy shit, you guys, you got to like be nice to Hannah. Yeah, she can fuck up your spuds. She could fuck up your spuds or she could make corn happen. Yeah. And it's a beautiful thing. The choice is yours. Yes, one might say corn. Make it a great day or not. The choice is yours. Yes. One might say corn. Make it a great day or not. The choice is yours. Yeah. You're really ruining my corn joke here. I'm just trying to say, come.

I knew you were going there. I know. I knew it. But yeah, so he was like, listen. But these two assholes were like, hey, you old hag. If you're so powerful, let's see it. And Hannah was like, oh baby, let's go. So she pointed to a nearby oak tree

and she said, you wanna see some shit? Before you have a chance to even pass that tree, you're gonna find out just how powerful your girl is. By the way, these are all direct quotes. Do your rec quotes. But then she turned around and she just cackled all the way inside. Oh, yeah, she's true fucking good.

So the two men continued doubting her, and as they turned to go on their merry way, they really shouldn't have. Because once Hannah was back inside her home, they tried to continue down the road, and they were carrying like a huge load of hay with them, and leading the hay barrel, Majiggy, was too oxen, they were pulling the cart.

But as they signaled the animals to head down the road, they simply could not move the cart. It was completely stuck. Hannah, yeah. They kept trying and eventually one of the wheels came flying off and everything went flying. And as that happened, unfortunately, it did start all the animals.

So they ran away through a fence and just kept running. And they ran so far away. And the two farmers went down the road after them, after glancing back at Hannah's house and hearing her cackling from inside. And they just kept running and running and running and she kept cackling. And all the reports kind of make it seem like the more Hannah was laughing, the faster they ran. Like her laughter was controlling the speed of their run. Oh my God, they're run.

I'm obsessed with that. Yeah, almost like they were bewitched by laughter. I love it. Yeah, and then she just laughing her ass off. Exactly, that's amazing. So they never fucked with her again. Yeah. Strangely enough, they were like later on

to a couple of people stumbled across the card of hay. And there was this jar of strange liquid inside that the two farmers said was not there before. Whoa. No explanation about that. To some weird ass liquid, weird liquid. They're like, Hannah did it. Yeah.

Wow. Yeah. So Hannah was said to kind of love that people thought of her as a witch. Oh, no. Maybe from time to time she would use it to her advantage. Yeah. So Hannah was said to kind of love that people thought of her as a witch. Oh, no. Maybe from time to time she would use it to her advantage. Yeah. She knew that people were a little scared of her, so why not benefit from that?

So she'd go to her neighbors and ask them for like firewood or pies. And remember, she's a widow. She's like, she's left with next to nothing, so she needs a little help from her neighbors. Of course. And she would give it to them, had they asked. Yeah. She'd give them a bundle of Tiger lilies, you know needs a little help from her neighbors. Of course. And she would give it to them, had they asked. Yeah. Give them a bundle of Tiger lilies, you know.

Oh yeah, she would. And I, Ferganai, a Tiger lily for a pie. Exactly. I love that she's in her villain era, though. I love that she's just leaning into it. She's like, you gonna be scared of me? Be scared of me. She doesn't give a single fuck.

And that is something I aspire to. For sure. So yeah, so if they wouldn't give the pies to her or the firewood, she would just tell them that she was going to curse them or she'd just kind of utter some kind of curse at them and just fuck them all up. That's what I'm going to do now. I mean, yeah, somebody would give me a pie. I'm just going to be like, I'll curse you.

I'll give you any pie you want. So one day when her neighbors was making a shit ton of pies and Hannah was like, hey, like, can I get in on them? Get in on this pie. Can I get some of that? Can please? Oh, please. I like pumpkin. She said, I am your neighbor. So the neighbor woman, she seemed to be put out by the request. But you make a pie. You're making so many. You're making pies for people that consume, man. It's also really funny. It's like the take that some people want to take on this story,

because you can tell some people that reiterate these accounts are not on Hannah's side. And they're like, she just told Hannah that her husband really loved that pie and that she didn't want to give it to her. And Hannah just like punched her in the face. Like that's not what happened.

I'm a Hannah truther, okay? So what really happened was, I'm a Hannah truther. So Hannah asked for one of them and this biatch gave her the smallest one and Hannah was like, you're kind of selfish. Huh, making all these pies, I got nothing and you give me the smallest one. Have you heard the word on the street?

I'm a mother fucking widow. So the lady tries to start with her, and Hannah says, hush, hush now. And she turns around to go home, but I should tell you, she mutter something under her breath, I think you put her hope she didn't mutter at you. And it turned out that it was some kind of curse

because that bitch ass woman, she was never able to bake another pie again. Hannah, is that you? I'm scared. Could never bake pie again. I'm never baking it. But now, no pies for you. To the sad part of my story.

Oh no, okay, let me get myself together. After years of cursing and such, Hannah, my queen, no like my actual queen, predicted her own death. You okay over there? This is the sad part, my queen dies. That's right, so we're, so she had a rooster named Boreyes or Boris. Are you all right?

She's stopping. She's not laughing. Of course she did. She makes and roosters and tiger fucking lollies. She's not laughing. Boris. Boris or Burr-rayas, how would you pronounce B-O-R-E-A-S? Oh.

Boris? Boris. Boris. Boris. Boris. Boris. Hannah, I hope I'm Boreus. Boreus. Hannah, I hope I'm saying it right. I'll do respect. Boreus. Boreus. So she had a rooster named Boreus and he was like basically her best friend.

The people in town had gotten so used to him growing at exactly midnight every single night that they like knew him by name. And a lot of people thought that he might have been her familiar. Oh, but one day Berea's the rooster died unexpectedly. And Hannah was obviously super sad and she went over to one of her neighbors that she actually got along with to chat about it. And she told the neighbor because my beloved rooster has died, I know that my death is approaching too. I can feel it. Oh no. So she said to this neighbor, she give them explicit instructions about how her death was to be handled. And when somebody does that, you respect their wishes.

Yeah. Correct. So she wanted her casket to be carried by hand down to the cemetery. They had to walk her down to the cemetery, hold that casket, walk with their own two feet. However, many people needed to be there. That's fine, but that's what they had to do.

Paul there. Paul there. Yeah. So she also said that she was not to be buried until after sundown. Hannah was found dead in her home the day after this conversation. Oh, no, Hannah. She knew. She knew. So it was the middle of January. found dead in her home the day after this conversation. Oh, no, Hannah. She knew.

She knew. So it was the middle of January, and there was fresh snow on the ground. So the people in charge of moving her decided to ignore her request to be carried down to the cemetery, and instead they tried looting her casket onto a big sled so that they could be lazy and slide her down. Oh no.

Mm-hmm. But no matter what they did, they could not get that casket to stay on the sled. It kept falling off, people sat on it and tried to make sure that it wouldn't fall off. They would get thrown off. At one point it apparently just started violently shaking. Oh, I would throw people off my casket.

Absolutely. I'm not gonna ever be casket, for sure. Absolutely. I'm not gonna ever be in one of those though. They tried tying chains to it to get it stuck to the sled. It still fell off, no matter what they couldn't keep it on there. And it's like, guys, just pick it up. Yeah, so eventually these fuckers did. They did as Hannah wished.

And by the time they were through, they actually had no choice but to fulfill her final wish to be buried after the sun went down. It with the middle of the night now, straight up. So when the people carrying her casket finally got her settled and were able to, you know, like, fulfill her final wishes, they made their way back in a town and they passed by her house because they figured, you know, we did like she told us. Yeah, we did the right thing about joy. No, when they did, they found her house completely engulfed in flames. Oh, Hannah.

She was not happy. Woo. Now for some reason, the nearby well was running dry. Even though earlier that day, people had no issue using it. Someone claimed that around 11 a.m. they'd gotten multiple buckets full of water and now it was about 3 p.m. and it seemed like there hadn't been water in the well at all that day. Not even a drop

was left. The rocks at the bottom did not glisten like they were even damp. This thing was dry. But I thought it was after dark. It was 3 p.m. Well, it was winter. So it was dark that day. Okay, I don't know. Maybe it was a long walk back. It was a really long walk. Source is very alright. Maybe after dark meant like early morning.

By the time they got her in there and it took a while for them to. She just said after sundown. Yeah, exactly. And they had had a voyage. They did have a voyage. So anyway, the well is bare. And they knew that this was Hannah at work

and consistencies are fine. It's totally into the legend, man. I've just been saying. So the fire roared on for multiple days and apparently even spread to multiple other towns. Oh, damn. Because they could not get this fire out. The well water. Mm-hmm. It's spread to Danbury, Bridgeport, and Newtown. Now, legend has it, when the fire started to settle, and there was just a bunch of like rubble and ashes everywhere.

Hannah Kranner, Kranna, excuse me, Hannah Kranna appeared before the townspeople again, seemingly in search of something and slightly irritated. Slightly irritated, as she always was. Oh, well, but. So as they all stood by and watched, she poked through the ashes with a stick, but when she couldn't find what she was looking for, she just turned around and headed toward the well. And when she made it there, her figure disappeared.

And as she disappeared, the ghost of her rooster appeared. He said a little cockadoodle do three times for everybody and people claimed that the sound of this crow of his crow, excuse me, was eerily similar to Hannah's voice. So in the weeks following people around town started to float the idea that the rooster and Hannah were actually the same person or spirit. Whoa. And she could just like up here as the rooster when she wanted to. Whoa. They were like, I've never seen them in the same time.

I was in the same place at the same time. I didn't see Hannah and Boris in the same room. Okay. Okay. So the next time somebody spotted Hannah was the summer after she passed. This guy was walking home late at night and he passed by where her house used to be. The well that she had disappeared by and again the one that went completely dry when her home was on fire seemed to be one of her favorite places because that's where this guy spotted

her. So that well had stayed completely dry ever since the fire at Hannah's place broke out. No water whatsoever. But when this guy saw her, Hannah was loading up a bucket with water and she was watering the tiger lilies that were still in her yard. He was freaked out to say lilies and he just like hurried home.

And when he woke up the next morning, he was probably having a hard time deciding if that was real or if he had dreamed it or if he had like really gotten super smashed. So in order to be sure he had it over to the scene of the crime. Now when he got there he was like, oh okay, a few because the well was still all dried up. He was like, okay, that was totally a dream. Yeah. So he's like cool, cool, cool. But when he walks by the flowers it was clear that the ground around them was wet. And it had not rained in days.

She was using ghost water. Ghost water. So people saw Hannah from time to time, and actually, one of the last times that she was ever spotted was during the Civil War, and allegedly, P.T. Barnum was the one to spot her. He's always all up in this shit. He is.

Remember, he was in champ. He was. He was offering champs. He wanted champs hide. Did you also know that he was the mayor at one point of like Bridgeport, Connecticut? No, I didn't know that nor did I. Wow. Yeah, weird. Crazy. I know. So he was the last one of the last ones to spot her ghost at least. But he saw her on a white horse with her black hair flowing in the wind. Oh, yeah. Seemingly just on her way back home. Good for her. Yeah. But some legends claim that on the road near the cemetery she was buried in, which is Gregory's four corners

burial ground. Hannah will appear to drivers on that road that's nearby. And when this happens, people will swerve to avoid her thinking she's a real person, and when they do, they crash. So it's like, did they piss off Hannah somehow? Oh, no. But that is the story of my true queen, Hannah. Hannah. My true queen. I'm obsessed with her.

I love Hannah. I want to visit her grave. It's real. I want to visit her grave. Yeah, I want to visit her grave. Connecticut's in New England. Let's go. Yeah, let's go. Like you're gonna go to her grave. Yeah, I wanna visit her grave. Connecticut's in New England, let's go. Yeah, let's go, it's right there. Like, I just spit at Connecticut. I didn't spit at like your mean.

I spit it like I can reach you with my spit. Yes. Yeah, loving spit. It's right there, loving spit. Lovingly I spit at you. Yeah, I wanna plant like Tiger Lily's at her grave. Let's go. Let's do it.

I think we should. I would love to. Let's go see Hannah Kranah. All right, well, damn. We're gonna go do that. And don't follow any ghost lights. And do praise Hannah. Yeah.

And also, we do hope that you keep listening. And we hope you. Keep it. Weird. But not so weird that you doubt my true queen or that you go follow some ghost lights into the territory because that doesn't really sound like a straight up good time. So bye! Bye!

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