Morbid - Listener Tales 6
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Hey Weirdos, I'm Melena.
I'm Ash, and this is morbid.
The listener episode! We're out to you by you, for you, from you, with you, and about you.
It's all about you guys.
Let's do this.
But before we do this. It is Thanksgiving.
So happy Thanksgiving.
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One more little order of business, if you have not already, go get your tickets to our
Grammarcy show on January 30th, 2020. In New York City, there are only a handful of tickets left,
guys, which is insane, but go get them. It's going to be littier than a tidier. It sure is. So go get
them. Do it. Do it. You won't, but I hope you do. You're totally going to. And now without further ado,
let's get into listener story, shall we?
I think we shall.
Let's do it.
Okay, I'm gonna start because I have a really long one
in front of me right now,
and we fought to the death and I died.
But she's still here, don't worry about it.
So mine is called, I think I was almost murdered by a bald-headed phantom man, LOL.
What a great one to start with.
He's just really setting us up here.
This is from M, so hey M. Hey weirdos, before we start, please may you call me M throughout
because I'm a paranoid bitch. So no spooky
Phantom man who may or may not have existed can hunt me down and finish what he may or may not
have intended. I'm still unsure if he was a real person. Hold on to your arseholes.
Shit's about to come loose. You, sorry. That's amazing. That was kind of gross, but thank you.
Also, I love you guys.
You're genuine and hilarious, and I really appreciate it how detailed yet respectful you
are of every case you share.
Thank you so much.
Keep up the good work, ladies, and if you decide to share my story, thank you muchly.
You're so welcome.
Thank you muchly.
You're welcome muchly.
Kids need to know that they should never walk home from anywhere alone after dark.
I agree with that.
Hopefully other weirdos listen to my story and say,
yeah, what the fuck mate, you're a dumbass.
I love it.
Okay, this bit will be a bit of background about me,
but this is likely to be a long one.
So if you feel free to skip over this part, I won't do it.
We could never,
never, ever. I'm 22 years old and from the middle of fucking nowhere in the depths of the
British countryside, that's awesome. Yes, I have an accent like the one you hear on
Downton Abbey. That's literally exactly what I was wondering. Me too. And from the twats
that run the UK, our countries both have shitty leaders. Ain't that nice?
Anyways, I digress.
Basically, I'm young, dumb, and British, also a journalist, not the fun kind that cracks
the code and leaks official documents and criminating our souls everywhere.
But the talking about stocks and shares and finance things, it pays the bills.
I love it, I get it.
I moved to a study at a university in a big city for three years, and boy did it open my it pays the bills. I love it, I get it. I moved to a study, to study at a
university in a big city for three years and boy did it open my eyes to the world. For example,
it was the first time I could take order takeaway, take out for the Americans and have it delivered
because I legitimately lived on a farm with nothing else in a three mile radius. So dominoes wouldn't
deliver insert crying face emoji. That's tragic.
I've never felt anything more in my life.
On to the spook spook things.
Ooh.
University.
Yeah?
I just felt really excited.
I was like, ooh, that was like with,
you just did a full body roll and went, ooh, ooh, ooh.
Sure did.
I'm real excited, M. So university is
expensive as fuck. And debt is the spookiest thing of all. Sure is I feel you so
hard on that. There was no way I could live away from home without working. I
found this job where I could choose my own hours and basically hang out around
the various music venues in the city and go to gigs.
I don't know if Americans call them that, but concerts.
Yeah, sure.
We know what gigs are.
For free and then write reviews.
That sounds like an awesome job.
Basically, I got to see all my favorites and get super good seats.
I deal, right?
Yeah.
I had been working for this online mag for a few months when I landed my first arena
tour ticket.
Depeche Mode, Holy shit, shut the fuck up.
I'm so jealous right now.
I'm a huge 1980s music fan, so it was, oh, so I was, I thought it was like, so I was
amazing.
So I was buzzing.
My mum was so jealous.
Oh my god, that's adorable.
Love it.
Bright eyed and bushy tailed. I
traveled to the arena and went straight to the front of the line because journalist
privileges. The reviewers and photographers were all seated on one side on one of
the side banks right up close to the stage. The general audience milled around in the
center in the most polite mosh pit I'd ever seen. I've never seen a polite mosh pit.
Moshpit I'd ever seen. I've never seen a polite Moshpit gently bumping into each other and in time with derude sandstorm, which by the way played upwards of 20 times on a loop as everyone just filtered
in to find their seats. Oh my god, did, did, did, did, did Too much. My row is completely empty and only a few reviewers slash photographers were scattered in the seats around me
I thought it would fill up more, but this was the third night in a row for Depeche mode that had played this venue
So I figured most reviewers had seen the show already. The concert started and I sat back and enjoyed
Everything was fine apart from the two older women sat behind me who were bitching about their co-workers Susan, who had gotten pregnant by Darren the editor.
Fucking Darren, am I right?
It's always Darren.
As much as I love a T-sipping session, same.
It's not the time, Karen.
It was an annoying backdrop to an otherwise great performance.
I eventually noticed there was a guy sat in the aisle seat on my row, which put him about
10 or 12 seats away from me.
He was on my left and the stage was to my right.
So I didn't really notice him or pay attention at first or care that he was blocking my exit. Oh
Halfway through the show when the two gossiping women had thankfully left to go top up their vino and pop to the lose.
I was I love this person right now with their British way of speaking. I love it. What is Vino? Vino is wine. Wow. I actually knew that. You
just asked just because. No, I'm really tired. No, it's really guys. But I love
how you say lose because that's not an American thing and I love it. I was
scrolling on my phone looking at cute puppy videos, as per usual.
When I saw the flash of a camera going off in my peripheral vision, I looked over to my
left and saw the guy holding up his camera.
As it was the interval to Pesh mode wasn't on stage, and I'm pretty sure it's common
courtesy not to have flash on at events.
Question mark.
So it was obvious straight away he was taking a photo with me in frame.
I know you shouldn't judge a book by its cover, but let me tell you I judged the fuck out of him because ew. I could instinctually tell he was a pervert.
Ew, I hate this. I hate when you have a feeling about someone and you just know that you're right.
Oh, I'm not into this at all. He was over six feet in height and skinny as a
French fry. His skin was pale enough that it could be lit up in technicolour by the lights from
the staging area. He was bald in his eyes were dark and sunken into his face. He looked ill or dead.
Oh, I just got full bod chills. I don't like this. This sounds like Slenderman. He was dressed
non-descriptally, but the dark
clothes definitely accentuated how pale he was. I actually feel him on that. I was going
to say I feel personally attacked because when I go to shows, I definitely light up with
the colors that are there. I feel personally victimized by this description. He was the
kind of man you think was creepy if he came up to you and started chatting, but otherwise
you probably wouldn't notice he was there.
I'd have given him the benefit of the doubt if I didn't notice his camera that I understand.
I assumed he was a photographer because he had no notepad and obviously he was holding
that pesky camera of his.
But rather than one of those professional spaceship-esque kind of cameras with the really wide lens,
he was using one of those three megapixel ones, Grandma would use back in 2005,
when you went to on a seaside holiday
and every photo would come out blurry.
Definitely not a camera for a professional.
But what was weirder was that his camera
hadn't been pointed at the stage,
it had been pointing at me.
Nope, don't love this.
I'd be like, turn your motherfucking camera away
from my motherfucking mug.
I would literally walk up to him, take the camera, and just smash it on the ground, and be like,
no pictures, no pictures, please.
He noticed me looking at him and smiled.
All his teeth were gold, like the robber guy from Home Alone, but every single tooth, hello? Sir, get out of my presence.
I hate this so much. I hate this man.
He took another photo of me actually taking the time to zoom in and focus it.
The audacity. They wrote that and I agree. I'm dead serious.
He looked me dead in the eye, still smiling with his gold ass teeth.
They did not write that, but I said that. And I looked back at him with a gormless expression
because I wasn't fucking processing. Then I said, can I help you? Because I'm British and
politeness is all I have in stressful and or creepy situation. I'm screaming. Am I fucking love you? He took another picture and replied,
you'll do. No, I'm leaving. I'm out. I'll do. I'll do you the fuck out of here,
bruh. I'll do you one. I'll fucking kill you, bruh.
Try me. Try me, bruh. Try me try me, bruh.
There was something about his voice. It was really raspy like he was a heavy smoker
But he said it with a leering tone like one of those shitty guys who approaches you in a bar and gets mad when you reject him You know the type. Yes. His name is Chad always
But excuse me sir. I'll do for what?
I had no fucking idea what that meant and was understandably freaked out Always. But excuse me, sir, I'll do for what?
I had no fucking idea what that meant and was understandably freaked out.
Instead of climbing over to the road behind me and getting the fuck out of there, I stayed
where it was because Karen and her friend were back and the guy sat back down in his
seat at the end of the aisle.
I convinced myself he was having a creepy few minutes and wanted a few photos of young
women, but was otherwise harmless, even though that in and of itself is hella spooky. Don't do it boys. I agree.
The second half of the gig started and I definitely wasn't enjoying myself anymore. Understandable.
I was intensely aware of him and my whole body was one big goose bump at this point,
but it gets worse because this psycho dude starts edging closer.
Nope, nope.
Every time I looked over, he was another sea closer
and the closer he got the more I could smell him.
I've smelled a few dead animals in my time, duh,
I grew up on a farm.
So I recognized the scent of decay
and that's what he smelled like.
Why? Why?
This pro is dead.
Oh, you can't get rid of the dead ones.
There's nothing you can do.
She's a straight-up decomposing next to her right now.
But if you're a ghost, why do you still smell?
I don't know.
If you're from Africa, why are you white?
And that always a mean girl connection somewhere.
Let's see, maybe he had an intense case of halitosis.
I don't know, but my true crime
and paranormal obsessed brain started screaming
dead demon myth.
Honestly, that's what I think.
I'm gonna be honest.
The worst thing, no one around me seemed to notice
he was being a total creep.
In fact, no one seemed to notice him at all. I don't think he existed. I'm fucked up.
Two ladies behind me had been close enough that they should have noticed his creepy behavior
or smelled his stench, but they were still completely engrossed in their theories about whether
Susan's husband would find out her baby wasn't his and I refused to believe anyone could be so self-absorbed not to notice this was happening
Maybe they were I don't know you'd be surprised by this time Depeche mode was singing personal Jesus great song
Oh my god love it. I was praying and I'm not even religious
They'll father who art and heaven get me the fuck out of here, please
I love you. I love you so much.
He settled in the seat next to mine and turned the camera as if you wanted to take a selfie with me.
I was beyond done with this shit.
Before he could put his arm around my shoulders, I said, excuse the fuck out of you.
Yeah, you did.
You did it and jumped up for my seat.
I basically hurtled over it and
into the laps of Karen and her friend, who stared at me like I was insane. Again, no
mention of the guy next to me. I then proceeded to rush along the aisle and out of the arena
as fast as my short ass legs could carry me. I was freaking out. Unfortunately, though,
I needed to get the train home and the train station was a 15-minute walk away. It was almost 11 p.m. and the arena was slap bang in the middle of a more residential part of the city, so it was quiet.
And as it wasn't quite the end of the show,
taxis hadn't pulled up at the taxi rank. I should have waited. I would have been the only...
I would have only had to hang around out there for 10 minutes. The area was well lit, and there would have undoubtedly based security cameras so close to such a massive venue.
But like the dumbass I am, I started jogging down the road,
figuring that staying in one place for too long was risky.
I'm not fit enough to maintain that pace
for more than 30 seconds, same.
So this slowed to a speed walk as I headed down dim streets
and began my panic trek to the train station.
I'm like getting anxiety for her.
I know I hate when I can like picture them in my head
and I'm like, oh, I know I'm like, oh man, I wanna help you.
I was constantly looking over my shoulder
and I was shaking so badly I couldn't hold my phone
still enough to scroll through and pull up my boyfriend
at the time's number to call him.
And then I heard footsteps.
Everyone take a deep breath.
Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, big old note.
I had just caught the cut through a deserted alleyway.
I know so dumb, she wrote it, she wrote it, I didn't say it.
And was walking through the city square,
which was deserted apart from the bronzy statue
of the late queen Victoria, who I thought was 100%
about to watch my death or something.
I was crying at this point and my heart felt like I was crawling its way up my throat.
Oh my god, also you're painting a very vivid, wonderful picture here.
I looked over my shoulder and saw there was a tall shadowed figure just 10 feet behind
me.
Slender man.
Oh hey, I thought he looked like a slerman. Forshodowing, great minds.
Slenderman?
Hello?
No, for real.
I just knew it was the creepy guy from the gig.
He hadn't been there the first time I looked over my shoulder.
Although we were in the wide open space,
and I would have been able to easily spot him
from 100 feet away.
But he was following me.
I could hear him chuckling.
Oh, I hate it.
Hate it.
I never want anything like this to happen to anyone.
No, I'm really upset for you.
I turned the fuck around and lungs be damned, started sprinting.
Yes.
I could hear booted feet pounding against the cobbled road behind me now
and I screamed, loud, smart girl.
But there was no one around to hear me.
I didn't know what else to do,
so I just kept running. Phone in hand, it felt like one of those nightmares where you try and
outrun the monster, but you're just moving in place. Oh, I have those all the time. I feel like it
was getting closer and closer any second, and he would be grabbing my shoulder. Hey Siri, call
insert ex-boyfriends name here. I screamed because bitch know I was about to be murdered and the police could use the call in some way.
I don't know. It was dumb. The phone was on loudspeaker, but boy didn't even pick up the phone.
Our soul. True our soul. Straight up our soul. I rounded a corner and head. I could find out what it was.
I was about to be murdered and the police could use the call in some way. I don't know. It was dumb.
The phone was on loudspeaker, but boy didn't even pick up the phone. Our soul. True our soul.
Straight up our soul.
I rounded a corner and ahead.
I could finally make out the lights of the train station.
Oh my God.
I'm just like, go, girl, go.
I could no longer hear footsteps.
I dared to slow down and look over my shoulder.
The dude was standing at the top of the high street about 50 feet away now.
Swarthed in in shadows. His head
was tilted at an unnatural right angle like he had just snapped his own fucking neck.
Oh, no, no. What the fuck? I am, I am spooked. I know. I'm not okay with this at all.
I blinked several times and shook my head because I had to be imagining this shit.
I started backing away again, facing him so I knew
so I'd know if he came for me.
I knew it was the same guy from because he had his,
in his hand was a camera.
He lifted it up and there was a flash in the dark
as he took one more photo.
This is a fucking movie.
I have like a score playing in my head like this is very
intense and very vivid. Some other dude in an anorak which was tightly drawn around his face
walked past me. I can't have beer in his hand as he staggered along. He looked at me like I was
insane. I guess I did look crazy. I was walking backwards, crying, panting, and babbling to Siri in a messy panic.
At this point, I definitely thought I'd lost my mind at was seeing things.
The train spotter, Anna Rackman, gave me a whole wide berth as he walked past
and muttered something like crazy bitch, rather than stopping to ask if I was okay.
Fuck that guy.
Fuck all these guys.
Seriously, what the fuck?
I wanted to warn him about the
crazy dude ahead, but when I looked back at the top of the high street, there was no
one there. I knew he was real because my vision was still weird from the last flash of the
camera. I couldn't have imagined it. I haven't experienced anything like that before or after
this. Hell a spook. I made it to the strain station and got home safely. My ex finally called
me back. He had been watching TV and didn't think picking up the phone
to his girlfriend was worth pausing Rick and Morty.
Um, fuck that.
I mean, Rick and Morty is a great show.
Fuck that.
And didn't believe me when I told him that what had happened
and was generally unsympathetic.
I'm glad he's an ex.
I stayed with him for another few months
before realizing I was worth more and dumped his ass. Yes. Listen, ladies, you're always worth it. generally unsympathetic. I'm glad he's an ex. I stayed with him for another few months before
realizing I was worth more and dumped his ass. Yes, listen ladies, you're always worth more,
you're queen. To this day, I've kept the full story of what happened that night to myself,
mainly because I didn't understand it. I thought I was crazy and convinced myself I was overreacting.
Written down, it sounds completely unbelievable. We believe you.
A couple of weeks later, I did call the venue to report the creepy guy and told them the
row that we were sat on with everything went down. Get this. They told me no one else
had been logged in the system to sit in that row. Either he had seen me and decided to sit
in an unassigned seat on the same row, or no one else had known he was there at all.
I don't know which theory is creepier.
Honestly both of those are really fucking scary.
Either way I'm fucking terrified.
After that, I went to the concert alone.
After that, I never went to a concert alone.
I still have nightmares where I can smell decay and see the silhouette of a tall, skinny
French fried demon, men following me silently like a phantom.
The flash from cameras in the dark still creeps me out.
And that, my friends, is my long ass story.
Thank you for your patience,
and I hope it was worth the read.
Thank you so much for providing hours of entertainment
to the thousands just by being your kick ass selves.
All the best, M.
Holy shit, M. I wanna make this a full length feature film.
M, it needs to be a full-ass feature film. Like I was just on the edge of my
seat floor. Like Wes Craven is rolling over in his grave right now because he
didn't get a chance to turn this into a fucking thriller. Thriller. Thriller.
Thank you, M.
Because this is thriller.
I thought you were going to do it, so I had to,
because you didn't.
I love that.
I love you.
All right, so mine is called Listener Tale,
a near-death experience and a little boy.
Hate this already.
I love it.
Hey, Ash.
Hey, Lena. Hey, Lena!
Hey, girl!
Hey!
I've debated for a while whether or not to share my story because, frankly, it is not a
spook spook as some of the other stories you read, but the narcissist in me has won out.
I love for already.
Let me start by saying, I am a huge skeptic.
I'm not religious.
I believe when you die, you die and that's the end.
Whoa.
That's deep.
That is bleak.
And also another mean girl's reference.
I don't really buy into ghost mediums, etc.
However, I do believe that if there is something to see, people who have been near death
would be most likely to tap into that.
That being said, just before my third birthday,
I almost died.
Oh no.
All right, so here we go.
Our house caught on fire.
Oh, I mean, buried the lead on that one.
Shit.
No, this is not a true crime story, sorry.
It was just some hungry mice to try to get a snack
out of the coffee maker cord.
We lived in a small trailer, which I don't know if you know,
but those things grew up in smoke.
It was just me and my two older brothers' home at the time,
very, very early in the morning.
My mom had to drive my dad to work,
and my sister was out of front house.
My oldest brother was able to get my other brother out,
by the way.
He was just a scrawny kid,
and he had to shove my parents' bed out from in front of a window because it was the safest route out
He came back for me, but I was terrified a terrified almost three-year-old also. I was a chunk same
And probably weighed the same as my then 12-year-old brother
Honestly same
So he told me to stay in my room not to move while he ran to the neighbors to get help.
When the neighbors came to get me,
he found me in the hallway between my room and my parents
from, apparently having had tried to follow my brother
after realizing I'm sure I share as hell
with more than more scared being by my damn self.
I was unconscious and the fire was up the walls
and across the ceiling above me.
Oh my God, Obviously I survived.
Yes, girl.
Plot twist.
You fucking lived.
The gal who lived.
I spent a month in the hospital being treated.
Oh my God, sweet baby.
We lost everything.
Oh my God.
This is really sad.
It's horrible.
And by the way, yes, my big brother is still
my absolute hero.
Without his quick thinking and adrenaline field strength, I do not think I would be here
today.
You are touching all my heart strings right now.
Shout out to your bro name, if.
Your potato.
Fast forward a few years, I want to say I was maybe six or seven.
We had a new house and my sister and I shared a room.
She is six years older than me.
I was always absolutely petrified of the dark and my sister's porcelain room. She is six years older than me. I was always absolutely petrified of the dark
and my sister's porcelain dolls.
Duh.
Yup.
I'd beg my mom to let me keep the hallway light on
with the door jar, but my sister's mean
and would tell my mom I was too old to have a night light.
Well fuck her.
Consequently for her, I would wake up frequently
at night crying and begging her to turn the light on.
Oh, then one night I woke up screaming crying,
begging my sister, please, please turn the light on. Oh, then one night I woke up screaming crying, begging my sister, please, please turn the light
on.
After several minutes of ignoring me crying and yelling, my mom whips open the door as told
by her, I opened the door and said, what the hell is going on in here?
And you pointed toward the dresser across the room and said, tell him to go away.
And all the hair stood up on the back of my neck.
What had me in such a state of horror of terror was that I woke up to see a young boy maybe around eight or nine and
full 1920s get up knee socks, button up shirt with suspenders, and page boy hat chilling
in my goddamn room. The roaring fucking 20s just appeared in your room in the middle
of the night. Okay, but does that not sound fucking familiar? Oh shit. I'm sorry. I'm cutting into your
story as fuck right now, but at one point me and my mom lived at my grandparents' house
with Alaina and we all shared a room. Me and my mom and Alaina, because the room was fucking huge.
We did trust me. We did. It was unfortunate. But one night I woke up and I was like, I woke my
mom up and I was like, Mom, there's a little boy reading your book and she wanted to neglect me.
So she was like, go back to sleep.
And I was neglected.
And then I woke up the next morning and everyone was all fucking freaked out
because I was talking about this ghost ass boy literally just like the boy
you described 1920s page boy hat, knee socks and all.
Like I can still see him in my mind.
And he was reading my mom's book
and my mom's book that she had left on the dresser
was wedged in between the closet,
where I said the boy was.
I think it's the same boy, guys.
I'm spooked as fuck, but back to the story.
She says, my mom is a big believer in ghosts.
Hell yeah, she is.
She loves that shit.
It is my dream to one day take her
to the Winchester Mystery Mansion.
You have to.
All I remember from the rest of that night was sitting in the living room with my mom while she
smoked a cigarette and let me have sips of her coke.
It seems like a normal thing, but with four kids, pop was for my parents to drink, not us.
I spoke to the hell out of her with that one, yeah.
I instilled to this day whenever anything weird happens around the house, we blame the little boy.
The weird thing is, even being a skeptic, I was six or seven. How the hell could I have dreamt up that outfit? Fast forward
again to about four years ago. My boyfriend and his buddy were renting this house as in
the one we later purchased and living currently from his grandpa, my boyfriend's mom stepped
on, who grew up in said house and whose mother had just passed away at the previous fall.
Sorry if that's confusing. It's the shortest way I could think to explain it.
No, I think I'm on the same page.
I got you.
Instead of letting it sit empty
while they sorted out her will and such,
one night I came to stay with him
as I was falling asleep.
I saw a shadowy figure standing in front
of the small opening of the bedroom door.
I was mostly asleep,
but I could still kind of make out some details
of the form before fully falling asleep.
Now this didn't scare me because remember I'm a skeptic.
I must have already started dreaming, or maybe it was his buddy walking by the door, whatever.
But the next day, as I started thinking about it, it couldn't have been his buddy.
He worked midnight and had long since left for work and doesn't return home until about
seven in the morning.
Still, I wasn't scared.
I must have been dreaming. Maybe a year after that, I was helping my mom, or I was helping my
boyfriend's mom clear out some stuff from the house. His grandpa, her stepdad, was getting ready
to sell it. She was describing to me how she didn't really like being alone in the house,
a kind of creeped her out ever since her grandma passed away. I laughed and told her how there was
nothing to be scared of. That stuff's not real.
She asked me if I had ever seen anything weird in the house while her son was living in
it.
I told her about my vague experience falling asleep and seeing a figure.
She asked me what details did I notice, and I mentioned that it looked kind of like a
tall man thin wearing a fedora-style hat.
And I was laughing the whole time because she looked so spooked, but I knew it was nothing.
But then she gets on the phone and calls her cousin.
Her cousin proceeds to tell me that before passing away,
a decade ago from cancer,
her grandpa was a tall thin man who often wore a fedora.
Again, I may be a skeptic, but what are the fucking odds?
On a true crime note, the house I loved
in for the rest of my childhood,
the one I saw the little boy in,
and where my parents still lived to this day, is about five miles from the Nichols farm.
As in Terry Nichols in Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City Bombers.
Oh shit.
Oh shit, you just brought it right back around.
Full mother fucking circle.
I hope this isn't too long.
I get a kick out of telling my stories, and I hope if you read this, you get a kick out
of it too.
Best wishes, and keep it more fucking weird Candace. PS, my brother in law has a sister named Ashley and we lovingly call
her trashly. Please feel free to adopt the name. Oh girl. My drunk alter ego is always trashly.
It's true. We've called her trashly before and also we didn't just get a kick out of this. We
got a full motherfucking roundhouse kick out of this story. Jackie Chan style.
Like the fact that we had the same exact experience really spooks me.
And I've, and like the trashally things in there, so I feel like you have some kind of
weird connection.
I mean, the other day I tweeted that I was kindred spirit with Dolly Parton, but Candace
I might have been wrong, it might be you.
I think it is.
I think it's true.
Love you Candace, thank you for that.
So my next story is called My Husband was going to let ghost slash demons have my soul.
Wow. That's rude of him. Are you sure he's not your ex-husband?
This is from Amanda. It says, Hey guys, I fucking love your podcast. I listen to it on my way to
events at my nephew's Christian school nine times out of ten when I pull into the parking lot there
I'm listening to something about murder. It's my own weird little secret and if they knew I would probably be banned
I love that for you. I love that for you
Also my niece and I are the same ages as you guys, which is kind of cool
Except the way our both seniors in nursing school because my dumbass was more worried about drinking and being stupid than it was going to school
when I was supposed to.
You are definitely the ash of the relationship.
I was just about to say that.
Side note, my favorite part of nursing school so far
has been on top sees.
We were supposed to go to C1 each,
C1 each our junior year.
I saw three.
I would go every day if they would let me.
I'm pretty sure they're all scared of me now.
I, you know what Amanda, I love you and I feel you.
Anyway, I live in Indiana, which is really nothing,
but corn fields and methods, at least in my area.
Whoa.
When my husband and I first moved in together,
I was working nights in a group home
for mentally handicapped adults.
You know what, you're a goddamn hero. You're a straight up gem. Good for you, man.
And he worked days as a rougher. We worked into it. We moved into a two-story house in a shady part
of town because we were broke AF. We all feel that. This house was a hundred percent haunted.
I also feel that. My husband used to say that he would hear my voice screaming his name when he was alone in the house. Oh, I don't like that. They got to use your voice. That's fucked up.
Yeah, I don't love that. I used to hear running feet up and down the stairs and above our head
where his son slept on the second floor when I would go up there fully prepared to whoop some
ass because those boys were up at three a.m. running around like psychos. They would be fast to sleep.
because those boys were up at 3 a.m. running around like psychos, they would be fast asleep. Oh.
And you never went back to sleep after that, right?
Never.
My husband woke up screaming once saying I'd smacked him across the face when I was most definitely
in the living room watching the office girl.
You are us.
You are us.
One time that my husband convinced me was a dream, I feel like I felt like
someone was laying on top of me and I felt hot breath as my own name was being
whispered into my ear. How fucking long did you live there sis? Get me out of
there immediately. He convinced me it was a dream until this happened. My husband
was at work and I was in bed since I work nights and I heard what sounded like a bunch of second rate musicians
drumming out a beat on my pipes and the basement.
Actually, my house always sounds like that.
Sure does.
I called my husband and this dickhole tells me I'm crazy.
It's just the old-ass pipes clinging around
and to just go back to sleep.
For someone who was such a pussy about his experiences, he sure didn't have much concern for mine.
I love you.
I laid their awake until the pressure of my bladder had built up so much that I couldn't possibly hold it in.
I grabbed the shank I kept by the bed.
An old pocket knife.
I keep them hidden everywhere always. Smart.
And make my way to the restroom.
In this house, the bathroom was actually in the second downstairs bedroom.
And you had to walk through the kitchen and pass the basement door to get there.
Wow, that sucks.
Fuck that.
I rushed through the area, nothing was out of the ordinary, and into the bathroom.
Did my business and prepared to make the dash back to my room.
As I passed through the kitchen, I noticed all the fucking cabinet doors were open. All of them.
That is my nightmare. That is my nightmare. I stood there frozen. She froze. I am
froze right now. That's when you're real scared. You don't just freeze you freeze. It's very chic, very chic, a very
chic way to paralyze yourself with fear. No, she stood there frozen and dishes started
to fall out of the fucking cabinets and then you ran out the fucking front door, right?
Right? I hauled my fat ass straight the fuck out of there. Good girl. Yeah, you did.
Grabbed my keys, got in my car and drove straight to my husband's job site to tell him how terribly fucking wrong
He was that it was not just the old pipes clanging. It was fucking ghosts or demons who obviously had no respect for people who work nights
I'm alive
We lived in the house for another year and there were more incidents
But nothing that shook me like the damn thing rooting through my kitchen cabinets and banging on my pipes.
Thanks for reading, maybe next time I will tell you about the crazy meth head in laws.
One wrapped a dead body up like a fucking Gordita.
Like a Gordita? How dare you do Taco Bell wrong like that? Holy shit.
And another murdered his girlfriend. Oh my god, we need to hear these. I really should have screened my husband's family before we got together.
Keep it weird, Amanda. Oh my god, Amanda, girl. Amanda, you just gave me life. I love you so much.
But honestly, the whole cabinet's being open thing? No. I'm mostly our cabinets don't have doors. I am that I picked this house specifically
because of that. I'm alive. Thanks Amanda. This one is called the time I was killed a listener
tale. Whoa. And the time I was killed is all in capital letters and then listener
tale is in small letters. It says, hey guys, you guys make my shit life
interesting in the good way, and I will forever love you guys
for that.
I'll save the rest of my gushing till the end.
Oh my god, I love you.
So I was going to bed a couple of months ago.
It was a no shit night, but I woke up at like 3am.
And I have never been shit faced, but this is how I imagine
it would be.
I woke up slowly, but I couldn't move.
I had a huge headache.
You have to notice.
When my eyes finally adjusted, I could see another person in my room.
I shit you not.
I pooped out all of my internal organs because I didn't know if it was my parents at the time,
but that shit is still scary.
I still couldn't scream and I still couldn't move.
The person looked like a shadow.
My brain just mentally saying, what kind of fuckery is this?
What kind of fuckery is this? What kind of fuckery is this? What kind of fuckery be this?
I couldn't ask it anything or do anything for a while
and I kind of just stared at it.
But after a while, it started to move slowly towards me.
And then the spupiish...
Okay, all the time I think that people are making a typo
when they say spupi, but I guess it's a real ass thing.
I love so much.
Spupi.
I'm just crying right now.
Guys, I show you not every time the whole entire Ted Bundy episode
that when the girl wrote to you about Ted Bundy,
I was like, why is she saying spupi?
It's because it's the best word ever.
Guys, I don't cry on the real last stories of murder, mayhem, and tragedy, but your
listener tales get me crying all the fucking time.
I know it's funny.
Okay, so.
And then the spupi is shit.
It's hard to say, spupi. Spupi is shit. It's hard to say spupi
Spupi should happen when it began to whisper no no no no no no
I hate that like that like that last girl said supremely fuck that
And that's something it's that something along the lines of hello sweet girl goodbye sweet lily oh
At least he's charming
No, he said hello, goodbye. Yeah, that's charming.
Uh, that's my name. You can use it. Thank you. I couldn't, I couldn't move, but at this
point I was positive that there was a serial killer in my room and I was going to die.
I saw that person raised an arm and I felt something hard hit my head and then I woke up.
I thought it had to be a dream.
I thought I was safe.
But when I got to the bathroom, I looked in the mirror to see a giant goose egg and bruise
on the side of my head where the person would have hit me.
It was a real mom pick me up.
I'm scared moment.
Yes, being girls' reference.
I love you.
I have no idea what happened that night, but I thought you would enjoy it.
Anyways, I live in an unimportant part of the US between the Midwest and the West Coast,
Utah.
We have nothing to do here except for drive around counting churches or gossiping about
all the weird shit that goes down in school from the wrong side of the tracks, aka my school.
But don't worry, there's enough board people and fans that you could totally sell out a show here.
Seriously, I'll set up a show for you.
If that's what it takes to get you here, oh, I love you guys so much and you guys are an inspiration.
Best wishes, Lily.
Lily, you're a fucking inspiration.
Thanks, Lily. I'm glad you didn't die.
I'm really glad you didn't die because I need more stories from you Thanks Lily. I'm glad you didn't die. I'm really glad you didn't die because I need more
stories from you Lily. I love that I just get to say spooopy because it's a real word.
Lily, you're the spooopiest and I love you. It just sounds like poopy. It does. It's like
it's poopy and spooky. I'll roll up in one. Everything I love. Poops and Spooks.
Good band name I'll call it. Why didn't we name the podcast Poops and Spooks. Good band name, I'll call it.
Why didn't we name the podcast Poops and Spooks?
Because our band name is gonna be that.
Can we put Poops and Spooks on a shirt?
Hell yeah, we can.
Raise your hand if you want that.
Raise this hand.
Alright, so mine is called Hamster Resurrection using boobs.
Question mark.
Okay, I read this and I was holding your baby
and I took everything in me not to drop your baby
because I was laughing so hard.
Shit, I'm glad you did, but this is awesome.
So this is from Isabel.
Hey guys, first off, let's get one thing straight.
Y'all are maize balls.
Thanks.
I love how aggressive that one.
Let's get one thing motherfucking straight. You guys rock ass.
You guys actually make me feel a lot better about myself because I've realized I'm not the only morbid freak show out there
That finds death fascinating and these stories crazy interesting. Welcome. Welcome to the spooky poopy show
Spoops and poops. So thanks for making me feel normal. You're welcome. Keep being weird, please.
We'll do.
Don't have a choice.
All right, so on to the story.
When I was about tennis, I had a hamster named Bailey.
That's my, that's my Baba Bailey's name.
That's my Puggles name.
Yep.
Who was a fucking fat ass?
So is my Baba.
That's my Bailey too.
I tried to buy her all of those sweet tubes
that you can attach to their cages,
but she kept getting stuck in them and I was pissed.
But at the same time, she was hallowed cute
so I couldn't be too bad.
Oh my God, I love this already.
Anyways, at the time of this story,
she was nearing the end of her life, I love this already. Anyways, at the time of this story, she was
ending the near, she was nearing the end of her life about three years old. I was staying
over at a friend's house and it was just my mom home. She was actually in the middle of
getting dressed. And for some strange reason, she decided she needed to go check on Bailey
and make sure she has food. My mom has always claimed she has a sixth sense or something
because she'll have dreams and shit or get these feelings. And then whatever she felt or dreamed will happen very soon after or a
very similar situation will happen. And honestly freaks me the fuck out sometimes. So I'm guessing
this weirdo love you mom. Just had a feeling that she needed to go check on the fat hamster.
So she went into the room, all done up in spanks and a bra and opens the cage to find
Bailey just laying there. This was strange because she would usually wake up if the cage got opened.
My mom picked her up and even though she was still floppy, she was ice cold and unconscious.
She couldn't see her breathing and she couldn't feel any movement or pulse at all.
My poor mother just burst into tears and held her thinking about how the heck she was going to tell me that my precious fat ball of fur
Had died. So there is my mother sitting on my bed holding Bailey bawling her eyes out
She sat there for a few minutes holding her to her face until the hamster obviously got a little heavy and my mom moved her down onto her chest into her
God damn cleavage pretty much that poor poor baby and just held her and stroked the hell out of
her while she bawled. She sat like this on my bed in her spanks with a hamster between her boobs for
like 15 minutes. Suddenly this quote unquote dead thing moved. My mom shot the fuck up and that
hamster almost flew across the room like a freaking Superman
My mom said she sat there sobbing while repeatedly what the hell is happening as this hamster is coming back from the dead in front of her eyes
After a minute or two her eyes had opened and she just acted like she had taken every drug
She could fit in her biggest cheek pouches because she was walkie as me after eating a three-girl
cheeses because grilled cheese is so good it makes me feel high.
He fucking too, I guess why I make a gnarly grilled cheese with garlic butter so you'd be
stoned.
This is great.
My mom immediately took her to the vet and explained to these poor doctors that her magical boobs brought this hamptop
hamster back to life,
even though my mother still claims
that her boobs are magical
and that they can resurrect hamsters.
It turns out this bitch wouldn't hybridize
hibernation mode because she got a little too chilly.
Isn't it so funny?
I was dying. This is everything. She in fact
did have a pulse, but it was so incredibly weak that my mom couldn't feel or hear it. Basically,
Bailey got a little cold and assumed it was winter time because apparently she thought she was
wild and free out in the forest or some shit. So her body went into hibernation mode. She would have died
very soon after. If my mom and her awesome life-saving boobs had it come to the rescue, Bayley lived
a happy few more months and died her second death peacefully in her sleep. Thanks for reading. Can't
wait to hear more listener tales. They're seriously awesome I love them, and I love you guys. Come to Portland, Oregon soon for a live show.
I killed to meet you guys, not literally, I swear.
Issa, I don't mind names being used
if you guys decide to read this one on your podcast.
Thanks so much, and I'm literally
shitting my pants laughing.
I'm laughing so hard too, but this is my thought.
What's your thought?
All right, people are gonna be like,
wow, I should really fucking dumb.
Oh no.
And I know it's a dumb thing to say.
Uh-oh.
But like, where do fucking pet stores get hamsters?
Because when have you ever seen a hamster in the wild?
When.
I'm pretty sure they're just bred for like domesticity.
But where did the first hamster come from?
I mean, I don't know.
Like, I've never seen a hamster in the wild.
I've seen a chipmunk.
I've seen a fox.
I've seen a squirrel.
I've seen many squirrels.
But I've seen a lot of animals in the wild, and hamsters are not one of them.
All right, you know what?
Same.
I have yet to see a hamster just roaming in the wild.
My hamster's name was Jessica Elephant.
That's all.
So, my next one is called Kyle Cango Fuck himself. Before she reads that, her hamster's name was Jessica elephant. That's all So my next one is called Kyle can go fuck himself before she reads that
Her hamster's name was Jessica elephant. I just want that to sink in real quick. Okay, go ahead
You know who lost my hamster my ship bag mom. Anyways, Kyle can go fuck himself and so can my mom
My dear is actually in the, ready for some traumatizing
shit. Yeah, neither am I. But I recently replayed your Salem Witch Trails episode and I was
flung back into a memory. I legit had a flashback. I think I might need to look into that. Anyways,
it's crazy. So let me take you all in a journey to somewhere I won't name for obvious reasons,
Wisconsin. I was in the second grade, so the year would probably be 2005.
So it was a regular week in school, right?
Wrong.
Because my teacher was a psycho and decided to make us do a play about the Salem Witch Trials.
In the second grade, that sounds awesome.
I mean, it sounds great, but like that's a little young.
You're like, what, eight in the second grade?
I don't know.
I have no fucking idea.
Some of the girls were cast as the witches
and others were the little assholes that accursed the others of witchcraft. I'm still salty
about that by the way. They're all little devils and they deserve hell. Wow. So me and I mean
you're not wrong, I agree. So me and my best friend who I'll change her name to Marina
for this, where cast is witches and honestly Mrs. Kier couldn't have chosen two better candidates.
The two of us ran a literal witch-cuffin, yes, at recess, me too, and would sacrifice
ants all the time. And wish a well-passing on any dead birds we found. We were young and
we were thriving. So of course, because boys are idiots, they thought the play was in
real life or some shit. So they'd call us witches and make hanging notions, Jesus.
But because we were young badasses,
we'd just wave in their directions
and continue on our merry way.
Get it, girl.
The day of the play, we had all dressed up
before recess for our parts.
So of course, everyone in our little cousin,
including me and Marina, were all dressed up
and ready to go.
Mind you, there are about 11 people in this covenant bar.
So like I said, we were thriving.
You were thriving. I think
only like three people on my cover. Anyways, there, there we were, minding our own, binding
our own damn business and sacrificing ants when a dude whose name I've changed to Kyle
for this came over with a bunch of his friends and they circled us. A few girls immediately
escaped, but the stubborn of us, which were approximately three, me, Marina, and some other random chick, dumbass move, should have ran.
They yelled at us for being witches because we were seven.
We played along because we thought it was a game.
Well, that changed very quickly when they suddenly grabbed us and yanked us over to a nearby tree.
They had still in jump ropes.
Yes, the one with plastic beads on them or some weird shit.
And then they proceeded to tie us to the tree
They yelled at us that we were going to hang for our sins and we bad asses slash dumb asses yelled at them that we'd see them in hell then
I love your reaction
Hate that they tied you to a tree
Seven year olds are fucked then Marina goddess of just not giving a fuck. Oh my god, I want to be that goddess.
I was just going to say can I please take over that?
Elena and Ash goddess of not giving a fuck.
Yes.
Spit at them.
Yes she did.
Then Kyle went ahead and said the most chilling words I've ever heard from somebody
or from anyone.
Want a little sample before getting there?
Then let's burn you and your witchy friends.
Okay, Kyle. What's going on at home?
Have you ever seen that video where it's like, what the fuck is up, Kyle?
That's what everybody was thinking right now.
What the fuck is up, Kyle?
Wolf.
Looking back, I'm terrified of this dude, but my second grade ass literally
started laughing in his face, making him laugh at my cluelessness.
Like I said, we should have ran right the fuck out of there. Marina actually spit at him. And this is why I'm still friends with her.
She's honestly the biggest badass I've ever had the honor of meeting. Anyways, we started to realize
that it wasn't a game when Kyle literally pulled a lighter out of his pants. Yo, Kyle, what's going
on at home? And again, I say, what the fuck is up, Kyle?
I don't know how the hell he got that thing,
but as soon as we saw it, we literally,
or we started thrashing Wildly against the ropes
as our captors laughed at us.
He was about to set the tree on fire
when a teacher finally fucking saw the whole ordeal
and rushed over to stop Kyle.
In doing so, knocking the lit lighter out of his hands
and making the grass around the tree catch on fire.
Stupid, but somewhat helpful teacher.
Thankfully, another teacher had the right mind to actually throw her jacket over the
fire so it would die out.
This teacher, aka the only fucking person with common sense at this dumbass private school,
probably saved my life right then and there.
Anyways, the aftermath of all this was that my parents tried to sue Kyle's parents.
The school paid my parents to keep quiet about the whole thing. And we still did the
damn play. On a much happier note, Kyle got some counseling and is doing much better now.
And me and Marina are still really good friends. And we all lived. So yeah, that's my story.
I have another event in my life that's a lot more intense, but I don't know if I should even write,
but I don't know if I should even send this one in. If you receive this, that
probably means the friend whose email I'm currently using has forced me to send it.
She says that I did not steal her phone for an entire two hours typing this all out.
So I'm pretty sure I'll get it. It'll get to you. Anyways, I just wanted to let you guys
know that I live for your podcast and that you guys are hilarious. Your banter is just
as interesting as the content you provide. And Suggie iTunes reviews can go into a dark hole
and never come out. The best of luck in everything, Caitlin. Caitlin, one, I agree with everything
you just said, and two, Marina is truly the goddess of not giving fuck. And three, real glad that Kyle got some therapy.
Good for them.
And four, you're fucking badass.
That story really threw me for a loop
because I had a covenant third grade, sis.
And nobody ever tried to set me on fire.
Yeah, I'm really glad no one tried to set you on fire.
And holy shit, can you imagine if that had actually happened?
Like, it could have happened to me, but Mrs. Gavin put an end to my cousin, like a biatch.
And the part about your parents trying to sue his parents, first of all, good parents.
And second of all, my parents tried to sue another people's parents for bullying, need school.
So, same girl.
Ma, called somebody's mom and thanked them for hanging out with me.
And I was like, you can't do that, Or I'm not gonna make many more friends, ma.
Bob, Bob are adorable.
I love them.
They're the best.
And you guys are the best.
And these listener tails are the best.
And they're so fun to do.
Guys, I wish we could do these like five days a week
because they're so much fun.
Creates been off podcast of listener tails.
I literally want to.
Well, we did this because it was Thanksgiving
and we wanted to give you something and we know how much you
love listener tails. And later this week, we're going to have a mini episode coming out. So keep
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