Morbid - Spooky Roads Volume 3

Episode Date: March 15, 2020

It's another installment of Spooky/Fucked up Roads! Tonight we talk about a neglectful mother from beyond, a Bunnyman, an exotic light that will have you feeling insecure and a road raging ghost who isn't here for your shit. Thanks to our listeners who helped us discover these spooky places! Thanks to our sponsors! Upstart See why Upstart is top ranked in their category with a 4.9 out of 5 rating on Trustpilot and hurry to Upstart.com/morbid to find out HOW LOW your Upstart rate is. Checking your rate only takes a few minutes! Penrose Hill Sign up with my link and you’ll get an exclusive intro offer! 6 bottles of wine for only $29.95, plus free shipping! Just go to TRYFirstleaf.com/MORBID.  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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This was really fun to put together. I like putting these ones together. Yeah, and this was an ash research extravaganza guys. Sorry. So this is exciting. I'm excited. You're excited. We're all excited.

I researched this in bed while I watched the Golden Girls. Ooh, that's the only way to do it. I was watching the Golden Girls and the during commercial breaks. I watched the Golden Girls. Oh, that's the only way to do. I was watching the Golden Girls and then during commercial breaks I would read these things so it took a very long time. Ashen, I researched very differently. Yep. But the homegirl got it done. It just took a solid amount of hours. She got it done. And I'm proud. Thanks mom. Mom. And you know what? Before we get into the spooky roadiness of it all we have to tell you About our shows we do yeah, yeah, we're gonna talk about our shows. Oh, hey, you want to hear or not

Thus far guys. Yeah, coronavirus has not touched morbid yet has not touched morbid yet. I'm gonna go ahead and I'm gonna follow that with a and John is gonna think that we're like Morris coding for help up here But so but yes Yep, John's definitely gonna And be like what the hell is happening up here? Did one of you die? Ashes dropped her entire iPad I say sheld cuz we like sometimes we practice, we don't practice the intro, but she'll we'll be like, I'll hit this,

you hit this. So it was time for her to hit something and I was like, ah, my fucking iPad on her. Literally launched her iPad at me, but you know, it's cool. It's cool. Just hit me in the knee, no big deal. But we're killing it so far. So basically, Corona has not done anything to us yet. We knocked on wood for it. You should too. Everybody cross your fingers, your toes, your tongue, your heart, your eyes. Cross your heart. Do all of it. Because we so far have not heard any cancellations for our shows yet.

We do have obviously the ones coming up in April, which we'll mention. We're really hoping we get to do them. The Philly and DC and you are really want to go. Really hoping. I knew if if something is to come up, if something has to be postponed or canceled or whatnot, we are going to let you know as soon as we know. So you will know as soon as we know right so you will know as soon as we know. Right now, you know what we know,

and what we know, is that everything's still happening? So, all right, so, April 14th, Punchline Comedy Club, Philadelphia. Yeah, Liberty Bell. Hell yeah, sold out too. Yeah, April 15th at the DC Improv in Washington DC. Monuments. Monumentals.

I'm so coming for you. April 23rd, guys, there's still tickets for this at the Grammar C Theater. The Death Becomes Us Festival, New York, New York. Go get your tickets for that, guys. Come on, come to this true crime festival. The death becomes us fast is gonna be awesome. You can get your tickets at brightyoungthings.com.

Do it. And then at May 6th, we will be at Stand Up Live, Huntsville, Alabama. Huntsville, we're coming for you, hopefully. I really hope May 7th, a early show and early show and a late show at Zeney's and Nashville. Tennessee!

Zeney's were so excited for Nashville, and again, we hope we see you. I know, all of you. We really do. I feel like, you just feel good about it. We're gonna see. We're gonna see. We're gonna see. We're gonna see. We're gonna see. We're gonna see. We're gonna see. We're gonna see. We're gonna see. We're gonna see. We're gonna see.

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We're gonna see. We're gonna see. We're gonna see. We're gonna see. We're gonna see. We're gonna see. We're gonna see. We're gonna see. June 2nd, Good Night's Comedy Club in Raleigh, North Carolina. Raleigh, I really want to go see you! Same Z's. And then the very next day, we're going to get on a bus or a boat or a fucking plane. No, not a plane. Or an automobile.

June 3rd, the comedy zone in Charlotte, North Carolina. Charlotte, I'm sure we're going to come see. I'm sure. Yeah, still pickets for both of those. June 2nd, feel good. June 3rd. Yeah, let's all put good vibes out for summer too I usually hate summer, but I'm gonna love it if I get to see you guys so fuck yeah, yeah

June 11th still tickets for this we added this show in Chicago at Talia Hall go get your tickets for it Chicago Shite town yeah June 12th at Talia Hall another show Chicago sold out can't get tickets for that But we can't wait to see the people who did July 8th comedy works south greenwood village Colorado baby Colorado you guys have went bonkers on tickets like right out the gate and we appreciate that almost sold out Might be so close to sold out so go get your tickets for that Denver. If you want to see, oh, guys, FYI, like either last week or the week before I accidentally said that our Wilber show was June 11th.

I'm so sorry. It's not. It happened. June 11th is Chicago. July 11th is the Wilber Theater in Boston. Guys, that is not sold out yet. I need to see every fucking person I know out there. I need to see every fucking person I don't know out there.

I don't want to see an empty seat in the house, baby. Go get your tickets for Boston. If you've even thought about Boston, if you have watched the town or the departed, come to Boston. That's who we are. Yeah. We are Leonardo DiCaprio and Ben Affleck and Jeremy Renner or whatever

his name is. We're also Jack Nicholson and Matt Damon. We're all of them. We're all of them. So if you come here, we will be all of them for you. And during that show, you're going to get to see one of the best comics of our god damn generation. The comics, stylings of one Emily Walsh. So better known as Walsh, Walsh if you nasty. OK, so come see Emily Walsh. It comes see us and we're going to tear the house down, not literally, but it's a beautiful thing. And it's a story.

It's awesome. And I love it. But come see us there. It's a historic and awesome and I love it. But come see us there. It's gonna be so fun. Our homecoming can't wait. You know what just hit me? What just hit you? I used to go to the club underneath the Wilbur.

Of course she did, guys. Every year after the, it's, well it is an I club. I forget what it's called, but we used to go every year after our holiday party at work. And now I am so elevated that I'm going to be on the stage. That's right. It's crazy. I'm not elevated. I'm still fucking trash. It's still blowing my mind now we get to be on that stage. So we want to see all your faces there.

So make sure you get your tickets for that. You can find all of these tickets at morbidpodcast.com. Our live shows are all listed there. I have links to every ticket site under the date and the venue. So go to morbidpodcast.com and go get your tickets for all our shows, every single one. Go do it. And we can't wait to see you.

And again, we'll let you know if anything changes, we're going to update you as we go along. Let's all hope that Corona just pieces the fuck out of here. And somebody asked me my thoughts on Corona and my thoughts on Corona are that the panic is totally valid. But one thing I don't understand is why the panic is focused on toilet paper. That one I'm not really comprehending. But like, do you just stop buying all the toilet paper

and hand sanitizer because like other people need it? But I got it. I got it. Definitely hoard some beans and some non-parascibles in case you have to be quarantined for a couple weeks. You know? Quarantine sounds like a dream. You have a baby, hoard some baby food,

hoard some formula, diapers, all that good stuff that you're gonna need. I don't have corona, I just had a cough. But yeah, so I don't understand toilet paper because like... There's a lot of different things that you could use for toilet paper if you were now. Well, it's like, well, and I just, it's the one thing that I'm like, I feel like that's the one thing I'm not really concerned about for the food. The hand sanitizer I understand.

Hand sanitizer and cleaning supplies I get, but the other thing I don't understand is how people are buying like 40 pounds of each and not leaving any for the rest of the world. Because like, I get limited people to six each. Honey, just because your hands are clean with 40 pounds of sanitizer, if you don't leave any for the rest of the world,

we're all gonna be nasty and corona's gonna keep spreading. So you gotta leave some for the rest of the world. You will be fine with like a couple of bottles of hand sanitizer and a couple bottles of licell, saw wipes and bleach, somebody who's he what's it's good, you know, so everybody will be fine. We're all going to be fine. Yeah, yeah, just the less we talk about it, the less power we give it. The last thing I have to say about it is wash your hands. Also, that was my Apple watch. I'm sorry. Go wash your hands. Also, that was my Apple Watch. I'm sorry. Go wash your hands. Every time you wash, walk by a sink, wash your hands. And sing the mini morbid theme song. Yeah, sing the mini morbid theme song. Whoever may and not bless your fucking sweet asshole. So without

further ado, I think we have now talked about all our business and we can jump right into spooky roads. All right. Let's do this. The first road that I'm going to present to you is actually more of an island than a road. But there's a road on the island and the island is haunted, so it's fine, executive decision. I love haunted islands even more. I love haunted everything. So great cloud island, let me say that again.

Great cloud island is in Washington, Minnesota. And Jim Frickle, we can thank him for emailing us about it. Jim. Jim. Thank you, Jim. What a guy. What a guy, Jim is. So a lot of people say that Gray Cloud Island

is the most haunted place in Minnesota. Oh, love that. Gray Cloud Island's history dates all the way back to the end of the 1700s or the early 1800s. Ooh. Not totally sure. Where are they? I love an old font, but it's like around that time. So that is when a Native American tribe called the Midawakatan, and I looked at the pronunciation

of that, so don't you dare yell at me. Don't at me. Midawakatan, Dakota, Sue lived, and they settled on the island. The island gets its name from the chief's granddaughter who was called Grey Cloud Woman 2. Her mother, the chief's daughter, was also called Grey Cloud Woman. I love that.

Beautiful, right? Grey Cloud, that's pretty. It is. Yeah. Yeah. Hey there, fellow podcast listener, it's Elena. And Ash! And we're taking you back to the days before streaming services. Whoa!

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Grey Cloud limelight which was built around 1846. Alright, so there a chemical called calcium oxide was made better known as quick lime. Ooh! Quick lime has... Do we know what quick lime does? Yeah! I looked it up. Are you sure it did? It has a ton of different purposes, sure it does.

Including steel making, glass making, cement making, disguising of dead bodies. There you go. It can also be used in fertilizer. I threw that in there. I didn't have to look that up, but I was just seeing what else I can do. It can also be used in fertilizer and to make shells for weapon tree.

Oh, weaponry. Yeah, weaponry. Yeah, I tried. Also, fun fact, when it's heated to a certain temperature, like four fucking thousand degrees Fahrenheit. Four fucking thousand is the approximate. No, it's the actual. Four fucking thousand degrees. Four fucking thousand is the approximate. Yeah. No, it's no, it's the actual yeah, it's four fucking thousand degrees fucking thousand. Literally. That's it. Literally. That's the number. It starts to glow.

Ooh, when it gets it literally starts to glow when it's heated up to four fucking thousand degrees for four fucking thousand degrees. Uh-huh. But anyway, oh, oh, oh, wait, not anyway yet. That's where the term limelight comes from. Oh, like you like you love being in the limelight. Yeah, oh, I love that. I doubt that you do because it's probably a little hot, hot, but anyway, now let's get to the haunting. Haunting. We're going to start with the scariest and then we're going to work our way down to geeky, down, down. Oh, I love that. You're gonna build a saw-up, then you're gonna bring a saw-down, a little down bitch. Like when you get scared. Yeah, exactly.

Alright, so one of the main legends is the White Truck Legend. Ooh, that's a very mundane name for a legend. But I'm ready for it. I'm ready here. So people who visit the island looking for some hauntings are a fucking motorcycle. Yeah, sorry about that. Hey neighbor. My neighbor.

They're almost always chased off by a driver and a white truck. God dammit. Chases them right off the road. Not cool. So some people say that it's actually the truck without a driver chasing them. Whoa. Fucking scary. That's Stephen King-S.

Mm-hmm. And then other people say that the truck will be chasing you and then it will completely disappear. Ooh, yeah, spook spook. Ooh, very spook spook. Jim Frickle. Who I mentioned before. What up, Jim?

In his email, he told us that a couple of his friends went out to Grey County Cloud Island to investigate for themselves. Those are some good friends to have. And this is what he said. A couple of friends got bored. Can you believe it? Bored in Minnesota? I can't imagine decided they would drive out to the island and go fuck around Shortly after crossing onto the island the white truck appears and starts pulling up alongside them kind of hovering in their blind spot

Not really passing them, but not really letting them out of its sight Obviously ghost or no ghost that was enough for them to say fuck this and they got the hell out of there So the thing is some people explain this story away by saying that it's actually just a local who's like really fucking sick of this haunted Tourism that would be hilarious that just chases you off But obviously it's really scary no no matter how you slice it because either way you're getting run off the road I was gonna say either way it's a very aggressive driver whether they are haunted or not. Fantasmic or not. Whether you're getting alive that's very very aggressive. Alright so there's also this really creepy story that has to do with nuns because what fucking good old spooky road story does it include some nuns. Every single one

includes nuns. It's just scarier. Yeah, I don't know why. I don't know what it is. And this is like not like a slide at nuns. No, nuns are so peaceful. I've met a lot of nuns and all of them have been lovely people, but yeah, they're always really nice. Why are they so scary and scary stories? Maybe the movies. Because that's their lovely people usually. Yeah, I mean, I've also heard scary stories about nuns like in real life. So, you know, one of those things. It is what it is. Yeah. So one of the few places on the island is nuns in real life. So, you know, one of those things. It is what it is. Yeah. So, one of the few places on the island is a cemetery.

Of course. We'll get a little more into that a bit later. It's involved in a few more things. Awesome. But in the cemetery, there's this plot where 12 nuns are buried in a row. Oh, damn. I'm already stressed out. Yeah.

12 in a row on one block. That already gave me the chills. Just like 12 nuns all buried next to each other in a row on one block. That already gave me the chills. Just like 12 nuns, I'll bury next to each other in a row. Yeah. So the Haunted Challenge says that tourists take it upon themselves to count the headstones, so 1, 2, 3, 4 to 12. So you walk in one direction counting the headstones, which seems creepy as fuck, but like, OK, whatever.

I'm so into this. And then you turn around and you count them walking in the other direction, and you don't get 12. Oh my god, I want to do this. I want to into this and then you turn around and you count them walking in the other direction and you don't get 12 anymore. I want to do this tomorrow. Well, we're gonna get chased off the island by a white truck And I'm already like not the best driver. So Minnesota, hopefully we'll have like a live show there sometime and I want to do this. Okay, I'll go with you if we have if we ever end up there. Yeah, in almost every source I looked into regarding Gray Cloud Island. I don't know why that's a fucking tongue twister. Like oh, it is great cloud islands You go to say glee for some reason because the next word is clue

Yeah, you try to put an L in there to make it like glee cloud. I'm gonna. I'm gonna start calling it gci There you go. That's okay So every source that I looked into regarding GCI, there is a story recounted where a mom and a son are visiting the cemetery and the son, I feel like your mind automatically goes to thinking that the son is a little boy, but I'm assuming this mother fucker was grown. Okay, because my mind immediately went to a little boy. Me too, but I don't know. So the son decides to count the headstones and he goes in the one direction to see if it's really true that if you go in the other direction you get another fucking number

So while he was counting his mom saw the figure of a little boy following behind him and they lit it she told she was like nope Nope, nope, nope, like we're getting the fuck out of here. I'm doing this anymore. No more. They literally just fucking ran out of the So I still think it's a little boy. I Don't know. In the same cemetery, there are reports of a floating green lantern that some people say is Grey Cloud Woman herself, or the chief of the original tribe walking around the cemetery.

Or J. Gatzbeast Green Light. Yeah, totally. If it's a full moon, you might even hear the sound of a drum beating while you're there, which adds to the fucking spook. It's like your heartbeat out loud. Yeah, I was gonna say because drums are such like a, like a, I don't even know what to do. They go through your body.

They have like a primal sound to them, you know what I mean? So it's like when you hear it, it automatically makes your heartbeat faster. They sound like danger. Yeah, they do, like impending something. Yeah. So when you hear it, you're just like, like drum roll please. Literally. Yeah. Or like, you know, a battle or something. It's really scary. It's weird. You might also hear a woman screaming in the distance. See, that's fine. That won't be weird at all. Uh-huh. No, it's fine. Yeah, it's totally fine. Just like home.

Just a woman screaming. And if you do have enough gumption to head out there, be mindful that your car might have some electrical issues. Of course, man. Which I don't know, that freaks me out because that's your ticket out of there. Yeah, fuck that. Ghosties just love to mess with cars. They do.

So there's reports that a group of people headed out into the cemetery one night. When they pulled their car in, their car lost all power and everything just went haywire. Like all the light shut off, they couldn't get the engine to start. Like it was just was not doing anything just not happening And then they pushed the car to the other side of the cemetery like where the exit is I guess and Like they were about to leave the car turned on no problem. It goes like cool. Get the fuck out now. They're like cool

You're out. Bye. Bye. Knock it out. Yeah. See your way out. Wow. No. Thank you So now there's just like a few little tiny stories that I'm gonna end with for GCI, GCI, the headless bride. Ooh, all the headless bride. Yes, apparently on the day of headless bride's wedding, her husband found out that she was cheating on him. Headless bride. So he took care of that in a completely rational way.

Absolutely. Found an axe, hacked her head off. Yeah, I mean, that is how you react to that. And so that I mean, never react to what's known. Definitely don't do that. Don't do it. So now she runs around GCI, Somsay, and search of her head. I always love those ones where it's like,

she's wearing a wedding dress, and it's like, so did he hack her head off in her wedding dress? It's always like these things happen while she was wearing a wedding dress. I wonder if she was in her wedding dress. If it was in front of everybody. What if she was just getting ready so like half her hair is curled? Ooh. But half an eye lashes on.

Aw man, that's sad. Yeah, that is rough. So there's on tours and smooths. Oh fuck, damn it. That gives me so much anxiety. That's so scary. Yeah, that's so fun. It's the most haunted part of all.

There's also claims that a witch is buried in the cemetery. Yes, girl. And that her grave is the only grave where no grass will grow. Oh, love it. It's just covered in a weighted mess. Oh, I love it. And I wrote down right here. Honestly, I wouldn't be mad if that happened to me,

and my legacy was that I was actually a witch. That's like, I'm not mad at that. That's the dream. I'm gonna ask them to not water the grease on my gruel. I'm not a f**k. I'm not a f**k. Fuck off if you think that you're gonna plant some flowers. Allow some gnarled weeds to just take over mushy.

Toss a tumbleweed in there if you will. Oh, I love it. Maybe some thicket. Make it really scary. Let's thicket. It's like, it's like gnarly like thorns and shit. Oh yeah, put some thicket on there. Yeah, put some of that on there.

Throw some thicket. A dash of thicket if you will. A dash of thicket. All right, so the main thing about GCI you should keep in mind is that its locals are all incredibly fucking sick of trespassers coming to the island. I can imagine. And a lot of times the cops are called about like cars parked

on private property, near the cemetery, or people trespassing. So people have gotten tickets and some people have even gotten like misdemeanor charges. Oh damn. So I would say if you're interested in this story, you should probably just leave that to a Google search. A church. A church. A church. A church on Google. She gave it to a Google search. Leave it on a church on Google. My mouth is really dry. Oh, you know, it happens. So that was a cool one. Thank you for GCI. You're welcome. Appreciate it. Sure. Sure. The one I'm going to be talking about is the Gurdon light in Arkansas. Arkansas.

Arkansas. I know it's Arkansas. Everybody commutates. All right. So the Gurdon light in Arkansas. So about 75 to 85 miles south of Little Rock, there is a little city called Gurdon in Arkansas. There's a stretch of railroad tracks here where people see an orb-like light in the distance. An orb-like light. An orb-like light. Many people have captured the light. There's a ton of pictures of it online. You can go look it up. Some of the photos show like a blueish orb of light, some show like kind of

orangey. It's going to show up no matter what weather there is. And it's usually swaying back and forth above about like three feet above the ground. Sometimes it's just going to chill there. Sometimes it chases you back to the entrance. You know, like a choose your own adventure except it's actually the light's choice to not your. You have no fucking choice in the matter. It's like those goosebumps books, those are the best ones. That's exactly what I was thinking of. What was it? It was like, reader beware, you choose the scare. Yeah, that was a spookish. So that show that we all know and love on solve mysteries. I think that was everybody's shit. That was like my shit when I was way too young to be watching it.

They actually went out to the curtain to curtain light to do a segment about this orb, this light, if you will. There are a few stories that try to explain where this light actually comes from, because once you see a creepy ass light, you got to know what's backstory. You're like, hey bitch, you'll wear you from. What's your story like? They're like, you're so insane. You're so, tell me you're still cruel. Well, look at you all blue and orange.

When you frown. Just chilling or chasing me, I just got a bow. Hey baby, what's yo sad? You seem like a, you seem like a Gemini. You can't figure it out. You're coming all you. You're coming all you. You're chasing your sin. All right Gemini You can't figure it out. You're all you Jason you're sitting All right, so skeptics say that it's just headlights shining through the trees

That's a bummer in boring as fuck because the area is right near in a state 30 and highway 67 so you know You know, but that's been proven a that's been proven wrong because there have been reports of the shining orb since before the highways existed. So, suck on that! So, there you go, skeptics. The light was first reported right around the 1930s, and actually this is pretty interesting, because the first report of the light coincides with the death of a pretty important man in the area's history. A man named Louis McBride, who was sentenced to be electrocuted to death, a very not chill way to die.

One might say, the unchillist. That's the unchillist way to die. Ask Ted Bundy. So he was sentenced to be electrocuted to death, and the sentence was carried out on July 8, 1932. McBride was found guilty of murdering his boss, William McLean. Everybody is like a McLean, McBride. McLean McLean, McLean McLean, what's it?

McDonuts. For one reason or another, William fired Louis and Louis was not happy to say the least. The story goes that William believed Louis to be responsible for a trained derailment and I mean that's a pretty big deal. Yeah, train accidents on your watch are not typical. Yeah, smiled upon. I think that trained derailment was your fault. So I'm gonna have to fire you. And yeah, that's why he was getting fired. But like I said, Louis was real pissed he was getting fired. And he beat his boss William to death with a railroad spike Casual

That reminds me of spike in Buffy Yeah, which we can always bring it around back to because he used to kill his victims with a railroad spike. You say we, but really it's just you. I do. I can always bring it back around to spike. Where am I Buffy heads at? So yeah, he beat him to death with a railroad spike, which, woo, woo. Some people say the explanation for the light is that it's William holding the lantern he used while working to light his way. Of course, over the years, the story has been twisted around, and now there's a couple of different versions, as there always is with these kind of stories. The first one is historically accurate, with the murder and all, but some people say that the light actually comes from a railroad worker who one night fell onto the tracks and was beheaded.

Isn't that so fucked? That's a real big bummer. Yeah. The light part still comes from the lantern. Or lantern. Oh, lantern. Oh, lantern. Sorry, my Boston accent today. Full flinch. I don't know what happened.

I woke up and I was like, hey, kid. You go to the north end today. I have no abuse. Maybe I watched the town last night. I just got to know. Only in this version, it's lighting the way for the man to find his head that he lost. Because you know, got to find that head.

Yeah, I mean, what are you going to do? Also, why do you need the light to look for your head if you don't have eyes? You know, those are, those are details. Valid questions. Silly details. We don't need to worry about that. Yeah, whatever. Some people say all of this is phony baloney and think the light has something to do with the amount of quartz crystals underneath the city of Gerdon.

That'd be pretty rad. They say the crystals are under so much pressure that they emit electric energy or a voltage. Look at this science. Which can actually be explained by the piezoelectric effect. The piezoelectric effect basically says that certain materials can emit an electrical charge if they're under enough pressure. I think all of us can emit an electrical charge for under enough pressure. I'm like zap zap bitch calm down. I feel it. But honestly that's all well and fine that makes sense. I love me a good scientific explanation. We love the theory.

I love it. The next step in the scientific method is to ask a question. We got a question this. So I just pulled that so deep from within. So it's like, why would these be floating in the air? Really. A physics professor at Henderson State University, which is in Arkansas, became fascinated by the light and carried out many investigations with his students about it. So they found that if you looked at the light through any kind of filter,

it was never polarized and they could never find an electromagnetic current either. From my understanding, both of these finds would negate the idea that the light is produced by the piezoelectric effect because it would mean that there's no electric current coming from the light. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, I do know what I'm saying. You know, you do know what I'm saying. You know why? Ashlet the shit up. Yeah, I did. I just want to put that out there. I did. Ashlet the shit up. So she knows what I'm saying. I was like, what is the piezoelectric theory?

And then you work it out. That's an effect. It's an effect. But you like it. And I know that because I did this research. You totally did. Now we have an email from Tara. This email is the shit. It really is. So it says, hey there ladies, my name is Tara and like all of us love this podcast. Love you too Tara. Love you. My amazing girlfriend in nursing school turned me on to this podcast and now I owe her everything. Thanks Mary. I know your spooky ass is listening to this. Love you girl. Aww. We love you Mary and Tara. So as soon as I heard the first story on fucked up roads, episode one, I knew I had to share my railroad story even if you don't end up reading this because who the hell thinks about Arkansas? You know what we do. We do all the time. Wake up at night.

I wake up at night. I'm like, what is happening in Arkansas? So it all began back in 2010 2011. I just moved out to my own apartment in Little Rock with a roommate And we had a few of our friends over for a chill night in love those But here's the thing about chill nights in Arkansas. You're gonna get bored son So my dumbass friends talked my Suggestible acid to driving about 80 fucking miles at like 10 or 11 at night to get my ass killed out in the middle of nowhere in Gurdon. Pronounced Gurdon, Arkansas. Exactly where I wanted to die in my forever ghost outfit of Swap Ants and Hoody. Thanks for looking out guys.

Oh I feel you so hard on this. So here is what I was told would happen when we got to Gurdon. We're gonna get out, walk down this railroad track, see a floating orb, get spooked, and head home. So the same people out there, you're probably like, your girl, what the fuck? Gas is expensive, and that sounds dumb as fuck, because it is, and also you probably didn't grow up in Arkansas where there's literally nothing to do. So all four of us hop into my two door basic bitch car and make our way down to Gurdon latest fucking night when only the most reputable of society are out driving around.

So about an hour and a half later, the four of us arrived at this dirt road that some sketch-ass website told us to find. Get out and start walking. I'm loving this already. If only I had a whole group of weirdos in my ear and on my Facebook telling me bitch, don't you know fresh air fresh airs for dead people But to everyone's surprise 18 year olds are not actually fully functioning adults who make good choices So we start walking and I get a Oh I was a dumbass at 18. Oh, yeah, I think everybody on planet earth was I'm sure somebody's so many teen year olds gonna yell at me about that But whatever don't care.

Somebody you'll realize, you'll get it. Don't worry. And then you'll laugh along with all of us. About a mile down the tracks, off to the left, there was a clearing in the woods. What was in this clearing you ask? Oh.

Was it totally innocent and absolutely not terrifying to find on a railroad track? And the woods at midnight while you walked with a fucking pen light you'd had put your glove box you box you ask nope it was a pentagram built out of rocks that was not what I So scary my internal model log went a little like this cool cool cool. It's totally cool Definitely not gonna be sacrificed or anything So instead of my of what my now fully formed frontal lobe would do and turn my ass around and go home, I just started running down the tracks with my friends further into the woods. Sounds about right?

Oh, trust me, I'm shocked I've made it to 28 myself. I know, that was what she said to me. So we finally slowed down a little and I keep asking my friends when the fuck do we see this light? Then we just have to keep going, just ticking off every cliche horror movie. Then I saw a light, but it was two lights and they weren't flirting, they weren't flirting. They weren't flirting with me. And they weren't floating in the ethereal way I had expected. They were moving at us through the woods and I heard some weird ass peeing show music No, thank you deliverance mother fuckers. I am out

We started running back towards our call a car all the while this creepy S truck blaring this backwards Backwards creeptastic music is following beside us in the woods. I ran the fastest I had ever run in my life, made it back to my car, have never regretted having a fucking two-door car that required me to let someone into my backseat. Well, I can only imagine someone is about to grab me, drag me back to his den of cousin love, and maybe squeal like a pig. Ew. And then anyone has seen Deliverance, fuck that. So long story short, 18-year-old just stupid. Arkansas needs more shit for teenagers to do,

and I still haven't seen this damn orb. Thank you for taking time if you've made it this far, and I hope you can find some good theories about the current life we did. Fuckin' Tara. And Tara, thank you for the email, because it was fun to look into this case. I am so glad.

Or not. I guess it's this road. I'm so glad that you made it away from those banjo crazies. Yeah. I really am. We don't love the banjo crazy. I don't love Deliverance Part 2, so I'm really glad you got out of there girl. I'm glad we all made it out.

Oh, that was awesome. So now, let's move on to the Crybaby tunnel in Ohio. Don't love the name of that. Nope. There seems to be a lot of Crybaby tunnels. Well, and a lot of Crybaby roads, a lot of Crybaby rivers, there's always babies being thrown places. Well, that's not okay. It's unacceptable. It's awful. So Crybaby tunnel or Shredder Road Tunnel is located in Chili Coffee, and we got a pronunciation for that. So there's two versions of the story for this place.

The first is that a woman who didn't want her baby anymore placed the baby on the train tracks above the tunnel and just left the baby there. Cash, whoa. That's some Catherine Knight's kind of shit. Yeah, it is. That's bullshit. So obviously, you can gather. That's something pretty bad happened at the baby because you know trains

The other story says that the woman was walking along the tracks on top of the tunnel when a train went by She dropped the baby into the water and the baby drowned because she got scared. I mean that's Maternal instincts say don't drop your baby. There's a lot of neglect happening in these stories. If you want the full spooky experience, you're supposed to drive through the tunnel with all your car lights turned off, and people say you're supposed to hear the baby crying. Yeah.

I don't want any part of that. According to the research done by James A. Willis of Strange and SpookyWorld.com, he found a story related to the tunnel that states a woman was murdered near the tunnel and she was hanged from a tree with a water bed mattress. What? The actual fuck. Other than those few stories for this Ohio tunnel, there wasn't a whole lot else about it, but we really wanted to cover this one because one of our listeners wrote in

this email about it and it was so spooky. Yeah. So this is an email that says, hi ladies. Well, hello. Hi there. It says, I changed all names for safety's sake, but you can use mine, I'm Sarah.

Hi Sarah. Hi Sarah. So first of all, I just wanna tell you how much I fucking love your show. My son Vance and I listened to it together. He's 13. Oh my God, I feel like an old fart. I think I'm really, I think I'm maybe love your show. My son Vance and I listen to it together. He's 13. Oh my God, I feel like an old fart. I think I'm really, I think I'm maybe a year older than you are laid out, woof.

Hello, oh, sorry if this gets really fucking long, but I don't always know when to shut up. Me either Sarah, so it's fine. We're all old together, I appreciate it, except for Ash. I live in a small town in Ohio called Chilly Coffee. You pronounce that like Chili Coffee. Side note, side note, love me some japa. Same Z's.

Same Z's. You're a lady after her own heart. Speaking to us all. You really are. There's a road off Walnut Creek Road that has a spupi-esque tunnel. It's called Crybaby's Tunnel. I should probably look up the full version of the backstory, but my fat fingers don't feel like it.

Sorry. Also, every time I say crybaby tunnel, I think of the Johnny Depp movie, Crybaby. Oh, I haven't seen that movie. It's a ridiculous movie. I thought you were going to say you thought of the candies because that's all I can think about. What is a crybaby? Crybaby is there like the sour little, it looks like gum but it's like a like a, like a job breaker. Oh, okay, I didn't know that that's what that was. No singing of Johnny Depp and John Waters and all that. Well, our brains fired differently.

Anyway, the tunnel is said to be haunted by the ghost of a lady and her baby that she drowned in the creek. That's Hick for Creek. She said that, not around in the creek. I did not say that. Don't at me. That runs next to it. People say that if you go out after midnight, you can hear the baby crying and sometimes a maniacal woman's laughter. Don't be scary as fuck. I'd be like, gotta go. So I have a

personal story with this. When I was in high school, oh, some 20 years ago, my friends and I went out there one night on Friday the 13th at 3am. Yesterday was Friday the 13th. It sure was. We were daredevil's, same-seas. We go out there and there's three of us girls and my boyfriend and Jessica's boyfriend. Anyways, we pull up near the tunnel and get out, down my now. There's a cornfield behind us on one side of the tunnel and a pumpkin patch on the other side of the tunnel. That sounds amazing. This is a vibe. Like I'm in. Vibes check. The guys dare us to go through the tunnel. Nothing happens out of the ordinary my boyfriend mad to sides It would be funny to streak through the tunnel So LOL so they drop their pants and go bear us through

She's like this when we all stop laughing We notice a woman standing on the other side of the tunnel. We just came through. No, nope nope. She's holding a fucking baby Yelp, it starts to well. Oh, I hate it. No, this is the scariest part She moves to the side where the crick is and throws the baby in is it imagine seeing not with your eyeballs I would full on like linebacker tackle that woman down and Already read this but I still have I stammer to ask if they're all seeing it too. I swear she heard me, because ghosts have big fucking ears to hear shit with.

She turns towards us and lets out this blood-curdling scream and starts towards us. Yeah. Matt grabs my hand and starts to drag me towards the car, which is in the direction of the fucking scary ass lady. He doesn't see or hear her. Everyone else did, though. I guess he's just lucky to not be

traumatized by it. Anyway, we go about halfway into the tunnel and he turns to ask the others if they're coming. The lady is still moving towards us and I'm freaking the fuck out. Suddenly, she screams and charges at us. Fuck that. What? Fuck that. Only to vanish right before touching me. I scream and run my big ass to the car and jump in and start honking the horn to lights in a farmhouse. Come on. A man comes out with a goddamn fucking shotgun. We all get in and piece the fuck out. To this day, I can't go near that road.

I make great effort to go way around it and never even remotely near it after dark. Well that's the end of my long-ass tale. Sorry if it's not written well. I'm doing this on my phone in 24 degree temps with a tank top on. LMAO, I'm fucking nuts. Thank you for reading this love Sarah. Sarah, that was a tree. Holy shit, that was a tree up. Whoa. Okay, I don't want to go anywhere near that tunnel. Fuck that. The last one, which is

someplace that I've never wanted to go near, and it's always scared the shit out of me. This one is always scared the shit out of me. The Bunnyman Bridge in Virginia. Any dude called the Bunnyman, I'm just not into. Spooky-D Spooky. Unless it's Frank. Yeah, exactly.

Deepka. All right, so I wanted to end on a big one, and I remember seeing this on an old ABC family show that used to air during the spooky season The spooky season that show is called it's narrated by the little girl with the scariest fucking voice No, not a little girl. It's the lady from Poe to guys that has the little girl voice. Oh, yeah, that's an old woman Oh Sound like that. No, I forget her name someone tell me what the ladies name from Poe to guys is

Oh my god, It's she has this Careiest voice in all of us. I can hear it in my voice right now when I want her to start. She used to be on every Halloween It was like most terrifying places on her. Yeah, it's still on every now and then on Halloween. All right, so I remember hearing about the bunny man bridge on this episode when I was like way too young to be watching that I probably did it. You probably did No, because then I used to like go home where where I was not looked after and I would be like, oh my god, I'm gonna watch the show. Oh my god.

Because Elena's so cool, I wanna be like her. Oh. And then I'd be like, and not sleep for months. Anyways. So the story starts with patients from a psychiatric hospital being transported to a prison. So while they're going through the tunnel,

the bus crashes and some people die, some try to escape, almost all of them are caught. A few sources I saw said that there were two people that escaped, but most of the sources say that there's only one person that escaped. What the fuck was that? That was my- Oh! That was my apple! That came at this, I'm like so scared right now. If anyone has an apple watch or like one of those things that it tells you to breathe every now and then,

and I keep meaning to turn it off. That was scary as shit. It sounded like wind chimes. We're just fucking hate. I know that really did. That added to the ambience. Everybody. Spooked me out.

Yeah. I was just trying to add to it. I shouldn't have said anything and just let it happen and see if everybody was like, did you hear those wind chimes? No, because I freaked theed free to fuck out. Okay, sorry. All right, so.

Lani Dada, few sources that I saw two escapees, most of them only say one. Douglass Griffin was, according to most sources, the one patient who escaped. Good old Doug. Yes. So there was this huge search to find him, but all police kept finding during the search

were mutilated bunnies. What the fuck, Doug? I wrote a parentheses, sobs. So we're like, what Doug? Doug, come on. Doug. Doug.

Fuck you, Doug. Until one night, they found something other than bunnies. On Halloween night, it said that the bunny man ran into some teenagers hanging out at the bridge. At exactly the stroke of 12 midnight, right, right. He attacked them, gutted them, and hung their bodies at the bridge. Exactly the stroke of 12 midnight, right, right. He attacked them, gutted them, and hung their bodies from the bridge. Oh, no big deal.

Scariest part. Hello, youngins. And then he just attacks, guts, and hangs. And he's like, happy Halloween. Bye. Nice to hang with you youths, see you later. Scariest part. Douglas was never found.

Douglas, where you at? Wildest part? Well, there's a few. Uh-oh. For one thing, the prison that the patients were supposedly being transported to didn't exist until years later. Oh. There's no record of Douglas Griffin.

Oh. And the library that people claim houses the evidence of this hotel does not exist. Uh-oh. So, you're like, did somebody just make up this shit in their mind? Is this a subreddit? Hello? Hi, I'm confused. I will be pissed. Well sit back down and hold on to you booty. I'm holding it. You're just like, is your butt? Because this is some real shit and it might be even more eerie than the real thing. Please. Boogie. So Brian Conley, how do I say this archivist?

Archivist for Fairfax County in Virginia. And he uncovered what seems like the origin of this legend. So around 1970, a couple parked in an area were assaulted, the area was like near the bridge. Okay. They were just an area. An area on the globe. They were in an area.

The area in life. They were near the bridge. They were in an area, an area in life. They were near the bridge. When a man assaulted them, he was dressed in white and he had, quote, something on his head. He yelled at them about trespassing and threw a fucking hatchet through the car window at them. Disproportionate response. Yeah, ridiculous.

If you are trespassing, that's not a correct response. You don't deserve a hatchet to do that. And also, this is like for real. This is not legend. This is reported. Oh, damn. It's like in the newspaper. Oh, shit.

So a word spread, and people started changing details to embellish the story, obviously, which eventually brought the Bunnyman idea to life. So I did find one article citing that two weeks after the attack, a private security guard had an altercation with the Honeyman. Yik-yik. He said that the man was standing on the porch of this new home, and that he was holding an axe, chopping into a pole on the porch.

I see that in my head. Me too, and I don't want it. I don't want it. I see like a beautiful home. I just see a scary man and a white bunny suit. He's sitting there just hacking. He's like, he's like, he's like, he's like, he's like, he's like, he's like,

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killed his whole family and then hanged himself from the bridge. Wow, this is some shit. This buddy man is said to chase you with an axe if you go in the bridge at night and when he catches you, say, peace out to your fucking battles because he's gonna disinvowel you. He's gonna take care of that ship for you. Realistically it's up to you

which one you fucking decide Well, I you know what I love all of them My favorite I think is the guy on the porch cuz he's just like get out of here I'm a bust your head so I have the choice to get out of there. It's all good I just what I don't want a chat have a good one. It's been real. It's been fun hasn't been real fun You know where I got that from it's from from the Devil Wars Prada, I think. It was from way before that. Oh.

Well, I saw it in the Devil Wars Prada, and then I get it originally. I used to work with a girl. I set it all the time, so then I started saying, I love it. Yeah. That's a good story. Thank you.

Fuck off. You're an ass. That's almost as, that's almost as like invigorating as the bunny man. I mean there's a lot of places where that originated from like the bunny man. I love the bunny man too. I like it now that I know that perhaps it's a bit more embellished than I originally thought. That kind of bummed me out that it's a bit more. It made me feel a lot better. Also you couldn't pay me all the money in the world to drive through that bridge.

Oh, fuck no. Nope. I mean, I want to, like right now I want to, but I don't think I can do it. Oh, they also say that, like, blood drips from the ceiling. Oh, shit. Yeah. I'll, uh, fucking amityville.

Yeah. Damn. That's no joke. No thank you. Thank you. Virginia. What up, Virginia? I mean, keeping it real, keeping it weird out here.

So, keeping it bunny. Yeah. So can I keep it a bunny? Yeah, then you just bumped into the table. I'm like I'm I'm I'm on high alert. Tash is like on alert right now every noise I make she's like what the fuck is it? You know what the craziest thing is I tell me about murder all the live long day. Whatever. Tell me about ghosts Get the fuck out my face. It's I don't like it. Yeah, but I do. I love it. I love feeling all spooky. I like being scared.

I do too. But I get wild. That's scared. I wild out what I'm scared of. Why can't guys, I'm sure everybody's with me. Who can't wait for spooky season? I told Alina that I just want to fast forward through summer. I don't give a fuck about summer other than the shows that we're doing.

And I just want to go to a haunted house. I'm just ready for spooky season. I'm ready. I want to dress up this Halloween. I didn't dress up for like past three years. Yeah, we gotta dress up. So if you want to see some picks of these scary-ass places, feel free to follow us on the Instagram, double tap, baby.

Morbid podcast. Hit us up on Twitter double tap baby morbid podcast. Hit us up on Twitter at a morbid podcast. Join the Facebook group morbid colon, a true crime podcast. Write us in Gmail morbid podcast at gmail.com. We hope that you keep listening and we hope that you keep it weird. But that's a word that you run into the light and you're like, oh my god, you're so exotic. What color are you?

And then you fucking go into the tunnel where the woman chases you and she's throwing her baby into the creek. And then you go to the Bunnyman hotel. It's not a hotel. I don't know why I even said Bunnyman hotel. And everything is just scary in the world. That's all.

It sure is. Bye. And also my stand goal was achieved. So thank you. I'm so happy for you. Bye. Bye. and also my stand goal was achieved. So thank you, fucking happy for you. So thank you, fucking happy for you. Bye. Bye.

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