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S4 Episode 8: Spooky Scary Stories 2

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In this episode, we bring back one of our favorite podcast episode formats from last year: telling spooky stories.

In honor of Haunted House, our dark hoppy ale that's available basically everywhere Allagash is sold, we wanted to share creepy, spine-tingling stories that you could sip the beer to.

So, hit listen, grab your Haunted House, and enjoy a bevy of spooky stories, submitted by our very own newsletter subscribers!


Fun fact: Brett messed up in the beginning of the podcast but decided to keep it in, to make the show feel more "human." See if he was successful!

SPEAKER_00:

This is for Maine with Love and Al. This is Formaine with Love and Allegash Burning Podcast where we talk about beer, our community here in Maine, and things that generally make us happy. Today is the second annual spooky, scary story version of our podcast in honor of Haunted House, Copy Dark Ale. Um, on the podcast today, we have me, Brett, Liz, our marketing manager. Hi, Liz. Hi. Provider of scary noise. And Tom Halstead, uh, official title, Lord of Darkness. Ooh, I did not know that was my official title. I need to change my email signature right now. Uh no, Tom is our merchandise inventory manager, but I we invited him back because you were here last time, Tom. Why were you here last time exactly?

SPEAKER_01:

Because somebody else was gonna be here and then they bailed. Oh think because they were too scared. And you were like, who else? And I happen to be walking by.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. I said that. I said that in actually a mean way. I didn't mean it me because I you were such a pleasure to have on the last scary podcast that I was like particularly. I literally I put this together and I was like, there's no way Tom can't be on it. You have to be a part of it.

SPEAKER_01:

I don't think the last one ended up being as scary as we thought it was gonna be. I think it was a little more humorous.

SPEAKER_00:

It was humorous. I think I was operating on like 1.5 hours of sleep in the last like three days before that one. So I was a little manic. If you listen back, I hit some notes with my note voice that were a little higher expected. Uh right. So, to start, as always, we need to do a secret question. Tom, you get to start. Uh the best Halloween costume you or someone in your close orbit has worn that you really enjoyed.

SPEAKER_01:

I'm I'm gonna go with myself. Yes. When I was younger, I think for three or four years in a row, I was a grim reaper. Wow. And it started out as a really great costume with like the cloak and stuff like that. And then, you know, I was getting into my teenage years and getting taller, and then all of a sudden it was just a really short cloak. And I was probably wearing short pants and sneakers. It turned into breakfast satiphines. It was definitely a little awkward towards the end, but uh it was my favorite costume, and I would love to bring it back. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_00:

That's amazing. Good. That's a good one. Um, Liz, you have a different question.

SPEAKER_02:

Okay.

SPEAKER_00:

Uh unless you have a good answer for that one, then okay. All right, I didn't really either. So I'm glad it didn't come back to me. Uh Liz, what is a top Halloween candy?

SPEAKER_02:

I mean, I'm all for the chocolate candy. Like I, you know, when you hit those houses and all they got is the like sugary sweet ones. And you consider maybe I don't want this, but then you're like, nah, I do want it.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

But I mean, I'm big in like the milky way. Yeah. I love a three musketeers. I feel like doesn't get a lot of love, but like three musketeers is good. Happy to get happy to eat your three musketeers.

SPEAKER_00:

I get I get a like, I want three musketeers to be like 80% of what I want, and then I eat it and it's like 76%, and I'm like, yeah, I get yeah, it got close.

SPEAKER_02:

We get a lot of trick-or-treaters, and they don't seem to care about what they get, but my neighbor always gives out the king size candy books. There you go. Yeah, we're like in the neighborhood. We get the mini ones that come in the pack of like 500. Um, so we get traffic just because they get a lot of traffic.

SPEAKER_00:

That's good. They're like a known entity.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh, yeah. We're on a fairly busy street, so yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

We have, I think in in my neighborhood, there are a couple king sizers. It's like a little bit of an arms race, I think. I saw some crazy large candy scenarios, and I was like, what are you people thinking?

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

But they're thinking, I got too much money, not enough candy.

SPEAKER_02:

I think our neighbor, it's like one of his life's goals to be able to hand out king size candy bars. It brings him so much joy that, like, I don't and I just am so happy for him.

SPEAKER_00:

I that reminds me of a friend of mine whose life goal uh in high school was to wear a new pair of socks every day. That was his like be rich enough to have that.

SPEAKER_02:

And like literally new or just wash, like completely new.

SPEAKER_00:

Like that was like get rich enough to do that. He he has not achieved that, I don't think. But at the same time, like I thought he got there in high school.

SPEAKER_02:

I was like No, no, he didn't get there.

SPEAKER_00:

It was just like he put that out there, and I was like, you know what? As a as a like a barometer of success, like if you achieve that, like, yeah, that'd feel pretty darn nice to put on a fresh pair of socks every morning. It's too much for me. I yeah, that's wild.

SPEAKER_01:

He just needs to put it out there to like a sock company that's like, ooh, we gotta get this guy now. He's a sock influencer.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

Okay, Brett. Here is my secret question for you. Oh, thank you. What is your favorite jack-o'-lantern face?

SPEAKER_00:

Oh, yes, yes. Uh, bad ones, extremely poor ones. I think that's what I love.

SPEAKER_02:

Like they put no effort into it, or it's just like little triangle eyes.

SPEAKER_00:

I think there's a there's a solid Venn diagram of like tried hard and failed, didn't try at all and succeeded, and like just tried really hard and got somewhere super weird that's off-putting. So I think that's the center of my Vendigram.

SPEAKER_02:

I feel like our jack-o'-lanterns always either get smashed before Halloween, stolen before Halloween, or like it rains super hard and they just like implode.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, we had a a neighbor of ours did some, I think two weeks ago, and they immediately just disintegrated on his porch. I'm like, that's a little early, dude. Yeah, you gotta have a couple more weeks. That's right. Yeah, he put them out October 1st. He was just excited. Oh, it was 1 a.m. Still well into September.

SPEAKER_00:

So gotta wait. Yeah, but you have those people who do like the artistic, like where they're like shaving it down. You're not even cutting all the way through, you're like shaving it down so it's like different shades of yeah, no, yeah, no.

SPEAKER_02:

Every year it's like, do we have a knife to cut a pumpkin? And it's like, how about this butter knife? How about this two dollars set?

SPEAKER_01:

It's either a butter knife or the largest like butcher's knife you've ever seen. So yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

It's haunted house season. We mentioned it, haunted house, dark hoppy ale. We've been making it for so long. Like how long? Dozens, if not 13 of years, I think. Uh, I would say 2015. No, 2014 might have been one of the first ones because it was house beer or haunted was the kind of way it was uh put first, because it's a combination of our brewery-only house beer that we've had for quite a long time, and then a certain Irish beer uh that our uh Irish-born uh engineering director loved. So we wanted to mash those two together, and we got haunted house. And uh that was the origin way back. That was you know, pilot beer submission that got uh a lot of love, and we've just kept making it, and now it's a part of our seasonal house series. Uh we have surf house in the springslash summer. We have uh haunted house for this season, and then we have speehouse coming up after that.

SPEAKER_01:

Did you know this year is the first year that we've achieved with haunted house every one in 666 cans is haunted. This is the first year we were able to make that happen. How do we do that? Uh lots of um, you know, weird science machines things spinning country dishes. Yeah, a lot of like smoke.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh, yeah, tons of smoke. Some good cackling from the cellar. Yeah, yeah. Oh yeah. Okay. Wow. Eye of newt. We just the new the recipe edition, I have newt no eye of newt was used in we did not put eye of newt into the beer if you are a beer inspector. Yeah. Um, and to celebrate uh the season of Haunted House, we are going to do what we did last year and read scary stories and react to them importantly. Uh, last year we kind of scrounged around the internet for some like main-based scary stories. Tom had really helped out with that one. This year we put it out to our fans, our newsletter subscribers, to set just spook us with some stories and we got a bunch. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

And I was a real non-believer. I was like, Brett, good luck. Nobody is gonna write you a scary story. But I felt the same way.

SPEAKER_00:

My fail-safe plan was if no one submits a scary story, then this becomes a scary story about how bad our marketing is. Yes.

SPEAKER_01:

I was just excited about this idea because I pictured you opening your email every morning and just screaming like the deckline said scary story, and then I was like, not reading that.

SPEAKER_00:

Nope, skip.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, whose idea was this?

SPEAKER_00:

I read them and I loved them, and I have them here for you. And I've uh so for all the folks who submitted, uh, I have taken your stories. I have in some cases shortened them a teensy bit just to make sure we can get through all of them. But uh the the intent and the scariness and the crux of your story remains intact, hopefully. Um uh, but to be to be honest, I open my emails and scream every day. That's what I do.

SPEAKER_02:

That's the nature of email.

SPEAKER_00:

All right, first one. You ready for this? Yes, you guys ready? Absolutely. Uh comes from Catherine. And I named each of these stories too. These are not what they named them. I've decided to name them because uh it makes it fun for me. Uh this one's called Party Time Spirits. Uh so this is during Catherine's college years. Uh a group of us would often go and visit during the off season uh to a house in Hyanis, Massachusetts, just a party. The house was an old cape, very small, with two bedrooms upstairs and a finished basement with some additional beds. Uh so after a little uh party one time, uh this uh Catherine was on a small day bed against the wall, someone else was on a couch, and a few other people were in sleeping bags on the floor. They got settled, turned off the lights, and chatted a bit. Soon it got quiet and people fell asleep. And just as Catherine was drifting off, she felt someone sit at the foot of her bed. She said, Keith, is that you? Keith has not been mentioned this story yet, but Keith appears. Uh, and uh she asked if it was Keith uh because he was on the floor clo closest to her, and there was no response. So she sat up, looked around, no one else was really doing anything. It was too dark to really know. So at that point, half drunk and exhausted, as Catherine says, which I think just kind of colors the story. So we see if we believe it or not. She laid back and went to sleep. In the morning, uh, she said something to other people about uh what if someone getting up and sitting on her bed, and when she mentioned it to her friend and roommate, they looked at each other with weird expressions. Apparently, they had experienced unexplained noises and other phenomena like cabinet doors left open and the toilet flushing while they were in other parts of the house.

SPEAKER_02:

I got goosebumps.

SPEAKER_00:

That's good. Uh I like I don't know. I think of this story as like there's probably a lot of drunk people in the house. Like maybe perhaps overserved folks, and like they just don't realize that other people are also awake, and it's kind of like a Scooby-Doo crossover.

SPEAKER_01:

I've definitely known some people that have lived in places and it's like, how many roommates do you have? And you're like, I'm not exactly sure. Could be 20. Uh, you know, so there might just be some people come out.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, people come and go. But like we have a person sitting on the edge of the bed, which is spooky, but like could have been a person sitting on the edge of the bed. Could have been a ghost cat, ghost dog. Unexplained phenomena, like cabinet doors left open. That sounds like a person searching for a midnight snack. Uh toilet flushing, uh, people do flush toilets also. Sometimes they flush themselves if they're not sealed properly. Can't happen. And old cape houses.

SPEAKER_02:

It's it's a haunted house.

SPEAKER_01:

Or it's a haunted house. 100%.

SPEAKER_00:

Let me be let me be clear here on my stance on hauntedness. I a hundred percent think there is something going on. I cannot say whether it is ghosts or whatever, but I am like fully open to the idea of hauntedness.

SPEAKER_02:

So yeah. Uh yeah. Okay, is there a rating system? Oh yes, Liz. How many haunted houses? How many haunted houses out of five is super scary haunted house? Yeah. One is like we've just been drunk.

SPEAKER_00:

Right.

SPEAKER_01:

I'm giving this a 2.5. I I think the way that you know Brett read it, you could say like a two or so. If I was in that house and that happened to me, it'd be like a 3,000. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

Um I'm sorry, I gave I can't I I biased. I biased you. I'll try not to bias. Thanks for watching.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, I give that a three. A three. A three.

SPEAKER_00:

2.53. I'm gonna I'm gonna mark it. 2.523. Um I I actually just remembered my scariest, I don't even think I mentioned this on the last one. My actual spookiest, weirdest, haunted house story. Do you want to hear it? Absolutely. My uh friend lived in a house that was legit super haunted because he like would hear footsteps and all sort of stuff all the time. So it was me and friends, and we were hanging out, um, not even that late night, but late-ish night, middle teenager-ish people, probably 10 people. And we were in like a little uh um sort of porch area that had like you know the glass walls all around it, sort of the glass windows. So we're all sitting there chatting, and one window on like one side of the room starts to shake, and the windows shake successively around the room, all the way, and there are two doors that lead into this room, both doors, the doorknobs turned, and then the doors opened. And all ten of us were there being like, What? And now that I just that we just experienced it, nothing else happened, and that was what happened. And it was like that was an incredibly haunted thing to occur. Absolutely. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, that's wild. I'm like ready to cry. Keep going. I can't think about that.

SPEAKER_00:

All right, windows start to rattling right now.

SPEAKER_02:

I hate scary things.

SPEAKER_00:

You hate scary things? There's not too, they're not that scary. All right, well, we'll try to I'll try. You might be the perfect guest. I'm sorry. Would it be helpful if Brett took his mask off? Is that adding for scary? Yes. Uh, it's not helping. All right, this one comes from Meg, and I titled this one Sleepin' with the Fishes. Uh, so when I was a kid, we camped every summer on Myers Beach at Flagstaff Lake in western Maine. Truly beautiful place where the mountains meet the lake. Uh Flagstaff is the largest man-made lake in the state, created nearly 75 years ago when the towns of Flagstaff Plantation at Dead River deliberate were deliberately flooded. So my dad loved to spook us around the campfire, and one story in particular kept me out of the water at night. When the towns were flooded, he said everything was swallowed. Homes, schools, even the cemetery, the headstones were carefully removed, but the bodies he claimed were not. According to my dad, they still rest at the bottom of the lake, sleeping in the shadows. That's crazy.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, I mean, if I was a kid, I'd that would no way I'd have born in that lake.

unknown:

No way.

SPEAKER_01:

I like how it says uh kept her out of the water at night. Yeah, I feel like I'd stay out of the water at night, no matter what.

SPEAKER_00:

I don't like the water at night. No, it's it is spooky. You need to kind of just it's just black. Yeah. That was good. All right, what do what do you what's her rating? Uh Tommy, go first.

SPEAKER_01:

All I could think of was uh O Brotherware Art though, how they flood the they like almost get caught in the flooded town. That's all I can think of. I got very distracted. It's a good movie.

SPEAKER_00:

We're gonna rate this O'Brotherware Art though. That movie, 10. Oh man, Cohen Brothers, don't get me started. I love it. All right, Liz.

SPEAKER_02:

I that's a two for me.

SPEAKER_00:

Two, okay, two. Yep.

SPEAKER_02:

I'm gonna give it a I don't think we should be flooding towns.

SPEAKER_00:

Why did you flood the town, Meg? No. That's not your Meg's dad who flooded the town. Why did he flood the town just for a story to creep out his kids? That's terrible. Woods ain't scary enough. I'm gonna give it a 2.5. Uh we're gonna go back to 2.5. Uh ooh, I like this one. This is from Kim, and it's called Cool Jazz.

SPEAKER_03:

Cool jazz.

SPEAKER_00:

We stayed at a hotel, we stayed at the Hotel Montaleone, I think that's how you'd say it, in New Orleans the week before Katrina hit.

SPEAKER_02:

Uh oh. Wow.

SPEAKER_00:

New Orleans is already scary.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, a lot of ghosties. Right.

SPEAKER_00:

Too many po-boys. Uh I needed to use the restroom, so I used one in the lobby. I was washing my hands and the sink, five basins down, turned on. No one else was in the room. Also, we took a ride to the top floor to see the pool on floor 11 or 12. I can't remember exactly which. Pretty close to floor number 13, if you ask me. Uh, the elevator stopped and the door opened. No one there again, but a freezing cold air came rushing in the elevator. I can't explain.

SPEAKER_02:

I mean, I feel like there are like, isn't there like there are haunted hotels?

SPEAKER_00:

Oh, absolutely. Oh, yeah. We got another one coming in here. Don't worry. We got haunted hotels in this little smattering. Uh so what do we think? I mean, faucet turning on.

SPEAKER_01:

But is it one of the ones where you put your hands under and they automatically turn on? Like it might have just been faulty.

SPEAKER_00:

Maybe the cold breeze just wanted to wash its hands. That's true.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, it just went under the I think I would not, I would go to bed being like, oh yeah. Yeah, like the faucet, the cold air.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, especially if it had like a turny handle. If you got the squeak in there. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

Anytime something moves and you can't tell why it's moving like that. Doorknobs.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, nope. Scary. Doorknob's scary. All right. What are we giving it? What's the rating? Three. Three. Okay. We got a three. What floor was it? They said it 11 or 12. That's my rating right there. 11 or 12. Oh, I love it. Uh I'm gonna rate this one Poy. Uh all right, cool. All right. That's great. These are great. Oh, all right. So this one, this one's I think I'm gonna want to bias you. Dang it. I like this one a lot. So this one's from Diane. Uh, and I named it Soldiering On. Uh so my daughter is now 26 years old, but around the time she was 11 months old, very, very small. So we got a baby in this story. We made the first of our mostly annual trips, uh, road trips from St. Louis to Maine to visit my husband's family. Since I hadn't really traveled a whole lot up until then, I thought it'd be cool to see a few things along the way, and I really wanted to see Gettysburg Battlefield. We were rocking walking around the area of the Triangular Field and Devil's Den, making our way eventually to Little Round Top. It was a really pretty day. So these are all battlefields of uh Gettysburg. It was a really pretty day, blue sky and lovely weather, but it was just super quiet, and there were really not a whole lot of people around. I was carrying my daughter, and as we were walking down a path with absolutely nobody around then that we could see, she started waving and saying hi to people who weren't there, just looking around with a sweet little child's wave and a super cute hi, like we were just walking down the aisle at a grocery store.

SPEAKER_03:

Oh god.

SPEAKER_00:

This went on right up until we left the little roundtop area. This has to be one of the creepiest things that I've ever witnessed. That's it. That's a very good one.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. Five. That's a five. That's a five.

SPEAKER_03:

That's scary.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

What did you say it? Was that Devil's Den? Yeah. Like it's kind of a little bit on the nose if you're voting Devil's Den, I just want to say. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh, Civil War generals. You should have named your battlefields better. What were they thinking? What good did you think was gonna happen at Devil's Den as you were fighting? I think that probably was a pre-existing name. Uh yeah. This is this is a five for me. All fives. Yeah, that's great.

SPEAKER_02:

I feel like also animals have extra. I was thinking that too. Oh no.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah.

unknown:

It's good.

SPEAKER_00:

All right. Um, I try, I don't know. This one's a little, it's not long, but it's this one's great. This is awesome. And thank you, Joanne, for sending it in. So I'm gonna call this one Wayside Too Creepy. Uh, so this one starts so strong. You ready for this? I'm a paranormal investigator called Paranormal New England.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_00:

Isn't that isn't that awesome? There you go.

SPEAKER_02:

Thank you for loving Alagash and being in our audience.

SPEAKER_00:

No, I know. So we receive a lot of calls from folks asking us to check out their homes for what they think may be paranormal phenomena. The good news is 98% of the time we can dismiss many of these claims as non-paranormal in nature. Often those bumps in the night are simply rodents in the attic.

SPEAKER_01:

They also have a side hustle with rodent removal if you're interested.

SPEAKER_00:

98% of their funds comes from removing rodents. All right. We even had a case when someone was convinced their home had poltergeist activity and it was simply a case of hoarding where the homeowner had boxes stacked so high that they were falling due to stacking and not a result of any full entity. Oh no. All right. So uh, but there's only but there's one place we always come back to, and that's the Wayside Inn in Sudbury, Maine. Over the 10 or more years we've investigated at Wayside, we've recorded several unexplained occurrences. We've caught a black mist on camera darting out from the bed and then shifting back into the wall. We've captured black mist. We've captured audio of a woman crying, whom we think may be a residual haunting of Drusha Howe, who lived at the wayside. We also have the audio of what sounds like piano music playing. And upon one visit, while we were all dining out downstairs, we were surprised to find the water faucet inexplicably running full blast in the bathroom. These dang water faucets, these haunted water faucets.

SPEAKER_01:

There's a drought right now. So please ghosts stop haunting the faucet.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

Uh haunt the paper towel dispenser. That's slightly less wasteful. Yeah. All right. Our adventures and research at the Wayside End continues and keeps us coming back for more. I highly recommend you grab your favorite Alagash beverage at the Wayside's bar. You might just find that a ghostly entity will drop by to keep you company.

SPEAKER_02:

We gotta go, but also I am not going.

SPEAKER_01:

You gotta go. I'm not going. What if it was like for lunch? Not overnight, it's not dark in it.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, maybe that's a good point.

SPEAKER_01:

No summer.

SPEAKER_02:

If it's light outside, I would feel better about that.

SPEAKER_00:

If we really had our stuff together, we would have already gone there and like had a little recorder and recorded our lunch there.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

But it's a follow-up episode.

SPEAKER_02:

Is it that's an expert?

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, it is an expert. I love I love that they have the the BS meters high.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Also, I actually feel like a lot of comfort knowing that like I'll be like, it's just it's just a rat.

SPEAKER_01:

That's right. It's just the rat.

SPEAKER_02:

Yes, yeah, it's just our house rats. Yeah, all got a rat problems.

SPEAKER_00:

They're just rats turning the doorknobs and shaking the windows. Oh, those rats. Um 4.9. Yeah, yeah. 4.9.

unknown:

Yep.

SPEAKER_00:

That the black mist really yeah, the shifty black mist.

SPEAKER_02:

I don't like that.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. The paranormal, did you ever were either of you watchers of paranormal investigation shows ever?

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, a little bit, but not. I never really got super into it.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. Yeah. I did. I watched a lot.

SPEAKER_02:

I don't really even know. Like, I assume it's like activity from another realm or era, or but I don't even know.

SPEAKER_01:

I I feel like it was a lot of like, oh my gosh, what is that? Commercial break. Now we're back. It was nothing. Oh my gosh, what is that? Commercial break. We're back.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh, it was the rats. Uh, that was one tactic of those shows for absolute certain. The other was that of my favorites was they would uh get uh UAPs, unexplained audio phenomenons. And so, but it would be like they went, they would be like listening to the audio and they'd be like, wait, what was did you hear that? And then they'd like play it back and it would be like uh and they'd be like, he said, uh, you're not supposed to be in here and you should get out of here. Didn't you hear that?

SPEAKER_03:

And then they play it back again, it's like uh like so you're like wow.

SPEAKER_00:

That's not what is happening right now, but there was some stuff that was pretty good. It was definitely somebody's like tummy rumbling, you know, they're hungry, skipped lunch. So just moved a chair. Uh anyway. Uh thank you, Joanne. That was a great one. All right. Uh we only have a couple more. We only have a couple more. Uh three. Three, no, four. Actually, three and a half. We're gonna call it. Uh, this is this is quite long, but I think it's gonna be worth it. Um, I'm calling this one from Terry Incomplete Property Disclosure. Um, so when Terry was a kid, her parents bought a resort in northern Wisconsin. Uh, a couple of years into being in there, things started to happen suddenly. Lights turned on and off on their own, electrical appliance started to stop by themselves. You would put down something down in a room and it'd come back and it moved somewhere else. Pictures would fall off the wall where they've been hanging. We heard footsteps at night. There's a lot of haunting going on. Uh, so her parents called a family meeting, sat us down at the kitchen table and told us they didn't understand what was going on. Uh, they don't think it was gonna hurt us. But the main point of the meeting was that the dad warned everyone to not say anything because he thought people would think they were crazy. Uh, to the point where he said that uh uh during that time, occasionally people would check out of a cabin and ask my dad, have any other guests mentioned things happening at night? And my dad would instantly ask, like what? And they would talk about things like footsteps, curtains moving, rocking chairs starting to rock at its own in straight face. My dad would say, No, never, that's weird. This is the first time hearing of it. Uh thus thus the name of the story. Uh so activity started suddenly, went on for about a pretty active face for about six weeks, and then stopped uh just as suddenly as it began. And then a few months later, they learned uh that um uh when their uh dad was attending the bar that uh someone asked him, Hey, did you hear that so-and-so died? My dad wasn't familiar with the name, but it turned out it was a prior owner of the resort, well known to the area, and the date that this person died uh coincided with their paranormal acting. So I think it was the former owner, getting his final hurrah. Yeah, just hanging out at the resort he lived. Yeah. I love that though, that he would just read this out.

SPEAKER_02:

And that they're like, we're living with it.

SPEAKER_01:

It's like that's really odd. No refunds.

SPEAKER_00:

Rate us on Google. I just imagine him saying this is like a picture shaking behind him.

SPEAKER_01:

Is that blood coming down the walls? No, my damp stay.

SPEAKER_00:

That noises the rats.

SPEAKER_01:

Uh but they're not rats. Enjoy your stay. That, yeah, sitting your family down for the meeting, like that's intense. Yeah, like I couldn't imagine if my parents were like, so we don't know what's happening.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, so there are ghosties that live here. Um, they're your new family. And we will not mention them to any guests. To any guests.

SPEAKER_01:

They used to own the place. They're really not happy about our decorating. Uh so things might move. Yeah. They want to reorient the kitchen. Those are good.

SPEAKER_02:

That was good, right? That was good.

SPEAKER_00:

I like that one. All right, what's what's the rating? What are we getting?

SPEAKER_02:

Uh I feel like it would say it's four, but I'm going with three because of the dad and how he was like, nah. Yeah. I will not be had.

SPEAKER_00:

2.9.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

All right, you lose is three. Where are you? Where are you, Tom? I'm going five. Five, yeah. All day.

SPEAKER_01:

I want to go there. You want to ex- you want to go there during the six weeks to experience the stuff. I'm also concerned with, I mean, we're raiding in haunted house cans, right? Yes, yes. I think we've had a lot so far. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

We have a lot. Got a lot of catching up to do. All right. This one came from Tabitha, a little shorter. Uh this uh we'll let you judge for yourself. I'm c I'm calling this one Zozo skeptical about this one. Uh, so one of the one and only times I used a Ouija board, uh, it was a homemade one my brother made. We swore we were talking to our late grandpa and left the board open and unattended to go ask our mother questions. The following day, my brother began going, getting attacked mentally and even physically, cross falling off the wall, a knife flying toward him. Nope. Gotta go. And sticking into the wall next to him. And he wouldn't sleep in his room for weeks. We finally asked with the Ouija board who or what it was when it spelled out Zozo. Eventually, my brother had enough and demanded leave, in which there were two loud bangs, then it was gone. Not even a year later, Ghost Adventures aired an episode. Ghost Adventures, the the show that I was talking about, aired an episode about the Ouija board demon Zozo filmed not even 200 miles from our home at Tulsa Oakla. No way. I so I did look it up. Uh Zozo is kind of like an a prominent internet meme demon. So perhaps this person was taken from it, or it's so famous that it's gotten to be uh um something. I I when I emailed this person back, I was like, what? A pocket this a knife flying at their head? That's crazy. And they email it back saying like it was a pocket knife or something, which I don't know if that still helps me figure everything out. Yeah. I think it might have fell off the shelf. So fun fact about this uh the Zozo episode was actually the last episode of Ghost Adventures when there were two hosts, Nick Groff and uh Zach Baggins, and Nick left the the show after that episode. I think mostly because of creative differences, not necessarily because of the scary thing and the mental abuse and yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

I mean, that's scary. That's scary. I don't know. That's like up in that five.

SPEAKER_00:

That's the most that's the most like yeah, if all this stuff really did happen, that's definitely scary.

SPEAKER_01:

I'm a little skeptical. I'm not I'm not worried about the black mist anymore. I'm worried about the knives blinding across the middle knives. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. Yeah. That's creepy. All right. Five. I I'm you know what? Uh I'm going four because I don't really believe it. But I who am I to say?

SPEAKER_01:

Five from Liz, Tom. Five. All right. I also I'm very curious to know what he made the Ouija board out of. Yeah. Like detail. Or was it like handcrafted carved wood? You know, like I don't know. I really want to know. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

So you think they just made this up?

SPEAKER_01:

Yes. For the likes?

SPEAKER_00:

To get on the Alagash podcast? I don't yeah. Well, I mean, it's a pretty uh it's a pretty cool place to be. No, I don't know. I think, you know, maybe they had a story in their mind and they're like, I'm gonna get them. I'm gonna just make something up. I don't know.

SPEAKER_02:

Brett, the Ghostbusters were like down the street.

SPEAKER_00:

They were down. Oh, yeah. I don't know. I'm skeptical.

SPEAKER_02:

I don't like it.

SPEAKER_00:

I don't know. Maybe I just need more detail. Maybe I just need more like.

SPEAKER_02:

Okay, follow-up, please.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. Or don't. I don't want to go. Yeah, or don't. Please don't. That much more detail. Mr. Ghost. Yeah. But all right. Anyway, great job. Thank you for supporting it. I love that one. That was good. That's a good one. All right. This one from Drew. This is the second to last ish half story. Uh, and I'm calling this none of your business. Uh, so Drew went to a private school. Uh it was built in the 1920s, and he attended the school school in the early 2000s. And uh the school also at the time served as a retirement home for some older nuns. And at the time it faded from glory of its heyday. So in an after-school program, he had volunteered to help retired nuns with maintenance and organization, which would take him into the cavernous and disused basement. Uh, so part of this basement was uh also the locker room. There are discarded fridges, abandoned kitchens. There was weird weird stuff down, the sketchy basement. But part of it was also a locker room so they'd keep their coats and whatever else, came to school in the morning. Uh so in fifth grade, he had a nun who taught his penmanship, and his penmanship was bad, so he had to stay behind after class um for extra practice. And so on one of those days, he was on his way out to recess, grabbing his coat, um, and he rabbed to ran to his locker. And through the aisles of the locker, he saw a nun stoop back, full habit, slowly walking from the exit stairs of the locker room to a deeper portion of the locker room. It's not so out of the ordinary to see a nun wandering around. However, what stood out was she was carrying a chamber stick with a lit candle. The only place I'd ever seen a nun carry a candle was in the chapel, three floors above us, and the basement was very well lit by overhead lights. As she walked with the candle, she passed beyond the next row of lockers and out of his view. So he was intrigued, and he pulled on his coat, walked out to the next row where he still couldn't see her, so he started walking to the area where he'd seen her at the far end of the basement, only to find there was no one there at all. Just an empty section of uneven cement. So he went out and enjoyed his recess, but he still can't forget the stupid old nun searching the basement for something with her little can lit candle, or perhaps on her way to the basement walk-in for a little snack.

SPEAKER_02:

That feels like a story that's been told a few times. Yeah, that was a good.

SPEAKER_00:

I love that ending though. Just like go get haunted and then be like, she just wants a little snack.

SPEAKER_01:

She just snack it.

SPEAKER_02:

I mean, I think that's what I'll do if I am a ghost.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, yeah. Whose snacks can you eat? Uh, if you're a ghost, anybody snacks. Yeah. Just take whatever you want.

SPEAKER_02:

Do you see Casper? They have a lot of snacks.

SPEAKER_00:

Slimer. Slimer and all kinds of stuff.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. Uh that's a nice place. What do you what do you got? What are you rating there?

SPEAKER_02:

I give that one a two.

SPEAKER_00:

A two? Okay. Two.

SPEAKER_01:

I want to go five for like the storytelling element. It was nice. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

Are you saying are you rating on scariness? Oh, see, we're rating on different stuff. Okay. I'm just making it up at the end. I'm just not really rating on anything.

SPEAKER_01:

There's a thousand dollar prize at the end of this, Liz. This matters. There's a thousand dollar prize. This next story is by Brett Will.

SPEAKER_00:

I've reserved the last 45 minutes of the podcast to recount my tale. Try some material out on you. Try some ghosts, some ghost stories out on you. It's like a comedy bit. Really got to dial this ghost story in. I got a lot of campfires coming up, guys. I really need to dial this in. Uh all right. I'm gonna give this one. I give this one a four. I thought this was nice. That was really well put together. Like it.

SPEAKER_02:

We are not rating on the same thing.

SPEAKER_00:

No, no, and then I'm glad we're not. Okay. Four or two, Tom, what are you rating? Five. Five. Yeah. Good. All right. The last one is like just a coincidence, I think, but was pretty amazing. Uh so to solicit these stories, we sent out an email uh through our newsletter. And I sent out that email at 11:55 a.m. in one of these days. So literally 11 minutes prior to me sending out that email, because I like, you know, sent it out, wasn't really paying too much attention, looked back to see if we got any um responses, and I saw an email in my inbox uh from 11 minutes before I actually sent the send me your haunted story email. And it was from a random person. Uh, and it just the subject was just a broken femur. It was very intense. Uh to me, it so it's up to me. It says I slipped while walking and fell. Next thing I knew, I'd broken my right femur. It required surgery. That was it.

SPEAKER_03:

What?

SPEAKER_00:

Right? It's not, it's not a scary story. It's not not a scary story. It stinks. I'm sorry uh that this happened. But it was like so random that that showed up in my inbox around this time that I was like, what is that? Uh it turns out they've sent other emails, but it I my guess is it just mistakenly they might got my email address in there and were trying to send it to someone else. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, that's a really weird coincidence.

SPEAKER_00:

But it was a very it was odd enough that I was like, that's just too funny.

SPEAKER_01:

I have to mention that. I like that you were like, Oh, I hope somebody sent in a story and you're like, broken femur, let's go. And they're like, I hurt myself.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, we got one. Oh no, that's just really I'm sorry. That sucks. That's too bad.

SPEAKER_02:

Those are good stories, Brett.

SPEAKER_00:

Thank you. Well, thank you, people, for sending in those stories. That was awesome. That was very good. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah. What did we total? Three cool boys and 25 haunted house.

SPEAKER_00:

25 haunted houses.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, you can count them up. Um yeah, we got some 2.5, lots of rangings.

SPEAKER_02:

I feel like you the the decimal points.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh, we had an old brother where our biggest.

SPEAKER_00:

Just gonna be very specific.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

Uh, I think we got about a case of haunted house at least.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, yeah. Some a good you know what we can tally this up all the way, and then next year we can do another group of these many stories and we see what sort of the the amount of haunted house that they are all rated. Great. Does that mean people can send in their stories now? Uh maybe. I don't know how we're if we get more than like nine, we're gonna have to start doing like a lottery system and just lucky people. The first nine that come in come in before next Halloween. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

We'll send it back out. But thank you. Yeah, thank you everyone for participating. There were a couple we didn't get to just from time uh perspective, but uh maybe we you are in the running for next year, is how I will put it that way. But that was it. Yeah, and three musketeers.

SPEAKER_02:

And yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

You like if that's what you like. May your pumpkin carvings be bad and your three musketeers be 79% of what you hope for. Yeah. Uh um yeah, thanks, Liz. Thanks, Tom. That was uh that was awesome. That was great.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

This has been an Allegash Brew Production. If you have something you'd like us to talk about or a question for our team, just send us an email at podcast at allagash.com. And as always, thanks for listening.