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EP 55- Bizarre Plants, Not-Deer Encounters, and Potato Death Chambers
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What deadly secrets lurk in the plant kingdom? From flesh-eating flora to murderous mushrooms, this episode dives deep into nature's most bizarre and dangerous species.
The Rafflesia corpse flower might be the world's largest bloom, but its fleshy, rotting stench serves a sinister purpose. Meanwhile, Australia's notorious "suicide plant" delivers pain so excruciating that victims have reportedly been driven to madness. But perhaps most chilling is our exploration of everyday dangers hiding in plain sight—like the true story of an entire Russian family wiped out by toxic gas from decaying potatoes in their cellar.
We then venture into the shadowy forests of Appalachia to investigate the "Not-Deer"—creatures that resemble deer until you notice their unnatural movements, impossible joint configurations, and most disturbingly, their predatory front-facing eyes. Witnesses describe these entities watching them with unsettling intelligence, sometimes standing upright or even mimicking human voices.
The conversation takes an even darker turn as we share spine-tingling paranormal encounters. A child playing ball with an invisible friend in a trailer home leads to the discovery of demonic symbols hidden behind wallpaper. A mysterious figure waves at a cleaner in an abandoned warehouse, only for coworkers to insist no one works there. And in Mexico, a porcelain doll gifted by a strange visitor brings terror to a young girl and her family.
Whether you're fascinated by botanical oddities, cryptid sightings, or ghost stories that blur the line between imagination and reality, this episode delivers chills that will linger long after you finish listening. Join us as we explore what happens when the natural world becomes unnatural, and when the things we think we understand reveal their most frightening secrets.
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Episode Introduction
Speaker 1Oh, you think darkness is your ally. You merely adopted the dark.
Speaker 2I was born in it. Molded by it. I see death Welcome to the Cosmic Hole Family. It's another episode. Your co-host Yayo, with my boy, reverence.
Speaker 1That's right, it's your boy, reverence. I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2Changing the intro. I'm going to start a tune where I can come up with. Bro, I was going to sing a song. I forgot what. I'm sorry. Changing the intro. I'm going to start seeing what I can come up with.
Speaker 1I was going to sing a song. I forgot what song I was going to sing. I'm going to start oh fuck. I say fuck that that you love so bad. I know you still think about the times we had.
Speaker 2No keyboard. That song back in the day that had me in my mom's house, that half bedroom in the kitchen, singing my little heart out, heart broken over what bitch?
Speaker 1No bitch had no business. Singing these type of songs Was really too tapped into my emotion.
Speaker 2I was like fuck, but she really did me like that Hold on, hold on.
Speaker 1Over there dancing in the shower, like I was dancing in the rain.
Speaker 2Just laying in the shower, bro, I'm going to drown, I'm going to drown.
Speaker 1Didn't even plug up the shower. They felt like Vegeta in the rain. Terrible day for rain.
Speaker 2Right, but it's just, it's just sometimes, bro. You just got to, you just got to envision it in your head first, bro, really Bro, as a little kid, bro, I don't know what the fuck was wrong with me. I used to say all the sad songs bro Bro I'm trying to think of this group, bro. It was like the ones that were popping off at the time, bro, I'm trying to remember their name. Oh, I can't, I can't, but, bro, I used to sing all of those songs.
Speaker 1Oh, for real.
Speaker 2Uh-huh, and then one day one of Eminem's songs too, I think.
Speaker 1Oh, 25 to Life.
Speaker 2I think so. Uh, 25 to life? I think so, and I was. I was in there, right, and when we walked in, he's like what the fuck you doing? I was like no, he's like why the fuck you listen to the sad shit who said that? Get your uh steven oh, I remember, I remember I was like get your, get your ass up, let's go play basketball. I was like wait, why the fuck am I listening to?
Speaker 2and that's how you got good, that's how he got good at basketball then, and then the injury of all eight happened, and now we're here, fast forward.
Speaker 1Damn bro. How was your week, though? How you doing.
Speaker 2My week was good.
Speaker 1It was quick.
Speaker 2Quick, like me. What did happen? I had something. I got to start writing these things down, bro. I always end up forgetting what happened, what happened, what did happen? I had something. I guess I gotta start writing these things down, bro. I always, uh end up forgetting what, what happened what happened? Or maybe nothing happened.
Speaker 1Maybe nothing happened no, it was a good chill, just good chill, yeah, yeah, oh, what the fuck that's the best type of weeks to have, sometimes over a no cap, bro, I know. For me, bro, we've been busy bro I seen that bro, it should be making my.
Speaker 1That should be tearing my soul to pieces. Boss man, you're hearing this? No, I'm just messing, it's just I don't mind it, but it's just like when you. It's one thing having to work late, but then you're working late and having that pressure of you're gonna have so much, you got so much to do, you got so much, you got to get done, and then the next job is like literally one week later back. That's when you're like oh bro, we haven't even got it finished yet I feel you.
Speaker 2I feel you, um, I feel you because I, right now, right now I think I've been doing good on Scheduling, scheduling the jobs and giving myself enough time, cause Bob's been being a menace, bro, bob's been giving me like Three days on a big ass house and get ready for the next one. Finish this one, wednesday. Go to the next one, thursday.
Speaker 1That's crazy bro.
Speaker 2I can't even do that man. I can't even do that man we used to do man. I can't even do that man, but we just do one house one house a week a week I have my weekend, you know not no more times to change inflation bro, inflation bought it bro it starts at the cheese it's because it's terrorists, bro. It's a terrorist, bro. Really, that's what. It is right? It's the terrorist it's the terror.
Speaker 1Yeah, I'm good I don't know what he was doing. He said terrorist.
Speaker 2Bro, that's his trigger word. I rescued him from the Taliban. Really, I rescued him from the Taliban. He's a rescue dog y'all.
Speaker 1I don't know what the heck happened to him.
Speaker 2They be fighting. So when they get, he starts the fight by barking to him, and so he'll just stand up and he'll fight him, but he always runs away. So now he's playing victim now.
Speaker 1I didn't know what he was doing. Y'all saw it live right here.
Speaker 2Fresh dog attack Getting attacked.
Speaker 1Live on the podcast.
Speaker 2Bye-bye. Look at this, look at him, do a weirdo, oh weirdo.
Strange and Dangerous Plants
Speaker 1What was I going to say? Yeah, like I said, that was pretty much it, though, bro, it's like been pretty chill, just real busy at work, boring shit. Y'all know how it is some real lame shit. We was a little lame this week, but it's all right. The stories y'all gonna hear today is gonna make up for it, right? Damn, that shit sounds so much better right there. All right, y'all let the people know what we're going to be talking about today bitch is one of what I'm explaining today how to tap in and pocket watch uh, all right.
Speaker 2So today we're going to be talking about first topic, weird or strange plants. Look, look, we got the best. We got the best topics up in here.
Speaker 1Y'all, feel me we really just be thinking about anything and everything, everything anything, everything, we really just don't, like you know, sit on the couch, look around like what can I think about?
Speaker 2don't even plan this. I be at work. It comes to the two days before before we gotta record. I'm like I really should think of something at home and then If Reverend still takes me, or you know, we usually just One of us takes someone first and then.
Speaker 2I just be thinking and then, literally first thing Coming up that morning, I be asking, I be asking my buds what you think I should talk about. And then you know, geruni Talk about how To get some bitches, some shit like that. I'm like alright, just ignore him. And then, and then I don't know, I'm like yeah, you right, you right.
Speaker 1Damn bro. You just really be out there In the dark bro.
Speaker 2Just be out there, just thinking bro, and then it pops in my mind. I'm like yeah, this is it, this is it right here.
Speaker 1That's how we came up With the topic of plants plants. Yo shows innovator ahead of his time because we know y'all was asking for this. Yeah, we know y'all was dying to know about plants. Y'all was ready to hear us talk about what type. Well, if you go to lowe's, what's the best plants, what's the best budget, you need a pre-something. What is it called Pre-co, pre-no, pre-anal.
Speaker 2Pre-anal. There's a pre to that.
Speaker 1But I actually like the subject because it allows me to lead off onto a story that I've been wanting to tell you. Oh, okay, I don't know if you've heard it or not before, but when we get to it, when we get to it.
Speaker 2I'm sorry, right now I have not.
Speaker 1I'm pretty sure you have. Oh, for real, I feel like 50-50 on it Okay, okay, okay. Like if it was a roulette table, I'd put it all on black.
Speaker 2Ooh, I'd put mine on red. There you go. That means you ain't going to know it.
Speaker 1Then, huh, all right, let's get into this thing, because we only got two. Oh yeah, that's right. Oh fuck, that's right, that's right.
Speaker 2Enough of the yapping Time to get serious.
Speaker 1So, Yayo, what kind of strange and interesting plants is there out there? Check this out.
Speaker 2Is there out there? All right, check this out, check this out. I'm going to start you off with the raf rafalasia corpse flower. Y'all may have. Y'all may have heard of it 50 50.
Speaker 2This parasitic plant produces the largest flower on earth with the fleshy soul smelling bloom. The accolade of the world's smallest smelliest plant belongs to the tyrant, also one of the world's weirdest flowers, due to its unpleasant smell, is also known as the corpse flower, native to rainforest. On the island of sumatra, the stench of the of a blooming corpse flower has been compared to everything from rotten flesh and hot garbage to sweaty socks and fish. So the refluxia plants have no roots, stems or leaves. They are paras, meaning they live inside the host plant and absorb nutrients from it. The flowers are saprophytic, meaning they are pollinated by flies attracted to the odor.
Speaker 2Due to the plant's specific needs, it is very difficult to cultivate and few botanical gardens have them in their collections. And few botanical gardens have them in their collections. Also, many of the rafflesia species are endangered or threatened due to habitat loss and collection, and the fruit is a berry containing numerous tiny seeds which are thought to be dispersed by fruit-eating rodents. Some of rafflesia's species can reach One meter in diameter. The flowers bloom for only a few days and in some cultures, rafflesia is considered a taboo flower Due to its foul smell and large size. Rafflesia's have lost their Chloroplasts, meaning they can no longer Photosynthesize, making them entirely Depending on their host plant. It's that sticky plant.
Speaker 1That real sticky plant.
Speaker 2Hold on, I'm going to take this off, meaning they can no longer photosynthesize, making them entirely depending on their host plant is that?
Speaker 1is that sticky plant that real? Simply hold on, I'm gonna take this off. I feel like I do better without it. Are you good? I was because that plant sounded like the one I have. It's like an african plant, it sounds just like it this is the red one hi nora africana, oh I got that one too.
Speaker 2No, it's different oh, it's different.
Speaker 1It's different, two different. It's from the same family, oh, is it style?
Speaker 2yeah, I think so, if I'm not mistaken cause I was like wait a minute.
Speaker 1He's saying about the same stuff I have on mine hold on, hold on.
Speaker 2You said the yeah, hidnora Africana. Yeah, yeah, cause that.
Speaker 1You have that one too. Yeah, I got that one too. I'll let you cover that one. Okay, baby. This one right here is the Gympie Gympie, I think that's how you say it Gympie Gympie. It's also known as the suicide plant.
Speaker 2Suicide plant, tight shit.
Speaker 1Tight shit really.
Speaker 2They really just be stressing out there.
Speaker 1huh them vegans All them vegans out there, all them vegans out there. I'd be stressed out too. I'd be stressed as hell out there too. Bro, I got to watch my back, make sure no vegans not going to come by, and just Pulls up, pulls up, just rips me off the ground, just chews on me Little plants going to school Vegan over there, just fucking eating them. Just animals. Oh, animals, bro, for real. Now all my siblings got to watch me get picked and eaten alive in front of all, no key.
Speaker 2That should be an animation, bro, I can, I can see it.
Speaker 1Well, they said that um and plants and trees actually do.
Speaker 2It meant noises and stuff I know they say that for uh, for grass was it grass, uh-huh I know growing or yeah, so apparently that smell, so that that smell of the grass, you know with freshly cut grass, you know that good smell, apparently that warns critters that lives of the grass, you know with freshly cut grass. You know that good smell apparently that warns critters that lives in the grass that you know. It's quote-unquote. Destruction is coming, so all the they'll start like uh running away running away, yeah oh shit, I didn't know that I
Speaker 2did not know that here at cosmic cove we like to tell y'all stuff right, fun facts for y'all.
Speaker 1All right. So it's a found in tropical rainforests of northeastern australia, indonesia and parts of papua new guinea. Yeah, um, it looks like a harmless large leaf needle with heart-shaped leaves and a fuzzy stem and may seem inviting to due to its lush green appearance. But it has a strange uh feature, or a strange mechanism update.
Speaker 2Okay, who said update? No? No, no, that 2.0 update the drop.
Speaker 1it got patched right now. Um Nah, it has like toxic hairs, toxic hairs Mm. It's like covered in needle-like silica hairs that inject a potent neurotoxin upon contact. Oh shit, so check this out. Check this out. It affects on humans as it causes extreme burning pain that can last for months or years, years, yeah, bruh. Extreme burning pain that can last for months or years, years, yeah, bro. And it causes like nerve endings to misfire, leading to chronic pain syndrome tight shit really.
Speaker 2Vegans, y'all gotta eat that. Feed it to the vegans document.
Speaker 1documented reports include people being driven to madness or suicide due to pain. Holy shit, even dried leaves on the ground can release the hairs into the air, causing respiratory distress.
Speaker 2Yeah, I marked the Papi Nugini on my vacation list, man.
Speaker 1So, to make it interesting, I have a gift for you. Bring it in we're going to chew on this plant. See what happens. Just see what happens. Just see what happened. Go have lips. This be um which lips, the boho lips, the good ones, the good lips, the clean ones. Y'all know what I'm talking about. There was actually like military interest in the plant, because rumors suggest that the Australian military once considered studying the plant for non-lethal chemical deterrence.
Speaker 2Okay, of course, of course, why wouldn't they? You got to weaponize what you got around you. You got to weaponize, weaponize the plant.
Speaker 1Weaponize the poop Really. What they need to do is just get all the poop, drive a plane and just drop it everywhere that this interior will get it.
Speaker 2That's the way you do it.
Speaker 1That's the way you do imagine you're just walking home one day. Big ass fucking turn just freaking three thousand feet in the air just straight on your forehead.
Speaker 2You die the most excruciating pain moments before you die.
Speaker 1No, like you got to do it when it's freezing cold, so that way when it drops.
Speaker 2Oh my nah, that's Saying that, you, saying that you.
Speaker 1Hold her, just stick them between their forehead like that, bro, just dead on the ground. Then, as it warms up, the poop just slowly melts.
Speaker 2So then the wound gets infected. Yeah, then, as it warms up, the poop just slowly melts, so then the wound gets infected. Yeah, it's a. It's a Rick and Morty episode right here.
Speaker 1I'm kind of an evil mastermind really, um so it's also known as the devil's leaf okay, the aboriginal okay it is feared and respected. Reports say bushwalkers have abandoned expedient expeditions after accidental contact.
Speaker 2Thanks, not expeditions after accidental contact Not Bear.
Speaker 1Grylls though.
Speaker 2Really, all he would do was just pee on it and eat it, and eat it.
Speaker 1Keep going. This right here is one of the most dangerous plants they have here in this area.
Speaker 2I would not proceed to eat it.
Speaker 1Or like that one dude who does the pain, stuff I forgot his name.
Speaker 2Oh, the coyote dude.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, yeah the pain, stuff I forgot, oh uh. The coyote dude, yeah, but I do a menace, right damn, he stuck his whole mouth in this.
Speaker 2I mean his whole nose in his mouth. Oh shit, leave him alone. But that's that's why you be fighting. Yeah, oh, freak. Yeah, who taught of that?
Speaker 1what it do. Bean bean you messing up the mojo bean. Not so good bro. I'm just messing to the celljo Bean.
Speaker 2Nah, it's all good bro, I'm just messing To the cellar, to the cellar. What was that one called? It sounds familiar to me.
Speaker 1I know what it had to. Gimpy, gimpy, gimpy, okay. G-y-m-p-i-e Okay.
Speaker 2Nah, I don't think I got that one. So the fairy lantern?
Speaker 1She was a fairy.
Speaker 2She was a fairy. Yeah, yeah, she was a fairy With a fatty. Oh my God, all right, lacking leaves she a baddie With a fatty On my daddy. He was a great, hey look.
Speaker 1The song is catch as hell man, what can I say? You done, lost it.
Speaker 2All that brain rock, bro, all right. So Lachin leaves oh, fairy lantern. Lachin leaves and chlorophyll are unable to photosynthesize. The dainty fairy lantern is definitely worthy of a place on the weirdest plants. It is nourished by subterranean fungi and is only visible when in flower. A tiny flower that is just 10 to 18 millimeters tall. The species was discovered by Italian botanist Ordeiro Beccari in 1866, but it remained unseen until 2018. That's that new drop, the new update, the new update, new update. Um, uh, so fairy lanterns spend most of their lives underground and only briefly emerge to flower and fruit. That's it. Don't, don't, you don't really even see them. Really, they just be under underground and whatnot.
Speaker 1Damn.
Speaker 2They come in different shapes, sizes and colors. Some species have psychedelic or tentacle flowers. Their unique appearance and scent involve to attract insects, particularly fungus, gnats, flies, which are their pollinators.
Speaker 1Fungus gnats.
Speaker 2Uh-huh. So no, bees ain't no cute shit over here, it's just some of the ugly-ass flies, bro. They are found in tropical and subtropical rainforests, often areas with rich leaf litter and decaying wood. Many species are considered endangered or rare, with some known only from their original discovery location. Some fairy lantern species have been thought to be extinct but have been rediscovered after decades, going back to that they only live on the ground. So, and researchers continue to discover new species of fairy lanterns, highlighting their ongoing evolution and adaptation. And they look more like a fungi than plants, especially when not in like when they're blooming and whatnot. Uh, and these plants are found in tropical south america, asia, australia and parts of japan, new zealand, the united states damn hold on.
Speaker 1All right, I don't have another plant. I mean, I did, but you have that plant let me just tell you the story. So this is a case where plants cause strange or mysterious deaths. All right, so this is in. Uh, hold on, give me a sec, give me a sec, give me a sec, give me a sec. It's a bit of a long story like, you got all right so in a small riverside town called lashevo.
Speaker 1Lashevo, something like that, quiet, unassuming, nestled on the edge of russia's tataristan republic, lived the family like any other. Five of them shared the home. Mikhail, the father, was a respected law professor at kazan federal university, the type of man who led legal journals at the breakfast table and ironed his shirts to razor sharp creases. Anastasia, his wife, gentle, nurturing and endlessly patient, spent most of her days caring for the house and their youngest daughter. There was gregory, who was 18, freshly graduated and planning to follow in his father's footsteps. The children, maria, eight, innocent and bright-eyed, still played with the dolls in the garden. And finally there was iradia irada I don't know how to say that the grandmother, let's just say grandma right g-mom, widowed years before, but sharp tongue, toughest nails and full of old world russian wisdom.
Speaker 1The soviet union really? No, I'm just joking. Um, all right. So, like many houses in the area, there was like sellers in the houses and then the sellers.
Speaker 2They essentially stored like things, obviously oh god, I thought you would have like a fruit cellar or like vegetable cellar type of thing where it would start like just stuff for the winter kind of like canon stuff. You know what I'm saying, yeah, yeah like that's how.
Speaker 1That's how they used to do it.
Speaker 2Like that's like your fridge in the center.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, there you go this was a place that they stored, like vegetables and stuff like that for, like the brutal winters but, inside the cellar there was like no windows, no ventilation, no, nothing, all right.
Speaker 1So it was like a sunday morning or something like that, in late august, you know, the dad decided that he was going to cook something, right, and he was feeling proud. You know, the weather was turning, he wanted to warm a stew or something. You know he was like I'm gonna go grab something from the cellar, all right? So, his voice echoing down the hallway, his wife nodded, distracted of maria's school uniform. He opened the cellar door. It creaked like something from a novel. The stairwell beneath was narrow and steep, carved into old stone in line with old pipes. He flicked the light on and disappeared below, so like seconds go by or whatever you know time's going and then the wife is like where?
Speaker 2are you at saying his name, whatever calling his?
Speaker 1name no response. So she was like wait a minute, what happened?
Speaker 2so she went down there like downstairs and she was like maybe he tripped, maybe he like fell, maybe maybe he did, maybe somebody was down there, right, okay, okay, right, right, right, right Right.
Speaker 1And so she went, but she never came back up either.
Speaker 2Oh, have you heard this story?
Speaker 1So she went down and, like I said, she didn't come back. And then the son he was like concerned. He was like wait a minute, where? Where's mom and dad? The cellar doors open or whatever, right, right. So he goes down there and like he had his phone in his hand he was like ready to call for help or whatever, or he was just like going to investigate right right and he opened the door and he was like, like you know, calling his mom and his dad, but no one answered.
Speaker 1So he did what anybody would do he went down there. He didn't come back.
Speaker 2No, but that's no what would would do. He went down there, he didn't come back.
Speaker 1No, bro, no. What would you do Real quick? What would you do in that scenario then?
Speaker 2Bro, I'd call the more people. Bro, somebody else, I'm not going down there, bro, I'm throwing a whole flashbang Ding the demon in there. Ah, nah bro, like hey, All right. Nah bro, like hey, alright. Both my parents down there, right, I'm yelling their name. Nobody answering. Bro, I'm calling. I'm calling the police. I'm not even going down there, because my mom already went down there she ain't coming back.
Speaker 1I'm calling the police, I'm calling the ghostbusters FBI. I'm calling the FBI.
Speaker 2I'm calling the Avengers, I'm calling the school, telling them I can't make it. I'm calling the Avengers, I'm calling the school telling them I can't make it.
Speaker 1I'm calling Optimus Prime, I'm bringing serious backup for whatever's in that cellar, but I ain't even going down there, bro.
Speaker 2There's two people already, but I ain't about to be the third bro. So, like I said, Hopefully I ain't about to get wiped. Bro, he went down there didn't come back, oh man.
Speaker 1So you know, everything was quiet and the daughter was like wait, where is everybody? Like where'd everybody go? And the grandma's like where did everybody go? Pretty much, and they were like just walking around the house and they saw that the well, they knew they went to the cellar right so they finally got to the cellar door, um, but the grandma knew something was wrong, so she didn't panic, at least not yet, okay.
Speaker 1So she called a neighbor on the landline and her voice was trembling but she was like pretty much saying, like you know, they went down there and they never came back and everything. So you know, I just see the heads up like I guess the like call for help or whatever granny knows well, granny granny knows well.
Speaker 2You have some experience right.
Speaker 1So all right. So called, but then the grandma's, like I got to go down there and check my cell. So the grandma went down there, take the phone with you, take the phone with you. But no, no, no. She went down there by herself, like no, no, nothing, I don't think. But then the neighbors had arrived by the time she went down there. I think they like said they went down there and they went, like the police and everybody pulled up and the cellar door was already open at the time.
Speaker 1As soon as they went down there to go investigate everything, four dead bodies on the ground. Nobody else died, though. Everybody died the grandma.
Speaker 2No, but like none of the other people. Oh, no, no, no, no, just these. But they found the four bodies. Yeah, there was four bodies in there. Okay, okay, okay, okay okay.
Speaker 1So when they found all the four bodies, all collapsed in different corners of the cramped underground chamber. There was no signs of violence, no blood, no struggle. Each had died quickly, strangely, almost peacefully. Tell you shit? What do you think killed them?
Speaker 2I'm just throwing this out there.
Speaker 1It might be crazy. So they said there wasn't any gas from a heater, it wasn't poison from outside, it wasn't a crime scene, it was potatoes, potatoes.
Speaker 2Potatoes.
Speaker 1Potatoes. A potato flew around my room before you came.
Speaker 2Potatoes. You're telling me what you're growing.
Speaker 1Uh-huh, why you think I'm growing them. We about to kill the whole video. I'm about to poison the whole water treatment. No, I'm just joking.
Speaker 2If you find a potato in front of your door, don't touch it. Damn, okay, okay, okay. A potato, okay, that's crazy though.
The Deadly Potato Incident
Speaker 1So a little quick interesting fact about potatoes. Um, if I mean, obviously you got a storm, like in a cool area that's dark, no sunlight, whatever, right, cool, keep in mind cool, right, all right. So, essentially, sometimes the potatoes decay or whatever, well, these were decayed and once they decayed they released like a toxic gas, it's kind of like a solanine, it's like a natural chemical, that's like in high concentration but it's like a neurotoxin, that's it but. But that's, I'm just joking, I was about to say but but that's because it's stored in that because, it was storing there, so the gas is concentrated.
Speaker 1From the potatoes going back.
Speaker 2It ended there was no ventilation.
Speaker 1Shit my phone. I had to adjust my.
Speaker 2There was no ventilation or anything, it just stayed right there it just stayed poking it bro, Damn.
Speaker 1Imagine, bro, just a whole gas chamber, no pun intended anyway Literally. Homemade gas chamber. Really, yeah, that was pretty much. It bro, like the gas filled the airtight cellar because it was like no ventilation.
Speaker 2Like I said, that's crazy. So when?
Speaker 1the dad went down there. Obviously he just like inhaled all that inhaled, it instantly went boom, hit the hell. Mom goes down. I don't think they had the door open, I think it might have been closed. They like walked in, like open the door, walk down and close it right, boom. Mom died. Brother does the same thing, boom.
Speaker 2But when the grandma was gonna go down there she had left the door open so it allowed it to to ventilate yeah, to ventilate a little bit, so that essentially helped release some of the poison from the damn as a whole village dead bro she poisoned the whole village.
Speaker 1Damn bro, only thing she poisoned the whole village. Damn bro, Only thing about herself.
Speaker 2All potatoes, bro Potatoes bro you talking about the days that? The french fries, bro, the french fries are made up the things they sell at McDonald's. Bro, that's crazy. I was trying to get to that, you got to I was trying to get to that.
Speaker 1You got to it so much quicker than I did. But um, yeah, they essentially like said, like what they probably felt was like they went down there, they got dizzy and then boom, they just fell over and died damn quick, and quick too, huh damn, but it's crazy because it was like a normal day and the daughter just literally lost her whole whole family but gone whole family was annihilated my potato you think she ever made mashed potatoes after that? I don't know. That's kind of crazy, though, because it's like a true story yeah, yeah it's crazy, but uh that was pretty much it.
Speaker 2That is insane bro, to think, to think that, uh, that potatoes do that, bro, right damn Right. Damn that's crazy.
Speaker 1So y'all remember, keep your potatoes in a good ventilated area. Make sure you have them in a cool damp place. Don't let them. Things go bad now.
Speaker 2But I remember one time my mom when we were little. She let a whole potato. That motherfucker had roots and everything growing out of it bro.
Speaker 1Oh, for real.
Speaker 2Underneath the, underneath the uh, the one of the cabinets, bro at like in the corner I found that thing. I was like, oh, what the fuck is this? I told my mom she's like don't throw this shit away. But it's a little crazy.
Speaker 1But it's like hands and everything, yeah, but it's like, bro, don't throw me away.
Speaker 2That shit broke your wrist, bro was looking at me like um that humpty dumpty meme where it's just humpty, dumpty with the like inside of uh, like a cat, like a cat costume or something like that. You haven't seen it. Uh-uh, it's like a weird little, it's a weird little image.
Speaker 1Look at me having all this brain rot in it. Well, I got to say nah, nah, nah, that's a classic. Nah, that's a classic, yeah, that's a classic, but damn brother, that's crazy. Y'all be safe out there with y'all make sure you, you're storing everything correctly like do your research right right, a little bit of research can help a lot and it can save your whole family right, it's just.
Speaker 1It's not just that, though, because, like you know, there's also like plants that might be like toxic to like dogs, like indoor plants that oh yeah, oh yeah or like kids and everything. So you, if you're gonna have plants or have vegetables or something like I said, please do your research.
Speaker 2You could save someone's life or or something you know you can save your own life.
Speaker 1Essentially, um, another crazy thing is uh, I think tomato I mean tomato leaves are also poisonous too.
Speaker 2Oh, for real.
Speaker 1Like the leaves of the tomato plant, if I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 2So you can't even eat, you can't even consume them, you're not even supposed to consume them.
Speaker 1Damn bro. I've been eating them and I was like Imagine bro you pull out one of these and you're like potato, I mean tomato Whole cake is in my head.
Speaker 2What could have done to?
Speaker 1I know what happened.
Speaker 2Potatoes Hold on a second Throw it on my body.
Speaker 1I catch on fire, throw it on you, just stomp it out. The suspect seems to have Left a footprint. Hey yo, chill guys. This is just me, just me, it's just me. I'm the detective. It's almost like he came to look at the crime scene again to come for uh, uh, what's it like a trophy?
Speaker 2right, right. They say that's what they said about serial killers, but they always come back to their uh that's what they say.
Speaker 1That's what they say but I've never been to the same time, huh I need to change states this ain't even my real name yeah, it's not even my real name, in case you're no, but uh, yeah, bro, that's crazy stuff right there bro that is that as well you have something like that too, though don't you like a story like that?
Speaker 2plants.
Speaker 1I remember it was like an old episode that we did on the Cosmic Cove you were essentially talking about. I think it was like during the witch trials, how that village oh yeah, the village, but those were.
Speaker 2Oh yeah, that was shrooms that grew in the water, or like the water supplies went through the shrooms.
Speaker 1Into the well or something Uh-huh.
Speaker 2So this was discovered, like recently, that that whole village they found like there was a whole colony of shrooms growing in their water and like essentially their water supplies you know they would get water from the river and all that and they realized that those shrooms were like shrooms that make you trip, Like psychedelic shrooms and so people were just consuming them and it was basically like you can get, like they were like microdose in a sense.
Speaker 1Crazy ass pizza bro.
Speaker 2So they were like you know, they would eat shrooms, like mushrooms too, and stuff like that. And you know, without knowing, they're not going going to kill you, they're going to make you trip the fuck out. So, you know, just consuming that.
Speaker 2So just alternating your mind state, because I mean, in a sense, shrooms can alternate your. You can go crazy if you like. You're not careful with it, you can just doing too much of it and what not. But they found out that they were just consuming. They were just consuming. They were just nonstop consuming, shrooming bro, every day.
Speaker 1Just a little bit of microdosing. Just because they were drinking water, A whole Burning man event, they were cooking you know it was Burning man, all right, but yeah, bro, so that's what they're saying.
Speaker 2Their witch scare at the time it could have led to from there just tripping and seeing. And I mean one thing on true, you are like hardly you start believing more stuff that you wouldn't normally believe and stuff like that.
Speaker 1It's like a normal villager. You know he drinks some water, starts tripping out a little bit. One of the females walks by, he talks to her. She says two plus two is four.
Speaker 2Hey yo.
Speaker 1Ay yo, what even is that Ay wench? This wench is a wench. Ha ha ha.
Speaker 2Bro, you're so bad. The slightest shit bro. The slightest shit bro.
Speaker 1I know it's bad to laugh about it, bro, so the dude walks by and Breeze moves, some leaves as he's walking.
Speaker 2You seen that. You seen that. You seen that, Bro chill, chill, chill.
Speaker 1What really happened was just a wind, but what he saw was like she did some type of crazy dancing.
Speaker 2Nah, but I can't even imagine them doing all that like going about their day because, like, literally everything is moving, like the trees move, like on shoes to trees move, you can see them breathing. You like, you gonna just see so, bro, going about your day, microdose like that, bro, I can't. And then any little thing, and then it. People already scared, already got this scary in them. You know, they waiting, they waiting for somebody. I thought about to, to, to get there, but just get him, but all that.
Speaker 2But we just put some stones on. Put some stone on, just get him Bro. All that, bro, and just Put some stones on him. Put some stones on him, drown him, drown him. If he don't drown, he a witch. If he do, drown, he not a witch. Play ball Bro. That logic, bro, that logic make the day. Bro. You just bet, betting on the side, he ain't gonna come up. Yeah, he is, he gonna come up. I give you two over ten. Motherfucker dies, bro. Motherfucker taking a side bet. Motherfucker just dies, bro. He's just underwater, bro, he's just bloop, bloop. You see no more bubbles, bro. Motherfucker dead bro.
Speaker 1My with y'all dumbasses. That's the last thing my bubbles will say. I'ma come back haunt y'all Bitch ass. No, it's crazy cause.
Speaker 2I mean, I guess, like if your soul, like if you, I would curse them motherfuckers.
Speaker 2They do some shit like that to me. I curse them. I put every little bit of energy I got left from them. I curse the motherfuckers, bro. I ain't even going to lie. They do some shit like that to me. I curse them. I put every little bit of energy I got left from them. But I curse the whole village, bro. I'm coming back as a demon or something, bro. I'm haunting the village for real now, bro. Everybody going to die, everybody going to die, bro. So you know, that type of energy gets stayed right there, bro, so that you pick up on that type of energy while tripping too. So, bro, whole recipe for disaster right there. What a time, bro. What a time. I'm just gonna see what the fuck they got going back there, bro.
Speaker 2I'm gonna give a full dose, bro. Just give those New England people just a full dose of shoes, bro. See what happens bro.
Speaker 1Alright bro, what you happens, bro All right. Bro, what you got, bro All right.
Speaker 2All right, thurber's Stem Sucker? All right, check this out. It has no roots or leaves of its own. In fact, it consists of little more than these minuscule flowers which attract pollinators with the strong fruity fragrance. Fragrance. Stem suckers have conventionally been classified with rafflesia, another parasite. Come on class.
Speaker 2We talked about this, um, though they are now thought to be unlikely relatives of, uh, cucumbers and pumpkins oh shit flowers rarely sprout directly from the plant's woody stems, but these diminutive blooms don't even belong to the plant whose stem they are sprouting from. Throbber's stem sucker is a tiny parasitic plant that grows within the tissue of other species in the deserts of southern USA and Mexico. So it's just a little tiny plant, but just a little tiny thing that's grown off just everything else. Really, damn bro, it's crazy how that works. Like it's crazy, all right. So it has no visible parts except for the flowers. They're completely hidden inside the host plant stems. The flowers are usually small, with only male or female flowers on each plant.
Speaker 2Scientists are unsure what pollinates these tiny flowers, but they are likely pollinated by small insects Like bees, wasps or ants, and each plant Only produces Either male. But yeah, that's it for that one. So they really don't know much how to get about. Yeah but yeah, so they just be growing on other plants. Yeah, they just be growing on other plants, bro. They like legit, just be growing on other plants damn bro me at lowe's.
Speaker 2Yeah, this is a nice plant, bring it home just die now, but it's crazy because I was saying like pages of it and it literally it's just is it like a vine? Oh no, it's just so. Like literally, the stems of, like other plants they have, like these little bumps and those little bumps are. You can only see them when they flower, and so the little bumps are like the flower and like that's it, like the like, they're like tiny little flowers, so it's like the rest of the body is inside of the like, inside of a stem.
Speaker 2Oh, okay, yeah, yeah yeah, okay, so they just, they just sprout and then, but yeah, so they don't know how, like who pollinates them, they don't know. They just, like I said, they just be guessing that it's ants or animals like that, that carry like plants, like they just they're just weird little plants. But these weird little plants, damn weird little plants.
Speaker 1But that's crazy. There is some weird ass, fucking strange plants out there. I wonder if there was like any different plants, like from prehistoric times, type shit oh yeah, there is that that died out are you talking like oh yeah, like a venus fly trap, like eight people, like john one, they did, they have.
Speaker 2They do have some who not be watching documentaries who said documentaries watching, uh them fake movies. Well, oh, you're talking about like pan 34 I don't know what that is.
Speaker 1It's a gay ass movie that that came out.
Speaker 2I thought it was gonna be good. It was. I've never seen.
Speaker 1It was not good all right, so check it, check this one out. This one is plants used in a murder case.
Speaker 2Plants used in a murder case Okay.
Speaker 1So in the picturesque town of how do you say that? Leon Gatha, nestled in the rolling hills of Victoria, Australia, Life moved at a leisurely pace. The community was tight-knit, the kind where everyone knew each other's names, and weekends were often spent sharing meals and stories. You know, casual stuff.
Speaker 2Just to set the tone. Yep, right, yep.
Speaker 1So, on a crisp winter afternoon in July 2023, erin Patterson prepared a special lunch at her home. The guest list was intimate Her former in-laws, dawn and Gail Patterson, gail's sister Heather Wilkinson and Heather's husband, ian Wilkinson. Erin's estranged husband, simon, was invited, but chose not to attend. Her two children were out for the day enjoying a movie at a local cinema. The centerpiece of the meal was a homemade beef wellington, a dish that Aaron had taken great care to prepare. The gathering was cordial, filled with laughter and reminiscence, a semblance of normalcy among the complexities of familiar relationships. Okay, okay, I definitely wrote this.
Speaker 2As all our notes we do.
Speaker 1That's definitely my vocabulary, as all our notes we do. That's definitely my vocabulary, yeah, so, so, so the hugs pulled up and then really really, twin said I can't pull up tight shit really. But, um, all right. This is where this is where the the whole pace of the story changes. Okay, okay, all right. So the following day, all four guests began to experience severe gastrointestinal symptoms, such as nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. Something slight, really Something slight, because when it's coming out from both sides you're not really in a predicament.
Speaker 2You're really not. You just stick your head down.
Speaker 1What do you do? Hold on.
Speaker 2What do you do then?
Speaker 1On some Trooper drink type shit, okay, if you got it coming out from both sides. That's already happened to me before. No trash can in sight.
Speaker 2No trash can in sight, say you're at the store. At the store? Oh, it's never happened to me. Oh, at the store is crazy. It's happened to me, but at the house, like it never happened to me, All right, fine, fine, look Both sides. I'm butt naked in that bathroom. I'm butt naked in that bathroom.
Speaker 1I can already imagine this. I can already imagine I'm not Look.
Speaker 2I'm already butt naked in that bathroom.
Speaker 1Dry heaving.
Speaker 2Dry heaving Like a cat trying to get out of her ball. Who saved me? Who saved me On all fours?
Speaker 1Pants are down. Somebody walks from the very entrance of the door. All they see is me on all fours butt, ass fucking naked just making some weird noises.
Speaker 2What the fuck is wrong with you? Cause I'm like nah, look, I'm gonna be honest, this shit happened to me. If it happens to me, like in public, like in the store, but look, first thing, I got to go my clothes, bro, because I'm not. Not only am I about to be sweaty, not only, like we said both sides, I ain't about to be taking my pants off, like no, if y'all have food poisoning. Before this shit, this shit runs through you In respect. Listen, before this shit, this shit runs through you in respect. So, butt naked, uh, I'm just, I'm just rotating really, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just, you know keep flushing, keep flushing.
Speaker 1Okay, I was about to say you just have your face in your mouth.
Speaker 2I can't even do that, okay, it's crazy no, let me tell you, it ain't too nasty. Let me tell you one time. So this shit happened to me. I got food poisoning and it was like that. But I had just got out the toilet and like I look, I said fuck. No, I had a flush right quick, threw up all over my, threw up all over my self.
Speaker 1Who said oh?
Speaker 2literally I said I'm going to fuck.
Speaker 1Look, sometimes you just got to Push so hard on your throat. You end up just pooping.
Speaker 2And literally moments after that I had to sit back down Because that shit was coming out again. But that shit, I had food poisoning like Three or four times, every single one I remember. But that shit is the worst, bro, that shit.
Speaker 1Alright, real question what did you eat? What was it that gave?
Speaker 2you, I call that place right now. No, no, no, look.
Speaker 1You know where I live.
Speaker 2You know that burger joint that's around the corner. That's around the corner.
Speaker 1Huh, for real, ain't? No way bro. I just ate there my stomach's starting to hurt.
Speaker 2But I swear to god, but I went, I went, I ate, food was amazing, food was good. Woke up like at two in the morning uh, finding demons, damn bro I was just I knew that's, and I knew because that's the only thing I had ate all day, and yeah, but that shit.
Speaker 1Damn bro.
Speaker 2Shit making my stomach bubble just thinking about that, bro.
Speaker 1Hell, no, and ever since then.
Speaker 2I haven't gone back. No, I haven't gone back and I ain't going to lie. No, I ain't going to lie, I went back again.
Speaker 1Did the same thing.
Speaker 2Did the same thing.
Speaker 1I went back again, did the same thing, did the same thing. I went back a third time Just to make sure it was there Y'all want to know something funny. No, never mind, I should probably save that for the Truver drink.
Speaker 2Okay, up to you. No, I want you to tell me yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 1Let me tell y'all something crazy that y'all didn't. Oh God god, what I did, what the fuck I do, what haven't I done? This man is something else. Man, oh the shenanigans you do. But I just think about it like it just pops in my head randomly throughout the day.
Speaker 1I'm like, what the this man is something else. So I was like, um, I forgot, I think we we invited you to go eat at the house, or you were going to go out to eat, or something like that. And you're like, oh, I just ordered my food from Beep. And then I was like, oh damn, it's all right bro. Next time You're like I'll cancel my order.
Speaker 2I was like how?
Speaker 1And you're like watch this. Oh, that was already there. Yeah, he showed up at the house. He's like house because I'll just cancel my order. So he called the place, like you know, picked up and they're like yeah, hello, this is beep beep. You know well what can I help you with? This man straight face and everything. Didn't stutter, didn't have to think about nothing, just improvised on the spot. Go ahead, let the people know what you say.
Speaker 2Yeah I heard it with that yeah, yeah, I just got out of the car crash. Look, look. I hate disappointing random people.
Speaker 1I don't know what the fuck wrong with me. I just Damn. I just got into a car wreck.
Speaker 2I can't even make it to go pick up my food. That girl was like oh my God, are you okay? Yeah, I'm okay. Oh bro, no, the crazy part was I had done that shit like two days ago.
Speaker 1At the same place? No, it was. I was about the same bro.
Speaker 2That was at the Mexican bro, like I forgot what it was. But it was essentially like the same type of situation where I would like I'm guessing I had to go somewhere else or I had somewhere, like I don't know. But I called him too. I was like, yeah, yeah, I was calling just to. I just got a car accident, so I'm trying to catch up on my order. I don't know if I'm going to be able to make it, so I don't want y'all waiting for me. I don't want y'all waiting for me.
Speaker 1If y'all get a phone call. If anybody works at a fast food place, you get a phone call From somebody that ordered previously and they said they got in a car wreck. It was probably Yaya.
Speaker 2And I was like Cause, if they do get in a car wreck, I ain't gonna call nobody. The last thing gonna be on my mind yeah, let me cancel this order down. You know what I should call my shirt right now? But you know how I should really call right now my order, my order right now. Just make sure you're not waiting for me.
Speaker 1Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2It's the silly things I do really.
Speaker 1Y'all live like I really gotta follow this man on snapchat. I swear he gets into some free will.
Speaker 2Free will is a hell of a drug.
Speaker 1I'll tell you what all right, so um you know, so they started like my fault, right the side tangent. So initially they were dismissed as signs of a stomach bug okay however, as their conditions rapidly, uh, got worse, or whatever, they were dismissed as signs of a stomach bug, okay. However, as their conditions rapidly got worse, or whatever they were admitted to the hospital and everything.
Speaker 1So Erin herself reported mild symptoms and visited the hospital but declined admission. Well, you know, she said simple checkup but didn't want to be sent to the back. Pretty much so doctors, concerned by the severity and similarity of the cases, alerted the authorities. So medical examinations revealed that the patients were suffering from acute liver damage, a hallmark of poisoning by uh amatoxins, uh deadly compounds found on certain mushrooms.
Speaker 1Pretty much okay so autopsies later confirmed that the deaths were consistent with the ingestions of Amanita phallioides phalliades I don't know how to say that. It's pretty much like a deaf cat mushroom. Oh, okay, that type of mushroom, pretty much so. Investigators turned their attention to Erin. She claimed to have used dried mushrooms purchased from an asian grocery store months prior. However, she could not provide details about the store or the exact type of mushroom used her kitchen was searched and evidence of the meal preparation was collected.
Speaker 1Further scrutiny revealed that aaron's phone had been reset multiple times and online searches related to poisonous mushrooms were discovered on her devices. These findings raised suspension about suspicions about the nature of the incident. So, on august 4 of 2023, gail patterson and heather wilkinson succumbed to the poisoning. Don patterson passed away the following day. I, ian Wilkinson, survived after receiving a liver transplant. So Erin Patterson was charged with three counts of murder and one count of attempted murder. She pleaded not guilty and the trial is ongoing, if I'm not mistaken. Well, I don't know, maybe I think it's still ongoing.
Speaker 2Okay, I haven't got no updates. Okay, okay, okay, okay, that is great, did this. Oh okay, I haven't got no updates. Okay, okay, okay, okay, damn, that is great, did this.
Speaker 1oh well, they don't say why she did like well, since I'm going. Sure, there was a motive, but I really didn't look, look at it.
Speaker 2Yeah, that's cool. But damn bro, that's great. You know what she fucked up was deleting her whole search history. She should have just left it on there. She should not. You can delete individual. Oh, that's what she fucked up. That's what she fucked up. That's what she fucked up. And now you said NordVPN. No, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1Use the special code at DuckDuckGo.
Speaker 2Damn, that's crazy with the mushrooms, though Right with the whole mushroom Whole plant. Hey, I give it to her. That's a little bit more, a little different than cyanide or what else they be using, just poisoning a little bit more. Uh, a little different than cyanide or uh, what does that be using? Uh, just poison and shit like that.
Speaker 1That's crazy that's crazy, right? They use the whole mushroom for real see, I know we were talking about plants, but I I wanted to incorporate this to it because I actually find it interesting now this it is the plants were actually used in murder cases, right or like?
Speaker 2I would have never thought about that yeah, oh, I, I would have thought about that, or they just kill you unintentionally. See, usually you load some grape shot into a cannon. That'll get the job done. But damn bro.
Speaker 1Alright, that's pretty crazy, bro. Do you have another one or you want to do the FFF?
Speaker 2How are we on time 53. 53? We are at 53?
Speaker 1Oh no, we're at 53. 53?, we are at 53? Oh no. We're at 53 more the 53 minutes.
Speaker 2We're at 53?. Mm-hmm Already, mm-hmm, damn. Yeah, I'll do another one, bro, all right. That's cool, you find the one Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1Yeah, you do the last one.
Speaker 2All right, all right. Dragon's blood tree. From afar they look rather like the cartoon trees. A young child might draw huge umbrellas blown inside out. Dragon's blood trees are unique to the desert island of Socotra, a hobbit of evolution, lying on the coast of Yemen and Ethiopia, where soils are thin and rain scarce. Their unusual shape traps precious moisture from sea mist. Water condenses on the trees, waxing leaves, then dribbles down branches to the grateful roots. The dense foliage helps to reduce water loss, while the strange name if cut the bark bleeds a reddish resin which has long been tapped and dried for sale as medicine or dye. According to legend, the trees grow where blood was spilled during the titanic battle between the elephant and dragon, which were brothers According to the legend alone.
Speaker 1Okay.
Speaker 2So the dragon's blood tree is considered an umbrella species because it provides critical nourishment and habitat for a wide variety of other species, including geckos, snakes and endemic flower plants. The rest app known as dragon's blood has been used for centuries as medicine, a varnish for violins and even as lipstick and embalming fluid. The dragon's blood tree is highly drought tolerant oh, drought is highly drought tolerant, capable of surviving long periods without water according to oh yeah, periods without water. Dragon's blood trees don't have the same growth rings as most trees, making it difficult to determine their age accurately. It's a symbol of strength and endurance, and it appears in art, literature and on the flags and coats of arms of several places. And RMS Titanic was carrying 70. Oh, this is just a little fun fact. The RMS Titanic was carrying 76 cases of dragon's blood when it sank in 1912.
Speaker 2Oh shit so crazy.
Fear Fact or Fiction: The Not-Deer
Speaker 1So for any of the brain rot people listening, let me translate this for you how the plant came to be All right, lira, liri, lir, all right. That's why you were went against the uh dragonini and they essentially fought essentially fought, and then it essentially made a relative of the Toon toon toon toon, toon toon, toon toon, toon toon toon, toon toon, toon toon toon toon toon Toon toon.
Speaker 2Toon toon toon. Toon toon. Toon toon toon.
Speaker 1Toon toon toon, toon, toon, toon, toon, toon, toon, toon, toon toon, toon, toon, toon, toon, toon, toon, toon, toon, toon toon. To talking about like don't blame me, blame y'all I'll tell you the blame.
Speaker 2Honestly. I don't know. I don't know why that brain rot you don't gave me, but that one right there just fucking, fucking sent me. Bro, I have no clue why it is so entertaining.
Speaker 1It is so entertaining for me, but I don't know why no, but uh, that's pretty much it for the plants I mean obviously there's, like plenty of other, plants and everything we could do, but we're kind of short on time because I forgot to clean and clear out the memory card and move our old audio files onto the computer. My bad.
Speaker 2We only human, y'all.
Speaker 1We only human. I'm slacking, I'm slacking, but we're going to go ahead and go to the next subject. You already know what time it is. It's time for that got it fear. Is it all in your mind, or could it be?
Speaker 2real welcome to fear fact or fiction take it off my check boss man.
Speaker 1I pushed the wrong button.
Speaker 2You got one job, I thought you did it for, uh, I pushed the wrong. Who improvises the spot, though? Okay, okay, all right. So today we're gonna be talking about something very scary, something real spooky. I pushed it wrong.
Speaker 1Who improvises on the spot, though. Okay, okay, all right. So today we're going to be talking about something very scary, something real spooky, something a little, Something a little Deary, might I say.
Speaker 2Endearing Not endearing.
Speaker 1There it is. There it is. Go ahead. Y'all, shut the fuck up, give me the fucking subject. They over here jacking up on the wall. We're over here.
Speaker 2You'd like to know huh, jesus Dying to know what we talking about? Alright, so today we're what we're talking about Alright, alright, alright. So today we're going to be talking about the, not deer.
Speaker 1We're not going to be talking about deer.
Speaker 2We're not going to be talking about deer, so, oh, you want me to start off, yeah yeah, yeah. So the not deer, it's a cryptid that has gained notoriety.
Speaker 2How do you say that? Not notoriety in recent years, particularly with the Appalachian region? It's a deer-like creature that's described as being off or wrong in some way, often exhibiting characteristics that don't align with typical deer behavior or appearance. They're not deer, described as looking like a deer from a distance, but as one looks. But but as one looks at it. And long, but as jesus I just had an aneurysm but as one looks at it longer or gets closer, something about it is off. Their movements are described as being like a newborn deer, but appearing appearing as an adult. Some accounts suggest the creature is double jointed or has additional joints in its limbs. The limbs are described as longer than those of a deer and the chest very barrel like. The way it moves is said to be aggressive compared to a deer. The most defining feature, however, is the not deers do not have eyes on the side of their head, but rather the front, like a predator.
Speaker 2Not deers are said to not be afraid of humans.
Speaker 2Those who encounter them say they have an uneasy feeling that they are, that there is an intelligence and emotion about them that furthers the feelings that there is an intelligence and emotion about them that furthers the feelings that something is off. They're not there would generally approach humans, and it's because of this that the all movements are noted, despite, in counties, feeling off the creature uh, feeling off the creature has only been reported to attack and provoke, such as when an accountee tries to scare them off. Some accounts of such involve being chased up a tree by the nut, by the nut deer, the nut deer. The nut deer may walk on his hind legs for a bit, as some animals may do, in order to intimidate or in attempts to reach individuals who are chased up trees. Not your encounters are suggested by skeptics to be encounters with deers who have birth defects causing unusual walking patterns and head shape. The feelings reported by those who claim to have encounters with not deers are thought to be results of isolation, sleep deprivation or other factors. Do you want me to keep going?
Speaker 1Yeah, you got it.
Speaker 2An alternative to the deformed deer explanation is that the county stumbled upon deer suffering from the early stages of CWD, chronic wasting disease, aka the zombie deer syndrome For those who just a little bit to just emphasize a little bit. So basically it just makes deer literally, literally just act a little crazy.
Speaker 1Act act weird, like honestly, just they start acting weird, they'll start literally acting they're like, like like like a, not deer for all those that don't know, back in 2000 something there was a patch update.
Speaker 2There was a hot update or whatever you want to call it. Yep, yep, yep, yep.
Speaker 1A nature update, if you will Right, an earth update. A little hot fake. A little hot fake, but it glitched out. Right right and the deers became decomposing deers. Right, I remember when I was going around? Do you remember when that was that right? Yeah, I could have sworn.
Speaker 2there was like especially in north carolina somebody had a video of like a deer that had that thing like the d, what's it called?
Speaker 1yeah, dwc, uh c uh, cwd the deer that had a dwi um, but because I remember we were freaking out my uncle about it like I can't remember who it was, I think it was my brother, bro, I was freaking myself out, oh, for real.
Speaker 2Yeah, I used to tell Bosman about it, bro. I used to tell him like, oh, you freaked him out, uh-huh, and he's like for real, because there's a deer by my house. Nah, there was one of my friends that he he be hunting. Oh, he said he, he would uh cease like he. He had encountered him like that and he would.
Speaker 2Uh, it was like, it was like a weird. It was like weird. And then I started like well, I told her the boss, and then he started. He started giving like a whole lecture, like thanks to the world. I was like all right, bro. But um, but yeah, I, I told him about it. I remember all that shit was was happening when, uh, there was like, like you said, there's a shit ton of videos and everything come popping up about it yeah, I remember.
Speaker 1Uh, we showed it. He showed it to my uncle and my uncle started tripping.
Speaker 2He's like y'all bullshitting me we're like no, this is real. This is going on right now brother.
Speaker 1Look on that man's face. Anytime you give him, you tell him anything about. The world's gonna end, there's gonna be a war, um, or or some crazy crisis thing. This man goes into full panic mode now. You could see in his head the whole day. He's plotting about what he should do, what he should buy. But that's how my dad is that's how I be, bro, but it's so hilarious to watch him like just break down bro.
Speaker 1He's like what can I do? I need to do something, I need to do something. But he's not. He never does anything, he just gets over it after a while. I saw that some of the not dear behaviors include standing perfectly still in the middle of the road even when cars approach all the middle of the road, oh shit it says they stalk or watch people with eerie intelligence oh shit. It says they run at impossible speeds or glitching a movement that's what they say.
Speaker 1That'd be that glitch, yeah, that'd be the glitch, yeah, yeah it says they make no noise where a deer would, where a deer would like no rustling, no hooves clacking, none of that oh shit okay, okay and it says they give off a sense of dread nausea or triggering a flight or fight.
Speaker 2Response from people yeah, I mean seeing them, even with the ones that are diseased. It's just like a weird feeling seeing them like, oh, like just just going by the day, all crazy and shit well, it's the, not deer but, that you have the not there, and then you have deer that actually do have the disease.
Speaker 1Don't get it mixed, don't think just because you see a deer with a disease, you're like it's a not deer.
Speaker 2That is not a deer Right.
Speaker 1And start blasting it. But they also said that, like you said, it gets on two legs but it says they move silently, almost like the thing that you saw. It was a deer. Oh hell, no, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know. Okay, so some of the theories about the origin is that, um, people say some believe like that not deer is a glitch, like nature's version of uh, uh, just like, uh, how would you say, like something from like an interdimensional type of, thing, oh, okay, okay.
Speaker 1Kind of like an alien experiment gone wrong that they just that they put on Earth or some shit like that. Sorry, my frigging things.
Speaker 2That's one of the theories, like aliens dropped an infected deer, dropped it over here and whatnot, and put it on Earth, or whatever.
Speaker 1That's one of the theories. I don't know how true that is. It's just theories, guys. We just cover what we use, All right. So there's another one, Tied to Appalachian folklore. Some say the night deer is a forest spirit or fae creature. Locals warn never to whistle in the woods or speak its name at night. So, don't go. Okay, the areas that it's in, we forgot to cover where it's at. You said appalachian mountains.
Speaker 1For people that don't know, that's like west virginia, virginia, north carolina yeah, I said, yeah, I said appalachian region yeah, I think it covers a couple more states and I could have sworn it was more, but it's mostly those, or it might just be those okay okay, but um it says um, it could also be like a skin walker variant that's.
Speaker 2I was gonna get to that too, yeah oh, go ahead, go ahead, oh no, no, literally, I was just gonna, I was gonna say that it's uh, yeah, they, they, they say it's like a, like a when to go. It could be like a when to go, um, like you, like a subclass of it. They're saying that, uh, it's like a step below the, the, the Wendigo, in terms of what it does and everything like that.
Speaker 1I saw that people get upset If you do make the connection between the not deer and the Navajo traditions, because it's just like a cultural respect thing.
Speaker 2Okay, that's what they say.
Speaker 1yeah, yeah, yeah they're, so they're like you know, don't call it a skinwalker, it's something that was because I don't know, yeah yeah, it's like a form of respect for people's beliefs. Yeah, yeah, yeah um, other people say it could be like a government experiment gone, experiment gone wrong. Like a french theory claims that abandoned military sites in appalachia hosted experiments that created heart hybrids and the night deer was like a survivor of that. Okay, okay.
Speaker 2I mean, I think the most, in a sense the minute you could say menacing factor of it is the eyes facing forward. That's like a big one because, like you, always like predator animals always have front facing, uh, from inside. So that'd be weird just looking at a deer, just literally looking at you, because you know how they see you, but they see you like they got to tilt, like turn their head to, to see you imagine was just like looking at you, but like straight on, um, uh, okay, so a little bit more of the of how they're described and whatnot. Um, okay, so A little bit more Of how they're described and what not. They're often also described as larger than a typical deer, sometimes even resembling the size of a moose. So they say Damn.
Speaker 2That's what they're saying. That's what they're saying. Anomalous body proportions, such as too long, too long legs that's too long, as in like they're too long, not that they have two, oh okay. They're just too long. I'm not sure what this means, but it says stacked legs, oh, or joints that bend in unnatural ways. So again, the eyes and they say four-facing eyes are often described as intelligent or even malevolent. Some reports mention unnaturally large or web-like antlers, arms with hands or zombie-like appearance.
Speaker 2Like their antlers the way they look and instead of, like you know, having hooves you know they'd be having, like that little deer from that movie, they have those Little Little hands. Um, gotta cover this. But jerky movements and walking on high leg, oh, on high legs, uh, uh, some Some reports and uncanny Intelligence or understanding Behind the creature's eyes, like they can just perceive that it knows, bro, it knows, uh. Some accounts suggest A predatory nature, or even that they the creature's eyes, they can just perceive that. It knows, bro, it knows. Some accounts suggest a predatory nature, or even that they may be actively hunting and they may not flee from humans like typical deer. They may even stare directly at people with disconcerting gaze. I got some of the possible explanations to what. Oh, it could be Not be, but what people are seeing.
Speaker 1Okay.
Speaker 2Not like explanation to what it is, but like what people in the reports what they could be seeing if it's not the not deer.
Speaker 1Okay.
Speaker 2Some believe that not deer sightings are misinterpretations of normal deer behavior, or malformed deer or just like we covered before, like they're just sick. Or others say that they've been hit by a car and they're just doing. You know, they got like brain damage and stuff. They just don't wear shit. Um, uh, some some suggested that nadia may be linked to other native american folklore or other regional myth. In the essence of nadia as a creature that strays from the expected characteristics of deer, even observers with the sense of unease or something being not right about it. And that's all the notes I have for it I've got some.
Speaker 1Uh counts that people said they have had okay, if they're not there.
Speaker 1So this is account one. This is by uh, this was in nashville. I mean ashville, sorry. Uh, they said it was late october. I was driving home from my girlfriend's place around 1 am, cruising along stretch, cruising along a stretch of the blue ridge parkway that doesn't see much traffic after dark. My headlights caught something on the road. About 50 yards ahead looked like a big buck, antlers and all. So I slowed down expecting it to bolt, but it didn't move. It didn't even twitch. I got closer and something was wrong. Its legs bit the wrong way. I swear its front legs were inverted at the knee, like someone broke them and set them backward. It was too tall, like its joints were out of order. The torso looked stretched. Then it turned and looked straight at me.
Speaker 1Deer, don't do that its eyes were forward like a dog or a man, not wide and empty, like a prey animal. It didn't blink, it didn't flinch. I stopped the car. I didn't mean to, I just froze. I couldn't breathe. There was this wave of cold like I've been thrown into a freezer. Then it smiled. They said I swear, not just a deer bearing teeth. It grinned like it knew what fear tasted like and then it walked off, not ran, walk like it had all the time in the world. The person said I don't drive down that road, no more.
Speaker 2Bro, I see a motherfucking deer smiling at me. Go right over there. No bro, right, I would have floored it Smiling. I would not miss that lyric In my song bro, bro a deer that's Smiling is crazy and bro fancy, and both stop. But why you stop, man?
Speaker 1I guess because he wanted he didn't want to, like you know to prevent an accident, something from happening hit that thing.
Speaker 2That's what you get when you stop deer smile at you you, bro.
Speaker 1You see something like that in the middle of the road, bro you, and it walks off. You're gonna going to reach for that cigarette. Open that box.
Speaker 2Who got the cello face? Holy shit, hold on.
Speaker 1I said for 10 minutes that you lost hope Singing. Hey, drop it off, just quiet, wait, hey, hey drop it off, just quiet wait nah bro, I can't.
Speaker 2Ooh bro, if I, if I, if I had the experience, bro, I really don't, I really don't know what the fuck. I cannot, I wouldn't, I wouldn't be. Okay, bro, see the deer fucking smile. Good thing, I'm good thing. Good thing this prescription is not updated, so I wouldn't even see a smile, honestly good thing the headlights get. Affect my astigmatism and I won't be able to see what the fuck's on the road that's smiling.
Speaker 1It's crazy, though, right that's what they said, bro. All right, so this one is from another person, um junebug97, from Reddit. It says my cousins and I were camping up in Floyd County, virginia. We grew up in the woods so there wasn't anything new. We had a fire going, beer music playing low. Sometime past midnight we heard snapping sticks down in the dark, rhythmic, like with rhythm or whatever.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, yeah, like footsteps, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1We turned the music off and called out. No response. Then we saw it. It walked into the clearing, not ran, not bounded, walked upright on two legs Like a person. It was shaped like a deer at first glance, but the limbs were all wrong. They bent like chicken bones, thin and too long. It's neck rolled as it tilted its heads at it Fuck it. Its neck rolled as it tilted its heads at it fuck its neck rolled as it tilted its head at us. I could swear it was trying to understand what we were. The scariest part it didn't look confused, it looked curious. My cousin todd, who's ex-military and doesn't scare easy, stood up with this flashlight. The beam hit it and that thing collapsed forward like a puppet, all limbs and joints cracking.
Speaker 1It scrambled off on all fours faster than anything should move.
Speaker 2We packed up and left, haven't camped since the whole incident Now, the fact that it got down once the light hit it. Oh okay, that's part of the intelligence, bro.
Speaker 1Right.
Speaker 2That's that part of that Four facing eyes right there, that's that Andy's coming. Oh shit, right, right. Nah, that's mad intelligence right there. That's crazy.
Speaker 1All right, one more. So this is by Lexi W in Roanoke Virginia. I be driving there all the time. Right, I was about to say we be working there all the time. All those cabinets even for your customers mold just imagine they look suspicious. All right, it says we live in a more rural rural part.
Speaker 1We live in a more rural part of rona, close to the woods one night last summer, around 2 am, I let my dog out into the backyard. He froze on the porch, wouldn't move. Then I saw it what I thought was a deer standing near the tree line. I almost called it pretty, until it took a step forward and his leg bent sideways like spider. It's like, oh, look at that, you close the door. But you close like this and you're like wait a minute, I close it to stay out. So they said I backed up and that's where it made a noise. It spoke. I swear on my life. It made a sound that sounded like my dad's voice calling lexi, but my dad passed away in 2019 oh, hell no I slammed the door shut.
Speaker 1It stayed out there until dawn. I watched from the upstairs window. It didn't move, just stood there like it was waiting. When the sun came up, it turned and walked away like it never happened oh, oh hell.
Speaker 2No, that was a little crazy, that was. Nobody got guns out here. What the fuck right? What the fuck?
Speaker 1then I started blasting Right.
Speaker 2Nah, that's crazy, bro, that's crazy, that's crazy.
Speaker 1That's the shit that be happening, bro, according to these people. That's the shit that be happening out there, bro.
Speaker 2Nah, that's crazy. I used to. I used to chill At the old place. I used to chill At that back porch, bro, it'd be deers, it'd be like about 10 years that will come up, oh yeah, and we just just chill right there.
Speaker 1But that's right near you.
Speaker 2Yeah, damn because I'll just be out there like uh, it's like when we didn't have work like that, I would. I would maybe a cup of coffee just be chilling out there in the in the wintertime, but it'd be out there, but it's crazy. But thinking like one of those would just turn, turn to look at me. Oh, hell, no, what do you?
Speaker 1think? What do you think about the Not Dare Dem? What do you? According to our scaling system, what would you rate this thing To?
Speaker 2our scaling system. Unfortunately, unfortunately, unfortunately. You know, I had high hopes for this creature. I mean, it's pretty cool, though it's a cool creature, it's a cool creature, but compared to everything else, the roster we have going against, uh, honestly, it's a one for me right it's a one. It's it's, even though the stories really said it attacked anybody really uh like for the uh research I did.
Speaker 2It said people have been attacked, but I really didn't find these stories that, uh, where people were were, um, attacked, um, not only that, but some of the stories that I did find were like I thought were too creepypasta-y. You know what I mean. So it's just a one. For me it doesn't really seem like it's really not attacking you, actively attacking you. The last one was crazy, saying that here you're like the dad that passed away.
Speaker 2That's crazy, but it's not really like a danger, it's just really bitch sage the house, throw some salt at your front step like you feel like it's like so slight, really so slight. Um.
Speaker 1So, it's just, it's a one for me I, I agree, I think it's a one for me too, but like you said, I mean threat-wise it doesn't really seem like it's that much of a threat. I mean especially if you're in a car. Right, just hit it that gas pedal, just I don't recall hearing people say my car suddenly shut off and went and cut back on me Right Now.
Speaker 2If it's doing stuff like that, you know that'd be a different.
Speaker 1That'd be different get out and shoot it right. You in north carolina, this is an open carry state. Oh drago at the back seat whole, switch bro whole water, whole water, uh, game water pulls up, take us out there it's like you saw the not there, but when you pull up close to it, it's somebody's dog, it's your neighbor's dog. Fuck, I hate when that shit happens. Not again I hate when that shit happens. It happens to me all the time. This shit look like the not dear why was it looking forward?
Speaker 1but, um, yeah, like threat, threat wise is a one for me, bro, when it comes to like uh psychological or like scare, like fear, fact, yeah, like what I, what I want to see it for, no right, but I'll tell you it's probably like a six. Yeah, like scary, why yeah?
Speaker 2scary wise, yeah, scary wise. Like a six, yeah, it's, it's. Honestly, I wouldn't want to encounter it, or like especially the fact that it stands up and then at least most stories had it, where, once the light hits it, like you want to like what? What you know? Uh, it's like, like, like, we just see that, bro, we see you saying that bro. Um, yeah, but like, like you said, third level, third level.
Speaker 1Imagine you just like spot it in the woods and it just like climbs up the tree, like that. Oh, fuck, no, and then you just see it swinging like Tarzan.
Speaker 2Oh fuck, no, Grabbing the branch and swinging. Oh you hear? No, fuck, no bro. If it's doing shit like that, yeah, it's going up the scale, but nah, don't give no idea bro, idea bro, be giving them, no idea they gonna make one of those. They're not there tapping into this episode, uh huh you gonna see a not there training in the woods, bro, just climbing trees bro climbing trees and shit.
Speaker 1Alright, that's gonna be the end of that, right there y'all, let us know what y'all think, let us know if y'all have ever heard of this, if y'all seen the videos about um, just the deers with that disease like that let us know if y'all have any crazy stories like this. Um, let us know what y'all think about it like right you ready to one?
Speaker 2are we laying? Are we ready? They're too low. Are we ready? Too high?
Speaker 1too high, but, um, yeah, that's pretty much gonna be it. We're to go ahead and head off to the final subject.
Speaker 2Choo-choo-choo Pow. I thought so.
Speaker 1Yeah, you People want to know why is the setting always scary, why is it always spooky around this time?
Speaker 2I mean not this time, but why is it always? Why has it been spooky lately?
Speaker 1We've just been on a little kick about some spooky stuff lately.
Speaker 2You say why been spooky lately? We just been on a little kick about some spooky stuff lately. You say, what we have or haven't, why have we been on the? Why have we? Okay, why have we? Because?
Speaker 1that's the scariest kind of late I'm gonna lie right. I've been getting back into the scary stuff more like recently I don't know why, but I've been on a kick.
Paranormal Stories and Experiences
Speaker 2It's just, it's just, uh, it's for me, for me, respectfully, respectfully, the it intrigues me Honestly, the paranormal. It intrigues me so much. It's just Just stories Growing up with countless stories Growing up always, and then Growing up and having my own stories. It's just For me, it's just. And then the fact that Not a lot of people believe in it too, that's maybe like Like with Cause, really I'm a trans setter. So whatever people not fucking with, that's what I'm fucking with really, because really, back in the day, nobody fucking with anime and shit. Now everybody fucking with anime. Now I'm not fucking with anime. You feel me? You really got to keep moving on and advancing, bro, you feel me? So that's really what I'm on right now. So the moment people start voting paranormal, I'm going to start saying that shit overrated really. Man, I still believe in it. That shit's so 2025, man, that shit's so old man.
Speaker 1Let me guess you're going to go see a ghost Ghost come on, man.
Speaker 2You believe in ghosts? That simple-minded shit right there.
Speaker 1You need to go home and watch some anime. That you need to go home and watch some anime. That's what you need to do.
Speaker 2That's some real shit right there.
Speaker 1You need to go home and watch porn.
Speaker 2Some real stuff Some real stuff, real people, real situations. Real life, real expectations, real dick sizes, real nut, real seven inches the real one, not my seven inches, not the thing, the tape measure be pulling out Tape measure be at the same age as, like 24 inches man, that motherfucker be, live bro.
Speaker 1That shit be a whole foot long, bro. I'm like ain't no way, that's seven inches. What kind of tape measure that's the T-Move tape measure? That shit, not right.
Speaker 2Hey, I need to recalibrate my tape measure man, my tape measure's in, my tape measure's in on three. Y'all know why Hard this shit's seven. I swear to God.
Speaker 1Y'all just got a crazy tape measure. Y'all shit not calibrated right. My tape measure got multipliers on it. Oh, y'all just got a crazy tape measure. Y'all shit not calibrated right.
Speaker 2My tape measure got multipliers on that shit.
Speaker 1Oh y'all got a Lowe's to get y'all. That's why y'all fucked up. Y'all need to go to Walmart.
Speaker 2It's like I show them my tape measure. It's like one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Eight, nine ten Real tape measure. Look, here's some merch right there.
Speaker 1Right Tape measure yeah.
Speaker 2Like make a tape measure Like one, two, three, four, like five, six, and then give them like the actual space On the other numbers Type shit, ten, nobody take that shit. You take that shit, you a bitch, but yeah, paranormal shit, you know, love it, love it. It's that little scare, that little Like that.
Speaker 1It gets to you right the fact that there's great like scary spooky stuff out there that people actually right encounter like for real.
Speaker 2Like for real, for real, not like uh and live to tell the tale well, let me start off I got a little story check this out. This is recent. This is recent. This is 2025 shit right here. 2025, shit right here before the hype before the hype before. Everybody saw the bandwagon and all that shit.
Speaker 2Alright, so this shit like a meme coin tap in now before it's too late this uh, so this happened to my mom and stuff damn. But I feel. So this happened to my mom and stuff Damn bro, I feel. You know, Shout out my mom. But she really out there Just giving it all To bring me these stories bro, whole reporter. Field reporter out there. She really just be risking it all Just to bring me these stories. Bro, I fuck with you, mom, that's why. That's why I fuck with you. That's why I fuck with you heavy when I make these millions.
Speaker 1Just know, I couldn could have done it without you. When I make these millions, I'm blocking, but Nah.
Speaker 2But so Okay, let me how much time we got, so I don't go too crazy.
Speaker 1We got an hour 25, I mean we're at an hour 25.
Speaker 2Oh, I was about to say we got like 30 minutes. 30 minutes, okay, okay, roughly Okay, I'll make these quick, so, and that's it really. 30 minutes. Okay, I'll make these quick, so and that's it really. I'm sorry, so what? Was so silly goose so okay, so I gotta tell we'll catch you on the next episode.
Speaker 1I got into a car accident and finished the rest of my story. We'll catch you on the next episode.
Speaker 2All right there y'all. Okay. So my mom was cleaning. Okay, so my mom she was. I'll tell you a little bit. So my mom was a janitor at this, what is it called Fabrica, how do you say Fabrica?
Speaker 2Factory Factory? There you go, she's a jan. It called Fabrica. How do you say Fabrica? Factory Factory? There you go. She's a generator at the Fabrica and so obviously she be cleaning. Recently they had closer down there. They just barely opened it back up right now.
Speaker 2She was cleaning and the way she cleans, obviously she be mopping, she puts everything back, she make everything be organized and whatnot. So she was cleaning and the way she cleans, obviously she be mopping, she puts everything back, she make everything be organized and whatnot. So she was literally finishing the last room, just so she could leave. She hears something fall. It's somewhere in one of the rooms. She's heard something fall. It's like offices and it's like dining rooms where the employees eat and everything right now. So right now it's like, um, like dining room was like where the employees eat and everything right now. So right now it's under construction.
Speaker 2They be having like these helmets, uh, the the hard hats and obviously you know that certain people wear certain ones and everything like that, right. So she was cleaning up and she heard that and she was like fuck it, I gotta go see what it is, because it's not her. Her boss is like like Real bitchy dude, you know. So she was like Fuck it, I don't want him like Bitching at me or what not. So she goes back there, bro.
Speaker 2She goes into that room, chairs pulled out, there's a helmet, there's a hard hat On the floor, bro. And she already that room like Clean bro. She's like that hard hat Doesn't even belong in that on the floor bro. And she already that room like clean bro. She's like that hard hat doesn't even belong in that room. There wasn't even a hard hat in the room, like to say that they got thrown in there or something Like nothing. She was the last one, she was the last one out, bro. And so, yeah, the chair was pulled out and there was a helmet there and she was like she didn't want to touch it. She said, fuck, I got to clean it, I got to fix it or this dude going to be bitching. But she, better than me, bro, I would have left that shit. But she went in there and put the chair back and took I don't know where she took the helmet, but she put the helmet in and left bro, damn bro, I'm going to fuck with you.
Speaker 2That's a Louis 2 shit. But you see my little, the outline in the smoke figurine on me. But I'm going to go home. I'm going to have to quit smoking.
Speaker 1But I'm going to fuck with you.
Speaker 2He going to call me block. Block. You work the night shift bitch. Fuck yeah, but okay, so, that's okay. So then I think literally the next day, uh huh. So she's finishing right, she, and she has to turn off All the lights as she's leaving, and I think she was about To just leave again when she hears Like something like Trying to catch her attention, she said fuck, no, bro, she laughed bro, she called my sister, but she was crying and shit.
Speaker 1Oh damn.
Speaker 2And uh, so that's that, that's the end.
Speaker 1That's the end of that one, for uh damn for that one right there, yeah damn mine's kind of long bro okay um, let me, let me try and get it real quick, all right, so this is called el monito blanco, or it would translate to like the white monkey, yeah, the white monkey so it was like.
Speaker 1In 2007, the aguilar family, a young couple and their two children, javier, who was two years old, and his older sister, daniela, age was five, moved into a modest two-story home just outside uh, matamoros tamalipas. The father, eduardo, worked long hours and the mother, lucia, stayed home to raise the kids. The home wasn't anything fancy White stucco walls, rusted iron gate and a patch of grass browned by the brutal sun but it was theirs. Lucia recalls the first few nights as peaceful Birds chirping in the early morning, laughter in the hallway, little Javier running around the top floor in his pajamas.
Speaker 1Life was good Until Javier started talking to someone who wasn't there. At first it was harmless. He mumbled to himself in the corner holding his stuff, bear giggling and babbling toddler nonsense. But soon the mumbling became full conversations, conversations that lucia overheard through the baby monitor. So one night lucia sat like straight up. She woke up in the middle of the night. It it was around 2 am. She thought she heard Javier crying. She walked down the hall, opened the door and saw her son sitting in the dark face in the closet.
Speaker 1So she was like mijo, what are you doing awake? And Javier turned his head slowly saying he says you can't come in here. And she was like who? And the boy was like el bonito blanco. He said you can't. So she didn't think much of it at first because, you know, kids have imaginary friends. It's normal, right, like that's normal for it to happen. Right, right, that's normal, though, right.
Speaker 2You know what I'll be there? What, all right.
Speaker 1But then things escalated quickly. So Javier began requesting things like odd things. He asked Lucia to sit down the mirror in his room. I mean to take down the mirror in his room. He said the bonito didn't like being watched. He refused to sleep unless the closet door was open. And one morning Lucia found him digging under the bed with a spoon and she asked him what are you doing? And he said he told me there's a toy under the floor. He said it's his and I need to get it back or he'll cough in my bed oh, cough in my bed, what the fuck?
Speaker 2okay, okay, all right, remember that so lucia asked the neighborhood.
Speaker 1Uh, so lucia asked around in the neighborhood. That's when she met senora marta, a woman who had lived on the same street for over 30 years. When Lucia mentioned her son's imaginary friend, I mean, marta went pale. She was like it's not an imagination. She said he's real. The spirit has been in that house since the 60s. So, according to Marta, a child had died in the house decades earlier.
Speaker 2A boy around four or five years old.
Speaker 1The rumor was that he had been locked in the Damn, that's sad. Lucia and Eduardo heard thuds from the attic. Daniela, the older daughter, began sleepwalking, always ending up in Javier's room, standing by the closet. Doors would slam, lights would flicker and the baby monitor would hiss with whispers, always coughing, always whispering. Then came Halloween.
Speaker 1Javier, only two years old, insisted on dressing as his friend. When asked what the costume would look like, he described a white creature with a skull face and no eyes. Lucia thought that he was mimicking something from tv until he drew a picture. It looked like a child, barely human a bloated head, no eyes, no mouth, just deep black pits. So the fallen straw came. One cold november morning, lucia found javier in the backyard digging a hole in the dirt with his bare hands. His fingers were raw and bleeding. He turned to her and said calmly I found where he's buried. He says I can't live. Oh boy, oh boy. This was the first. This wasn't the first case of that house and that, whoever was there wasn't the soul of a child. It was something that wore the memory of one like a mask something, feeding off the attention, the fear and the innocence.
Speaker 1So the priest, the priest blessed the home. They moved out a week later. Um, so years have passed since the aguilars left that house. It remains occupied, but the weird part about it is, whenever people would move in, they would always move in with kids, like they would always have kids. There's always kids there, oh shit, whenever the new tenant came in or new owners. They always had kids with them, oh shit and so you know.
Speaker 1Every few years neighbors report seeing toys move in the windows, hearing coughing through the walls late at night. One tenant ever reported their son speaking to a white friend who tells me secrets in the closet. They call them el bonito blanco too. So the next time your child tells you about their imaginary friends, tell them, ask them what he looked like smack the fuck out that little kid man and that's pretty much it.
Speaker 2That's pretty much it. Yeah, that's it for now. That's great, but but they let him dress up like that for halloween though uh, I don't think they did okay, but they saw the picture of it.
Speaker 1Yeah, they just like said to like describe what he looked like I say what's the name?
Speaker 2lucille? Lucille, you fucking up shawty, you fucking up man um, that was pretty much it, though.
Speaker 1Okay. Okay, you got another one.
Speaker 2Uh, yeah, I'll give you another how much time we got uh we're at a minute and 36, so we got like 20 minutes 20 minutes, okay, um, yeah, give me another one from my mom.
Speaker 2This is at another place. She worked same thing. She used to clean and uh, okay, so there was like a warehouse in the back, right where she had to get. Uh, I heard like uh, cleaning supplies and stuff, right, and she had like a little cart. She had like refill as the day went by, right, so she would, uh, she would go back there and she always see somebody in there waving at her.
Speaker 2So she ain't thinking nothing of it, right, she's thinking, okay, that's because there was like workers, every like literally there was workers everywhere, right. So she's like, okay, so this dude's probably like the dude that uh manages a little that little section of that warehouse, right. So, um, oh, because there was another dude that had like buzzer in to let her into that, into that warehouse, so she, you know she ain't think much of it. You know she's thinking and she's seeing like somebody wave at her. So she's like, okay, you know somebody's, you know just being polite or not, so she, she would wave back, she would wave back, and it was like that, like that for a while, until one day, or the dude that like I think was a dude that would let her like buzzer in or like a forklift driver was like who you waving that? I was like I've been noticing you been.
Speaker 2She's like the dude that like that works there. And she's like no, there's nobody that works there, stop waving it. Stop waving it there. And uh, I think she stopped. She stopped but um the dude, I think a couple days later he left that job. He just left and they said they said that he left during a night shift, that he had to work and they don't. They didn't tell her what, but they said that it had something to do with the little, that he basically saw something and he didn't want to tell nobody. But he just basically got his stuff and left. He didn't even clock the forklift driver.
Speaker 2Oh shit yeah he didn't even like, he didn't even wait for like no two week notice.
Speaker 2No, two week he just like that same moment got his stuff and left that she would like constantly be seeing some dude that that was waving, like that, and I think if my mom's you know, uh, if I'm not mistaken, um, she could, she would like walk in there, she would like see someone like walking by, like like walking throughout, and she would just be thinking, okay, this is the dude that like like handles this whole section right here, so she really wouldn't be thinking much of like anything spooky or anything spooky or anything like that.
Speaker 2And, um, there was another time a bunch of stuff happened at that warehouse. Um, there was another time where, uh, something was about to fall on her, like okay, so they would stack palaces her way, like on top of this other thing, right, and she, she got like the vision of like her dying basically, and it was like the pallet or something was going to fall on her. And she, like she got the image. And then she got the image, she like reacted, she stepped to the side, but the pallet fell bro.
Speaker 1Damn.
Speaker 2So you know pallet falls, you know she was crying and everything. So like they had to run the whole investigation because, like, how did it fall? It's not supposed to fall, because they take like a lot of safety precautions and everything for all that. So they had went up there and investigated I think a couple people Bro, nobody could figure it out. They say the way it was stacked it was impossible for it to fall. So they have, like you know, you know they go crazy with like the, the way it fell, the distance that fell, like literally. What they're saying is like literally, you know, it's stacked up right here. The way it fell was like if it moved, it just fell oh shit, straight down, straight down, yeah, oh damn yeah so, and she had that image like usually right before, um, oh, I think she had like a weird feeling.
Speaker 2She had like a weird feeling also her chest and something like something um, and she like she saw that but she was able to move out the way. But literally she wouldn't have had that. She would have that, they would have fallen to this got crushed.
Speaker 1Damn, that's freaking crazy what it do with me. You say y'all talking crazy stories. Damn, brother, that's some crazy stuff, bro, that's the crazy stuff. Right there, I got one more story, this one's uh, this one's shorter okay, okay this one is a small town near puebla.
Speaker 1There was an old colonial house nicknamed la casa de los muñecos, the house of dolls. The house had been in the rivera family for generations, filled with antiques and heirlooms, but most famous for its collection of dolls some over 100 years old. The rivera's youngest daughter, mariana, was only seven years old when she was given a doll by a mysterious visitor. The visitor was an old woman. She was given a doll by a mysterious visitor. The visitor was an old woman who appeared at the door during a stormy night, claiming to be a relative. She left the doll on the doorstep with no explanation and vanished before anyone could ask questions the doll was unlike any other, made of porcelain, dressed in traditional mexican mexican attire, with glass eyes.
Speaker 1That seemed almost alive. Mariana immediately bonded with it, taking it everywhere. But soon strange things began to happen. The family noticed Mariana talking to the doll in an unfamiliar language at night, saw footsteps echo through the halls. Sorry, started talking to the doll in an unfamiliar language.
Speaker 2Okay.
Speaker 1Then, at night, soft footsteps echoed through the halls. Even when no one was awake, doors would creak open and slam shit on their own. Mariana's once cheerful demeanor darkened. She became distant, often scared, often staring blankly at the doll. One night, mariana's mother woke to the sound of a child crying. Rushing to her daughter's room, she found mariana sitting on the floor rocking a doll, whispering no te vayas. No, me dejas sola, don't go don't leave me alone.
Speaker 1But Mariana's eyes were glassy, unseen. Terrified, the family consulted a local curandera, a traditional healer. After examining the doll, the curandera revealed it was cursed, containing the trapped spirit of a restless child who had died tragically many years ago. The spirit sought a companion, which it found in mariana. A cleansing ritual was performed with sage prayers and sacred herbs, but the doll resisted. It seemed to pulse with the cold energy. After several, several intense sessions, the curandera instructed the family to bury the doll deep in the forest, away from the house and the living. The night the doll was buried, a fierce storm raged and the family swore they heard a scream carried on the wind oh fuck mariana slowly returned to her old self, but the family never forgot the terror of the cursed doll.
Speaker 1To this day, la casa de los muñecos stands empty oh and locals warn visitors to stay away, for some say the dolls will still move on their own and the cursed spirit has never truly left nah bro tom's like, really that's.
Speaker 2That's what I found, bro yeah because I I listened to that podcast, but I like the imaginary friends I, I was about, I was about to tell you I was like that imaginary one sound like the something that'd be uh-huh. That, yeah, it sounded like one of the stories that were they were talking about but they have some crazy good stories, but all these people got these bangers.
Speaker 2Bro, I'm like damn, I really don't got nothing like that, because I I really don't be asking much people because you know some people are pretty sensitive when it comes to talking to talk like, to talking like that, yeah, but you can't blame them. Yeah, I mean honestly, I mean there's honestly this bliss in not knowing like any of that.
Speaker 1Not having any stories.
Speaker 2Yeah, exactly, not having any stories, do we still?
Speaker 1have time. We're at 43. You got like 17 minutes. All right, I'm going to tell you.
Speaker 2Go ahead. I think I already said it, but just if I haven't, just because you said about the imaginary friend, I used to, when we moved to the Ville, I used to play in this little. I used to play in the hallway of the trailer and I would bounce this ball. I think I said it. I would bounce the ball and it would hit the. It would bounce back to me, essentially my mom. She would like she'd be washing dishes and whatnot and she started noticing the ball was coming back. You, a kid, you don't got that much strength to throw a ball. The ball was coming back as if somebody was throwing it back to me. She went to look and see if I was doing it with the door closed, because she would never hear the like. Literally it was like one, two, three. You know by that point it's losing all its inertia. Right, like literally signs one, two, three is losing its inertia. The ball would bounce back one, two, three right into my hands.
Speaker 1Tight shit really.
Speaker 2Every single time, right. So? So when I was little, I was like nonverbal. We just made like squeaky noises in one night, and so she like asked me like like what was going on?
Speaker 1I didn't want to say nothing, bro.
Speaker 2I didn't want to say nothing it just cause, cause you said it, bro it just sorry, my bad no, no, no, you're good, you're good, and uh, so I would hit her. And she understood it. You know, hit her with it three of them, and and she knew, and she knew exactly.
Speaker 1She said what's that boy? Timmy fell down in the well.
Speaker 2Yeah, exactly, dead ass bro. And so basically she said I was basically telling her that there was, I was playing with somebody, damn bro and a lot of stuff happened, just not making it that long.
Speaker 2A lot of stuff happened in the house and they ended up finding a little pair of little guachitos in the closet. It belonged to a little kid and so they're. After that, after they cleaned the house and everything, all that stuff, uh, all that stuff stopped and whatnot. But yeah, she said she, she was like she never saw, like actually something. But that time she's got a really freaked out because she noticed that the ball and I think she actually did see.
Speaker 1She saw the ball going into the room but you said it was like dark in the hallway.
Speaker 2Oh, yeah, I would turn off the. Yeah, that's right, I would turn off the lights and and yeah, she saw the bug going in there.
Speaker 1They came back damn bro, what's some other things that happened then. Like, oh, like another thing, oh no, thank, okay, so this one, remember you never saw anything. No, because I was. I was, I was very little, you don't remember you never saw anything.
Speaker 2No, because I was very little. I don't remember nothing from there, but everything my mom has told me that would happen there. Okay, so, if I'm not mistaken, because there's like a bunch of stuff that went in there One of the things this was very recent when we had moved in once of these, they would hear like I think my mom started getting like a bad vibe and I think they would start hearing. Like, at night they would start hearing like footsteps in the living room and whatnot. So she just got like really at one point it just got like unbearable for them. Well, it was mainly my mom, because my dad, he would work like he'd leave like first thing, like five in the morning, wouldn't come back until like 10, 11. And so she'd be there by herself and literally be like a movie, but where just all this stuff is happening and like you got nobody to tell. But so one day I forgot what caused this.
Speaker 2I think it might have been that, though, the ball incident boxman, uh, like he pulled up and they started praying. They're like you know, please, god, just show us what's happening, like what's, what's the cost of all this? So, as opposed to, the house was like clean or whatnot. Like that, like house was clean, but he started having the image to like instantly go into the. Uh, like the house was clean, but he started having the image to like instantly go into the, into the air duct. And he started pulling out all these like pandem, like, like, like crucifix, right, crucifixes. Like, but demonic, like different stars, like stars of it, like, but the, the like the evil works. I'm not sure which was like a bunch of pentagrams, there you go.
Speaker 2Pentagrams, all that evil shit, um, but like in gold chains oh shit like, all like, but it was like saints and all this other stuff in like, um, but in gold, like it was gold. And then they went to the bathroom and they like looked in the bathroom like it was like a movie, but they looked in the little corner and started peeling it like the wallpaper, because the bathroom had wallpaper. It's all peeling it behind the wallpaper, a whole lot of, uh, pentagram, satanic symbols, um, uh, what else, what else, uh, writings, all kinds of of different like, like, different stuff. And that's when they found the little shoes in the. Then he went to there was like this little closet in the hallway. He went in there and he that's where he found the shoes. He found. But it was so much, uh, literally so much like demonic stuff. That was that was in the house damn bro.
Speaker 1I believe it, bro, because I know, if I'm not mistaken, I could have sworn. Uh pharaoh was talking about. Uh, they went inside a house that was abandoned or some shit like that and there was like pentagrams drawn everywhere and he said fuck that shit. And they just took off running because you never know what's done bro you know, bro and now that's it attached to you, yeah that's it.
Speaker 2That shit was crazy. I mean the other house. In that house they had so many. There was a time when one of my uncles Do we still got time.
Speaker 1Yeah, you guys have 10 minutes.
Speaker 2Okay, this is going to be the last one. One of my uncles he had left. He had like a Blue Devil's jersey and he left it on the couch. And that night when they went to sleep, something was like something. They could hear a run up to the door and it would stop right at the door. It would start right there and then it started jiggling the door handle and they had left that sweater or like coat, whatever, it was like a varsity jacket on this couch but the whole couch was like moved and whatnot.
Speaker 2But at first I think my dad would say that it was because of the blue devil, because it was like, because he doesn't like nothing with the, like demonic or like the dead boy, anything like that, you know, like no, he says all of that is bad. But then, like talking to my mom throughout the years, it was the people he was hanging out with and apparently he had left that sweater at their house for a while, so something was attached itself to that, to that, to that washing jacket, whatever. And then, when had left that sweater at their house for a while, so something was attached itself to that, to that, to that varsity jacket, whatever, and then when he left that at our house, that's when that thing started like moving at night and stuff like that. But just like that, just like that attachment, but just like just like that quick sale, but just just off, close off people.
Speaker 1I believe it bro, I believe it bro, I believe it bro. I don't doubt that it would attach to people, because that is something that some people like to have, like safety measures before they go uh, ghost investigating and then after they go ghost investigating some people do that touch me.
Speaker 2I, I uh, somebody had told me I had, I had something attached to my clothing, they, they could see it damn it was um, um, because while I was chilling with them and they could, they kept seeing something like um peeking out around the corner, whatnot like looking, like, looking and like their house was, like you know, in a sense clean and he was like something attached to one of y'all. And he got up and he looked at all of us and he looked at me. He's like, oh, it's in your, it's in your clothes. And then then, but yeah, something apparently had attached to me. I don't even know where I picked it up from, but something had attached to me like that. But since he was like more locked into that type of shit, you know he could More in tune.
Speaker 1Yeah, more in tune there you go More in tune.
Speaker 2He could see that and whatnot.
Speaker 1Damn bro but.
Speaker 2I couldn't even feel it, but I couldn't even, I couldn't pick up on that.
Speaker 1But damn bro. That's what happened when you dress nice.
Speaker 2That's what happened bro?
Speaker 1Oh, hell, no. What the fuck are you wearing High knee socks with shorts? Hey, yeah, it's a fashion statement Trust me no, but uh, that's pretty much going to wrap up today's episode y'all. We hope y'all enjoyed it. We hope y'all got a little bit of a spooky spooky right spooky vibes.
Speaker 1But, uh, y'all let us know what y'all think about, uh, everything that we talked about today. Let us know if y'all have any plants, if y'all have ever seen the not deer or not a deer or not a deer, a. Let us know if y'all have any scary, spooky stories. I mean, right, you know you can message us on, uh, cosmic cove at k-o-s-m-i-c underscore c-o-v-e on instagram and tell us any of y'all personal stories that y'all might have, or anything that y'all want to talk us to talk about or just just to say hello or something. You know, um, thank you to everybody that's been watching the tiktoks, you know. Shout out to everybody that's been watching the TikToks, you know. Shout out to everybody who's been following us. Shout out to all the new followers that followed us on Instagram. You know, slowly going up, slowly but surely.
Speaker 2Slowly but surely, there you go.
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Speaker 1You know I'm I'm happy to do, do it that way. I'm happy with uh, having the right people follow us, rather than people that are just going to sit here and talk shit the whole time to us and just be like bro, if you don't like us, then just don't watch us then, nah, bro, we got to send those people to our number one rage baiter bro.
Speaker 2Oh yeah, my boy, jeroen Right.
Speaker 1The man, Jeroen. He loves to argue with people. Bro, we're going to send him to HR.
Speaker 2Right but you know.
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Speaker 1It's, it's the people that are always going to be there when the lights are off, when you're in your boxes in bed, holes in your drawers, holes in your socks, holes in your drug two, two holes in your drawer for your balls, type shit.
Speaker 2I don't know, though I don't know that that you're really gonna see there who's?
Speaker 1gonna. Who's gonna be there for you? You know, you know, um, it does help out a whole lot, you know. But, um, shout out to all the people that do come like back and listen to us, you know. Shout out to all the new listeners, shout out to the people who just poked their head in and wanted to listen to one episode or something you know, just one stream helps out a whole lot. You, you know.
Closing Thoughts and Shoutouts
Speaker 2But other than that, you know, I'm going to pass it off to you Shout out Sammy, sammy, really, just every week, just be tapped in and just listen to the episodes, laughing, laughing like a maniac at work and whatnot. You know, just appreciate you. Sammy. Jared too. Jared likes more of the scary ones, so I gotta tell him.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2Little bitch. But um, appreciate you, jared, you know. Uh yeah, and shout out my family For helping me too. So yeah, that's it for me.
Speaker 1Alright, so we're gonna catch on the next one. So we'll see y'all. Next episode Peace, peace.
