Episode 23 - Carnival Lights and Midnight Frights at Bushkill Park and Opryland

Step right up… if you dare.

In this episode, we wander into the shadows of two once-beloved amusement destinations where the laughter faded... but something else lingered.

First, we step inside the infamous Hall of Mirrors at Bushkill Park. What was meant to be a place of playful confusion has, over the years, become something far more unsettling. Visitors have reported reflections that move on their own, figures that don’t belong, and the creeping feeling that you’re not alone in the maze. Is it just tricks of light and glass… or something trapped behind the reflections, waiting?

Then, we travel south to the ghostly remains of Opryland. Once a vibrant theme park filled with music, lights, and joy, its closure left behind more than just memories. Former employees and guests have shared eerie encounters... phantom footsteps, distant music echoing through empty spaces, and apparitions that seem tied to the park’s past. What happens when a place built on performance and illusion goes silent?

From distorted reflections to echoes of a forgotten stage, this episode dives deep into the thin line between nostalgia and the paranormal.

Turn off the lights, put on your headphones, and don’t look too closely behind you… you might not like what you see.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Check, Mike, Mike, check. Check, check, check, check, check, mick, check.

SPEAKER_02 0:04

Mick chicken. I'm Alex. And I'm Megan. And we are two filthy horas. You're all beyond the veil now.

SPEAKER_00 0:26

Happy yappy hour. Man, I am out of pocket today. I apologize.

SPEAKER_02 0:32

I feel like I have been too. I mean, we were talking about fart holes earlier, and I just like rolled with that.

SPEAKER_00 0:38

I think you created it, like this whole energy and then I like matched energy. And I've just been that way all day. So and also I love that for us though. Yeah, and I don't know It's been a weird time. It is. Or has. Um, but I don't know if it's super windy out your way, but it's really windy here. Like uh the big pine tree in the cemetery is very close to coming down. We I just saw right before you called, like while you were calling, actually, um branches come down from it. And my power has gone out already today from a transformer blowing again. So hopefully Oh my god. Hopefully we're good and it doesn't happen during this recording.

SPEAKER_02 1:17

Yeah, I hope not. I mean, if it does, fuck it. My AirPods died that one time, and that was crazy to work through.

SPEAKER_00 1:24

But you you handled it flawlessly.

SPEAKER_02 1:26

I was freaking out at first, though. It was crazy. If that tree falls, where's it gonna fall? Is it gonna fall like towards you or away from you?

SPEAKER_00 1:32

It should fall like back behind like uh that yard, like beside my garage. You know, that like yardy patch behind my garage or beside my garage, it'll fall there like into the neighbor's yard.

SPEAKER_02 1:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:45

So I should be fine.

SPEAKER_02 1:47

Okay, cool.

SPEAKER_00 1:48

Yeah, as long as like I don't know, the wind doesn't carry it somehow. I feel like it's too heavy for the wind to be blowing it the opposite direction because it's leaning that way, so we believe it'll fall that way, but I don't know. There's always a possibility it falls a different way, but we should be fine.

SPEAKER_02 2:02

Yeah, it's super windy at my house too. Yeah, I was uh driving. I because I'm super late with uh recording right now. I feel so fucking bad. Me and Megan were supposed to start recording on the hour, and I literally didn't call her until 30 minutes past. But Tyler was like, okay, she had to leave work early, and then he was like, I need to take me somewhere, I need you to do this, and I'm like, ah! So I was rushing, and then I got stuck behind two trains. Two fucking trains. One on the way there and one on the way home. And I've said before, I live in a small town, so that's bullshit that that even happened. I've been downtown so many times since living here, and then that happens when I need to be home. I was like freaking out. And then Tyler called me actually right whenever I was starting to come home, and I answered the phone. I was like, please don't tell me you need me to turn around. And he was like, No, no, you're good.

SPEAKER_00 2:53

Oh good. Oh, my power is flickering.

SPEAKER_02 2:56

It sounds a little weird now. Like it seems like you're not picking up on what I'm saying, like quickly. Like it sounds like a lag. But it's it's fine.

SPEAKER_00 3:04

It might be. Um, but my my power's flickering on and off, so yeah. But um, anyway, you were a little bit late because of having to go do wifely things, but I'm usually late because I'll we'll be like, hey, let's start at this time, and I'm like, yeah, hell yeah, I'll do that. And then I tell my boys what time I'm starting, and then they wait until 15 minutes after the time I tell them I'm starting to leave. So or do something else. So I understand.

SPEAKER_02 3:35

That's okay. It was funny though, because today I like Megan and I literally just talked about like, hey, if you're a little late, like it's no big deal. I just want to reassure you. Like, I hope you know that, like, everything's fine. And then I'm super late, like, I'm way later than Megan has ever been to recording. Like, I feel like such a dick, but it's okay, we're moving past it.

SPEAKER_00 3:58

Yeah, I didn't even connect that, to be honest.

SPEAKER_02 4:00

You isn't that weird because I told you this morning. I was like, I don't know why I feel the need to tell you this, but like I just want to reassure you that, and then you were like, Okay, like I'm glad to hear that. And then I was late. It was so weird how that worked out.

SPEAKER_00 4:15

Yeah, the universe lining up for us. Okay, so I mean, I do have a pup date real quick. Um, I'm not sure if last time I recorded, I do I know I talked to you about it, but I don't remember if we spoke about it like during Yappy Hour or not. But Mika, okay, Mika got hurt last recording. Um, she was chasing the vacuum scrubber like for the floor, and my walking pad was like against the wall there, and I had one dog running from it because they were afraid, and one dog chasing after it because they were excited. And she Mika got the zoomies, ran into the walking pad, and it fell on top of her leg and broke it. Um so anyway, we took her to the vet immediately as soon as we realized like there was something well we waited a little bit. We waited a little bit just to make sure that she was uh let me think, um like okay, I guess, because we thought maybe she was just babying it, but she refused to put it down, so then we were like, okay, no, she needs to go get seen. So we went to go get her seen. She definitely she broke her tibia. Yeah. Thankfully, surgery wasn't needed for this. We had to go to two different vet hospitals um to get opinions on it. Um, and we were advised that because of the way it broke, her other bone is holding the tibia bone in place, so it doesn't need set or anything, and it doesn't need screws. Like, she won't need surgery. She shouldn't need surgery, is what I should say.

SPEAKER_02 5:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 5:41

Um, because of that and because of her her being so young, the combination of those two things made her a better candidate, candidate, whatever, for uh I say candidate. I don't know why I say candidate. It's okay. Like I literally say candidate all the time. I don't fucking understand. I don't understand. But anyway, she uh um has a cast on now and she's been doing amazing. But we do have to get x-rays again soon to see if she needs surgery to make sure that it's healing properly, because if it isn't, then she will need surgery. Yeah. So we're yeah, we're doing that. Um it has been absolutely devastating, I won't lie. Um, she's doing amazing, she's doing better than I am. She gets along really well and I break down crying ever since it happened. But I'm getting through it. Yeah. Um I think it's just frustrating that I know it's not my fault, but it's because of something that I did. You know what I mean? And it hurts because I wish I could have prevented it happening, but it happened and I need to just work through it. And I wasn't being like careless. The treadmill like walking pad thing was propped properly, it wasn't like in a bad way. I don't know how she her little body managed to knock it over, but she was like full-blown zooming, so I don't know. But the family that we got her from reached out to me after seeing my post. Um, and they told me that their corgis chase the vacuums also, and they ended up running into the walls from it. Yeah, and that made me feel better because their corgis have like gotten hurt, they haven't broken their legs, but they have gotten hurt from running into the walls, and that's just something that I'm gonna have to carry with me for a while. Yeah, it's okay through it, but yeah, I I'll forgiveness is the key and I'll work through it. Yeah, but she's doing amazing. She's definitely doing better than I am.

SPEAKER_02 7:34

She looks really cute with her little cast on.

SPEAKER_00 7:37

She's she and she keeps running. I'm like, Mika, you need to stop running.

SPEAKER_02 7:41

Stop doing that! This is weird got you here in the first place.

SPEAKER_00 7:45

Yes, little puppies, puppy energy. She's crazy, totally chaotic. But um, I will say, she is such a good dog though. Like I say it all the time, she really is so good. Like, she was trying to bite at the cast the first day. And we told her no. And like we were like, hey, no. And she has listened ever since then. She doesn't need cone except for at night. And I honestly think that we can get away with not giving it to her at night, but I don't want to risk it, so I don't blame you. She keeps it on at night. Um, I made a status on Facebook earlier today. I don't know if you were on Facebook and saw it yet or not, but it was like, I don't understand. Because I got a notification that there's birds on my bird feeder, because I have a bird feeder with a camera on it.

SPEAKER_02 8:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 8:29

And I got a notification that uh birds were sitting on there like to eat, and I looked and they were just like chilling, and I was like, How the fuck are they not being blown away? Um feathers were like everywhere.

SPEAKER_03 8:41

Going bonkers, like lashes in the wind.

SPEAKER_00 8:44

Yeah, so in my on my stats, I was like, tell me, hold on, let me pull it up real quick, because I don't remember what the fuck I said, but I thought it was funny. I said, I'd really I'd just really like to know how the birds aren't getting blown away with this wind. My house is starting to take off and land on wick on a wicked witch.

SPEAKER_02 9:02

You're fucking funny. Get out of here.

SPEAKER_00 9:04

I'm so stupid. So stupid.

SPEAKER_02 9:07

That's kind of funny though.

SPEAKER_00 9:10

Yeah, it was it's so stupid that's funny. Yeah. But uh but seriously, I've been seeing the birds on my feeder, birds flying, and I'm like, I know that they they're like, you know, if anybody knows how to manage the wind, it's birds.

SPEAKER_02 9:23

Like that's probably they are probably experts at that.

SPEAKER_00 9:26

Yes, but I mean the wind is fucking nutty. Like, I mean, it is like my all of the trees around my house are like rocking, like, not just the branches, like the whole tree is moving. Like, oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 9:39

Ookieokie.

SPEAKER_00 9:40

So I know I gotta take a video and send it to you if it's still doing more done.

SPEAKER_02 9:45

I would love that.

SPEAKER_00 9:46

Yeah. Anyway, do we have anything else like to update everybody on?

SPEAKER_02 9:50

I don't think so.

SPEAKER_00 9:51

The only thing I have that's different is like that I'm in counseling, but I don't know if anybody cares about that or not. But I'm in counseling because uh between the diabetes and Mika and just a whole bunch of other stuff, it's been I've been feeling a lot of guilt in managing things.

SPEAKER_02 10:07

So you did start?

SPEAKER_00 10:08

Yeah, I started. I've been fun.

SPEAKER_02 10:10

Thank god. I'm so glad. I'm so happy. Because you'll have someone who's not like as biased as us.

SPEAKER_00 10:16

And I I already feel so much better. And Dylan was like, if I because he was like, if I would have known telling you that would have helped, then I would have told you that. And I was like, babe, it's not that it's having someone who doesn't know me tell me that. Like she was like, I don't remember exactly how she worded it, but she was pretty much like, you have to tell you because I was she was like, What's hurting you the most today? And I was like, my internal dialogue, like I am being so negative. And I my new year's resolution this year is to talk to myself how I talk to my family and friends. And I'm trying not to choke up, so give me a moment. But I want to be as kind to me and as forgiving to myself as I am to everyone else that I like. I give everybody so many opportunities to show their true selves, um, to be you know, good I look at the best in people, I see the best in people all the time, and for years I've like looked at myself and I only see like things that I could have done better instead of things that I do great. So my goal this year is to do better with myself. And whenever I realized that my like internal voice was being so negative, that's when I was like, I need to talk to someone. And um I told her that. And she's like, well, the best thing to do is to like put it in like a realistic thing, like, yes, you are going through something, like accept and understand that you're going through something, but also put it in like something that's like realistic, where like it's not uh like everything's gonna be perfect. It's like yes, it's gonna be a hard road, but you're gonna make it through.

SPEAKER_02 11:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 11:52

And that helped me a lot. And um so I've been working through that, and yeah, Dylan was super helpful, and he was he's been so great through all of this, and I um I told him that it was you know, my loved ones will say anything to make me feel better, even if it's true, and it's hard for me to see the truth in it because I know you guys love me so much. Yeah. Um, but whenever someone who completely doesn't know me at all tells me it, I can believe it a little bit more.

SPEAKER_02 12:21

Yeah, no, I get that, and I don't take that personally. That's kind of like why I like that kind of stuff, like why I agree with telling somebody who's not biased. And if it makes you feel any better, I know that you look at yourself and you don't see anything special, but I look at you and I see the color yellow and sunshine and Star Wars and a good mom and a supportive wife, and just I just love you, and I hope you know that.

SPEAKER_00 12:44

I love you too.

SPEAKER_02 12:46

Don't make me cry.

SPEAKER_00 12:48

I'm sorry. You're making me cry. Stop being so sweet. Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_02 12:52

I'm so happy that you're getting better. I love you so much. I love you too. I'm happy that you're doing this for yourself.

SPEAKER_00 12:58

Yeah, I am, I have and I'm happy I'm doing it too. I really need it. Yeah, shout out to my company because that's I'm actually through work. It's a lot of therapy through work. Um, they offer for their associates, so I um signed up for that and I can talk, video, um, or text. So it's not like actual text, it's like an app, but it's like I it's send the text and then the person get back to me. It's however I feel the most comfortable talking to someone. Yeah. So it's really nice. I like it a lot. Anyway, let's jump into the episode to therapy, guys.

SPEAKER_02 13:33

I was gonna say, like, do you want me to cut that out? Do we leave it in? Like, what do you want?

SPEAKER_00 13:36

You're you can keep you can keep it in. That's fine. I think it's important for people to understand like vulnerability, but also that it is important to see reach out for help when you need it.

SPEAKER_02 13:45

Yeah, I agree with that. Amazing. Okay, yeah, let's go ahead and jump into the episode because I'm already late as fuck and I'm ruining Megan's day.

SPEAKER_00 13:52

But um, you're not ruining my day. Oh my god, you're fine. I honestly I feel it's always kind of like uh like oh my god, I have to record. I can know, and then you do it and then I'm always like, man, and then I'm recording and I love every moment. I know.

SPEAKER_02 14:06

Isn't that weird? Because I get I do the same shit, like it's like it's funny.

SPEAKER_00 14:10

I think it's because it's a task.

SPEAKER_02 14:12

I think so. I think so too. We have to like set time aside for it. Okay, so tonight's episode is about amusement parks. And I did do a different angle on this, but you'll see.

SPEAKER_00 14:25

So I'm excited.

SPEAKER_02 14:27

Tonight's story takes us home to Pennsylvania. I'm gonna be talking about a historic amusement park called Bushkill Park. I think I'm saying that correctly. Also, I did not go over my notes. Um, definitely pulled a Megan this time, but I was way too late to try anything. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 14:44

Honestly, real quick, I was like like type A personality before I had a kid. Like, I've changed so much, and now I'm like, uh, it's good. I'll get to it when it's a good one. It's fine. Everything's fine.

SPEAKER_02 14:56

So I do apologize for the fuck-ups before they happen, and I'm probably not gonna cut them out. Okay, so Bushkill Park first opened way back in 1902 as one of the classic trolley parks built to give people a fun escape at the end of a streetcar line. From that moment, it became a local favorite and one of the oldest amusement parks in the country. For more than a century, Bushkill Park drew visitors with its collection of rides and attractions. Before modern theme parks dominated the landscape, it was known for its antique amusement charm, including bumper cars, which we love, and we know Ben loves bumper cars. Wait, no, he did a racing thing. He didn't do bumper cars recently.

SPEAKER_00 15:35

He likes bumper cars, but it's go-karting. He go-karting. Like uh an F1 driver, so which I mean that's a big, big dream.

SPEAKER_02 15:45

You know what? You let the motherfucking kid dream.

SPEAKER_00 15:48

Yeah. I'm gonna let him dream as big as he wants to. Yes.

SPEAKER_02 15:51

So um, it also had a ride called The Whip. The creepy fun loved haunted pretzel dark ride, which I actually didn't look into too much, which I I wish I would have, because I typed it and I was like, hmm, that seems fun, but I didn't I didn't look into it. And most importantly for tonight's episode, the barrel of fun funhouse. And it's called the B-A-R apostrophe L, which I'm assuming is barrel instead of barrel. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 16:15

We don't know how to talk in this show.

SPEAKER_02 16:18

We don't know anything, we just kind of wing it. So the barrel or barrel of fun was one of the oldest operating fun houses in America, built sometime before 1935, and was notable for having a real maze-like layout of mirrors on its ground floor. The mirror maze led further into the building, which included spinning elements like a rolling barrel, so I'm assuming it's barrel fun, tilted stairs, and a classic hall of mirrors upstairs that overlooked the park. The atmosphere of Bushkill Park during its life was a blend of nostalgic charm and slow decay. The park sat almost entirely surrounded by the Bushkill Creek, putting it in a flood zone that repeatedly battered the place. In 2004, Hurricane Ivan caused a devastating flood that washed away major attractions and damaged rides, leading to the park's closure in 2006 after decades of continuous operation. After years of abandonment, photos from explorers showed the funhouse and its mirror maze coated in dust, warped wood, and peeling artwork. The kind of eerie images that look straight out of a horror film. At least for me and you. I know you feel the same. Even before it closed, the combination of old strobe lights, dim corners, reflected corridors, and vintage carnival crafts made the barrel of fun an atmosphere that was unsettling even without any ghosts. And I did try to look for ghosts here. I'm sorry guys, I don't I don't really have a whole lot. Like I don't I don't it's not really ghosty, it's just kind of creepy. When you stepped inside, you were immediately surrounded by reflections. Not just one or two, sometimes dozens of them. Every direction you turned showed another version of yourself staring back. Now, if you've ever walked through a mirror maze, you already know that the experience can be disorienting. One moment you're convinced you're walking straight ahead, and the next you're apologizing to a mirror because you've walked directly into it. That's Megan.

SPEAKER_00 18:03

I literally fucking ate it. I do it all the goddamn time.

SPEAKER_02 18:07

Like I swear to God, she would bump into a mirror and be like, oh, sorry.

SPEAKER_00 18:11

Love you bye. Love you by that. Like, I'm terrible. I'm also the person who's like, when someone tells me happy birthday, like at a restaurant or something, I'm like, you too. Oh my god, it's horrible. Funny though. Like, you're so nice.

SPEAKER_02 18:27

It's cute. It's adorable. Thank you. It's the kind of place where your brain starts second-guessing everything. You see reflections at strange angles and lose track of which hallway you came from. And sometimes, just for a split second, it almost feels like someone is walking right behind you. Of course, that feeling is just your brain trying to make sense of all the reflections around you, but places like this have another strange quality. They've been watching people for decades. Think about that for just a moment. The mirrors inside that maze have been there for a long time now. They've reflected the faces of millions of visitors. Families visiting summer vacations, kids running through the maze laughing, teenagers daring each other to find the exit first. Year after year, reflection after reflection, the same glass has captured every one of those moments. And every once in a while, someone walks through and notices something strange. One story told by longtime park visitors describes a couple walking through the maze together. And I did not include their names. At one point, they stopped in front of a large mirror that showed several reflections stretching into the distance behind them. It was the kind of view you get when mirrors face each other, creating what looks like an endless tunnel of repeating images. At first they laughed, pointing at how distorted some of the reflections looked, but after a moment, the woman noticed something odd. In the reflection behind them, there seemed to be someone else standing there, a third figure. The problem was they entered the hall of mirrors alone. Once they turned around to check, everything behind them was completely empty. Of course, mirror mazes are famous for visual tricks. A reflection from another hallway can easily appear where you don't expect it. It's the kind of thing that happens all the time. But the strange part of the story isn't that they saw someone in the reflection. The strange part is that the figure appeared to be standing perfectly still while all the other reflections moved. Which I'm not even kidding when I say this. Like that would send me into the fucking stratosphere. Like I think I would run so fast, I'd start breaking mirrors with full bodily force just to get out.

SPEAKER_00 20:23

And you're gonna freaking run into walls, mirrors and walls.

SPEAKER_02 20:27

I I hate thinking about these things. Because like the last mirror maze I was in was when we were on family vacation in Ocean's Shitty, and I went to like the Ripley's mirror thing and it fucking freaked me out. I can't do it.

SPEAKER_00 20:40

I went in that too, didn't I?

SPEAKER_02 20:41

I think so. I got lost though. I definitely remember doing that.

SPEAKER_00 20:45

I always wasn't there like a weird thing that Courtney was on too and got scared.

SPEAKER_02 20:49

Maybe. I don't know. I got separated. I think I got separated from you guys though at one point. Like I was just fucking around, which I shouldn't have been, but it is what it is. So personally, to us, this is what nightmares are made of. And um yeah, we hate we hate mirror mazes, but whether or not that story is true is obviously impossible to know, but it does highlight something interesting about mirror mazes. They're designed to disorient you, and your brain is constantly trying to sort out what's real and what's just a reflection. Like that is just science. Light bounces from mirror to mirror, creating images from angles you can't easily trace, and even sound behaves strangely in places like this. A voice from another hallway can echo through the maze and seem like it's coming from right beside you. But it really could be. It could be coming from right beside you. Because mirrors hold memory. So when people said that they felt like someone was following them through here, there might be a reasonable explanation, but probably not. There's still one detail about mirror mazes that makes them a little unsettling. When you stand in the right spot facing two mirrors that reflect each other, you can see an almost endless line of reflections stretching into the distance. Each one is another version of. View smaller and smaller as the images repeat. In theory, you're looking at hundreds of reflections at once. Hundreds of identical versions of yourself, all doing exactly what you do. Every movement you make is copied instantly, every step, every blink, every turn of your head. And here, those reflections can stretch so far back that they fade into darkness. In the paranormal world, because you you know I gotta bring it here. Mirrors have long been believed to act as spiritual gateways, which we already know, but I want to mention it anyway. Many traditions and myself claim mirrors can reflect more than just physical images. They can also interact with energy, spirits, or alternate dimensions. When two mirrors face each other, they create what looks like an endless tunnel of reflections. In paranormal lore, that effect is sometimes called an infinite portal or a spirit corridor. The idea is that the mirrors bounce energy back and forth forever, forming a kind of pathway that spirits could potentially travel through. When two mirrors face each other, they create something called infinite reflection. Your reflection repeats over and over again, stretching into what looks like a never-ending tunnel. In normal physics, this happens because light simply keeps bouncing between the two mirrors. But in paranormal folklore, that endless reflection has respired Nope. But in paranormal folklore, that endless I get one more try. One more.

SPEAKER_00 23:20

One more chance, bitch.

SPEAKER_02 23:22

But in paranormal folklore, that endless reflection has inspired a much darker idea. I did it.

SPEAKER_00 23:29

Now you got an attitude.

SPEAKER_02 23:32

I always do that. I do it too. Some people believe that when mirrors face each other, they create a kind of open doorway between worlds, which I kind of will try to explain. It's basically a hallway that never truly ends. So when they're facing each other, that energy supposedly gets trapped bouncing back and forth between them. And paranormal researchers sometimes refer to this as creating a spirit tunnel. And they appear to stretch infinitely all the way into darkness, which has led some people to believe that they're reflecting more than just something than the room that you're standing in. They think that the tunnel is a pathway that spirits can use to move between spaces. And because of these beliefs, certain cultures actually recommend not placing mirrors directly across from each other, especially in bedrooms. In paranormal investigations, mirrors are sometimes treated with caution for this reason. Whether or not there's any truth to the idea, the concept itself itself is unsettling. When you stare down that endless hallway of reflections, your brain naturally wonders how far it really goes. And I can say for myself that this has always freaked me out even as a kid, and I don't know if you remember specifically, Megan, but my mom had this like I don't know how to describe it, I just remember it. But it was some sort of decoration that was passed down to her when we were kids, and you can look inside of it, and it was like a whole bunch of fucking mirrors like this. And there were so many mirrors inside, it just kind of reminded me of like a vortex. I don't I don't know how to explain it, but I was always put off by it. And also, this may be a unique experience, but have you ever gone to like the cake section at a grocery store and you looked like in like on the side of where the cakes are being kept and you seen like the mirror beside them, you can like look into it and you can see yourself like a thousand times, and that's always freaked me out as a kid. And that was before I even knew any of like the creepy shit. So even without ghosts, the experience with mirrors can feel eerie. When you look into two mirrors facing each other, the reflections gradually fade into darkness as they get further away. Eventually, your brain can't nope. Eventually, your brain can't clearly make out the details. The human mind is extremely good at filling in missing information. Sometimes people report seeing shapes or movements far down the reflection tunnel that aren't really there. And that's where a lot of spooky stories begin. So the next time you find yourself standing between two mirrors, take a look at the endless line of reflection stretching behind you. You might be looking down a hallway that never truly ends, and if that hallway is open on both sides, you might not be the only one who can see through it. And this kind of sets me up for a paranormal game, but that'll be a later episode, and I will reference this episode in that. So now picture what happens if you stepped into the fun house. Every surface around you is glass, mirrors reflect into other mirrors, which then reflect into more mirrors. Instead of one infinite tunnel, there are potentially hundreds of reflection tunnels happening at the same time, all intersecting with each other. The mirrors in that maze haven't just reflected thousands of people one time, they've reflected them thousands of times, bouncing their image deeper and deeper into the reflections behind them. In some ghost lore, repeated reflections are thought to strengthen the idea of a mirror acting like a recording surface. The more reflections there are, the more layers of energy that might exist within that space. But when you combine that psychological confusion with the paranormal belief that mirrors could act as portals or windows, it creates a chilling idea. Inside the mirror maze, you're surrounded by reflections of yourself stretching farther and further into the distance. Every step you take creates dozens, dozens. Wow, I can't talk. Every step you take creates dozens of versions of you in that glass around you. So what if one of those reflections didn't move when you did? In a normal room with one mirror, that would be immediately obvious, but in a maze full of reflections pointing in every direction, it might take a moment before you realize something was wrong. A reflection down the hallway might turn its head slightly later than you did, one of the figures deep in the mirror tunnel might appear to pause even though you kept walking. And because the reflections stretch so far back into the darkness, there's always a point where your eyes can't quite make out the details anymore. The reflections fade, the lighting gets dim, and eventually the images become too small and distant to clearly see. And that's where the mind starts to play tricks on you. I tried really hard to find Reddit stories on people's experiences with mirror mazes, but I just couldn't find anything that was credible. Um, there's a lot of really fun stories on there that are posted to no sleep and stuff like that. Like if you just want to be creeped out and see people's creative writing aspects, but I don't really have too much. Um, as far as paranormal investigations that have happened here, that hasn't really happened, but people definitely have had some experiences. I only found one person's account in particular, but I didn't include their name or anything. But I do have just like random things that people have described. So visitors often say that the same strange feeling no, visitors often describe the same strange feeling when they walk through mirror mazes. It's the situation, wow, I can't I can't talk. It's the sensation that someone is walking just behind you. When you turn around though, there's no one there. The mirrors reflect so many angles at once that your brain just tries to interpret movement that may actually be coming from another hallway. Which I say is bullshit. I think it's a ghost. I think it's a mimic. I don't know. I think it's something. It's not logic. No way. In some stories shared by visitors, people say that they caught sight of someone standing behind them in the reflections, but when they turned around, everything was empty. And again, this is basically this is basically what it is. Um, somebody else did mention that when visitors stand between two mirrors that reflect each other, it just stretches into an endless tunnel. And when they look too long, like when they're staring too like into it for long enough, the reflections start to look distorted or delayed, almost like one of them moved a second after they did, which is probably like what I would describe as mirror scrying, um, which is super common. Anyone can do mirror scrying. I don't personally recommend it. I don't enjoy mirror scrying. Um I did it a lot as a kid, not knowing what it was called or what was supposed to happen or like what it could do, but um you'll actually know what I'm talking about, Megan. I used to do this like upstairs in the bathroom. I would open all three of the mirror sections and I would like put my face in the middle of it, and I would just sit there and like look at myself, and like I would freak myself out, and my face would start to get like really weird and distorted, and like my eyeball would be like dripping or something. Because our upstairs bathroom when we were kids had like you you know those like old school mirrors where you had to like press in to open it, and then you can like get whatever's inside of the cabinet. That's what we had.

SPEAKER_00 30:24

Yeah, you are a weird ass kid.

SPEAKER_02 30:27

I know, I know. I was a creepy kid, and I know that when we have kids, it's going, I'm gonna have creepy kids, and I can't wait. Except for when they tell me there's a ghost or something, or they start talking to the ceiling, that's gonna freak me out.

SPEAKER_00 30:39

But oh yeah, that's that's fun. I'll handle it, especially whenever they're like afraid in uh like right now I'm like telling Ben that nothing's real.

SPEAKER_01 30:48

Yeah, that's really funny.

SPEAKER_00 30:52

I do like a whole ass podcast. You gaslighter like a spooky shit, and I'm like, that's not real.

SPEAKER_02 30:58

No, he's gonna grab and be like, Mom, you fucking lied to me. And you're like, I know, but I had to.

SPEAKER_00 31:02

Yeah, I'm like, I and I don't lie much to him. Like, we're pretty open and honest, but Jesus, I don't know what else to do.

SPEAKER_02 31:10

That's different. Like, he was losing sleep over that. Like, as a mom, I think you made the right call.

SPEAKER_00 31:15

Thank you. But yeah, it's it's hard call, but it is what it is.

SPEAKER_02 31:20

But yeah, I was I was a creepy kid, and I think honestly, I still kinda am a creepy person. I don't do shit like that anymore, but um, I'm down for any other weird shit. So the fun house was actually featured on Discovery Channel back in the 90s because of how classic and unusual it was. The park face made the park faced major setbacks in the early 2000s.

SPEAKER_00 31:45

Sorry, your face and the pause, the combination of it was fucking funny.

SPEAKER_02 31:50

It was struck by several devastating floods, especially from Hurricane Ivan, which damaged or destroyed like so many of the rides or attractions, and after repeated flooding and financial difficulty, the park stopped operating in 2007 and for years became a famous abandoned site captured in Erie photography. Today, however, Bushkill Park has come back to life. Yay! Though in a much smaller family-friendly form compared to back then. Around 2017, the owners reopened core elements of the park, including the roller skating rink arcade game arcade games and children's rides. The iconic funhouse, you know, historically the barrel or barrel of fun, has been restored and renamed Hilarity Hall. So it retains its charm and original vibe, complete with its mirror maze and classic funhouse features. And it's still a highlight for visitors enjoying the park's nostalgic appeal. So yeah, the park isn't abandoned anymore. So that's kind of like the twist I took on it. I was like, mm-hmm, because I I really wanted to talk about something different than just like an abandoned whoa, puberty. I wanted to talk about something different than just like an abandoned amusement park. Like I wanted to kind of do something a little different. I was like, mirrors are fucking creepy, so why not? So next time you walk through a mirror maze, surrounded by glass on every side, take a moment to look closely at the reflections behind you. Watch the endless copies of yourself disappearing into the distance. Because if every reflection is supposed to move exactly when you do, you might want to make sure they all do, just in case one of them doesn't. And if that happens, you might want to find the exit a little faster. And email us about it at twofilthyhorspodcast at gmail.com.

SPEAKER_00 33:30

Fuck yeah. Hey, um, did you say where in Pennsylvania this was?

SPEAKER_02 33:34

Um, it was Easton, I think. Let me just double check.

SPEAKER_00 33:38

Okay, I just didn't remember if you said it or not. I was curious uh if it's anywhere near me.

SPEAKER_02 33:43

I actually don't think I did say it.

SPEAKER_00 33:44

Um because I I've heard the name before. Like I know I've heard this amusement park before.

SPEAKER_02 33:51

Easton PA, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 33:53

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 33:54

Um, so like, do you think that like today as an adult, as disoriented as we are, I mean, we can't even fucking like be in the car without getting car sick, but do you think that you would do a mirror maze now?

SPEAKER_00 34:08

I would do it, but I would struggle with it for sure. Do you know on have you been to uh what the fuck is it called? Like Noah's Ark or whatever it's called in Kennywood?

SPEAKER_02 34:18

Bro, yes. I and I have a funny fucking story about that.

SPEAKER_00 34:23

Every time I'm on it, I'm sick as hell. This last time, like what was it last summer I believe? Dylan, I um I had to almost crawl. Dylan literally I had to close my eyes because I couldn't walk properly, and I had to close my eyes and Dylan led me through it.

SPEAKER_02 34:39

Dude, I thought I could do it.

SPEAKER_00 34:41

Ben wanted to do it so badly, and I was like, hell yeah, we'll do it. And then I'm in there and I am like so fucked up. Yeah. That uh Dylan's like, close your eyes and just hang on.

SPEAKER_02 34:52

Yeah. Well, dude, they have like that thing that you have to walk across, like that one plank thing, and then everything is neon and spinning beside you. Like it completely fucks you up. It's like you're in an IMAX theater, but you can't escape.

SPEAKER_00 35:05

That's where that's where it was that that spot messed me up, and then you like go down steps or something right after it.

SPEAKER_02 35:11

Oh my god, that's diabolical. They knew what they were fucking doing.

SPEAKER_00 35:15

Yeah, and I don't remember it messing me up so much. I swear I got older and it just because Ben was fine.

SPEAKER_02 35:20

Yeah, I used to fuck with that shit so hard whenever I was a kid, and now I can't do it. I I can't even sit in an IMAX theater, dude. I'm not kidding. Like, I will freak the fuck out. I'll get dizzy. I was sitting there waiting patiently. Almost I was I was waiting, I was waiting impatiently, I will admit. I was pretty impatient about this train, but only because I knew that you were here waiting for me. But I was fucking sitting here and all I tried to do was like turn my music up or down, and the train's going the opposite direction. There's cars going the opposite direction beside me, and I thought I was gonna throw up. I was like, I'm cause I'm immobile, I'm not doing anything. My car is still, but all these objects are in motion beside me, and I thought I was gonna die.

SPEAKER_00 36:01

You should probably not go on a cruise ever. I know, but I want to. I don't think you would get sick. I know that's I want to too, but I'm worried that I'll get sick because I have inner ear issues. Um, Barb got sick coming home. Yeah, she got messed up again. This is the second time from a cruise that she got sick from really. So she's doing better now, but yeah, unfortunately, they went on a cruise and she got off the boat and still felt like or ship or whatever you want to call it. But anyway, she got off and got home and still felt like she was on it. Like it like she couldn't like walk properly, her eyes were kind of crossing and shit.

SPEAKER_02 36:38

So is that like a vertigo spell, or is that worse like is that is that what it's classified as, or is it something completely different?

SPEAKER_00 36:44

It's called something, I don't remember what it is, but it's I mean, it's pretty much like vertigo. I don't know if it's like in the same category or not, but it's similar.

SPEAKER_02 36:52

Oh my gosh, that really sucks. I hope that she is better or gets better soon. She yeah, she is, she's getting there. Um, I think oh yeah, no, the funny story, really quick about the Noah's Ark thing is that the first time I ever went on it, I was with you guys, I think. Like you, Courtney. I think it was just me, you, Courtney, Dad, and you know what? No, your one friend from high school was probably there now that I think about it. But anyway, the the family friend, you know who I'm talking about. Anyway, though.

SPEAKER_00 37:23

Yeah, they were there.

SPEAKER_02 37:24

Okay, I went into this fucking thing, and nobody told me. Like, because we didn't grow up in a religious household or anything, I didn't really know what Noah's Ark was about. So I was like, oh my gosh, this this boat with animals, like, let me go on here. We get in here and it's like very story mode, and this water starts gushing in, and everyone's like, just chill and I'm freaking the fuck out. And you guys didn't tell me everything was okay. I was l it was like my first panic attack ever. I was like, done.

SPEAKER_00 37:58

I don't a hundred, I remember that, but I don't I didn't intentionally like not tell you, I just didn't think about it.

SPEAKER_02 38:05

But um nobody like literally not even dad, like or my mom, which is very surprising. Like you'd think that my mom would be like, it's okay, honey, but no, everyone thought it was hilarious.

SPEAKER_00 38:16

I'm pretty sure that I was very annoyed, and that's probably why I didn't say like I didn't catch on because I'm pretty sure I didn't want to go on that. But I don't think you didn't want to be. You wanted to, yeah. And I was forced to go on it because you wanted to, and then I I didn't intentionally like it wasn't like uh oh well she's annoying, I'm not gonna tell her everything's okay. I think I just wasn't paying attention to you because I was annoyed with you.

SPEAKER_02 38:38

I was I was not even by you at that point, but I do remember you not wanting to go on that either. But that's fucking hilarious. Yeah, that's my stupid little story about that first moment of anxiety.

SPEAKER_00 38:50

Ben panicked. It's funny because Ben panicked in that moment too, actually. And I did not connect it because I didn't remember that you did that until you brought it up just now.

SPEAKER_02 39:00

Yeah, he was like, Mom, dude, like when I have kids, I'm we are obviously going to Kennywood, like and you live right there, so you're coming too. Yeah, um yeah, definitely. We're doing it, like we're doing that, and if my kid gets a little too rowdy, I'll I'll you know, I'll help them out, but it has to be a universal experience. Like everybody has to be scared.

SPEAKER_00 39:22

You were like, this is this is the initiation like you want to be a part of our family, so gutching out of the walls, bro, and it didn't even look wet prior.

SPEAKER_02 39:38

Like it it's like I swear to god, like I just either was not paying attention because I was a kid, or they did a really good job of cleaning that room up because it looked real, like it really looked like it just started gutching, and I was so in my own head that I didn't look at other adults, like I was just like, why is nobody paying it?

SPEAKER_00 40:00

I should have should have paid attention.

SPEAKER_02 40:03

But um moving back to the mirrors thing. I don't know if I would go through a mirror maze. I think if I if I think if I knew it was intended for toddlers, I would do it, but I'm not going.

SPEAKER_00 40:16

Like if it's an adult one. Yeah, like if you can see your eyes, you're not doing it, but your kneecaps are okay.

SPEAKER_02 40:23

If I can crawl through it, I'll do it.

SPEAKER_00 40:27

But that is that is um that's all I have today. Beautifully done. It was very spooky. Uh, mirror mazes are definitely scary. Yeah, they are. Okay, my turn. Okay. The neon lights of the Delta Island have been dark for decades, and the laughter of the Wabosh cannonball has long since faded into the Nashville heat. But in a way, the music never truly stopped. In its prime, Opry Land USA was the uh home of American music. Today it's sprawling hotel. Fuck. My eyes keep like trying to skip ahead words, and that's why I'm reading weird if you can't tell. Cause like I don't understand why my eyes are doing it. Okay. Like they keep skipping like over words. Oh. Okay. In its in its prime, Opri Land USA was the home of American music. Today it's a sprawling hotel in a sea of asphalt. But if you stand in the right spot at twilight, the air still feels heavy with the echoes of the park that refuse to die. Oh from the restless spirits of the little Harpeth River to the phantom screams heard near the Grizzly River Rampage. We're digging up the foundations of the Lost Kingdom. Grab your ticket and hold on to the safety bar tonight because we're going back to the park, even if it doesn't want us there. I'm going. Yeah, we're going. Located in Nashville, Tennessee. This park's had on 120 acres, which could fit 1,306,800,000 potholes. So iconically, Nashville. Like that's really. I don't think I don't think you've been to Nashville, but I mean you think Pennsylvania's potholes. I tried to Kentucky in I don't know all Tennessee, but Nashville, Tennessee, like there's some spots that are like some serious fucking like you could have a pond, like I could put koi fish in there.

SPEAKER_02 42:15

Wow. Okay. I definitely thought Pennsylvania's was was bad, so I I've I had no idea.

SPEAKER_00 42:21

Yeah, I uh I almost I was down in Nashville when I was like eight plus months pregnant with Ben, and I was in the back of a Tahoe. We hit a fucking pothole, he slammed into my cervix, his head slammed into my cervix, and I thought for sure that I was going into labor. I thought for sure it was horrible. It was horrible. I was like, oh my god, I can't do this anymore. Like ever since then, I just see like terrible potholes there.

SPEAKER_02 42:49

Oh my god, I'm so sorry that happened. It's okay. That's rough. It's okay.

SPEAKER_00 42:55

It opened June 30th, 1972, and hosted about two million visitors a year. This amusement park, unfortunately, is not around today as it was replaced by the Opera Meals Mall in 2000, but still had a good run of it from 1972 to 1997 and left many with its haunting memory in a good way. Next to the park, I don't know why I said that. Next to the park is the next to the park.

SPEAKER_01 43:19

I'm like stuttering.

SPEAKER_00 43:22

I'm not cutting that out. Next to the park. Next to the park, just kidding. Next to the park was the gold Grand Ole Opry. Jesus fucking Christ. Next to the park was the Grand Ole Opry, which hosts over 200 shows a year and helped bring people into the attraction. If you've ever been to Nashville, you know that they love live performances, and Opry Land was no different. It heavily focused on live performances of country, jazz, and bluegrass music alongside its rides. The doors eventually closed in nineteen ninety seven due to financial pressures. Before the park, there was the land. Long before the first coaster was bolted down, this was the McGavic family farm. Guesses. Now you have an absolute guests at the Gaylord Opreland Resort, which still stands next to the old park site, report a woman in antebellum style morning cl clothes, a heavy black dress and a thick veil.

SPEAKER_02 44:17

Is there a blady? Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 44:20

Blady. That haunts me. She is most often seen in the Magnolia lobby. Multiple witnesses claim to have seen her step into the elevator only to vanish before the doors close.

SPEAKER_02 44:31

Oh my god, that's haunting. Literally.

SPEAKER_00 44:34

Yeah. Legend says that she was killed by a falling chandelier on this property. And today the massive lights in the hotel are known to sway and flicker for no reason, even when the air is still.

SPEAKER_02 44:43

She is known as the lady did not. You did not.

SPEAKER_00 44:51

I did not do that on purpose. That is so funny. I'm wanna I'm just gonna I'm just gonna jump off a bridge. No, I'm just kidding. Okay, okay. She is known as the lady in black. Obviously, there's a lady in some kind of color here. It's always a lady. Yeah, there's always some kind of lady or a lady. What are we gonna call it? The lady. The lady. There's a lady in the lady. The waity. I hate it myself. Okay. No. This is the most validated haunting with accounts from both the 1990s and today. There's a former manager who worked until 2 a.m. and reported seeing a blurred image of a woman in Civil War era black dress at the top of a staircase. He calmly said, Good evening, ma'am, and she vanished instantly. Multiple guests at the resort have reported back at exactly 3 a.m. to find the lady in black standing over their bed watching them. One witness who stated there is a nine-year-old claimed she didn't feel threatened. She just felt watched. In 1995, an employee encountered a group of guests freaking out because a woman in a red dress had vanished inside a closed elevator. A Rady. This yeah. This led to the legend that the lady in black sometimes appears in red. I don't know. I'm not quite sure. People just like combined it. Everything I try to research a little bit more about that is like it's still the lady in black. It's just some people saw her in red. Okay. I think that's odd. I feel like seeing someone in red is possibly a different, like I don't I can't imagine her just being like, oh, I'm gonna be a blade today. Oh, switch on my shit today. Yeah. Sorry. Okay. Four years after the park was demolished, a ghost at the park remained. A single grove of trees sat in the middle of the parking lot, hiding the concrete remains of the grizzly ramp Motherfucker. A single grove of trees sat in the middle of the parking lot, hiding the concrete remains of the grizzly river rampage. I don't know if it's rampage. It's rampage, right? It's not rampage, it's rampage. Rampage God fucking damn it. Grizzly river rampage.

SPEAKER_02 47:03

The rampage.

SPEAKER_00 47:05

The rampage. Okay. Urban explorers who found the ruins before they were finally cleared reported the sound of rushing water. Even though the pipes have been dead for a decade. Shoppers walk into the cars late at night near the walls. I'm I'm convinced I'm dyslexic, guys. Shoppers walking to their cars late at night near the walls malls perimeter. They were walking near the mall. The mall. Okay, sorry. Have reported hearing the wall of sound, which is a sudden chilling wave of hundreds of people screaming enjoy, and then it cuts off in dead silence. I literally don't know what I would do if I heard this to be honest. It's like exciting and scary at the same time. Like if you're like Where's the excitement? Huh? Where's the excitement? Because it's like, oh shit. Like, because you're just hearing like uh like it's uh like people just like being happy, like they're so happy, and there's like so like you know, like you hear like an amusement park, like you get excited when you hear a music park, kind of.

SPEAKER_02 48:05

Yeah, but it's a parking lot, yeah. Like you you're like at a concession stand, you hear people cheering, you're like, oh my god, are they out? Yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_00 48:13

That makes more sense.

SPEAKER_02 48:13

But like I would shit.

SPEAKER_00 48:15

But it also is kind of scary too, because it's like that doesn't fit here. So, yeah. You would poop a log from your fart hole. Not the fart hole, the fart box. Researcher R.D. Sussman Dewberry documented a that sounds like such a fake name. Documented a firsthand experience near a lone grove of trees in the Opry Mills parking lot years after the park was gone. He described finding the old concrete remains of the Grizzly River rampage hidden in the trees and grass. This is a little bit more on what I was already talking about. And he reported a palpable sense of heavy sadness and the feeling of being watched by a spirit that was trapped in the remaining ruins of the ride. Unable I just took the deepest breath ever. I'm gonna re say this, I'm sorry. He described the findings of the old concrete remains of the Grizzly River rampage hidden in the trees and grass. He reported a palpable sense of heavy sadness and the feeling of being watched by a spirit that was trapped in the remaining ruins of the ride, unable to leave, even though the rest of the park had been paved over. And it's a sudden they describe it as being a sudden deafening roar of hundreds of people screaming as if they were on a roller coaster near the main entrance of the mall during opening hours or late night shifts. When they look for the source, the parking lot and mall are either empty or silent. So that's just like a little bit more like a description of it from people who work at the mall.

SPEAKER_02 49:52

That's wild.

SPEAKER_00 49:53

I don't I love that. Mm-hmm. One of the most specific legends coming from the old overnight cleaning cruise is the tin Lizzie car, which is number 27. A former worker claims that while cleaning the paddock for the tin Lizzie, which is the park's antique car ride, they kept hearing a scratching sound coming from inside car number 27. They reported seeing a figure slumped in a driver's seat, only to have it disappear the moment a flashlight hit the upholstery. Shut up. While the lady in black haunts the guest-facing lobbies, there's a much darker legend whispered among the hotel's heart of house. The vast network of employee tunnels that run beneath the resort. To the thousand of workers who keep the Gaylord Aupry Land running, these tunnels are just a way to move laundry and supplies. But to those who have pulled the graveyard shift, they are home to the shadow people.

SPEAKER_02 50:43

I wonder if there's a story about the girl in the car. What do you mean? Didn't you say that there was like a girl in the car?

SPEAKER_00 50:51

It's just a sh it's a figure in the car. Okay. It's like it's it's like a just black figure.

SPEAKER_02 50:57

Like just it doesn't lay like it's gender neutral, not binary queen or king. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 51:03

Yeah. Unlike the lady in black, who looks like a physical person in a period dress, these entities are described as voids or man-shaped patches of absolute darkness that are darker than the shadows around them. Maintenance workers have reported turning a corner in a dimly lit service corridor, only to see a tall, slender silhouette standing perfectly still. When the worker's flashlight hits the figure, it doesn't reveal a face. The light seems to be absorbed by the figure before it zips into a wall or around a corner with impossible speed. Why are they there? Some local researchers point to the chilling possibility, the burial ground theory. During the construction of the mall and the expansion of the hotel, there were rumors that the excavators disturbed more than just old park foundations. The land sits near the site of ancient Native American box graves. Many of the shadow people aren't ghosts of the park at all. They are the original inhabitants of the land, restless because the 120 acres of their rest was paved over a parking lot and food courts.

SPEAKER_02 52:00

1000 fucking percent. That's exactly what is happening, yes.

SPEAKER_00 52:03

Mm-hmm. Which I thought was kind of funny because the last amusement park, the um Shawnee one, also was related to that.

SPEAKER_02 52:12

Oh, yeah, you're right. And you didn't know that going into this, did you?

SPEAKER_00 52:16

No, I had no idea.

SPEAKER_02 52:18

You got a knack for it.

SPEAKER_00 52:20

Apparently. I would never ever work here. Absolutely not. Like, if I saw a shadow creature coming at me, I'd be deceased. And who would feed Ben his hundred meals a day? He's so cute. He eats so goddamn much. Like, I'm telling you, he eats so much. God, I was bad. I'm genuinely concerned about summertime. Like, I don't know what I'm gonna do with him.

SPEAKER_02 52:47

I know, he's gonna be home. Cause I think that this happened last summer too, and you were like, I don't even fucking know what to do.

SPEAKER_00 52:52

It did, and now he's eating twice as much, and I'm like, oh my god, I can't keep up. He eats more than I do. Like he eats double. He's a grown boy. Actually, he probably eats triple as much food as I do. It's ridiculous. Yeah. He's the grown boy. He's like I mean, and he's so fit. Like he's got like so much muscle, and like he looks like he works out. He doesn't. I mean, well, he does, but um, he's an active. Well, no, he actually I have like a stepper and weights and stuff, and the other day he was home sick because he he wasn't sick, sick. He was dizzy from like his inner ear being attacked by allergies. Like he he has pretty severe allergies. We got him Zertec and it's working better than the Claritin, so he's great now. But I had to give him Benadryl twice that day and uh Zertec. And um he but he worked out the whole like for over an hour on the the stair stepper and the wait thing.

SPEAKER_02 53:49

More cutie.

SPEAKER_00 53:51

Yeah. Um I have visited here before, but I had no idea about the old amusement park, so this was very exciting too. Shut the fuck up. You went here? Yeah. And like it's a mall and a hotel now, like in that area.

SPEAKER_02 54:07

Oh my god, that's so fun.

SPEAKER_00 54:09

Yeah, and uh I'm really excited to learn about it and to share it with you guys. I was there during Christmas time a few years ago. It was pretty chaotic and loud because of the season. I will say I was in the mall and hoteria ho mall and terrier. I was in the mall and hotel area, and I didn't hear anything spooky, but I did have a very tight feeling in my stomach that I never could actually understand. I thought it was because there were so many people around and the structure's so large and somewhat overwhelming in a beautiful way. It is a beautiful area. Um, but now I'm starting to think like maybe there was more to it than just being like overstimulated.

SPEAKER_02 54:49

Like I I d yeah, you're very sensitive to that too. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 54:54

So I I just don't know. Um, I would love to go back to and see now that I know more about it. I didn't know anything.

SPEAKER_02 55:01

Yeah, that's really fascinating.

SPEAKER_00 55:04

Yeah. The land that once held the home of American music is now covered in millions of pounds of concrete and consumerism. To most shoppers, it's just a place to find a bargain. But for those who remember the sound of the wabush wabish, wabosh cannonball, I don't know, it's it's W-A-B-A-S-H. Wabosh. Wabash. Yeah, or the or the smell of the Flumes River water. The park isn't really gone, it's just underneath. Whether it's a lady in black or the blady, if you will, in the Magnolia lobby, or the shadow people darting through the service tunnels where the rods once stood, one thing is clear. You can pave over a memory, but you can't bury your soul. Bury, blueberry. You can't blueberry your soul.

SPEAKER_02 55:47

Can't blueberry soul.

SPEAKER_00 55:49

Next time you're walking to the car in the upper mill's lot, and the wind carries a sound that shouldn't be there, a phantom scream or the sound of rushing water. Make sure you remember those who stood before you and those who stood before that, and maybe keep walking. Because some rides never really end, and you don't want to be the one left standing in the parking lot when the lights go out for good.

SPEAKER_02 56:08

Good point. I will take note. My god.

SPEAKER_00 56:12

I will say that like closing took me a really long time to like write out. I don't know. I liked it, but I struggled thinking.

SPEAKER_02 56:21

No, no, it's great. I mean mine aren't always mine are not always special.

SPEAKER_00 56:26

No, mine are.

SPEAKER_02 56:27

Your intros, no, your intros and your outros are always really, really, really done nicely.

SPEAKER_00 56:33

I should be proud of them. I really try to make them nice because um like I always appreciate in books when you cannot like they it's very important for authors to like bring you into the world and then like out of the world. Yes. So I try to do that too.

SPEAKER_02 56:53

Yes, I agree.

SPEAKER_00 56:54

But who's ready to spin and find out if we finally are getting aliens? Me, me, me, me, me, me. Okay. One, two, three. Spin. It's going so fast, it's like making me dizzy. Ooh, this is a fun one. Creepy? Catacombs.

SPEAKER_01 57:14

I'm just I'm gonna be myself. There's no way.

SPEAKER_00 57:29

No catacombs. I don't.

SPEAKER_01 57:32

Oh my god, that was so funny. That was so funny.

SPEAKER_00 57:36

Oh my god. I had to I'm just like keep it together and do it. I had to get like your actual reading duty.

SPEAKER_02 57:42

And you like did that quickly.

SPEAKER_00 57:48

Let's go get good at this. Just not good at reading. Just you know, good at thinking on my feet, but not good at just reading. That was so funny. Good job. I can't believe I didn't said blady again in this episode. I literally like off myself. Which is shut up. I'm not okay. But I did say about therapy. I swear to god, I'm joking. It's probably not okay to say that as a joking manner, so I'm sorry, but no, it's not, you asshole.

SPEAKER_02 58:13

But um I should I forget it was oh no, it was funny because you said blady, or no, you said lady. I said blady and then you said blady.

SPEAKER_00 58:23

I feel like I really don't know if I said bladey because you put it in my head, to be honest, but I hope so. But I also was like doing the thing where I was skipping over and it was the lady in black and I saw black and then I jumped back to lady, so it very well could have been that because I struggled with like some possible dyslexia and also over like reading faster than my mouth could keep up with tonight.

SPEAKER_02 58:46

Oh yeah, like your mouth can catch up, yeah. Yeah, so it's okay.

SPEAKER_00 58:49

Forgive me, guys. Sorry. I forgive you. But you know what? I realize that I just want to be like authentically me, it's authentically us, and you're going to get our weird energy and humor along with everything else because you decide to come listen to us and we appreciate you and love you.

SPEAKER_02 59:09

Yeah, and make sure to tune in next week. And if you are enjoying the podcast, please make sure to give us a five-star rating on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

SPEAKER_00 59:17

And follow us on Facebook at TwoFilthy Horrors Podcast and Instagram at TwoFilthy Horrors.

SPEAKER_02 59:22

And if you have any creepy experiences with any amusement parks, whether they're lively or abandoned, please feel free to send in your stories at two filthy horrors podcast at gmail.com.

SPEAKER_00 59:33

If you got it.

SPEAKER_02 59:34

Haunt it.