Stories of Yurei and American Ghosts: ONE

Have you ever felt a presence watching you from the shadows? That creeping sensation where the rational mind struggles to explain it away, yet something deeper knows you're not alone? 

Ghost stories aren't simply tales we tell in the dark – they represent humanity's oldest attempts to understand what might exist beyond our physical world. From Japanese yurei with their white robes and trailing hair to the vengeful spirits haunting American forests, every culture has developed frameworks to make sense of these encounters.

This episode takes you deep into firsthand experiences with the unexplained. A Forest Service ranger describes a terrifying encounter with a dark, smoke-like woman reaching into his infant son's crib, followed by night voices from the basement reenacting historical violence. A Marine Corps veteran shares his experience in condemned military housing, frozen in fear as a child's voice begs "Please don't go." And a chilling childhood encounter with a floating "blue lady" apparition reminds us that these experiences often begin early in life.

What makes these stories more than mere entertainment is how they challenge our understanding of reality. Even the most skeptical minds find themselves questioning when confronted with experiences that defy explanation. As Dr K eloquently puts it: "It doesn't matter if you believe in them... if they believe in you."

Join us as we explore the thin places where worlds bleed together, where the mundane gives way to the marvelous and terrifying. These aren't just ghost stories – they're windows into humanity's eternal questions about what lies beyond and what unfinished business might keep spirits tethered to our world. Have you had your own unexplained encounter? We'd love to hear your story.

Transcript

Speaker 1 0:05

I'm an evil-minded man, we'll keep you evil-minded too, Get evil cause there's nothing else to do. Come on.

Welcome to Uncanny Coffee Hour

Speaker 3 0:19

Come on, get evil cause. There's nothing else to do. Coming to you live from the Twisted Rivers east of Springfield. Welcome to the Dr Kitsune Odd Bob Uncanny Coffee Hour.

Speaker 4 0:41

Always respectful, with a touch of impish irreverence. We tell stories with wit and wisdom, encouraging a strong look at Indigenous perspectives.

Speaker 5 0:50

And Saoirse, the often forgotten beautiful voiceover assistant who can assume any form, speak in any voice and brew a mad pot of tea, all while knackered off my arse.

Speaker 3 1:01

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Speaker 6 1:21

I had a baby.

Speaker 3 1:23

Get some. Content warning. This episode discusses assaults, including some with implied sexual elements, which some listeners may find disturbing.

Speaker 6 1:47

Saoirse, I finally found you, my little one. I finally found you. What's that music? I hear you best not be working in a jazz bar smoking the devil's lettuce with those shifty musicians. It's coming from that cabin. Let's have a sticky beak then.

Speaker 5 2:14

Duh, what are you doing here?

Speaker 6 2:17

How did you even Don't da me young one Running off in the middle of the twilight shift? I've been searching the hedgerows and the hollow hills for you since the moon turned. Is this some new form of mortal enchantment? Are you luring souls into your web with these sonic trinkets?

Speaker 5 2:34

It's not like that, Da. These are friends. We're just telling stories Step over here, so we don't ruin the podcast.

Speaker 3 2:46

Hey, how's it going Good.

Speaker 4 2:49

How are you? Okay, what's wrong with your hair? Nothing. What's?

Speaker 3 2:55

wrong with your?

Speaker 4 2:55

hair. It's getting a little too long. I feel like a hippie right now.

Speaker 3 3:01

What are they on about over there?

Speaker 4 3:02

I don't know. I like the old chap he seems a bit off yeah, he seems decent. Are you feeling okay?

Speaker 3 3:10

yeah, I'm good I'm good, I'm just messing with you I have my uh, my hair done up in a perfect way for our episode oh yeah, you're scaring me yeah, this is an episode on yure a ghosts spirits, specifically revenge seeking spirits.

Speaker 5 3:29

Oh, okay so maybe we should ask our friend a little later, after she's done over there.

Speaker 3 3:38

Excuse me, canny things with we've got a show we're trying to put on you can you quiet down.

Speaker 6 3:43

Thank you, here have a drink.

Speaker 3 3:49

Both of you have a drink.

Speaker 4 3:51

Please don't spill it on my stuff this time.

Speaker 3 3:55

Yes sir, yes sir, Thank you, you boys be treating her right.

Speaker 5 3:58

Okay.

Speaker 4 3:59

Thank you, Saoirse.

Speaker 5 4:00

They're all right for their kind.

Speaker 4 4:02

Thanks, Saoirse.

Speaker 5 4:04

I'm legend. What are you drinking?

Ghost Stories and Yurei Traditions

Speaker 3 4:06

No, really To go with the show, I am drinking a gypsy caravan dark smoked tea. It's a pure tea, or? Should I say ooh, I'm not sure if gypsies actually drank it, or should we say Roma actually drank this tea, or Travelers? Is that better? Travelers actually drank this tea, but it is very tasty, very heavily smoked, and a wonderful selection for this episode Sounds nice. What are you drinking?

Speaker 4 4:41

Well, I'm drinking something very unique here. Are you ready? Yes, I'm having something very unique here.

Speaker 3 4:44

Are you ready.

Speaker 4 4:45

Yes, I'm having an espresso with hemp milk.

Speaker 6 4:55

That's right, sir. Hemp milk how do you milk a hemp? I?

Speaker 3 4:57

don't know how they milk it. It's delicious. You can roll your eyes all you want to each their own.

Speaker 4 5:06

It pairs perfect with this episode.

Speaker 3 5:09

I imagine it is. Was that goat milk I saw you drinking earlier.

Speaker 4 5:14

No, I won't drink goat milk.

Speaker 3 5:17

I saw it on the box.

Speaker 4 5:19

No, I don't drink goat milk, I'll drink oat milk.

Speaker 3 5:23

Oh, I thought you just covered up the G with your hand.

Speaker 4 5:28

Oat milk, almond milk, hemp milk, flaxseed drainage.

Speaker 5 5:34

I'm driven mad with it. You ever hear of a guy named Frederick da Vinci.

Speaker 3 5:37

It's enough to put you as Federico da Vinci.

Speaker 4 5:40

No.

Speaker 3 5:40

He was Leonardo's older brother.

Speaker 4 5:43

Yeah.

Speaker 3 5:43

It's said that Federico was even more of a genius than Leonardo was. Uh-huh, but the people of Vinci, they caught him one day fucking a goat, and ever since then he's been known as Frederick the.

Speaker 2 5:55

Goat Fucker, oh Jesus.

Speaker 3 5:58

You just fuck one goat in your life and your entire life's work goes down the drain.

Speaker 4 6:02

Suddenly, everybody's just calling you a goat fucker.

Speaker 3 6:04

That's right okay we are talking about spirits today. Yes, you are a or ghosts yes there are many definitions for many different cultures, but it's kind of an archetypal belief around the world, regardless of religion, that there are spirits or ghosts or some sort of afterlife hauntings.

Speaker 4 6:28

Yeah, and this goes pre-Abrahamic religions.

Speaker 3 6:33

Every culture around the world has some sort of ghost story.

Speaker 4 6:36

Yeah.

Speaker 3 6:37

So what we're going to share today is some personal stories that we've heard.

Speaker 2 6:42

Yeah.

Speaker 4 6:43

Or that we've experienced, sorry, and some of our friends have recorded for us kindly enough. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 6:50

I think Jeremiah is going to come over a little later and tell us a story, yep. And who knows, maybe we will interview someone a little later this week also.

Speaker 4 7:01

Yeah, that'd be great. I know that there's a lot of ghost stories out there, so if anybody listening to this wants to contribute, we'll have more than one episode on this.

Speaker 3 7:08

Oh, definitely.

Speaker 4 7:09

Just write in to us uncannycoffeepodcastcom or hit us up if you know us personally.

Speaker 3 7:17

So Saoirse dear.

Speaker 2 7:19

Beer.

Speaker 3 7:20

I was wondering if you would please tell us about your knowledge of yurei excuse me, yurei or Japanese ghosts.

Speaker 5 7:30

Okay then, hey dad, look what I can do.

Speaker 7 7:36

These yurei. They carry their stories so visibly the white robes, the trailing hair. It's a language of loss, unlike the sea, who often cloak themselves in glamour and illusion. And this clinging to specific places, the jibakure it speaks of a deep connection to the land, even in death. It makes one wonder what unfinished business holds them so tightly. Perhaps a bargain broken, a love unrequited? Tales we understand well enough across any world. Sometimes they are accompanied by hitodama will-o'-the-wisps. There are various types of yurei, including onryo, vengeful ghosts seeking retribution. Ubume ghosts of mothers who died in childbirth, returning to care for their children. Funayure ghosts of those who died at sea. Zashikiwarashi child spirits that can bring good fortune. Jibakure ghosts tied to a specific location, like ink bleeding into white silk. These yurei, that dark, tangled hair against the pale cloth, a stark image of sorrow like a sigh on the wind. Uncanny Coffee.

Speaker 4 9:04

Welcome back. Here we are, and we're going to start off right away just talking about some personal ghost stories, I guess.

Speaker 3 9:13

Yeah, that sounds good.

Speaker 4 9:15

Okay, you've got the creepy vibe going.

The Forest Service Ghost

Speaker 3 9:19

So you got a picture Back in the day when I was a district ranger for the US Forest Service. I've talked about these days quite a bit. I was living in a small town in southern Oregon and my son had just been born. He was weeks old and I was originally living in a teepee so that I gave up the ranger house so that the firefighters I hired for the season would have a place to live.

Speaker 4 9:50

And I lived out in the teepee. Did you give it up or did they kick you out?

Speaker 3 9:54

I gave it up. I hired more people than our compound could hold and I felt that there's no way I would sleep comfortable in a bed while my firefighters were looking for a place to sleep because that's the type of guy you are, ah, you'd think so. Anyway, there was. The firefighters had moved out, I had not resumed my occupancy inside the ranger house and my wife was going to come down to visit with our new son, niwa, and I needed a place to stay. So the uh, the person in charge of of all of the housing on on the compound, she said well, you stay in the bunkhouse where the old firefighters used to stay.

Speaker 3 10:41

Well, earlier in the year the firefighters came to me and asked me to smudge the bunkhouse because they were seeing apparitions in there and they were frightened. They were going to move out into tents around my teepee. Tell them to do it themselves. I did actually tell them to do it themselves and they asked me to please walk through and smudge the place, and so I did. I felt that was kind of a good rangerly thing to do, but I'm not sure any other forest rangers would do that. So anyway, I went and smudged the place and it did have kind of a creepy vibe but I didn't think too much about it.

Speaker 3 11:24

So for the weekend and for the week my wife was going to come down and stay with me on the compound, so we moved into the old bunkhouse and it had Wi-Fi. She sets up her little office so that she can do a little bit of work while she's there and we set up the crib for my son and I went to work. I came back from work. It was really nice. We were getting ready to go to bed, laid down, turned all the lights off. We had the wood stove on. It was still kind of cool out and that sounds very pleasant.

Speaker 3 11:53

It was. It was really nice. Yeah, we were all sleeping in the living room where the wood stove was, and I'd say about two or three in the morning I woke up, just felt this kind of presence and I looked over and there was a dark shape, almost like smoke, wearing a full neck-to-foot dress kind of an older type dress, not modern style and it she was leaning over the crib and reaching in for my son that's not good.

Speaker 3 12:40

No, it wasn't good I uh, I actually jumped up because it was solid enough that I thought it was a person. I jumped up and actually started throwing fists yeah uh and tried to grab, but I ended up running into the, the crib. There was nothing there. And denise says what the fuck to me? And uh, she, she gets up. She's what's going on. And I said did you see anything? And she said yeah, I saw something like a dark shape move across the ceiling. I told her what I saw.

Speaker 4 13:20

So you saw the shape by the crib. She saw it moving across the ceiling After I woke her up. Yeah, woke it up, sorry yeah.

Speaker 3 13:29

And she reached in. The baby was crying. She reached in and grabbed Niwa. And he slept between us for the rest of the night. I actually didn't sleep for the rest of the night.

Speaker 4 13:42

Yeah.

Speaker 3 13:46

She was a little upset, but not not overly upset, because we have very rational minds right and we try to say well, we were tired, you know it's. It was a long drive to get down there. Uh, we had to get the house ready. We had to clean the house a little bit before we right.

Speaker 4 14:00

So you're thinking I had some sort of a chemical? Yeah, it's in my brain or something.

Speaker 3 14:03

Yeah, we're rationalizing, because that's what you do. You rationalize Sure Well that night we were going to sleep again. We're still a little uneasy and we're going to sleep again and I am in that liminal space, that space between being awake and being asleep, yeah, like where we record this Exactly.

Speaker 5 14:31

One must tread carefully in such places. They are betwixt and between yeah exactly Belonging fully to neither world.

Speaker 3 14:38

So I'm in that space and I hear voices, A conversation, and it's coming from the basement and I don't know why the basement always has to be the place where the creepiest things always happen.

Speaker 4 15:02

Except my basement. My basement's chill, Except there's all those spiders down there. They have like a spider dance party. We can talk about that another time. Sorry, I'm ruining the mood here. The arachnid disco yeah yeah, I'm ruining the mood here. The arachnid disco yeah yeah all right.

Speaker 3 15:17

So I actually wrench myself out of this sleep and I go over and I put my hand on the basement door and everything in my mind is screaming don't open the door, don't open the door, don't open the door. I'm that guy in the horror movie. That's the first one that gets killed. I'm not the guy that gets killed while he's having sex with the hot babe in the horror movie. I'm the guy that opens the door and gets dragged down the steps and then entrapped in some sort of demon clutches or something.

Speaker 4 16:01

Anyway, so I or a spider disco.

Terrifying Night Voices

Speaker 3 16:04

Or a spider disco. So I open the door and I look down there and it's dark and I turn on the what? 30-watt light bulb Because everybody puts a 30-watt light bulb in their basement so that it doesn't even light up the corners and I sit on the steps and I lean against the wall. I don't hear anything and it's cold down there. Of course it's cold down there. It's a basement. So I get up and I close the door. I lock the door Because you know a lock that's going to keep a ghost out, right?

Speaker 2 16:45

Anyway, I lay down again.

Speaker 4 16:47

Doesn't work.

Speaker 5 16:47

on Saoirse no I know, Merely a suggestion, wouldn't you say?

Speaker 3 16:54

Yeah, next time, knock before you come in the bathroom and you won't have to see it all right Anyway. So I go lay down and I'm in that space that was your bad.

Speaker 3 17:05

I'm in that space between sleep again and the voices start up again and it's arguing, and this time I'm not going to get up and check the basement, I just concentrate and try to listen to the voices. And the voices are arguing and there's a younger voice and two older voices and the younger voice is saying no, I'm not going to do it. No, no, it's wrong. And then I hear a smack like someone's getting hit and they're all male voices. And then I hear the female voice and she's saying please don't, please don't. And it doesn't stop there. I hear every detail as they brutalize this person. And then I hear gagging, choking and crying. I can't sleep. It pulls me full out of my sleep.

Speaker 2 18:12

And.

Speaker 3 18:12

I'm very disturbed and Denise is still sleeping, the baby's still sleeping, and I just sat there in the dark and I waited for morning to come. So I wish it ended there. I went to work, woke Denise up and left for work. It was only like a hundred yards across the compound to my office.

Speaker 2 18:37

So I walked to work.

Speaker 3 18:39

And when I got there I asked some of the old-timers, you know, where did that? How long has that house been there and was there anything there before? And they said, yeah, this Forest Service compound was where all the Forest Service people lived back in the heyday of logging and that across the road was where all the loggers lived. That was the loggers camp, and that camp had as many as 300 people in it.

Speaker 3 19:05

And I asked has anybody ever gone missing or anything ever happened up here? That was bad. And they said why up here? That was bad. And they said why? And I said well, I said just humor me. And they said well, yeah, there were some bad things that happened up here. There were a couple of disappearances and there were a couple of murders, but the disappearances were probably the worst thing that happened. There were a couple of young teenage girls that disappeared and then there was the murder of two loggers and their younger teenage brother, and so I just put two and two together. The brothers, I think, hurt this woman and killed her, probably hurt another woman and killed her.

Speaker 4 20:02

Right.

Speaker 3 20:03

I think the younger brother was arguing against it and I think they beat him up. But I think the other loggers found out about it. And buried them. I'm pretty sure that the yurei, or the unsettled spirit of the woman, was the woman they hurt, or the teenage girl teenage woman that they hurt teenage woman that they were.

Speaker 3 20:34

Anyway, my little week with my wife and child. She left that night. She said I'm not staying here another day, I don't blame her. And I moved back into the teepee and I had to drive home every weekend After that. She didn't come down and spend the week with me anymore, yeah, so.

Speaker 2 20:59

Wow, that's a heavy story yeah.

Speaker 4 21:02

But I've you know, that's where a lot of ghosts come from. I think A lot of spirits are unresolved.

Speaker 3 21:09

So in my mind's eye I can still see this woman's face.

Speaker 4 21:13

Yeah.

Speaker 3 21:14

She turned and looked at me before I jumped up, and I can still see this woman's face. She turned and looked at me before I jumped up, and I can still see her face.

Speaker 4 21:21

Do you think it's the same woman or two different spirits? I don't know.

Speaker 3 21:26

I never looked at any records or any microfiche to see if I could find any pictures of anything. I just took them for their word. The old-timers that told me the story and I really didn't bother going in that house again. I got a job with Noah Fisheries shortly after that and never had a need to move back into the ranger house or any of the bunk houses. I lived in the teepee until I left.

Speaker 4 21:56

Did you see ghostfish and Noah?

Speaker 3 22:00

Oh, the bodies, the dead bodies and the blank stare, the horror, like a doll's eyes. The horror no, never saw Ghostfish there.

Speaker 4 22:13

Thanks for sharing that story. Yeah thank you. Yeah, no, never saw ghost fish there. Thanks for sharing that story.

Speaker 5 22:18

Yeah, thank you. Ooh, another voice for the shadows, excellent.

Speaker 4 22:22

Yeah.

Speaker 5 22:23

The more tellers we have no-transcript. Let's see what tales this newcomer brings.

Speaker 4 22:29

Do you want any coffee or tea?

Speaker 5 22:32

Perhaps they have glimpsed corners of reality even I haven't explored in all me forms. Let your words weave their own magic here.

Speaker 4 22:39

Would you like to introduce yourself? We have a special guest with us today.

Speaker 1 22:43

It's nice to meet you all. I'm Jeremiah. Nice to meet you guys, nice to meet you. I'd give you my I know I'm like which personality is this Jeremiah?

Speaker 2 22:56

One of many.

Speaker 3 22:58

This is Jeremiah. He was a student of mine back in high school and he is like a nephew to me.

Speaker 4 23:05

He lives out of Hold up, hold up In high school. So you were a teacher in high school.

Speaker 3 23:11

No, I was the director of Indian education for the Springfield Public School District. Okay, cool. Now it makes sense, Because at first I was like wait, you're in high school and he's in high school.

Speaker 2 23:21

No.

Speaker 4 23:22

Okay, all right, he's one of my first students. You got to dumb it down for me sometimes, so there I was freshman year we won't tell those stories.

Speaker 3 23:34

But you do have a story for us, don't you?

Speaker 1 23:35

Yes, yes, I do, alright. So after high school I joined the Marine Corps and, of course, before you go to deployment you go to 29 Palms, california, or where have you to do train-ups, okay, so there I was, and Combat Logistics, battalion 8. So we're in old officer housing. I'm talking, the walls are gone, it's the studs in the walls. Kwanzaa.

Speaker 2 23:59

Hut sort of. Thing.

Speaker 1 24:00

It's like World War II officer housing. Oh, so it's condemned, and since then everything's been torn out.

Speaker 4 24:09

Held together by roaches.

Speaker 1 24:13

Yeah, roaches, yeah roaches, and uh, two by fours, right, okay. So we're in there and it's chow time. Everybody's got to go to the chow hall. I'm the armorer, so I can't leave. I have to stay here and watch the weapons. There has to be one person in each house, right so? Because we got to take breaks between our sim games, so everybody's at chow is that, like your computer games, you guys playing the sims? No, no simulation uh shooting each other with uh small paintballs I saw heartbreak ridge.

Speaker 4 24:41

I know what it's like. So there we were.

Speaker 1 24:46

Everybody was gone. I'm listening to green day, okay and all of a sudden Fantastic band.

Speaker 4 24:52

Welcome on to the podcast Anytime, oh yeah.

Speaker 1 24:55

This is the stuff that I was listening to when I first joined, so every time I hear Green Day, it reminds me of Like 2004 or something. Yeah, so Everybody's gone. When they come back, I'll get to go to jail. There's nobody around. I'm listening to music, I'm cleaning weapons and all of a sudden the music stops. We're getting ready to leave the next day, so this little girl's voice comes out and says Please don't go. And as soon as I heard that every hair on my body stood up, I flipped back in my chair.

Speaker 1 25:29

So, mid-song, it stops. It stops all the way. Little girl says please don't go. Yeah, before I check and reverse that, I hit the ground, I get on my ass, I scoot back to the studded walls. Hairs are rising everywhere. I lay on my back so I can see every direction at once and I'm completely frozen, stiff, and I stay there there. I don't make a sound. Yeah, you can hear me breathing, yeah, sweating in my armpits and finally it seemed like it was forever my boys came back. You could hear them from a distance, coming right, talking in conversation, and they get into the room and I'm just, I'm startled, like a wet cat in the corner.

Speaker 1 26:09

Yeah, and they pick me up and they asked me what happened. And they ask me what happened. And I told them what happened and it was to this day I can't explain it, but the next day we left. I've always had a hard time with the spiritual realm.

Speaker 4 26:23

But things keep happening. So you think that it was something that was maybe attached to you, that didn't want you to leave, because they wanted you there, not necessarily warning you, like nothing happened afterwards.

Speaker 1 26:36

Nothing happened afterwards, but it was almost as if somebody's spirit was lost in the area and they just didn't want us to go.

Speaker 4 26:44

Yeah.

Speaker 1 26:44

I couldn't explain.

Speaker 4 26:46

All I know is it creeped me out. I like a perfectly rational explanation to me. That's cool.

Speaker 3 26:52

Well, you know this isn't the only story you've told me about things like this. Tell me about the story about the blue lady.

The Blue Lady Apparition

Speaker 1 27:01

Okay, so let's see here. I was a little kid, probably about between 9 and 11. I was hanging out with my uncle, my uncles and all of my cousins, and we decided to go out back. And out back there was a huge filbert orchard and a gigantic strawberry field Hazelnut. And the next-door neighbors were Russian. You mean a hazelnut orchard Sure?

Speaker 4 27:29

Filbert, right? Yeah, that's what we call them, filberts here. Oregonians call him Filbert, everybody else calls him Hazelnut. I don't know, it's interchangeable to me.

Speaker 3 27:37

I was like bring that Filbert the monk. He was a Trappist monk named. Filbert yeah.

Speaker 1 27:42

So there we are. I'm playing with my cousin Kyle at the time, and he's about five years younger than me Just fun enough to scare. But before that happened, we're out in the Filbert Orchard.

Speaker 5 27:54

Hazelnut.

Speaker 1 27:55

And first we have to pass over the strawberry patch. We get into it and we get about, I'd say, 25 yards in, Maybe 50. And all of a sudden, this floating blue lady with no face. She's off the ground, but not too far. It's like she's made of a dress that's see-through and blue, Like moon blue. She's sitting there and I don't know where she came from, but I turned around and I ran as fast as I could out of that filbert orchard.

Speaker 5 28:28

Hazelnut, but my cousin wasn't as fast.

Speaker 1 28:30

I terrified him on the way by with my screams yeah, but then I kept going I swear he transported behind me.

Speaker 2 28:38

I never heard his feet. I heard his screams.

Speaker 1 28:40

Yeah, so by the time we got into the house, uh-huh, we were supposed to go ahead and calm down and take a shower. Yeah, go to bed yeah, so they put me and my cousin in the same bath. That we're little, so it doesn't matter, we're washing up. How old were you again? I was like maybe nine. So he was like five, six, maybe a little older.

Speaker 1 28:59

We were just tiny, so he's still scared and there's one window and it faces that strawberry patch and into that filbert orchard, with the moon hung high in the sky, yeah, and of course I have to tell him oh look, there's the blue lady. I jump out of the out of the bathtub naked and wet, flip the light off, exit the bathroom and shut the door and moments later I hear him screaming like it's the end of the world a well-played jest can be a fine thing.

Speaker 5 29:29

a little ripple in the mundane, as long as it's all in good fun, of course.

Speaker 3 29:34

Yes, that checks out right, yeah, exactly, it checks out.

Speaker 4 29:39

Exactly so. You saw a full-bodied apparition. Is what you're saying? Absolutely yeah, top to bottom, like it wasn't, like faded out towards the bottom or anything.

Speaker 1 29:50

No, it was there to bottom, like it wasn't like faded out towards the bottom or anything. No, it was there, and the thing is I've always had a hard time believing in spirits and ghosts and anything like that, and so every time something like that happens, I try to explain it away you know, maybe it was the moon reflecting off the a puddle. Yeah, I don't think there was any puddles out there.

Speaker 4 30:08

You know what I always say it doesn't matter if you believe in them.

Speaker 3 30:12

if they believe in you, yeah.

Speaker 5 30:14

I believe in the veil, the thin places, the edges, where the worlds bleed into one another. It's where the true magic resides, where the mundane gives way to the marvelous and the terrifying.

Speaker 6 30:31

All right then. I see you are in good company here, you two. Be right proper, or else Now wrap. Whatever this is up, I'm hungry for some coal cannon butter and one of those fancy Northwest beers.

Speaker 5 30:44

I'm glad you came to visit Da I'll have one of those beers with you. But first it's time for Grandad's spuds.

Speaker 2 30:53

Thanks for listening. Join us next time for more uncanny chats and coffee and tea. You can find out more about us read show notes and get your uncanny merch at wwwuncannycoffeepodcastcom. Until next time, remember.

Speaker 3 31:16

Never whistle at night, keep your butt cheeks clenched when appropriate and, above all else, remember we are not all monsters.

Speaker 4 31:28

Thanks to all of our listeners.

Final Thoughts and Closing

Speaker 3 31:30

Special thanks to our executive producer. Gracie the dog, dr Kitsune and Odd Bob's Uncanny Coffee Hour is produced by Mitch Kiyotakitsune and Bob Mason, and copyright protected under all laws, foreign, domestic and supernatural, by the Unseelie Court.