The Thing That Wore Him Home | Ghost & Ghouls Ep 17 | Season 1

When it spoke with his voice from the other side of the door, Marcus and his family knew it was too late....

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SPEAKER_01 0:00

Welcome to the Ghosts and Ghouls podcast. I'm your host, Tyler, and with me I have the guy who started calling himself a ghost in the streets and a ghoul in the sheets, my co-host Anthony. How you doing?

SPEAKER_02 0:11

You know what? That was ac I actually really liked that one. That one was probably the best one I've ever heard of. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 0:17

It's a great name. We had to we had to put it put a little respect on it. Um, if you're new here, this is how this works. I'm gonna tell Anthony here, a fictional horror story that I've come up with that uh about some kind of creepy, cryptid ghost school monster, paranormal, extraterrestrial event thing, where I've redacted the names of whatever we're talking about and replaced it with descriptions. And then Anthony here gets to guess to see what we're talking about this week. And we'll go over its history, see some pop culture, a little uh choose your own adventure scenario, and finally our monster movie maker moment where us two knuckleheads will come together and make a wonderful, wonderful movie that um some producer eventually will pick up and he'll be like, that is the greatest movie idea ever. Send me a screenplay, and then we'll be superstars. Anthony will be a superstar, a one more behind the scenes kind of guy. Okay, all right.

SPEAKER_02 1:18

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SPEAKER_01 2:10

Alright, so to start this off, Anthony here gets three yes or no questions um to kind of narrow down what we might be talking about, and then a little shot in the dark guess um to see if he can guess right off the rip what creature we could be discussing. Now, I'm gonna tell you right now, he's not gonna get this one. Promise you right now, he's not gonna get this one. This is the only one I get. First off, he's not gonna get this one. Second of all, season zero, the first like 15 or so episodes, it's all the ones on YouTube with the red banner. Um we're all over the world. Like, I just like, oh, that's cool. Like look at that one. For season one, we have, or I have, decided that we're looking at just North America. So we've done some cool stuff in North America so far. 52 weeks of the uh NA.

SPEAKER_02 2:59

Yeah, uh a lot of has just been in the United States though. Well, actually, no one of them was in Canada. The Chinoo Chenew. Chinoo's in Canada. Yeah. I'm still I'm still waiting for like more northern into Canada, like full up in there. And then stuff.

SPEAKER_01 3:17

Well, as a free hand, you're not getting that uh you're not getting more northern this week.

SPEAKER_02 3:22

Okay. Uh so three yes no questions. So off rip, I already know he I seen a glimpse from the side, the notes that he has. A lot. So this creature has a lot to it. Creature encrypted thing, I don't know. Uh we're gonna go ahead and say, is this native origin?

SPEAKER_01 3:44

Native American origin, no.

SPEAKER_02 3:46

And it has a lot to it? Really? Wow. That has to be stories on it. Uh okay, is this thing is this an alien? No. I tried to do something with like a lot of encounters. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 4:01

So that's a that's that is a good that's a good one.

SPEAKER_02 4:07

Okay, is this a is this a spirit or haunting? Or you know, is this a haunting? No. No. Okay. I might have messed myself up there because it could be a spirit technically. Still.

SPEAKER_01 4:21

Uh you're like way in the dark in this one. Way in the dark? Ooh. Okay, so. No, I'm just saying, you got like three noes. Yeah, I know. Though the alien one was a good one. Yeah, the aliens that would keep that one in your back pocket.

SPEAKER_02 4:34

That's a pretty good Yeah, so I've always done Wendigos as my like go-to thing. I you know what? I'm gonna assume that we're more south. And I'm just gonna throw out one, uh, a chupacabra?

SPEAKER_01 4:51

No.

SPEAKER_02 4:52

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 4:53

Well But there is something similar in this that the Chupacabra does. Possibly. Like uh sucking blood, right? Possibly. The greatest of all time.

SPEAKER_02 5:13

I hate that I reacted to this.

SPEAKER_01 5:17

Alright, you ready for the story? Absolutely. Alright, this story's called The Thing That Wore Him Home. The dog started howling long long before Marcus noticed anything was wrong. At first it was just one, somewhere deep in the trees beyond his grandmother's house. A low, trembling cry that rose and fell like something grieving. Then another joined. Then three. Soon the entire night felt alive with it, a chorus of panic that pressed against the windows like fingers. Marcus set his phone down. Y'all hear that? He asked. His cousin Tasha didn't look up from the couch. Just dogs. No, Marcus said quietly. That ain't just dogs. From the kitchen, Grandma Lilo's voice cut in sharp and sudden. Closing blinds right now. There was something in her tone, something old and scared, that made Marcus move without arguing. He crossed the living room and yanked the curtains shut. The howling outside seemed to swell as if whatever stirred out there had noticed. What is it? Tasha asked, finally uneasy. Grandma Lila stepped into the doorway, her hands shaking just enough to betray her. Ain't nothing you need to worry about if you stay inside. Lock the doors, don't answer nobody, and don't you dare open that door unless you see me. Marcus frowned. You serious? She met his eyes, dead serious. Then the power went out. Everything dropped into darkness so fast it felt like the world had blinked. The howling stopped at the exact same moment, cut off mid-cry, like something had silenced it. The house settled into a thick, unnatural quiet now. Then came the knocking. Three slow raps on the front door. Marcus froze. Tasha whispered, That better be you playing. It ain't, he said. Another knock, this time harder. Marcus came a voice from the other side of the door. His blood turned cold. It was his voice. Same tone, same rhythm, same everything. Open the door, man. I forgot my keys. Tasha grabbed his arms, nails digging into his skin. That's not you. Marcus couldn't speak. The voice came again, softer now, closer to the wood. Come on. Open up. Grandma Lila moved faster than either of them expected. She snatched Marcus back from the door and hissed. Don't you answer that. Don't you even breathe loud. Silence. Then a wet dragging sound. Something was moving across the porch. Slow. Like skin being pulled over wood. The doorknob began to turn, locked. It rattled once, twice, and stopped. For a moment nothing happened. Marcus exhaled just barely. Not at the door, but at the window. Long, deliberate scrapes, fingernails, dragging down the glass. Marcus turned his head slowly, and the curtain shifted just a little. And through the thin gap he saw it. At first it looked like a person pressed against the window, a shape of a woman, tall and thin. But something was wrong with her face. It hung loose. Not sagging loose, like it didn't belong to what was underneath. The skin shifted slightly, as if whatever wore it hadn't quite settled in. One eye drew blower than the other. The mouth stretched too wide, then it smiled. And it was smiling. Marcus, it whispered through the glass that was shut tight. Why won't you let me in? He stumbled back, heart slamming. Grandma Lila grabbed a small pouch from the counter and flung its contents, salt, across the windowsill. Back, she shouted, and the thing twitched. The smile faltered, then slowly it raised one hand and it began to peel. Marcus gagged as fingers slipped beneath the skin at its neck and pulled, slow and wet, like removing a soaked t-shirt. The face stretched and warped, and then it came off. Beneath it was something else, dark and shiny. Not skin, more like muscles wrapped too tight over bone. Its eyes, if there were eyes, gleamed in the porchlight, hollow and hungry. The discarded skin, his skin, hung limp in his hand. A skin-stealing witch. One that slips out of its own body and wears the flesh of others like clothing. Tasha screamed. The thing slammed against the window so hard the glass spiderweb, once, twice, and on the third hit it shattered. Wind and night rushed into the room as the creature poured through the broken frame, impossibly fast, impossibly fluid. It moved like it didn't have bones at all, just a writhing shape as it reformed as it lunged. Grandma Lila threw more salt, shouting words Marcus didn't understand. The creature recoiled, hissing loud for a moment. Then it turned its attention to Marcus, and he started to run. Down the hallway, slipping on the rug, crashing into the wall as the thing skittered after him. He could hear it behind him. No footsteps but a slick sliding sound, like something crawling inside a body too tight to hold it. Help! he shouted through the though he knew no one was coming. He burst into the bedroom and slammed the door. The handle jerked immediately. Once, twice, then the wood began to splinter. Marcus backed away searching for anything. A weapon, a window, an escape. The door exploded inward. The creature surged through, filling the space, its shape twitching and reforming. It lifted the skin it had been carrying, his skin, and held it up as like an offering. Let me wear you, it whispered. Marcus shook his head, sobbing. No, please. It was on him before he could move. Cold hands, too many fingers, gripped his face. Something sharp traced along his jaw down his neck. He screamed as the pain bloomed, hot and tearing. The last thing he saw was the creature leaning close, its hollow eyes reflecting his own terror. Then everything went red. By morning the house was quiet again. The dogs didn't howl, the sun rose warm and gentle over the trees, and Marcus stepped out onto the porch, stretching like someone who had slept well. His skin fit perfectly. From the kitchen, Grandma Lila watched him with trembling hands. Because when he turned a smile at her, one eye drooped just a little lower than the other.

SPEAKER_02 11:40

Okay. So at first you said howling, I was like, okay, that's weird. Um, but the title of the story kind of was like, okay, I'm with it. Then uh it started mimicking, but it was mimicking him, so I was like, okay, so it's not a skinwalker. I was like, oh, it's a mimic or a doppelganger, and then took off the skin, wore it like a witch. I was like, okay, wait, I take back the the cross of the skinwalker. I'm like, it could definitely be a skinwalker now, and now I'm just like, okay, I've got nothing else but a skinwalker to say, and like it's it's it's this is exactly like even in stories that I I read on Audible, this is how they describe skinwalkers. Now, it could be something else, like a skinwalker would be a generic term, and then this could be like a sub thing of of what it could be. I think that's what I'm thinking. So I'm just gonna go and say that. Nope. It's not a skinwalker. Nope. If it's a mimic doppelganger, or something like of those types, I'm going to be mad.

SPEAKER_01 12:54

You ready for this? Sure. This thing is called a Boohag. Boohag. Boohag. It is a witch from the Ghoula culture, uh, an African-American ethnic group from the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. According to the legend, the Boohag is completely red and has no skin. The creature will steal skin from its victims, wearing them like clothes in order to blend in with people around them. That's a skinwalker. Hold on. The Boohag is like a vampire, but instead of living off blood of the creatures, it lives off the breath of its victims. So, what got me this, right? Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Because Skinwalker, yes. It does have some, it does mimic some of the Skinwalker things. This thing was described when I first came across it as a cross between a vampire and a sleep paralysis demon.

SPEAKER_02 13:47

Okay, hold on. So it's a vampire where it doesn't feed off of the blood of the victims, but the breath of the breath of the What?

SPEAKER_01 13:55

Yes. So in a lot of the let me continue. When going out to find a victim, the Boohag removes its skin and is able to enter homes through the tiniest of cracks. The Boohag rides a victim by hovering above them as they sleep and steals their breath. The victim will not necessarily be aware that they have been the victim of a boohag, but may awaken feeling lethargic, out of breath, or dizzy. The victim usually experiences vivid and intoxicating dreams while being attacked by a boohag. If the victim struggles too much, the boohag may decide to kill the victim and take their skin as a new disguised. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 14:31

So believe it or not, I've actually read a story about uh yeah, I listened to a story once, and it talked about this uh one kid, college or whatever, and his new friend that he's met. They're friends, blah blah blah blah. But every day, this kid, he was a proper student, education, always energized, but every day, slowly but surely, his energy kept dropping. Uh dark eyes, he just felt dead, couldn't get out one day. But that friend kept getting livelier and livelier every year. And it's just like, okay, so these are the same, but this was in a different country. So that's actually insane.

SPEAKER_01 15:20

Yeah. So here's the fun part. Do you remember way back? Way back. Way back to episode one. The mononagal. The mononagal. The mononagal. The mononagal. Yes. Okay, how did we how do you defeat um the mononagal?

SPEAKER_02 15:38

Oh, yeah, salt.

SPEAKER_01 15:39

You have to find its lower half.

SPEAKER_02 15:41

Oh, you had to find its lower half, and then you have to what, like put stuff around it.

SPEAKER_01 15:44

Salt on it so it can't seal itself back together. Absolutely. The Boohag can be stopped by finding where they store its skin while they are out, usually under the stairs, and filling the skin with salt and pepper. This will leave the boohag unable to return to the skin and will leave them vulnerable. So okay, so you have to salt the bag of the skin. You have to salt the skin that they're in if they are trying to take uh like if they are feeding on somebody else. Oh. So this is how this is how these things kind of kind of roll, okay? You have a family, you know, a family, right? Yeah. And then you gotta think this is like like Africans coming into the southern states, they come up with this like.

SPEAKER_03 16:28

Yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_01 16:28

Um, so you have a kind of a like a blending of cultures, stuff like that. Well anyway, um you have big families. Well, one person's sick, we have big intermingling families, one of somebody's a boo hag. So that boo hag is shedding the skin at night and feeding on people, right? But it can't, it doesn't want to take this person's skin because it's cattle. It's viewing these as like, oh, I have I have a buffet in front of me. Right. I don't want to give this up until each, everybody's dead, and then the last person, I'll shed the skin, take their skin, and then I'll move on. So it's one of those things like, hey, I'm gonna hide my skin under the stairs because I have to be undressed to do this, and then eat, and then I put my skin back on in the morning, and then I go about my day. So, like, anybody could be a fucking boo hag. Isn't that terrifying? I mean, I guess. Your mom, like, okay, look, I'm not trying to be this way. You throw a fucking party, right? Yeah. Or your roommate brings a girl over. Right. Whatever. Your your wife, your kid could be a fucking boohag, and it's just shedding skin and just sucking the life force out of you, and then just crawling back into its skin in the morning. That's the description I don't like. That that unnerves me.

SPEAKER_02 17:49

Crawling back into your skin.

SPEAKER_01 17:51

So, um, there are a few things, similarities between the boohag and the sleep paralysis demons. Most people have experienced sleep paralysis at least once in their lives. When they are sleeping, our brains paralyze our bodies so we can't act out our dreams and hurt ourselves while we're sleeping. Sometimes we wake up before our bodies have released the paralysis, and this causes us up to wake. And during sleep paralysis, it's common to see shadow people lurking in the corner of the room or to see a hag sitting on your chest. The hags people often describe during sleep paralysis sound very similar to the legend of the Boohag. So the ride is kind of what like what the similarities are. The Boohag rides you to exhaustion or death, sleep paralysis demon will sit on your chest, basically stopping you from being able to breathe.

SPEAKER_02 18:39

Okay, I've got you.

SPEAKER_01 18:41

Both coincide with the ability to breathe, because it's stealing your breath. Now, I have we're gonna hit the pop culture part here now. Um, and the scenarios are gonna be fairly short, just because it only shows itself in one way, you know what I mean? Like, but I can still find my only way to die. So, um, we're gonna look at pop culture, but then I'm also going to read another story, and this story is um written by a guy that I'm gonna butcher his fucking name. Okay. Okay, so pop culture. You have uh an indie horror film um called Hag from Haint Blue Productions focuses on the folklore, while another thriller, the Boohag, was released in 2022. Um literary works, there's a the there's a children's book, Precious in the Boohag by Patricia C. Uh McCassick in and Anawami Gene Moss. Um a Boohag appears in Haley Edwards Black Wings, Grey Skies, and Tristan's song destroys the world. And of course, there's a couple podcast documentary stuff like that. Um, but one thing that really stood out to me was Boohags appear in enemies in a video game called Evil West. And they are skinless fucking monsters, they are terrifying. And then there was a movie that I was able to find to watch: The Geechee Witch, a Boo Hag story. Okay. Um, it was released in 2024. Um after moving to her husband's Georgia estate, Leah suspects a sinister curse and soon faces a shape-shifting boo hag bent on stealing her life. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 20:32

I am going to assume that it was or I'm gonna take a big guess and say it wasn't good.

SPEAKER_01 20:39

Okay. So, I only to be honest, I only watched half of it. Just because we're trying to like expedite the time in which we're able to film these, and you know, yeah, whatever, blah, blah, blah. But the first half of the movie, I'm going to finish it, but the first half of the movie was actually very good. Oh, okay. Um, yeah, it's you can tell it's a lower budget film, but the acting was solid. Um, the boohag was fucking terrifying because it is a skinless person with like like not just like bright red, like you would think, but like the dark purple and black, and then like slick looking. And like at one point she wakes up and it's just like in her fucking face, just like and just like she's like, oh, what the fuck is like and then she blinks and it's just gone. It's like, oh fuck. She goes walking down a hall, like down the down the she hears something, she gets up in one of the scenes and she opens a door and she like looks down the hallway and she turns back, and then there's like another door, and it's opened, and the boohag's just standing there watching her. It's like, nah, dude. Like, nah. For TV 14, like having a skinless human like running around your house is kind of fucking crazy.

SPEAKER_02 21:53

Oh, that's that's gotta be terrifying of not even a jump scare, but like you open up the door, you look, and you look. Look down, and it's just like that halfway out the doorway, just look staring at you.

SPEAKER_01 22:04

How many, how many times would you use that at Halloween in the haunted house? You know what I mean? Like that, that like seeing somebody just peeking around a corner at you and then going away, and then when you go to investigate, they disappear completely. Fuck that.

SPEAKER_02 22:18

What I hate more is that it would like just go into the doorway and close, or if it would like just come all the way out and then just walk towards you, but like do that speed walking.

SPEAKER_01 22:30

Oh, oh god. Or just or it just runs at you. Like, huh? Well, spider crawls. Alright, so that brings us to Spooky North Carolina by S. E. Uh Schlosser. Schlosser. Um, and I'm gonna read this. Um, all rights to him. Um, I don't know the legality of this, but I'm gonna read the story because I read it and it was fucking freaky. You know how they say some folks are lucky at cards and some are lucky at love? Well, that fit Bobby Hansen to a T. He was one of the best poker players in the country, but somehow he couldn't find himself a bride. Oh, he proposed to several girls and even got accepted by a few, but they always got cold feet a day or two before the wedding, and it was bye-bye Bobby. After the third time, Bob Bobby was mighty discouraged, and his pa felt real sore for him. They worked together in the family grocery store, and Bobby would sometimes sit on top of the pickle barrel and tell his pa all of his woes. And his pa told him to hang in there because a nice lady was on her way. Neither of them believed it, but it made both of them feel a little bit better to hear it said. Well, one d well, the day after their latest talk, the old woman who who pulled her barge through the swamp to deliver milk and eggs at the grocery store had a long talk with Bobby's paw. Seems she had a daughter who was hankering after a husband with a good steady job, and the old woman thought Bobby would do the job nicely. She suggested they introduce the pair at the next dance, and Bobby's paw agreed. The night of the dance, Bobby's paw insists that his son dressed his best. Bobby was dragging his feet a little, remembering all the women who played him false and not wanting to go, but his paw dragged him out anyway. Well, the moment Bobby clapped eyes on dark-eyed red-lipped girl from the swamp, he was head over heels in love. Her eyes sparkled like the sunlight on the bay, her skin was creamy as new milk, her voice was low and sweet. The pair cuddled and cooed and waltzed the whole night long, and come sunrise, Bobby was all for bringing his new love before the visiting priest who delivered his sermons in the grocery store. Well, there weren't no churches in that vicinity, and getting married right away. Well, the girl was willing to get married, but not by a priest. Let's just go to Beaumont and have the judge marry us, she said to Bobby, and he was so smitten he agreed, though it would have been quicker and easier just to walk a mile down the road to see the priest. By the next evening they were wed, and Bobby thought brought his pretty bride to the nice little cottage he had run in down the road from the family grocery. It had a nice front porch with a swing, a big bedroom on the second floor, and a big attic with a window that could be made up into a second guest room should his new mother-in-law care to visit from her home in the swamp. After fixing him a nice dinner, Bobby's new bride sat a while in the rocking chair near the bed while Bobby yawned and watched her fondly. She cuddled under the blanket and knitted and hummed, and Bobby's eyes grew heavy. He didn't wake up until early morning when his new bride crept into bed all hot and sweaty and fell asleep at once. When he asked her where she'd been, she wouldn't answer him. Bobby was mighty sore that his bride had snuck out on him on their wedding night. But when she got snappish and her eyes blazed like they did, and when he questioned her, he grew frightened and backed down. Life took on an odd pattern for Bobby. During the day, everything was perfect. His wife was sweet and pretty and loving. She kept the house sparkling clean and cooked him wonderful meals, but each night she refused to come to bed after supper. Like their wedding night, she sat up singing and rocking and knitting until he was asleep, and did not come to bed till just before dawn. She was always sweaty and cranky when she came to bed, and went to sleep just before Bobby could question her. Bobby was very confused and upset by this behavior, and finally confided in his pa one morning after opening up the grocery store. Bobby's pa was awfully worried. The visiting priest had gone on to the next parish, and there was no one they could consult but the local conjurer woman. So he sent Bobby to her with a couple of chickens as a gift. The conjurer woman knew all about hoodoo magic and was an excellent herbalist. Local folks went to her when they were sick on account of the doctor lived nigh on 20 miles away. When she heard Bobby's story, she told him to pretend to go to sleep that night and watch what his new bride did. Then he was to come back and tell her everything, and Bobby agreed. The next evening, he pretended to fall asleep while his bride rocked and sang in their chair. Then he followed her up to the attic and watched through the crack in the door as she sat down at the spinning wheel and spun off and spun off her skin, leaving only pulsing red muscle and blue veins. She was a terrifying sight and she sprang through the window and flew away into the night. Bobby ran out to the privy and was sick after he saw her. Who what was this monster he had married? He was still trembling and in shock when his bride, looking like a normal person again, crept down into bed at dawn, and he had trouble behaving normally at breakfast. As soon as he could get away, Bobby ran to the home of the conjurer woman and told her about the spinning wheel and the terrible skinless creature who flew away from his attic. A Boohag, the conjure woman said at once, you've married a boohag. What's a Boohag? asked Bobby. A Boohag is a witch and a shapeshifter, said the Conjurer Woman. She lures men into her trap, then delivers them to her boo daddy, who eats their flesh and gnaws their bones. And that's what she'll do to you if you don't get rid of her first. The conjurer woman told Bobby to get himself some blue paint. As soon as the Boohag left the house that night, he was to spread blue paint on every window frame and every door frame and make sure it was two coats thick. The Boohag couldn't fly through a window or door that was painted blue. And if she didn't get back to her skin before dawn, she would be trapped without it and be revealed as the monster she was. So he was to leave one tiny window unpainted and keep it open as sliver so the Boohag could squeeze through. Then he was to fill up her skin with salt and pepper, which would burn her up from the inside out, and Bobby promised to do exactly as the conjurer woman said. That night, Bobby lingered over his dinner, looking with sad eyes at the pretty woman sitting opposite him. He knew she was really a monster inside, but it was so nice to have a little wife in his home. He hated like anything to see her go, but he didn't want to get eaten by a boo daddy. And that was his fate if she stayed, so he went up to their bedroom and pretended to fall asleep while she rocked and sang and knitted. Then he followed her quietly upstairs and put salt and pepper onto her skin after the ugly red muscle blue vein figure had flown out the window to her boo daddy. He spent the rest of the night painting over every door and every window frame with blue paint, leaving only the smallest unpainted window open in the cellar. He nailed it up so that it would open no further than a crack, just as the conjurer woman instructed him. Then he hid himself behind a large chest of drawers up in the attic to wait for the boohag. Just before dawn, the boohag came flying up to the attic window. As soon as she touched the blue frame, she gave a shriek of pain. Bobby listened as she flew around the house, testing each window and door, howling like a banshee, when it burned her skinless hands. Then she found the little window in the cellar, and he heard the thump as she landed beside it, following a painful whimpering sound as she squeezed and squeezed herself through the narrow opening, her skinless red muscles and blue veins tearing painfully against the rough wood. The Boohag ran up three flights of stairs and into the attic and squeezed and squeezed into her skin as fast as she could. She had just barely got it on when the first light of dawn shone over the horizon, and that was when the salt and pepper did their work, burning the Boohag's body from the inside out. With a scream of agony, she flung herself at the attic window. The glass shattered everywhere as she tried to fly away, tearing at the skin to get it off, but it was too late. She exploded into tiny pieces right over the swamp, and the alligators had them a mighty feast of cooked boo hag for breakfast that morning. So Bobby was once again without a wife, but Bachelorhood looked much better to him after that, and he never went looking for a wife again. Of course, after he made a pile of money and oil, the girl started chasing him, but that's another story.

SPEAKER_02 31:12

So this thing had a pimp daddy.

SPEAKER_01 31:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 31:15

That's insane.

SPEAKER_01 31:16

Yeah. So the thing that like fucked me up, right? Was going up to the spinning wheel and like twining her skin off. Like it unwrapping from her. Boo daddy. Oh, I ain't got I ain't got nothing for it. So we're not doing a uh because we had to I we did two stories. Scenario-wise, brother, you you you you got a roommate, right? You're in a fucking college dorm, fuck it. But you wake up to this thing hovering over top of you. What are you doing? 100%. 100%. Blanket. You can't see me, I can't see you. I'm safe.

SPEAKER_02 31:57

You can't see me, I can't see you. I'm safe between the that blankets, then it just starts not three piecing me in the blank.

SPEAKER_01 32:05

Yeah. I think my first reaction is honestly just start kicking.

SPEAKER_02 32:09

I think that's anybody's reaction would be to just start like flaying everywhere, just start slumbo, like it's like the the the uh paralysis, no?

SPEAKER_01 32:20

So no, a lot of people chalk it up as a like a thing as a sleep paralysis demon as it visits you in the night and like hovers over top of you. Some people say it sits on you.

SPEAKER_02 32:31

Yeah. But I mean Okay, I got a good movie idea. I'm not gonna use it now. Anyway, so okay, that's that's I don't I actually yeah, I really don't I think yeah, I think I would try to like I think I would try to like Yeah try to grab it or something. I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 32:48

Just like hold it to you, try to wake up whoever's near you, just like please, like, buck. I think I might just swing some haymakers. So but you couldn't do the adventure adventure boat. Oh my god, it would be such a funny comedy skit if you had the boohag and it was like the jujitsu guy, right? And he just immediately like fucking locks it up and throws it into an arm bar because he's on his back.

SPEAKER_00 33:14

Like, come at me, bro! Wakes up.

SPEAKER_01 33:20

Oh, I've been waiting for it for this skit. Just grabs it, pulls it to him, and legs come up around it.

SPEAKER_02 33:26

Yeah, but then it just like s like slithers out. It's like, no. Oh god.

SPEAKER_01 33:32

Yeah, but that's the other thing, too. It's all wet and slick, like, ugh, fresh, like skinless. Yeah. Yeah, scenario-wise, like there's not much you're going to do with this. You know what I mean? Like the adventure book moment was not. No, no, that I I was thinking about it, and I was thinking about it, and I was thinking about it. I'm like, how, like, there's two ways you're gonna discover this thing. Yeah. It's either gonna be feeding on your friend or it's gonna be feeding on you. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_02 34:02

Honestly, you know, I would grab the the skin of this thing and then just start running with it and then chasing the side.

SPEAKER_01 34:10

Well, the the problem the problem with that is if it's uh if it's visiting you at night, its skin is somewhere it deems safe. Oh, uh, so it's taking it off and then it's flying to get to you or running to get to you, and then it's and then it's in your room, and then it's just over top of you like that.

SPEAKER_02 34:28

Yeah, that's probably what I would do is either swing, yeah, haymakers, or the cover sheet's going over my my face, and then I'm going back to sleep. I'll be like, you know what? That's tomorrow's me problem. That's morning me's issue. That's morning me issue.

SPEAKER_01 34:46

Now, like afterward, if you survived it, excuse me, if you survived it, like we're doing our research, I'm painting my windowsill blue, putting salt everywhere, like I'm gonna be a nutcase. Yeah, I guess I'm like like crystals, crucifixes, crystals, crucifixes, crucifixes, salt. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 35:09

Just so alright, you got a mug movie idea though? Uh alright. I was thinking about it. I was thinking about doing it like a funny one.

SPEAKER_01 35:19

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 35:20

I was like, uh, because the the scene that you gave me of it being over top, I was thinking of like before we get to that.

SPEAKER_01 35:26

Oh yeah. Welcome to our monster movie maker moment. I'm getting pretty good at saying that. We're talking about the boohag of context. Clip it in here.

SPEAKER_02 35:36

So funny movie. A funny movie.

SPEAKER_01 35:40

I was thinking of because a skinless witch.

SPEAKER_02 35:43

Yes, because of the uh I was thinking, okay, there were two things that I wanted. One either being a scary one because the scene of it being in the doorway watching you, or a funny one where it's over top of you like that, and it's you both start you scream, then it scream, and then it's just like for some reason the dude, like the guy or the girl, probably the guy, just has butter on his hands, right? Just because there's a lot of salt on it.

SPEAKER_00 36:15

What?

SPEAKER_02 36:17

Okay, the reason I say butter, right, is because I was thinking of a lot of like salt, and butter has a lot of salt in it, right?

SPEAKER_01 36:25

You can get unsalted butter. But they they just have salt. I'm I'm so confused on the butter thing. Like, why is he just sleeping with his hands and butter?

SPEAKER_02 36:38

You can use your imagination and then just right, just clap, just like just straight, just smacks the f out of this thing. What and it just because it's salt, it just burns the thing. That's just one scene, of course. But uh just had that image. I'm still trying to figure the block. Why does he have butter? That's that's the good old thing. Oh, okay. That's a good question. Well, why does he have butter? Why does the family always ask why where is the butter going? Anyway.

SPEAKER_01 37:13

Is he just like a fat diabetic and he's just eating butter?

SPEAKER_02 37:16

Like I don't know, but there was that scene. Uh, I was just thinking about it. It was like that'd be just holding it.

SPEAKER_01 37:26

Are you following the the boo hag as it moves around, or are you following this one guy with butter on his hands all the time?

SPEAKER_02 37:33

No, no, no, no. It's it's it's different. I don't I would say this person is probably a side character, definitely in PC.

SPEAKER_01 37:40

You would you do it like, oh, she once and like went and visited a smoker, and now she's developed like a smoker's cough. Like she goes and visits a stoner, she comes out high.

SPEAKER_02 37:52

Like oh my oh god.

SPEAKER_01 37:56

Boohag buffet. Oh, it's just like it's a it's like it's a clipped movie, it's a bunch of like it, it's like a key and peel episode where it's just like this this boo hag visiting different people and getting all these different things.

SPEAKER_02 38:10

Oh gosh. The one of them being like straight, they they only drink so much energy drink, so it's being the bloodstream, and it's just like the skin, so they're always shaking, just I'm ready. Just but I can also see like where like the main character, maybe college students, right? And he's just like getting a girlfriend finally, and she's like, Look, she's so perfect, and then turns to the like friend that he's talking, their friend's looking at her, and then the eye droop is like, What the he's like, what? There's nothing wrong. Like, and she's like, hee hee, like dragon fix it. Yeah, just it like covers up all this though. It's like, no, no, no, it's just you don't think she's pretty? No, no, dude, no, no, no. He's like, she's got a lazy eye, so what?

SPEAKER_00 38:58

It's like, you have one too, motherfucker. The camera pants back, his eyes are facing the opposite way.

SPEAKER_01 39:11

So my my I would love Okay. I'm I'm I'm we're doubling down on this movie because this is fucking great, okay? I think what we have to do is we have to follow the boo hag, right? Absolutely. As like it's a boo hag as a searching for love. Right? So it's like it's going through like every stereotypical person, like, as it just keeps going and going and going, and it's like, oh hee he, like, I'm this, you know, pretty pretty girl, blah blah blah. And it's like she like goes for the rich guy, finds out he's a dick, finds this guy, he's a smoker, she develops a smoker's cough for a while. Oh, yeah. He finds the the the fat, diabetic, nice guy, but then she's like, What why am I gaining weight? And it's like because he's literally breathing cotton candy, like, like XYZ down, and then finally gets to the guy, like the night.

SPEAKER_02 40:10

Oh my gosh, she's she's gained weight due to that, and like she can't get back to the skin.

SPEAKER_00 40:14

Oh no.

SPEAKER_01 40:17

Oh my god. Um I would love it to have it be like so like being a boohag, just make it immortal. So like you see it in different time frames. So like she's dating like a moonshiner, right? She's just like getting drunk off his breath because he's just out there in the woods, um, like through prohibition. You go to like nowadays, like bring it to modern day, and it's like she's like online trying to find somebody, and then ends up on Discord and finds a Discord mod. He's like, my kitten committed me.

SPEAKER_00 40:54

And then Joshi comes and visits him, and he's like, But it's like a boohag, and then it's like, oh, it's put on the cat ears, and it's you like put on the cat, like it's like you don't see it, you just hear it through the discord.

SPEAKER_01 41:10

Put on the cat ears. Make sure you wear the cat ears in the maid outfit when you come visit me. And then she's like, okay, so you see her like strip out of her skin, put like the maid outfit on with the cat ears, and then fly out the window, and then on the Discord call, you hear him like, Oh my god!

SPEAKER_00 41:29

Wait, wait a minute.

SPEAKER_02 41:32

Yeah. Um, I was just thinking about the ending, uh, like maybe even a scene of of maybe she does find a love.

SPEAKER_03 41:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 41:44

And even like actually likes or he he he knows she's a boo hag, maybe. Yep. But then like there's a boo daddy, and it's played by Cat Williams.

SPEAKER_01 41:57

Oh god. Skinless Cat Williams.

SPEAKER_02 42:00

And it's just a a pimp, just literally just the stereotypical pimp. It would be the perfect thing.

SPEAKER_01 42:10

The boo daddy.

SPEAKER_02 42:12

But no, I think this is like insane of a boo dag finding love.

SPEAKER_01 42:18

Yes, like that to me, like the horror the horror comedy. The skinless love. Oh my god. You you're gonna have to have like that that just like over-the-top, like uh I mean obviously this is gonna be an R-rated movie, because like nudity like in and uh in and of itself, but like she she finally finds love, like she doesn't want to suck his breath out, whatever.

SPEAKER_02 42:47

Oh my gosh, they can have the miscommunication like I don't want to suck you. It's like what I lie.

SPEAKER_00 42:55

If I suck you, you'll die. It's like, oh that's what a way to go. It's like what a way to go. But I just imagine, like, because it can fly, right? Uh-huh. The uh I don't know if you remember the art joke of like, take me instead here. But it's just like you just see them just like twirling in the air, just like just going at it.

SPEAKER_01 43:20

It's like the wildest, and he's like going to his buddy that in the like the next clip, and he's like, Man, that was the wildest sex I ever had, and like he goes to leave, and it's just like bloody handprints all over his back where she was just grabbing hold of him, and he only washed his front. Or even worse, or even worse, he's like taking, like taking on like showering afterwards, and he's just like like you know, kind of in that like daze, like just like whoa, just rock my world.

SPEAKER_00 43:52

And then he just it like pans down to his ass, and it's just two hand prints, like oh god.

SPEAKER_02 44:02

That's awful.

SPEAKER_01 44:05

Did you bring protection? She just pulls her finger off and sticks it on.

SPEAKER_00 44:10

Dang it. Oh suck you. You'll die. Damn it. Why are you being such a prude?

SPEAKER_02 44:22

It's like, God, no, Dan. Oh gosh.

SPEAKER_01 44:26

That's like that's such a They get married, they have a Boo baby. A boo baby. That's how he becomes Boo Daddy. And then we recast him as Cat Williams. He's been affected by the boo hag, and now he is a boo daddy. A boo baby. Oh my god. You can even do like a like a monster style fucking. Yeah, I like the idea of like clipping it though, like it's a TV episode, but it's like skits. Right? And it just kind of keeps going. You have like the emo boo hag with like the hair and everything.

SPEAKER_02 45:06

Oh my gosh. I think we would have to. I would I would.

SPEAKER_01 45:11

Oh I'm sorry. Like, I don't know, you remember the like the Jazzer size tapes back in the day? We could have a jazzer size tape where she's in the back, like doing the thing, and she's like moving, and like the skin is just like sloughing off and down. Like.

SPEAKER_02 45:28

I I could even see to where like the one that she finds love with or whatever, she's like, I gotta hurry up and get back into the skin, blah blah blah blah. It's like, you know, I'll be stuck in this form forever. I can get back into my skin. It's like, okay, help me out. And it's just a zipper on the back of the skin.

SPEAKER_00 45:44

And he breaks the zipper off. Or it's like that.

SPEAKER_01 45:47

I don't know if you've ever seen the thing of the s the guy getting dressed up as Spider-Man and his boy who drinks it up and pinks the zipper off, and the guy's like.

SPEAKER_02 45:58

She's like, quick, the face is moving too backwards. Like the water, she's just like swelled up with water because it's all in her skin suit. Man, my pores are really loud today.

SPEAKER_01 46:17

She gets into a fight and somebody slaps her in the face is turned all to the side and she's like, hold on now. Like oh my god. There's so oh dude, you could it would be a very dark horror book comedy, but you can you can make that into so much fun stuff.

SPEAKER_02 46:35

Yeah. Oh my gosh, dude. Uh like seeing the the face thing, like even the zipper scene or whatever, the it breaks and you can't get it all the way, so he just like gets a stapler to it's like, what are you doing?

SPEAKER_01 46:48

Oh my god. Like tapes. Yeah. I'm trying to think of like what else you could do. Because I mean you could even do it to where it's like the narration of the boohag, and it's like, and then I was searching for love and I could never find love. And then it like just clips through all her exes where it's like like just Prohibition dude, like Mafia dude, like all these bad people. She finds, like, you know, blah blah blah blah blah. And in the end, they all just died. And then like it just shows her like relentlessly killing them and taking their skin. Oh my gosh. He finds a boyfriend, like, he's like going through her stuff. Like, she's like, I'm gonna take a chair, and he's like, okay. And he's just like like going through her like underwear drawer and like opens the closet, and it's just a bunch of like boneless, like meatless skin suits that are just like lined up.

SPEAKER_02 47:49

He's like, uh oh my gosh. It's like 90s favorites from Marilyn Monroe.

SPEAKER_01 47:58

Like, what the just hyper, hyper celebrities, and then they uh he's going through, he's like, oh yeah. That was pretty cool. That's pretty neat. George Bush. That was weird.

SPEAKER_00 48:10

Like Dick Cheney. Michelle Yeah, that one didn't fit.

SPEAKER_01 48:23

Yeah, that one didn't fit well.

SPEAKER_02 48:25

The club didn't fit.

SPEAKER_00 48:33

It didn't fit, so I had to quit. Oh my god. She drives a whiteboard Bronco.

SPEAKER_01 48:42

Oh my god. I'm trying to think of some other ones that you like Brock and Michelle Obama.

SPEAKER_00 48:47

Like, what the fuck? Honestly, how did you pull this stuff? Saddam Hussein. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_02 48:59

Okay. I think we need to move all from this.

SPEAKER_01 49:05

I dated a guy who like mustache rides. Oh my god. Who else could be in the closet though?

SPEAKER_02 49:11

I have one, but I think that one's a little too dark.

SPEAKER_01 49:14

Hit me.

SPEAKER_02 49:15

I'm thinking, I'm thinking he's going to be like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, don't don't open that one. It's like a special briefcase one. It's like, that was my rebellious age. Flips it up. It was like Adolf.

SPEAKER_01 49:29

Oh my god. That was my rebellious phase. Well, why are there two of them? It's like Adolf Hitler and Charles Manson. It's like, oh my god. She's just been through history, just like as these like crazy, crazy powerful.

SPEAKER_02 49:49

I'm surprised you didn't take fucking Ed Gaines, you know. It's just like, no, he just did that for the love of the game. Yeah, yeah. It's like what?

SPEAKER_01 49:57

Yeah. Oh man. I'm trying to think of who else like you could put in that fucking in that claw that skin closet of I would say even like famous celebrities that you would see, and it's just but it like they don't mention them, it's just a little like cameo. I mean but oh wait, this production company this production company is uh calling me, I have to make an appearance. And then we just clip in the Jim Carrey thing where they were like, oh, it's not Jim Carrey.

SPEAKER_00 50:46

Hold on. Dejuski production company is telling me I gotta I gotta make a an appearance and then it just clips in that fucking thing. Oh my god. Oh gosh. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 51:00

I'm I'm thinking I like the idea of it being like, I was trying to find love, but it's tough when you're like when you're when you're one of me, and then it's just like it's her like dating throughout time periods, and then like just like the visceral just like blood like murders.

SPEAKER_02 51:19

You could even have a scene to where she was actually part of like the Salem era. Yeah, we're like she's the one who started it because she couldn't get her love.

SPEAKER_01 51:30

Yeah, and he was married and didn't tell me.

SPEAKER_00 51:33

Like she visits us at night!

SPEAKER_01 51:36

Oh shit, I got caught again. But yeah, to have it go through like that again and again and again and again, and then she finally finds the guy. Who is the guy she falls in love with, though?

SPEAKER_02 51:48

I don't even know.

SPEAKER_01 51:50

It would it has to be someone like I don't want to say generic, but this is gonna this is gonna be just for chemistry online or chemistry on, right? I think we do Tom Holland and Zendaya, right? I feel like she would be a fun boo hag.

SPEAKER_00 52:06

Yeah. And then Tom Holland's just like, okay, yeah, sure. Sure.

SPEAKER_01 52:11

Slipping through it as a Spider-Man suit.

SPEAKER_02 52:13

It's like I had my crazy days back in college, and it's just him streaking through the hallway. It's like, we're not the same.

SPEAKER_01 52:22

We're not the same. Oh, me too. Oh, you streak me too. And it's like her flying, like skinless, like oh gosh. Oh my god, dude. You could if depending on the company that you get, you could get so many fucking like not only just like celebrities, but like characters. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_02 52:44

Yeah, oh dude, it would it would be.

SPEAKER_01 52:46

I'm trying, like, if you got like Ted.

SPEAKER_02 52:49

Like, I was thinking about the people who produced Ted. Yeah. It would have to be those people. It would have to be that. Like, whatever studio.

SPEAKER_01 52:56

But I I love the idea of like Tom Holland flipping through this, like, the presidents of the United States, the fucking first lady, the fucking Dick Cheney, Saddam, like, all these crazy things, just flipping through a Spider-Man costume flips by, he just keeps going. It's just like oh I know that. Yeah, that seems familiar.

SPEAKER_02 53:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 53:17

The Discord moderator. Just make sure you wear the maid outfit. It really gets my fancy going.

SPEAKER_00 53:26

What the fuck?

SPEAKER_01 53:29

Blood all over the computer screen.

SPEAKER_02 53:32

It's just the Discord sound of him leaving the call. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 53:38

I'm trying to think of like if there's anything. Like, but you know, at the end, of course, they fall in love. He becomes a boo daddy to a boo baby.

SPEAKER_02 53:47

Oh my gosh, her Tinder profile would be not a skinwalker.

SPEAKER_01 53:54

Um, he calls her one in like a fit of rage, and she's like, that's that's that's skinist. Wow. Wow. I'm a boo hag, not a skinwalker. Totally different. That would be great. Oh my god. Oh, that's the low. That that's that's like the low.

SPEAKER_02 54:16

That's the line right there, and he crossed it. Not the taking the skins of others.

SPEAKER_01 54:22

Yeah, not brutally murdering and taking people's skin. I really like the idea though, of like, yeah, hold on, honey, I have to go make an appearance, and then her just like just clipping in that fucking interview of Jim Carrey. Or, hey, I gotta go make an appearance, and like clipping in True Ski dressed as Erica Kirk. Oh, wait, honey, I gotta go make an appearance, and it's just it's just fucking Joe Biden.

SPEAKER_00 54:52

Oh no.

SPEAKER_02 54:54

It's so bad. It's this oh gosh. I still don't know how this is not a skinwalker, but anyway, I think that's I think that'd be it.

SPEAKER_01 55:04

Comedy movie this time.

SPEAKER_02 55:06

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SPEAKER_01 55:51

Do you think Bobby ever clapped the boo hag's cheeks? Or was it just like get the biggest?

SPEAKER_02 55:56

You know, I did have a question about that.

SPEAKER_01 55:59

Like if if or if like she was just going to Boo Daddy every night, I'll be your boo daddy.

SPEAKER_02 56:04

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