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[inaudible] hello
Speaker 2:And welcome to another episode of the linen ticks radio hour podcast. I'm Abby Brinker. I'm here with Alan Dan. Hello. And today we have a new kind of episode for you. A very fun, exciting type of episode.
Speaker 3:I wouldn't say it's new. I'd say it's new for us.
Speaker 2:Yes, sure. It has been done before or we're late to the game. What else is now? But, um, I dunno, I'm excited. I'm really excited about it. I think this is my here. Listen to my POV. Okay. So we have had recently some pretty intense dark historically FIC episodes. Right? We have necromancy grim Reaper. The word you're looking for is slog reincarnation. No, I mean, we love them, right. We had fun with them, but we wanted to just take a little bit of a, a little beat, an energetic refresh, if you will, and just come at you with something super fun and lighthearted and hopefully a little bit scary and spooky, but mostly just spooky. It's mostly just spooky. Yeah. And a little bit scary.
Speaker 3:I think some of these tales are going to be bone chilling.
Speaker 2:I think so, too. So here's the deal. We have had some submissions come in from friends of the pod who have sent in creepy stories, creepy things that have happened to them, real life, paranormal encounters, the scariest moments of their lives. And we have some really good ones in there. Some are coming in. So hopefully we can do, uh, another episode like this in the near future. Um,
Speaker 3:I'd like to say that we selected the best of the best, but we didn't do that. We just took the first five and here they are. No idea what they are. Yes. This is going to be, this is gonna be completely new for
Speaker 2:Both of them. Exactly. So if you out there a listener, ha, want to share anything with us, something spooky that has happened to you, a crazy dream. It doesn't matter. As long as it has happened to you, or if you want to write a story, send us email. Yeah. We just want to feature. We want to feature you on the show. So email us at films about lunatics at g-mail dot com or of course you can go to the lunatics project.com and click on submit to, to send us text that
Speaker 3:We already have a number of other ones that are definitely going into part two, not part two. The next time we do this, if this is successful, maybe this is going to be terrible. Maybe
Speaker 2:You tell us, I guess, right? Or don't we we're sensitive. That's the truest thing you've ever said. Oh man. All right. So let us kick things off with a spooky real life encounter. This really happened
Speaker 3:To keep some level of anonymity
Speaker 2:To keep some level of and a minute anonymity, anonymity I'm in the money. It is anonymity anonymity. It was written in by Jess, from Connecticut. Here we go. Our old house was on a cul-de-sac with two other homes. And we had over an acre of woods in the backyard. One afternoon, while home alone, my dogs were outside and started barking. I opened the back door to tell them to quiet down. When I realized they were both snarling with their hair raised up, I did a quick scan of the backyard and noticed a tall figure dressed in black with a hood on dark behind a tree, just past my pool at grabbed my dogs and pulled them inside, locked the door and peered out of my kitchen window. I anxiously waited for a minute and my dog settled down. I started to think my eyes were playing tricks on me in the desk, but then I saw the figure again, crouched down and start making their way towards my pool. I grabbed my phone and dialed nine one one. As I watched them make a run for my neighbor's yard in climbed under the large wooden playscape, the dispatcher told me they had two officers on the way to my house. I checked all the doors to make sure they were locked and tried to see if there was any movement in the backyard. Suddenly there was a pounding on my door. I walked over towards my picture window, trying to stay out of view and felt relieved to see the cop cars. One officer with a canine unit was headed into my backyard. The officer asked me for a description, but I was only able to tell him that the figure was maybe about six feet tall and fairly thin. He told me they would be in contact with an update and he left on foot. About an hour later, the officer was back at my door to tell me that a high schooler that lived about a half mile down the road had gone for a walk to smoke and didn't want anyone to see him. So he went into the woods. The canine unit had tracked right back to his house. And with the start of spring break, I'm sure I made it a terrible week by calling the cops for future reference. If you're sneaking around a random person's backyard at dusk wearing all black and a hood, but you're just getting high turn around and give your freaked out neighbor a wave. So they don't think you're a murderer. Thank, thank you for that.
Speaker 3:I blame you didn't finish reading the story. No, and I want the second, the last part says I blame Abby for my mind immediately going to panic mode or maybe my mom, when I was in middle school. One day, she pointed out a Stonewall near our house where the serial killer in town when she was a teenager had hid body parts. But that's another story and seemingly a very interesting story. Thank you, Jess. From Kennedy.
Speaker 2:So yes, Jess, my best friend. So anonymous, we had, uh, there's uh, Michael Ross was a serial killer that lived in our town before me and Jess were there, but her Michael Ross, he's a serial killer.
Speaker 3:Oh, so Michael Ross is an old time serial killer. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Well like from the seventies,
Speaker 3:Uh, right. Not from like, he,
Speaker 2:They brought him to our middle school to be like held in questioned when they caught him. Cause there's no police police station in town. So
Speaker 3:They just put them in school for the day. I
Speaker 2:Think it was like the summer weekend. You know, there was nobody there, there wasn't students there.
Speaker 3:So they didn't just like put them in detention. No, no. He went to jail. What became of Michael Ross? He's in jail.
Speaker 2:I don't remember if he got the death penalty or not. There's a book that
Speaker 3:Somebody wrote about him recently. Hid body parts.
Speaker 2:No, he killed a lot of women. He like raped and killed a bunch of women. Young, young girls. Yeah. That's lame. Yeah. He sucks. We hate him. Shouldn't have done that. Michael should not have no. So what did you think of justice story?
Speaker 3:I thought that's really cool. Uh, the, I think we can all relate to being home. And you think you see something nefarious in your backyard? I was expecting this story to be like, oh, they found like they never found anybody. It was probably just my imagination. Yeah. But to get the actual closure of it was just a kid getting stoned. That that was very real. Yeah. I
Speaker 2:Remember when it happened and she called me, it's also just like to see somebody crouching, like army crawl onto your backyard. Like, it's funny now because you're like, oh, it was, it, it was a teenager, which is like so funny. But you know what? You don't know that at all. You're like, holy. Especially like in, you know, we're all Connecticut and it's just woods everywhere. You're like, what the is going on? So funny. Um,
Speaker 3:Did also like her little advice there at the end. Like, listen, if you want to be creepy in the woods, here's what you should do. Yeah. Just give a little wave. I really appreciate that. Yeah. That hadn't considered. I would just be like, be better at hiding. Right? You don't be, be even creepier. No. Or just scare them so thoroughly that they don't even want to call the cops.
Speaker 2:Yeah. It's also, can we just for a second, like reflect on the teenage logic of, I want to get away with smoking weed. So instead of like going to all of the woods that are everywhere in this neighborhood, I'm going to go into my neighbors back in like, hope that that's the thing that doesn't get me caught. Right? Like, oh my goodness. Teenagers.
Speaker 3:They're dumb. They're dumb. It's amazing. They make it to be adults.
Speaker 2:Yeah. All right. Next story. Okay. Well who's up next, John from Ohio. Okay.
Speaker 3:John, from Ohio, here we go back in college. Around 1999. I was prone to all night magic, the gathering sessions with a few of my friends. We'd start around 7:00 PM on Friday night and go until very late often until the sun came up one evening in particular, I should say morning, I had just arrived home from such an all-nighter. It was fall semester. mid-October around 3:30 AM. So the air was cold, but not wintery. The sky was clear, dark and cloudless and the leaves were all off the trees. So I had a good open of the sky. As I walked the 40 yards from my car on the street to my front door. The town I lived in at the time is an old iron community in the Ohio foothills of Appalachia, nothing flies over of any consequence, except maybe the fighter jets at the beginning of the Memorial day parade. Every year, the closest air force presence is almost 150 miles away in Dayton. It's quiet unless the trains are rumbling by and blowing their whistles on their way to somewhere else. I say all that distress, how very little happens outside of the ordinary in that small town, but this night was a bit different. I remember with absolute clarity that I was halfway to my front door, zipping my hoodie against the chill with my bag shouldered in my cards tucked under one arm. You know how sometimes events have a way of searing into your brain. If they jar you out of your routine, I was that tired or even fatigued. In fact, I was home earlier than usual by at least an hour in some attempt to assuage the wrath of my parents, whom I had neglected to call yet again regarding my whereabouts. And so I was alert and prepared to enter the house as quietly as possible. I happen to glance up at the sky just to see the stars, except at this particular moment, I saw more than stars. There were two lights larger than anything in the night sky with the exception of the moon, but only perhaps only two or three times as large as the biggest star I've ever seen. One was a brilliant white and the other was a pale orange color. I remember at the time thinking it was the color of luminescent. Dreamsicle these two lights had they been stationary or even moving steadily in the same direction. I'd had written off as a plane or interesting astronomical or atmospheric phenomena. That isn't how they behave though. I watched for some time more than a few seconds, less than a minute, the white light remained still. Sometimes most of the time the orange light stayed in motion almost constantly. They moved independently, but definitely in relation to one another in what I'd call an aerial dance, that was something like an interwoven figure. Eight, as I said, the orange light always moved while the white light sometimes simply stopped and let the orange light continue weaving around it. And with the exception of ambient small town noise, all was utterly quiet in the way only the wee hours can be no plane engines, no chop of helicopter blades, nothing. I stared, I checked my own awareness. Certain I had to be hallucinating, but it was cold and real outside. And I was mentally present for the whole encounter. At some point I tore my eyes away from the display in the sky to see I had a camera in my bag in 1999, disposable point and shoot codex were ubiquitous, but I didn't happen to have anything that night. When I looked back to find the lights again, though, they were gone or at least they had moved to a part of the sky that I could not see. I stared up for at least another five minutes, hoping to catch sight of the lights again, but never did. Eventually I went inside naturally. I didn't go right to sleep. I sat there in my room trying to figure out what I had just seen. As far as I know, there were no reports about it anywhere else. And no one else I know encountered anything like it. I can't say with certainty that I know what I saw, but I can say that I have never seen anything else like it.
Speaker 2:Holy cow. A real life UFO story
Speaker 3:UFO in the literal sense of the word. Yeah.
Speaker 2:I love that. That's so creepy and chilling to me to just be looking up in, in knowing that you're not near a base, especially now with all of the, you know, reports that the air force is confirming, that that are UFO. I'm just, listen. I'm just saying that the air force, I show everyone, I hope you are aware that the air force of the United States is confirming the, not only the existence of UFO's, but also that a bunch of uptick in activity we've seen recently is indeed unconfirmed, unconfirmed, flying unidentified, flying out.
Speaker 3:Yes. What they are confirming is that people are showing pictures or accounts and they're like, wasn't us, that's it. That's big. Sure. It's
Speaker 2:Not never, it's been their policy that they've never commented on this before. So this is, and we've, we've all seen the video of the Canadian prime minister. Okay. We have where he goes on and on and on about the existence of aliens in the United States program and Canadian program. I haven't seen it. Listen. The Dawn of the age of aliens is here. My friends we'll see. We'll see, but I've got, I'll put, I put five bucks on it.
Speaker 3:I will take that bet. One is the statute of limitations up one year from now. One year. Okay.$5 bet. Yeah. From this date. Yeah. Somebody remind us that we will have confirmed existence of alien of sentience alien life. I'm not talking, they're going to find some fricking algae on Mars. That doesn't count. Yeah, no I'm with ya. Okay. All right. Tall grace. The, the only thing that I want to say, so I knew this guy. He was a very, very talented director of photography. I haven't seen this guy in years, but I ran into him on a set and he was wearing these super thick, like Coke bottle glasses. Yeah. And previously he had not worn glasses. And so, you know, I just made a comment like, Hey, like glasses and you know, it was kind of a sore spot for him. He just got kind of sad and I wasn't sure what, you know, he, he recovered quickly, but it was because, um, one day he was just in either, I think he was just in his home. And then all of a sudden he just see these, see these lights floating in front, like in front of him, just like very generally just like floating and like full 3d. And like, he thought he was hallucinating. They don't go away. Or like if, uh, or either they did go where they came back or something, it was to the point where like, he got really freaked out. So he called someone or he got, he got, he saw, he called a doctor, you know, he got into a doctor very quickly. And after they explained, he explained this phenomena that he was seeing, they immediately rushed, rushed him into surgery. It's caused by something inside his eye that had detached. Oh my goodness. And had they not done emergency surgery when they did, he'd be blind.
Speaker 2:Oh my goodness. That's like, I stuff is so scary. Yeah. Oh my goodness. I'm so glad that they caught it so soon.
Speaker 3:But he has, I mean, obviously he has very degenerated eyes at this point. Yeah. And he was a director of photography. Oh, that's too bad. So yeah, with the glasses, he was able to have vision, but it wasn't great. Right. Wow. That's so scary. Yeah. I'm glad. I'm glad they saved his sight though. Yeah, absolutely. So I certainly hope they, fortunately, I, technology in general I think has come like leaps and bounds even just the last 10 years. Yeah, for sure. And it's probably been almost 10 years since I saw this guy. Regardless, if you are seeing lights a make sure it's not a UFO. Yeah. If it is a UFO call, the New York times, you're fine. But if it's not a UFO call a doctor, right. Best case scenario, it's a UFO best case scenario, worst case scenario coming and being like, you're our only hope. And they just give you powers. Powers.
Speaker 2:Yeah. I was thinking cash, but powers my calf cash on them because they Googled how to, how to communicate with humans, you know, just counterfeit cash.
Speaker 3:I thought love was the universal language. Yeah. Well
Speaker 2:Wait. No, that's not true. Hmm. Shall we hear from Lena in New York city? Yes. My elementary school was PS one. And during my last year before graduating, there was a lot of buzz and excitement. When the school celebrated its Centennial anniversary, they also began a renovation project for the roof. I recalled vividly to events that are 110% paranormal. I will also add that there are tons of rumors on what the school was built on from a graveyard to a mental institution, to a woman's shelter. The first event occurred when our class was returning back to the classroom from the library, we took the main stairwell back to the fifth floor. The top floor was the attic slash roof, which was gated off our class, took a pause in the hallway, which snaked around to the side of the building. I was in the back of the line, chatting with my friends and leaned on one of the smaller staircase doors. And as the class began to move ahead, I noticed the door had an opposition force. I thought it was the wind and playfully leaned back and bounced backward, but the door did not nudge open. And that's when I decided to turn around. I saw an old figure, man, staring back at me with a long white beard, skinny with beat up overalls and dirt on him, carrying an oil lantern. In one hand, he was neither transparent nor solid. I judged as fast as I could back to catch up with the class. As they were entering the classroom, my friends asked me what was wrong. And I told them what I saw. Of course, they said that that's not possible. They went back with me to the spot and the side stairwell was empty. The second event took place in the early mornings when my best friends and I would volunteer to come up and set up the classroom with my teacher. We used to walk over together with one of our parents. As we lived across the street from one another, this one particular morning, we found ourselves waiting for our teacher for quite some time. So I volunteered to go to the main office and see if anyone could help us. I decided to take the smaller stairwell on one end of the school. And to my surprise, when I pushed open the door, I heard kids running around sneakers, squeaking and balls bouncing. It sounded like recess time. There is absolutely zero possibility for activity of that sort in the stairwell. And even if the indoor yard was opened and the sound was echoing up there, there are no kids in the building at that hour. I thought I was hearing things and I appeared down one flight of stairs. I don't know why I would think that that would be helpful. Then from the doorway, I was puzzled and terrified. So I gently closed the door and ran back to my best friend who I told what I hurt. She didn't believe me. So I had her come with me and we pushed the door open and she heard the same thing except she was braver and went down one flight and then ran back up quietly. We were both scared. And we sat back down in front of the classroom, unsure what to do at that moment. Our teacher finally showed up who we told the story to and she told us it was our imagination. Isn't that always how these things end?
Speaker 3:Yeah. It's w no, it's not. Sometimes they say we'll look into it and they send their dog and they catch kids smoking weed.
Speaker 2:That's true. That's true. Yes.
Speaker 3:But nine times out of 10. Yes. They just say, oh, it's nothing. Yeah. Kind of like me right now. Yeah. That's nothing sounds weird thing.
Speaker 2:You know, I don't know. I, the first part I, I think is, I think they're both freaky. I mean, if you have two people, two kids who hear the same thing, share it. Doesn't maybe it's not paranormal basketball ghosts, but it could be, it's some kind of weird freaky phenomenon. It is a phenomena
Speaker 3:For sure. I do not think it was steeped in the paranormal.
Speaker 2:What about her first incident? A hundred
Speaker 3:Percent. 110% paranormal. That's what I said. You don't just turn around and hallucinate that type of guy without,
Speaker 2:Especially when you're in middle school.
Speaker 3:Okay. So she was probably on drugs. She wasn't, it's so interesting though, that she had how these, like ghosts and apparitions often appear to be like from such olden times. Like he had an oil lantern. It's scary as hell. Why is that scary?
Speaker 2:What's uh, it's almost like uncanny valley, right? Where it's like, you know, it's, it would be more familiar. Like if you saw somebody who was from a modern day, would it be a scary? Hmm.
Speaker 3:I don't know who, who can say it feels
Speaker 2:Other more other worldly, maybe. I don't know. Maybe history scary, like all the up. Humanity's done.
Speaker 3:Curious to see, uh, can you, if you want to just take a quick note to look into the history of[inaudible] yeah, because I think that's a very, I think that's very cool. You know, you look at New York, which especially, you know, being one of the most populous cities in the world, right? Yes. Uh, or at least dance or whatever it is, it holds some metric. Um, but it's an island. So unlike a lot of American cities that just sprawl out, this is very, very contained because, you know, island. So when something new needs to be built, it needs to be built on the framework of something existing. And either they demolish it or they relocated or something, but you know, all this ground is gets reused and reused and reused over the years. There's so much rich history. Um, and actually, I was just talking about this, um, with, uh, an another camera guy, uh, just a couple of days ago, how you even look at the, the streets, you know, over in Hudson yard, how they're, they're developing these huge high rises and, uh, building all these brand new things. Right. But the land is anything but new. And so as the construction vehicles keep ripping up S the streets, cause they're not repaving them just yet, because they're just going to keep damaged. They're ripping up the asphalt and you just see these beautiful cobblestone streets. Oh my God. That's so cool. But only link little pieces. Right. You know, um, now I'm very against cobblestones, but that's a whole other discussion. I'm
Speaker 2:Very pro cobblestones where we can get into it another
Speaker 3:Day. It's very, very beautiful. I'll give you that. However, it does not advocate for non vehicular transportation bikes. Have you biked over cobblestones? No. You take the other street. It's fricking murderous. Try riding a skateboard over it. It's impossible. Don't
Speaker 2:Do it then skateboard down the next street anyways. Okay. Um,
Speaker 3:The, the point is that everywhere in New York has such a rich history. Yeah. Um, and who you, what that history is in the, the answer is like a lot of it is just straight up lost. Yeah. So, you know, we have the second avenue subway that took a hundred years to build, technically it got put onto the books, um, a hundred years before it was finished. Uh, but it D you know, it wasn't actually construction. Didn't actually start until fairly recently all things considered. Yeah. But it took so, so long to build just that very small strip that they completed very far from done. Uh, simply because as they would dig, they kept finding things. They would find, uh, pipes, cables, cellars, full tunnels, all these things that were, you know, just underground buildings, you know, all these things that aren't on any map in existence. Yeah. Simply because it's been lost over the years. And if they're, if it's not charted, they just can't bowl through it. You know, you'd add, you'd add, um, you'd end up you. Well, yeah, it's, it's very similar to France.
Speaker 2:I was just going to say, think about even European cities or our cities, not in the U S that are so much older.
Speaker 3:That's why they can't just shamelessly put up these high rise buildings because the ground can't support it. Everything there's just honeycombed and interwoven with so much history and what that history is of, you know, there's a good chance that it's something.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Totally. If you have like weird stories like that, about your city, you know, either folklore or also like weird objects that turned up, that would be cool to hear about.
Speaker 3:Totally. Yeah. Onto the next,
Speaker 2:Onto the next year up full
Speaker 3:Disclosure. I couldn't remember how the story went. So I had to look it up and found a newspaper article from 1961. When I was in college, my fraternity used to give midnight mystery tours and tell a bunch of legends and stuff about campus. Most of which were terribly embellished. One of my favorites was from cop dormitory, where there was a story about two students who mysteriously died of cyanide poisoning after eating milkshakes, but no poison was found no motive. I don't even think they were sure it was cyanide.
Speaker 2:I mean, listen, if you are in college and two of your classmates die after having milkshakes from the cafeteria and people think it's poison like that, can you imagine how scared you would be as a college student? Sure. Terrifying. I also like the, I also like that his fraternity gave, what did he call them? Midnight mystery tours,
Speaker 3:Mystery tours. I love that. I mean, that's really cool. And of course they need, you know, little urban legends to grow and fester.
Speaker 2:Yeah. He sent the, he sent the original article to the newspaper article. It was cool to see. Oh really? Yeah. I don't know. Yeah. It's just a scary story. It's just like a freaky thing that happened. Like one of those unexplained that might seem small, but also to those parents or, you know, families like it's terrible.
Speaker 3:And I think cyanide poisoning is pretty rare. Um, you know, it seems like it would have to be deliberate also. It's like, it can't just be like mixed in with the milkshakes because more than two would die.
Speaker 2:Yeah. I wonder if they like investigated the person who made the milkshakes probably I guess I'm sure. Yeah. It does seem very targeted. I don't imagine only two people at that school got milkshakes that day pray
Speaker 3:And it's not like, oh, well, they just didn't have enough to get sick. It's like you have a little drop, a sign on you're done.
Speaker 2:Is there like a, a scale of, of most lethal poisons or like ones that are hardest to get her untraceable? Like is I wonder where, you know, where does it fall in the bad-ass poisons?
Speaker 3:I mean, the answer is yes. Uh, cyanide is a natural occurring poison, however, oh, I didn't know that it is. Yes. So it's, it's very funny when people are like, I'm all natural. I only things are natural. Cause they're good for you. It's like, well, guess what? Sinai is natural. That's a good counter counter argument. Yeah. Yeah. Um, and so like, yes, it can be extracted from multiple sources. Yeah. Um, however, of course it's, it's, it's not like a very easy thing to do. Right. I'm making assumptions here. Right. Cause otherwise I feel like cyanide would be a far more ubiquitous substance in our world for nefarious reasons. Totally.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Final story. Final story. This is from Amber in Massachusetts. Okay. Mom, mom had once again, tired of all of the old farts in Florida. So she and pop pop, Chuck moved up to Jersey to be closer to the family. The first year the family drove out to Jersey to visit them. The girls were thoroughly disappointed. Florida had meant pools and sunshine, but what did Jersey have to offer them? Nothing. That's what, as the three young girls fought for space on the sleeper sofa, Chuck warned. Now this new house we have is right in the heart of devil country. He said, enjoying terrorizing the girls, you know about the Jersey devil, right? You came prepared the girl's eyes widened as they shook their heads in unison. No, they did not know of the Jersey devil. Of course they were unprepared this infuriated and terrified the oldest girl, why had no one mentioned it before they got here, how are they supposed to prepare for monsters? They didn't even know existed. Her breaths were already shortening and quickening. She did not want to hear the rest of the tale, but now she needed all of the information she could get to protect her family. She worried, maybe the other girls were too young to handle this. The Jersey devil is the meanest nastiest little devil, anywhere on earth. If you hear tapping on the window tonight, don't look outside. It's the Jersey devil come to take you away. They say so much as looking at him can drive a grown man. Insane. See, you can see how three little girls like you don't stand a chance. He continued. That's not true. Shouted. One of the girls though, none of them were sure, which I don't know. Pop, pop teased. As he left the girls alone for the evening. After a short debate, over sleeping with the light on and the insistence that the youngest not wet. The bed, two of the girls fell asleep while the oldest squeezed her eyes shut telling herself over and over. It's not true. It's not true. It's not true. It's not the next morning. The oldest confronted mom. Why had no one told them, how could they come here? Chuck was just playing a mean trick on you. There's no such thing as this Jersey devil and he should not have told you. There was the girl was unconvinced a couple of years past with similar visits before mom, mom grew tired of the cold. So she packed up Chuck and the pair moved back down to Florida on their way down. They came out to visit the family. The oldest girl had just finished clearing space in her closet for the visit. When her sister came in with an idea. Now growing up in a rural red state comes with a very specific type of public school education with problematic definitions of inclusivity and representation. One such art teacher's attempt consisted of creating prehistoric African devil masks out of construction paper in honor of black history month, the girls grabbed the paper mask and ran downstairs. Mom. They called, you know how mom, mom and pop hopper staying in my room. Yeah. So I cleared the space in the closet. Like you told me, but can we hang this in there to get Chuck back for the Jersey devil stuff? Mom rolled her eyes, but told them to go for it that evening while everyone was getting ready for bed, a scream suddenly echoed through the home, followed by a high pitched cackle pop pop had opened the closet, screamed at the side of the girl's masks and fallen backwards, which had caused mom to absolutely lose her laughing. He came down the stairs furious at being the butt of the joke in demanded. What the hell is this? The girl simply looked over as if bored and said flatly, huh? Looks like the Jersey devil followed you here. This was at the end of Chuck picking on the girls, but it was the first time he realized he was outmatched. There reminds me of the time. Do you remember when you were young and those like Ferris attached to those like automatic balls that moved around? What do you mean when you were young? They're still great. I haven't, I haven't thought of them in 20 years, but when we were little, because you haven't been to the mall in awhile. Yeah. My sister put one in, um, put one in our parents' bed and my dad lost
Speaker 3:His. I feel like your cat would like it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, actually. Yeah, that would be a great cat toy. Oh man. You said the mall and now I'm thinking of like Furbies and Tamagotchis and all my favorite friends.
Speaker 3:Those are your favorite friends. They were Furbies and Tom and God she's loved them. I never had either.
Speaker 2:Really? You never a Tamagotchi? No. Wow.
Speaker 3:Hi, wait, I had, I got it like towards the end of the fan, but it wasn't a Tom. I got, she was like an off-brand.
Speaker 2:I have a Tamagotchi now. Cool. That's me. I guess I haven't, I haven't tended it to out, but I bought it a few years ago. Neat. I guess. So anyway, hold up. I prefer the old model. This one was like too modern for me. Well, so this was, uh, a real life, uh, paranormal ghost. Funny story episode. Yeah. At first, I guess, uh, user generated content episode. I mean, it's first off.
Speaker 3:It's always just fun to have people like the response to this was instantaneous. Yeah.
Speaker 2:It really was. It was amazing. Like you just
Speaker 3:Sent out via the newsletter, uh, and you got a whole bunch of responses by the end of the day and we just took the first five made an episode.
Speaker 2:Yeah. So we definitely have more and we would love if you would write into, cause we would love to keep doing these also, if
Speaker 3:You would like to be on the newsletter to get more updates from this, how do they do that?
Speaker 2:If you go to lunatics, project.com, you can join our mailing list.
Speaker 3:Is that it? You just click that, click a button.
Speaker 2:You can also DM me or reach me on email. I'm very accessible. Cool. I dunno if that's cool, but it's the truth.
Speaker 3:Well, overall I feel like this went very well and I'm excited now that we set the framework for like what it can be just like write in spooky stuff. I'm sure there's one, at least one person out there that just heard this episode. And I was like, oh wow. I have such a cool story to tell
Speaker 2:There's something very intimate and cool. I think about hearing these firsthand stories of, of moments like S you know, a fear that has stuck with people from, you know, AR or miss mystery from different stages of their life. And, you know, we've shared our moments of that, but I don't know. I think it's, it's cool to hear about other people's because you're like, oh yeah, it'll get sparked so many things in your head, you know, for sure. Yeah. Get in touch with us and thank you so much for listening. We'll see you next week. Oh,
Speaker 3:Um, and on an unrelated donor completely irrelevant. Oh yes. Uh, I feel like now is inappropriate time, uh, to plug Michael Chrissa and Jollyville radio for no reason whatsoever. Uh, but it's an amazing podcast slash entertainment, variety
Speaker 2:Show. Yeah. And same, same to our friend John, over at[inaudible] make sure you listen, make sure you subscribe to both[inaudible] podcast and Jollyville radio, wherever you listen to podcasts until next time. Goodbye.