Listener Tales 113: 90's Sleepover Edition!

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1:00As a former stylist, I have seen a lot of types of hair damage, and there's all different kinds. There's over processed, overheated. My clients were always like, girl, what can you do help me with this? But they always thought that solutions for their damaged hair would be super expensive. Here's a little hair care secret. When it comes to repairing damaged hair, the answer isn't some pricey, fancy, shmancy product that costs a small fortune. It's actually Pantene. Pantene daily moisturizes a renewal shampoo and conditioning system gently cleanses hair with a vitamin rich lather with two times more nutrients, with results that last over 72 hours. Plus, antioxidants help to repair hair damage, strengthen hair bonds, and even help build new ones. One of the best parts? You don't need to go to a salon and spend hours getting some expensive treatment. You can give your hair the repair it needs at home. And for extra moisture, detangling power, and strength against breakage, use the Pantene Miracle Rescue 10-in-1 multitasking spray daily on wet or dry hair. It packs 10 daily hair benefits into one bottle, making it an

2:03easy addition to any daily routine whenever your hair needs a little extra TLC. The end result, hair that feels healthier, stronger, and easier to manage. For salon quality hair repair, it's actually Pantene. Hey weirdo, I'm Ash, and I'm Alena, and this is morbid in the 90s out of sleepover. It is. Here it is. I decided to go with me in the 90s, who was like a 12, 13 year olds. I like that. Like, who can't do their makeup? You keep saying that, but I really like goes for like the like high-con trash shit going on. It's very, it's very of the time. I was going for a Pam Anderson eye at a Y2K hair. That's an honestly you nailed it. You look really pretty. Thank you. I think you look pretty. You would be a cool girl. You look pretty like as 12.

3:05Yeah, like I look like I'm like, you could be on the cover of like Tiger Beat. Hell yeah. Or I could be holding a Tiger Beat pretending I was on the cover. No, you could be on the cover for sure. You know, yeah. I also did a zigzag part. You did, which is really iconic. It took me six tries, I think. It always took me a lot of tries. So I think I ever mastered it. The secret, I think, is that you do it tinier than you think. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. And you really have to keep track of where that hair goes. And then you pinch and you separate. That's that's that. And that's zigzag parts. In case you're wondering. Yeah. So these are listener tails in their 90s themes. Yeah. And they're brought to you by you for you from you and all about you. I wish it was the 90s again. I wish I say it all the time. I wish I got to experience more of the 90s. It was I know it wasn't like a better time overall. Like I know that. Like the nuance of it all. Yeah. I mean, no, no time is that the time before the internet, I think personally was better. Yeah, I think so too. But now you have like 11 worlds doing get ready with me to go to fifth grade. Have you guys seen

4:07that shit? It's so disturbing. It's honestly upsetting to me like stop letting your children be on TikTok and like, not only get ready with me while they're cracking open an alani, which is going to make their heart explode at like 7 a.m. before school. 200 milligrams of caffeine in a lot. I am the I'm a 30 year old woman, which I still can't get past. What did you say? I am a 30 year old married woman. He said, don't forget your marriage. But she's on the drew. But I question drinking an alani. I'm like, do you know I do this today? I know you never drink an alani because I too scared my heart will explode. Here's the thing, don't because you'll take that risk. Yeah, I want I'm not going to do it. And of course, like they're not going to like your hearts are going to get yeah, we're not saying alani's. They're going to make your heart. They're not I drink. Yeah. But like I'm just scared of energy drinks. And you know, drinks freak me out. I'm scared. I'm going to get like hot. Do you ever had an energy drink? I've had I've literally taken like a sip of a red red. Oh my god. But I don't really like the taste of energy drinks. And if I don't like the taste of something, it's why I don't

5:08really drink either. Yeah. If I don't like the taste of something. Yeah. What the fuck is the point? Yeah. My entire thing is like, I want to enjoy what I'm ingesting. That's why I like a mocktail to be honest. That's the thing. I love the mocktail. I think tastes like juice. Juice. And they don't make me feel yucky. Yeah. And they don't have that weird like alcoholy taste. Yeah. You know, that's why I use like shops because I liked the taste of shnapps. Yeah. See that I'm a Shirley Temple now. I love a Shirley Temple. I also love what a hot commodity it is when either of us orders a Shirley Temple at an event. People are like, I'll show it. Did I gin at it? We're like, no. No. No. No. What to do? And I'm like, guys, it's yummy. That's a fun drink. Like if you haven't had a Shirley Temple, whoa, go get one. Yeah. And also if you haven't had one in a while, go get one or tell me it's nice. And you don't have to put gin in it. And you will feel like shit. That's true. It's nice. It's just a Shirley. You get to enjoy a pretty little drink. That tastes yummy. That doesn't make you feel shitty. I don't even know if we acknowledged this. And like, Fouille on us, if we didn't, we might have Fouille. Fouille.

6:12Canada dry sent us a bunch of exclusive flavors. This is not a paid ad ad all. No, it's not. You talk about Shirley temples. Yeah. They sent us like the cherry fruit splash. And then there was a strawberry flavored one. The strawberry flavored one tastes like a Shirley Temple. Yeah. And again, not an ad. They just sent us those and they were really good. Yeah, I didn't even know that they had flavors. So thanks. Canada dry. Yeah. So you could get a Shirley Temple or you could get one of those. Yeah. Go for it. Yeah. Um, do you did you say you're funny? You think you are funny? Oh my god. I think that I'm going to take that because he feel like he sent it to me. I think I feel like he never says nice things to me. I'm talking about one. You can take it. Okay. Thank you, Nicholas. I'm so I'm elated. I love that. I'm over the moon. Thank you, Nicholas. What if he literally said not not not you, not you, bitch. You are not the one. Also on the book tour, we met so many people that were so pro Nicholas. I'm starting to believe that the people who are not our boss. Yeah. Your boss.

7:15I think you're fake. If you don't like Nicholas, I think that the the Nicholas lovers outweigh the Nicholas haters. Wasn't there a Nicholas? Oh, sure. That said like justice for Nicholas or something like that. No, it was it was a justice for someone from the book. Oh, okay. We won't spoil it because I did spoil it. It was a New York event. Sorry if you were there. I'm still I'm embarrassed to this day. You know, when you wake up at 3 a.m. thinking about things, I'm like, I was spoiled that. That was hilarious. Rough. Oh, all right. I feel like you always read the first one. I'll read the first one. Do it girl. Let's go. All right. Let me make sure I'm speaking into the mic here. Speak into it. This one's called a dreamy discovery listener tale. You are more than permitted to use my name and all names in this story as I'm just a real ass bitch and keep things authentic. I already love you. I started listening to you gorgeous ladies a few months ago and have literally not turned back. There's something you should turn back and look behind you. Make sure nothing's there. There's something about the both of you that

8:17is so damn comforting to me. I don't know if it's your love for all things. Spee-gee, the dark humor. I love it. Your authenticity. Love for f-bombs. Or just the fact that you're boss ass bitches. But you guys are my literal soul sisters. I love you. We just became best friends. We did. And I love you so much. I love you so much. What did you say? He always said that he says that when we get too excited about something. He does. Nicholas might be Gen Z. He's like cringe. He's like, that's cringy. Shut up. He's like, okay, I'm just kidding Nicholas. What have you turned on you? He will never. I love the confidence. He will never. He will never. I know that about Nicholas. She said I curated this motherfucker. I drive a solid hour and a half tune from work as a direct support professional for an adult with autism. And this podcast keeps me fucking going. I also turned to my ever stoic muscular stone cold tattooed hubby onto you guys. And now we listen together. I love that. That's precious. And now he's going to hear that you said that. And

9:20it's going to give him a little boost. That's true. He's going to love that. They love a compliment. So let's begin. Shall we? We shall. I want to tell you some about the time not too long ago actually where my dreams were helping me to find a long lost child to treasure of mine from my now deceased mother. Stay with me here. And honestly, there's so much more to all of this that I might circle back one day to write more tales. But this one just gives me the gooseies. I like that. I love gooseies. And please write more other tales. Yeah. I'll. I am the youngest sibling of three and the only girl. I was also born into a very Italian family from a very Italian mother whose name is Gina. Gina. However, I have super fair skin, blue eyes and blonde hair. Naturally, my older brothers, four years between the middle brother and I and six years between the oldest brother and I used to rag on me that I was adopted and seemingly found enjoyment out of watching the life, the life exit my eyeballs as I looked at my parents, specifically my mom, who I looked just like and contemplated life. I would have you adopted. I would have many conversations with my mom asking her if I was

10:24actually adopted and she would always laugh and provide, provide me with reassurance that I came from her veg. My words, not hers. Sorry, mom. She proceeded to tell me that she was going to keep having babies until she had quote her girl low and behold, I was born on a Friday May 10th, 1991 90s gal for life. Woo, woo. And my mom got to bring me home on Mother's Day. Oh, that's sick. Oh, that's like, gorsh. That's awesome. That's beautiful. She told me that I was the best Mother's Day gift she could have ever received. I could cry typing that needless to say as the baby and the only girl in my immediate family, my mom and I had such a special relationship that woman was my entire being in soul. And I like to think that I was hers. You're going to make me cry. I was going to I'm going to lose it. I was definitely spoiled. But come on, I was our only daughter. Sometimes it's not a bad thing, you know, no. During this time, my mom opened her own preschool called the Lane Day School. I was a year old when she started, but apparently was always in the mix. My great-grandmother, aka me mom, real name, mildred, and my grandmother aka nony. Or is it nony? Yeah, it's nony. That's a

11:30real name joy. I love that. Lived in a very neat and definitely very haunted home in which my mom, the little by little, began turning into said preschool. Eventually my me mom and nony relocated to a new home very willingly. And my mom converted their old house into a fully licensed preschool. I attended the Lane Day School during my preschool years and was a fucking terror. Hashtag separation anxiety from my mom. I don't like it. I don't like that you're a temporary school. Hashtag separation anxiety from my mom. Up in there. I've had it. My kids have it. Spoiler, she was always in the same fucking building, but I would cry my little eyes out on a daily basis for her. Oh, anyway, the Lane Day School became such a significant part of me and my brother's lives due to how much time we spent there. As we became elementary age, we would carpool with a family friend who would pick us up from our local Catholic school and take us to our mom's school where we would do our homework, raid the pantry for snacks, and help my mom with little odds and

12:33ends of closing the place up. That's adorable. I know. I love that. I loved being there. Despite the eerie feeling, I would get when walking up the stairs from the dark, creepy basement to the main floor. I always felt like someone was behind me. Not necessarily anything bad, but scary enough that I would haul fucking ass up those steps so fast that nine times out of 10, my legs would give out and I would trip and fall only to spring right the fuck back up on my two feet and continue hauling ass until I was in the clear. I don't know. There was something slash someone slash others in that place, but from the other side, I swear. As I got older, I learned from my mom and my nanny that they used to wear. They used to hear what sounded like women talking and clinking glasses from the basement. I love obsessed with that. No fucking thank you. I mean, they sound lovely. Perhaps having a little ghostly tea party, but I'll take a rain check lady. I would totally haunt my basement somewhere. I just have a tea party down there. Just clinking glasses. Fuck yeah. Surely times. Yeah, yeah, surely teas. Because of the significance of the school building

13:36hat on my whole family, do mostly to my mom building a damn empire from the ground up. Yeah, mom. We not only spent a lot of time there to help my mom, but we would also have our birthday parties there. It was perfect. Spacious kid friendly. Sons the tea party ghosts in the basement, a playground, and a lot of land to just be kids and have fun. On my fourth birthday, we were there celebrating and my mom, dad, brothers and party guests led me to the garage for my birthday surprise. I remember walking in and seeing the most gorge 90 battery powered Barbie Lamborghini with a big bow on it. Iconic. I'm so jealous. Iconic. For any 90s ladies or gents listening, if you know, you know, the Barbie Lambo was the actual tits. I wanted one of those so bad and I never got one. Surprise. I didn't get. I always wanted the Barbie Jeep. That was big when I was little. I also wanted that but that Lambo. I never got any of the Barbie cars. You want to hear about it? It had a

14:37fucking car phone that you could pick up and fucking chat with Barbie on and had the most 90s color scheme going on. See attached photos. Oh, I'm so excited. I fucking loved that car and I loved it even more because it was from my mom. I can remember riding the Barbie Lambo here and there at my childhood home. But the last I ever recalled seeing it was at my mom's school. He said back off my Barbie Lambo fast forward a bit. My parents eventually sold the Lane Day school and a big piece of our childhood. But it was time and we were all okay with it. I was about 16 years old. So my mind was on teenage life and making questionable decisions. Happens. My mom ended up selling the building to someone we knew. So it wasn't too far gone. And October 2017, I gave birth to my first child, my son Jay. My little guy had a tough start with a heart condition and an 86 day stay at our local children's hospital. Oh my god. Damn. But he pulled through and we are finally able to bring him home for the very first time on January 10th, 2018. Oh, during those 86 days, my mom only missed

15:45one day to come and sit with me and my son while we battled with heart medications, several cardio versions, a brain bleed and premature lung disease amongst many other health ailments that my little dude plowed through like a champion is. That woman pulled me through more than I can even put into words all while beginning to quote, deal with the signs of pancreatic cancer, unbeknownst to all of us. Without giving all the fucking devastating details, my mom passed away on January 15th, 2021, not from cancer, but from fucking COVID. Oh my god. That pisses me off. I'm so sorry. I'm so mad for you. It was a life-altering moment for me, my son, my husband, and my unborn child, whom I was seven months pregnant with and was a girl. The girl that was to be my mom's very first granddaughter. Oh, just give me chills. God damn. On March 11th, 2021, almost exactly two months after losing my mom, my second child, my daughter Ella. That's such a pretty name.

16:47Was born. Little did I know this little girl was going to heal me in ways I didn't know I could heal. Specifically speaking to losing my mom, handing down little bits of your childhood to your children is healing in and of itself. I did it with my son and could do it even easier with my daughter since we were both females. Soon enough, I began thinking back to my Barbie Lamborghini and it's whereabouts and the dream started. I began incessantly asking my brothers and my dad where we thought that car was, which no one had answers to. My dad told me it was stored at my brother's house. That brother told me he last saw it at my mom's school. The other brother told me he had no idea. We weren't getting far. In the meantime, I enrolled little Ella into daycare. Where would she be going you ask to the new owner of my mom's old school? Oh, that's so special. That's awesome. I was not able to send Jay there because he left his 86 day stay at the hospital when he was a baby with moderate to severe bilateral sensor, neural hearing loss. Wow. Oh my god. It was enrolled in the early learning program at our local school for the deaf when he was 18 months old. If you ever want to

17:51be mind-blowned, come watch my six-year-old fluently bilingual and spoken English in ASL. But that's a story for a different day. That's so badass. That's incredible. I took ASL in college. It was hard. It was hard. I ended up not being able to continue. How incredible is that? Six-year-old being completely fluent in both. That's wild. The kid is fucking unreal and amazing. And I swear he's a little earth angel. Like I said, maybe next-tale because my boy sees some shit. I said it. Anywho, my daughter attended what was now called learning lane. Where the new owner was smitten with the idea of life-coming full circle. And my daughter now attending the same school I attended as a little girl. That's so cool. Sadly enough though. Two years later, the new owner decided to sell the building and learning lane was no more. But the dreams. I'm a little afraid, Nicholas. She's the dreams. Because she said the dreams. The dreams. I would say they started around the time I enrolled my daughter at the school, which is eerie when you think about it. Sometimes the dreams would just be me walking around the building. But exactly as I was when I was a little girl, other dreams, I would be in that same creepy basement. But every

18:55single special childhood item of mine would be down there. And I would be rummaging through said items looking for something. But exactly what I was looking for in the dreams was unknown. Soon enough, the dreams are happening almost nightly. Specifically, when the new owner announced to all of us parents about her selling the school and closing down. I got the sense that my dreams that I got the sense from my dreams that they were trying to tell me something. And each time I woke, I wanted to go back. The dreams soon enough started talking, taking me to the two sheds on the property of the school. The same two sheds built by my dad when my parents started the business back in 1991. There were times I would walk into one of the sheds and it would be empty. Then other times, I'd walk to the other shed, but it would be locked and I couldn't get in. You know those staple pieces in your closet that you find yourself reaching for over and over

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23:04price so you can get back to cracking all of life's bigger cases. Talk to a state farm agent today to learn how you can choose to bundle and save with the personal price plan like a good neighbor state farm is there. Head to state farm.com to get a quote. Hrices are based on rating plans that vary by state. Covered options are selected by the customer availability amount of discounts and savings and eligibility vary by state. In the same time frame of those dreams becoming more and more persistent the school building itself landed itself a for sale sign on the front lawn and a new buyer purchased the building. About a week or so later one of my friends who knew of my connection to the school building texted me a Facebook post. It's important to note I was not on Facebook at this time so if it wasn't for my friend I would have never known anything. The post was the new building's owners secretary holding essentially a garage sale for all the items left behind from the previous school's owner. It was noted in the post that the owner essentially shut the doors

24:07and left behind most everything. The post proceeded to give an announcement that that upcoming Friday and Saturday between the hours of 12 and 4 people were allowed to come walk through the building and buy what was left before they got at the entire building to turn it into the new owners living space in realtor office. I figured hey why not that'll be fun. I called my grandmother remember the very first tenant along with my great grandmother asked if she wanted to join me in that Friday afternoon I picked up my not Nana and we made our way to the school. When I first walked in everything seemed to be as same as when I last saw it from bringing El at a school when she attended the building smelled like pencils, crayons and bleach with a little hint of an apple smell. Very specific I know. Eventually I got to talking to the woman who organized the whole garage sale and told her of our family's history with the building. Her mind was blown and she pretty much said go look wherever you want in here so I did. Something was pulling me to go into the basement so I told my grandmother where I was going and it made way way down the very steps I used to haul my ass up to get away from the tea party old lady ghosts who were probably actually very nice. Loan beholds the

25:11fucking lights for the basement didn't work. Oh no so I whipped out my phone and used the flashlight and began walking through the cold dark but very full basement. When I say I felt like I entered a time machine and went back 29 years I shit you not I felt like I was back in time. As I tight as I'm typing this my entire body is full of goosebumps and my hair is standing straight up. It's weird though the fear I used to feel from the basement as a child was gone and I was on a mission to look through every piece of my childhood history that I could find. Soon enough I came across an old classroom and mounds of old papers with my mom's handwriting on them. Oh that's so special. Old classroom newsletters class crafts and projects staff newsletters all folders and folders labeled with my mom's writing. Wow I love that even old photos of previous students. It was wild I felt like I stepped back in time and I could not stop looking through all these items trying to find anything I could relating back to my mom. I don't know how long I was in that basement but soon enough I emerged in somewhat of a

26:12days. I found my nanny with a handful of items she was ready to bring with her and we were about to Sarah Gabbaz so that the garage sale lady to the nice garage sale lady when something quite literally screamed at me to ask about the two sheds so I did. I first asked about the larger shed to which the woman said there was not much in there mainly old chairs and lock long equipment defeated I said oh damn okay to which she said is there something specific you're looking for? The words I used to have a Barbie lamb or all I could get out of my mouth before the woman smiled grabbed a set of keys and said I think I have something to show you. When I say I ship myself I didn't actually but I wanted to so I followed the woman down the drive to the old dilapidated blue shed as soon as she turned the key down lock and open it she warned me she might be totally wrong in thinking she knew what I was about looking for but as she opened those two squeaky splintering doors my heart fell out of my asshole there leaning vertically in the left corner of that shed was my fucking Barbie Lamborghini from 29 years ago how cool is that I began sobbing then trying to explain

27:20why I felt so strongly about this piece of plastic sitting in this shed covered with nest spiders and dirt my non-he was sobbing when I was finally able to tell the woman did he say I don't understand you can't understand that's weird because she's basically saying you can't understand like the significance because you don't even know he's like you can't even understand and this was her dream yeah her shed had basically nothing in it the second shed was like it was locked yeah it was such a moment I could relive it a million times I asked the woman what she wanted for it and through tears she said I don't want money take it that day and hit me why I had had so had so many dreams of the school building something someone was trying to lead me to this very place to find the one thing that was tormenting me that I thought had been lost all those years I took the car home that day and began cleaning it up for my little Ella that Christmas the Barbie Lambo sat in our living room with a big bow on it for her as if it had been presented to me 29 years before for my fourth birthday what a fucking moment as a mommy next love oh shook by this I

28:24like to do my job man this is open this is welcome I like to thank my mom knew how much I was trying to hold on to as much always always he's like you're always doing this retails it's always more than I'm always here for lists or tails I know we don't bring you up for anything I know I would love to maybe we will I like to think my mom knew how energy all right are we giving you a lot of energy or we taking it who's doing the like Beyonce like and nudging I like to think my mom knew how much I was trying to hold on to as much as I possibly could affair and was using my dreams to or perhaps it was the lovely old tea party ghost lady trying to help us sister out maybe both whatever it was I've not dreamt of the school building since that very day when I finally found that Barbie Lambo now it sits nice and snug in my garage and both of my kids like to tear it up and down the street while I quite literally fill it with warmth fill with warmth watching them enjoy

29:29something I did as a child and creating memories for them just as my mom did for me you're going to kill me please enjoy the attached photos of my sweet family my mama and an oldie but goodie of me in the Barbie Lambo the very night I got it with a current photo of my daughter in it just last winter thank you both for always keeping it weird but not so weird that your old ghostly lady self resides in the basement of a preschool and has tea parties with other ghostly old ladies who then helped this very same girl they used to scare the shit of out of find her long lost childhood Barbie Lamborghini power wheels car to help her cope with the grief of losing her mom who in fact ends up being the very woman who used to run the school building and hear those ghost tea parties me too shoe I love you both you spooky bitches with the most love Lori all Lori sweetest oh my god Barbie Lambo look at that thing it's tricked what a badass car you hear 90s oh my god and you like souped it up for her you're oh my god oh so you and your daughter could be twins yeah those

30:30photos truly oh and there it is like stacked against the chest that's crazy I love this oh look you're family oh my god you're all adorable oh my gosh stop it oh mama oh my god stop warming story you know what too I I know that feeling of like being able to share something that you loved when you were little with your kids because I had these um like uh what are they big wheels oh yeah and we I got to give one of my dad had bought one more for one of my other kids and then they both will big wheel it does still big wheel it down the driveway yep and it's hilarious to see them big wheeling it in 2026 I know because it has the little thing you pull that like makes you spin I love that so you would big wheel like crazy and then you pull that and you go just like skirt yeah they that's the original skirt they have loved those things

31:36Nicholas nobody's butt is on the table hello buttocks on the table so is it our is your buttocks on the table my feeder of the table buttocks on the table that be a good band name we are buttocks on the table I just love that proper that is buttocks on I wish it was showing he said upon buttocks upon the table they close I love you our next tale is I met a murderer hey and we changed a couple names just in case so it starts with I am not a long time listener but found you in January of 2022 which like now you kind of are a long time listener yeah really yes it was going to be 237 yeah fuck I know well that's when I realized I needed something to entertain myself at work I love spooky things true crime criminal lines mind hunter etc RIP mind hunter forget back so I decided I needed more of this in my life while typing away

32:41on a computer and attempting to drown out all the crazy things going on in the office lucky for me I stumbled on you lovely ladies and I was hooked right away due to the way that you explain your cases linear is the best and your lighthearted banter and dark humor the more calm time I listened to the more I loved it the first few episodes I listened to was the four part series on Albert fish holy shit you really dove headfirst in yeah that was a choice yeah one addition to having my mind blown by that series I found myself a laughing out loud and wanting to join in on your conversations since you could use Gilmore girls as a reference point you know quote hocus polka's buffy proud rewatcher as well and inspired me to begin watching true blood yeah everybody should watch true blood and boy meets world just to name a few also also you are the only other humans I have ever heard reference top that from team oh my god yeah and I couldn't believe my ears the first time I heard the reference top that top that I'm hot you're not I get those tiktoks all the time

33:42after my fifth or sixth listener tale episode I was thinking to myself why hasn't anything weird or spooky happened to me that I could send in there was that time my friend and I played with the Ouija board during a sleepover and we chatted with a ghost girl who was friendly but also thought it would be fun to turn on her CD player and rearrange your beanie babies oh but that's not exciting which I don't know that's not exciting to me exciting well then there was the episode about I met a murderer and it hit me my summer encounter with Luke Luke you say to give my story to everything everybody I have a t-shirt under this I'm just hot thank you for telling you I just wanted to light everybody else that I wasn't being weird I was like that was so abrupt what what do you I'm not sure I'm not I'm not about that to give my story a little context let me explain that I was born in a sleepy mountain town in North Carolina where I lived happily until I was 10 years old and my mom and step-dad dragged us six hours north to nowhere'sville southeast Ohio to his hometown and his family hmm that stinks since I was desperately homesick for my uncle who

34:43has since transitioned I'm only explaining that as it's contextually necessary for understanding how it could be that my uncle had a female roommate from the military every summer after that move to Ohio I made a habit of going to my granny's house every summer vacation my uncle had been in the military and when discharge brought home with them a roommate and a good friend let's call her Lin Lin I instantly liked Lin and thought she was super fun she was a Korean American adopted and how to sense of humor a love of horror movies and was really good at braiding hair Lin sounds awesome he said why is she here damn like Lin is here because she's super good at braiding and she's fun and you can watch horror movies like horror movies Lin lived with us for a while before I was dragged to BFF at Ohio but eventually moved out when I say us it was me my mom my step-dad my uncle and my granny all at granny's house and I had Brady Bunch if you will yeah the summer when I was 14 I was visiting granny like usual while she was at work along with my uncle I lived the teenage dream I watched TV I ate too much slept too much sun bathed and spent time helping her on the house Lin as

35:45she had eventually gotten her own place would often come by on her days off and take me out to lunch shopping or to the movies this was of course back in the late 90s when it didn't cost a week's paycheck to do all of those things in one I was gonna say you could easily do those yeah it's fucking crazy how much things cost right now one fateful morning Lin arrived to pick me up unannounced no text no call just a knock at the door and hey kid get ready let's do something uh the 90s it was the 90s and I was super excited to go out of the house did you just say stop shop shop oh yeah you want a shop because they're doing yeah we hopped in her pickup truck and set out on the interstate headed for the nearest mall which was about a 30-minute drive while walking through the food court I would literally kill somebody for the teriyaki chicken at the food court the bourbon street chicken yes that's what I'm talking about that's what I make that's the bourbon chicken that I make I won't kill all of you for it I promise you not all of us yeah I know I took that as Nicholas being like not all of us want like like Nicholas feels like the type to be like not all of us but

36:50Nicholas my buttocks maybe on this on the table but but has he enjoyed food court food I don't think he knows this so I think he's like oh I took the girls to them all the other day and I was so tempted to be like do you want to eat this food court food but then I was like can I feed her kids food court food are they ready yet I don't know I haven't yet I had a feeling you how to get I already gave one soda accidentally I don't need to I don't need to get crazier and she never let's me forget it you say remember that time when you gave me soda I'm like I gave you a sip and then your mom looked at me like she was gonna ring my neck all right so I didn't take them to the food court no so walking through the food court Lynn recognized someone and stopped to say hi he had long hair a flannel shirt on top of a t-shirt cargo pants and sneakers grungy looking but cool Kurt Cobain I have a story kind of way yeah however her acquaintance Luke didn't recall her name and could have placed her at all oh his buddies even said look at her ink man that always helps she showed him her tattoos and he still didn't seem to recognize her so he said okay have a great day enjoy your orange Julius we're on our way I would also fight

37:54somebody for orange Julius yep about five minutes later her friend Luke caught up with us now let me explain how she knew Luke I absolutely loved Lynn and while she was an awesome person and one of my favorite adults when I was young she had a lot of struggles mentally and emotionally several months prior to heading to Granny's for the summer Lynn had been in a relationship with a man who she thought was her forever person unfortunately they broke up she took it really hard so much so that she was actually admitted into a hospital for intensive therapy that's awful but I'm glad she got past it yeah and like healed now this is where she knew Luke from she had seen my group therapy and thought he was there for substance abuse at the absolute worst which I'm assuming is why she thought it was safe to say hi to him while in charge of me a 14 year old getting a better feeling yeah he's like I don't know about this Luke well Luke walked around the mall with us while we did the usual 90s mall things we told him we were headed to another mall across town 15 minutes by highway two more one day I don't even know if I've done that dog if you wanted to come and get

38:55something to eat with us he could he said sure so we headed to her car oh my god oh back in the tiny pickup truck I had to ride in the middle quite cozy with both Lynn and Luke the trip was uneventful for the most part thank god he said then hopefully hopefully uneventful I thought Luke was fairly quiet but we had the windows down on the highway making it super loud in the cab of the truck which made it hard to talk anyway as I knew the windows would be down for the highway trip I made sure I had a hairbrush I placed it on the dashboard of the truck and it almost slid off and right out the window but Luke caught my brush for me and saved me from the ultimate embarrassment of wind blown hair at the next location wow Luke I thought to myself well he must be nice murderers do not catch hair brushes that's a motto to live by it's valid murderers don't catch hair brushes no never yeah after some more shopping and getting a quick lunch Luke asked if we could take him back to the first mall to meet up with his ride we dropped him off you're really good I just thought of the is it the wayside school like vampires don't wear polka dots oh my god that's it that's the unreleased book murders don't catch hairbrush that's actually so funny that you brought

40:01that up that's the first book that I read when I moved into mon popus I had that book I was literally 15 I didn't have any of my own books and I looked through year old bookshelf and everything was either too scary or like I don't even know and I said yes we'll read this little like kids book I used to lie I think it's the wayside school I'm pretty sure is it that or is it the boxcar children no the boxcar children it's like a whole series that's actually hilarious you had all of this I did I had all those what did he say dangerous dangerous he's the dangerous makes up the boxcar children was like a whole series about like literal children who lived in a boxcar of a train oh I only said that because I just remembered that you had it I thought it was the boxcar children what is it I think it's the wayside school the Bailey school kids there you go that's what it was I knew it was he just an idiotic I think he might be turning on you Nicholas we listen and we don't judge okay I don't know what you're reading but we're in a fight

41:01I thought you said this would never happen no I did I said he never turned on me I didn't say we'd never gonna fight okay that's part of any relationship it okay it is um yeah the adventures of the Bailey school that's why I confused it like wayside yeah yeah I mean it's very similar yeah there was the Bailey school uh like series had the coolest shit yeah I'm trying to remember some you had a lot of dragons don't cook pizza Frankenstein doesn't pet plant petunias ghost-donny potato chips murders don't catch air brushes yeah it could fit right it I think it's the unreleased one maybe release it releases this is a paid ad by better help if I could wake up tomorrow and just like automatically drink all the water that I'm required to drink in one day that I really should be drinking and I don't know just like spend an appropriate amount of time on my phone I would feel so fantastic wouldn't

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43:06security systems can monitor your home 24 seven they're backed by the most company operated monitoring centers in the industry so you're always supported during an emergency when every second counts count on ADT visit ADT dot com to learn more hey what's up guys it's Hayley Bailey okay I need to tell you about something I just got YouTube premium it's got tons of awesome features like offline downloads so I can download my favorite videos before I travel and watch them whenever I don't have Wi-Fi because we all know airplane Wi-Fi is the worst I get ad free I get back room play and there's like a ton more in there you should try it if you like YouTube you'll love YouTube premium try it now for two months free at youtube dot com slash premium try a eligibility varies terms apply cancel anytime that's a mouthful well we dropped them off we headed back to Granny's house where Lynn dropped me off I thanked her enjoyed my purchases from the candy store and didn't thank much of the day uh-oh until I'm very worried I'm nervous a few days later I was chilling at Granny's house per usual she'd just

44:10gotten home from work and was reading the paper while I watched TV in the living room not sure why but something made me look in her direction and just as she was adjusting her newspaper the front page came into perfect view at first it was just recognition then my whole body seemed to start tangling that's called a warm yep warm then something washed over me it felt like when you open the deep freeze and blast yourself in the summer but with nausea my cheeks started to feel really hot as I read the headline by the photo that I recognized two men arrested mother and child killed on parkway oh I studied the photo as long as I could without being obvious and finally I said Granny can I have that paper when you're finished she peered over the newspaper at me and said oh do you want the horoscopes or the comics that woman knew me so well she was surprised when my response was actually this article on the front this photo looks familiar so casual like I wasn't trying to regulate my fighter flight at that moment and sounds super casual in my interest about the murder article she looked perplexed and said oh I'm sure you haven't darlin he was in the mental

45:14hospital and now he's murdered a young woman in her son she said dismissively you're probably right Granny I replied trying to hide my absolute certainty that I did in fact see Luke just days before and he was trying to figure out if I needed to call the local police or FBI and how I would ever explain this to my mother oh man it just so happened that very same day my uncle and Lin had been together I can't remember exactly why but I want to say it was for a favor involving Lin's pickup truck and something heavy when I heard them pull in I grabbed the newspaper and met them at the door I didn't want to say anything in the event that in the event that I was really wrong and that was not my new friend Luke grunge guy and hairbrush rescuer I handed the newspaper to Lin and she immediately recognized the photo stared at it and then back at me and opened the paper and started reading the article then we had to explain to my uncle what the hell this meant and why we were rendered basically speechless the article made it clear that Luke and his accomplice were in custody so we did not need to contact the police and share our adventure that's good I was

46:14worried yeah I was like yeah the location of the crime was not near where we had traveled with him and if the timeline was accurate we were with him prior to this crime being committed that's almost scary that's really scary I couldn't stop thinking about it all summer and just like and while I wanted to tell someone my uncle made it clear my mother would freak the fuck out oh my god so we all decided to keep it to ourselves no you can't have a keep the secrets are no fun it would have been such a good story to share on the first day of ninth grade yeah way better than my usual summer vacation stories yep but to make sure I never let it slip out I basically buried the experience it was actually several years later until even my uncle brought it up at all if there was a fly a fly a fly just flew into my face it was like that was wild it was like one of those fruit flies that's a good idea anyway just uh la la la it wasn't actually uh it was actually several years later and you said look

47:15for me are you a fly I literally just said it's probably Nicholas look for me that's almost a little ominous though that's actually really ominous Nicholas but I'll look for you yeah we will I know that we look for you everywhere we do uh until my uncle see I remember you yeah we remember you Nicholas Nicholas what's up what's going on what's going on tell us more tell us everything tell us about yourself Nicholas so the uncle took a long time to bring it up so for a very long time I really did forget this experience ever happened to me damn I will lose my literal mind if you ever pick my story to share and I will have to squeal and jump up and down at my desk which I'm sure will not please any of my co-workers or my supervisors tell them to get the fuck over it yeah tell them tell them to fuff I have linked some articles about where Lucas now in the original story I saw on the local paper I've also attached some photos of me my family and my pets because I know you just love cute kids and small and uh animal pictures keep it weird but not so we're these

48:16fun the day shopping with murder and maybe don't introduce to 14 year old to somebody who you met at a mental hospital during group who is now just chilling in the mall looking like her go bang you know that is valid uh damn and I think those are links to the those are the oh my god your cat and a six point kit you have great taste too oh you do oh like oh that face would have you guys know how to get us and buffy in a stake another puppy that kind of looks like bubble is that a puggle that definitely is that a puggle for sure does that cool that's I knew it was I knew it was Mr. pointy oh shit that's cool oh I'm looking at family this is the second Disney photo we've received I know what are you guys doing to me because you and me I want to go to back to Disney so bad there's Luke there's Luke and there's you I think oh yeah see what is it message message do you have a message in a bottle

49:19huh that's weird is it read your message message in a ball this next headline is insane um what okay the time a Christmas elf prevented an abduction period period period hello ladies hi first of all you two are absolutely amazing and I truly love your show thank you the only regret is that I just discovered your show but at least it means I have a large backlog of shows to binge we have like 800 episodes there's a lot there right now I'm up to early 2020 and I'm not gonna lie my heart is breaking because you two are so excited about your upcoming live show and I know the world is about to shut down I'm excited to hear what happens and I really hope you were able to reschedule all of your live shows because you two are a gift to the world thank you so much for that we didn't reschedule any of them and our management is like you share that you don't want to share like wow that sucked anyways I really hope you are still doing listener tails we are hey here we are but if not hopefully this tale at least entertains you it will

50:22my name is Steve feel free to use my real name what's up Steve and back in high school I was a total theater geek me too can you try you can say Steve oh Nicholas is like can I try what you guys are doing yeah okay I can do it he wants to go for it I'm so you were a total theater geek so was I as well every Christmas I would dye my hair half red and half green because I fucking love the holidays I love that one of my fellow students hair parents hired myself to play an elf at their Christmas party and my drama teacher to play Santa since he was a jolly large man absolutely I call they even rented me a costume and it was a ton of fun the party ended late and I was driving home and around midnight through the affluent part of town there were literally no other cars on the road which in retrospect should have triggered my spidey sense but whatever I was a young dumb kid I was stopped at a red light when I heard a blood or I heard blood curdling screams I looked over to my left and I see a man literally dragging a woman by her hair across the street who a car parked

51:26on the other side of the street oh my god as I like to say back then I have a divine sense of justice and asking so I ran the red light you have no idea how much you killed me to break the wall I thought sped over to help this woman thankfully my parents had given me a cell phone for emergencies it was the late 90s so I called 911 we're not going to leave you and I started honking my horn like mad I pulled up behind the waiting car as he had already made it there and was shoving her into the back seat oh my god you're a badass for doing this for the real I turned on my bright my brights and continued honking my horn he stared at me with pure hatred and looked like he was about to come luckily I don't think he could see me clearly because I have never been a big person I think I was around five two or three at this time and he could have easily beaten me to a pulp in my memory he was a beast of a man but in reality he was probably pretty average I bet he was below average yeah fate was on my side and he instead threw her out of the car and sped off oh my god I got out

52:28to check on her and she seemed physically okay but was obviously shaken up at this point the dispatcher told my me police were on their way and a sit tight I tried my best to comfort her but one she just had a very traumatic experience with a male so she probably didn't want to be around a strange male and two I'm still dressed like an elf so she was probably thinking I'm completely nuts and mentally unstable spoiler alert I was and still am can you imagine like you're such a good Samaritan but imagine as a woman going through this and then a man dressed as an elf it's just like that's you're okay I'd be like I don't touch me no please but you're a very amazing person for this did he say I'm a turtle or a turtle I mean I'm a turtle that feels like a ghost I was literally just gonna say that to my ass yeah well like all right Nicholas first of all you're amazing for doing this and second of all you're amazing for being

53:29so self-aware to know that you probably was uncomfortable like that situation something a lot of people wouldn't be aware of and I love the I I wasn't still a mentally unstable this entire time not a single car passes by but I did see a man coming up the hill towards us pushing a shopping cart at this point my adrenaline is fully pumping so I put myself between her and the guy oh he's very clearly on drugs and he comes up to me and says do you like crack you are dressed like an elf which like it's a choice so he just wanted to include even Santa's Elfers he said he said you kind of look like you're on crack he just he said I see you also his hair is half red and half green the crack and me see the crack

54:32the crack and me see the crack in you oh or or we're gonna flag on YouTube I'm screaming oh I love completely not expecting that but it seemed pretty on par with the evening looking back I simply say no no I'm literally crying my makeup my 90s makeup is gonna be literally I know I was just thinking that I have straight up tears running down my smoke to this out too oh my god oh man I'm gonna look like I just watched Romeo and Juliet the Baslerman version in that I know I can't ever be with Leonardo DiCaprio the heartbreak that's what all of us right now oh okay so I simply said no he then smiles broadly and says I shit you

55:34not well I do good he was just striking up a conversation he said like he said icebreakers you do like I love it you have to get to know he found something out about you you found something out of on him at this point I see police lights in the distance speeding towards us also this poor woman an elf attempted abduction and then somebody on crack and the guy saw the lights and says oops gotta go I runs off with a shopping cart into the night I wish him the very best I wish him the very best I hope Scott to go I hope he's slipping oh my god the police show up and not unexpectedly they seemed extremely skeptical of me and I can't blame them after questioning not surprisingly she knew the asshole who tried to kidnap her oh yeah one other detail being winter in Arizona it was a little chilly so as the adrenaline started wearing off and I was starting to feel cold I told

56:37police I was going to get my jacket out of the car they kept their lights shined on me and in my car the whole time and I pull out my classic black emo trench coat that all the cool kids had at the time one of the matrix I'm quite positive the whole aesthetic of elf with multicolor hair in the black trench coat totally made me seem super legit incredible even just trying to picture that it oh my god it's hard to conjure yeah even Nicholas that I know for reference I ended up becoming a physician so even weirder kids can grow up to be professionals though I never fully grew up but I'm still a weird kid at heart you are amazing Steve we love you Steve the police escorted her away and I was free to go I don't know when it ended up happening to the woman sadly but I really hope she's safe healthy and thriving I can tell you one thing that woman thinks of you every week absolutely and I I love that yeah anyways that's my tail sorry for the length but I hope it was entertaining it was keep it weird but not so weird the you end up trying to kidnap a girl but you have to get stopped by some punkid dressed as an elf and then hesitate but I'm just sad to run away like the little bitch

57:38you are and then a crack field stranger comes up and stresses you out further when you are already full of adrenaline and then the cops think you're super suspicious because you look like some weird emo Christmas conglomeration don't keep it that weird thanks so much for your time I think you might need to keep it that weird to be honest with you I haven't cried that much that was a good one in a long time that was a good one this picture in that whole story felt like I was on drugs that the visuals that came along with that story were like top not top not top fucking notch all right one more Steve yeah no good till the next tale is tail tail as old as time you sounded like you were starting them in night society tail of the grinning whatever yeah tail of the traveling reach aboard there you go hey aushin alina hi hi first stop I just want to say you absolutely have permission to use my name hell yeah it's Amanda Amanda and I'm a huge fan I've been listening to you guys religiously since last year I love to podcast so much that I actually went all the way back to

58:41the very beginning even the episodes where it sounded like you were recording underwater here are a real one you are honestly it's still amazing to listen to thank you sometimes I think about the fact that my children someday will listen to early episodes of morbid and that I was 22 at the time we recorded them and it does make me want to drown myself yeah I mean the evolution is nice it is it's true I think we are I think so it's a nice little growth yeah that's a lot of growth lots of growth for the pipeline from 22 to 30 and even probably 30 to 40 you go oh 30 yeah no shit I think I know a little bit more than the beginning of this though oh yeah but then you're gonna be 40 and you're gonna say I didn't know shit oh man that's not well quick a little sign up before I get into my story ash both of my kids actually had the exact same due date and it just so happens to be your your birthday we love a Gemini my son ended up being eight days eight days life I died like I died like she loved my daughter was four days late Gemini is Gemini is

59:44Gemini is there's seven years apart but still both my little Gemini's meanwhile I was born later in June she's a fun father is your father Gemini necklace I think my father is all there your sister's in a Gemini you know mine is a technically he's a Pisces but I kind of consider him an aries yeah anyways meanwhile I was born later in June so I'm a cancer if you actually end up reading this I'll probably ship my pants don't worry though I'll have a change of underwear ready good change okay now let's get into my story about the time my parents bought my sister and I a Ouija board for Christmas those are cool parents I was 11 years old and I was and my sister was nine the Christmas my mom and dad bought it for us looking back now I honestly don't know what possessed them to buy it maybe they just thought it was a harmless board game it was cool then yeah maybe they didn't really believe in that kind of stuff or maybe they figured we would play with it once and forget about it like we did with half of our other choice that's probably what they said actually well we didn't forget I still remember tearing the wrapping paper off the box the

1:00:45board inside looked mysterious the black background faded letters numbers yes no and a word at the bottom that would eventually haunt me goodbye goodbye the planchette was light plastic heart shaped with a small window in the center it didn't look scary that was the problem that night after the house was quiet and our parents were watching TV downstairs my sister and I dragged it into our bedroom we shared a room back then two twin beds pushed against opposite walls an arrow window between them and a closet door that never shut properly I feel that's called foreshadowing it always sat slightly open just enough to make you stare at it a little too long at night we turned off the main light and left only the small bedside lamp on the glow made the room feel secret and important we sat cross-legged on the floor fingertips barely touching the planchette guest yes I know he's like the sounds scary he's like I'm terrified is that a terrified is anyone here my sister my sister whispered nothing we looked at each other and tried not to laugh you're

1:01:46pushing it I said I'm not she shot back that's the classic conversation you have we know to reach aboard it was moving slowly smoothly not like a jerk from somebody nudging it it glided we go we both gasped and instinctively tried to pull our hands away but we didn't instead we leaned in closer yeah that was the first mistake for weeks after that the board became our nightly ritual you two are off I also feel like you're probably not closing the door which is like not good like the you're not saying like the portal yeah we would rush through homework at end dinner just to get back to our reminisce for questions at first it was harmless stuff what grade would we get in math would we get a dog would we ever meet a celebrity but then we started asking bigger questions is there someone here with us are you dead what's your name sometimes it was random letters sometimes it moved in circles sometimes it stopped abruptly on goodbye before we were finished hmm we told ourselves it was our imaginations until the house changed it started subtly footsteps in the hallway when everyone was downstairs the sound of pacing back and forth outside of our bedroom door after

1:02:51midnight huh my dad would check and find nothing he'd chargot off as the furnace or the pipes but furnaces don't walk that is something really against his argument yeah I would say furnaces are famous for not walking they're famously don't walk then became the shadows oh you catch something move out the corner of your eye a sheep slipping past the doorway a flicker crossing the wall but then you turn your head and nothing was there that happens to us in this house all the time that especially in the kitchen that has started happening to me in my house and the shadow is in the kitchen yeah uh uh so that's fun yeah I last night I kept seeing something out of the corner of my eye in that like back room yep like walking into that back room that's what we always get we'll be sitting watching TV and both of us will like turn to look over because we hide hi yeah honestly bite bite okay hate that more uh that's somehow worse uh but both of us look over and we always think it's one of the girls coming down and uh we'll always look at each other and

1:03:51be like did you see something and he's like yep I hate that and it's always something coming from the hallway into the kitchen and just like walking through I mean I always think it's one of the girls I've seen that in your house before at night and it's so clear in my periphery yeah I like how you say that periphery periphery I like that yeah thank you you're welcome I feel like nobody ever says that they always just say my peripheral yeah you're fancy thank you and the feeling the constant crawling feeling that you were not alone even when you were um one after noon I was in my room by myself playing with my toys the house was completely quiet my sister was outside my parents were at work side note the 90s were wild just leaving your kids home alone they sure were haha out of nowhere my alarm clock started blasting music I hate that not softly full volume I jumped so hard I knocked over the toy in my hand the strange part my alarm clock wasn't plugged into the wall no that's not you know I have chiles like close chiles I stared at it from across the room my heart hammering

1:04:51uh the cord was wrapped neatly behind it not even close to an outlet I tried to think logically or eight maybe it has batteries I walked over slowly each step feeling heavier than the last picked it up flipped it over no batteries no batteries no god I was just gonna say no batteries there wasn't even a compartment for them the music stopped on its own a few seconds later the silence afterward was worse than the noise I stood there frozen goose bumps covering every inch of my arms feeling like something invisible had just looked me straight in the face and smiled oh I didn't tell my parents I didn't even tell my sister right away saying it out loud would make it real but then there was the doll oh don't leave he's like I said he said down for this my sister had this doll she loved the kind with plastic eyelids that open one up right and close when you lay them down I fucking hear those things she heard it everywhere or so I assumed because it kept showing up in different spots around the house sitting upright on the couch propped against the hallway wall once

1:05:54sitting at the kitchen table as if it was placed there to watch hate it every time I mentioned it my sister would say she must have just forgotten she left it there and I believed her until one night he said I told him I told him he's like I told him I told he told Adam yeah he told Adam that I don't know what you tell Adam what did you tell Adam let us know right in I don't know what woke me up maybe it was a noise maybe it was the heavy feeling in the room again but my eyes opened suddenly I looked across the dark room toward my sister's bed the only light came from the moon through the window and I shit you not her doll was lying on its side beside her pillow but its eyes were wide open not halfway not flickering wide open staring directly at me I hate that so much you know if that that moment is shit your pants shit shit your pants here we go shit your pants shit shit your pants get out who leave my chest I thought I would scream yeah no sound came out that's the worst

1:07:03I would die I just lay there staring back at it those dolls closed their eyes when they're horizontal sure that's how they're made yeah but this one was not closed it felt intentional like it knew I was awake oh I pulled my blanket over my head and did not move until the next morning the next day when the sun made everything seems stupid and harmless again I picked up the doll and lay it on its side its eyes slid shut immediately she's not here no she oh my god she's not here because the eyes actually shut this time yeah she's gone blah I felt sick because I knew what I had seen the atmosphere in our house grew even heavier after that even my parents started mentioning strange things my mom said she heard someone call her name when no one was home my dad said tools in the garage would be moved from where he left them nobody connected it out loud but my sister and I knew this is so ominous there really is eventually my parents decided we were moving to Alberta a fresh start a new job opportunity a new house we were leaving Manitoba behind as we cleaned out

1:08:03the house before the move we found the Ouija board tossed behind our toy bin neither of us had touched it in weeks it felt wrong to even look at it without saying much my mom decided to throw it in the trash not packed not donated thrown away I think I'll tell your soul so do that probably not uh we drove all the way back to Alberta boxes to Alberta so I just heard we drove all the way back to Alberta boxes I was like looking at boxes and stacked so it just became Alberta boxes stacked in the you all saying goodbye to everything familiar the new house felt lighter at first I don't like that you said at first it was empty clean but within days the same feeling crept back in shadow soft footsteps that presence that reminds me of the paranormal activity like all that's playing now it's like wow places aren't haunted people are play is so good it's so good it's still fucking me up yep we blamed it on stress on adjusting on imagination finally after days of unpacking there was only one box left my dad sliced it open

1:09:07and believe it or not sitting right on the very top was the Ouija board but you threw it away like it had been carefully placed there the same scratches on the corner of the box the same vintage the one my mom threw in the trash in Manitoba no one spoke my mom went pale my sister immediately looked at me my dad just stared at all of us in disbelief wondering who packed it when my mom clearly told him she threw it away but we hadn't packed it nobody did we saw my mom throw it in the garbage but somehow it had traveled over a thousand kilometers with us from Manitoba to Alberta to Alberta to Alberta all the way to Alberta like it had chosen to fall that was the moment I felt true fear not the kind where you jump and laugh afterward not the kind you can explain away the kind that settles into your bones we never touched it again oh my god we did end up moving again to a nice beautiful home we cleanse the fuck out of it and nothing quote

1:10:08unquote crazy happened in that home I don't know who got rid of it or how I don't know where it ended up but I know this when I say I will never use a Ouija board again I mean it because some things aren't games except maybe naked twister in the shower what are you getting crazy in these trees stuff you literally doing this again you can't say what but I'm sorry what we said that's that silly girl damn what did he say that didn't happen when did you play naked twister in the shower also would you play clothes to a certain time line oh shit they get to a certain the shower could probably kill you yeah well that's my story they really do hope you both enjoyed it sorry if I was a little wishy washy change whatever you need to and thanks again for potentially taking the time to read it holy shit I am so terrified by that I literally can't handle it I'm shook if I

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