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1:07

Hello! And welcome to another edition of

1:09

Freaky Friday were we tell your odd

1:11

but true stories Is Friday May twenty

1:13

fourth Memorial Day weekend in the States

1:15

so help folks have some time off

1:17

for if your work and it's not

1:19

too hectic and you get to sit

1:21

by the pool at some point go

1:23

to the lake yeah, I'm thin. Yes,

1:26

Celebrate and remember because that's what Memorial

1:28

Day is all about. And for us

1:30

it this Friday. It's about some freaky

1:33

stories you have chosen for us and

1:35

that you all have sent in. Yes,

1:37

thank you so much. We got several

1:39

that are related to this week's episode.

1:42

says those are as fun then I

1:44

mean that they weren't my life is

1:46

Ruined guys those are. No,

1:49

no, No no no, it's more

1:51

fun weegee board stories. Yeah, so

1:53

we have a good lineup. Yes,

1:56

and get everybody that since your story

1:58

and we'd been traveling oh week

2:00

on tour. So it's

2:03

nice to just sit back at

2:05

home and get to

2:07

read through everybody's freaky Fridays. Yes, get

2:09

back in the studio and back to

2:11

the freakiness and it runs the gamut

2:13

today. We have brushes with

2:16

true crime on down to fun

2:18

Ouija board memories. So buckle

2:20

in as they say. Buckle in.

2:22

Well, I'm Christy. I'm Heather. And

2:25

let's get freaky. This

2:27

first one is from Kelsey and

2:29

it is called See something, say

2:32

something, help someone, humiliate drunk frat

2:34

boys, how to survive as a

2:36

woman. Hello, ladies.

2:38

Before we jump in, I just want

2:40

to say thank you. I love this

2:42

podcast truly. I don't know

2:44

how or when I started actively listening, but

2:47

only after an episode or two y'all were

2:49

it for me. I've been an active listener

2:51

of true crime podcasts, but you're the first

2:53

and only one I've ever felt the need to

2:55

be a Patreon because I didn't want to miss

2:57

a single thing you record for us. Thank

3:00

you both for being hilarious, informed, somehow

3:02

having both an opinion, but also remaining

3:04

unbiased when it calls for it. That's

3:06

not sounding like the compliment I mean,

3:08

but it is I promise you

3:11

encourage young women to be loud and to

3:13

be aware, but you also teach us slightly

3:15

older women to never be afraid to offer

3:17

help. Because of y'all and me

3:19

wanting to be more like the woman I want my nieces to

3:21

be, I stand up for young

3:23

girls that are uncomfortable. I just want

3:26

you to know you were changing lives every day

3:28

in ways you'll never know. Anyway,

3:31

let's get into it. Recently at

3:33

a concert, I saw two young

3:35

women walking around a parking garage obviously

3:37

lost. It was a Zach

3:39

Bryan concert recently in Knoxville, Tennessee. We

3:42

were in the parking garage and everything was

3:44

at a standstill. If you're a

3:46

Parks and Rec fan, imagine Ben and April in

3:48

the parking garage in DC. So

3:50

the first time me and my boyfriend saw them make a

3:52

lap around the level of the parking garage, I

3:55

was aware of them because they looked so

3:57

pretty and just adorable from an aunt point

3:59

of view. The

4:01

second time we saw them, my

4:03

boyfriend chuckled and said, huh, someone's

4:05

lost. I then looked down

4:07

at my phone to start scrolling to kill time since

4:09

we're not moving. A few minutes

4:12

later I look up and again see

4:14

these two young women making yet another lap.

4:17

I immediately said, huh, that's

4:19

the third time they've made this lap. And

4:22

then I hear the concern in my boyfriend's

4:24

voice when he replied, well, actually,

4:26

it's the fifth time. As

4:29

I said, all I could hear were y'all

4:31

telling us to look out for each other,

4:33

to care for each other, to help each

4:35

other. And all I could see were my

4:37

two nieces, lost in a garage and scared.

4:39

My boyfriend was already ahead of me,

4:42

saying, it's okay if they're drunk, but if

4:44

they are, I don't want y'all three wandering around.

4:46

Y'all get back in the truck and we can wait. So

4:49

I hopped out and kind of hollered, do y'all

4:51

need help? You could

4:53

visibly feel the relief and anxiety and

4:55

fear coming from them the closer I got.

4:58

They were uneasy from walking so much, but not

5:00

drunk at all. So I waved to my

5:02

boyfriend and he winked and told the girls, try

5:05

to make sure she doesn't make anyone cry, okay?

5:08

Because he knows the woman he's in love with.

5:10

And because those girls are safer with me than

5:12

if they were with the Secret Service. So

5:15

me and my girls, as I was not calling

5:17

them, started walking and talking, trying to see if

5:19

they could remember even a little bit of where

5:22

they parked. Embarrassed, the older

5:24

one admitted that they were running late and

5:26

were not from here and were only really

5:28

worried about getting to the show. I

5:30

could see her starting to cry. So

5:32

I just grabbed both of their hands and told them,

5:35

look, ant mode has been

5:37

initiated. Ants make dumb mistakes

5:39

all the time and we're the clumsy and

5:41

late ones. Let this messy

5:43

and always lost ant help her girls,

5:45

okay? Around

5:47

this time, we walked past three trucks

5:50

full of drunk fraternity brothers, all blasting

5:52

music and hanging out the windows and

5:54

hollering as people walked past. As

5:57

we got closer, I felt one of the girls

5:59

tense up. As if bracing herself.

6:02

And I'm sorry, but fuck that. Not on

6:04

my fucking watch is this young woman going

6:06

to experience that. Not while I can do

6:08

something about it. Then,

6:10

wanna be gentlemen of a local fraternity

6:13

swatted at the girl's dress. As if

6:15

to flip it up to see what

6:17

was underneath. Okay, look.

6:19

I have a temper. And I live with

6:21

a man who manages truck drivers for a living.

6:24

I curse like a sailor. But

6:26

therapy has taught me to take

6:29

a breath and just breathe, think,

6:31

then respond. So, unfortunately,

6:33

both sides collided at that moment and

6:35

a little bit of both happened. I

6:38

saw him touch her dress and my

6:40

immediate reaction was destroy him in

6:43

the Mortal Kombat voice. Also,

6:45

I'm from Memphis, Tennessee. I

6:48

graduated from the University of Memphis. We

6:50

may be in the South, but I was

6:52

raised on 3-6 Mafia, Project Pat, and other

6:55

Memphis artists. Our city motto

6:57

is literally grit and grind. We

6:59

are not calm, reasonable, soft folks. There

7:02

is a reason why, unfortunately, we are

7:04

the most dangerous city in the country,

7:06

but also the most mentioned city in

7:08

music. Both facts are true. So,

7:11

I truly forget that I am 5'3 and not 6'8

7:13

and a hardened gangster. So,

7:16

my Memphis side came out. I

7:19

threw out my best curse words and

7:21

insults and came this close to either

7:23

headbudding one of them through the open

7:25

window or slashing their tires. Again,

7:27

as a woman from Memphis, we don't

7:30

play games. But,

7:32

I saw the Greek letters on the trucks.

7:35

I saw chapters on their shirts. So,

7:37

I just took a real big breath

7:39

and calmly took my phone out and

7:41

I began pretending that I was recording

7:43

their license plate numbers in their faces.

7:46

They immediately freaked out and said I couldn't do

7:48

that. Now, Heather, this

7:50

could be true or this could be me quick

7:52

thinking on my feet. But, I

7:54

told them that since they were sexually harassing

7:56

her and refusing to stop, I needed their

7:59

faces in their license plates so

8:01

that when I personally drive the girls

8:03

to the police station, they compress charges

8:05

with both campus police and Knoxville

8:07

police and then they will be

8:09

able to locate and detain everyone

8:12

immediately. And

8:14

because they were all younger college guys, and I

8:16

remember dating one when I was in college, I

8:18

told them that not only would the girls be presenting

8:21

that to the police, but I

8:23

would personally make sure that a copy

8:25

of the video was sent to the

8:27

local chapter leadership as well as regional

8:29

and national. I immediately

8:31

was called the C word and a few

8:33

other fun and I guess somewhat

8:35

creative insults for college boys.

8:37

They did their best smiling.

8:39

I told them I was still recording windows

8:42

went up and everyone immediately faced the other

8:44

way. As we were walking away,

8:46

one of the girls said, I wish

8:49

you really had recorded that. Before

8:51

I could respond, her friend said, don't

8:53

worry. I did. We

8:56

eventually found their car. But before we did,

8:58

I felt the need to give them advice.

9:01

Always take a picture of where you parked at. Send

9:03

it to someone. Always make sure

9:05

someone has your location. Always

9:08

make sure you have enough battery or bring a

9:10

charger. Always park under a light

9:12

and try to avoid columns. Always

9:14

make sure you have balls. But the

9:16

main thing I told her is that if

9:18

they are ever in an uncomfortable, weird,

9:21

off, scary, anything not good

9:23

kind of way, go find the

9:25

nearest woman. 9.9 times out of 10.

9:29

If you tell us what's going on, we will help you.

9:32

And God help them if it's a man messing with you. I

9:35

told her we take care of each other. And

9:37

then I made them download my favorite episodes of

9:39

yours to listen to on their way home. Thanks

9:42

for the show and for loving us, the

9:44

fans, like you do. Every

9:46

time I'm listening to you, my boyfriend always

9:48

asks, so how are the girls

9:50

this week? All talking about anything interesting?

9:53

As if y'all can hear my thoughts and reactions and

9:55

we're friends. I know it's not

9:57

on this tour, but if you're ever near Memphis, I'll... I'll

10:00

show you what the best barbecue in the country

10:02

tastes like. I said what I said. I'll

10:04

show you the home of Elvis Presley and take you

10:07

down Beale Street for real blues music.

10:09

Thanks y'all. Oh man. Well,

10:13

you give us too much credit Kelsey. That is

10:15

incredible what you did and thank you. It sort

10:17

of becomes like a little cult when it's like

10:19

anyway here's some literature for the drive-thru. No,

10:22

but for real thank you for what you did. No, I love it

10:25

and I love that you saw two

10:27

girls in distress and recognize

10:29

that you would be a safe

10:31

person for them to get help

10:33

with and there's no

10:35

one scarier to truck full

10:38

of drunk frat guys than a woman

10:40

that just doesn't give a fuck. Yes,

10:42

it's like what is it? It's like Kathy Bates in that

10:44

movie when she's hitting the guy with her car and she's

10:46

like I have more insurance than you so I don't care

10:48

like I'm just gonna hit you with my car because I

10:50

don't give a fuck anymore. Tell

10:53

lawyer is that true? They're

10:56

in a public place. Tell those guys to fuck off

10:58

and just know you're in a public place idiot. Can

11:01

you tell them that you're filming them and that

11:03

you're gonna take it to the cops and all

11:06

that? Oh yeah, everything she did was 100% legal.

11:08

Didn't say you can't film us is idiotic. They're

11:10

in a public parking garage. It's like open to

11:12

the public. You have no expectation of privacy and

11:15

especially like she said I'm gathering evidence as a

11:17

witness so I'm bully within my rights. You

11:20

did nothing wrong. The bigger thing

11:22

is always we'll go to the chapter

11:24

president. We see your letters. We know

11:26

what school you're from. We're gonna call it in

11:28

on you especially if it's not they have an

11:30

in with the local chapter or

11:32

the regional. It's like I'll call the people way way above

11:34

your head so anything that strikes a

11:37

fear to them not clapping. Honestly, on

11:39

a woman's skirt that probably

11:41

scared them more than the cops. They don't

11:43

wanna get kicked out of their frats. No,

11:45

that's like the most important thing. No, and

11:48

it makes me sad to think of those

11:50

two girls walking by that truck and being

11:52

like you not being with them and him

11:55

slapping her dress and then what happened. You

11:57

know, I mean we've all

11:59

been in those. situations where we're uncomfortable,

12:01

we want to stand up to something

12:03

that's going on, but we just don't

12:05

feel safe, so we don't. So

12:08

if there's someone else that can help you

12:10

feel safe and you recognize like, I've

12:13

been there before. I'm not afraid to

12:15

walk around this parking garage in your

12:17

boyfriend. Especially you got back up. Yeah.

12:21

So I love that. Good for you

12:23

for looking out for others and your

12:26

kind words mean so very much to us. So

12:28

thank you so much, Kelsey. Yeah, for sure. Like

12:30

you said, being the aunt you wish your nieces

12:32

had out in the world, you know, just being

12:35

the stand-in aunt, the stand-in grandma, the stand-in sister.

12:37

And yeah, if I'm ever in trouble or tell

12:39

somebody else, if you're ever in trouble, try to

12:41

find a mom. I always feel like

12:43

those are a good go-to. Or like a heavy

12:45

metal, like a goth, like a guy, I feel

12:48

like in a jean vest, like with the sleeves

12:50

cut off, it's like, the

12:52

metal community I feel like is a

12:54

very welcoming warmth. There's like communities like that

12:56

where they're like, yeah, we all take care of each other here. We'll

12:59

help you out. No problem. Yeah,

13:01

that's who you find. Find somebody that'll help you out and fight

13:03

off those vicious frat boys. God. Three

13:05

truck fulls of them. I'm married to

13:07

one. Yeah, I don't have to give

13:09

them the truck full. I only have the one at home. Yeah,

13:13

I've dealt with many drunk

13:15

frat guys and 9.9 times out

13:17

of 10 don't want to deal with

13:21

it again. No, no. Well, thank

13:23

you, Kelsey. Sisterhood will be right back.

13:26

We all know there are things in your life you have to compromise on, like

13:28

you want to live in. I personally would like to live

13:30

in a house like 10 times larger with a pool in it because it's going to

13:32

be a million degrees, but that's on the cards for me right now. I have electrical

13:34

wires in my backyard, so I can't have a pool. So I've had to compromise with

13:37

that. I like my house. It's a compromise,

13:39

but it's not exactly, you know, but when it comes to

13:41

your house, you cannot compromise. Don't do that. Not at all.

13:43

Don't go back to that one day. I'm going to do

13:45

it. I'm going to do it. I'm going

13:47

to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to

13:49

do it. I'm going to do it. I cannot

13:51

compromise. Don't do that. Not at all. Don't

13:54

go back to that one doctor who uses your appointment to

13:56

catch up on the latest headlines or wants to tell you

13:58

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14:00

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14:02

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15:36

Well this next one is from

15:38

Paige and Paige's subject line is

15:41

bowling alley douche canoe. Hi

15:44

ladies. I want to take a moment to first

15:46

thank you for all the hard work you do.

15:48

I've shared in the Patreon group before about my

15:50

battle with cancer this past year and the community

15:52

that you guys have built was such a big

15:54

support to me. Not to mention

15:56

all the hours spent at the hospital where

15:58

your voices kept me company. Now

16:01

in remission, baby! In Heather's

16:03

voice. Anyway, here's my

16:05

story. Some background. This was

16:07

in 2018. I was in

16:10

what Michael Scott would call the terminal stages of

16:12

my second pregnancy. I was

16:14

eight months and already on maternity leave for

16:16

my normal job as a dog groomer, but

16:19

I didn't have paid maternity leave.

16:21

Hashtag Merica. So I picked up

16:23

a part-time job at the bowling alley my

16:25

family frequented. It was a small town alley,

16:27

so most everyone knew each other. Anyway,

16:30

one night I was working the counter at the

16:32

concession, and a man probably my

16:34

dad's age, mid-fifties, I'm 32 for reference,

16:36

came up to order. I

16:40

was leaning against the counter, writing down whatever

16:42

he was asking for, when he said, Man,

16:45

I had no idea that bowling alley food

16:47

came with a show now. I

16:50

stared at him for a solid

16:52

five seconds, having absolutely no idea

16:54

what he was talking about. Huh?

16:57

I responded. He gave me

16:59

this horribly creepy look. I

17:01

can't describe it, but it just gave me the

17:03

ick. And he said, Come on, don't act like

17:05

you don't know. And proceeded

17:08

to stare at my chest. I

17:11

was mortified. Listen,

17:13

I know it doesn't matter,

17:15

but for the record, I

17:17

was wearing an incredibly not

17:19

low-cut maternity shirt. What

17:21

about me made him think I was fishing

17:24

for a not compliment from him? Ew. I

17:28

completely froze. I said nothing,

17:30

and eventually just walked to the back.

17:33

He walked around putting his arms in the air,

17:35

acting like he had no idea what he did

17:37

wrong. I always liked

17:39

to think that if faced with anything like this,

17:41

I would respond in a more Christi way and

17:43

just yell at him to get fucked. But

17:46

there we were. I was a

17:48

hormonal mess and just went to the back

17:50

and sobbed of embarrassment. Little

17:52

did this guy know, my dad was also

17:54

bowling that night. Needless to say,

17:56

they had words. I wasn't there to see, but my

17:58

dad was there to tell me. My dad can be

18:00

a pretty intimidating guy if you don't know him. A

18:03

while later, the guy came back up

18:05

to the counter to apologize, probably

18:08

because my dad made him. His

18:10

apology was, it was supposed to be

18:13

a compliment, you know. Me. Does

18:15

that ever work for you? Him. Come

18:18

on, I'm sorry. Can we just hug it out? Me.

18:21

Are you joking? No. And

18:23

then I walked away. Clearly

18:26

this man still thought what he did was fine.

18:28

And to be honest, I still gaslight myself into

18:31

making very little of it, but it's five years

18:33

later and I'm still thinking about it enough to

18:35

write a story in. Anyway,

18:37

I know that it isn't super freaky, but

18:40

thank you for taking the time to read

18:42

and for sharing so many people's experiences so

18:44

that the rest of us feel comfortable speaking

18:46

up. Side note, I can't

18:48

wait to see you guys in St. Louis next

18:50

week. If you read this after, I was

18:53

the one who brought you guys

18:55

the crocheted, sinister-hood, purple Fresno nightcrawler.

18:58

Also, I mentioned I'm a pet groomer,

19:00

so naturally I'll attach pictures of my

19:02

precious babes. Toodles. Paige.

19:05

Oh, Paige. Well, thank you for our

19:07

nightcrawler. We did see that. I love

19:09

it. Perfect. It's beautiful. Sitting in

19:12

my studio right now and Paige also made

19:14

two tiny little baby nightcrawlers, one for Simon

19:16

and one for Ella, and they both love

19:18

them very much. So thank you so much.

19:21

It's so sweet. And your doggies. Oh, come

19:23

on. A poodle and a corgi. These pictures

19:25

are ridiculous. Incredible. I'm not

19:27

sure this poodle looks like a school photo

19:29

with that background. It looks

19:31

like the poodle has graduated fourth grade. I

19:35

love corgis. There's a corgi that

19:37

lives on my street named Gumbo, and

19:39

anytime Gumbo is out, I'm like, Gumbo,

19:42

it's a Gumbo sighting. I love him so much.

19:44

You spotted Gumbo. Oh, wow. And

19:46

congrats on your remit. That's incredible.

19:48

So way to go. Remit,

19:51

baby. You did it. Oh,

19:53

and yeah, that Patreon group's a good gala

19:55

support group. I'll tell you what. Oh,

19:57

yeah. We love meeting you in person, but

19:59

don't minimize. What happened to you? I think this is

20:01

a thing where you were in a Complete

20:04

note you did nothing wrong you're ex-own Oh,

20:06

and then someone just comes up and acts

20:08

filthy and shitty for no reason and yeah,

20:11

I Don't feel bad

20:13

about how you reacted in the moment either because

20:15

that's like you said and you were a hormonal

20:17

mess But also that's just such a shock none

20:19

of us can even be prepared for that I'm

20:21

like, I didn't know I'm gonna be sexually objectified

20:24

and harassed when I'm in the terminal stages

20:26

of my pregnancy a very

20:29

good pull from the office and

20:31

I Appreciate you

20:33

thinking that I would yell at him to get

20:35

fucked which maybe today,

20:37

but I Don't

20:40

know man. I mean this has happened to me many

20:43

times from people I know in strangers

20:45

and I've never told anyone to get

20:47

fucked. In fact, most times I've sobbed

20:50

of embarrassment later because you feel

20:53

like Somehow it's your

20:55

fault even though you're literally doing nothing wrong

20:57

and it doesn't matter what you're wearing and

20:59

you know And you're just pregnant

21:01

trying to work and just do your

21:04

job and this guy's a sleazeball So

21:06

there's no right or wrong way to react

21:09

Yes He's the one

21:11

that can get fucked and I'm very glad

21:13

that your dad was there and I

21:15

will say that Sleazeball

21:18

needs a lesson in how to apologize to

21:20

somebody because that is not an apology

21:22

That's not an apology at all. No,

21:25

he's an unrepentant sleazeball who continues It's

21:27

like I gave you like four outs

21:29

not to be shitty and you tripled

21:31

and quadrupled down So like nah, I

21:33

hope you man gutter ball

21:35

all night. Yeah zero pins Yes, I

21:37

hope that you got a fungus from

21:39

the bowling shoes, sir And I hope

21:41

that you every single time you

21:44

just you would split them So you could never

21:46

at clear the lane and you're always always

21:48

gutter ball When you suck your

21:50

fingers in the bowling ball Somebody

21:52

had put like gooey Gross

21:55

stuff in there and you just had to pull

21:57

your hand out like what is this and you don't

21:59

know You don't know what it is. You never

22:01

will. But you had to go wash it off and deal with it. And now maybe you

22:03

have a rash from it. But seriously,

22:05

I'm glad that your dad was there.

22:07

Because sometimes we need backup and that's

22:10

alright too. Even

22:12

though the apology was a non-apology. Non-apology

22:15

for sure. And

22:18

just don't ever comment on people's bodies.

22:20

Yeah, fuck off. Whether you know them,

22:22

whether they're a stranger, just fuck

22:24

off. You're not there. Just

22:27

do what you're supposed to do and leave. That's

22:29

all we all need to do. Just do what

22:31

you guys do and go. And

22:34

leave. Go get in your lane. I

22:37

said good day. Literally stay in your lane. Go

22:40

back to your lane and stay there. Right?

22:43

Well Paige, congratulations on your

22:45

mission. That's amazing. And

22:48

for your sweet baby. Yes.

22:51

And for the sweet crocheted items.

22:54

We get a lot of crocheted items. And

22:56

I'm impressed on multiple levels because

23:00

I can't do that. And also to think

23:02

that somebody used their hands to make us

23:04

something is always so very sweet. So

23:07

thank you so much. It's more precious. Sinisterhood

23:12

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23:15

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23:17

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23:19

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23:21

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23:24

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23:26

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23:28

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23:30

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Well, this next one is

25:08

very interesting, Heather. And it ties

25:11

into a story we had on

25:13

last week's Freaky Friday as well.

25:15

I'm ready. Something's going on.

25:17

That's all I'm gonna say. Something's going on.

25:20

This is from Sam. And the

25:23

subject line of Sam's story is, Onion

25:25

Glitch in the Matrix Story? Hello,

25:28

creepy queens. I listened to one of

25:30

your recent Freaky Friday episodes where someone

25:32

shared a story about an onion falling

25:34

off the counter and disappearing. It

25:37

immediately made me laugh because

25:39

I realized I also had

25:41

a very strangely similar story.

25:44

So here it goes. I

25:46

just gave birth at the end of

25:49

February. Actually, I saw y'all in San

25:51

Francisco last year, and the day after

25:53

your performance was my scheduled IUI. It

25:55

was my second one. And while the first one

25:58

had failed, the one the day after I... saw

26:00

y'all actually worked. So I always say

26:02

that my daughter is my sinister baby.

26:04

I truly feel like y'all gave

26:07

me good luck as I saw you as

26:09

a gift to my mom for Mother's Day

26:11

last year. She's also a big fan of

26:13

the podcast. Y'all rubbed the mom energy off

26:15

on me. So what does

26:17

this have to do with my onion story? Well

26:19

about a month ago, I was feeding my daughter

26:21

around 2 30 a.m. I remember

26:24

the specific hour because my partner and I

26:26

take shifts. From 9 p.m. to

26:28

3 a.m. I handle the baby's needs and from

26:30

3 a.m. to 9 a.m. he does. This

26:33

works with our natural sleep cycles and schedules

26:35

so we both actually end up getting great

26:37

sleep each night. I know

26:39

what time specifically it was in addition to

26:41

that because I had been lying awake for

26:43

about 30 minutes before I actually took my

26:46

daughter out of the bedroom to feed her

26:48

that night. We have two cats

26:50

who are often just calm and sleeping during

26:52

nighttime feedings. However sometimes one

26:54

or both of them will be up and

26:57

ornery when a nighttime feeding is happening and

26:59

this night one of our cats Aria was

27:01

running around while I was giving my daughter

27:03

her bottle. Aria decided to

27:05

get up onto the kitchen counter and knock one

27:07

of the two onions off onto the floor in

27:10

the living room. I quietly

27:12

scolded her unable to get up and

27:14

fix this but she took no notice.

27:16

Instead she jumped down following the onion

27:18

batting it to and fro. She eventually

27:21

smacked it under the couch and I scolded

27:23

her as much as I could once again

27:25

while trying to be quiet enough that I

27:27

didn't jump scare my baby. Aria

27:30

took no notice of me instead shoving

27:32

herself under the couch. Now

27:35

listen my Aria is our younger cat

27:37

but she is not the smallest cat.

27:39

She is a chonker to say the

27:41

least. She hasn't been able to

27:43

fit comfortably under the couch since her first year

27:45

with this. So immediately I

27:47

was concerned and tried again as subdued as

27:49

I could be calling her to stop and

27:51

to come back out. I

27:53

watched her fluffy tail disappear under the couch

27:56

and after a minute heard her begin

27:58

meowing for help. because she was stuck.

28:02

Now having a sleeping baby who had just

28:04

finished her bottle and needed to keep sleeping

28:06

for mine and my partner's sanity, I

28:09

was at a crossroads. What to do?

28:12

I very gently got on my knees while

28:14

holding my daughter, bending so I could see

28:16

under the couch without disturbing her slumber in

28:18

my arms now that she had a full

28:20

belly and had been rocked back to sleep.

28:23

I could see Aria was too far under the

28:25

couch for me to reach, even if I

28:27

could reach my full arm under there. I

28:30

saw Aria clearly suck with the

28:32

onion between her paws and she

28:34

meowed at me planably. Since

28:37

I had my baby in my arms, I went back

28:39

into the bedroom and woke my partner. As

28:41

I was laying her in the co-sleeper, I told

28:43

him Aria is stuck under the couch, she chased

28:45

an onion under there and I don't think I

28:48

can reach her. My partner has

28:50

much longer limbs than me and routinely

28:52

saved Aria from situations like this, so

28:55

he got up to fix it. After

28:57

a minute, however, he came back and said,

28:59

are you fucking with me? I

29:02

didn't understand and said as much. He

29:04

replied, Aria is in her bed at the front

29:06

window, there's no onions under the couch. I

29:09

was floored. Immediately, I sprang

29:12

up and went back out into the front of

29:14

the house, knowing my partner was in

29:16

the bed watching our daughter in the co-sleeper. Sure

29:19

enough, Aria was across the kitchen,

29:21

away from the couch, in her

29:23

bed at the front window, eyes at

29:25

half mass like she'd just been woken up from

29:27

a slumber. I immediately went

29:30

over to the couch, passing by the

29:32

counter, which I noticed, had an onion back

29:34

on it, like the one I'd

29:36

seen Aria bat off and under the couch,

29:38

not 20 minutes previously. Bending

29:40

down, I saw that there was no onion

29:43

under the couch and no Aria caught with

29:45

her fat little kitty haunches. To

29:48

this day, I don't understand what happened

29:50

here. I know I wasn't

29:52

just hallucinating. I get it,

29:54

new parents are sleep deprived, yada yada

29:56

yada. But like I said, I've

29:58

been awake about 30 minutes. minutes before my daughter

30:01

had even needed her bottle that night. I

30:03

had difficulties sleeping sometimes, and that night

30:05

I had distinctly woken up from a

30:07

nightmare, looked at the clock, knew

30:10

that she would wake up probably within that

30:12

hour, and that if she didn't, I could then

30:14

fall back asleep, and so I had

30:16

stayed up scrolling Instagram on my phone. I

30:18

was wide awake. What did

30:21

I witness? Some glitch in the matrix? I

30:23

can't wait to hear y'all's thoughts on it. Keep

30:26

it creepy. Love Sam, her partner,

30:28

and her sweet sinister baby. Aw,

30:31

I love the sinister baby.

30:33

That's awesome. Congratulations. Yes, that's

30:35

amazing. Congrats. As for this

30:37

onion thing, I

30:40

need some scientists to weigh in. If

30:42

we got food scientists or chemists, biologists,

30:44

because we need to figure out what's

30:47

different about an onion, and why onions

30:49

are more likely to permeate what I

30:51

think are interdimensional folds. We

30:55

have two instances of this happening,

30:57

so you have to deduce that

30:59

onions are more likely to permeate in

31:01

an interdimensional fold. I don't know. Perhaps. I

31:04

watched a clip from the SALT conference, which

31:06

is this big financial conference. I used to

31:08

watch it every year when I worked at a hedge fund, but I

31:10

don't really have to anymore, but interesting

31:12

ones. The very final one

31:14

was a former colonel from

31:17

the United States military who

31:19

was essentially being questioned on

31:21

non-human intelligence from either other

31:24

planets or from other dimensions,

31:26

which that's the phrase that the federal

31:29

governments began using in these hearings. They

31:31

no longer say like extraterrestrial alien. The

31:33

senators, the congressmen that are in these

31:35

hearings keep using this phrase in the

31:38

terminology of like interdimensional. This guy in

31:40

his speech kept talking

31:42

about non-human intelligences have

31:44

been interacting with humans on

31:46

Earth, and so my combination

31:49

of that, which would be like, okay,

31:51

well, if they're not extraterrestrial, right

31:54

now all the government, the whistleblower, David Grush,

31:56

are all saying, okay, they're interdimensional. That means

31:58

shit can slip in and out. because we

32:00

can only see like 5% of the visible

32:02

light spectrum. So I don't

32:05

know, they're sucking your onions up. They're getting stuck

32:07

somewhere. I can't explain it to you. But I

32:09

think it's all connected. I think it's connected. I'm

32:11

putting the pieces together from legitimate sources. Like I

32:13

said, it sounds funny, but it's kind

32:16

of scary. It's like horrifying

32:18

that like hedge fund conferences dedicate like

32:20

they dedicate, they're dedicating, truly they're dedicating

32:22

entire segments to it. I think because

32:24

the federal government is having those hearings

32:26

and having those intelligence meetings,

32:29

because they're like, well, we need to know what this

32:31

is. How is the cat

32:33

an interdimensional being? The cat's not I think the

32:35

cat was just catting and maybe who knows the

32:37

being is like, oh, the cat stuck. The lady's

32:39

got a baby. I'll help it out. So

32:42

is the cat back puts the onion back where it

32:44

goes. Okay, so in your theory,

32:46

an interdimensional being came into her

32:48

home to help out. I

32:50

don't think they have to come into our homes. I

32:52

think that they exist on the same planes as I

32:54

like in the same vicinity, but in

32:57

a different dimension. The guy in the

32:59

salt conference was like, non human intelligence

33:01

exists. It's been interacting with humanity. It's

33:03

not new. It's ongoing. It is

33:06

documented in the military. And so I

33:08

think we're there, they're getting

33:11

us warm to it. That's why there's mentions of

33:14

it. That's why the whistleblower. We're

33:16

finding shit out. I'm

33:19

having trouble understanding how it relates to

33:21

this cat in the onion, because I

33:23

think if there are interdimensional

33:26

beings, non human intelligences, they can interact with us,

33:28

whether it's to hide our keys or to help

33:31

us find our keys. And I don't mean like,

33:33

oh, it's the ghost of your grandmother. I mean,

33:35

it could potentially be a

33:37

smarter being existing on another plane. That's

33:40

some people's theories. Okay,

33:42

so the cat maybe

33:44

was playing with this being

33:46

and or the knock the

33:49

onion under the sofa, but

33:51

then the being helped the

33:53

cat get out and put the onion

33:55

back on the table. That is likely

33:57

explanation in my opinion. Well,

34:01

there you go. I guess it's been

34:04

solved, Sam. So

34:06

hopefully, I don't know if

34:08

it made it better or not,

34:10

but you might have interdimensional beings under your

34:12

couch that I guess at the very least,

34:14

should help get Aria unstuck. My

34:17

things like you are welcome to be a part of

34:19

my home if you are going to help like if

34:21

I could wake up in my dishes were magically done,

34:23

or I can wake up in like my lawn was

34:25

mowed and I didn't have to like hear the sound

34:27

of the lawnmower done though. Yeah, welcome. We can coexist

34:30

like people man over like Alec Baldwin and

34:32

Gina Davis living with the deeds family, you

34:34

know, we can find a way to coexist.

34:37

And I guess they've got an onion.

34:39

Yeah. Hank, right? Like it. That's

34:42

what they like onions, we got to

34:44

narrow it down to what it is

34:46

about onions that make them particularly

34:48

susceptible to this. You

34:51

know, they're polarizing vegetables.

34:54

So true. People love

34:56

them or hate them usually so that

34:58

is something to look into. Well, thank

35:00

you so much, Sam for sending that

35:02

in and congrats so much on your

35:04

sweet sinister baby. Sisterhood

35:08

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36:53

is a made-up cryptid actually real? Hi,

36:56

gals. My name is Josh and I'm from Australia.

36:59

I started listening to you a couple months ago

37:01

and have literally had you playing through my headphones

37:03

at work five days a week ever since. Before

37:06

I get to my story, I wanted to add

37:08

something from another Freaky Friday story. Specifically,

37:10

the two girls who escaped

37:12

Ivan Milat, Australia's most well-known

37:15

serial killer. It occurred to

37:17

me that when he took the girls down

37:19

a dirt road into the bush, it was

37:21

most likely the Langlo State Forest. The reason

37:23

I think that is because it's where Milat

37:25

buried his victims. This is honestly

37:27

one of the creepiest places I've ever

37:29

been to. The Langlo is

37:32

not a natural forest. It's

37:34

mostly pine trees, which are not native to

37:36

Australia and were actually planted back in 1919.

37:40

Because they were planted by people rather than

37:42

nature, the trees are arranged in perfect roles.

37:45

No matter which direction you look, the trees

37:48

are always in straight lines, which

37:50

just feels wrong. Girls

37:53

who worked on the Milat murders have said there's, quote,

37:55

pure evil in the forest. days

38:00

I was there. I've attached some photos of

38:02

the place so you can see what I mean, including

38:04

one of us making a short film there. As

38:07

for my story, Australians like to play

38:09

a joke on unsuspecting tourists by telling

38:11

them about a vicious creature known as

38:13

a drop bear. It's always

38:15

described as a biga maina koala. Home

38:18

Poms also described as venomous. Drop

38:21

bears sit in trees just like koalas, but

38:23

drop from the trees on to prey when

38:26

it walks below them, killing it

38:28

upon impact. They can be

38:30

kept at bay however by applying vegemite

38:32

behind your ears. Now, none

38:34

of this is actually real. Or

38:36

is it? A

38:38

few years back, I got off the train coming

38:41

back from a night out clubbing and started my

38:43

walk home. This would have been

38:45

around 3am or so and I had a two and a

38:47

half hour walk ahead of me. Because

38:49

of the terrain on the east coast of Australia, it's

38:52

very common for suburbs to be separated

38:54

by a few kilometers of bushland. So,

38:57

most of my walk was along the main

38:59

road with dense bush on either side. During

39:02

my walk, I heard a loud crash amongst

39:04

the trees to my left, followed by a

39:06

grunt and then the sound of an animal

39:08

walking away. It definitely sounded

39:11

exactly like something had fallen out of

39:13

a tree and the grunt did

39:15

sound like a noise a koala would make. However,

39:18

whatever fell was way too heavy to

39:20

be a koala. But there

39:22

isn't anything bigger than a koala that lives

39:24

in trees. We do have a

39:27

bigfoot in Australia known as a yowie, but

39:29

I don't know if they climb trees. Did

39:31

I have a close encounter with a drop bear? I like

39:34

to think so. P.S. on

39:36

behalf of Australians, no one here says,

39:38

that was shrimp on the bobby. I

39:41

honestly have no idea where this came

39:43

from because we call them prawns, not

39:45

shrimp. Probably

39:48

came from crocodile dendy, which is

39:50

where a lot of Americans got

39:52

their Australian knowledge. And I

39:54

think too, maybe Asinturus says that in Asintura

39:57

when he's making fun of a person's Australian

39:59

accent. Yeah, Jim Carrey

40:01

was like maybe rift that or something.

40:03

So oh, yes, so I apologize We're

40:06

gonna say it's out another pro on the Bobby

40:09

another prawn on the Barbie. I Just

40:12

have to say I love that Your

40:15

country slash continent has come together to

40:18

be like we gotta drop bad

40:20

when the tourists come by And

40:23

it's bigger and meaner than a koala

40:25

which I've recently learned some things about

40:27

koalas Which has changed my opinion of

40:29

them the sounds they make are heinous

40:34

Why are riddled with the clap? Yeah,

40:37

they do have chlamydia. It is a dangerous thing

40:39

You don't get too close But it's wild to

40:41

me the sounds that they make because they're so

40:43

cute and cuddly and I just always thought they

40:45

were quiet Screaming koalas

40:48

or something else man Well

40:50

giant one that's venomous and just

40:52

falls on top of you I

40:54

don't know I get in the veg bite behind

40:56

your ears only if that's great. Let it You

40:59

could have you could have seen a drop bear heard

41:01

one Josh. You may have heard a drop bear or

41:03

a Yowie

41:06

maybe What

41:08

if it was a bunch

41:10

of koalas hugging each other

41:13

all in one Like a

41:15

fell out together. They walk together like

41:17

a Power Rangers Megazord thing Or

41:19

a giant koala Two

41:22

big koalas mating. Yes, they

41:24

got Tussled

41:26

up and fell off the branch and then

41:28

that's what you heard That's

41:31

the sound of a koala like sound is

41:33

like it was it just a huge one

41:35

I don't I mean sometimes those rumors I

41:37

mean we have like snipe hunting in the

41:39

US where it's like all made up and

41:41

everything But there are still things out in

41:43

the forest. So whether a yowie or just

41:45

a mega koala with a glandular case DVD

41:48

if you're walking two and

41:51

a half hours after being at

41:53

the club all night My god,

41:55

sir, you are a brave brave

41:58

person only the stars Bush?

42:01

Oh yeah, I'll make this one. Yeah, it'd

42:03

have to be a really good club for

42:05

me to walk two and a half hours

42:07

through the bush at night to do that,

42:09

but I hope you had a great—and you wouldn't have

42:11

had this story had you not, so good for you.

42:14

True, exactly. That's how you encounter the

42:16

drop bears. Also, these photos that you

42:18

included, that is eerie. You're right, there's

42:20

something about that unnatural formation of natural

42:22

things where it's like, people did

42:24

this, this is made up, but especially the notes. The

42:27

trees don't grow naturally like this. Knowing

42:29

that eerie history is just ugh, I

42:31

can see why the cops would say that. Yeah,

42:34

I Googled how to pronounce the

42:37

state park and the first link

42:39

that came up was about

42:42

bones being found in this part and

42:44

they talk about Ivan Milat and how

42:46

that was kind of where he was

42:49

known to bury and take his victims. So

42:51

I think you're onto something

42:53

there for sure. Very very eerie.

42:55

Well, thank you so much for listening, Josh, all

42:57

the way from Australia. And please feel free to

42:59

be throwing any more of those like, is this

43:01

a thing in Australia? Like first of all, we

43:03

learned there's no lions, tigers or bears and now

43:06

no shrimp on the bar, but yeah, you know

43:08

what next thing you're going to tell me is

43:10

there are rules and it's not just right. I'm

43:12

not ready to hear that. I'm not ready to

43:14

hear that. We're going to hear that onions don't

43:16

really bloom there. First of

43:18

all, don't think that's true. God damn. Well,

43:21

we had to learn sometimes like every

43:24

good fantasy gets punctured. So

43:26

now when I go to Australia, at least you

43:28

saved us the embarrassment of ordering that. So thank

43:30

you, Josh. Well,

43:33

this next one's from Lisa and the subject line

43:35

is the Ouija board almost

43:37

got me expelled for accidentally starting

43:40

an elementary school cult. Hey

43:42

ladies, long time listener here who is

43:44

intended to send in a Freaky Friday

43:46

submission forever, but the Zozo

43:48

demon episode stirred otherwise long forgotten

43:51

memories of elementary school. So

43:53

let's get into it. I've always

43:55

been into the creepy and supernatural ever since

43:57

I was a kid. My four year old

44:00

niece seems to be following in my footsteps and

44:02

I cannot wait to be able to share this all with her.

44:05

But back when I was around 9 years old

44:07

or so, I remember being introduced to the

44:09

concept of the Ouija board at a distant

44:11

cousin's christening. Weird spot but whatevs.

44:14

Introduced by some older kids. I

44:16

was enthralled by this idea that we could

44:18

talk to spirits. And at the time, we

44:20

were using simply a piece of paper and

44:22

a little paper football as a planchette. I

44:25

took what I learned to school with me. And

44:27

every recess my friends and I would get together

44:30

with our drawn board and paper football and talk

44:32

to whomever would come through. My

44:34

friend at the time, let's call her Jane, seemed

44:37

to take it far more seriously than

44:39

us claiming she saw a boy with

44:41

patchy hair and a flannel shirt climbing

44:43

the trees. I mean it

44:46

was the early 90s when grunge was everywhere

44:48

so that tracks. I

44:50

had no idea any of this was an

44:52

issue until I was called into the principal's

44:54

office one day. I was

44:56

the goodiest of good girls so I had never had

44:58

to go before. My parents

45:00

were there. Uh oh, this

45:03

was serious. I

45:05

sat down and the conversation immediately turned

45:07

to my pushing of Satan worship onto

45:09

my classmates and how I was not

45:12

allowed to start a Satanist group on

45:14

school grounds. I

45:16

was incredibly confused. Satan? Who

45:19

invited him? I was just having

45:21

fun. Needless to say,

45:23

this put the fear of everything in

45:25

me and I quickly stopped my spiritual

45:27

shenanigans. I have so many stories

45:29

I want to share like when my dog saved

45:31

me from being kidnapped as a toddler to fainting

45:34

at the famed Lala Re House in New Orleans

45:36

to working with a world famous psychic medium. I

45:39

met you both a few years ago in

45:41

San Antonio. I was the New York broad

45:43

who got to ask Judge Christie to rule

45:45

on whether it's acceptable for Texas establishments not

45:47

to serve either Tito's or Diet Dr. Pepper.

45:50

Thanks for being my weekly burst of sunshine

45:52

in a world that increasingly feels cloudy. I'm

45:55

attaching a pic of my pup here as well as she

45:57

has listened to as much of your show as I have.

46:00

Entails: You've gotta pinch arm for the paranormal.

46:02

Keep. A Creepy and as always remember, Satan

46:05

doesn't just roll the airways. He's also making

46:07

little girls like me start colts in his

46:09

honor. insert. I roll here. Lisa.

46:14

Well, they are members. I do.

46:16

Hundred I am we were and I

46:18

rules as it is not okay and

46:20

then the house prices establishment didn't have

46:22

either of them and then we went

46:24

on. The owners. Instagram. Page

46:26

and I right moment and then of

46:28

as if he was critics financing of

46:30

list or started com it's an illusion

46:33

I will they harm and on his

46:35

sons picture it was them ah they

46:37

were doing a Purdue were Notre Dame

46:39

is lame some the mall thing yeah

46:41

we're like great job go Notre Dame's

46:43

by the way. You should really has

46:45

sea surface a or restaurants. Maybe it's

46:47

changed and now that they do it

46:49

if is something that I feel like

46:51

I said as they are you sleeping

46:54

com as as the furnace on the

46:56

block of a sore and perhaps one

46:58

day all be called to go visit

47:00

our the principal's office or something similar

47:02

the like you cannot have them all

47:04

put their hands on a plan said

47:06

and say if you're with us diverse

47:08

society while I see him he said

47:10

be able says it's researchers will be

47:13

playing with anybody who's whether. I'm sorry

47:15

that one of the little kids. Went

47:17

home, told their parents and they freaked out

47:19

and thought there food was going to be

47:21

corrupted by the devil. Judge is falling Jane

47:23

She was like mommy. I see a boy

47:25

out my window. I think we've contacted them

47:27

with our wheezy boards. Thanks for redness out

47:29

Jane! Well. As. Lisa I think you're

47:32

on the right track with decide to so would soon

47:34

learned the other kids and then you were not invited

47:36

Satan and to a but that was the early nineties.

47:38

Me Now as I say ten panic anything if you

47:40

are too much like black in any given day. There

47:42

were. Like. Is the devil making you? Were those players?

47:45

Yeah. You're like snow. I just thought

47:47

they were cool. The yes satanic panic

47:49

was for real and it made starting

47:51

our colts at school off. Harvey says

47:53

it net zero and that gotta do

47:55

it at home next time. Yeah you

47:57

see eg. grungy boy and a flannel

47:59

shirt. Clemens read your might be in

48:01

the nineties. Don't worry about it or

48:03

thanks Lisa. Sinister.

48:06

Have would be right back. The

48:09

future as a has responsibility and not one

48:11

that we take like need for the fans

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making things likely have never seen what has

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the is about the that's why we've created

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the has the were new program has her

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a hundred dismal science and religion

49:00

has to be. Somewhat.

49:05

To see those are two. This.

49:10

Last on us from I see daughter

49:13

anonymous subject line is a different. Sort

49:15

of with your board. sorry. Hello!

49:17

My Spooky Sisters! I love everything about the

49:19

podcast and I'm excited to be writing and

49:21

for the first time. I. Really

49:24

have not had any spooky experiences or brushes

49:26

with true crime and debated of the story

49:28

was even worth send again. However,

49:30

it's one of my memories I look back on

49:33

decades later and still laugh to the point of

49:35

tears. I thought you would appreciate it. Plus.

49:37

And know you sometimes mint and you enjoy having

49:39

a light store your teeth. So. Let's

49:42

dive right in. This. Takes place

49:44

sometime in the summer of the early

49:46

two thousands when I was your typical

49:48

pre teen girl ha a boy crazy.

49:50

My. Good friend will color and. And

49:53

invite him, myself, and several of our closest

49:55

friends over for a sleepover. I.

49:57

Was so excited for this event was all I could

49:59

talk of. for weeks. M

50:02

had a younger brother around age

50:04

10, we'll call him L, with

50:06

whom M was constantly bickering, the

50:08

usual big sister versus younger brother

50:10

dynamics. Apparently, in order

50:12

to keep things fair, M and

50:14

L's parents had decided that since M was having

50:17

friends over, L was entitled to

50:19

have friends over the same night. Terrible

50:21

idea, by the way, I don't understand

50:23

why they wanted to have approximately 10 children

50:26

under their care at once, but to each

50:28

their own. The

50:30

sleepovers began and us girls were doing

50:32

what all pre-teen girls do during a

50:35

sleepover. We were barricaded in M's

50:37

bedroom, braiding hair and gushing about

50:39

boys. Multiple times, L and

50:41

his friends barged in and disrupted us. I'm

50:43

not sure if they wanted to join us

50:45

or just annoy us, probably a little bit

50:47

of both, but M had clearly

50:49

had enough. After multiple

50:51

pleas to her parents, she hatched a

50:53

plan. I will admit, years

50:56

later, this was a very strange plan, but

50:58

M grabbed a piece of paper and a

51:01

pin and scribbled the following message, you

51:03

will all die tonight at midnight. She

51:06

then crumpled this paper into a ball, ensured

51:08

the boys were out of L's room and

51:10

threw it on his bed. Again,

51:13

why this was a good idea is a

51:15

mystery to me, but as you will

51:17

see, this somehow ended up being a

51:19

brilliant move that M could not have predicted.

51:22

At some point in the evening, L proclaimed

51:24

he wanted us all to gather and play with

51:26

their Ouija board. Yes, the 10 year

51:28

old wanted to play with the spirit board. Looking

51:31

back, I'm still shocked that they had this

51:33

in their home, considering M and L's family

51:35

were very Catholic. I

51:37

also need to point out that at

51:39

this time, M's note had still not

51:42

been discovered, despite the boys hanging out

51:44

in L's room all evening. This

51:46

likely had to do with the fact that

51:48

his bed was an unmade mess with sheets

51:50

strewn all around. To be honest,

51:53

we weren't super interested in joining, again,

51:55

hair braiding and boy time, but I

51:57

believe L made some digs at Older

52:00

kids were too scared, and he and his

52:02

friends were braver than we were. That's

52:05

all it took for Em to agree that we

52:07

would all participate. All

52:09

of us managed to squeeze into Elle's messy

52:11

bedroom, who insisted he would be hosting this

52:13

ghoulish encounter. I believe we

52:15

all huddled around, each placing a finger

52:18

on the planchette, as Elle very dramatically

52:20

waved his arms in the air and

52:22

shouted, spirits, if you are here, give

52:24

us a sign. Whatever

52:27

governing deity or energy you believe in

52:29

is responsible for what happened next. Immediately,

52:32

once Elle had shouted his proclamation

52:34

to the spirits, one of

52:36

Elle's friends looked over at the bed, saw

52:38

the crumpled up paper, and asked in a

52:40

shaky voice, Elle? What's

52:42

this? He picked it up and

52:45

handed it to Elle, who smoothed out the paper and

52:47

read Em's note out loud to the group. You

52:49

will all die tonight at midnight. For

52:53

a moment, it was so silent you could have heard a

52:55

pin drop. Then complete

52:57

and utter chaos broke out. All

52:59

of the boys started screaming and running around the

53:01

room in a panic. One of

53:03

Elle's friends asked him, Elle, who could have

53:05

written the note, sounding as though he was

53:07

on the verge of tears. Elle,

53:10

who also looked terrified, shouted back,

53:12

it's the spirits, you idiot. During

53:15

this encounter, all of us girls were trying

53:17

to look scared and bewildered, but we were

53:19

honestly having to cover and hide our faces

53:21

so the boys didn't see us all dying

53:23

of laughter. The boys

53:25

all ran out of the room to find

53:27

Em and Elle's parents, still absolutely terrified at

53:30

this quote, sign we had all just conjured

53:32

from the spirit realm. And

53:34

us girls finally let out the laughter and

53:36

tears we had been trying to hold back. We

53:39

were still lying on the floor, stomachs

53:41

hurting from cackling so much when Em's

53:43

mother walked in, hands on hips with

53:45

her lips pursed. Em?

53:47

She angrily yelled, which finally got us to

53:50

stop laughing. What did you

53:52

do to your brother and his friends?

53:54

This is unacceptable and not funny, she

53:56

said. Em's parents were clearly

53:58

not pleased that we had just scared them. the crap

54:00

out of all the young boys, all of

54:02

whom I think were now in tears. Em

54:05

received a harsh reprimand from both her parents,

54:07

but after that, the boys left us alone.

54:10

We were free to enjoy the rest of our evening,

54:12

gossiping while eating ice cream and watching TV. And

54:15

that, my friends, is the single time I ever

54:17

messed with the Ouija board. Well, I

54:19

guess technically we didn't even ask it a single

54:22

question, so there was no risk of spirits or

54:24

bad energy being released. I hope my

54:26

story puts a smile on your face like it does mine.

54:29

Every time I think about or hear Ouija boards mentioned.

54:32

Thank you for all the joy, laughter, and

54:34

interesting information you bring to my life with

54:36

your podcast. Keep it creepy. This

54:39

is just what happened to me. No notes. No

54:42

notes. This

54:45

is from Shannon and Heather Sinead again, so that would be

54:47

like, no, no, my, it's the

54:49

spirit, you idiot. So

54:51

you are Elle in this situation. I'm

54:54

definitely the little brother. I

54:56

think I'm Em in this story.

55:00

But I, the, the

55:03

not even being able to predict how

55:06

this would play out. Em has got

55:08

some sort of psychic capability. She just

55:10

feels like, you're like, this

55:12

is a weird plan. Oh, it'll work. She's

55:15

like, we'll need this later. And she crumples the

55:17

paper, kisses it and then throws it on

55:19

his bed and is like, just wait. You're

55:21

like, that's weird. And then it

55:24

unfolded perfectly. I love it. I

55:26

loved playing with Ouija boards at

55:28

sleepovers when I was a kid.

55:30

I also made my own. So I relate to a

55:32

lot of these stories and I never

55:35

did have a note though that said you

55:37

will all die tonight at midnight. That

55:39

is scary, but also kind

55:42

of funny. I mean, hilarious. I,

55:44

I, you know, to me, these are

55:47

fairly harmless pranks. So

55:49

you're going to get a bunch of 10 year

55:51

old boys upset for a minute, but also leave

55:53

your older sister and her friends alone when they're

55:56

trying to talk about boys and braid hair. Right.

56:00

around with the big kids because they will look around with you

56:02

back. That's what my mom probably would have told me. I'm like

56:04

crying. They made me scared. Why were you messing with them in

56:06

the first place? Get out of there. They

56:08

don't want you in there. They don't want you in there. Yeah.

56:11

Oh, tricks like that though, where it's like, I think we

56:13

heard something or I think like where the, that's a

56:15

rite of passage for a younger sibling. So I

56:18

love this for Elle that he's like, from

56:20

his perspective, it's like the night that

56:22

we thought we conjured something and evil

56:24

spirit. You idiot. It's

56:26

the spirit. It's the

56:28

spirit. You idiot. Yeah. Anonymous,

56:31

if you still talk to him and Elle

56:33

wants to write in his point of

56:36

view of this story, I would love

56:38

to hear it. Yes. We

56:40

welcome it with open arms, but that, thank you

56:42

for that lighthearted. And I love that Zozo the

56:44

Ouija board demon isn't cursing anyone except for with

56:46

the, those old memories

56:48

we haven't thought of in a long time from

56:51

elementary school. That's wonderful. He's bringing

56:53

us all back together. Isn't he? See, he's getting

56:55

a bad rap, but I think he's just trying

56:57

to help us remember. We're rebranding him. That's

56:59

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57:01

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