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No, you're not. That's my government name.
Don't use it, buddy.
I will come to your house and strangle you in your sleep Because I'm a weirdo Where's Ash?
Did I do that right?
That's obviously Ash That's obviously not Ash is with us No It is not Ash As you guys can tell we have sheena malwani and trid in the house today last time we were here you had a button that clapped this time i'll clap for myself we did we still have a button but i never know which button it is that's so i could hit something but let's do it let's see what happens yeah let's hit a button i don't think we're not wearing headphones so you tell us what happened i don't think anything happened it's just gonna be like dead air i'll insert something really That's an insert funny sound here.
Like, or something.
Oh, yes. Vuvuzelas.
I like those. There you go.
Oh, I forgot what those were called.
Vuvuzelas. What is it?
That's what I called that.
They're something. Vuvuzelas?
They're like Vuvuzelas.
There's something like that.
Is that a thing? You just made that up.
No, it's actually pretty close to that.
I'm pretty sure. I don't know, though.
Maybe this is just confirmation bias.
And I'm like, yeah, totally.
That's what it is. I think that's what it is.
It's like a what he said thing.
Yeah, he says it. I'm like, that sounds right.
I like that. He does that with a lot of confidence, and then you believe him.
That's what it is. He's got the entire internet fooled.
Absolutely. And I immediately was one of those people.
As soon as I came across your video on TikTok, I was like, I believe everything you say.
Him. Yeah. Not me. No, I never.
Nobody believes me, but I'm actually the one who speaks all the truth.
But no one believes me.
But no one. Everyone's like, it's him.
Yeah, those are VBs.
He actually stopped.
He went silent. Vuvuzela.
To search for Vuvuzela.
He was. once. That sound was brought to you by Google.
There you go. That's not a pa pa pa pa pa.
I know that's a wrong instrument.
That is different. But he said it with confidence so you believed him.
I did. And I still kind of do.
Creatively enough. I haven't even forgotten yet.
You know what? Yeah.
That's what it is. But yeah.
You guys. I'm sure you guys know who Sheena Malani and Trid is.
And if you don't go on TikTok.
Yeah. Come find us.
And go find Sheena.
And you will also find Trid.
And you will laugh your ass off And you will end up sending these videos between either your friends or your husband or wife 100 ,000 times a night.
People send it to their kids and their grandparents.
Entire families. Because that's what happened with John and I.
We were literally for like an entire year sending your videos back and forth between ourselves.
And now they don't do it anymore because they're sane people.
You can find me. We know them.
It's fine. We still send the videos.
I'm not going to lie.
You can find me on Spotify.
There you go. No, you can find me on Spotify.
Well, someone had to say it.
Because Sheena is multi -talented.
Not only hilarious and a beautiful luna moth.
I still don't get that, but I love it.
I've decided to call Sheena a beautiful luna moth because luna moths are beautiful.
It really is a very interesting looking creature.
They're unique. Yes.
They're pretty. I'll take it.
I feel like they sparkle without actually sparkling.
Which is like you. Like you're not fully made out of glitter, but I feel like you are glittery.
Should I just come back and pick her up in an hour?
You also are fully glittery.
Ash, where are you?
But that's my skincare routine.
Yeah, but you're like actually fully glittery.
Yes. He is glowing today.
Because I have an emoji.
He's an actual disco ball right now.
It's an emoji disco ball.
Why are you glowing today?
What is happening? It's my aura.
It's your aura. Yes, I'm a special person.
I actually Rubbed a pregnant woman's tummy this morning That'll do it If she doesn't punch you in the face She was asking for that Why do people do that?
I never liked when people did that No me neither They just come up and they touch your stomach And they're like oh can I touch you You're already touching me You're already here I don't know what to do here When I was pregnant with the twins I was so gigantic that everyone felt like They really had license to do that.
With both hands. And license to be like, oh, are you ready to pop?
And I was like, no, I'm only five months pregnant.
Thank you for asking that because I want to explode.
You should rub people's heads.
Pregnant women out there, you are allowed to rub the person rubbing you right back.
Like bald heads? If they're bald, double points.
But you just rub their head.
Whatever's up there, just rub it.
You just rub. Like, oh, you rub me, I rub you.
Why are you rubbing my head?
why are you rubbing my stomach yeah it's a valid question the best thing would be like why are you rubbing my stomach i'm not pregnant yeah that oh that is yeah the ultimate super uncomfortable like what are you doing because that will be something they think about in their final hour they will be like remember that time remember that very very woman's stomach piece lady who was stealing basketballs and dicks and i rubbed her stomach and i rubbed her stomach and she told me she wasn't pregnant.
Like that'll stay with them forever.
And then she rubbed my head.
Yeah, that's the ultimate.
That's the way to ruin someone.
That really is. That's why I come on this show.
That is. We have to talk about how to rub people the wrong way.
Life -ruining moments.
Yes. Brought to you by Triss.
But you know what we should talk about a little bit?
Disney. Oh, your favorite place.
We're going to Disney.
Well, I heard your raving review.
I booked immediately.
The most magical place on earth as far as I'm concerned.
I mean, I actually wanted to ask you if you wanted to come with us.
Yeah, you know what I do?
I need to do a redo because that was not a great experience, I think.
I heard you did more laundry in Disney than you have in your own house in a month.
Yeah, at one point we broke the dryer.
Come on. But not in a good way.
In the middle of the night.
Whenever is it a good way that you would break a dryer?
When it's not filled with vomit.
Yeah, that is better than anything.
Anything is better than how they broke it.
That's definitely not the way you want to break it.
I'm going to keep it clean on this show.
Yeah. Because I know they, this is a G -rated show, Sheena.
It is, we don't swear.
Behave yourself. We don't talk about them.
They only talk about Disneyland.
That's all, that's what this podcast is.
It's just a Disney podcast. They're your official sponsor.
Yeah, official sponsor Disney.
I'm wearing ears right now.
If Ash was here, she would give out one to five.
She would. She had, she, I love her.
Cause she was just like, she fully committed to the Disney experience.
I love that. That's how I expect to go.
That's how I expect it.
But I also have that, like, I really appreciated what you were saying about like just seeing Disney through your kid's eyes.
Yes. And I think that's a whole different thing.
It is. It really, when you go as a parent, you kind of put all your own stuff aside and you just go and you love it because you see the world through your children's eyes.
Oh yeah. And even when you're like sweating and there's a million people slamming into you.
and it smells weird and you're like why am I here I hate that everything's pastel and I'm like oh god I don't know what you're I was like it's bearing down on me and then like we went into the little bippity boppity boutique and the girls were just like blown away that they got to go into Cinderella's castle to get their hair done I was like all right this is all right yeah like immediately I was like this is great you know what makes me happy that all of those moments They enjoy being princesses Comes from John Yes That makes me happy Because it's certainly not coming from over here It's not coming
from you Like your black nails I don't know where I get John loves it too He was like fully invested Where is that guy he's my hero I thought he was going to be here I know he's not here Ash is not here All the Disney people have evacuated the building yeah they left mortician their place to talk about disney we love it i'm here to add a little little spice that's all yeah we're gonna we're gonna redo disney we're gonna do it right john john is like absolutely determined to do disney like where you like it yeah he was like we're gonna make this go in october yeah there you go there'll be like
a spooky disney for sure i did do the pirates of the caribbean ride and there's a big drop and i was proud of myself self for doing it survived the drop so did my three -year -old so all four seconds of it it was like it was a good drop at the end of it i was like because drew told us you know he was he's been there like a million times so drew was our like unofficial tour guide and would tell us if certain rides were okay for the kids or if you know this one has a drop i don't know if you'll like it and that one he was like there is a drop but it's really small and you can handle the drop I looked
back at him and I was like you son of a bitch that was a big drop he was like it really wasn't that really wasn't in the official Disney photo she's looking back I'm just looking at Drew the kids are all smiling everyone else is like yay I'm like son of a bitch in their booster seats they admit on said ride they thought it was great so we will go and recreate all these pastel memories in two weeks pastel wonder it's just parenting filtersunting in a different space in in like a magical land yeah with bracelets with no sleep with lots with bracelets that translate to money i heard there were giraffes
that like roam they they're they just like come right up they like serve coffee in the morning those giraffes like do you need anything and you're like no yeah that's fine thanks for just being here more sheets please please definitely more sheets in this one we'll take all the sheets preferably dark oh yeah Yeah.
Oh, they're all white sheets.
Let me tell you, all of them are white, but not after my family was there.
You know what you would have enjoyed?
If you would have found a tunnel that took you to the Disney Underworld.
Yes. To show you how all this happens.
Any underworld would have been better.
You would have enjoyed it.
You would have seen like stains on the wall and people running, screaming.
Yeah. Hey, where the hell is that Cinderella?
She's due in this castle in four minutes.
And you see some high school girl running, Putting on a slipper No You have to embrace Laugh at them Up where they walk Up where they run Up where they stay all day In the sun Wandering free Wish I could be Part of that world Just embrace it Where did that come from?
What just happened?
Ariel just came in here real quick What just happened?
And then somehow swam out with no water I don't even know how that just happened That was a real special treat It's a Disney trick You know I wanted to be a Disney princess You should be a Disney princess Yeah but not Jasmine Not Jasmine The red headed Ariel Why would I be Jasmine Why be Jasmine when you can be Ariel Why I want to be a ginger I feel that Who doesn't want to be a ginger Not me I'm just saying I promised people it was going to get weird in here It's going to get weird Alright let's do it Okay now that you've got her all bubbly with her Disney songs Tell her what we're going to be
talking about Freak me out to now Scared the shit out of me You know she's afraid, right?
You know she will not watch a horror movie.
She will not watch anything.
But she comes here.
I love it. You know, what's that?
They made like a joke, like a spook off of like Scream.
Oh yeah, scary movie.
Yeah, I won't even watch that.
And those are hilarious.
I know, but I won't watch it.
All right, tell us a story.
All right, so listener tale time.
And this one is a themed episode.
episode and deb deb has found haunted hospitals oh why because because hospitals are just fun places otherwise they're not sad enough and scary enough it's all the sadness where do you think ghosts go to heal to heal they need hospitals too yeah there you go it's true hospitals are spooky take it from someone who worked at a morgana hospital overnight many times it's a creepy creepy place.
Why is that not surprising to me?
Yeah. A morgue. You know what's funny too?
All the nurses would come down when they would have to come down.
They hated coming down to the morgue and they would come down in the middle of the night and every single time they'd always go, are you just alone down here?
And I was like, yeah.
And they'd be like, are you okay?
And I was like, yeah, I'm fine.
And they're like, I couldn't do that.
And they just leave. They were just like, you're horrifying.
I have to go. All of them were just like - That does sound horrifying.
Every time. Are you alone down here?
Is anyone listening surprised?
I was like, yeah, Except for all these people For me the morgue is like underneath Disney Yeah It's essentially that And then you're happy about it Yeah it was great it was very quiet and peaceful in there You know just talk to people They're dead Yeah they can talk back to you Only once in a while they talk back My favorite kind of interaction is just like I can just sit there and talk No small talk we're good It's great Especially in the middle of the night Hard pass The only problem with the morgue in the middle of the night is if you do get a weird, like, visual in your head.
Like, we had one that was, like, a pretty gnarly one.
And so it kind of, like, shook me for a second when they came in.
And I was sitting in the office, and I just kept thinking about, what if they just stood up and walked in here?
And then I kept getting this weird vision of them just standing up and walking in in a body bag into the office.
Oh, my God. That wasn't great.
That would be exactly what I'd need to run for the hills.
Yeah, that was not great.
Never come back. So I just kept having to go in there and peek And be like oh He hasn't moved Still dead Still dead Yeah Is that why they put locks on those freezers?
Yeah Because they try to get up and come out So they can't come out Yeah Because sometimes This is little known But sometimes they're like Just lock them in there Yeah We don't We don't want to We're not sure Because they get up sometimes But let's just throw them in there Can we move on They like sometimes Like zombies are real We'll go on the haunted hospitals hospitals take a sharp look in the freezer i'm never going down to a morgue ever it's a it's a place yeah it's got a vibe it's got a smell they should put it right on the top floor it has a smell too yeah and it's not like a dead body
smell but it's like got a very like chemical smell like mothball yeah there's a lot of like different preservatives preservatives go yeah the same things that they put sweet and you get a different kind of smell that's for sure but if If you're in there, you should have your face covered.
I wish you guys could see my face.
She's smiling. She's like, I just want to see that.
She's just eating hummus sandwich. Yeah, it's fine.
All right, so my first one I'll do is called, Pediatric Nurse Gets More Than She Bargained For.
I don't love ghost kids, so this is going to be challenging.
But this one says, yeah, I don't love a ghost kid.
Why? Why? Because one, like they're always giggling, which is weird. Yeah, or like doing some or singing.
I don't love like a singing child ghost. That's not really my cup of tea.
You should be an equal opportunity ghost lover.
I am, like, I'm not going to turn you away.
Yeah. But like, you're not going to be my favorite.
You're not going to be employee of the month over here as a child ghost. The singing is always like creepy and out of tune.
It's always, and yeah, that's what it is.
It's always out of tune.
It's out of tune. That's the issue.
Okay, I get it. It's very stressful.
It's very unprofessional.
is what it is. If the dead kid could just sing properly, it'd be fine.
And also, if it's a kid ghost, you're like, you died.
I know. That's a kid that died.
Yeah. So yeah, so pediatric nurse gets more than she bargained for.
And back to dead kids.
It says, Hey, Elena, Ash, and Deb -Deb.
My name is Heather.
Yes, you can use my name if by some miracle this makes it onto the pod.
Miracles happen. Hi, Heather.
Yes. It's on the pod.
But not for the children we're about to discuss.
Apparently not. And I would like to start off by saying thank you for taking the time out of your day to read this submission, even though I am sure you have a billion and seven others to read.
You're amazing. You really are.
And you stood out, Heather.
I can say your name?
Yep, I can. So you guys are absolutely amazing and I don't think I would survive my hour -long drive to work every day without this podcast. You guys are pure entertainment and I wish I could be your guys' BFF because you're dope as shit.
We are BFFs and you are also dope as shit, Heather.
Yes. And Ash would agree.
Absolutely. If she was here, she would say you are dope as fuck.
buck. I agree on her behalf.
I have her proxy today.
But you feel it. Yeah I feel it in my soul.
And you exude it. Yes.
I feel that. Dope. You guys have made me cry with laughter so many times all while talking about murder and that takes some real talent.
Anyway. It really is a skill.
You know you got to make fun of the murderer.
That's what I'm saying.
Anyways I'm going to get into my supernatural experience before my ADHD takes over and I end up gushing over you you guys for 20 pages.
I love you, Heather.
So I am currently a pediatric nurse, which means you're a superhero.
So thanks for being that.
Love a pediatric nurse.
Love them. They saved one of my twin's lives.
So I always love a pediatric nurse.
They really are the true heroes.
Amazing. Like, I mean, literal superheroes.
The doctors, I mean, they're awesome.
Also, they come in, they leave, but the pediatric nurses are the ones that are there through the night holding the hair back.
Exactly. They're always bringing the extra toys in and the extra little things that you need.
So for some background information on how my final semester went, most of my days were spent at a hospital assigned to a nurse that already worked there and learning from her how to be the best nurse I can be.
Shout out to you, Alyssa, for making my final semester the best semester ever.
Thanks, Alyssa. Shout out to Alyssa.
Alyssa, you rock. You are the MVP. P .S.
I asked and you can say her name, too.
Good, because I said it before looking ahead.
Good thing she asked.
I would have had to bleep that out.
I mean, her name is Lissima.
Hell yeah, Lissa. Originally, I asked my school if I could be assigned to a neonatal intensive care unit.
You really are a hero.
Who are you? You're amazing.
At one of the hospitals in my city because I already had a job lined up there for after I graduated.
Unfortunately, due to COVID, that unit wasn't taking students, and my 3 .4 GPA wasn't good enough to go to the children's hospital in the city.
This meant I got stuck at a hospital I had never been to and had to work on a floor that only saw adults.
That sucks. I'm going to try to continue this story with giving as much detail as I can without violating HIPAA.
I appreciate that. Yeah, I know.
That's a good rule.
I do appreciate that.
At one point towards the end of my semester, I was doing well enough that the nurse who oversaw me would let me go into patients' rooms alone to do certain things.
My first patient was in his mid -30s and was completely with it mentally.
While I was getting his vitals, I tried to make small talk.
One of the first questions I asked was, how did you sleep last night?
The man proceeded to tell me that he slept fine, except for around midnight when a group of children went running through the halls and peeking into every room once in a while.
And so it begins. He then said that once the quote -unquote older nurse got the children to behave, he was able to go to sleep.
I immediately froze when he told me this for two reasons.
One. Can I guess? Can I guess?
What are the reasons?
There are no children in that hospital.
One. Two. And two, there's no older nurse.
Ding, ding, ding. One, at this time.
I should be writing these stories.
At this time, COVID rates were still high, so children were not allowed at the hospital.
Oh, my God. And two, all the nurses from the night before were under 40 years old, so there was no older nurse working there that night.
Yep. Literally melting.
I can't. I told the man all of this, and he looked at me completely confused.
confused he then went on to tell me that there were definitely kids running in the halls the previous night and that the quote girl with the blue sweater was the one who was going in and out of the room the most the one with the long hair someone to comb that brat's hair yep and she had a british accent and she was the ghost of christmas i continued to just stare at the man like the the awkward turtle I am, and said, okay, cool, before leaving to go find my nurse.
She's just like, rad.
I know. Thumbs up for you, man.
Awesome. Sorry about that.
Won't happen again.
Can't guarantee that won't happen tonight.
Did we double his medication last night?
Let's make him sleep.
I immediately told her what the man said to me, and she then proceeded to say, oh, yeah, patients here see kids running down the halls all the time at night.
What? And then she said, this makes sense, considering this was a pediatric floor when the hospital first opened.
Oh, so they're just a bunch of dead kids.
Yes. Even though this wasn't a saying at the time, I definitely shit my dick at this moment.
That's an unfortunate event for her to experience.
She's like wasn't a saying back then, but I felt it in my bones.
Is it a saying now?
Heather just made it up.
It is. I heard it on TikTok.
Oh, you did? There's a TikTok sound that says, are you shitting my dick?
And it's Ash's favorite.
What side of TikTok are you on?
i'm not on that side it's an ash side of tiktok because ash is the one that brings me these and it's like this is the funniest shit i've ever seen she has the most random tiktok algorithm her feed i'd be curious to spend a day on her feed is a wild place to be i love it yeah just mine's like a very spooky it has spooky stuff but it also has like lots of like parent humor often random sheena video pops up and one random sheena and trid video every once in a while you fly in there all the time yeah just spooky parent puppies that's more like hers is hers is like her like her her music algorithm
would be insane too she listens to literally everything under the sun and that is who she is right there's just no rhyme or reason she's gemini i love it you know yeah multiple people why we love floating around in all those souls who we getting today you know i love it all right not knowing what else to do or say i moved moved on to my next patient.
This was an older woman who had been there for a while and I've had many conversations with, mostly about her adorable cat and dog because I could talk for hours about someone's pets with them.
Same. She greeted me with a good morning darling to which I responded with a good morning and asked her to FaceTime with her cat and dog with the, how her FaceTime went with her cat and dog the previous night.
Oh, she didn't ask and asked your FaceTime.
how did it go last night hanging out on FaceTime with your cat and dog?
I love that she did that.
Love it. Where am I?
She said it went fine, but that the children running in the hall got too distracting at one point.
Oh boy, with the children again.
Once again, I shit my dick.
There she goes. I then proceeded to ask her if she remembered what the children looked like, to which she responded that the one child who kept going in and out of the room was a little girl wearing a cardigan the same color as my scrub pants.
My scrub pants were blue.
Well they were before she soiled them I honestly can't tell you how the rest of my day went because I was too paranoid looking over my shoulder worrying that ghost children were following me in and out of rooms Also from then on any time I worked a night shift I would try to tell the ghost children to behave and not keep the patients up that night That's nice of you But she kept working there She kept working there What's she going to do?
She's going to quit I would not last more than Not even one day but one minute after that I would love it I would have left I would have found my replacement Because I'm responsible To the ghost children I'm sorry That's a hard pass Sorry kids Gotta go You freak me out It says I probably looked like a freaking weirdo Talking to nothing But like you guys always say, it's good to keep things weird, but not so weird that ghost children go in and out of people's hotel rooms, keeping them up at night.
Because to be honest, that's a little rude.
That is a little rude.
Let them sleep. The fact that two patients said the exact same thing.
Back to back. Yeah.
It's like, that's not just one guy being like, yeah, I had weird visual and auditory hallucinations last night.
Scary as shit. Maybe I'm on weird meds.
No, that is terrifying.
terrifying unless the weird meds were being served to everybody in that ward that night yeah and they all had the same symptoms yes they were messing with her that's how that's what i would do if i was like oh you think it's like a hazing i for sure would do that if i were in a hospital i'd just call my friend bertha next door because all old ladies with dogs and cats that they facetime i call bertha hey bertha blue cardigan today got it okay do it do it okay good the new girl's coming.
Let's go with the blue cardigan noise.
That is a hazing. That would be a really good hazing to weed out the weak.
Yeah. You're like, you're not going to handle this.
If you're listening to this.
Like you probably, like there's going to be a lot worse on here.
So like if you can't handle the ghost children, like this probably is the time for you.
If you are listening.
I see what I need to see and I can leave. I'm all done here.
Yeah, I'm good. So if you're listening to this from a hospital ward, talk to all your your roommates and come up with a story to scare the crap out of the night.
There you go. Weed it out.
Get the best of the best. Survival of the fittest. This is so good.
I'm going to do that.
It's got to be. I'm going to do that.
Visit a hospital and go tell.
The problem is he's going to do it to me.
Start the story. Start the story.
Tell everybody that children were running the halls at night and see what happens when the interns come tomorrow.
There you go. You're cut out to be a pediatric nurse if you can put up with that.
Ghost children or alive children.
Thanks, Heather. Thanks, Heather.
you're the best. I am absolutely obsessed with a sweet treat after dinner, and my favorite sweet treat right now is my mochi.
It's mine, not yours.
Just kidding. You can have some too.
This is a cool, creamy scoop of ice cream wrapped in a soft, chewy dough.
It's like a sweet little ice cream dumpling or ravioli.
I'm obsessed. It's pillowy.
It's satisfying. I feel indulged.
I just love it so much. I really am obsessed with the strawberry flavor right now.
My mochi is only around 70 calories per piece, which like, hello, that's amazing.
My mochi is gluten -free and each box has six perfectly portioned mochi snacks.
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So this next one that Sheena is going to read is called Featuring Hospital in the Spirit of a Deceased Friend.
Love, Jen. More hospitals?
The whole theme. This is all going to be a theme.
All right. Haunted Hospitals.
Good day, my morbid mates.
Ooh, I like that. Yeah, I'm terrible with accents.
How did you decide to go with that?
That's how he wrote it.
Good day, my morbid mates.
Oh, okay. Yep, if you can't tell, I'm Australian.
Oh, hell yeah. Yeah.
I can, but I just can't do the accent.
We love an Australian.
But this Australian fan is a huge fan.
Contrary to popular belief, we don't always say good day mate.
It's more like an old school white dad who dances really awkwardly at a barbecue kind of thing to say.
That makes sense. That does make sense.
Like my dad says - Good day mate.
He's going to be saying good day mate for the rest of the day.
And dancing awkwardly.
That's how I say yes.
If Ash was here, she would use her Australian accent in the one word that she knows how to do it.
But she always says nar when she wants to get down.
Oh, yes, yes. Nar. Nar.
Are you going to give us a good day, right?
Nar. Nar. Yep. Well, have I got a weird story for you.
Here we go. I love it.
You see. Nar. What was that?
Say R and R. R and R?
R and R. Now you just said, oh, no, like in Australian.
R and R. R and R. There you go.
Oh, my God. it works there you go that's my gift to you today thank you for bestowing that upon me R &R you know what I did like an Australian accent let's give it a minute for everyone we'll give you 10 seconds now in your cars in your homes wherever you are everyone on 3 1, 2, 3 R &R you're all experts now Morbid's gift to you today is how to show sympathy if you're in australia you know what i looked up all the like the different ways to say things like with the australian accent because when we did like australian madness i think we did an episode that was just like crazy australian stuff and i
got good at it but i lost it how i have to get good at it practice years ago i just didn't do it again we have to practice i probably got self -conscious about it i'm super self -conscious i'll have to get back on it okay i want to get that in a scottish accent i want to do really good because Because I can only say donké, and that's all I got.
That's an ass. Yeah.
That's an ass. In case you were wondering.
In case you were wondering.
Just here to confirm that is an ass.
Donké. Yeah, go on.
All right. Let's continue.
Anyway. You see, I spent a lot of time in a hospital as a child.
I was born with cystic fibrosis.
It's a genetic lung and digestive system condition.
It sucks. Sucks, yet I am pretty healthy these days and have had a very successful lung transplant nine years, whoa, I know.
And when I was, nine years ago when I was 23 and the liver transplant 18 years ago when I was 14 years old.
Now I'm 32 and doing well.
This is amazing. You don't realize that we're like Legos.
Yeah. With medicine, just swap out this piece.
Yeah. Take this one and put this one in.
And just put it back in.
And he's fine. Like that's wild.
That is liver and lung.
Go sign all your, what is it?
your license yeah if you're dead why you need to keep the parts let a guy like this get the part so you can keep living got my little heart on my license yeah send all the hate my way for people want to take their organs but i think that's ridiculous take it i'm literally gonna be what did you do with it when you were in the basement in the hospital give it to somebody someone else can use it yeah yeah at least that way they won't come after you Exactly.
Listen to my friend, Lego Man.
Sign your organ donor cards.
Yes, do it. In 2007.
Okay, so this was when she was in the hospital in 2007 when she was 17.
Okay. I got to know a lot of my nurses at the kids' hospital over the years pretty well.
Some would let me hang out behind the desk on night shift if I couldn't sleep because hospital beds suck.
Yeah, they do. They truly do.
So one night I was hanging out with the nurses.
It had been a pretty sad day on the ward. unfortunately i experienced a friend passing away while i was in the hospital oh that's really sad that is sad it would rarely happen yet my friend had passed away in the icu that morning after she was transferred there from the ward um she also had oh she also had cystic fibrosis let's call her kate for the story to protect her identity kate was waiting for a double lung and liver transplant we were good friends and she was just too sick and didn't make it in time for for her transplant to come.
Oh, that's so sad. That is really sad.
See organ donors. Yep.
I encourage everyone listening to sign up.
Hey, we did it already.
On the Kessler Swebsider Foundation for organ donations.
There you go. I know it's not like the black market organ donation, which is illegal and unethical.
Thanks for that. That's some education for another time though.
Kate was strong, funny, never afraid of anything and would teach me things I never knew about anything and everything.
She was wise beyond her years and I honestly believe she was here to teach people.
She passed at the age of 15 and around two weeks before her 16th birthday.
Oh, Gemma. That's really sad.
I'm so sorry. I wish I knew Kate.
I know. When she was put into the ICU after being stabilized in surgery and not back on the ward, oh, before her 16th birthday, all her things were left in her room on the ward and she had already been in the hospital for weeks.
She was not too sick to go home and she was too sick to go home until the transplant came.
unfortunately it wasn't meant to be and a donor could not be matched in time i hate that that's really sad so there i was hanging out with the nurses behind the desk one night late around 3 a .m they let cystic fibrosis patients hang out behind the desk occasionally if we couldn't sleep etc back in 2007 these days there were not a lot of these days there were not a lot of rules with cf patients and cross infection unlike in the movie five feet apart there is some truth to to that movie yet i can't stand that movie though i mean who the hell goes ice skating on a lake in the middle of the night
when waiting for a lung transplant i could barely shower myself or walk three meters let alone do that that would be really frustrating to watch while you're going through it and you're like yeah no that doesn't work thank you for that right beautiful back to my story my nurse and i were chatting away about random things surfing the web looking up silly sites like funny junk .com who remembers that funny junk funny joke .com i'm not even sure if it's still a website.
It was like a website of funny photos before memes were a huge thing.
I love that. Me too.
We should go look it up after this.
Funnyjunk .com We'll look it up as you're doing it.
Maybe it's just junk .com.
Oh look, here's a fridge.
The aircon in the hospital was getting maintenance work done.
I promise this is important later.
So the aircon wasn't working for a few hours that night.
All of a sudden from Kate's empty room as she had been transferred to the ICU you, slowly bopping out was a balloon.
It was a get well foil balloon with the ribbon still attached to it, which we both knew was tied at the other end to her bed.
Her room was right near the nurse's station as she was one of the more critical patients and needed a lot of care.
My nurse and I were talking and mid -sentence looked at the balloon, then looked at each other, then looked back at the balloon.
We looked at each other again and just whispered, what the fuck?
Okay what what the actual f there was no draft no air to push this balloon bopping along the hallway at us remember how I said there was no air con that night and it was tied down at the end of her bed the balloon had pink and red colors if it was only red in color I probably would have yeeted myself into an early discharge home thinking it the clown was now yeah I was I was going to say Pennywise is coming through.
Yeah. So, as I have been in and out of the hospital with my CF most of my childhood over the years, I found out where the morgue was.
It was down the large hallway and into the diagnostic services part of the hospital.
Now, this hallway just happened to be near the teenagers' ward. Oh.
This story is getting a little bit scary.
Getting a little scary.
I know. My nurses and I stood up.
By now, it had bopped right up close to the desk, hovering, super creepy.
We were both gobsmacked.
That's a good word. That is a good word. All of a sudden it turned towards the ward main doors and floats out.
As there were two other nurses in the drug room, my nurse quickly told them, um, we'll be back in one second.
We both decided to follow this balloon that had us gobsmacked and freaked the F out.
Now it was out of the ward and yep, still bopping down that hallway.
Oh, that's spooky. And they were actually following said balloon.
Oh yes, she wants back in.
I would follow the hell out of the balloon.
You would too? Yeah, I need to know where it's going.
Okay, my nurse and I were half laughing and I said, why do I feel so cold?
Ooh. We both had goosebumps now.
Remember, the air con wasn't working.
The balloon had reached the next hallway away from the hall to the ward towards the hallway past the elevator to the diagnostic section of the hospital.
Which is ding, ding, ding.
We're home. Nothing could have been making this thing move the way that it did.
Yep, it was still floating.
and this time at more of a speed, and we were both so cold.
There's a ghost afoot.
Katie? There is a ghost afoot.
Kate? Let me tell you.
I know. I'm sorry to tell you.
Ghost makes you cold.
You okay, my nurse asked.
Yeah, fine. I just, I was kind of stunned and pointed to the balloon.
We watched the balloon.
It went down the hallway, and we both gasped.
It turned a new corner straight to the hallways that led to the diagnostic services where the mortuary was.
We both screamed as we had the same thought.
Kate! She wants her balloon.
Oh my God. You're surprised?
Like, it just... Come on.
I knew it was following, but I wasn't thinking of her wanting her balloon.
Well, I thought she was just taking the balloon.
I thought she was just, like, leading them that way, but now I'm like, oh my God, she wants her balloon back.
Maybe it was her, and she was just walking with her balloon.
She was only 15, because she was going to be turning 16.
It's, like, her birthday.
So she's like, I want my balloon.
We suddenly realized what had happened and ran back to the ward laughing.
What? Yeah. We saw something really bizarre.
I couldn't sleep that night.
Wait they didn't complete the journey?
They did not complete the journey they just laughed and went back.
Why didn't they take the balloon to Katie?
Because I think they were like Katie came in and took it herself.
But did they make it all the way?
They were like Katie will get this.
Katie will take it.
Katie you got it from me.
Yeah she's got it from me.
They were all sad. Peace out.
The next night my nurse was on again and Kate's mom still exhausted from the day before now grieving had come to the ward to pack up Kate's things from her room my nurse called Louise by the way was helping pack up her belongings to go home I felt like I had to tell her about the balloon me and Kate's mom were close when I told her she was tearing up and smiled that is just so so funny is it though yeah why she definitely was playing a trick on you and Louise my nurse I guess it was her way of saying hello she always said to me she will say hi in a a creative way to her friends and nurses oh i
love that i mean i guess that's creative that is a nice way of saying yeah i love you yeah just like a little balloon bombing like it's not threatening it's not threatening like as spooky as it is you're like that's just a balloon right you know like we all laughed kate had been has been gone a long time since 2007 yet she always yet she's always in my thoughts cystic fibrosis isn't cured yet and i hope one day it will be Treatment has improved, yet we have a long way to go.
I encourage everyone to donate to cystic fibrosis charities and research. Yes.
We'll link some in our show notes.
Oh, that's nice. That's really sweet.
I'm still in contact with Kate's family and my old nurse, Louise.
We never went down the diagnostic service building as you needed an electronic pass to get to a certain area.
But the balloon just went through the door.
That's why they didn't follow.
Not everybody could get into the Morgan, our hospital.
You had to have like a certain pass.
How did the balloon get past?
hey you know paranormal stuff they always have a pass they have all the electronic wherever they want you know yeah love the podcast keep it weird but not so weird that your friend passes away and haunts you with a balloon that it's somehow untied from her bed and goes down the hallway at 3 a .m just to spook the bejesus out of you and it's 3 a .m too it's the witch it's always 3 a .m that's always 3 a .m that's when all the weird shit happens that's why i don't get out of my bed yeah that's when my youngest used to see skeleton skeleton was my buddy skeleton 3am just hanging out 3am oh man all right
damn gemma that was like a sweet one use my name so this won't be beep the whole episode will not be beeped out i love it and you know what that was like a sweet one was it very kind it's like her friend coming her friend coming from the dead and just being like a little silly goofy just being like okay just a note to all my friends if you die and you're a ghost please don't play a joke you mean nothing to me the minute you stop breathing you mean nothing to us no nothing to me you can send me no don't send anything sweet little messages in the form of like a nice book showing up at my door oh
there you go they have to go get a subscription To continue to show your love Don't freak me out with a balloon Just show up in her mirror at 3am That's the kindest way to do it Do you know when I was younger I heard stories of Bloody Mary I never actually saw any movies or anything Bloody Mary used to scare the shit out of me But if I had to go to the bathroom In the middle of the night I would close my eyes As I washed my hands Why don't we create a morbid mirror That you can sell to people So they can put it in the guest bathrooms of their homes With Bloody Mary?
no so only in the morning yeah children the children's faces just pop up and the giggling noise just like the hi don't forget to wash your hands oh my god but only at 3 a .m like three to four a .m only if it's dark if they turn the light on it doesn't work but only in the dark that happens i love hard let's make that product that would be so good tm yeah that's a great product that's how you tm things right you just say yeah you just say it that's exactly how i should i tm things all the time i think that's how that's how it works brilliant idea tm no one can take that now yeah we'll sue you that's
great yeah that's how that works in that podcast i like this idea that's a good idea i think that's a great idea but then you have to clean up the bathroom after like that should be the thing you do that yeah let's get that going mikey let's let's get that Roll it.
Yeah, the scare the shit out of you mirror.
I think this one is going to be, let's see.
I think this will be a good one.
I'm not really sure.
They're all good ones.
It's called A Haunted Hospital and an Uninvited Passenger.
Passenger? Always haunted hospitals.
I'm a little scared by this one.
Okay, I'm quickly scanning to see if I can use the name.
Oh yeah, we can use the name.
We can use the name.
Excellent. I love when people tell us that.
Are you two ready? I'm ready.
i'm ready this one's called a haunted hospital and an uninvited passenger what's up bitches i couldn't wait for that and i mean in the high five fist bump finger poke kind of way what's a finger poke you might say when my nephews were wee ones we taught them to high five and then fist bump my youngest nephew then stuck his finger straight out like et and we did the finger poke his words okay can you guys let's see if you learned that takes a lot of of like there you go focus yeah it really does you have to like just if you guys could see what i'm seeing now we'll put it we'll put it on people
trying to touch fingers it takes a lot of focus it does good i feel purposeful right now this has since become a thing with all our little ones in our lives it's the cutest damn thing ever not here it isn't this was adorable this is so so cute.
You can use my name, which is Casey, by the way.
Hi, Casey. I'm a new listener and was introduced to your podcast in an interesting manner.
Oh, good for you, Casey.
This is not the podcast you were introduced to.
I love it. We are at my uncle's burial and my very large, very redneck family all met up at the closest bar to celebrate with bar food and lots of drinks.
I love that. That sounds great.
That sounds like a way to do it.
That's what you got to do.
as we were sitting around tables shooting the shit my aunt susie asked me out of the blue what is a you like this pedophile oh my gosh oh no my sister it's what you call oh come on this is your word okay there's no filing involved here yeah my sister and i unison say a peta what she laughs and says do you listen to podcasts i've been listening to this one called morbid and they keep referring to something called a pedophile oh my god so of course my sister and i jump on google to our and to our dismay find nothing except a reference to you know what i was thinking pedophiles yeah yeah my aunt
suzy who by the way is a badass bitch hell yeah with the biggest heart in the whole world says that doesn't really seem right you need to listen to this podcast yeah you love all that ghostly stuff and i thought of you as soon soon as I heard it.
I downloaded a couple of episodes and proceeded to laugh when I discovered a pedophile is your word for a PDF file.
I'm obsessed with that is the way she got into it.
I love it. Nothing to do with scary stories.
Nothing to do. Anne Susie just Anne Susie saying what the hell is a pedophile?
I love it. Much like us in the nursing world who refer to an ekg as an echega echega my aunt got a good giggle out of this as well i also realized i just found my new obsession morbid your podcast hey you're my new bitches are the best you are casey i don't just call anyone bitches in a good way so you should take that as a compliment casey reserves it and for just demeaning people i also i bad parking jobs calling you like a bitch in a happy way than like you're really good to me yeah like you're a bad bitch that's a term mikey you bastard you son of a good like in a good way i like that let's
normalize cursing our friends out i like that you are very aggressive the more aggressive my compliment to me to you the more i love you your first email or text to me was signed off i love your fucking guts yeah i love the fucking guts.
That's how you signed up.
Literally. I was like, wow.
The amount of times I look at John and I'm like, I just want to punch you in the face.
You're so cute. I do it all the time.
I'm like, oh, I just want to punch you.
And he's like, that's not nice.
But I feel like a lot of people do that.
No, I get that. With my kids, I wanted to punch them in the face.
I'm like, I want to launch you into the sun. You're just the cutest little muffin.
Don't punch your children in the face.
Just tell them you want to.
Oh, I want to pop you.
Squeeze your fists.
yeah i'm gonna pop them till their heads pop off because they're so cute yep yeah don't do any of those things you'll be arrested immediately they figured out that's like normal is it yeah it's like some evolutionary something that the two of you do it's not normal okay back to our story ladies now she is correct i do love me some ghostly stuff i was watching poltergeist at home alone at a young age and have never stopped wow that's impressive it's not i'm obsessed with horror movies and haunted houses the warrens are my heroes whoa i can't get enough of their stories okay please tell she know
who the warrens are the warrens are like famous very famous and infamous ghost hunters there you go yeah i would never hang out with them like amityville the conjuring like they're all over you should go you should look them up and say hey i would like to come hang out with you where do they live where i know isn't one of them dead oh but they're both dead No, but that doesn't matter in this field of work.
They're just committed to their jobs.
Yeah, they truly are.
Wherever they live, I don't want to go there.
Yeah, they're an interesting story.
Oh, they're here right now.
The two of them. The poster is shaking on the wall.
You know, we have a lot to talk about.
Oh, there's a red balloon.
Yeah, there's the warrants.
Hi, Kate. My sister Jessica and I tend to frequent places that are known to be haunted.
We have a few good stories, but nothing as good as the time I took a tour of the haunted St. Ignatius Hospital in our local town.
how do these people that love horror always have something in their local town i know i'm jealous that you're jealous i don't have a lot in my local town you're like 12 minutes from salem that's true i have you like go there for fun that's very true and didn't you go on a boat like the scariest we did in quincy with sammy colby in your state yeah i had a ghost blow in my ear oh my god i got assaulted by a ghost they were hitting on you they're sailors that's the nicest thing they do you're good the hospital has been abandoned for years and when some local ladies discovered how haunted it was they
decided to put on some tours of course this place is shut down because it's scary they can't service the needs of the ill here but we can make people ill here so let's bring them in they can get service down the road at the new hospital you turned that right around now growing up in this small town I had also grown up with all of them so the tour seemed more like a girls night out with just a touch of let's see who can make it through this scary ass shit that sounds like my perfect idea you should take her on this tour she is nodding in a 100 % agreement this is sarcasm from me they should take
you this could be our whole new youtube series where we take you to haunted places it would be great Lizzy Borden Lizzy Borden House house let's do it what is that house could barely hit oh my god don't start so we need to make it a series not a one and yeah that's true if it's a feature film then we could do one and it's got vibes in that and then they follow you yeah those there's some there are some vibes in that house for sure but i loved it i'll go back okay let's see how creepy this one is breakfast in the morning this can be added to the list though because at the beginning of each tour
you meet outside the massive building with a scale of 10 on the creepy scale that's just the building hospital abandoned for years so there's no power or anything in the building yes i'm in you're equipped with flashlights and the warmest clothes necessary for a fall night so now they're ready to enter the ladies also suggested we download a specific ghost hunter app on our phones because now you can just get apps for this yeah if you want to just put it out the apple's got this assorted it tells you which ghosts are where take a left here for children you know straight for murderers yeah it's
like an app maps yeah it's a map are awesome yeah yeah those are good fun no but the real ones are too real the apps are better very real for 99 cents someone can build that for you you want a morbid app underworld you can make a morbid app for made -up ghosts there you go I like that here's where we're gonna make a fake app yeah here's where my skepticism kicked into overdrive seriously a stupid iphone app that's what I was just thank you that's what I was like yeah this doesn't they supposedly had previous luck with communicating through this app with ghostly residents it acts like one of those
devices that make the white noise and let spirit talk through it I think evp is the correct name I also decided to start recording on my phone just us to see if I picked up any voices or noises.
I mean, why not? Right?
So we all laugh and skeptically download the app.
As we begin the tour into the hospital, the app is squawking and randomly spouting out words like ring, landscape, etc. We're all like, oh, so there is a ring buried outside in the landscaping.
But how absurd the app was.
As we made our way through the hallways of peeling plaster and scattered debris, we come upon a specific patients room by the name of Rose.
At least I think that's what was her name.
We will go with that for now.
Let's go with Rose.
Rose was known to be a volatile patient who didn't want anyone bothering her in her room at any time.
As we all conjured around in the room hearing the stories of Rose we were suddenly stalled as all of our phones with the Ghost Hunter app promptly shouted GET OUT!
At the same time. Time.
Needless to say, we got out.
Rose had spoken. When they tell you to leave, you leave. We made our way through the rest of the hallways of the massive hospital, searching all the remains of the procedure room, the children's wing, and eventually the kitchen.
This is where things got interesting for me.
The kitchen area was still stocked with all the dishes, cooking pots and pans, and the cash register.
As I was standing next to the cash register, my app became very active, spouting out words like cash.
money, etc. While I was concentrating on this particular revelation, I could hear others talking very excitedly in a cubby off the kitchen, which was known to be a very active area.
I went to the area after they cleared out and just found shelves of dishes.
Nothing too exciting.
However, remember this particular spot for reference.
I'm remembering. We left the kitchen area and made our way upstairs.
Now, keep in mind that since the building has been sold and was going going to be renovated we were told that if we wanted we could take anything home from the hospital that we please like the dishes here's some dishes from this roses like it's like do you want to take like a catheter like what oh this is jeremy's catheter yeah still filled as we made our way up the stairs and through the rooms we came upon a room with the number 309 it would appear someone had been squatting here for some time there was a mattress and sleeping bags and lots of empty food containers and bags so this is an abandoned
building so maybe someone just wanted cover we also found 80s porn magazines which were quite comical the amount of hair that was acceptable in various regions in that time ah yes 80s hairstyles my sick humor being what it is I thought I need this door number plaque considering it was also the same number as my address.
So I peeled it off the wall and placed it in my pocket.
Yep, this is not the first time I have made this grave decision.
I also found a super old beer bottle that piqued my interest. Into my pocket it went.
I also found several windows and doors I would have loved to confiscate but didn't have my power tools with me.
They didn't say take anything.
We then made our way Down to the main level But there was still one more level to descend What's in the basement Elena The morgue I stood I stood at the top of the stairs Looking down Into the deepest darkest Darkness I had ever seen Or not seen I made the immediate decision That there was no way I was going down there Period end of story go down there.
All I could envision was ghostly scream faces trapped at the bottom screaming up at me.
So basically the tour had ended.
So she didn't go. We stood outside and visited and visited and said our goodbyes and I got in my pick for my 20 minute drive home on the dark country back roads to where we lived.
I feel like those objects are going to be a pickup.
Yeah, she got in her pickup.
I was excited to see if my phone had picked up anything while I I was recording the whole two hours we were in the hospital.
I mean, I could see the red line going up and down the whole tour.
I was expecting to hear something.
As I pulled up the app on my phone, I was stunned to find there was absolutely nothing recorded at all.
Before I left the hospital, I had two hours worth of recording on.
Now, outside the hospital, I had zero.
What the hell? It was all gone.
So I threw some music on and drove home, rethinking my visit to the hospital and imagining it was, when it was still in working condition with the nurses in white uniforms and their caps in place, et cetera.
I could see it all clearly in my mind before the plaster was peeling and the place wasn't riddled with trash and debris.
Could have been a nice place.
Yeah. I got home and this is where things got interesting.
At home now. Not in the hospital.
She's come home now.
She's taken the plaque and she's taken, what else did she bring?
A beer bottle. A beer bottle.
I was standing in my kitchen when I got the feeling I should check the Ghost Hunter app just for shits and giggles.
I opened the app and heard the white noise.
I then asked, is anyone there?
Immediately the app responds, yes.
Never, never ask that.
I then asked, who are you?
The app responds, Dave. Oh, it's Dave. Well, of course.
I then responded with, why are you here?
here the app responded with pretty oh you followed me home because you think i'm pretty app said yes dave ever heard of consent okay no geez dave dead dave dead dave like casey now as i stand in my kitchen in the late hours of the night i'm thinking to myself not only is there a presence named dave here in my kitchen but most disturbingly he was in my passenger seat with me on the ride the whole way home oh my gosh that is so creepy well maybe he just floated i don't know what what is the speed limit for floating he definitely sat in that that passenger ride or maybe just on top of her maybe in her
lap maybe but it would have been cold that's true yeah okay maybe it's that in the back there's a significant temperature every time i feel cold now you guys i'm gonna be freaked out i'm telling you you feel cold every night maybe our house is haunted the quincy ship was freezing obviously because it's just like sitting in the middle of the ocean like it's just but it would there was significant changes in temperature when you went to would start going down wow like all of a sudden your your breath would become visible and it was like a deep cold that you were like, oh, this is different.
How cold is it when a sailor licks your ear?
That was awful. I thought it was a bug in my ear.
I thought it had landed in my ear, but it was like this weird cold.
It was Robert. That was his name.
We're sure. Bobby. You're sure?
Yeah, we're sure. Bobby the ear blower with a bastard. God damn it, Robert.
Dave then told me other things about a man named Gary White.
that may also have been with him it was a little confusing at this point because of the information he was spewing out it was so sporadic i love that she's like having a long conversation shown up so like we had a party i love that she's not even slightly freaked out no yeah so i mean she was kind she told dave that he should go back to the hospital where he belonged and i'm sorry if i gave him the wrong impression that i wanted him to come home with me wow she's very nice.
I then went to bed.
However, for about three days after that, my cat would stand on the back of the couch, staring at the ceiling, chattering his teeth.
The cat was basically Garfield reincarnate.
So his behavior was so out of his norm and a little unnerving.
I mean, let's be real.
His fat ass didn't move unless he needed to eat her shit.
But he was obsessed.
He was watching the ceiling constantly.
About three days after the tour, I talked to one one of my girlfriends, Robin, who helped out with the tours and told her my story.
She gaped at me and then told me that the hotspot in the kitchen that had all the activity where the dishes were was a ghost named Dave. And there had been no activity in that area since the day I had taken the tour.
Because he went home with you.
No, sir. Robin then told me that she had taken a couple of ghosts home with her as well.
Taken. But they eventually go back to the hospital where they belong.
long don't worry about it they'll go home no hospital still remains in its decrepit state several people have tried to convert the building into apartment buildings and such but have never succeeded the show ghost hunters did an episode of a tour through the st ignatius hospital and colfax and i did hear the that most of their recordings from that night were erased from their cameras when leaving the hospital oh that's weird weird on a side note my dear friend robin died last year of cancer yeah because she is the one because she is one of the people who suggested the ghost hunter app to me I
occasionally try to reach her through it so far all I have gotten is that my drink is next to my remote which is always true but can never get a name of who I am communicating with maybe Dave is still making house calls who knows maybe one of these days i will get to talk to my dear friend again through her suggested app i hope you do but i do hold solace that the last time i saw her i told her i loved her and would see her soon i know she is happy and no longer in pain in heaven with her daddy oh so keep it weird but not so weird that you bring home a ghost by the name of dave from a haunted
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well my next one is called hospitals are haunted y 'all that's it we're still with the haunted hospital hospitals are haunted y 'all and this is from christina and yes you can use my name thank you because i did thanks christina let me start by saying i am super excited that you wonderful Wonderful ladies are reading my submission.
You're welcome. You're welcome.
I also want to thank you for being amazing and kind human beings.
Aw, thank you. I absolutely love when you both stumble on words and don't cut it out.
We're not good at this.
We're fine with that.
As a nurse educator, I do that too when I present, and it's nice to feel like I'm not the only one.
That's the whole world.
We're real people. Ever since I listened to the first Listener Tales, I was tempted to share some of my stories.
I finally decided to write in today after I validated one of the stories with a nurse that I work with.
And then later in the day, my mail in my office mailbox just flew out onto the floor in front of my coworkers.
No breeze and no one else's mail ever shifted.
I've included two stories as there's a theme and they are somewhat short.
Take what you like, leave what you don't.
We'll take it. We'll take it all.
The first one is called Wheelchair Basketball Ghost. I don't know why I was like, like, be basketball.
I don't know why I said it like that.
The first story originates in my first year of nursing.
I worked second shift from 3 to 11 p .m. I often got mandated to work a double shift 16 hours.
Damn. That is a long.
3 p .m. to 7 a .m. I was young and energetic and loved the overtime pay.
Mama needed some new shoes.
So it didn't faze me too much. One evening, I had a patient's family member getting ready to leave for the night and she asked me not to let anything bad happen to her mother.
I assured her that she had nothing to worry about and that I would be there all night with her.
Her mother was there because of COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and was very stable.
I really was not worried about this patient so much. I was worried about my psych patients across the hall that were seeing spiders everywhere.
But I parked myself myself outside my COPD's patient door so that I could visualize her throughout the night.
You're a good nurse.
Very good. Yeah, she was - And also I'd be scared of the spider patients.
I would also be scared of that.
I would stay away from the spider patients.
Yeah, that would be a little terrifying.
She was receiving an overnight satagram, which basically measures her oxygen levels throughout the night.
They say that after you've been a nurse for a while, you start to develop a sixth sense for your patients and can predict when something is just not right, even when they They look clinically fine.
I was by no means an experienced nurse, but I like to think that this is when my nursing six sense started to kick in.
I had this strange desire to make sure that I knew where the code blue, a code called when a patient loses their pulse button, was in her room.
Isn't that like terrifying?
That's terrifying. That's really terrifying.
That's like when you see, like it's like in the new schools now, you see like lockdown buttons on the walls, Like those kind of things, while very necessary, and I'm so happy they exist. They're comforting but also terrifying at the same time.
It's like so when you see a code blue, you're like, oh, you have to use that at some point.
And that's scary. Like I said, I was a new nurse and had never actually called a code blue until this night.
Oh, no. Later in the night, just after 2 a .m., my patient's oxygen saturation started rapidly decreasing.
I ran into the room and flipped the light on.
She was not breathing.
I checked for a pulse.
no pulse. I immediately pushed the code blue button on the wall that I had so conveniently located earlier in the night and began CPR.
It's like she knew.
She just knew like that was the sixth sense.
We were able to get her pulse back and she was transferred to ICU.
I felt horrible like I had failed her daughter, but there were no clinical indicators leading up to this event.
She was getting ready to be discharged home the next day.
I then learned what happens when you you use a code cart the full the cart full of medications and supplies to run a code blue my co -workers instructed me that i had to take the open cart down to the sub basement at the far end of the hospital and retrieve a new one where i'm standing down there like hello where you come in in the middle of the night and go are you down here by yourself and i go no i'm If not, all of them are here.
They're all here with me.
They thought that this would be a good learning experience for me and that I had to go alone so they could cover the rest of the floor.
Because she didn't have a difficult enough night already.
You should go alone.
And she says, was this hazing?
I don't know. You be the judge.
Yes. Yes, it was. Yes, it was.
Our hospital was set up with a very long outer hallway that slightly curved and spanned the length of the hospital, and each unit had small hallways that branched off one side.
My unit was on the far north end of the hospital and the elevator to the sub -basement was at the far south end.
As I pushed the code cart down the hallway, the units breached off to my right.
I made it about one -third down the hallway when I saw a patient in a wheelchair, wheeling herself out of the unit hallway into the main hallway.
I could not see her face, but she had long, black, scraggly hair.
Of course, nobody does their hair when they're passed.
this is i'm starting a salon when i die nodded tm that draped somewhat over her face do you want to scare the shit out of living people do it looking good come to nodded come to nodded the only thing was it was not a pattern i had ever seen on one of our hospital gowns it appeared as though she noticed me coming towards her and she began to roll her wheelchair wheelchair backwards and back into the unit she came from.
I don't like that. I don't like it either.
She did this so smoothly and quickly, like something you would see from a professional wheelchair basketball player.
Yet she looked so disheveled.
No, apparently not.
This listener is familiar with the wheelchair basketball.
Yeah, wheelchair. Wheeling and dealing in wheelchair basketball.
She said she was so smooth, but she looked so disheveled and weak.
I was still a ways from her, so I picked up my pace and turned the corner into the unit she had come from.
She was not there. I looked down the hall in the unit, and she was nowhere to be found.
Stop. There's a nurse's station right at the entrance of the hallway, so I asked the nurses sitting there if a patient had just come by in a wheelchair.
They looked at me like I was so strange for asking that kind of question at 3 a .m. and said, no, no one has been passed here.
I proceeded back out into the main hallway thinking to myself, cool, cool, cool.
So that That was a ghost. Yes.
I read this awesome.
I arrived at the elevator to the sub basement.
How could they expect me to go down there after this?
Couldn't I just leave this used cart in the hallway?
Did they really need a fresh code card on our unit?
Can it wait till morning or at least not the witching hour of 3 a .m.?
Oh, yes. Or couldn't you take a buddy like at 3 a .m.?
Just someone. Use the buddy system.
Yeah, you got to use the buddy system.
No nurses came down alone to the morgue.
They always had a buddy.
Oh, they had a buddy?
Always, every time.
These are smart nurses.
Yeah. Yeah. I sucked up my fear and retrieved a new cart.
Wow, you're brave. The whole time questioning everything I had just experienced.
I know I wasn't overtired and wasn't seeing things because I had just performed CPR and my body was pumping with endorphins.
But you said it was a 16 -hour shift. Yeah.
So... So possibly, but the CPR like pumped her up.
Yeah, yeah. She's like, let's go.
I was wide awake. I never told anyone at work about that event because I was not trying to stand out as a weirdo.
Flash forward forward 10 years later and I fully embraced my weirdness.
Love it. So that was the first story.
The second story is the boy in the striped shirt.
That's ominous. This story takes place years later in a hospital in Georgia.
I was very experienced nurse and worked as a float nurse where I would work in a different unit each day to help the short staffing.
I really enjoyed this position because I got to see all areas of the hospital.
And it also meant that I didn't always know the deep details of each unit, like the boy in the striped shirt.
On this particular day, yuck, I was working on a cardiac unit and one of my patients was losing their battle with heart disease and had to get put into hospice, end of life care.
It was the last rounds of my shift and I went in his room to give him some medication for comfort.
Before I gave his medication, he asked me, who is that little boy in the corner with the striped shirt?
Did she say yuck? She said, yuck.
she said that's your friend billy and just walked out you're gonna poor guy's like okay just just seeing things it was just the patient and i in the room but i was too frightened because at this but i wasn't too frightened because at this point in my career i had worked with many hospice patients and it is very common for them to see loved ones that have passed shortly before they pass welcome that is true too it's like a very welcome i have heard that too because they're like helping them transition isn't that soothing actually i love the idea you think of you're gonna die tomorrow what does
that mean i'm not telling you nothing yeah i'm not gonna tell you if you'd like tell you to go visit some country you've never been to you'd be scared imagine going to a whole other realm i know i've heard that before and i actually think it's really comforting that they come and like welcome you in yeah just transition you in and be like it's gonna be they're like it's not they're not talking to the people that are still living their beautiful lives here on earth they're talking to the people that are going i'm okay with that i'm like it's warm and welcoming oh and this is she says i had experienced
this with my own grandfather and would later experience it with my father i asked the patient patient do you know him and he said no that's when i became concerned i asked what is he doing it's like a tsa guy you know they want to make sure you come without any you don't bring anything yeah they just want to make sure they scan you yeah are you really you who you say you are so she said what is he doing and the patient said you can see for yourself look at him i turned to look and saw nothing in the room with us the patient then said he's just staring at us oh i wouldn't like that yuck internally
i thought us don't bring me into this you're the one seeing him not me but i smiled and nodded finished administering the medication and made my way back out to the nurse's station At the end of our shift, we would give the charge nurse updates on our patients.
I gave my updates and laughingly told the charge nurse that my patient saw a boy in his room with a striped shirt.
Instantly, her face turned from calm to frightened, as did everyone else's face at the nurse's station.
She proceeded to tell me that the unit has a resident ghost, or what some would call a grim reaper.
Yeah, time is up. Exactly.
The boy in the striped shirt appears to people Before they die That's a good thing All those people are dying and they're getting a welcome host Why are you giving a boy A boy in a striped shirt A boy in a striped shirt Light blue stripes He's their Transport Shuttle has arrived He's such a good guy He's just our guy I was fully creeped out and called his family to come visit him Which is probably a good thing I didn't say why.
I just said that he had been asking for them.
I handed off report to the oncoming nurse and gave her the notice of the sighting of the boy in the striped shirt.
She huffed and puffed and casually said, great, more paperwork for me tonight.
Yeah. Wow. Because someone's going to go.
Great. He's just going to kick it tonight.
Oh, he's going to die.
I was hoping for next Tuesday.
She knew the legend and knew that he would be passing shortly.
Damn. All right. cold.
I hate to admit that there are nurses like this.
Yes. But burnout is real y 'all.
That is very true. I can't imagine being a nurse.
It made me sad to hear that from her but I was glad to know that his family would be there with him.
I stopped back by the unit the next day to check on him.
He had in fact passed away overnight and was now in the morgue.
Elena. With me. She gets so happy every time she's in the morgue.
I just get so excited.
I choke. His family got to be by his side and say their last goodbyes and help his spirit move on.
While the situation fully creep me out i found myself being thankful for that warning from the boy in the string shirt she gets it so that i could get his family to be there with him was this boy a grim reaper or was he a ghost there to help the staff and those that are about to pass know that the time is soon thanks for listening to my couple of stories keep it weird but not so weird that take it away ash she can't not so weird that you're not in the fucking room like ash not so weird that you get get scared about the little boy in the pajamas who comes to do a good deed because he likes to transport
you and you give him a bad name calling him the grim reaper i like that i like this boy i'm team pajama boy he's always coming he's like hey look guys just a heads up i could get in a lot of trouble for doing this but i want you to know it's gonna be good here buddy i'm gonna take you it's gonna be good though that's his job he's an angel he's going over the grim reaper's head to To be like, this really scary guy is going to come in here later.
I'm here to chill you out.
I'm here to give you a heads up.
Don't worry about it.
You don't want the Grim Reaper just walking in with no warning.
He's going to show up.
He'll be fine. He's just Big Teddy Bear.
He pretends he's scary.
Ignore him. He loves that outfit.
He'll come through and then I'll be right there.
I'll pick you up tomorrow at four.
There you go. Good pajama boy.
Good pajama boy. Ignore the scythes when he comes in.
Yeah. The kid's like what's that?
It's like oh it's like he did a pair of scissors It broke he carries just one Scissor around Why are you guys making him creepy again?
He just has one scissor He just like Peacified the whole thing He'll have no flesh on his face You don't need flesh over here No skin care on this side You just relinquish your flesh There's no such thing as skin care It's like Hellraiser Which will make Sheena watch What song does this remind you of?
you of what song does this this grim reaper you have nothing in your repertoire for grim reaper rivals not really i'm okay you're lacking i am lacking trying to yeah are you thinking of a jam i'm trying to think of a jam i'm jamming to think sing sing a song about the pajama boy what would his theme song be when he came in i am pajama man yeah yeah imagine yeah let's write this song and this little guy just comes in and he goes I am pajama man I'd be like hell yeah you are on the piano oh that would be great listen to me now you're just in your bed like don't be scared oh that's pajama man that's
it and then he's like now the grim reaper's coming by again with the grim reaper he's gotta come with pajama man wherever you are pajama man come get me you know why he has that I don't want a grim reaper he has to disconnect your relationship to this world and then your soul and your body split and then he plops your ass into a boat and you go floating down that river towards the afterlife the pajama man I know there's a boat ride I actually know an Indian spiritual about the boat ride oh really oh i like that what what do you know the spiritual that i sang when when my grandpa when my grandpa died
i love what did you sing oh my god that is so spooky and pretty at the same time i know oh i love that you know you have like all your indian listeners are gonna be like what the hell just happened they're gonna just cause a traffic jam when my grandpa died and it's all about like take me to the other side of the shore that's beautiful yeah i love that that was like so haunting oh wow just gave us all the feels crazy we're all feeling all the feels all of your indian listeners are gonna be like whatever that is make it stop you're not supposed to sing that here they're all like la la la don't
worry we stopped okay i promise all right let's see this next one is called and i think this is the last one oh it's called hospital spook spook what is the longest listener tale episode that's ever been published almost two hours long i think we've made it to two hours yeah i'm pretty sure you actually put it out as one maybe you should warn people yeah listen if you have to pick up your daughter in an hour this is not the data this is a i'm flying from boston to la kind of an episode that's my listener Listener tales can be so loosey -goosey.
Oh, LTs, as I like to call them.
LTs can be so loosey -goosey.
They can be a 40 -minute.
They can be a four -minute.
It could be two hours.
We could be talking about spooky things.
We could be talking about people getting abducted, murders.
Okay, there's pop quiz.
There's quizzes too.
At the end of the listener too?
No, right in the middle.
This is one. one how do you show compassion in an australian accent or nor she remembers she remembered halfway through that's a good one or nor clear that's what because ash always uses cleo as the name yes that's the good name nor clear you sound perfectly australian yes absolutely everybody's like whoa did you just have an australian host come in here no it was me it was it was elena it was me okay here we go let's go hey weirdos hey my name is becky and yes you can use my name becky thanks becky can can i make a request that you all write you can use my name it's becky i love it can we just reverse
it hi this is becky and you cannot use my name so please pick another name you prefer That happens all the time.
It does? And then you go back and beep it out.
We'll be like, my name is Matt.
And then you'll start saying it.
It's like, don't use my name.
And I'm like, oh, did that.
So I have to go back and beep it out.
All right. So Becky says we can use her name.
Hello, Rebecca. There are probably fuckloads of Beckys out there.
Yeah. Yeah, that's correct.
Can confirm there are.
There are lots of Beckys.
That's how you make Beckys.
But you're special, Becky.
You are. Yeah. And we like you.
Anyways, on to the gushy stuff.
I love, love, love the pair you.
you. I love you, Becky.
And stand in ash. Yeah.
Yes, Becky, I love you.
I started listening to you guys last year and I can honestly say whatever it is, you guys have it.
And I'm hooked. I love you, Becky.
I could listen to you all day.
I've listened to a few true crime podcasts before and haven't gotten into them.
But the way you tell these stories and the passion that you put into them really comes through in the way that they are presented.
Elena, I feel you when you talk about sleep paralysis.
I get it on near enough a nightly basis and I like the fact that I'm not the only one.
No, you're not. I can't imagine getting it on a near nightly basis.
That's horrifying. That stinks.
I'm pretty sure if I told my husband he might divorce me.
He already puts up with the sleepwalking.
Uncomfortable laugh.
Guess what I do when you're sleeping?
He already puts up with the sleepwalking and talking and gets freaked out when I'm just staring at him in the middle of the night.
I've done that to John before.
Why? And if he looks at me, apparently I start laughing.
Oh, even better. I don't know him really.
And a laugh you don't normally do.
And he's staying with me.
Yeah. He had kids with me.
So like he's really stuck.
That's what she did on their first date.
Yeah. Stared him down.
Laughed at him. Stared him down and laughed at him.
And he sat around. And he was like, I would like to get married.
He's like, oh, I love this.
I love living on the edge.
He proposed right then and there.
That was it. He was like, this is it.
This is the one. Yep.
Why would you not want the love of your life adoringly staring at you like she's possessed at 3 a .m. Exactly.
3 a .m. Again. 3 a .m. The witching hour.
All the weird things happen at 3 a .m. All of it.
Right. A little bit about me.
I'm from a small city in a rural part of England.
I'm 37 year... I'm a 37 year old mother of three who decided at the age of...
Same. Same girl. Twinsies.
Yeah, Becky. I decided at the age of 35 that I didn't know what to do with my life.
Oh. Hey, when did you switch?
know when did this start four years ago yeah so you were right around there yeah have you seen one of these yeah they do that in school same um so she didn't know what to do with her life then grow up get married have babies all worked out but nobody had told me about what happens between now and happily ever after oh so many women feel that this is your story this is my story like oh shit no one told me what happens after the kids are like big and then you have to find something to to do for the rest of your life.
Yeah, you don't think about it.
Yeah. Because your whole life is like them.
Yeah. For that short time, you're like, baby, baby, baby.
And then when they become more self -sufficient, it's like, what do I do?
So this was the opposite.
She thought they required no time.
Just like, what? I thought I was going to pop them out and be done.
Yeah, that's it. And like three months later, I'd be back at work.
Yeah. How'd that work out?
10 years. Yeah, exactly.
I feel that. Took a minute.
Worked well. So I decided to go to university.
Oh, good for you. You get it, girl.
And do a nursing degree.
Hell yeah. yeah her children were the ages seven six and two damn sounds like the perfect time to go back to school they're awkward love holy shit mine are seven and two sevens and a three and holy holy cow i can't imagine that 12 and nine and i'm just like yeah okay maybe just finally like wow i've worked at the hospital for 12 i had i've worked at the hospital for 12 years prior to starting my degree so i've seen a few spooky things from time to time and heard many a story this story however happened recently on a placement i had in another smaller more rural hospital it's always in the rural
hospitals rural rural rural rural starting the night shift obviously everything was running smoothly until the ceiling fell fell through in one of the bays that some patients were in.
Oh, nice. That's a disruption.
If a ceiling's going to fall on you, it better happen in the hospital is what I always say.
Until the ceiling caved in.
I know, but what a nice place to be.
Yeah. You want to be there.
You know, the casual stuff that happens in hospitals.
We were rushing around to get the patients out and settled into a new area and phoning around to get someone from the maintenance team out to access the damage and condemn the bay until it could be fixed in the morning.
eventually lights were turned off and the patients were settled in for a good night's sleep after the event that had just happened we had tidied the bay and left it still with the equipment patient lockers and tables inside and shut the doors a few hours later jill a member of the staff went into the empty bay to grab a piece of equipment that was left in there jill came out a bit confused and i asked her if she was okay and she replied when we left all the lockers were next to each bed space.
Wasn't they? I said, yes, they were.
I put them there myself.
She said, well, they are all in the middle of the room and the windows are open.
Why do the windows keep opening?
Is that an easy trick for the after life?
I can't open windows easily.
It seems like a difficult task.
It does. Close the windows.
Close the windows. Only the real will get that reference.
It all works out. it all connects okay where was I she said I said yes I put them all there myself she said well they're in the middle of the room and the windows are all open I went with another member of the staff Sarah to have a look when we got there all the lockers were in the bed spaces like they were when I left them and all the windows were closed oh yes they closed the door came to an agreement that Jill must have been seeing things and thought nothing of it seeing a lot of things Yes Yeah A little while later there was a cold breeze and it was coming from the empty bay I asked Sarah
to come with me to inspect it as Jill said she was not going into that room Don't blame Jill I do not blame Jill I don't blame Jill on that one We slowly walked towards the room We stood there in shock All the windows were open The emergency exit door was wide open and all the curtains That's the first trick they teach you in dad school Oh yeah burst open windows Had to open all the windows In cabinets Yeah Back to Jill and her windows Back to Jill No Jill didn't want to have anything to do This is Sarah and What was her name?
I can't remember her name Becky So I asked Sarah to come with me to inspect Because Jill said she wasn't going into the room We slowly walked towards the room We stood there in shock All the windows were open The emergency exit door was wide open And all the curtains around the bay were pulled around We heard laughter Children's laughter We stood in silence Becky's crazy.
She also went back to school when she had three kids at home.
She did. She's looking for a fight.
She has the good hair too, I bet.
When they were all shut and it was obvious no one was in the room, Sarah followed in and helped me to open all the curtains.
We shut the door and headed to the nurse's station to tell all the rest of the staff what had just happened.
With that there was a loud bang and the other nurses were straight on their feet to check on the patients to make sure they were all okay.
Sarah, Jill and I however looked at each other.
The three of us slowly walked to the empty bay and peered in the door.
All the windows were open.
What the fuck? These kids are like hey Like it's stuffy in here okay?
We're having a party.
We made sure sure no humans come here we broke the ceiling get out yeah get space now go away all the lockers were moved to the middle of the bay and in one of the curtains there was something it looked like someone had got the end of the curtain and twisted themselves up in it oh oh nice it's like a form of somebody oh i don't like that curtain shape not into that jill's response was oh good lord who Who is that?
Then we heard it again.
The children's laughter.
It sounds like that.
Actual footage. Billy climbing curtains again.
Sarah out of nowhere ran into the room with a...
And full on ran. Karate kicked the curtain.
Oh my gosh. Go Sarah.
What if it's like an actual sick child that wandered in there?
She just karate chops him.
Sarah just flew out the window.
The curtain instantly dropped and the laughter stopped.
Oh, they didn't like the fight.
That's like paranormal activity, whatever one it is.
There's like a sheet ghost, and then when she goes to touch it, the sheet collapses.
The whole thing collapses.
And there's nothing under there.
That scares the shit out of me.
But why? Only that?
That will scare the shit out of me.
That will scare the shit out of you.
Yeah, that scares her.
I don't need to see a sheet ghost and then not a sheet ghost. You know, magicians can also do that.
Scares the shit out of me.
They also scare her.
That's true horror to me as a magician.
With the red nose. I don't like that.
I don't like it. I looked at Sarah and said, where the hell did that come from?
Sarah said she didn't know what came over her.
It was the first thing that came into her head.
Karate chop. Really?
A million things went through my head, and not one was that.
We moved everything back into place, closed all the windows, and left. Why are they doing this?
And then? A little later on, me and Sarah together went to get some food from the vending machines.
machines walking past reception.
We said hello to the receptionist who slowly looked up at us.
She looked very relieved and said, how has your night been girls?
Mine has been terrible.
I'm too scared to look up from my desk.
I keep hearing children laughing and I'm so frightened.
I keep trying to figure out where it's coming from, but there is nowhere in the hospital, but there's nowhere.
The hospital is all closed now and we don't have a children's ward. Where can it be coming from?
Oh, we stood and spoke to her a while telling her about our night when the night night shift housekeep came she looked like she had just literally seen a ghost or a few or a few the out of hours department was now closed and she was cleaning the individual rooms and locking them as she finished this one room unlocking this one room had a heavy chair in the corner of the room one a bit like a dentist chair is how she's described it she left locked the door and and carried on when she had got to another room.
She realized she had left her antibacterial spray in the last room and went back to retrieve it.
When she opened the door, the heavy chair in the corner of the room was now smack bang in the center of the room.
Ooh, I don't like that.
Why do they move everything when no one's looking?
It's like a level skill.
You can't move when people are looking.
They should do it when they're looking.
They're embarrassed.
Yeah. Of what? Weakness.
Because in case it's heavy, I don't want to struggle.
I can barely move this chair.
I'm a ghost I'm supposed to be intimidating I can't be struggling to push this yeah it won't be scary if you can't even move that chair useless bugger come back next year it's a good like bam boom effect when it's just there in the middle of the chair all the windows are open ghosts are all about the pizzazz the truly scary thing would be to watch it move but they can't move it they called seven of them needs hey come on Joe come out this is really heavy they have to call their friends that's a big to do it's a production oh man okay so she ran out and she heard children's laughter and that's
when we saw her coming up the corridor.
What's so funny kids?
I know. That's what I want to know.
It's the faces of the humans.
It's this face. I want to be like are you guys watching Bluey?
Because if you are can I also watch Bluey?
Yeah I don't. Oh look that three year old moved a chair and they're all scared.
That's hilarious. That's really why they're laughing.
They're laughing at the adults.
Throughout the remainder of the night we had to go into the bay to close the windows a few more times and still heard the children's laughter.
I can honestly say I've never had an experience like this before.
Like I said before, I've heard a few stories and have had a few moments, but nothing like this.
For the remainder of my time, nothing else happened.
I honestly don't think I would have been that scared if it wasn't for the laughing children.
Keep it weird, but not so weird that you don't believe that one of your colleagues is seeing, but then see it all for yourself, then go and karate kick a curtain that probably probably landed on a ghost child's head.
Then you tell your story and find out they also have been terrorizing the rest of the building.
Bye. They were busy.
Damn. They were really busy.
They were not only doing that one room, they were running around circuits.
I love that ghost kids just like, are like hospitals.
They're just running around like normal kids.
They're like, we're gonna run around.
Like, that's where we're going.
Yeah. You know one thing that's really nice about it is that they're all happy.
They are all happy.
Like, they're not really sad to be dead.
Yeah, they're not walking around crying.
That would be, oh, I didn't even think about that.
I know what's worse than a giggling kid.
yeah just kids crying a sobbing ghost kid is way better than a sobbing ghost child help me that would be the worst and then they started poking you in the back and then when you went to take your jacket your jacket was already being worn by a form oh my god say help me I don't like that because nothing's worse than a crying child like it'll just destroy my soul I'll just want to help it that's the soundtrack on the boat yeah to hell yeah just crying crying children my god but tortured crying yeah that makes sense crying dead children oh yeah that's so much worse okay okay i at least i feel okay
about i want to start a podcast where we make noises can you sing that you want to start yeah yeah like can you can you make that sound no no of a crying dead child oh what does that sound like oh yeah this is good we'll just do sound effects i hate it can you want to leave on this note no i don't you're such a sicko i'm a sicko i'm sorry i brought her i apologize how dare you i know this is really mean well thanks for having us thanks for coming this is a fun spot you're welcome anytime we have literally been talking to you for two hours hell yeah we're gonna break We're going to break this up
into 17 episodes? Yeah, it's just going to be little snippets.
Oh, this is good. Ash, we missed you.
We do miss you, Ash.
She'll be back though.
Oh, I thought this was a permanent position for me.
No, I'm sorry. This is a very coveted seat you're in.
I am. I'm sitting in Ash's chair.
You may have not known this.
I'm actually feeling her.
This little show has a few listeners.
Just a couple. Just a couple.
About a million people will listen to you now.
Just a couple of million people will hear you.
Just a couple of million.
And your fears. And my irrational fears of spiders and all things ghost related.
And the sounds of crying dead children.
Yet you're still here.
Please don't haunt me.
You are still here.
I am. I made it. I'm pretty, pretty good sport.
You have. You've been a great sport.
I've made it through now two episodes of Listener Tales.
We'll ratchet it up a notch the next time.
Okay. And I went to a haunted house with you.
Something scary. Something like, you know, like I escaped a murder or something.
that's when we take it up.
Let's do that. Or home invasion.
I can do this. Ooh, home invasion.
Home invasions are really...
Even better. Then I'm going to have to buy...
As long as it's not my home.
Can you just do it on an episode where you have like a...
And I'll bring Sage and I'll like leave all the ghosts here before I leave. If we're going to do home invasion, can we do it when you have a like a security company sponsor that episode?
Yeah. Because I'm going to need that entire kit when we leave. When you leave, it's good.
To do the whole house.
Code morbid. Exactly.
Exactly. You have to go buy all these things.
SimpliSafe. SimpliSafe.
That's my own security system.
I want the whole kit.
SimpliSafe, send me a kit.
There you go. I need to secure my home.
You need to secure our home.
Before we do any scarier things, we need to secure our home.
You need to arm yourselves.
From the ghosts. Yeah.
From the ghosts. I'm not scared of people.
I'm scared of the ghosts.
Why? I'm way more scared of people.
As you should be. What has a ghost ever done to you in your life to harm you?
What have they done for you lately?
I don't know. I try and stay away from them.
Well, yeah, you guys are welcome back anytime.
Thank you for having us.
Ash will be back soon.
Get her craziness next week.
Hey, next time, you need a minute.
We'll do this with Ash.
And it'll just be you guys and Ash.
Oh, there you go. We'll switch it up.
Next time you want to go to Disney World.
Oh, sweet. Oh, yeah.
Elena is taking March in Disney.
Yeah. Because she's doing an internship.
Yes, absolutely. Disney has said, we're going to fix you.
They're turning her into a princess.
we're gonna make you wear only pastel colors and enjoy it it's gonna be in like adam's family values when they like stick wednesday in that cow and it's like what just happened and it's like yes it's shock therapy i love it but her eyes never smile no it's just the teeth are you gonna how do you end this thing so we always end it with we hope you keep listening and we hope you keep being it.
No, it. Come on, I made you listen in the car for two hours for it to get this right at the end.
You know, I keep being weird too.
You got it right. She got it right in the car.
We even practiced. Okay, do it again.
We'll do the clap board. Okay, let's go this way so you can like do the last word on your end.
Ready? Keep. It. We -e -e -eared.
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