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Hey weirdos, I'm Ash. And I'm Elena. And this is a spooky roads morbid.
So spooky and so roadie. Yeah. yeah wild i'm excited i'm excited this was really fun to put together i like putting these ones together yeah and this was an ash research extravaganza guys sorry So this is exciting.
I'm excited, you're excited, we're all excited.
I researched this in bed while I watched the Golden Girls.
Ooh, that's the only way to do it. I was watching the Golden Girls and then during commercial breaks, I would read these things.
So it took a very long time. Ash and I research very differently.
Yep. But homegirl got it done. It just took a solid amount of hours.
She got it done. And I'm proud. Thanks, mom.
Hey. Mom. And you know what? Before we get into the spooky roadiness of it all, we have to tell you.
About our shows. We do. Yeah. Yeah. We're going to talk about our shows.
Okay. Whether you want to hear it or not.
You're going to hear it. Thus far, guys.
Yeah. Coronavirus has not touched morbid yet.
Has not touched morbid yet. I'm going to go ahead and...
I'm going to follow that with a... And John is going to think that we're like Morris Coding for help up here.
He definitely is. So... But yes. Thank you.
Yep, John's definitely going to come up and be like, what the hell is happening up here?
Did one of you die? Ash just dropped her entire iPad.
I signaled because... Oh, we like sometimes we practice.
We don't practice the intro, but we'll be like, I'll hit this.
You hit this. So it was time for her to hit something.
And I was like, oh, threw my fucking iPad at her.
Literally launched her iPad at me. But, you know, it's cool.
It's cool. Just hit me in the knee. No big deal.
But we're killing it. so basically corona has not done anything to us yet we knocked on wood for it you should too Everybody cross your fingers, your toes, your tongue, your heart, your eyes.
Cross your heart. Do all of it. Because we so far have not heard any cancellations for our shows yet.
We do have obviously the ones coming up in April, which we'll mention.
We're really hoping we get to do them. They're Philly and DC and New York.
I really want to go to Philly and DC. And New York.
If something is to come up, if something is to be postponed or canceled or whatnot.
We are going to let you know as soon as we know.
So you will know as soon as we know. Right now, you know what we know.
And what we know is that everything's still happening.
So. All right, so April 14th, Punchline Comedy Club, Philadelphia.
Yeah, Liberty Bell. Hell yeah. Sold out, too.
Yeah. April 15th at the DC Improv in Washington, D.C.
Monuments! Monumentals. I'm still coming for you.
April 23rd, guys. There's still tickets for this at the Gramercy Theater.
The Death Becomes Us Festival. New York, New York.
Go get your tickets for that, guys. Come on.
Come to this true crime festival. The Death Becomes Us Fest is going to be awesome.
You can get your tickets at brightyoungthings.com.
Do it. And then May 6th, we will be at Stand Up Live Huntsville, Alabama.
Huntsville, we're coming for you, hopefully.
I really hope. May 7th, a early show. An early show and a late show at Zany's in Nashville, Tennessee.
Zany's. We're so excited for Nashville. And again.
We hope we see you. I know. All of you. We really do.
I feel like you just feel good about it.
I feel good vibes. Yeah. Send it out into the universe.
We're going. We're coming. We're coming for you.
And if it gets canceled, don't play this audio where I said, we're coming.
Yeah. It's not going to get canceled. Yeah, don't do that.
All right. Anyways, June 2nd, Good Nights Comedy Club in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Raleigh. I really want to go see you. Samesies.
And then the very next day, we're going to get on a bus or a boat or a fucking plane.
No, not a plane or automobile. June 3rd, The Comedy Zone in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Charlotte. I'm sure we're going to come see.
I'm sure. Yeah. Still tickets for both of those.
June 2nd, June 3rd. let's all put good vibes out for summer too because i usually hate summer but i'm gonna love it if i get to see you guys so fuck yeah yeah June 11th, still tickets for this.
We added this show in Chicago at Talia Hall.
Go get your tickets for it. Chicago, Chi-town.
Yeah. June 12th at Talia Hall. Another show, Chicago, sold out.
Can't get tickets for that, but we can't wait to see the people who did.
July 8th, Comedy Works South. Greenwood Village, Colorado, baby.
Colorado, you guys have went bonkers on tickets like right out the gate and we appreciate that almost sold out my be sold out very close to sold out so go get your tickets for that denver if you want to see us Guys, FYI, like either last week or the week before, I accidentally said that our Wilbur show was June 11th.
I'm so sorry. It's not. it happens june 11th is chicago july 11th is the wilbur theater in boston guys that is not sold out yet I need to see every fucking person I know out there.
I need to see every fucking person I don't know out there.
I don't want to see an empty seat in the house, baby.
That's right. Okay. Get your tickets for Boston.
If you've even thought about Boston, if you have watched The Town or The Departed, come to Boston.
That's who we are. We are Leonardo DiCaprio and Ben Affleck and Jeremy Renner or whatever his name is.
We're also Jack Nicholson and Matt Damon.
We're all of them. So if you come here, we will be all of them for you.
During that show, you're going to get to see one of the best comics of our goddamn generation.
The comic stylings of one. Emily Walsh.
Better known as Walsh. Walsh if you're nasty.
Okay, so. Come see Emily Walsh and come see us.
And we're going to tear the house down. Not literally, but...
Well, there's a beautiful venue. We would never do that.
And it's historic and awesome and I love it.
But come see us there. It's going to be so fun.
Our homecoming. Can't wait. You know what just hit me?
What just hit you? I used to go to the club underneath the Wilbur.
Of course she did, guys. Every year after the... Well, it is a nightclub.
I forget what it's called. But we used to go every year after our holiday party at work.
And now I am so elevated that I'm going to be on the stage.
That's right. It's crazy. I'm not elevated.
I'm still fucking trapped. It's still blowing my mind that we get to be on that stage.
So we want to see all your faces there. So make sure you get your tickets for that.
You can find all of these tickets at morbidpodcast.com.
Our live shows are all listed there. I have links to every ticket site under the date and the venue.
So go to morbidpodcast.com And go get your tickets for all our shows.
Every single one. Go do it. And we can't wait to see you.
And again, we'll let you know if anything changes.
We're going to update you as we go along.
Let's all hope that Corona just pieces the fuck out of here.
And somebody asked me my thoughts on Corona, and my thoughts on Corona are... that the panic is totally valid.
But one thing I don't understand is why the panic is focused on toilet paper.
That one I'm not really comprehending. But like, do you just stop buying all the toilet paper and hand sanitizer because like other people need it?
But... I get it. Definitely hoard some beans and some non-perishables in case you have to be quarantined for a couple weeks.
You know. Quarantine sounds like a dream.
If you have a baby, hoard some baby food, hoard some formula, diapers, all that good stuff that you're going to need. i don't have corona i just had to cough but yeah so i don't understand the toilet paper because like There's a lot of different things that you could use for toilet paper if you ran out.
Well, and I just, it's the one thing that I'm like, I feel like that's the one thing I'm not really concerned about for the two weeks.
I understand. Hand sanitizer and cleaning supplies I get but the other thing I don't understand is how people are buying like 40 pounds of each and not leaving any for the rest of the world because target limited people to six each honey Just because your hands are clean with 40 pounds of sanitizer, if you don't leave any for the rest of the world,
We're all going to be nasty and Corona is going to keep spreading.
So you got to leave some for the rest of the world.
You will be fine with, like, a couple of bottles of hand sanitizer and a couple bottles of Lysol wipes and bleach.
Some what-y, who-sy, what-sits, you know?
So everybody will be fine. We're all going to be fine.
Yeah. Yeah. The less we talk about it, the less power we give it.
The last thing I have to say about it is wash your hands.
Also, that was my Apple Watch. I'm sorry.
Go wash your hands. Every time you walk by a sink, wash your hands.
And sing the Mini Morbid theme song. Yeah, there you go.
Sing the Mini Morbid theme song. Whoever made that, bless your fucking sweet asshole.
So without further ado, I think we have now talked about all our business and we can jump right into Spooky Roads.
All right, so the first road that I'm going to present to you is actually more of an island than a road.
But there's a road on the island and the island is haunted.
So it's fine. Executive decision. I love haunted islands even more.
I love haunted everything. Uh, so great cloud Island.
Let me say that again. Great cloud Island is in Washington, Minnesota.
And Jim Frickle, we can thank him for emailing us about it.
Jim. Jim. Thank you, Jim. What a guy. What a guy Jim is.
So a lot of people say that Grey Cloud Island is the most haunted place in Minnesota.
Ooh, love that. uh gray cloud islands history dates all the way back to the end of the 1700s or the early 1800s like not totally sure where that we love an old haunt but it's like around that time um So that is when a Native American tribe called the Mdewakanton, and I looked up the pronunciation of that, so don't you dare yell at me.
Don't at me. Mdewakanton. Dakota, Sue, lived, and they settled on the island.
The island gets its name from the chief's granddaughter, who was called Gray Cloud Woman 2.
Her mother, the chief's daughter, was also called gray cloud woman.
I love that. Beautiful, right? Gray cloud.
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So there really wasn't much on the island other than like a couple of houses and eventually the gray cloud lime kiln, which was built around 1846.
All right. There, a chemical called calcium oxide was made, better known as quicklime.
Ooh. Quicklime. Do we know what quicklime is?
Yeah. I looked it up. You sure did. It has a ton of different purposes.
Sure does. Including steel making, glass making, cement making, disguising of dead bodies.
There you go. It can also be used in fertilize.
I threw that in there. I didn't have to look that up, but I wanted to see what else I could do.
It can also be used in fertilizer and to make shells for weaponry.
Ooh. Weaponry. Yeah, weaponry. Yeah, I tried.
You did. Also, fun fact, when it's heated to a certain temperature, like four fucking thousand degrees...
Fahrenheit. Four fucking thousand is the approximate.
Yeah. No, it's the actual. Yeah. It's four fucking thousand degrees.
Four fucking thousand. Literally. That's it.
Literally, that's the number. It starts to glow. when it gets it literally starts to glow when it's heated up to four fucking thousand degrees four fucking thousand degrees But anyway.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, wait. Not anyway yet. That's where the term limelight comes from.
Oh, like you love being in the limelight.
Yeah. Oh, I love that. I doubt that you do because it's probably a little hot.
A little hot. Hot. But anyway, now. Let's get to the hauntings.
The haunting. We're going to start with the scariest and then we're going to work our way down, diggy, down, down.
Oh, I love that. You're going to build us all up and then you're going to bring us all down.
I love that. Settle down, baby. like when you get scared yeah exactly all right so one of the main legends is the white truck legend oh that's a very mundane name for a legend but i'm ready for it i'm ready here So people who visit the island looking for some hauntings are a fucking motorcycle.
Yeah, sorry about that. My neighbor. My neighbor.
They're almost always chased off by a driver in a white truck.
God damn it. Chases them right off the road.
Not cool. So some people say that it's actually the truck without a driver chasing them.
Whoa. Fucking scary. That's Stephen King-esque.
And then other people say that the truck will be chasing you and then it will completely disappear.
Ooh. Yeah, spook spook. Ooh, very spook spook.
Jim Frickel, who I mentioned before. What up, Jim?
In his email, he told us that a couple of his friends went out to Grey Cloud Island to investigate for themselves.
Those are some good friends to have. And this is what he said.
A couple of friends got bored. Can you believe it?
Bored in Minnesota? I can't. I can't imagine.
Decided they would drive out to the island and go fuck around.
Shortly after crossing onto the island, the white truck appears and starts pulling up alongside them, kind of hovering in their blind spots. not really passing them, but not really letting them out of its sight.
Obviously, ghost or no ghost, that was enough for them to say, fuck this, and they got the hell out of there.
Yup. So the thing is, some people explain this story away by saying that it's actually just a local who's, like, really fucking sick of this haunted tourism.
That would be hilarious. That just chases you off.
But honestly, it's really scary no matter how you slice it.
Because either way, you're getting run off the road. i was gonna say either way it's a very aggressive driver whether they are haunted or not phantasmic or not whether you're dead or alive that's they're still very aggressive Alright, so there's also this really creepy story that has to do with nuns.
Because what fucking good old spooky road story doesn't include some nuns?
Every single one includes nuns. it's just scarier yeah i don't know why i don't know what it is and this is like not like a slight at nuns like no nuns are so peaceful i've met a lot of nuns and all of them have been lovely people but yeah they're always really why are they so scary and scary stories maybe because they're lovely people usually Yeah.
I mean, I've also heard scary stories about nuns like in real life.
So, you know, well, it's one of those things.
It is what it is. Yeah. So one of the few places on the island is a cemetery.
Of course. We'll get a little more into that a bit later.
It's involved in a few more things. But in the cemetery, there's this plot where 12 nuns are buried in a row.
Oh, damn. I'm already stressed out. Yeah, 12 in a row on one block.
That already gave me the chills. Just like 12 nuns all buried next to each other in a row.
Yeah. So the haunted challenge says that tourists take it upon themselves to count the headstones.
So 1, 2, 3, 4 to 12. So you walk in one direction counting the headstones, which seems creepy as fuck, but like, okay, whatever.
I'm so into this. And then you turn around and you count them walking in the other direction and you don't get 12 anymore.
Oh my God, I want to do this. You come up with like a different number.
I don't. I want to do this tomorrow. Well, we're going to get chased off the island by a white truck and I'm already like not the best driver.
So. Minnesota. Hopefully we'll have like a live show there sometime and I want to do this.
Okay. I'll go with you if we ever end up there.
Yeah. In almost every source I looked into regarding Grey Cloud Island.
I don't know why that's a fucking tongue twister.
Like... Oh, it is. It is. Great cloud island.
You go to say glay for some reason. Because the next word is cluh.
Yeah. So you try to put an L in there to make it like glay cloud.
I'm going to start calling it GCI. There you go.
That's okay. GCI. So every source that I looked into regarding GCI... there is a story recounted where a mom and a son are visiting the cemetery.
And the sun, I feel like your mind automatically goes to thinking that the sun is a little boy, but I'm assuming this motherfucker was grown.
Oh, okay. Because my mind immediately went to a little boy.
Me too, but I don't know. So the son decides to count the headstones and he goes in the one direction and To see if it's really true that if you go in the other direction, you get another fucking number.
So while he was counting, his mom saw the figure of a little boy following behind him.
And she was like, nope, nope, nope, nope.
Like, we're getting the fuck out of here.
Not doing this anymore. No more counting.
They literally just fucking ran out of the cemetery.
I still think it's a little boy. I don't know.
In the same cemetery, there are reports of a floating green lantern that some people say is gray cloud woman herself.
Or the chief of the original tribe walking around the cemetery.
Or Jay Gatsby's green light. Yeah, totally.
If it's a full moon, you might even hear the sound of a drum beating while you're there which adds to the fucking spook it's like yeah your heartbeat out loud yeah i was gonna say because drums are such like a like a They go through your body.
They have like a primal sound to them. You know what I mean?
So it's like when you hear it, it automatically makes your heart beat faster.
They sound like danger. Yeah, they do. Like impending something.
Yeah. So when you hear it, you're just like.
Like drum roll, please. Yeah. Literally.
Yeah, or like a battle or something. It's really scary.
It's weird. You might also hear a woman screaming in the distance.
See, that's fine. That won't be weird at all.
No, it's fine. Yeah, it's totally fine. Just like Holmes.
Just a woman screaming. Just kidding. And if you do have enough gumption to head out there, be mindful that your car might have some electrical issues.
Of course, man. Which I don't know. That freaks me out because like that's your ticket out of there.
Fuck that. Ghosties just love to mess with cars.
They do. They do. Uh, so there's reports that a group of people headed out into the cemetery one night.
When they pulled their car in, their car lost all power.
And everything just went haywire. Like, all the lights shut off.
They couldn't get the engine to start. Like, it just was not doing anything.
Just not happening. And then they pushed the car to the other side of the cemetery, where the exit is, I guess.
And they were about to leave. Car turned on, no problem.
The ghosts are like, cool, get the fuck out now.
They're like, cool, you're out. Bye. Bye.
Not going to help you. See your way out.
Wow. No, thank you. So now there's just like a few little tiny stories that I'm going to end with for GCI.
GCI. The Headless Bride. Ooh, love a headless bride.
Yes, apparently on the day of headless bride's wedding, her husband found out that she was cheating on him.
Headless bride. So he took care of that in a completely rational way.
Absolutely. Found an axe, hacked her head off.
Yeah, I mean, that is how you react to that.
And by that, I mean never react to that.
Nope, definitely don't do that. Don't do it.
So now she roams around GCI, some say, in search of her head.
I always love those ones where it's like she's wearing a wedding dress and it's like, so did he hack her head off in her wedding dress?
It's always like these things happen while she was wearing a wedding dress.
I wonder if she was in her wedding dress.
Was it in front of everybody? What if she was just getting ready so like half her hair is curled?
Oh, but half an eyelash is on. Oh, man. That's sad.
Yeah, that is rough. So their contour isn't smooth.
Oh, fuck. Damn it. That gives me so much anxiety.
That's so scary. I'm terrified. That's the most haunted part of all.
There's also claims that a witch is buried in the cemetery.
Yes, girl. And that her grave is the only grave where no grass will grow.
Love it. It's just covered in a weeded mess.
Oh, I love it. And I wrote down right here, honestly, I wouldn't be mad if that happened to me and my legacy was that I was actually a witch.
That's like. I'm not mad at that. That's the dream.
I'm going to ask them to not water the grass on my grave.
Do not fertilize my plot. Fuck off if you think that you're going to plant some flowers.
Allow some gnarled weeds to just take over my shit.
Toss a tumbleweed in there if you will. Love it.
Maybe some thicket. Make it really scary.
What's thicket? It's like gnarly like thorns and shit.
Oh, yeah. Put some thicket on there. Put some of that on there.
Throw some thicket. A dash of thicket, if you will.
A dash of thicket. All right. So the main thing about GCI you should keep in mind is that its locals are all incredible. incredibly fucking sick of trespassers coming to the island i can imagine and a lot of times the cops are called about like cars parked on private property near the cemetery or people people trespassing.
So people have gotten tickets and some people have even gotten like misdemeanor charges.
Oh, damn. So, I would say if you're interested in this story, you should probably just leave that to a Google search.
Church. Church. Just church it on Google.
Leave it to a Google church. Leave it on a church on Google.
My mouth is really dry. You know, it happens.
So that was a cool one. Thank you for GCI.
You're welcome. Appreciate it. Sure, sure, sure.
So the one I'm going to be talking about is the Gurdon Light in Arkansas.
Arkansas. Arkansas. I know it's Arkansas.
Everybody calm your tits. All right. So the Gurdon Light in Arkansas.
So about 75 to 85 miles south of Little Rock, there is a little city called Gurdon in Arkansas.
There's a stretch of railroad tracks here where people see an orb-like light in the distance.
An orb-like light. An orb-like light. Many people have captured the light.
There's a ton of pictures of it online. You can go look it up.
Some of the photos show like a bluish orb of light some show like kind of orangey um it's going to show up no matter what what weather there is.
And it's usually swaying back and forth above about like three feet above the ground.
Sometimes it's just going to chill there.
Sometimes it chases you back to the entrance.
You know, like a choose your own adventure, except...
It's actually the light's choice and not yours.
You have no fucking choice in the matter.
It's like those Goosebump books. Those are the best ones.
That's exactly what I was thinking. what was it it was like reader beware you choose the scare yeah those are the best bitch So that show that we all know and love, Unsolved Mysteries.
I think that was everybody's shit. That was like my shit when I was way too young to be watching it. they actually went out to the garden to garden light to do a segment about this orb this light if you will There are a few stories that try to explain where this light actually comes from.
Because once you see a creepy ass light, you got to know its backstory.
You're like, hey, bitch. Where are you from?
What's your story like? They're like, you're so exotic.
Tell me your story. Girl. Look at you all blue and orange.
Where are you from? Just chilling or chasing me.
I just gotta know. Hey baby, what's so sad?
You seem like a, you seem like a Gemini.
You can't figure it out. You're blue, you're orange, you're chasing, you're sitting.
Alright, so skeptics say that it's just headlights shining through the trees.
That's a bummer. And boring as fuck. Because the area is right near Interstate 30 and Highway 67, so you know.
But that's been proven wrong because there have been reports of this shining orb since before the highways existed.
So suck on that. So there you go, skeptics.
The light was first reported right around the 1930s.
And actually, this is pretty interesting because...
The first report of the like coincides with the death of a pretty important man in the area's history. a man named Louis McBride, who was sentenced to be electrocuted to death.
A very not chill way to die. One might say the unchillest.
The unchillest way to die. Ask Ted Bundy.
So he was sentenced to be electrocuted to death and the sentence was carried out on July 8th, 1932.
McBride was found guilty of murdering his boss, William McLean.
Everybody is like, I'm McLean, McBride. for one reason or another uh william fired louis and louis was Not happy, to say the least.
The story goes that William believed Louis to be responsible for a train derailment And I mean, that's a pretty big deal.
Train accidents on your watch are not typically smiled upon.
I think that train derailment was your fault.
So I'm going to have to fire you, Louis.
Yeah, that's why he was getting fired. But like I said, Louis was...
Real pissed he was getting fired. And so he beat his boss William to death with a railroad spike.
Casual. That reminds me of Spike in Buffy, which we can always bring it around back to because he used to kill his victims with railroad spikes.
You say we, but really it's just you. I do.
I can always bring it back around to Spike where my Buffy head's at.
So, yeah, he beat him to death with a railroad spike, which some people say the explanation for the light is that it's William holding the lantern he used while working. to light his way.
Of course, over the years, the story has been twisted around and now there's a couple of different versions, as there always is with these kind of stories.
The first one is historically accurate with the murder and all but some people say that the light actually comes from a railroad worker who one night fell onto the tracks and was beheaded.
Isn't that so fucked? That's a real big bummer.
Yeah. The light part still comes from the lantern.
The lantern. Sorry, my Boston accent today.
Full-fledged. I don't know what happened.
I woke up and I was like, hey, kids. Did you go to the North End today?
I'm confused. Maybe I watched The Town last night or something.
I don't know. Only in this version, it's lighting the way for the man to find his head that he lost.
Because you know... Gotta find that head.
Yeah, I mean, what are you gonna do? Also, why do you need the light to look for your head if you don't have eyes?
You know, those are details. Valid questions.
Silly details that we don't need to even worry about.
Whatever. Some people say all of this is phony baloney and think the light has something to do with the amount of quartz crystals underneath the city of Gurdon.
That'd be pretty rad. They say the crystals are under so much pressure that they emit electric energy or a voltage. look at this science, which can actually be explained by the piezoelectric effect.
The piezoelectric effect basically says that certain materials can emit an electrical charge if they're under enough pressure.
I think all of us can emit an electrical charge if we're under enough pressure.
I'm like zap zap bitch calm down. I feel it.
But honestly, that's all well and fine. That makes sense.
I love me a good scientific explanation.
We love the theory. I love it. The next step in the scientific method is to ask a question.
We gotta question this. I just pulled that so deep from within.
So it's like, why would these be floating in the air?
Really? A physics professor at Henderson State University, which is in Arkansas. became fascinated by the light and carried out many investigations with his students about it.
So they found that if you looked at the light through any kind of filter, it was never polarized and they could never find an electromagnetic current either.
From my understanding, both of these finds would negate the idea that the light is produced by the piezoelectric effect because it would mean that there's no electric current coming from the light. you know what i'm saying yeah i do you know what i'm saying you know you do know what i'm saying you know why ash looked this shit up yeah i did i just want to put that out there i did Ash looked this shit up, so she knows what I'm saying.
I was like, what is the piezoelectric theory?
Or effect, I mean. It's an effect. and i know that because i did this research you totally did now we have an email from tara this email is the shit it really is so it says hey there ladies my name is tara and like all of us love this podcast love you too tara Love you.
My amazing girlfriend in nursing school turned me on to this podcast and now I owe her everything.
Thanks, Mary. I know your spooky ass is listening to this.
Love you, girl. And we love you, Mary and Tara.
So as soon as I heard the first story on Fucked Up Roads, episode one.
I knew I had to share my railroad story, even if you don't end up reading this, because who the hell thinks about Arkansas?
You know what? We do. We do all the time.
Wake up at night, Arkansas. I wake up at night and I'm like, what is happening in Arkansas?
So it all began back in 2010, 2011. I had just moved out to my own apartment in Little Rock with a roommate and we had a few of our friends over for a chill night in.
Love those. but here's the thing about chill nights in arkansas you're gonna get bored son so my dumb ass friends talked my suggestible ass into driving about 80 fucking miles at like 10 or 11 at night to get my ass killed out in the middle of nowhere in Gurdon. gurd in arkansas exactly where i wanted to die in my forever ghost outfit of sweatpants and hoodie thanks for looking out guys oh i feel you so hard on this So here is what I was told would happen when we got to Gurdon.
We're going to get out, walk down this railroad track, see a floating orb, get spooked, and head home.
So the sane people out there, you're probably like, girl, what the fuck?
Gas is expensive and that sounds dumb as fuck.
Because it is. And also you probably didn't grow up in Arkansas where there is literally nothing to do.
So all four of us hop into my two-door basic bitch car and make our way down to Gurdon late as fuck at night when only the most reputable of society are out driving around.
So about an hour and a half later, the four of us arrived at this dirt road that some sketch ass website told us to find.
Get out and start walking. I'm loving this already.
If only I had a whole group of weirdos in my ear and on my Facebook telling me, bitch, don't you know fresh air is for dead people?
But to everyone's surprise, 18-year-olds are not actually fully functioning adults who make good choices.
So we start walking. Can I get an amen? Amen! i was a dumb ass at 18 oh yeah i think everybody on planet earth was i'm sure somebody's some 18 year old's gonna yell at me about that but whatever don't care Someday you'll realize you're a dumbass.
You'll get it. Don't worry. And then you'll laugh along with all of us.
About a mile down the tracks, off to the left, there was a clearing in the woods.
What was in this clearing, you ask? Was it totally innocent and absolutely not terrifying to find on a railroad track in the woods at midnight while you walked with a fucking penlight your dad put in your glove box, you ask?
Nope. It was a pentagram built out of rocks.
That was not what I saw coming. That's so scary.
My internal monologue went a little like this.
Cool, cool, cool. It's totally cool. Definitely not going to be sacrificed or anything.
So instead of what my now fully formed frontal lobe would do and turn my ass around and go home.
I just started running down the tracks with my friends further into the woods.
Sounds about right. Oh, trust me. I'm shocked I've made it to 28 myself.
That was what she said about me. So we finally slow down a little and I keep asking my friends, when the fuck do we see this light? then we just have to keep going just ticking off every cliche horror movie then i saw a light But it was two lights and they weren't flirting.
They weren't flirting. They weren't flirting with me.
They were not flirting. And they weren't floating in the ethereal way I had expected.
They were moving at us through the woods.
And I heard some weird ass banjo moves. music fuck that no thank you deliverance motherfuckers i am out That's exactly what I thought.
The way she wrote this email is everything.
It really is. It's giving me a whole picture.
All I think of is... We started running back towards our car.
All the while, this creepy-ass truck blaring this backwards...
Backwoods creep-tastic music is following beside us in the woods.
I ran the fastest I had ever run in my life, made it back to my car, Have never regretted having a fucking two-door car that required me to let someone into my backseat while I can only imagine someone is about to grab me, drag me back to his den of cousin love and make me...
Quote, squeal like a pig. If anyone has seen Deliverance, fuck that.
So long story short, 18 year olds are stupid.
Arkansas needs more shit for teenagers to do.
And I still haven't seen this damn orb. Thank you for taking time if you've made it this far, and I hope you can find some good theories about the current life.
We did. Fucking did. And Tara. And Tara, thank you for the email because it was fun to look into this case.
I am so glad. Or not case. this road. I'm so glad that you made it away from those banjo. crazies yeah i really am we don't love the banjo crazy i don't love deliverance part two so i'm really glad you got out of there i'm glad we all made it out oh that was awesome So now let's move on to the crybaby tunnel in Ohio.
Don't love the name of that. Nope. uh there seems to be a lot of crybaby tunnels well and a lot of crybaby roads a lot of crybaby rivers there's always babies being thrown places and all That's not okay.
It's unacceptable. It's awful. So Crybaby Tunnel or Schrader Road Tunnel is located in Chili Coffee.
And we got a pronunciation for that. So there's two versions of the story for this place.
The first is that a woman who didn't want her baby anymore placed the baby on the train tracks above the tunnel and just left the baby there.
Casual. That's some Catherine Knights kind of shit.
Yeah, it is. That's bullshit. So obviously you can gather.
That's something. Pretty bad happened to the baby because, you know, trains.
The other story says that the woman was walking along the tracks on top of the tunnel when a train went by.
She dropped the baby into the water and the baby drowned because she got scarred i mean that's that's something maternal instincts say don't drop your baby.
There's a lot of neglect happening in these stories.
If you want the full spooky experience, you're supposed to drive through the tunnel with all your car lights turned off And people say you're supposed to hear the baby crying.
I don't want any part of that. According to the research done by James A. Willis of strangeandspookyworld.com, He found a story related to the tunnel that states a woman was murdered near the tunnel and she was hanged from a tree with a waterbed mattress.
What the actual fuck? Other than those few stories for this Ohio tunnel, there wasn't a whole lot else about it.
But we really wanted to cover this one because one of our listeners wrote in this email about it, and it was...
So spooky. Yeah. So this is an email that says, hi, ladies.
Well, hello. Hi there. It says I changed all names for safety's sake but you can use mine.
I'm Sarah. Hi Sarah. So first of all, I just want to tell you how much I fucking love your show.
My son Vance and I listen to it together.
He's 13. Oh my god, I feel like an old fart.
I think I'm really... I think I'm maybe a year older than you are, Elena.
Woof. LOL, sorry if this gets really fucking long, but I don't always know when to shut up.
Me either, Sarah, so it's fine. We're all old together.
I appreciate it, except for Ash. I live in a small town in Ohio called Chili Coffee.
You pronounce that like chili coffee. Side note, love me some java.
Samesies. Samesies. You're a lady after our own hearts.
Speaking to us all. You really are. There's a road off Walnut Creek Road that has a spoopy ass tunnel.
It's called Cry Baby's Tunnel. I should probably look up the full version of the backstory, but my fat fingers don't feel like it.
Sorry. Also, every time I say crybaby tunnel, I think of the Johnny Depp movie, Crybaby. oh i haven't seen that movie it's a ridiculous movie i thought you were gonna say you thought of the candies because that's all i could think about what is a cry baby Cry babies, they're like those sour little, it looks like gum, but it's like a jawbreaker.
Oh, okay. I didn't know that that's what that was.
No, I was thinking of Johnny Depp. And John Waters and all that.
Well, our brains fire differently. Anyway, the tunnel is said to be haunted by the ghost of a lady and her baby that she drowned in the creek. that's hick for creek she said that not around in the creek i did not say that don't at me um that runs next to it people say that if you go out after midnight you can hear the baby crying and sometimes a maniacal woman's laughter to be scary as fuck.
I'd be like, gotta go. So I have a personal story with this.
When I was in high school, oh, some 20 years ago.
My friends and I went out there one night on Friday the 13th at 3 a.m.
Yesterday was Friday the 13th. It sure was.
We were daredevils. Samesies. We go out there and there's three of us girls and my boyfriend and Jessica's boyfriend.
Anyways, we pull up near the tunnel and get out.
Dumb, I know. There's a cornfield behind us on one side of the tunnel and a pumpkin patch on the other side of the tunnel.
That sounds amazing. This is a vibe. Like I'm in.
Vibe check. The guys dare us to go through the tunnel.
Nothing happens out of the ordinary. My boyfriend Matt decides it would be funny to streak through the tunnel.
So LOL. So they drop their pants and go bare ass through.
I love this. When we all stop laughing, we notice a woman standing on the other side of the tunnel we just came through.
Nope. Nope. nope she's holding a fucking baby yup it starts to wail Oh, I hate it.
No, this is the scariest part. She moves to the side where the crick is and throws the baby in.
Imagine seeing that with your eyeballs. I would full-on linebacker tackle that woman down and just like...
Beat the shit out of her. I already read this, but I still have goosebumps.
I stare. Remember to ask if they're all seeing it too.
I swear she heard me because you know ghosts have big fucking ears to hear shit with.
She turns towards us and lets out this blood-curdling scream and starts towards us.
Matt grabs my hand and starts to drag me towards the car, which is in the direction of the fucking scary ass lady.
He doesn't see or hear her. Everyone else did, though.
I guess he's just lucky to not be traumatized by it anyway.
We go about halfway into the tunnel and he turns to ask the others if they're coming.
The lady is still moving towards us and I'm freaking the fuck out.
Suddenly, she screams and charges at us.
Fuck that. What? Fuck that. Only to vanish right before touching me.
I screwed. and run my big ass to the car and jump in and start honking the horn till lights in a farmhouse come on.
A man comes out with a goddamn fucking shotgun, we all get in and peace the fuck out.
To this day, I can't go near that road. I make great effort to go way around it and never even remotely near it after dark.
Well, that's the end of my long-ass tale.
Sorry if it's not written well. I'm doing this on my phone in 24 degree temps with a tank top on.
LMAO. I'm fucking nuts. Thank you for reading this.
Love, Sarah. Sarah, that was a trip. Holy shit, that was a trip.
Whoa. Okay. I don't want to go anywhere near that tunnel.
Fuck that. The last one, which is someplace that I've never wanted to go near and it's always scared the shit out of me. always scared the shit out of me.
The Bunnyman Bridge in Virginia. Any dude called the Bunnyman, I'm just not into.
Spookity spook. Unless it's Frank. Yeah, exactly.
Deep cut. All right. So I wanted to end on a big one.
And I remember seeing this on an old ABC family show that used to air during.
The spooky season. The spookiest of seasons.
Do you remember what that show is called?
It's narrated by the little girl with the scariest fucking voice ever.
No not a little girl. It's the lady from Poltergeist that has the little girl voice.
Oh. Yeah. That's an old woman. Oh. Why does her voice sound like that?
No. I forget her name. Someone tell me what the lady's name from Poltergeist is.
Oh my god. It's She has the scariest voice in all the woods.
I can hear it in my voice right now and I want her to stop.
That shit used to be on every Halloween.
It was like most terrifying places on earth.
Yeah, exactly. It's still on every now and then on Halloween.
All right. So I remember hearing about the Bunnyman Bridge on this episode when I was like way too young to be watching that.
I probably did it. You probably did. No, because then I used to like go home where I was like not looked after and I would be like, oh my God, I'm gonna watch this show because elaine is so cool i want to be like her and then i'd be like and not sleep for months anyways Alright, so the story starts with patients from a psychiatric hospital being transported to a prison.
So while they're going through the tunnel, the bus crashes and some people die.
Some try to escape. Almost all of them are caught.
A few sources I saw said that there were two people that escaped, but most of the sources say that there's only one person that escaped.
What the fuck was that? Sorry, that was my- Oh.
That was my- that came at this i'm like so scared right now if anybody has an apple watch or like one of those things that it tells you to breathe every now and then and oh i keep meaning to turn it off That was scary as shit.
It sounded like wind chimes and I fucking hate wind chimes.
I know that really did. That added to the ambience, everybody.
I know it did. Spooked me out. Yeah, I was just trying to add to it.
I shouldn't have said anything and just let it happen and see if everybody was like...
Did you hear those wind chimes? No, because I freaked the fuck out.
Okay, sorry. All right, so... La dee da da.
A few sources that I saw, two escapees, most of them only say one.
Douglas Griffin was, according to most sources, the one patient who escaped.
Good old Doug. Yes. So there was this huge search to find him, but all police kept finding during the search were mutilated bunnies.
Doug? I wrote in parentheses, sobs. Like, what Doug?
Doug, come on. Doug. Doug. Fuck you, Doug.
Until one night, they found something other than bunnies.
On Halloween night, it said that the bunny man ran into some teenagers hanging out at the bridge.
At exactly the stroke of 12 midnight, he attacked them, gutted them, and hung their bodies from the bridge. no big deal scariest part hello youngins and then he just attacks guts and hangs and just like happy halloween nice to hang with you youth see you later scariest part douglas was never found Douglas, where you at?
Wildest part? Well, there's a few. For one thing, the prison that the patients were supposedly being transported to didn't exist until years later oh there's no record of douglas griffin oh and the library that people claim houses the evidence of this whole tale does not exist uh-oh So you're like, did somebody just make up this shit in their mind?
Is this a subreddit? Hello? Hi, I'm confused.
I will be pissed. Sit back down and hold on to your booty.
I'm holding it. You're just like, it's your butt.
Because this is some real shit and it might be even more eerie than the real thing. spooky spooky so brian conley he's an how do i say this archivist archivist um for Fairfax County in Virginia, and he uncovered what seems like the origin of this legend.
So around 1970, a couple parked in an area were assaulted.
The area was like near the bridge. Okay.
Not just in an area. An area on the globe.
They were in an area. An area in life. They were near the bridge.
When a man assaulted them, he was dressed in white and he had, quote, something on his head.
Disproportionate response. ridiculous like if you are trespassing that's not a correct response you don't deserve a hatchet And also, this is like for real.
This is not legend. This is reported. Oh, damn.
It's like in the newspaper. Holy shit. Um...
So word spread and people started changing details to embellish the story, obviously, which eventually brought the bunny man idea to life.
So I did find one article. citing that two weeks after the attack, a private security guard had an altercation with the bunny man.
Eek, eek. He said that the man was standing on the porch of this new home and that he was holding an axe chopping into a pole on the porch.
I see. see that in my head me too and I don't want it I don't love it I see like a beautiful home and like a scary man in a white bunny suit just sitting there just hacking while staring through it hack hack And he's yelling about trespassers.
And he tells the security guard that if he doesn't peace the fuck out of there... he'd bust him on the head well shit quote unquote well shit i didn't say that that's what i'm gonna start saying to people bust you on the head when they come by my house i'm gonna be like you keep walking or i'll bust you in your head Like, repetitively ax the poles on your fucking porch.
I will become the bunny woman of my street.
Whoa. The police looked into the accusations, but nothing came up.
Oh, shit. More variations have come out over the years about the buddy man legend.
One claiming that the buddy man who haunts the bridge was actually a teenager.
Wow, this is some shit. Yeah. Say peace out to your fucking bowels because he's going to disembowel you. he's gonna take care of that shit for you realistically it's up to you which one you fucking decide Well, I you know what?
I love all of them. My favorite, I think, is the guy on the porch because He's just like, get out of here.
I'm a bust your head. So I have the choice to get out of there.
It's all good. I just I don't want to chat.
Have a good one. It's been real. It's been fun.
Has it been real fun? You know where I got that from?
It's from The Devil Wears Prada, I think.
Well, it's from way before that. Well, I saw it in the Devil Wears Prada.
I feel like it originated in the Devil Wears Prada.
I used to work with a girl that said it all the time, so then I started saying it.
I love it. That's a good story. Thank you.
Fuck off. You're an ass. That's almost as invigorating as the Bunnyman story.
I mean... There's a lot of places where that originated from, like the Bunnyman.
I love the Bunnyman, too. I like it now that I know that perhaps it's a bit more embellished than I originally thought.
That kind of bummed me out that it's a bit more.
It made me feel a lot better. Also, you couldn't pay me all the money in the world to drive through that bridge.
Oh, fuck no. Nope. I mean, I want to. Like, right now I want to, but I don't think I can do it.
Oh, they also say that, like, blood drips from the ceiling.
Oh, shit. Yeah. A la fucking Amityville?
Yeah. Damn. That's no joke. But no thankity thank you.
Virginia. What up, Virginia? I mean, keeping it real, keeping it weird out here.
Keeping it bunny. Yeah. Oh, then you just bumped into the table.
I'm like, I'm on high alert. ash is like on alert right now every noise i make she's like what the fuck was that you know what the craziest thing is i tell me about murder all the live long day yeah whatever Tell me about ghosts.
Get the fuck out of my face. Yeah, that scares the shit out of you.
I don't like it. Yeah. But I do. I love it.
I love feeling all spooky. I like being scared.
I do too. But I get wild. That's wild. I wild out when I'm scared.
That's why I can't. Guys, I'm sure everybody's with me.
Who can't wait for spooky season? I told Alayna that I just want to fast forward through summer.
I don't give a fuck about summer other than the shows that we're doing.
Ugh. And I just want to go to a haunted house.
I'm just ready for spooky season. I'm ready.
I want to like, I want to dress up this Halloween.
I didn't dress up for like the past three years.
Yeah, we got to dress up. So if you want to see some pics of these scary ass places, feel free to follow us on the Instagram.
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It's not a hotel. I don't know why I even said Bunnyman Hotel.
And everything is just scary in the world.
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