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Hey weirdos, I'm Ash. And I'm Elena. And this is Morbid, Halloween edition.
Halloween! Halloweenies. Samhain. Alina wanted to say, I'm Sam and I'm Hane, but then I didn't understand that.
And it was actually a great exchange that I wish I had recorded.
Because I said the whole thing like, yeah, this is a great idea.
And Ash just goes, I don't get it. I was like, I don't understand.
And it's actually even funnier because we're recording from two separate places tonight for the first time ever.
I know this is new and exciting and scary.
It's exciting and scary and it feels really weird, but I feel like so independent.
I know it's weird. Like I hit the record button and then I get to end it and then I have to save this whole file.
It's true. You have a lot of responsibility. you right i do i find it took me almost an hour to figure out how to set this up now let's just see how long it takes for me to figure out how to save this damn file i'm really proud of you though thank you you got this far I mean, we're going.
We're recording. Now let's just hope we get to the end of it and you're not like, oh.
I wasn't recording. No, I'm actually watching it record because I was like freaking out.
Also, I apologize for my voice that you have to listen to for the next like hour.
Your voice doesn't sound that bad though.
It doesn't because I feel like it sounds like super raspy.
No, it doesn't. I hope it's not annoying to listen to.
No, you honestly don't sound sick, so maybe you're just lying.
Shut up. I posted last night to let everybody know why we're a little... little behind on our episode this week, and why no bonus episode came out, is because a plague was cast upon our houses.
Yeah, all of us are so sick. Annie's sick now.
She just got it. Oh, no. John already had it.
The kids already had it. Everybody has it.
So we're back though. We're moving on up.
Should we dive into some Patreons? Yes, let's say thank you to some wonderful Patreons.
So we have a custom Patreon this week. Her name is Amy Hall.
Hey, Amy. Thanks, Amy. And actually, that's a surprise gift from her fiance, Thomas.
I am swooning. I know. I thought that was so sweet.
He wrote us an email and just wanted to surprise her and, like, make her a Patreon.
And they're from Johannesburg, South Africa, which I was like, oh, that's awesome.
That's so cool. So thank you so much, Amy.
And thank you so much, Thomas. That is the sweetest thing ever.
That was so nice. And like, I just love that couples even listen to it.
I know, I love it. We're just spreading love everywhere.
Yeah, we really are. All over the globe.
Seriously. Diving into Window Latching Coven.
We have three Window Latching Coveners this week. so the coven's getting extra big we got a big powerful coven we really do we have another madonna Oh, another Madonna.
I love it. And her name is not Madonna. It's just Caitlin.
Caitlin. So hot right now. And she spells it like our little niece cousin spells it. because it's your niece and my cousin and i think her our niece's uh mother listens to this so hey kim hey kim And thank you so much, Caitlin.
Yes, thank you, Caitlin. Our next one, also in the Window Lodge and Coven, is Sherry V. Nixon.
Hey, Sherry V. Nixon. That's a really cool name.
That is a wicked cool name. I wonder if she's a descendant of President Nixon.
Who knows? I just like that she's got the V in the middle.
That makes it very official. Very cool.
I'm going to start going by Ashley and Kelly.
I like it. Thank you. Well, thank you, Sherry.
Our next donator is Darcy Urquhart, and she's in the Window Latching Coven.
I've never heard of her before. Are you too?
Yeah. Just kidding. It's my mom. She's very familiar.
Thanks, mom. That's Ash's mom and my sister.
So thanks, Das. Thank you. Thank you. Our next category is an even onion, excuse me, evil onion.
And we only have one lonely evil onion this week.
Welcome, evil onion. So let's cheer her up.
She's Haley Brady. Thanks, Haley. Thank you, the lone survivor.
I thought you were going to say Hayley Baldwin, and I was like, wow.
Hey-o. Our next category is our jagged little bitches.
I love the Jagged Little Bitches. We have Shannon Von Ault, who actually upgraded her donation from, I believe she was an evil onion she was an evil onion before and now she's a jagged little bitch so thank you so much thank you so much girl and welcome to the jagged little bitches Yes, welcome to that coven.
That's amazing. We appreciate that. They're all covens.
And then our last Patreon this week, also in the Jagged Little Bitch category, is... jamie mathis thank you jamie thank you jamie i love you i love you too I work with a woman named Jamie, and I always call her Jami, and she gets really mad at me.
Because she calls me Osh, and I'm like, what's up, Jom?
You're very much an Osh. Oh yeah, so awsh.
You're very awsh. So posh. I was just about to say that.
Hang on. We're on the same wavelength. We may be not in the same pod lab, but we are in the same wavelength.
But we are of the same mind. We are kindred souls.
We are. So, yeah, so thank you so much to all our new Patreons.
Thank you. Good things are coming. I promise.
In fact, some of our listeners have been helping me out with contacting... places to get different little goodies to send to the Patreon.
So thank you to all our listeners for being awesome and helping me figure this shit out.
We have awesome listeners. We really do.
And actually... There is a couple of emails that we've gotten recently that we'll definitely be reading on the next episode.
Because we've got some really interesting emails and I want to read some of them.
So I just want to email them and make sure they don't mind that we leave them on the air.
But so the next episode, we're definitely going to do some reader emails because we've been getting a few of them that are.
It's amazing. Oh, I'm excited because when I got a new phone, I logged out of our email and I forgot to log back into it.
So I should probably do that soon. Yeah.
So you've just been out of the loop. I've been very out of the loop.
Also, I'm just going to go ahead and say it.
In my headphones, I don't know where it's coming from.
Like there's this weird sound and it's not going away.
And it sounds like very extraterrestrial.
And I'm afraid. I kind of love that. I feel like I'm like entering another dimension.
I feel like it's just, it should be there.
I don't want it to be anymore. It's actually kind of like upsetting.
Well, I feel like it's like a good environment to have since we're going to be talking about urban legends.
Urban legends. Also a great movie. I don't know if that counts.
Do you know who I feel like right now, though, actually?
And this totally fits in. Wow, actually credit to me for thinking of this.
Whoa. Oh, fuck. What's her name? Hold on.
Who's the blonde in Urban Legend? Oh, Tara Reid.
I feel like Tara Reid because my hair is like a little bit funky and I have like these big radio stations.
Yeah. Yeah. What's her name? Sasha. yeah and she has like her own radio show she does she has a great radio show in that movie that's a great movie such a good movie we're definitely gonna be watching one that for a bonus episode yeah hell yeah at the end of this episode um everybody turn it off when you're finished And go turn on that movie.
I don't care where you are. Because you're going to be in the mood.
Yeah, you will. Because we're talking about ULs.
ULs. Urban legions. Urban legions tonight.
Urban urgins. Do you want to hear a fun story, actually?
Because for once it wasn't me that said something dumb.
Yes. I don't know who it was because the story was reiterated to me after the fact, but I was sitting in the break room at work today in between my shift and the client that I had coming in.
And they were talking about how Whitey Bulger died.
And they were saying that somebody said...
Oh, Whitey Bulger's wife, Whitney, died.
Are you kidding me? Somebody I worked with said that.
Oh, my God. It was something like that. And I was like, wow, that sounds like something Elena would say that I said.
But like, and I was like, I didn't, I like, I wouldn't have actually said it.
Yeah, exactly. Wow. Whitney Bolger died.
That's really sad. I know. Whitey and Whitney.
R.I.P. R.I.P. Whitney. You know what? He's rolling over in his grave, cursing us right now.
Well, you know what, dude? He's lucky he lasted as long as he did, to be quite honest.
Didn't he, like, kill one of his wives or something?
Yeah, he strangled a lady. Yeah, that's messed up.
He's done a lot of bad shit. Yeah. But Boston, especially coming from Boston, we know that Boston is, was like, especially Southie was very split.
Yeah. Like, I'm pretty sure he asked my dad and he's like, he got the drugs out of Southie.
Like, he's old. He's fine. Like, Dad wanted him let free.
Like, they were like, let's just let him live his life.
He's 80. I was like, Dad... He's Whitey Bulger.
Yeah, like, maybe not. Maybe not. I feel like he's not just a harmless 80-year-old.
He's Whitey Bulger. yeah exactly there's movies about him let's not right but yeah so he's dead don't r.i.p No, definitely don't.
And, um, so yeah, I think that's the last like true crime, weird ass update. and maybe we should just jump into this shit let's do it so do you want to start with your ul's Yeah, I'll start with mine.
Sorry if you can hear paper rustling, if you can't edit it out somehow.
Sorry to the listeners. Because I went old school this week.
I did more than the basicest amount of research.
Yeah. I wrote down my notes in a notebook.
That's impressive. And then teared the pages out.
So here we go. urban legend number one dead guy in a carnival was my first one I love this one So... Because this seems like it's not true.
This story is actually wild. So in 1976, the TV show...
The $6 million man was preparing to film at Pike Amusement Park in Long Beach, California.
So they had planned on capturing Steve Austin riding a ride or like riding alongside in a car by a ride.
And the ride was called Laugh in the Dark.
So it had a tunnel where like, that's like the, are you afraid of the dark episode laughing in the dark?
Oh, yeah. With the clowns? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That episode is creepy as fuck. I'm acting like I remember that, but I think I was too young for Are You Afraid of the Dark.
I think you were, but I liked your enthusiasm with pretending that you remembered that.
Thank you. I really tried. A lot of our listeners will know what I'm talking about.
I'm like, yeah, I loved that episode. Oh, my God.
That was the best episode. It really was.
It was called Laughing in the Dark. And it was about a carnival, like a haunted house carnival ride.
This fucking kid steals a clown's nose and the clown goes and haunts him and takes his nose back.
Well, that will teach you a lesson to not steal things.
But funny laughing in the dark. Yeah? Okay, so the ride was Laugh in the Dark.
And, um, so during the ride, like, things would just, like, pop out at you, like, uh...
You know, demons, ghouls, etc. You know.
I just burped in the middle of saying that.
I like it. You know. You know. So your car also like the car that you were in it.
So I guess it was like kind of like a roller coaster sort of deal.
It would like jump and like jolt side to side.
Oh, okay. So it was one of those like old school, like kind of like mineshaft rides, probably.
Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Right. So like you're jumping around and things are jumping at you and there's just a lot of jumping.
It's a lot. And the club is jumping, jumping.
Ladies leave your clowns at home. Anyways.
Leave your dead bodies at home. Yeah always leave your dead bodies at home.
Or don't have dead bodies in your home. Bye.
While they were getting ready for filming, one employee noticed a mannequin hanging from a noose in the corner.
So he went to like pull it down because he was like, why is there a mannequin over there?
Like we're about to film. And when he pulled it down, he reached for the hand and like the arm broke off, the mannequin's like entire arm.
And... He, like, kind of looked down and was like, wow, what a flimsy-ass mannequin.
And when he looked down, he... noticed that there was like bone in the middle of like a bunch of layers of skin oh and I don't see a problem yet.
Oh, you don't? Because the problem is that it was a fucking human arm. and a human body hanging from the corner.
So people have just been going by this thing?
Apparently. Like in their little mineshaft car being like, ooh, spooky.
And just going by, ooh. Yeah, it was really fucking spooky because it was real.
So this was like a straight up corpse and cool, you know, casual.
It belonged to a guy named Elmer McCurdy.
I knew it. Yeah, have you heard of him?
Yeah, totally. Yeah, he's like really popular.
No, I haven't. No, me either. So, he was... Did he create Elmer's Glue?
No. different he created this fucking urban legend um oh good okay Yeah, you know, like really close.
He was an outlaw who had died in a gunfight.
Not too long before this incident. Only 65 years before this.
Oh. You know. So like a hot second before this incident occurred.
A quick minute, you know. Yeah. Like a blink of an eye.
I literally wrote in my notes, what? Question mark, question mark, exclamation point.
And wrote what in all capital letters. Like I was like, what?
Um, so he'd been involved in a shootout with police 65 years earlier.
After robbing an Oklahoma train. And just in case you were wondering what he robbed from the train.
He got away with, like, a lot. He got away with two jugs of whiskey, which is exactly what I would steal.
Wow. And $46. Whoa. which back then was probably a lot of money because it was like 1911.
High roller. Yeah, you know, $46 could buy you a lot in 1911.
I don't know if it's enough to get in a shootout and die.
And end up hanging from a fucking carnival for 65 years.
Like, rock on, Elmer. Did you say rock on Elmo?
Elmer. Oh, it sounded like you said Elmo and I was like, no.
I mean, rock on Elmo too. Rock on everybody.
Yeah, just rock on in your Elmo suit. Yeah, I'm sure there's an Elmo out there that wants to rock on right now.
Definitely. Um, okay. So that's what he got away with.
And he died during a shootout with police.
So like the police were catching up to him and they were like, bang, bang.
And he was like, bang, bang. And then he was like dead.
Nice. I think that's like an exact play by me.
Yeah, bang, bang, bang, bang, dead. That's how it goes.
So... Not very excited. No, it was just like really chill.
Yeah. So they brought his body to a funeral home in...
Pawhuska, which I think is in Oklahoma. But as I'm not the researcher of the year, I don't know because I didn't look it up.
Anyways, bye. So they brought his body there, but nobody ever claimed it.
Sad, kind of, you know? Yeah, I mean, like, stop stealing shit.
Yeah, exactly. He was an outlaw, so. Stop stealing shit.
Yeah, you know, that's how life goes. So the Undertaker, who obviously was just like a normal guy, saw this as a money-making opportunity.
I mean, who wouldn't? Right. You know, I mean, that's what I would do.
So do you want to hear what his scheme was?
Yes, I do. To get some extra money, he decided that he was going to embalm the corpse and he would allow people to view it if they placed a nickel in the mouth of the corpse.
Huh. So this guy was only making nickels.
He was making nickels and he was having them put in the mouth of the corpse.
So it's like, how are you getting those back?
He must just take them right out. I mean, he's an embalmer, so he's used to it.
That's a very... That's a lot. That's a lot to go through just to be theatrical as fuck.
Yeah, it really is. So I wrote casual. Very casual.
So five years into this scheme, how did it even go on that long?
I was just going to say for five years, everybody was like, it's like, if you go to this place, you can stick a nickel in it. a dead guy's mouth like if i had a nickel for every time somebody said that but this guy actually does have a nickel for every time somebody did that well and it's funny because it's like people just walking up to this dead guy putting a nickel in his mouth and then being like Yep, that's a dead guy.
Yeah, like you don't get anything out of it, right.
You're just examining a dead guy? I mean, I guess it's only a nickel, so...
Yeah, might as well. So anyways, five years into the scheme. a carnival worker showed up claiming he was a long-lost relative of McCurdy's.
And he wanted to claim the body so he could finally be put to rest.
So he could get all them nickels. No, the Undertaker already took all the nickels.
Well, you never know. Some could be left in there.
Well, this guy. Clear them all out. This guy was actually not related to him and he was not.
I'm shocked. Laying him to rest. That's not what happened.
I'm shocked he saw this as an opportunity to bring this dude to a carnival And just use him as a prop for years and years and years.
I mean there's only a couple paths. You know, like get buried.
You either claim a body and respect it or you claim a body and you put it in a carnival haunted house ride as a prop.
You only have two options. There's nowhere else to go.
No, that's it. So, you know, 50-50 shot.
Should I get buried, cremated, or used at a carnival?
Always pick used as a carnival prop. Which box should you check?
Always the carnival prop. So they brought it back to the carnival where it made rounds through haunted houses, wax museums, etc. for 60 actual years.
60 actual years. Damn. So it's unclear how it ended up at this particular carnival where they were filming.
But after that whole incident where the man who was filming found it and like ripped its arm off by accident or excuse me. his arm off by accident they finally buried him oh that was that's nice of them yeah they were like you know what you've seen some shit I think it's time.
Get the nickels out of that guy's mouth and, you know, bury him properly, okay?
Shake the nickels out of his face, reattach his arm, stick him in the ground.
You know, it'll all be okay. It's fine. Yeah, it's fine.
R.I.P. Elmer. Yeah, so that is the story of...
Elmer McCurdy. Yeah, who'd have thunk it?
And also the story of the dead guy at the carnival.
You know that story. That old chestnut. It kind of reminded me of like a Scooby-Doo episode.
100%. Yeah, like it seems like it would be a Scooby-Doo episode.
Yeah. So, my next urban legend, are you ready?
Your next UL. My next urban legend. I'm ready.
Is... waking up at your own funeral that's a nightmare fuck that is what that is yeah no like no thank you Because I have some buried alive moments in mind.
Oh, that freaks me out. Everything about that.
I have two cases where it actually happened.
So it's not a legend. It's real. It's not a legend.
Most of these have truth in them. Yeah, a lot of them have like some true ass parts.
Yeah, we tried to pick ones that have at least a little kernel of truth into them.
A little kernel of the truth. Little kernel.
So. This name is really hard to say, and I hope that I don't say it wrong.
I have faith in you. So, Fazilu Makhametzianov.
I think that is 100% correct. If not, my apologies.
She was 49 years old when she unfortunately really did die.
However, she died after waking up at her own funeral.
Wow. So... I mean, shitty? But very convenient.
Also, soup stoops ironic. Very. Soup stoops.
It's too much. So, morning relatives. But at least you can just close the casket and be like, welp.
Welp, she done now, so bye. Done-ski. So morning relatives and friends were walking by, paying their respects to the body, and were likely stunned and horrified when...
I'm really sorry. When she... Yeah, when she woke up screaming.
Casual. I'm just picturing that. Like she literally, like you're just like walking by and then all of a sudden the body sits upright and is screaming. a.k.a. the person, not even the body anymore.
I don't even know how to react to that. I don't want that.
No thanks. I would just be like, nope. And I'd just leave.
That would be it. I have to go wash my cat.
Bye. I have to go take many showers. I've gotta go.
And think many thoughts. I've got to go anywhere else but here, so... Literally anywhere else but here.
I have to go breathe air into my lungs outside.
I'm running late for something... Anywhere else but here.
Bye. So her husband had... Excuse me. Her husband, who had first been told that his wife died of a heart attack after she was brought to the hospital for collapsing at home in severe chest pain. was told a second time that his wife truly was dead after having lived 12 minutes in the ICU.
So she literally came back to life for 12 minutes and then died again.
So they brought. So when she woke up screaming at the funeral.
They brought her back to the hospital, clearly.
And she lived for 12 minutes in the ICU and then was again pronounced dead.
Did they bring her back to the same doctor that was like, yep, she's dead the first time?
Unclear. Because I would be like, maybe get a second opinion on this one.
I'd be like, I'm not having another funeral, so.
Yeah, so. Hmm. So we're just going to go with this.
We're going to go with she died first and just pay for the people's therapy bills.
So that actually happened to somebody else too.
Oh my God. Another man. No, it's so fucked up.
Another man, Watson Franklin Mandujano Doroteo.
Whoa. I hope. I hope. He was of a Peruvian city...
Tango Maria and was inside his coffin at his open casket funeral when family members noticed his ribcage rising and falling.
AKA, he was breathing. You know. You know, as one does.
Just breathing. but aka not when you're a corpse oh that's this is like this is what i think i see all the time in the morgue oh fuck that Like when you stare at someone too long enough, you can almost feel like you see a chest going up and down.
So I feel like I would just think my mind was playing tricks on me.
I think I would just walk away into the parking lot and drive anywhere else.
Into the abyss. That's my... You just walk away into the abyss.
That's my theme for people waking up at their own funerals.
Like, I gotta go anywhere else. Bye. I just gotta leave.
I'm going. Anywhere else. A whole pile of nope.
Bye. Bye. So, uh... Doroteo... Had been pronounced dead by his doctor... After experience... Or not... I mean... By a doctor... after experiencing fever and chills following a root canal.
So he went in for a root canal. Okay, this gets even worse.
Oh, it does. Like, it gets bad. So, back to the funeral.
So, that's how he supposedly died the first time.
So, he died after a root canal? Well, he actually didn't.
Not really. Well, kind of. Sort of. So a doctor was immediately called to the funeral. and confirmed that Doritio, that he was showing vital signs.
So he was removed from the coffin and transferred to the hospital, where he was again pronounced dead.
I'd be like but how do you know? I'd be like I question life itself.
Like, where were these vital signs the first time?
And then all of a sudden you see them and now they're gone again.
Yeah. Like, are you using the right thing?
I don't think so. Are you using a Fisher-Price stethoscope?
It sounds like it. It seriously sounds like it.
What the fuck? So his family felt that he may have been alive like all along and that he was just sedated as a result of the drugs that he'd been given for the dental procedure.
Dangerous. christ so hopefully that's horrifying his family never went to the same dentist as him is my yeah is my takeaway Yeah.
Yeah, that's my takeaway. And hopefully that poor family never had to go to another funeral ever again.
Oh my God. Like I would never want to go to one ever again.
I'd be like, you know what? I just wouldn't.
I'd be like, so I have PTSD and I can't go.
RSVP, no. I have PTSD from this. My third and final Urban Legion is the best.
I saved the best for last. Yeah. Okay, so dead body in the swimming pool. oh fuck that repeat i am not a swimmer so this is just gonna keep me farther away I was like, aka the reason why I'm all set with public pools.
Exactly. No thanks. So this actually happened in Fall River, which is not too far.
Fall River, Massachusetts. From our neck of the woods.
So yeah, there's like a few things I don't want to find in a pool and dead body is like at the top of the list.
Yeah. I'd say like right up there with poop.
I was just going to say that. That was my next joke.
Right up there with poop. So unfortunately, some Fall River kids were not so lucky.
And so they snuck into the public pool to just like have like a late night swim or whatever.
Like, you know, kids do stupid shit. Night swimming.
Which you never are going to want to do again.
So they are approaching the pool, getting ready to dive in.
I'm about to dive in. That's a song. I was like, I don't even know that one.
Yeah, I think it's Trey Songz. I think mine was Dave Matthews Band.
Why? What did you say? Night swimming deserves a quiet night.
I didn't even realize that was Dave Matthews.
Yeah, it's a Dave Matthews song. Oh, I thought that you were just like, talking I'm just making up beats over here yeah yeah You know me.
So it turns out that that was the body of a woman named Marie Joseph.
Oh, man. Marie. So Marie had been rotting in the pool for almost three days.
In the public pool for almost three days just below the surface where people had been like unknowingly Marco Polo-ing the shit out of their lives.
Yeah. So people were swimming in the pool that she was found in.
They were swimming in a pool of putrefaction.
Talk about some fucked up shit. Talk about some PTSD.
That water must have been cloudy. It was.
You thought you were afraid of swimming?
Oh, no. You ain't got no reason, honey. These kids got all the reason.
You know what? You probably I mean, that's a double whammy, too.
It was poop in there. That's for sure. Oh, yeah.
Don't hit the poop pipe, kid. Three days, that's happening.
So, yeah, like I said, it belonged to 36-year-old, which is really sad, woman, Marie Joseph.
She'd been chaperoning at the pool. And it's like unclear what happened.
I guess she just drowned like somehow. And like no one knew.
And no one knew. Yeah. huh so her friends thought that she had just like left like she was there with friends and they were like oh maybe she just left like that's weird And then three days went by and they were like, that's weird.
And then these kids found her in the pool.
And people were like, what? So apparently this pool also had like a 12 foot deep end, which is like pretty really deep.
Yeah, that's really deep, right? It's like six feet usually.
Yeah. It's like double. I think, like, the deepest pool that I've ever, like, knowingly been in was, like, eight feet deep. yeah which is i mean and even that is like wicked deep like 12 feet is crazy yeah no thanks i don't want that So apparently no one enjoyed cleaning the pool that much anyways.
And the lifeguards never noticed her at the bottom.
Oh, my God. Of the pool. So that must have been disgusting water.
Oh, it was murky-ass water. If that wasn't bad enough, two most likely now since fired health inspectors stopped by the pool to like just check it out. while she was in while she was in there like rotting So a day after... Oh, yeah, they need to be fired.
A day after she had gone missing, they, like, went to check the pool out and they didn't see anything.
But she was rotting in the deep end. Did they just go in there and be like, yep, that's a pool.
Bye. Yeah. I don't know. So. Check. They just didn't notice.
Wow, that's fucked up. And that is your urban legend of why you should never fucking pee in the pool.
Because it's rude. And don't get in cloudy ass public pool water guys.
You don't know what's in there. No. There can also be crazy parasites and shit.
There probably was in that one. Oh, that gives me the heaves.
The heaves. The heaves. Well, you definitely ended on a high note.
Thank you. I tried. And by high, I mean very, very low.
I ended on a deep note. You did. Okay. Well, I'll bring us back up with mine.
Don't worry about it. totally i'm sure all mine are very fluffy yeah totally fluffy for halloween we wanted to be as fluffy as possible Super fluffy.
So I have a few more than Ash had because Ash was very busy and I didn't want to overload with...
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So my first UL is The Urban Legend of the Clown Statue.
Oh, I hate clowns. You might know this one.
This one, I'll give you the little urban legend first.
The urban legend is a babysitter calls the parents of the children she's babysitting for.
The children's father answers and she asks them if they would be offended if she put a sheet over some kind or like some kind of cover up over the clown statue that's in their room.
Because although she appreciates their weird, unique, artistic taste, it kind of freaks her out.
There's a beat of silence on the phone, and the father replies, take the children and get out of the house now.
We do not have a clown statue in our house.
What? I just got chills. Right? They want to give you the heaps?
You had a better setup than me. Sorry. I think there's just spookiness running through my veins.
I guess so. Although there's no specific case of this exact scenario happening...
It does have some real life kind of like counterparts.
For instance, I think we've all heard of John Wayne Gacy. who dressed up as Pogo the Clown in his free time and the image of this is completely infamous and wholly nightmarish And obviously we're going to get into John Wayne Gacy in a future episode and we'll go way deep into it, but...
Obviously he was horrific and prolific serial killer and even now we still get those random explosions of clown sightings all over the place.
You know, they always... crop up in some place and they will experience like weeks at a time sudden invasions of creepy clowns just staring at people or some of them even try to chase people i hate clowns so much this phenomenon is actually cited as beginning in boston did it really yeah According to Lauren Coleman's Mysterious America book, it apparently began in 1981 when reports started flooding in about men dressed as clowns who were trying to lure children into their vans in Boston.
Hate it. So that's where this sudden weird phenomenon of where the fuck did all these comes come from begin.
And the clinical term for fear of clowns is called coulrophobia.
I have it. It is also surprisingly widespread, especially among children.
Really? There was a 2008 study done by the University of Sheffield in England in all of the 250 children that were surveyed in the study. said that they did not like the clown images that were part of the decorations in the hospital they were in.
Oh, wow. Yeah. So this whole urban legend obviously hinges on the fact that clowns are nightmares and no one likes them.
And then to imagine one inside your home without you knowing is horrific.
It's so weird. The whole part of it, this part in particular, the whole idea of someone waiting in your house while you're inside of it, kind of harkens back to BTK. which, again, we will cover even though I fucking hate BTK.
He actually waited inside of some of his victims' homes. all day and even when they arrived home he would hide in a closet and just wait for the perfect time to pop out.
That is literally so fucked up. Right? Like so.
That's why I check every closet before I go to sleep.
Yeah. So, yeah, that's the clown statue urban legend.
The next one is a lot more people might know this one.
It's the vanishing hitchhiker. So this legend usually says that there's a good Samaritan driving along the road. sees a man or a woman hitching on the side of the road.
They pick them up and either poof, They're suddenly gone or sometimes it takes it a step further and says they gave them a ride home only to find out from the homeowner that this particular person passed away. sometimes years before, spooky.
So again, because Massachusetts is spooky as fuck, We have our very own infamous vanishing hitchhiker in the Bridgewater Triangle.
144, right? Yeah. We call him the redheaded hitchhiker.
He not nice. He not nice. He doesn't. I mean, he's spooky.
He's spooky. He is often reported as walking down Route 44 in Rehoboth, Massachusetts.
And obviously that is part of the Bridgewater Triangle.
His description is always the same. It varies very slightly if at all.
Someone is always driving near the Rehoboth slash Seekonk line.
And they come across a well-built, somewhere between the ages of 45 and 55 year old male.
He has signature red hair, which is usually accompanied by a beard.
He is said to be wearing a flannel shirt and jeans or work pants and work boots.
Some people see him as very well put together, very clean, and then other times people see him and he looks disheveled and kind of like he just worked a really hard day.
Either way, he's always described as wearing those clothes and he always looks the same.
Now, when you pick him up, one thing that happens is he doesn't talk to you.
He gets in the car. You might ask him a question or two, but he will not say a word to you.
Some people say he just stares at you, which I'd be like, cool, cool, cool.
I'd be like, time for you to go. but eventually you turn to look at him and poof he fades away now when he fades away He either laughs at you, taunts you, or screams at you.
I told you he not nice. Which is not cool.
No. There's also people who see him on the side of the road and he'll just wave and disappear or he'll just go to walk into the woods and disappear before he gets there.
Remind me to never drive near there ever fucking again.
And the worst one. Some people say that they will be driving in the area and he just appears in their backseat for a hot second.
No, thanks. Exactly. I am also. Shouldn't there be like some kind of rule where it's like if I don't invite you into my car, like even if you're dead, you can't come in.
I know. That should be the rule. Like, we should live in a polite society, guys.
It's like, we should cover this at some point.
And that's why We Drink has a really good episode on the black-eyed children. children if you don't invite them they can't come for sure i just gave my own self chills just saying i know i did too i yeah it freaks me out that just stressed me out Yeah, we're definitely going to be covering them for sure.
And we'll eventually, like I said, do a deep dive into the Bridgewater Triangle on an episode.
Yeah. So some of these stories will come back, but definitely with more detail.
So yeah, that's The Vanishing Hitchhiker.
Freaky. The next one everybody knows. Bloody Mary.
Uh, you know I did this when I was younger?
I think everybody did. Yeah, I was so scared.
It's just part of growing up. No, it's horrifying.
Like don't do it. It's like, you know, at a sleepover, you go into the bathroom, you're supposed to take a lit candle.
I think just a single lit candle and say her name three times into the mirror with all the lights off.
Now what's supposed to happen kind of varies.
Either she appears and just scares the shit out of you because she's covered in blood or she tries to drag your ass away.
It can be a number of outcomes, but no outcome is good.
It's never fun. Yeah, it's never a good outcome, so don't do it.
Now, where did this come from? Well, there could be a few different Marys that you could be meeting in the mirror when you do this.
One point of origin could be Queen Mary I. She was historically known in her life as Bloody Mary because she was responsible for the deaths by burning at the stake of nearly 300 Protestants to make sure England stayed as Catholic as possible.
So they called her Bloody Mary. Which is one of the most metal nicknames ever.
It really is. Like if your name is Mary.
Just start going by Bloody Mary. Do it. I mean, don't start burning Protestants at the stake, but take that nickname for sure.
Mary wasn't able to produce an heir or have any actual pregnancy, unfortunately.
She did have a few phantom pregnancies. One of them was so real that they thought she was going into labor and they were just like, oh, just kidding.
You're not pregnant. What? Which is a phenomenon that's really interesting.
But she had a few of them and actually ended up dying in the middle of one.
So her version sometimes requires the person to say into the mirror, Bloody Mary, I have your baby.
Which is just rude. I was going to say that's just like sad.
Like don't taunt an infertile dead woman.
Yeah. That's just not chill. They're typically not in the highest of spirits.
No. And you just don't need to go there with your spirit games.
I would do the same thing. I would drag them somewhere.
I would scare the piss out of them. Now, it could also be Mary, Queen of Scots.
Uh-huh. She didn't directly cause any bloodshed, but she definitely had some shit happen around her and she met a pretty grisly end.
So she married her cousin. woof never a good plan yeah that's not recommended uh she married her cousin the earl of darnley And he ended up being stabbed 56 times in front of her while she was pregnant with his child.
Oh wow. So... Bum city. Very bum city. People immediately started pointing fingers at her like she did it even though she didn't.
So she had just ended up fleeing with her infant son, John. who would later become the King of England.
Fun fact. Because everyone was just like, you did it, Burpeter.
So when she got to her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I's crib...
Liz was just like, eh, and had her thrown in jail because she didn't want to deal with the bullshit that an uprising would have brought with it.
So she was like, you know what? Let's just get rid of this real quick.
Yeah, she was like, I got shit to do. I'm Queen Elizabeth I. So Mary Queen of Scots ended up being in prison for 19 years.
Wow, that's a long time. Yeah. And eventually she was beheaded, but it took several passes to do the job.
I think it took like three or four passes with the sword or axe, whatever they used.
So that's rough because there was clearly a very unskilled executioner on shift that day.
Even worse, somebody like the executioner's assistant or something went to lift her head and yell, long live the queen, as one does.
Yeah. But he grabbed her red wig and her head fell to the floor and like rolled away.
She had a wig? Yeah. Oh. Most, a lot of them did have wigs.
Damn. But that's just rough times. Yeah, that's just, like, humiliating.
I would have been really pissed. So, yeah, well, that's the thing.
It's, like, degrading. So it definitely could be her.
I wouldn't blame her. I wouldn't blame her.
And there's also a woman that's cited often named Mary Worth.
But there are so many variations of her story that it's kind of bullshit it's like she's a witch she wasn't she's this she's that it's just I'm banking on it's Mary, Queen of Scots or Mary I. So yeah, that is Bloody Mary.
And my next urban legend is the Halloween decoration that turns out to not be a Halloween decoration.
So it's kind of like your carnival one, but kind of not.
I was going to say. You're like, wait a second.
I already did that one. I was like, I did it.
I did it. So this one is, you see a body hanging from someone's tree on Halloween.
Turns out to be an actual dead body as opposed to a macabre Halloween decoration.
No bueno. No. That reminds me of the scream, like the first scream when Casey's hanging from the tree.
Oh, yeah. You'd be like, that's a grisly Halloween decoration.
Wow. That's really realistic. Very well done.
Distasteful, but okay. So this actually happened in 2005.
Did it really? Yeah. In Frederica, Delaware, a 42-year-old woman climbed to a branch more than 15 feet in the air to hang herself. at about 9 p.m. just a few days before Halloween.
For several hours that night and then throughout the next day, the hanging body was very visible to everyone passing by.
Literally, it was in the front yard of someone else's house.
Oh my god. It wasn't until around noon the following day that police were called when they realized it was a little too realistic.
Turns out she did intentionally commit suicide.
I'm about to be checking all the trees tomorrow morning.
And that is like, that's gnarly. A few days before Halloween, you do that in someone's front yard?
That's fucking metal. Like, that's very metal.
That's metal in like a little scary. In a scary way.
Yeah. That's black metal. Yeah, that's death metal.
That's death metal. So yeah, that one's real.
So that's fun. wow this one kind of goes along with this one but it's a little different this one's the haunted house hanging decoration that turns out to be a real person so it's Again, another variation of yours.
This tale is that a haunted house decides to go for the realism angle and uses a real dead body to hang from a nuisance. the props.
There is a real instance of this, but it doesn't pan out exactly the way the urban legend states.
In Fenton, Montana, there's a haunted attraction called Creepy World, which is like super original news.
On October 27th, 2011. Oh, damn. Not that long ago.
Yeah, not long ago at all. A 17-year-old actress in The Haunt somehow slipped herself into a prop noose that was hanging over a bathtub.
She must have slipped on the edge of the tub and began to hang herself accidentally as people walked by all night thinking she was part of the show.
Oh, my God. Yeah, they found shoe prints and scuff marks on the wall of the tub around her, so she was obviously struggling for a while.
And luckily, a maintenance guy was checking the electrical work in the haunt between groups.
Yeah. And found her unconscious and hanging there.
Oh, my God. They all cut her down and she ended up surviving.
She was unconscious. They brought her in.
She had to go to the ICU. She was in there for a while, but she survived.
Thank God. So yeah, and they said it was just a horrific accident.
Like it wasn't intentional. So I think she was like supposed to be set up on the edge of the bathtub and she was wearing like a white bathrobe.
Or like a white bath towel. Yeah. She must have just like maybe tried to do something funny and like slip her head into it and slipped.
And it actually like tightened around her.
Damn, that's really messed up. Thank God she lived.
Yeah, it's like a nightmare. I know. So moving on from that urban legend, we're going to move into something a little different, which is decapitation awareness.
Okay. Okay. Urban legend states that a human head could remain aware for several seconds after being decapitated from the body.
Well, this isn't totally proven yet because it's weirdly kind of tough to get study this because we can't just go about chopping people's heads off. why I know it's I don't know why don't we just ask a dead guy Yeah.
That's what I mean. Everybody makes things so difficult.
I mean, just like, it's like, Let's just give it a shot.
One in one is two, you know? You know? It's one of those situations.
I'm going to say that about everything now.
One and one is two, you know? Always, always.
Every time. Every time. So that totally connects to this.
I get it. Thank you. Well, luckily, luckily, I say not luckily.
There is evidence to suggest that it is possible that decapitated heads sometimes know what the fuck is happening a few seconds after the fact.
That's kind of cool. It's horrifying. I mean, it's fucking terrifying.
It's cool in the most horrifying way. An example of a study of this, Dr. Bureau, I think his name was, who conducted an experiment on a French murderer named Languille.
Supposedly. So this guy Langiel went to the guillotine because he was a murderer.
And the doctor was like, I'm going to attend the execution and I'm going to write down what I see.
Cause he just, he wanted to see like what the fuck goes on.
So supposedly after he was guillotined, Languille's eyes and mouth continued to move for five to six seconds, at which point he appeared to pass on.
Now that you can just chalk up to like nerve endings shooting off and stuff, you know.
Right. Like non-voluntary movement. But then when Bureau shouted his name, his eyes popped open.
Like, to answer. Like, to look at him. Like, what?
What? It gets worse. In Bureau's own words, quote, Languille's eyes very definitely fixed themselves on mine. than the pupils focusing themselves.
So then for the next 30 seconds, he kept trying to get him to look at him.
So for 30 more seconds, he got him to look at him one more time. when he shouted his name.
He shouted his name a third time and he was finally dead.
But he said... That the look he gave him when he actually like looked at him when he called his name was like somebody had interrupted like when you're in deep thought and somebody interrupts you like the glare you give them.
Like, what? Wow. Like, yeah. That's wild.
Which gives me all the chilly willies. Yeah.
Yeah. Like, hi, I haven't deep thought about you cutting my head off, so.
Yeah, like he's just sitting there being like, really?
Yeah, that's messed up. And then he's like, what, dude?
So there's also like a sciencey one, which I thought was interesting.
A chemist named Antoine Lavoisier was one of the greatest French scientists during the super gnarly French Revolution.
When everybody was just getting their heads chopped off and shit.
So that's unfortunate. Unfortunately, he was also an investor in a private tax collection company and had a clash with one of the leaders of the revolution, Jean-Paul Marat.
So all of that basically meant that he had to be guillotined.
Oh. You know. You know. You know, it's just the way Shaq went.
Yeah, it's just the way the cookie crumbles.
It's just like one and one is always two.
One and one is always two. You know what?
It's the way that the croissant crumbs. Same.
This is French. My little croissant. My little croissant.
That's a French ass name. That's a French ass name, Yvonne.
If you don't know what I'm talking about, I hate you.
You need to go YouTube that if you don't know what we're talking about.
Just type in, that's a French ass name. Can I get your number?
So yeah, he had to go to the guillotine, unfortunately.
He was executed on the 8th of May, 1794.
And... The cool thing about him was he was dedicated to science, even in the end.
Hey-oh! He managed to participate in one experiment even during his death.
He promised that after his beheading, he would keep blinking as long as he retained his consciousness.
Oh, my God. And he asked his friend to watch him and record this if he did it because he said, I'm going to keep blinking.
How long did he blink for? The friend complied.
He reportedly continued to blink for 15 seconds.
Holy shit, that's a long time. Kept blinking.
And that's not just like a coincidence that he's like, I'm going to blink.
No way. And he keeps blinking. So that's fucking terrifying.
Now this whole thing can be attributed to something called the quote wave of death.
Sounds gnarly. It's pretty gnarly. It happens immediately after the head is removed from the body.
They've done tests on lab rats, unfortunately.
Test this out. Because oftentimes, the way they euthanize lab rats is... by decapitation because they think that's the most humane way because it ends really quick or so they thought supposedly But they were starting to see in these lab rats that all of a sudden there was this surge of brain activity that can cause the head to be aware and actually produce thoughts right after being removed you can take in like auditory and visual things as your head is removed And it only stops after the brain is sufficiently starved of glucose and oxygen long enough to die.
So this provides basis for the argument that your head could kind of be saved if it was supplied with glucose and oxygen.
Lava bean bananas. Isn't that bizarre? Yeah.
I'm not even saying you could do anything, but technically it could still be alive.
That's like so weird to think of. Isn't it bizarre?
Yeah. Because you think it like I always say decapitation freaks me out.
Me too. We were talking about the Gainesville Ripper.
That one instance, it's like removing someone's head just seems like the most barbaric and scary thing you can do because it just takes away the person.
It just seems very... It just seems very inhumane.
It is. It does. And at first, the guillotine, to me, always seemed like...
Very humane. Like at least it's quick. And clean.
And is there a humane way to die? I don't know.
Not really. But if you can start, if you can see, and I think there's also situations where I think Anne Boleyn was said after she was beheaded to like her lips were still moving in prayer.
Yeah. And it's like, there's a few others.
There was a woman who, after she was guillotined, the guy, because they always held up the head and did something awful.
Like, they were always just dicks about it.
And I guess the guy who held up her head slapped her cheek and said something.
And people watching, like it's in the history records that it says her cheeks flushed and she looked angry. angry oh wow angry face which can you imagine a decapitated head making an angry face No, like when the face was like one, like a different expression right before.
Exactly. It's like, nope. I would make a duck face.
I'd be like, like, I'd be like... You would.
If I had 15 seconds to prove that theory, that's what I would do.
I'd be like so scared because I was about to die.
And then I'd just be like, hmm. Before you'd go, you'd be like, all right, so watch me.
And if I start making duck faces, I'm conscious.
And right now Ash is making like a million selfie Vogue faces.
I love it. Amazing. So yeah, that's decapitation awareness.
Hey-o. Sounds like it's like a week, like Decapitation Awareness Week.
It should be a week. Where we educate you on decapitation.
So I only have like two more left and they kind of have to do with each other.
Okay. The next one is Buried Alive. The worst.
Everybody knows that. The fuck does that have to do with?
Well, the urban legend says that a woman who went to her grave, like a young woman who went to her grave after dying suddenly, Usually a family member has some kind of dream or feeling or vision that this woman isn't dead yet.
They dig her up to ease this person's fears or to prove that she's fucking not.
And they find scratch marks on the inside of the lid of the coffin.
I hate that. So the medical term for the fear of being buried alive as a result of being incorrectly pronounced dead is taphophobia.
Okay. Definitely have that. Unfortunately, this little legend has proved to be true.
There was actually an instance recorded in the New York Times on January 18th, 1886.
In Woodstock, Ontario, it says, this is what the news clipping said.
Recently, a girl named Collins died here. as it was supposed very suddenly.
A day or two ago the body was exhumed prior to its removal to another burial place. when the discovery was made that the girl had been buried alive.
Her shroud was torn into shreds, Oh my god.
And that was like a real news clipping. No, thank you.
Now, in 1905, the English reformer William Tebb... collected accounts of premature burial, he found that in 219 cases of near-live burial had happened.
What? 149 actual live burials had happened.
10 cases of live dissection happened. And two cases of awakening while being embalmed happened.
What? Also, live dissection? Goodbye. Yeah, no.
Not about it. That would be rough. I'm telling you.
That's always my fear. When I go to cut into someone, I'm like, hello?
There should be tests. You should just speak now or forever hold that peace, girl.
For real. Or like the opposite of peace.
We always know everybody's dead before we cut them.
I sure hope so. We do. It's modern medicine and all.
So like I just said, this was all before modern medical science.
So checking for vital signs was not something they could do. really accurately do back then.
It was just super archaic. So someone could look and appear dead, but not actually be clinical dead as which can happen now.
During these times, like the 18th, 19th, and even the early 20th century, people actually had their coffins outfitted with safety precautions like bells and shit just in case they were prematurely entombed.
I would do that shit. I would do that now.
The first recorded safety coffin was Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick, which is an awesome name.
Before his death in 1792, he demanded to have a window installed to allow light in. an air tube to provide a supply of fresh air, and instead of having the lid nailed down, he had a lock fitted.
And then in a special pocket in his shroud, he had two keys, one for the coffin lid and one to unlock the tomb door.
Oh my God. He was like, let's do this. But did he actually actually die?
He did. Yeah, he didn't have to use all his shit, but he was ready.
That's good. It's better to be ready. Yeah, I mean, the better safe than sorry, man.
So in 1798, P.G. Pesler... A German priest suggested that all coffins must have a tube inserted from which a cord would run to the church bells.
So if an individual had been buried alive...
They could tell people by ringing the church bells from their coffin, which I think is a pretty good one.
Now, this one's pretty rough. Pessler's colleague, Pastor Beck, suggested that coffins have a small trumpet-like tube attached.
And each day the local priest could check the state of putrefaction of the corpse by sniffing the odors emanating from the tooth.
Ew, imagine having that job. Like what?
So if no smell was smelled or the priest heard cries for help in the coffin, they could dig them up.
That'd be like the priest in training. yeah that would be like the bitch priest like I'm like the bitch of the salon right now and I would so have to do that They'd be like, oh yeah, you would have to do that.
Go smell for the bodies. They'd be like, go smell those trumpets, girl.
Yucky. You'd be like, no thank you. No thanks.
And it's like, and a good day is coming back from that being like, they all smelled like shit.
Yeah, true. Yay. Like a bad day is when you're like, no, nothing's good.
Everyone's alive and we buried them. So in 1995, a modern safety coffin was patented by Fabrizio Caselli. in what year i'm sorry 1995 oh wow the year before of my birth yeah exactly before of my birth I just said before of your birth before of me before of my birth His design included an emergency alarm, an intercom system, a flashlight, breathing apparatus and both a heart monitor and a stimulator.
Wow. Yeah. And it's also believed that the phrases saved by the bell dead ringer and graveyard shift come from the use of safety coffins.
It makes sense. What was the second one?
Which makes a lot of sense. Dead ringer.
Dead ringer. Because you would ring the bell.
Yeah. And then graveyard shift is going around smelling all the fucking tubes.
And Saved by the Bell is just like Kelly Kapowski.
Exactly. That's where that came from. Yeah.
Duh. It's fairly modern. Okay, I want to hear what goes with this.
Buried alive with an engagement ring. you'll get it don't worry so this isn't really an urban legend but it's fucking nuts and I had to share it because it's a real thing that happened So a woman named Mikalina Lewandowska.
She's Polish, I believe. 27 years old. was made alive by her fiancé, Marcin Kasparek, and his friend, Patrick Boriz, in 2011.
Oh wow. Now, literally, he got bored with her and wanted to be with other women.
So he was like, I'm just going to attack her and bury her alive. he attacked her with a taser she said quote i was trying to push him away with the taser He knelt down, he pressed my ribs with his knee, and continued to use the taser.
Holy shit. She was tasered twice in the neck, bound and gagged and put into a cardboard computer box.
What happened to just breaking up with someone?
That's the thing. It's like, can we just break up?
Like, I'll get over that much faster than you tasering me and burying me alive. that's fucked up he taped the box shut put her in the trunk of his car then drove her to the woods and buried her head down Under nearly half a foot of dirt and then left.
So she testified that she struggled to breathe, then made use of the only tool she had.
Her big-ass engagement rings. You motherfucker.
She cut her legs free, then scratched the box with the diamond in her engagement ring until she got all the way out.
She said it took her a half an hour to cut herself out of the cardboard coffin, and then she flagged down a motorist to help her.
Oh, my God. Can you imagine? And they all went to jail for attempted murder, by the way, so that's good.
For how long? I don't even know, but the best part about this is that the way she got out was that big ass engagement ring that he gave her.
Yeah, and then you sold that shit for mad money, I hope. exactly because I would not want to keep it but you know what always get a big ass engagement ring just in case I mean that's my goal at Annie.
Yeah. And that's the reason. Just so you can carve your way out of a cardboard box.
Just in case Annie buries me alive, which I don't see happening in the future, but...
Who does? I really hope that doesn't happen in the future.
I mean, PSA don't allow it to. Yeah, I won't.
So those are our urban legends. We hope you enjoyed them.
We wanted to keep it a little... a little shorter and sweeter and to the pointer i think and to the pointer this was so fun And I was going to go into some of the urban legends of like the razor blades and candy and shit, but we'll save that for another day.
Yeah. Just check your kid's candy. We all know that's bullshit too.
That's not true. You don't know that? Eat your candy.
There's no instance of that happening. But check your candy anyways.
Well, check your candy. Yeah, I think that's all the, we don't have a lot more business to tend to.
But we are doing a bonus episode soon, I promise.
Yes, we will. Maybe we'll watch Urban Legend because it will be like fitting.
Oh, there you go. Maybe we'll do that and then we'll keep House of a Thousand Corpses for another one.
Yeah, let's do it. but uh yeah so maybe we'll do urban legend and chit chat about that just to have a companion episode So be on the lookout for that.
We'll let you know when it's coming. It will come soon because we are all on the mend now so we can function again.
I hope so. I got some medicine at Whole Foods today.
I'm trying to be holistic and shit. You got some earthy crunchy meds.
I did. It was like all natural. And fucking $12.
Hey, whatever works, man. Hopefully it does.
Whatever blows the shit out of your system because it sucks.
It said something about like bronchial infections and I was like, yeah, I think I have that.
You're like, I got that. Self-diagnosed.
MD. Then I bought some sushi. Yeah, that goes together.
So, yeah. So we'll let you know when that's coming out.
And... In the meantime, you can find us on Instagram.
At Morbid Podcast. You can send us an email.
Morbidpodcast.gmail.com You can follow us on Twitter.
At Amorbid Podcast. And you can listen to us wherever you listen to podcasts.
Because we're Airware. Stitcher. Blueberry. iTunes.
Podcast app. Google Play. Podbean. All that shit.
Life. And follow us on Facebook and join the Facebook group.
Oh, yeah. It's getting bigger by the day and it's really fun and people are posting things and it's fun.
I just recently reactivated my Facebook, so I will join.
Yay! Somebody invite me. The fuck? You're an admin.
Oh, it's the one we made? I didn't realize.
Yeah. You're an admin, so you can go in there whenever you want.
You're a member. I'm an honorary member.
You're an honorary member. And yeah, so we'll, oh, we're going to do a Q&A soon. yeah we're just trying to figure out a night so we can let you guys know ahead of time so you can be prepared but uh so that'll be coming up soon yeah and i think that's all we have on the agenda so uh rate and review and subscribe and all that good stuff.
And thank you so much for the amazing reviews that you've been posting.
We love you. I know, I love you guys so much.
It hurts. And we got a little behind, but we're going to be producing as much content as possible from here on out.
So stay tuned for a lot of Morbid. Yeah, now that we've figured out how to record separately, it's going to be fucking life changing.
Yeah, it makes our life a lot easier because now we don't have to, you know, be in the same room every single time.
Yeah, I don't have to smell you. We're still going to be in the same room.
But yeah, now. but uh so yeah so you'll be getting a lot more from us and we hope you keep listening and we hope you Keep it weird.
Bye. Bye. Happy Halloween. Happy Halloween.
Sam Hain. Do the Monster Mash. It was a graveyard smash.
He sounded just like him. I really tried.
You did. You did really good. Bye. Thriller, thriller night. ghouls come back to dance yeah yeah bye Bye.
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