And That's Why We Drink - BONUS Listener Stories: Vol. 46

Episode Date: October 15, 2020

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important halloween message we have a very exciting announcement which is that we are having a virtual halloween party halloween is here vocalize with you we are yeah thank i appreciate it our voices do best when we're in sync uh yeah we're having a halloween party it's going to be october 19th and it's going to be at 6 p.m pacific standard time 9 p.m eastern standard time and we're gonna be dressed up in costumes we're gonna do some maybe some spooky crafts maybe some spooky games eat some spooky snacks um and we probably are going to be streaming ghost adventures so yeah a lot of it is tbd but that's how we like to do it because we like to show up and just like create chaos as we go i say all these things but

we have planned none of it yet but that's the fun and the mystere uh but yeah so we're gonna have a blast it's gonna be a party of two and it's uh gonna be virtual if you want to uh be a part of it and watch some of that spooky stuff then you can join us on our Patreon page at patreon.com slash ATWWD podcast. And no, no, go for it. We will be streaming it.

I think via YouTube through our Patreon site. So if you are a patron, you will be able to join us and we're very excited for this exclusive event and I will be in LA. So we'll be in the same place. So it won't be, you know, we won't have the usual concerns of two people trying to figure out tech. It'll just

be in the same room. Maybe we'll go trick-or-treating, which is me asking you for candy and you just give it to me. I'll just stand in a closet and you can keep knocking on the door. Anyway, I haven't told Christine yet what my costume is, but I'm very excited about it so if you would like to see what that is then you can join our patreon and be a part of the stream that

night that's right it is again uh monday october 19th at 6 p.m pacific uh 9 p.m eastern so join us at patreon.com slash atww podcast halloween is here okay on october 19th almost hello hello happy halloween halloween is almost here surprise i'm a fox now i don't know why it didn't cross my mind that we should dress up um i thought about surprising you with marty mcfly but i feel like i've done that a million times in our friendship so i was like i'm not gonna do it and now you're dressed and i'm not and now i look well it was a half an hour before we we started recording i was at target and i thought well i didn't really plan anything for our surprise bonus episode everybody uh it's a listener's episode by the way so stick around um after we kind of blab for a second but so i found

this little fox outfit and i was like that's so cute and since this tail is technically supposed to go on my butt I think but um I was like I don't want to really show my butt on our YouTube channel so not today maybe next week but so I tied it to my head instead so now it's part of my hair extensions I love it I also didn't even realize it was a tail when I first looked at your head I was like that looks like it's supposed to be there. But I appreciate the dress up. I feel bad that I didn't do anything. Although this is a special episode anyway, because this is the last time you're going to see me with this long of hair probably ever again. Because tonight Allison is cutting it.

So I heard that's the case on your Instagram. I was like, wowza, this is news. This is exciting news. Em's gonna be, I don't know, I don't know. Mulleted? Yeah. this is news uh this is exciting news m's gonna be i don't know i don't know what did oh yeah apparently a lot of you have heavily suggested i get a mullet even though i did another video where i was like okay i hear your cries for the mullet that's not happening so please send me other suggestions and then everyone still said mullet so yeah uh apparently that's what people

expect it's not what you're gonna get so it's gonna be a surprise to all of us because even allison doesn't know how this is gonna go i think it's gonna be very fun and i'm excited to watch uh we also have a very exciting halloween announcement and a very exciting announcement and that is that we are releasing new merch we have been wanting to do this for so long and again we've heard your cries and we've heard our own cries because our own cries we've wanted merch for so long where we've wanted to you know up the ante at least and uh luckily guess who is free but kirk uh who remember kirk from work work kirk who did the logo of this podcast.

You did find our logo back when we were so broke that we were like, can we give you a six pack in exchange for our logo? And he did it for us. And he did our Here for the Booze tour with the little ghosty guys. That's right. So he's done just about everything. And we called him. We were like, people are screaming for new merch.

We need your help. And so he has come up with some pretty interesting stuff. We are going to release it on Halloween.een so we're so excited get ready uh get your wallets out and then keep them open for like two weeks and then you can order things we are so excited yeah we're hoping to get it out by halloween time so uh i don't think we have the exact release date yet but we're hoping to get it out during halloween season we've been told that it's doable we've been told that halloween is a realistic timeline so fingers crossed everything goes smoothly and if not it will be put out immediately yes follow us on uh

atw podcast on like social media we'll post it as soon as it's ready yes um and uh oh another yeah oh you tell this one okay so uh if you have not heard yet we have a newsletter which is divine it's brand new so good but it's it's actually very fun to read i know sometimes there's newsletters where you're like oh well maybe i'm not gonna get anything out of this every section is fun yeah our friend jess uh writes it up and she's just a gem and like has come up with so many creative ideas and we have like podcast recommendations like uh little fun facts of the month so sorry i'm now you go ahead again well so we were thinking for halloween we would

like our we would like the next newsletter to have uh to show some of our favorite little furry friends that are not geo and juniper although maybe they're included we i haven't discussed that with you yet but we would like to do a uh a halloween uh costume contest for our favorite pets so if you would like to uh if you plan on dressing up your animal which we heavily encourage um and you want to send a picture of it to and that's why we drink at gmail.com then it will go in the running for our costume contest. And we'll be posting a few of our favorite pictures, maybe all of them. Who knows?

Who knows? We're very excited. But they will be in the newsletter. Yes, it'll be in the newsletter. The winner will be in the newsletter. So basically what you have to do is sign up for the newsletter. I don't know if we know, how are we like submitting them? Is it through the email?

I assume it was through the newsletter. I don't know if we know how are we like submitting them? Is it through the email? I assume it was through the email. If you just put through the in the subject line, if you just say costume contest or pet costume contest, that way it's easier for Eva to look through or even for, you know, just to help look through too. Perfect. I think that would be kind of the easiest way. And as long as you keep your animals safe, don't put them in compromising painful situations. I know that dressing up your pets is your animals safe, don't put them in compromising, painful situations. I know that dressing up your pets is often controversial and I don't want anybody to be like putting their, you know, really heavy things on top of their cat or like wrapping their animals in something that stresses them out. So don't, you know, don't don't traumatize your animals, please, in the process. But the only trauma your animals should go through is being cuddled and loved too much in this life yeah so um and winning a huge awesome contest right yes for for us only

your poor animal uh but yeah so those are two fun things that we're currently doing we might be doing more things wink wink nudge nudge but until then these are the two things that we're gonna follow us on social media because i feel like if anything changes that's where we're gonna post it that's like the most accessible way for us to give you information yes um so yeah so i mean that being said we have stories for you and eva picked them out this week and she literally was like do you guys mind if they're really really really scary and we were like uh that's the goal yeah so she was she was like, OK, and basically warned us and said, like, these are real heavy and like crazy and creepy. So she said the phrase fucked up a few times and talking about these.

So I'm looking forward to it. I hope you're enjoying that. We are doing for the sake of spooky season. At least we're throwing in a little bonus surprise episode for you. So if you had ran drive and that's why we drink episodes fear not here's another so uh also snaps to eva for finding all these yeah we're like eva find us more stories we want you to do more work for us hey remember that time that you read 100 stories a week read 200 this time um okay so here we go to celebrate spooky season i hope everyone's having a happy halloween

i certainly am the first story is from guess her fucking name no it can't be another megan it is megan with an with a weird a that it does not need to be where it is anyway megan goes by she her they which is super fun i love when people pick two pronouns for themselves that's fun um thank you for normalizing pronouns megan i'm sorry me again uh your subject line is who doesn't enjoy a double murder that cancels halloween oh oh my goodness okay so this is what they say hello you will definitely probably need slash want a drink after this one cheers okay me again i like where this is going uh i grew up in a small town in ohio logan ohio h i o i've heard of logan i don't know quite do you know l-o-g-a-n-o-h-i-o

l-o i don't know quite where it is but i've heard of it well it is about 40 minutes uh south of columbus fun fact oh that's literally very close to me then i think it's commonly referred to as the hawking hills oh my god okay what that's literally where i'm going where blaze and i are celebrating our anniversary oh great i hope you go to this exact location holy shit that's that's why i know logan because we literally just booked a fucking cabin there okay well now everyone on halloween go look no no no it's not on halloween it comes out we're going like two days before on the 13th on our anniversary two days before this episode airs so like oh okay so it's already been done so it's already been done. So it's already been done.

We'll like, but also happening, but I don't like that. Yikes. Okay. So on your way there, listen to my sultry voice telling you about my anniversary. That's what I always do.

I was there to ruin your wedding. Wasn't I? Favorite activity. Um, okay. So, so she slash they lives in Hocking Hills, which is mostly known for its amazing hiking trails and scenic landscape.

Yeah. Anywho, in 1984, two young locals named Christine and Blaze. Stop it. Were reported missing. Oh, fuck. The mothers of the local teens weren't too worried when the teens did not show up at curfew. They both thought that their child had fallen asleep at the other person's home. It was not until the next day when neither teen was home that the families began to worry the families

called each other to check in with one another and after realizing that neither family had seen the teens both families immediately began looking for them and finally decided to report them missing what was found what was found next would change the small town forever uh-oh christine oh fuck sometime that october which is what it is right now 10 days after the disappearance of the teenagers annette cooper johnston and todd schultz says torsos eva's like oh he was somewhere going like oh fuck i didn't realize like how close to home this would hit oh my annette and todd's torsos were found in a secluded cornfield it's the most ohio thing i can't imagine oh no the remainder of their limbs and bodies were

later found in various parts of the Hawking River. Fuck. No. So don't go swimming there when you're there, Kristen. I will not. The first suspect was Dale Johnston, who was Annette's stepfather. Oh, no. Rumors spread that Dale was jealous of Annette's relationship with Todd because Dale wanted her all for himself.

Oh, God. Vomitosis. Yes. with todd because dale wanted her all for himself vomitosis yeah dale johnson was convicted of the murders and sentenced to the death penalty johnson was released from prison in 1990 but did not receive his declaration of wrongful conviction of conviction until 2008 and this came out after two men admitted to the murders okay so i take back what i said about dale johnson sorry oh no as a result of this murder halloween was canceled in the year 1984 and still to this day takes place before dark because the urban tale is that if you're caught trick-or-treating after dark you'll be murdered and chopped up and thrown into the river. You can find a lot more on this case if you like. Oxygen even shot,

a buried in the backyard bonus episode. This is the story of the Hocking Hills murders. Stay safe. Wear a mask. Wear a mask. And don't go trick-or-treating after dark or you may get murdered. And that's me again that's really wild because like literally

the week this comes out i will be in hawking hills in logan and that's pretty like listen eva not great you did that you did that and you didn't even know you did that you didn't even know oh my god i don't love that at all i do i. I think it's great. I mean, I know you do, but I will say I have, so you know how, um, I have like this like deep seated fear where I look under hotel beds. Uh, no, me and lemon don't know about that. Last year when we were on tour, blaze got me for, I think it was Christmas or something, got me this like alarm for hotels where you put it against the door. So if anybody like opens the door, it sets off this like alarm for hotels where you put it against the door so if anybody like opens the door it sets off this like blaring alarm so it's like a travel alarm and i'm like in like most

definitely taking that with me on this trip because i now i'm really sincerely freaked out well if you find another petrified fruit under the bed you'll know it's a sign oh no so i have a an email here and this is uh from potentially anonymous it seems i don't want to say their name just in case um and they say hey y'all listen i'm late to the game but i'm on episode 83 so i'm catching up i really hope y'all still do listener stories well now we apparently do multiple listener stories welcome to our first ever second of the month listeners episode it's like they knew it's like everyone knew except us but only what else is new i actually had been skipping over the listener stories in the beginning i don't know what people a lot of people do that these are

some of my favorites personally but okay uh i actually had been skipping over the listener stories in the beginning but i recently listened to the one on the upside down man and bek and oh my chills those are the ones where you were like yeah now i should get into it yeah i guess these are also very scary i guess they're traumatic enough that i should get into this yes and now i must go back and listen to all the listener stories that i skipped my favorite thing now is how y'all react to the stories being that it's the first time y'all have read them i really hope my story gets picked for one because it's a literal wild ride and for two i can't wait to hear reactions to all of the fucked up in this story so fingers crossed buckle up and let's crack into it

i love it first i want to say that thinking about all the details of this night has me anxious sweaty palms chest pains all of it okay so picture it hallow night, full moon, the whole thing. Five friends piled up in an SUV heading out for some wholesome haunted fun in the forest. As you do. Wholesome and in the forest. I see. Those words don't go together. Bankhead National Forest in Double Springs, Alabama, to be exact. Look it up.

It's creepy AF to begin with. There's a few little fun haunted stories that we were set out to explore our main event for the evening was to go up to aunt jenny johnson's grave of course that's wholesome oh yeah okay there's a link there uh basically people killed her husband then her and her children hunted down those men and got their revenge oh like spy kids whoa just like spy kids so wholesome just like spy kids you know totally worth a read so anyway we all pile up and head out there having a great time on the ride up through the hills and trees you know the stuff horror movie intros are made of we get there and no one else is around which i thought was strange with it being halloween surely we were

not the only ones out doing spooky shit anyway we park on the side of the road and get out to start the short trek into the woods back to her grave which is literally in the woods see you thank you not far from the road but enough to be completely surrounded by trees so we're walking along with nothing but the moonlight because apparently we were too dumb to bring flashlights and we start hearing sticks break around us one in the distance here and there and at first none of us thought much about it even made a couple jokes thinking it must have been deer running away from us until the clicks start getting louder and closer and multiplying oh the sounds were surrounding us and closing in on us fast as if something slash someone was running at us from all sides and then there they stood right in front of the

grave dressed in a black cloak and the creepiest red mask that i can still see in my mind to this day and then they lifted the mask and it was christ. Are you having fun without me? I want to join. And then another one behind her lifted his mask and it was Junie Cortez of the Spy Kids. And Christine said she broke her rope coming down from the tree like a spy kid and didn't know how to do it. So she needs help. She's stuck in a tree. Probably.

Just standing and staring into my soul a couple of my friends giggled thinking oh sorry are those the friends who giggled that geo would certainly react this way to a demon at a grave i think a couple of my friends giggled thinking okay it's halloween you're just out here trying to scare us and have a little fun good one but then it wasn't funny anymore there this thing is standing and staring at us relentlessly and all the while the sticks are breaking and leaves moving all around us as if there are more cloaks and masks out there just running circles around us but we never once saw them the noises were so intense and sounded so close but there were no bodies visibly moving we all hit survival

mode 101 and put our backs to each other and just stood there for what seemed like an eternity frozen until someone had the sense to say let's get out of here great that person was definitely not me i don't know who was that one person was me 10 minutes ago by the way and would have been like bye got a blast. So we all book it as fast as we can to get back to the vehicle. But the things in the woods are following us. We're on the path and they're in the tree lines on either side of us running the same pace and they start screeching. They're making these psychopathic laughing and screaming noises.

Truly the stuff of nightmares. We break the tree line and touch the road and it's dead ass silent this whole time i kept thinking it really was gonna be like someone that like like some teenager showed up in a costume but that's okay now we're on yeah it suddenly got like way worse it got it got uncute you know uncute real fast yeah like nothing happened, no one on the road again and nothing but crickets. We run and jump in the SUV and waste no time getting the hell out of there, but then we see headlights following us. Out of nowhere and coming up on us quick,

it was a four-wheeler with two individuals on it dressed all in black. They followed us down the hill and then took a quick sharp left turn, went through a field, and seemed to disappear. We were all trying to process what the fuck just happened when someone looks over and says is that the four-wheeler again of course it was down in the valley there are open fields to where you can see the roads and they were following us parallel to where we were going just watching us this went on for about 20 minutes we were just sitting ducks because every road we turned on they could see us and they followed finally they backed off and rode back up into the woods we were all shooketh

but we started trying to just say okay they were trying to have some fun they got us took it to a little too damn far but they got us we decided not to let it ruin our night so we started to our next stop which is a spot in the road that supposedly you put your car in neutral and something pushes it up the hill. I've heard of that, I think. I feel like that's familiar. That's a few weird haunted hills where there's some weird awkward magnetic draw. Yeah.

It's very odd. There are a few places like that. From the link, it says it's called Legend of Henry Hill. Huh. Okay. So anyway, we go do that. the car pushes up the hill yeah yeah small beans compared to what we just went through right we all decide okay we're just not shaking what happened we're gonna have to head home mind you though we are still in the forest and it's creeping up on midnight full moon shining down on the dirt roads and fields that surround us when i tell you what i saw next still

haunts my deepest nightmares i'm not even lying in the field to the right of us there was an oak tree huge and just there alone and under this tree was parked a blue astro van about the time i start to point and say what the fuck is up with that the guy driving says what the fuck is up with that thinking we are seeing and talking about the same thing i say i know right but no he sees a huge tree branch down in the road the road that we are on has no surrounding trees the creepy oak tree about 50 yards from us is the only one around but yet there's this huge tree branch that looks like it's been placed in the middle of the road directly past a small bridge covering a creek the branch is so big that if we were to have not seen it and run over it at a good speed we would have wrecked and or had

damage or seeing it means that we have to stop the vehicle and get out to move it out of the way which is exactly what the driver does oh he stops the car on the bridge gets out and all of a sudden his girlfriend screams bloody murder shut the door and here they come four cloaked masked figures holding knives what come out from under the bridge and head for our door handles good night absolutely not i think everything above that the guy driving was a quick thinker because he was able to lock the doors and maneuver the car around to move the branch out of the way enough to get around it around it as this was going on the knives were tapping on all four of our windows that fuck that i'd be you know what i would that's when you need christine schieffer because she's gonna reverse drive that puppy out she's gonna be flying down the highway backwards i feel like that's like my moment to shine where i'm like i've never been allowed to drive over people before but now i can

like it's like i've never been allowed to be a klutzy driver but this is my moment just like specifically if you guys don't know Xenon, she was part of our Space Camp video. And she would have just fucking nailed those suckers. I tell you what. Oh, boy. Eva, not Eva, Xenon. Wow. 40 and slip. Xenon would have been like what was that like she was looking

for her phone the whole time you're right she wouldn't have even seen it she would have driven right over them right over the branch she would have saved the day thinking nothing like nothing was different about the day she would have been looking for her for her frappuccino she dropped on the floor and then when she got up everyone was screaming she's like what oh my god i'm sweating keep going okay right so people are tapping on the car with knives fucking knives okay tapping on all four windows and they start beating on the doors as we pulled off a hundred miles an hour down the dirt road we went and never looked back i've never been back to that forest and i always say i never will we spent the entire ride home trying to figure this shit out and trying to blame it on

each other as a prank since we had this outing plan for a while but honestly none of us knew what the fuck was going on a couple days later we heard on the news about cult-like activity taking place in the forest and we're all like yeah no shit so i don't know what their intentions were either we were all just their fun little game and they were trying to scare the fuck out of us success or they were trying to kill us and sacrifice us up on the hill and we survived which makes me sound really cool well i imagine like i imagine that the log is like part of their trick like you know how they always say like if if all of a sudden you have like egg on your windshield have you heard that before yes yes like if all of a sudden there's like egg yolks

like don't try to clean it off with your windshield wipers because it'll smear worse then you have to pull over and then you're trapped and someone's gonna like get you yeah i feel like that's what i heard that that's what a log would be right like they knew you couldn't drive over it they knew you had to get out to move it yeah they knew like the driver had to at least get out and then you make makes you vulnerable for sure either way definitely an unforgettable night and the moral of the story is stay the fuck out of bankhead forest and also stay the fuck out like in your car or in your vehicle lock your doors don't get out that's my story that's especially while we're in a pandemic like let's all just stay home this is

the perfect reason to not go get murdered in the woods you know what i mean we finally have a good reason to not get murdered in the woods uh-huh okay it says i love you guys and listen to you every day while at work i hope to come to a live show someday keep up the good work sincerely survivor wow wowza slash xenon got it slash xenon slash xenon's friend who was like what have you put me through xenon i feel like everyone nobody i feel like maybe 0.05 percent of our listeners know what the fuck xenon is if you're on patreon you can watch the video if you don't know it's not xenon like the sequel no no it's a totally different uh man-made christine made creation man-made by christine it's a human slash fox made by christine it is just the most wild alien i've

ever met in my entire life okay She's such a gem, though. It's never a boring, never a dull moment with Sinan, though. She's like all of our worst qualities condensed into one little construction paper. No, you're right, because it's like all our basic bitch tendencies mixed with all our like clumsiness and like carelessness. Just like all mixed into one. Did you ever watch The 40-Year-Old Virgin? Yes. You know how there's that scene where he's hooking up with Leslie Mann and she drives home and she's like, that fucker came out of nowhere.

But she's like just crashing into like cars that are not moving. That Xenon as a human being. You're right. She's like, these fucking cloaked cult figures came out of nowhere. Watch out. Okay. Anyway, thank you, Xenon and also Survivor. right she's like these fucking cloaked cult figures came out of nowhere watch out okay anyway thank you xenon and also survivor and thank you survivor so here is our next story this is from caitlin who uses she her pronouns thank you for using for normalizing pronouns and the subject line is the real nightmare on elm street okay which is interesting because did you know fun fact uh

the house that they used for elm street is not actually on elm street is on i think nickels canyon road fun fact on what nickels canyon road in hollywood oh i don't even know what that is i'm really bad at geography i don't know if you know do you know where do you remember where like that mega church mosaic is yes it's literally the neighborhood right behind that church that is the house that's where it was filmed oh my god and i think the house across the street from it is the house they use for friday the 13th which is really okay so that's a haunted ass street um bob barker also lives in a house on that street it's a really weird that solidifies it haunted as fuck it's a weirdly famous street stay and neuter your pets and also

enter them into our halloween and also don't go to sleep um okay the real nightmare on elm street hi i'm christine eva and all furry and petrified friends i've been listening to the show for a little over a year now and i'm finally all caught up whoop whoop i've been did you say that or did they no it's written in there it was like that's a new one m okay i don't know i just throw in my own sound effects now i guess so you're your foley artist i exactly i've been wanting to send in this hometown murder story for a while now and with halloween coming up i figured it was the perfect time warning i apologize for how gruesome and graphic this story is in advance okay and then a sad face emoji this is the one eva warned us about i think this is the one eva

warned me specifically about because earlier this week i called her about something stupid and it was in the middle of her reading this story and she was like all frazzled she was like i'm sorry i'm reading something really fucked up you'll love it oh that's and she literally texted us like is it okay if there's some really fucked up stuff in this and we were like i think so um by the way i haven't said this yet because um if you're not watching the youtube you don't know it but i am very much drinking wine right now so i am uh i'm i have a fall candle lit and i'm drinking wine and i'm dressed as a fox nature cozy at its finest. Nature cozy. Going to Hocking Hills and going to get, you know, my torso murdered.

And you're going to drive around and your UFO is Zidane. So this story takes place in 1992 in my small hometown of Holliston, Massachusetts. This small town is home to many families as the school system is known to be one of the better ones in the state. Kenneth and Marianne. Jesus, this last name is going to get me as the school system is known to be one of the better ones in the state kenneth and marianne jesus this last name is gonna get me seguin it's spelt kind of like segue so is it oh no it's like it's like seguin okay kenneth and marianne figured this would be the perfect place to start their family and decided to buy their first house together in hollison on elm street kenneth and marianne eventually had a son and daughter danny and amy and were living the family typical family life until marianne made a comment stating that she was unhappy in the marriage and was thinking

about leaving kenneth the statement infuriated kenneth and he decided he would take out revenge on not only marianne but the children as well can I say something like really quick my friend Marianne just literally texted me as you said that on the screen a message from Marianne and I was like holy shit did the text say I'm thinking about leaving Kenneth I found this really cute house on Zillow it's on elm street oh uh i don't even know what it said but i definitely don't often get texts from her so i was just like what the hell that was really creepy sorry go ahead tell her to look out tonight or on synchronicity uh so on april 28th 1992 while marianne was out of the house kenneth drugged Danny and Amy, who were seven and five.

Oh, no. With sleeping pills. And while the kids were unconscious, he took them into his car and drove them to a small pond in a town about 20 minutes away where he, sorry, slit his son's throat and his daughter's throat and their wrists. Oh, my God. slit his son's throat and his daughter's throat and their wrists oh my god kenneth dropped his children into a shallow part of the pond and covered their bodies with sticks and leaves to try and hide them in the shallow water after hiding the bodies kenneth returned to elm street to find marianne sleeping in their bed he took an axe upstairs to the bedroom and bludgeoned marianne to death in her own bed after killing marianne, Kenneth took her body to the Sudbury River

and dumped her body into the water. He then returned to Elm Street, flipped over the mattress where he'd just killed his wife, and staged the house to look like a robbery. Marianne's body was quickly recovered from the river the next morning, and the police immediately went and questioned Kenneth. He described a robbery that occurred in the house where he was beaten up his children were drugged and kidnapped and his wife was bludgeoned with an axe how fucking stupid do you think people are like you can't just do that and expect to fucking get away with it it is shocking the confidence

that killers have right especially in this scenario it's like yeah someone like drugged specifically drugged my children drove them in my car to the nearby. Like it's. Right, right. Anyway. Well, hopefully Kenneth gets caught at the end of the story. I imagine he does since Caitlin happens to know the whole story. Right, exactly.

Unless Caitlin is a fly and she happened to be on that wall that night. Let's see. Oh, yes. Okay. and she happened to be on that wall that night um let's see oh yes okay the police believed this story until they contacted the school and heard that an anonymous call had been made stating that kids would be absent for school that day oh how fucking stupid so he literally called ahead and was like they're not gonna be here it's like he he tried too hard and then he shot himself in the foot exactly exactly the call was traced back to the house on elm street where their family lived and kenneth was then arrested and

found guilty on three counts of murder and sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole which has already been denied once so fuck you dude according to caitlin uh i found this uh i know this is a long and grotesque story, but I also found it interesting as there was a bench dedicated to Danny and Amy outside of our elementary school, but I never knew their story until I was a bit older. Well, thank God. Can you imagine being a kindergartner and being like, this is for the kids whose throats were slit.

Yeah. By their own dad. God damn it. My co-teacher's husband grew up on the next street over and remembers playing with Danny as a kid and learning about the story when he was way too young. Okay, so what I just said. So that, right. Other weird true crime events have happened in this small town, but nothing really compares to what we always refer to growing up as the real nightmare on Elm Street. Sorry this was so long, but I always enjoy hearing other listeners hometown stories so i had to include mine stay spookalicious my dogs caitlin wait a

minute whoop whoop whoop whoop oh my gosh that is horrible yep it sure is i love that you called eva in the middle of that and my friend marian texted me in the middle of that. What is going on? It's really strange, right? It's spookalicious, my dogs. That's what I meant. She also lives in Massachusetts, so really strange. Just saying. Oh, that's really, really, really, really, really fucking sad. I'm glad he was at least...

Let's move on quickly with haste. With haste. With haste. Okay. This is from Emily. He says, she, her pronouns. thank you for normalizing pronouns emily the subject of this email is don't send your kids to sleepovers great hi eva m and christine the ketty cabin murder story that christine read in episode 190 and your vows to never let your

kids attend sleepovers reminded me of a story my mom told me from her childhood oh okay she went to her friend's house for a sleepover one night you remember that sorry you remember the ketty cabin ones right murder yes i do okay uh she went to her friend's house for a sleepover one night i believe she was about 15 years old and probably had plans to get into some sort of trouble as she usually did her friend's parents were unfortunately going through a contentious divorce and her dad was not living in the house at that time sometime during the evening the doorbell rang and the friend's mom went to answer it on the other side of the front door was the friend's dad with a loaded gun threatening to shoot i slowly closed the door between us and uh collapse on my like sorry

we're not interested you don't have to shoot me i will fall over on my own thank you yeah you've already done your job yeah oh my god yep the friend's mom screamed at the kids to run and my mom and her friend bolted out of the back door and through neighbor's yards my mom recalls being so scared that she wasn't fully paying attention to where she was going and she ran directly into an in-ground pool oh that's so shit i hope i mean can you imagine if that's the worst part of a scary movie when you're in water and trying to escape someone with a gun i think that was literally in the strangers i was like that sounds like something you've seen before the way you just said it i was like yeah because i've seen it so many times i think it was specific the strangers or the purge or something but it's like

you're trying to escape but you're already slowed down so much and someone just is standing there just watching you you're like no matter where you go i'm gonna get there faster and you've already lost and just give up you're like i mean for mean, for lack of a better term, like a sitting duck, you know, you're like in the water, like you're stuck. Oh my God, that's horrifying. Also, like I'm glad she could swim presumably because can you imagine like you can't even swim or something and you're like stuck? Oh God.

I don't even know if that's the direction the story is going, but if I ever fell into a pool when I was running away from a gunman, I'd be like, well, it's too late now. Like why even keep? This is it. Right, like what are you gonna do and then when you get out your clothes are all wet like you're just running with wet clothes okay sorry we're only halfway through this okay uh after getting out of the pool and running down the street a little further they were picked up by police officers luckily the friend's mom had been able to talk the father down and call 9-1-1 the cops wrapped my mom up in a blanket and called my grandparents upon hearing what happened my

grandpa stormed out to his car to get over to the friend's house in an attempt to confront the other dad but was luckily tackled in his driveway by a family friend instead my cool calm and collected grandma went to pick my mom up the friend's dad was arrested and my mom her friend and her friend's mother were all safe i do think that this helps explain why my mom insisted on meeting all of my friend's parents before i was allowed to go to their houses when i was growing up very smart yep also i love that like i feel like that would be blaze in the situation just like fly off the handle and be like, oh, okay, I'll just go murder him myself. And then someone has to be like, stop.

You know what I mean? Like, that classic, like, quote unquote, dad move of like, great, well, now I will murder you with my own bare hands. It's like, oh, look, I've magically become a murderer just now. Yes, exactly. Yep. Exactly. Fortunately, Blaze is not a murderer, to be clear.

Not that we know of. Not that we know of not that we know of anyway tbd tbd tbd fortunately okay emily says fortunately this story has a much better ending than that of sue sharp and her children's also i figured that since october is national domestic violence awareness month that this would be a good time to remind everyone that along with everything else happening in the world right now we should also set aside some time to acknowledge domestic violence survivors and be a voice for victims. I'm so happy to have found this podcast. Thanks to my boyfriend, sister. And I look forward to listening every Sunday. Thanks for listening, Emily.

Wow. That's beautiful. And I didn't even, to be honest, realize that it was National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Right. I didn't even, to be honest, realize that it was National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Right. I didn't either. But I will say, like, I know there was a lot of talk when quarantine happened. I think you and I talked about this maybe. Yeah.

Where people were suddenly, you know, inside with their significant other. And if they were in an abusive relationship or like on the verge of it, then like suddenly it was exacerbated because they couldn't leave right um so yeah i think that's a really important thing to take note of so whoo i am so glad that your uh your mama was okay yeah the end wow emily and yeah i also think your mother has earned the right to be wary of every parent now when dropping children off at the home also you i hope you never asked like begged your mom for an in-ground pool because i bet she'd be like no my mother i didn't have to ask she got one oh i met emily who i met emily emily not m emily whose mom like literally almost got you know died, died in a grand pool. That makes more sense.

I was like, I don't know why you're asking, but like, I'm going to clarify real quick. Don't, don't, don't get it twisted. I know Linda had a pool. Don't, don't even worry. If she could have 10 pools, she would. Yes. No, I'm, I really hope you also did not ask for a pool and then like fuss about it when you were a kid.

Although your mom had the perfect excuse to be like, nope. Exactly. You can't argue with me all right this next one is from cj who's a she her pronouns thank you for normalizing pronouns cj says i was almost kidnapped on halloween oh my god let's let's go cj uh i don't know how to start this so let let's just crack into it. Great. So let me take you back to the 2000s. I remember it fondly. The good old days. Can't remember the year, but I was in middle school. And for the sake of keeping this spoopy, I'll say I was 13. Anywho, back then I thought I was so HXC because I listened to Good Charlotte.

Yeah, me too. I thought that that too and i also wore converse i miss good charlotte actually i did too they were good i feel like no one talks about them anymore no if you missed out on the good charlotte years you really what was the other one damn now i'm simple plan simple plan well simple plan yes who were the ones where they were like actually uh like a religious alt rock group oh oh oh oh oh oh my god uh i love i love them and then i remembered they were religious and i was like what the hell that was always a thing because i had them on my ipod and renee would listen to them and then i ended up deleting them and she got really mad but then was the word kings in it it had a k in it reliant k reliant k oh my god

what a great band that they did have a couple of of fucking bangers though i gotta say we should get jerseys because we'd make a good team okay okay uh and then and then also a list of even more bands but i'm just gonna for the sake of ourselves, skip over it. Anyway, clearly we were badasses just like you. Right. I was so emo, but my dad, being the old school single dad, he wouldn't let me wear all black and wear heavy eyeliner and let me just be my true self. That Halloween, my dad actually let me paint my nails black but and put some makeup on and i got to go trick-or-treating with some friends after a night of halloween shenanigans i was dropped off

at home and at the time we lived in what i would best describe as a triplex oh there was one big house in the front and two smaller apartment like homes in the back the landlord lived in the front with his family my dad and i in one and the other was a constant rotation of people moving in and out current inhabitants being a couple maybe late 20s i walked down the dark driveway to the back and made it to the home to the house safe and locked the door and got ready to call it a night i was in the kitchen with the lights off and i uh when i heard a knock on the door oh no my dad answered and when i looked over his shoulder i saw it was the neighbor i was like

whatever i'm gonna go listen to evanescence and cry about that guy that doesn't even notice i exist ah is this my front my my soulmate from middle school probably is this a actually like a like a diary entry i'm confused is this my live journal that somebody printed out and sent to me is this a zanga wait a minute oh my god what if eva just found my live journal and was like did you know this is the most fucked up episode you've ever read in an instant uh i felt myself being pulled out of the door and a scuffle ensued oh shit my dad fought the guy off pushed him away and said what the fuck is wrong with you and i made eye contact with my would-be abductor

and started sobbing i feel like once i could see it in his face he had some sort of realization maybe he fucked up i don't know but that realization his face could be explained a little later i clearly remember bringing my black painted nails to my mouth in shock and then crying hysterically it's funny uh the details we remember i can still remember the smell of plastic makeup that i bought at walgreens to go with my dead zombie cheerleader outfit even though i'd already washed my face i don't remember what happened after that but my dad told the landlord and i never saw the guy or his wife again apparently the guy thought that i was his wife and that he was and that she was cheating on him with my dad so it may have been that oh shit so it may have been that she was going to get abducted

or he was like looking for his wife and thought it was her and like almost charged at her he just like grabbed her yeah thinking it was his wife and was about to like fucking take yeah holy shit oof she's like my wife looks like a a dead cheerleader so this is really my wife also wears a lot of black and listens to good charlotte from walgreens anyway that is cj's story so thank you wow that's terrifying can you imagine and yikes i don't know what was going to happen to you but i don't like any of them yeah i don't i'm glad it didn't happen right i have to say also i love i bet after that dad was like see you're never allowed to paint your nails black again the one week i fucking let you be your true self you almost get kidnapped this is what happens when

you listen to too much evanescence all right okay now i have a story for you and called chased by a demon dog okay and this is from george he uses he him pronouns thank you george for normalizing pronouns uh george says hello christine m baby geo junie boy which is one word and very precious so sweet eva and everyone my story involves my country the philippines this happened in high school for some context i live in a province where i have to walk to school which takes 30 minutes if riding a vehicle walking would take at least an hour on my way home the places go school town woods my place great okay got it the worst order of offense you're literally on the side of the other side of the woods and then you have a whole ass

town between you and school right right we had to go home late there was an event at school that required us to stay and decorate and rewarded our extra credits and me and my friend who got average grades took the opportunity we left at like 6 p.m my friends were asking me to hang with them and drink but i refused since i wanted to head home and rest i didn't call any relatives to pick me up since i didn't want to bother them big mistake i passed the town it It was nighttime, so the guard dogs barked behind fences, wary of strangers, but something seemed off. As I reached the forest, I walked down the path and I heard footsteps. I had earphones in, but it was so loud, nails scratching on the concrete path. Oh, my gosh.

I mustered up the courage and turned on my flashlight. I looked around and behind me was a huge black dog. Shut up and escort to hell. Yes. Methinks. Methinks. I never saw this dog before. Me and my friends were chased by dogs as a game.

It's sort of a Filipino thing since most dogs are usually unleashed. I like how the dogs are in on the game too. They're like, tag, you're it. They're like let's play let's play it's recess let the dogs out yeah this dog was reddish brown and rather scrawny at first i thought it was a stray but a closer look it didn't look like it had fur but wrinkly human skin see ya its long snout was moving sniffing me and its eyes white not from the flashlight but pure white and its mouth was just black dripping black like a crayon just like it had eaten crayons and was drooling crayons em knows how to make things extra spooky well it makes me think of a time when i was a little kid and my dog had gotten intoing crayons got it knows how to make things extra spooky it well it makes me think of a time

when i was a little kid and my dog had gotten into the crayons and was like drooling rainbow and i was like so i hear black uh black drooling black and i'm like okay got it crayola i got it got it got it ate the crayola well one time when i was little my this this weird man named russell who sometimes came to our house taught me how to make cups out of construction paper but i made it out of black construction paper and started drinking it like water out of it yeah and then he was like oh no and it just like my teeth everything was just like black ink from the paper from the paper and he was like you're supposed to use like white paper not like construction paper you idiot oh well anyway that man russell just like showed up sometimes at my house okay great so uh george says and its teeth it wasn't even teeth it was

just sharp things emerging from its mouth it was staring at me smiling with wide eyes i don't know what the actual fuck i was looking at i simply said shoo i have no food sorry i love that he's like i will apologize though and i like how he assumes like this you must only be like food reacting like he's like i know what you want i walked quickly at first i thought maybe a new dog breed and hopefully it's just my tiredness that made me hallucinate then i heard the footsteps again i dared to look back and shown the flashlight on it and it was stalking me like a dog it looked like it was smiling goodbye then the footsteps picked up the pace i did too and then it did as

well i started running praying for once that God, please don't let me die by this thing. Basically the worst day of my life. The thing was closer and it started to howl. I turned around and it leaped onto me. Its body easily knocked me down. It was barking at my face and it's black drool tar shit splashing at my face as i tried to push it away but to no avail i had no choice but to fight back i reached for my pocket looking for anything to stop this thing i found my pen grabbed it and stabbed it in the eye oh you gotta do what you gotta do soon after followed the most terrifying sound ever it whimpered like a puppy but slowly morphed into a deep man's screaming good night then howling i quickly pushed him off and ran luckily

it didn't chase me anymore i arrived home and didn't tell any of this to my family what the hell are they gonna do right you're like that sucks i just went to my room and slept oh sorry the next day i told my friends about it but none of them believed me because why would they right a demon dog chasing you through the woods and you stabbed it with a pen to defend yourself yeah ridiculous whatever that thing is it never bothered me again but i never walk through the woods alone again sorry if this took so long or wasn't even scary well it was certainly disturbing so it made eva's uh fucked up list so don't worry right very what the fuck moment thank you so much for all the work you do hashtag team wine george whoa i don't like that i wonder if it was like a i don't know what it was i don't know what it was either imagine if you didn't have the pen like what would have happened truly though truly and

it's like people don't believe you but it's like well so you it's a lose-lose because either you die by this creepy dog and everyone's like wow he died by a demon dog and then or you or you stab an eye and then i was like that didn't happen or imagine like if you did die like would they have known that you died from a creepy dog or would it have been like a mysterious forest death you know what that's a good point that makes me think of all the times when people have these mysterious deaths and it's like something was weird about the body and it's like nobody knows what maybe it was this weird hungry dog thing wrinkly dog anyway here it wouldn't be a bonus episode if it didn't have a bonus story so here is our sit back

here's our final story this is from i think nodge is how you pronounce it and who uses she her pronouns thank you for normalizing pronouns uh the subject is recurring dreams i love dream stories and this is what nudge has to say let's skip the formalities and crack into it oh shit nudge okay uh i've always had the same reoccurring dream every halloween oh well nudge you can expect something in the next like couple weeks uh-huh a very specific dream is gonna hit you well let's hope it's a good dream actually hang on a second in the dream i'm five years old the ground starts to tremble and i'm startled from my bed the room is eerily dark besides the faint blue light of the moon streaming in the window all i can see are the shadows swarming around my room and the bed starts to

shake even harder then Then everything goes black. The moon disappears. And I feel a fingernail tracing my cheek. Hello, a voice whispers. Which, by the way, my response would be goodbye. Fresh. Oh. Sorry.

I thought we were both going to say it at the same time. That would have been really precious. Okay. Hello, a voice whispers and the lights flash back on i can see an old woman inches from my face and she cackles as she holds up a dead bird that's cut in half what okay let's recap real quick in only like two sentences i feel overwhelmed so okay so you're in the room you wake up in a jolt it's almost basically pitch black you see several shadows running around your room you feel

fingernails that are not yours scratching your cheek someone say hello and then it's a woman with half of a dead bird in her hands and it's every year on halloween you have the dream yeah so and you're five in the dream which makes it even scarier right also now you can not survive this the dream flashes and i'm in the living room crying and screaming she's going to get me as i'm trying to push push my way onto my mother's lap my mother pushes me off at the same time a gust of wind flings open the door and the same old woman is standing in the doorway with the dead birds raining on her. Okay, so now you're running towards your mom.

Your mom doesn't want you. And now there's a bunch of dead birds raining around this old woman. Dead birds are like an omen in a lot of cultures. Ooh. Like they like portend death. Like they foretell death. All I think is Alfred Hitchcock the birds. And that's pretty terrible.

That also is very bad. Weeks before Halloween, we would always find dead birds that were cut in half only in the backyard. What? It was never just one or two birds either there was at least a dozen of them i've been having that dream since i was a small kid i'm 29 now it's not as scary as it was when i was a kid it's almost comforting now i guess it's comforting that like you know it's a dream but also if if you know like oh halloween's coming up and i always see a dozen birds cut in half aka 24 half birds then maybe you should get like a ring camera before halloween and see like who's throwing

these birds into your yard that's actually a great idea we want to ring camera footage because this is horrifying and i'm scared for you you mean comforting apparently oh sorry yes it's very lovely anyway that's the whole story from nudge that's it so not like they're like skip the fucking formalities and also skip the end formalities right no goodbye nothing just nothing here's what it is just hello for with an old fingernail we would like we would like you to send us uh some ring footage on november 1st after halloween's happened idea um and we would like an update to see what things are i want to know if you have the dream again that's so freaky it's so freaky it's got to be weird like once the end of september hits you're like okay well i know what's coming up you know yeah like not again i wonder if there

will ever be a year where you don't have it and what that means that you didn't have the dream this year or something. Maybe that's why she said it felt comforting. Because imagine if all of a sudden you don't have it and you're like, well, now what the fuck's going to happen? You're like, things were like fine. And now who knows what that means. Well, thank you, Naj.

And thank you to everybody else who sent in your stories. And you didn't even know that they were going to be on a bonus surprise episode. Yep. So thank you so much. And we appreciate you. And hopefully you have an extra spooky season. And I guess that's it. If you want to be a part of other future listeners episodes, which are usually put out on the first of every month, you can submit them on our website.

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