Circling Back - Spooky Szn 6: Episode 2 with Brent Rooker

Episode Date: October 18, 2024

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We are officially beyond the paywall. Today we'll explain the, uh, unexplained? Unexplained the explained. Normal the para, para the normal. This book is easy. Fucking funny? Yeah. Fucking guy who got blasted everybody. the para para the normal this book sees fucking funny yeah fucking guys we got laughs buddy that's what you guide the day love unexplaining the explain this man I got something to explain to you be a guy today Nicky the knife pump Karina it's me I'm here turn the song I'm gonna turn

the fucking song now my clothes today Dylanhost today, Dylan, Deadfish Shivery. Say hello to the fucking... Hello. Very happy to be here. This guy. You happy to be here? I'm happy you're happy. I'm not sure anymore.

I'm here though. Willie the can opener to freeze. Thank you, Nicky. Pleasure to be here. Nicky the knife. It's always good to be here. That's right. I'll carve you up, huh? E.

Hey. Yo, pump-a-rino? What was the last one? Pump-a-rino. Nicky asked you to go on a boat ride later? Don't do it. No, don't do it. I'll be swimming with the fishes.

That was a long time ago. That was a long time ago. Yeah. We don't talk about that anymore. He's a good guy, though. How's the longshoreman strike going, Dave? You know, we figured it out. We figured it out, you know?

It's not, you know, I got nothing to do with that anymore. Things have changed. Not what it used to be. I hear you, man. Yeah. Uh, producing doing the show. It's, it's Randy. You doing all right kid?

I'm happy to be here. He's doing all right. You hear him? Spooktacular. This guy, you remember? He came up. This fucking guy. He was doing video.

This fucking guy. He was like doing the cartoon video of us. Yeah. And that's how he made his bones and here he is now producing the show. Good guy. Come a long way. Come a real long way. What do you guys want to do?

I mean, we could do whatever. We got a ball play, a real life ball play on. Really? I can, we could do whatever we got. Uh, we got a ball player, real life ball player. Really? I can't even bet on Paul anymore. You got banned? I don't, they don't let me in the building. This might be my favorite character. He's great.

It's very, it's very impressive. Yeah. Yeah. You talk about impressive, man. You should have been there in 76. What happened? We were making money, hand should have been there in 76. What happened? We were making money hand over face I'm serious

We had this thing we had this chest of drawers my dad Came my dad he made the drive from Staten Island all the way to Buffalo twice a week He goes by this house. He sees this chest of drawers. You know what I'm talking about. Brings it back. We filled it with money. We was making so much money. It was a problem though.

You know what happened, right? Were you fixing any of these games? It was fucking haunted. What? We figured it out. This shadow thing. My dad thought I was tweaking. My dad thought I was doing the drugs, loopy, the pot, right?

Yeah. It was the chest of drawers. Okay. Holy shit. We put it down in the basement, just got worse. Couldn't even go down there. It was gone off the loopy. Yup.

Yeah, you know, the wacky grass, the stuff that the guys were selling over on Pine Avenue. The Pine Avenue boys, you remember? Yeah, I was there. I remember. You remember Vincent and his little buddy? The funny one? We called him Lil Vinny. Lil Vinny.

Yeah. He always had a joke, didn't he? Yeah. Little shit. Always running his mouth. Not anymore though. Not anymore, no. He got real sick one day.

He got COVID. Oh, really? Oh, I didn't know that. Is he okay now? He's fine now. Okay. He just got COVID. Yeah, you scared him. He was sick for a few days.

Real fucking sick. Yeah. It's too bad. It was a problem. You get the fucking vaccinated, you get the jab. I got the jab once, yeah. You're good, you should. I didn't get boosted though.

You look healthy. Thank you. I feel healthy. Both you guys. Randy, you're looking all right. Hey, thanks Nicky. You get a knife. You got healthy. Thank you. I feel healthy. Both you guys. Rand, you're looking all right. Hey, thanks, Nicky.

Nicky the knife. You got old broad, you taking out or what? You want any little money? Take her out to a show? Hey Nicky, I don't kiss and tell. Give him some bones. He's solid. Give him some bones for a day.

Good, that's good. You know, we were wondering about you. Like, what's this guy doing? He's on the TikTok. You see this, his china. He's good, that's good. You know, we're wondering about you. Like, what's this guy doing? He's on the TikTok. You see this, his China. He's big on the TikTok. He's on the talk, I don't know. I don't know.

What are we doing today? We got the ball playing around. You wanna toss it to him? You'll toss to him right now? Here's a guy. Here's a guy. I call him the purveyor of piss missiles. Wow.

Okay. This guy piss missiles. Wow. Okay. This guy piss jobs. Carries a big stick. Oh yeah. Like what's his name? Roosevelt. Yeah. Teddy Roosevelt, the big stick policy.

You didn't learn nothing in history class. He didn't listen. I remember the big stick. You didn't. You were in the back playing a pocket pool, right? Yeah, I did a little pocket pool. Yeah, I bet you did. Hey, guilty as charged.

That's all right. That's okay. That I bet you did. That's all right, that's okay. That's okay. Yeah. That's all right. I thought of Brent Rooker of the Oakland A's. You guys ready to let him in? Should we let, are we ready to let this guy in? Let him in.

Just open the door slowly as possible. Do we even wanna do that? We've never done- I'm terrified to see what's on the other side of it. We've never done an interview. I know. Spooky scene. that never done an interview I know this is a this is a first this guy's an a Lester Literally, we interviewed Skelly. We did have Skelly. That's true. I don't know who's bit of bigger gas. Honestly, that's a great point Well, let's let's find out how this goes. Let's let me see. Yeah, he's out there. Let me just go ahead get him in here get him in here. It's Brent Roker. Wow. What's up guys? That was a very spooky and dramatic door opening.

Hey Brent, real quick man. I'm pretty sure we sent you a wash media hat recently. Did you lose that already? No, I haven't. You know what it is? It's, there's a big box in my garage right now of all the stuff in my locker that got packed up and sent home and I haven't opened it. So I know exactly where that hat is. I will be repping it from here forward.

I would think that'd be the first thing you get out of that box, but I guess, you know, whatever. I think so. We'll go with what you have on on. Love a good box of hats in my garage. Yeah. There's this, there's a bunch of miscellaneous items in that box. So I'll have to sort through it, but I know where the hat is. Okay. It was not lost. Um, I know where exactly where it is. Don't let this happen again. It's pretty ridiculous that we send you a hat and the first thing you do when you get home is take care of your new baby. Yeah, we had to have you on for a couple reasons. Like I said, you were probably the biggest name in the wash media friend universe, I think. He's up there.

He's up there. PJ and DJ have gotten pretty big, but you're up there, you got the what, 39 PP missies? That's pretty good. 39 piss jobs on the year, solid season. Do you know that if you hit a home run that like at least half of WASH Media is going to reach out to you and tell you that it was a great piss missile?

I do, I do. I have, you would be, I told Dylan, I think at some point, you'd be shocked by the influx of messages that I get on Instagram, just saying either pissed on it or pissed missile or something. It's a lot. We're sorry for that. Dylan's taken it a little far. Still it's fault. Yeah, I was like, I was, I think just drinking one night. It was like 10 o'clock and I saw you shared a you shared a you know a story of one of your home runs and I couldn't help myself because you did piss on it to be fair. Oh yeah yeah I love it.

It's a I always appreciate the support especially from the washed media. Yeah of course the mistake I made was sharing that then on the podcast and encouraging other people to to go along with it. So it was borderline cyber harassment. It was yeah Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, thanks for taking it in stride. We appreciate Oh, yeah, of course. That's those are the more pleasant of the Instagram DMs that are received after games. So I always welcome. I always welcome the positive ones for sure. Well, that's another reason we brought you here. I just had this parlay recently. And we're having blue it for

them. No. So that obviously like happens a lot. Yeah. I guess you wouldn't be surprised. That happens a lot. So but you sent that guy a jersey, right? Yeah, I want to clarify that a little. He sent me a jersey. I then signed it and sent it back. So it wasn't like I went like I didn't like purchase a jersey or send him one of my jerseys. He sent one to me, I signed it and sent it back because that after that got tweeted. I then had had 2000 messages just saying like why didn't you send me a jersey? You lost me a bet That isn't what happened. I understand how it was framed on the internet, but like it was sent to me

I did the signing that I mailed it back. It wasn't like uh, hey, please take a jersey. I'm apologizing for not getting hit Right, that would be a little bit. However, it was framed. Yeah, okay The ever-changing sports landscape. Yeah. Also, like so you made a little news. You made a lot of news this season. Most of it very positive. I think all of it positive and in my book, but you did an interview. You talked about how you have you've dipped your toe and you've dabbled. You got your beak a little bit in the paranormal. I hope we all look at look what we're doing here. So among us, you know, right? Imagine not being us. Let's talk aliens.

Yeah. Let's talk. Oh, I don't know. Ancient Egypt. Oh, let's talk pyramids. Yeah, Brent Rooker Major League Baseball player your thoughts That was a fun one again that you want to talk about doing something that gets you just a bunch of it There's a bus and messages on social media telling you that you're wrong or whatever. But yeah, I mean look I think I think we're all, we're all grownups here. We can all accept that the universe is a pretty big place and the chance that we're just living in it alone is pretty slim. I think whether you want to take the pyramid comment fully seriously or a little tongue in cheek is kind of up to you and your interpretation, but I'm here for, I'm here for any extraterrestrial

talk, UFO talk that you guys want to do. I have a, we have a, our first base coach is an eyewitness, claimed eyewitness to a, to a UFO in Southern California several years ago. He has a very good story that, that he is, he's shared with me. It's, so he claims, and I say claims, I fully believe in here. He was a Southern California native. It's so he claims and I say claims, I fully believe in here. He was a Southern California native. He's driving down the road one day, he looks up into the sky and there's just like a floating what he described as like a

Coke can shaped object, like just kind of floating hovering, suspended in the sky. He kind of looks back at the road because he's driving obviously and glances back up sees it again. then suddenly it just kind of darts in the direction and is gone. And he's like I don't know what I just witnessed but I know what I saw. I just don't know what that thing was. So he does a little research. Can't find anything about it. And I think a few years later he I don't know where he finds it but he finds a thread of people online kind of talking about the same thing that they saw like on the same day at the same time. So I have never witnessed anything of the extra terrestrial variety. But our

first base coach, former American League working the year Bobby Crosby has and has an eyewitness story that he likes to share is pretty convincing. Isn't that the shape of that similar to the foot is it was released? I want to say a couple of years ago. Yeah. I think a lot of the stories, the shape of the objects is always pretty consistent. It's always like tic tac, coke pan, cylindrical type thing. Yeah. So that pretty kind of describes the same type thing.

It's always a lot of Southern California sightings too. It's always the same reason. So it's kind of interesting. Interesting. And then of course, the infamous Pfister Hotel. Yeah, Dylan, not not a reference to Tiger's great Doug Fister. Okay, that's where I was immediately going with that. That guy had a whiff rate over 30% on that curveball. Oh, yeah, you talk about night. that. Oh, that's real. Just a nasty hook on that. It's the great Doug Fister. Former ranger grade too. Had a little cup of coffee with Texas. Will, you know Dougie Fist. Yeah. Yeah. I think I might have overhyped his acquisition at the time in the group chat. So I kind of got designated as the

Doug Fister guy in the, uh, in the group chat a little bit. The Fister guy. That's right. We've all been there, man. I look, I had high hopes for him when, uh, when Texas took a flyer on him. the guy in the in the group chapter a little bit. The Fister guy. That's right. We've all been there, man. II. Look II had high hopes for him when uh when Texas took a flyer on him didn't work out but hey, you know what had a good career uh but the Fister Hotel in

Milwaukee, Milwaukee, correct? Milwaukee. Milwaukee. Milwaukee known for its um known for its spookiness obviously. Yes. Haunted. Is that is that the deal? It's one of those. Yeah, it's pretty universally, yeah. There's two sides of the hotel. There's the old side and there's like a new addition side.

And the old side is pretty much yeah, it's definitely there's some stuff going on. It feels like every major city has like that one hotel like that was, you know, one of obviously one of the older hotels in the city. Like Austin has the Driscoll. But right, right. I know there's one in Denver, a lot of a lot of big cities have these.

There's a I think there's three in our road. There's the Milwaukee one. It's probably the most famous one. The one in Tampa is also kind of claimed to have some stuff going on. It's the Vinoy Resort. It's in St. Pete, actually. And there's one in, I guess it's in Oakland. It's on this side of the base, I guess, or it's in Claremont, actually the Claremont hotel where I think a couple teams might stay there when they play us. But I know it was like, it was the COVID hotel during the 2020 season where they kind of bubbled everybody and I quarantined everybody so the season could continue. And there's some crazy stories that come out of the Claremont Hotel too. So

I think we have three of them kind of in our in our row of places that we stayed. The ghosts have to be licking their chops when they're like, oh, these people are quarantined away. Hotel, I think captive. The story there is, I think it was one Giants guy. And it's always the one the one there is always like a very specific like little girl ghost. And it's always the one, the one there is always like a very specific, like little girl ghost. And she's in the hallway and like, the guy thought that she was lost and

like walk up to her, try to help her find her mom, whatever. The girl turned a corner that he went and kind of turned the same corner and the corner was just like a dead end and like she was gone. And then the other one was a guy on the A's, um, who was staying there during the quarantine bubble, the little girl somehow wound up and like, he saw her in his room and he went to the front desk was like, nah, I'm out. And then he just went and slept in the clubhouse instead of saying, that's the right thing to do. That's why I'm not, I'm not, I'm not doing, I would do the same thing. I wouldn't.

If I saw that I'd be, I,. I did a little research on the Pfister Hotel and I did see, I think Mookie Betts had a similar experience where Mookie Betts got out of there. Really? Mookie won't stay there. Mookie Airbnbs when they go to Milwaukee, he won't stay there. That's the great Mookie Betts.

There's a few guys around the league that just don't stay there. Is it, so it's always the same hotel that you guys stay when you go to these cities? Yeah, I think there's probably any city There's probably like two or three got it different teams stay in but Yeah, it's uh most of the time Team stay in like the same one or two. Yeah, you would think that since the the fister hotel has such a reputation as being a place

Yeah Maybe we should pivot everybody stays there. There's gotta be a Mary and there's gotta be yeah like, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't

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I'm a ballplayer which you know my ball playing days are over yeah you got shelled that one time yeah shout out to the OCB for absolutely shelling me and ending my career. If it's me, I'm just getting all the boys and we're going to bunk up in one room, build forts, and just do this thing. We're going to hunker down. We're going to tell some stories and we're

going to make a night. Oh, I thought you were going to go full Ghostbusters. What do you mean? I don't know. I haven't seen it. You haven't seen it. He's going to watch it. Have you seen Ghostbusters? I've seen the old one. I have not seen the more recent one. Yeah, we don't need to skip it. Yeah, old ones. Great. Okay, that's fair.

But how about you? Yeah, you get the plans. Yeah, well, it's gonna will is gonna take a was gonna watch what's probably my favorite comedy of all time. The original Ghostbusters. He's never seen it and it's not going to hit like it should hit because it's right. 2025 or whatever year it is. Is it 25? It's 24. It's 2024, David. And we're beyond the future, though. Beyond the paywall. And he's not going to like it. It's actually 2025. It's going to make me upset, but that's OK.

That's OK. As long as you've seen it. Don't watch it. Yeah. Still watch it. It's a it's a comedy classic. But what? Tell us your story, As long as you've seen it. Still watch it. Yeah, still watch it. It's a comedy classic. But what, tell us your story. Cause I know you've told it before, but I want you to give us like the behind the scenes, like the stuff you couldn't say. You're being on the paywall right now.

You can say what you want. My personal story is not crazy. I've always stayed on the old side once. I think I've stayed at the hotel four or five times though. I've always stayed on the old side once. Only thing that happened to me was like, I had some light flickering situation, but that could be contributed to just like

200 year old wiring or whatever it is. My TV would change channels randomly. That did happen. I'd have it on whatever golf channel and I'd look down my phone and look back up and it would be on something that wasn't the golf channel. So that was the only, which is a little weird, but nothing like it didn't make me leave the hotel

or go report to the front desk. It was kind of accepted as it was. I had a teammate who, this is what I told in the interview, I think, we came back, I don't remember if I was on the team at this point or not. I'd played with this guy in the minor leagues and through AAA, but he came back after a game

and tried to get into his room and like the latch was done from the inside. So like he couldn't get back in his room with obviously all his stuff in there. So he had the obviously the coat. I don't know how they, I guess they took the door off the hinges. Like, I don't know how else you would get back into that room with them being latched from the inside, but that was his story. And that was that kind of, that definitely freaked us all out a little bit. You just have to have that thing closed from the inside of the room, not story. And that was that kind of that definitely freaked us all out. To have that thing close from the inside of the room. And this was at the fister?

This is at the fister. Yeah, this is in the locker. What what level of spookiness has to hit in the room for you to be like, you know what, I'm gonna just myself out. Anything? I think if I saw anything moving or like an apparition of some kind, obviously that's way over the line. But if I see an object like moving unexplained, I think I'm out of that. I think that's just an energy. I don't want to be a part of.

Yeah. I have to see some kind of figure. I know a popular thing, a popular like, you know, telling of encounters at the Driscoll Hotel here in Austin is that faucets would randomly turn on, like in the middle of that would do it for me. Like a twisted handle with a faucet running would be like, nah, I'm out. And these are if it's I think there's a lot if it's just the water coming on, I think I would stay if I if the faucet like

rotated, I think that would be like, you have you have to see the handle actually turning, you're saying. You hear it? I think so. Yeah. I would assume it would be squeaky. It wouldn't be a, it would be very squeaky if it's this level of squeaky. See, I'd be writing all this off to like my toddler

being like, all right, he changed the channel somehow. He turned the sink around and turned it on. So it's just going everywhere in the bathroom. If it's me, I don't mess around with like wasting water. It's kind of part of my green initiative. And like, if these ghosts are gonna like mess around and like just turn it on, especially in Austin right now, we're in a drought, Lake Travis is very low right now.

And you just turn the water on, you're gonna waste it just for a few like ghostly laughs and spooks. Like, come on, man. You can't stand for that. No, no, we're not doing that. That's not a part of our green initiative. You can't stand for that. No, no. We're not doing that. I think- That's not a part of our green initiative. Harper's story or somebody else's,

but like their story is like clothes being thrown across the room. Like if that happens, yeah. Come on. Yeah. Yeah, moving clothes. That's a deal breaker. Yeah, yeah.

I'd be sleeping in- Just see a tall T walking across the room. I'd be sleeping in my uniform. Hanging your back. I still put the lamp room. I'd be sleeping in my uniform Hugging your I still with the lamp on I did leave the lamp on though the one time I said at the old side You said it for awesome. I don't know what that's gonna do But it made me feel is there any chance the Brewers are the the source of all this and they're trying to freak everybody out By like doing these stories and keeping everybody up at night. I like there's definitely a possibility It's like the-

Or at least it's the reason they keep putting us there. Cause it's like, I mean, if we're, give us a slight advantage, these guys aren't going to sleep all night. The owners are like huge Brewers fans. And they're like, no, okay. Rooker's on a heater right now. Put him in room 342.

Change the channel. Trick it up a little bit. Wait, so about the channel changing program for a little bit and see if it moves him. Yeah, in different level. Are you staying in the home team gets to decide like which hotels? No, I don't think that's okay. I don't think that's like, wait a minute. Definitely what's going on here. Yeah, that would be

funny. Just out of curiosity, would you rather hear hear a ghost speak to you, but not see it at all or see the ghost and not hear it. I I think those are equal for me. I think either one I'm I'm just absolutely out of there. I would I don't like either of

them. I think I would freak out. I don't know actually now that I think about you just hearing a voice that sounds terrible too. That's almost more easily explained and like seeing something though, like maybe a TV from another room or I Don't know. I feel like if I heard something I would write it off as somebody's messing with me right now or someone Yeah, if you see something there's no way to write that off Yeah, like if I see something and I'm alone, I'm like super freaked out that I'm I'm the sole person that is

Experiencing this right now. There's no other person that could possibly be experiencing it. Yeah. We had this conversation, we were talking about the Claremont stories, but like if you actually have that experience, like legitimately see this little girl and the little girl's gone, like that has to change the way that you view

the entire world for the rest of your life. Like I don't see it any way around. Which that's like a very profound, like my worldview has now shifted. Because I just witnessed this thing. I wasn't sure if it was real or not. And now I'm sure that it's real. And now I'm just scared all the time. Yeah, I know someone, very normal guy. He has a ghost story

about a little girl that he would, he saw her a few times in his home. But one particular time he was sleeping and he felt, he literally felt a tug on his like toe like through the through the sheets come on and looked at the foot of the bed and there's a little a little gross now see like i don't know what to do but that's about as bad as it toes toes should be off limits yeah i think don't touch the toes come on no i haven't had like I haven't had a personal experience with any ghosts that like make me a true true, you know altered believer But I trust everyone that I know. Yeah, there are so many stories

So I do believe but like you're completely right. It's i'm one experience away from being like yeah, okay Oh everything I just see everything differently now. I don't know what I thought. I know I don't know anything Yeah, the thing that shocks me the most about some of the stories we get sent. It's like The amount of like how hardcore it has to get for people to be like, you know what? I should probably not stay here tonight. That's that's what always shocks me. It's like someone will have like someone will like Get pulled out of bed by a demon and like walk walk around like their house have like, someone will like, get pulled out of bed by a

demon and like walk, walk around like their house like, like a zombie and then like the room. It's like, hey, you're doing weird **** last night and then like the next thing, you know, it's like the next night I went to bed. I'm

like, no, but if you're like, if it's that guy, did that guy continue living in that house? Yeah, that's what I was going to say when you live in the house, it's hard to just pick up your **** and leave. You just, you got to. You got to. You don't have a choice. I know. But at some point you got to you got to go.

Was it an old house? I believe it was. I've seen this guy in years, so I can't I can't just like hit him up and ask him for details on it. But yeah, I think it was an old house. They moved in and stuff started to happen. I think one at one time, one point he saw the same figure, like reflection in the mirror as he was like brushing his teeth or something. Well, the toe tug was absolutely the worst. That's like a physical.

Yeah. Which that's even like another level. I know. Now this thing is like as a form. Yeah. Right. Right. Right.

Touch things. Right. Yeah. I don't know. That brings in a whole bunch of other, you know, scary things into play. If it can like touch, that means it can like touch like stuff around your house. So it can kill you. It can kill you. It could like it could kill you. The house while you're gone. Yeah. What if it

like rips a nose hair out or something? Oh, okay. That's worse. Flicks your earlobe. Uh huh. Yeah. Just really really annoying. I draw the line of wet willies or just starts giving you a little nut tap. A little nut check. It goes full baseball locker room. Yeah. Like, all right, he's putting your hand in water. It's just like, stop. That would be the worst ghost. It would be just like an old ball player from like the late seventies. Right. Just lighten your shoe on. Just stuff that's like not acceptable anymore. It's like, dude, times have changed do stuff like that. Just stuff that's like not acceptable anymore. It's like, dude,

times have changed. You can't get away with that kind of humor. What are you doing? Oh man. Uh you want to do a uh you want to do an impromptu nail bag. Let's do a nail bag. If if you have time to stick around for a nail bag,

we love that. Okay, let's do it. I got, yeah, I got plenty of time. So, this is a real story. Um in theory, unless our listeners are just full of it but this is a story sent in and I'm going to read it. It's a little long but it is a good

one and I I gotta say I we've we've only done one episode or one other nail bag this season but this is by far the spookiest because so you've never prompted a yeah this is a story like this before. Yeah. I'm just saying we may have a lot of new

new people listening to us because you know Prince a big thirty big 39 piss jobs. He's a big star now. One short 40. That's something that will haunt me forever. If you don't talk about haunting, I had 150 games and one home run. I couldn't do it. Man, we were tracking it too.

I was in the text group like, all right, he's got 39. He's got like a handful of games left. He's sitting like 298, like's gonna get there and we were tracking it So be honest almost be honest before we get to the story. Were you that last game? Were you like calm where you did you kind of throw away situational hitting or were you okay? Oh, yeah Okay, let's make it sure that's the right years of The previous season 2023 I had 29 going into the last day So I hit my 30th the last night, my last, the bat of that season.

But yeah, that last day is just like, all right, we're, we're going for this and we're either going to, it's either I go really poorly or we're going to get it. But one of the others, that just means you're hitting a 49 next year, man. Yeah, that would be pretty nice. This one comes to us from Ohio. Wow. Big Ohio year for spooky season.

It really is. Hello. Spooky boys. It's Nick from Cleveland. Got a real doozy for us. Let me jump right in around four years ago. Close friend of mine. I'll call him Sam basically fell off the face of the planet.

Not literally for around two to three months. He wouldn't respond to texts or calls at all and none of our other friends had talked to him either. I even tried calling his parents to no avail. Sometimes he does this. He's one of those guys we've all got one of those friends just kind of disappears for a little bit. But the length of time was suspicious so I decided to take a cruise to his house. The night before I was going to go to his house he called me out of the blue and asked me to meet him at Mission barbecue that weekend my fraternity Dylan I've nothing going on that weekend besides some pre games, which are your parties, so I agreed

Okay, I Love this their pre games are your party, right? Yeah, because he's in a frat. That's correct. That's the thing I met Sam at Mission barbecue and ask where he'd been. He seemed to avoid the subject completely and making up some excuse about his phone breaking while playing basketball. Sam didn't seem like himself. He seemed jumpy and nervous and his eyes darted around looking people up and down. This was unlike him.

And I told him that he just casually brushed me off. We got our food and sat down to eat. Every time I questioned him on the disappearance, he totally disregarded my concerns and changed the subject. He totally disregarded my concerns and changed the subject. Toward the end of my meal, curiosity was killing me and I finally convinced him to tell me what was going on. Sam got very serious, which once again is unusual for him. He asked me to not interrupt him and promised not to judge him if he told me the story. I agreed half laughing at him. Sam told me

around two to three months ago, his dad on his way back from work saw a chest of drawers in someone's lawn waiting to be picked up for garbage day. Bulk pickup, you know how it is. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. You got to put it out like right before your date. The people who put out their bulk stuff like way too early, they're trash, they're trash. Hey, maybe they're leaving town. That's fine.

That's fair. I can dig that, but like some people, like there was like a bike sitting out there, got out of whatever whole thing, you know, neighborhoods are Sam's dad being the lower middle class family, patriarchy is unnecessary. Decided to pick it up. Why you gotta take a shot? Jeez, dude.

Uh, decided to pick it up and load it into his car He brought her home and put it in Sam's room a room that he shared with his brother who all called Jerry Sam said no one thought anything of it for a few weeks He then said after a few weeks he and his family started to notice some bizarre occurrences He told me he would see shadows out of the corner of his eye and lights would flicker on and off. Once again, no one in the family was very alarmed and chalked it up to some faulty LED lighting throughout the home. That all changed one Friday.

Sam said his mother and him were in the living room watching a TV show when they heard Jerry, his brother, scream at the top of his lungs from their bedroom at the top of the stairs. Sam sprinted up the stairs with his mom close behind, unsure what was going on. Sam peered into the black-as-night room and told me that Jerry was sitting straight up in his bed with both of his hands clasped around his neck as if he was choking. Jerry was making a crackling, gurgling noise as his hands gripped and clawed at his neck. Sam said that just to the left of his brother, he could make out a darker than dark figure standing with his hands around Jerry's neck as well. Oh my God. Sam couldn't believe his eyes

and threw the light on and as quickly as humanly possible. Excuse me. As soon as the light flooded the room the black figure vanished and Jerry fell back into a peaceful slumber collapsing back on his bed never once waking up. Heavy sleeper is Jerry. What? Yeah good for him. Shout out to ambient. Yeah he must have been. You gotta think there's a piece of sleeping PEDs going down there I don't like shadow figures no Like at all no one does they've never done a good thing is it are they similar to nightwalkers? What's a nightwalker? I Like that you looked at Randy. Yeah, sorry I go ahead look that up, but I'll look it up for you. I thought you knew it a night I like that the sleep paralysis thing. I don't authority here. Go ahead, look that up, bud. I'll look it up for you. I thought you knew it a night.

Are you talking like the sleep paralysis thing? I don't know, man. No, no, no. What's that called? Sleep paralysis demon. Sleep paralysis demon. I'm a big sleep paralysis guy. I do that a lot.

I've had it happen a couple times. It's weird. It sounds terrifying. Hey, luckily it's never happened to me. You find yourself trying to talk during it? Like trying to kind of- Yeah. I try to yell. Yeah, I'll know if I like drool a lot. I'll know that I've done it and I just didn't remember

it because you kind of try to yell and you can't really open your mouth. I've never tried to yell during it. All I do is sit there and I'm like, I can't move anything right now. You don't see a figure right now, but I just think to myself like I need to move something soon to confirm that my body still works. Right. Yeah, that's never happened to me. The scariest, obviously the scary ones are when they actually see a figure standing over them and you can't do anything about it. Like you try

to scream or whatever and there's like nothing happening. Well, I think I told this on an old spooky season, but I was staying at my ex girlfriend's house. And one morning we woke up and we're eating breakfast and her sister came down and she was like Apologized to her mom for waking her up last night and she said that she Was having like some type of nightmare and woke up with like scratches on her legs and was just like freaking out and from that

Point on I was like, yeah, I don't want to stay in this house. Oh Like I'm good made the right choice. Yeah, my dad had a nightmare one time He was he was buried alive and he destroyed his room. Trying to get out. Trying to get out. Yeah. Like tour blinds off the wall and all kinds of stuff. Pretty nuts. Damn. You gotta get rid of that chest of drawers, huh? Yeah, that's where this story's going. That's gotta go back on the curve. But I got I got some news. We're just getting started here. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh wow. At this point, I couldn't believe what he was telling me though.

I was sufficiently creeped out, but true to my word, I held my tongue as my friend with panic and his voice continued on with his narrative. Sam said that after that point, his family's mental health began to rapidly deteriorate. No one in the home could get more than a wink of sleep. They were terrorized by nightmares of black shadows in their bedrooms and in their humble home. Sam told me about one of these nightmares that was particularly disturbing. Sam woke up around 3am to hear his phone alarm going off. He thought this to be bizarre because he didn't set any alarm.

He rolled over and wiped the sleep out of his eyes only to see his phone emitting a strange blue glow that he had never seen. Come on. He reached over, grabbed it, and fumbled with it to turn off the alarm. He told me he could clearly see his reflection in the phone that was still glowing a muted static blue. He looked at his reflection, but something felt off, almost as if he wasn't looking at himself. In the reflection, he saw a snake slowly slip around his neck and begin to squeeze.

He began to feel his own breathing slow and felt pressure on his neck. Sam ran out of the house and ran outside, smashing his phone on the concrete of his driveway. What the fuck? I'm like, that's a snake in theory. I won't get you. You imagine? Uh, I mean, I'm gonna get ya. Can you imagine? I mean, I'm- This is like, go ahead.

I'm just thinking like this guy has been off the grid for three months and obviously some shit went down. If this happened to me, I don't think I'm contacting people. I'm just like trying to rationalize what's happening in my life for a while. And this is absolutely terrifying. Maybe he lived at a snake farm.

Just sounds nasty. It's a reptile house. Right. An iguana in the basement. Dude, that'd be so much more chill if like it was a lizard of some sort like snake. Yeah. Snakes are the worst. Now we don't mess with snakes here. Snakes are the worst. It's just like how do they move without legs you know? They slither man. People be asking that all the time. Sheesh. What if I told you there's another occurrence? I was expecting it at this point. Is this okay? At this point, and he may not include this, but is he is he seeking some kind of like, uh, yeah, Sam, okay. Yeah. See, like maybe therapy, maybe he's getting like some,

I don't know, someone in his house. Priest. Something, right? Yeah, something. If these things happen to me, I'm not just going about my day without finding solutions. I was gonna say like, I don't see how like this, again, I'm gonna believe this guy because I have no reason not to,

but like how does something like that happen to you and then you just go about living your normal life? Right. I would never be able to do, I would never sleep with him. Right. All right, what happens next? The last occurrence he mentioned to me involved his cousin. At the time his cousin was in the throes of a very, very bad relationship with her now ex-husband. One day the cousin called Sam begging him and his mom to come over because her husband was arguing

with her terribly that day. Sam and his mom leapt into the car and sped to the cousins. Sam said they burst in the house and saw the husband attempting to be physical with her, except according to him, it wasn't the cousin's husband. He saw the same black creature that was choking Jerry, controlling the husband, almost as if he were a marionette. Holy shit. You know what a marionette is?

I do. Not good. You seen Pinocchio? Yeah. Fucking terrifying. Sounds much scarier than that situation. Sam broke up the fight and the husband was taken to jail. There were a few other stories,

but in the interest of brevity, I didn't include them. Sam said the family had a meeting after this and discussed the constant paranormal torture they were brought under. They finally decided it must have something to do with the chest of drawers because all this started when they brought it into the home. Yeah, you think so?

Okay. He went to the house. I don't think it would have taken me three occurrences to get there, I think the first occurrence. Yeah, the chest is gone. He said he went to the house with his mother, is that correct? Yeah.

Did she also see this figure or was it just Sam? You know, he left some things out for the purposes of brevity. Well, okay, I would like to have known if she- It's a good word brevity. Yeah because if you're the only one who sees this figure you start to think like this is just me this is not a real thing in real life. Yeah this alters the way I look at bulk pickup. Sure like anytime I go down the street during bulk pickup now I'm gonna be like this is all haunted stuff. Like people are just getting rid of haunted things right now.

You think that guy that had the no fat bitches truck got anything haunted? He might've gotten a haunted treadmill or Peloton. There's nothing worse than a haunted Peloton. No, no. Just dreams and goals just by the wayside. Wow. You know, my father-in-law, he's a big, uh, estate sale guy and he'll

find really, really great things. And I'm just like, some of it I'm like, okay, yeah, well that's really dope and we'll take it, but I'm also kind of wondering like, what did we just bring in here? Yeah. It's kind of like getting like drafted when you're at the estate sale and you're just like a haunted thing. It's like, all right, going to new place. It really is like a draft.

Did they, uh, did he describe how they got rid of the chest of drawers? They just put it back on the street for the next poor person to scoop up. And you got to take a hatchet to that thing and just destroy it. And you don't want to piss off the shadow, man. I've got, let me, let me get to this. This is good. I just, cause this is, I've got some issues here. Sam said that they had a family meeting after this and discussed the constant

torture they were being brought under. They decided it must have some, I already read this. I'm sorry. Sam told, Sam told me he and his dad moved into their garage just a few days ago. Sam looked at me and said that the chest is still in the garage as we spoke. Come on, man, get out of the house. I waved him off telling him to quote, get the F out of there. Sam grabbed my hand with fear and his fear in his eyes and begged me to believe him.

I've never still to this day seen that much fear and seriousness in the eye of a friend. It was at that point I decided to believe him. Sam said I was more than welcome to crash at his place because now the chest was out of the home and everything was back to normal. So he did get it out. They didn't want to subject anything, anyone else to what they had gone through. They decided to keep it in the garage until trash day. I decided that I had to go see the chest for myself. We drove to his house and opened his garage. In front of me was the most non-descript chest of drawers I'd ever seen in my life. I examined it however briefly and went inside to

drink a beer and watch TV. Why are you touching it?? Yeah touch it? Why are you even going to see in the house? Oh, yeah I'm not looking at it. I don't want to see I don't see a picture of it. No, no This is this guy. I look love the backers, but come on I ended up I ended up crashing on his couch that night never never really gave much thought to the chest again. That night I had one of the most vivid dreams I'd ever had. I dreamt that I walked out of his kitchen, down the drive and opened the garage door only to be greeted by the chest which was backlit by a crimson red light. The chest seemed to be to beckon me and in my dream I remember being somewhat lucid

thinking I need to leave right now and never come back. The chest seemed to suggest that I must bring it home with me. Needless to say, I woke up in a cold sweat. Yikes. You don't want your absolute boy cold sweating on your couch. Yeah. What happened over there, bud? But if you have a haunted house that you're not getting rid of chess in, then like you kind of have to expect that to happen. It's kind of on you for sleeping at the house. Yeah.

I'm just not staying in that house. Yeah. I'm not sleeping at that house. I'm going to go get a room. Yeah, I'm not sleeping in that house. I'm going to go get a room at the fister. I think he wanted something to happen to him so he could identify with his buddy and be like, alright, brothers for life. I get it.

Brothers for life there. Sam and his dad chopped the chest up that morning and burned it in a bonfire in the backyard. Yeah, that's the move. There you go. I don't know if it is the move. It almost seems like you're going to piss it off

worse. Yeah, like you don't want to piss off the ghost by burning its home or its spirit or its aura. I don't know what it is. It's negative. It's a horcrux. It is. Oh, it is a horcrux.

There you go. You understand that reference? I do, I do. What do you think it, what's a horcrux? It's, it was part of the soul of Voldemort, right? I mean, that's, is mean, is that the basic explanation? Yeah, yeah, it's close. And it's obviously evil.

Not good. Yeah, you kill all the Horcruxes, you kill Voldemort. There you go. Notoriously hard to kill. Notoriously hard to kill. Very difficult and dangerous. No spoilers, I'm only on the fifth movie. No, you're not.

Yeah, I am, dude. Really? For how many years? Like one. Do you know, really for how many years like one? Do you know finish it only watch when it's cozy outside? Did you know I don't even like that kind of shit and I loved I loved Harry. Oh, I love it, too Okay, I love it, too. They're long They're long, but you've had time You get a lot of shit for taking a long time to watch things. I should probably get an equal amount. Yeah the end

Now that was I mean. Okay, so they burned it. That's good. Like nothing else has happened. That's good news. Unless this was recent and we just don't know the follow up yet. Yeah. Yeah. When you first said it, I thought you meant that the two guys moved into the garage themselves. They didn't move the chest into the garage. I don't know if that's the move either.

Like, if you're having to sleep in your garage, because of this ghost, you got to figure it out. Oh, I did say that they moved's the move either like if you're having to sleep in your garage because of this ghost you got to Figure it out. Oh, I did say that they moved in their garage, which would have been really tight Just drinking beers out there their pops. Yep sleeping on a cot just shadow figures to make darts next to a haunted chest of drawers So my question was the cousin and the husband at a different place. Yeah, and so this this this ghost was no where the yeah That's where the chest of drawers wasn't even there. It travels well. Or maybe it traveled with with uh Sam's buddy. Or was it no Sam with Sam. Yeah I was thinking Sam was the guy who wrote in but it was Sam was the guy in the story. Right right right. No I mean like the the ghost that's like kind of like a horror

movie thing like some of the spookier ones you'll see, like somebody being controlled by like the shadowy demon thing. That's scary. The whole thing's creepy. I don't like it. Yeah, that's, yeah. I'm gonna give it two.

One. I don't. Two. I don't fault Sam for just falling off the grid for a bit, you know? Boom or a doom? You said boomer sort of, and it's Texas OU Week. And it's like relax.

You're so Texas coded, man. Sorry. That's a doom, Dave, obviously. It's a doom. Yeah. To answer your question, Will, a nightwalker is a prostitute, so. Okay.

Probably has a couple meanings. Yeah, yeah. Depends on the dictionary. A lady of the night. That one me. Yeah, yeah. Depends on the dictionary. A lady of the night. That one is truly terrifying. Yeah, not a fan. I don't know. Thanks, Randy.

I don't know if I'm going to be able to. I don't know if it's going to get me scarier for the rest of the rest of the season. That seems like it kind of might be the one. We've had some doozies in the past, but that one's up there for sure. I think I'm taking back what I said earlier about how I need something to happen to me. I think I just need like a close

friend to do exactly what his friend did and like look him in the eyes and be like, I need you to believe me right now. And I'd be like, All right, yeah, I'm in, which is probably why he like didn't talk to anybody for a while. Like, he's like, no one's gonna believe me if I tell people what's going on, I'm just gonna keep it to myself. So when his friend like demanded a conversation face to face, like, you got to believe me if I'm going to share the story with you. I get it. I do.

I'm wondering, like, I think if it's me, I think I'm going right to the group text after the first really spooky thing Right. I'm not keeping it myself. I'm letting the boys know like do yeah, I would keep it vague I'd be like some weird shit happened to me I don't want to have like fully explained y'all they're gonna think I'm crazy But I need some time to myself for a bit to group text traditionally make like help you solve problems Or they just kind of make them much worse. There's gonna clown out. Yeah, you are You're the main character for like the next year. Oh ghost guy's wrong? You scared? You haunted today? You scared? Oh no! Did the furniture scare you? You're like, guys, this is serious. Fuck, man. What are the... I need to know, like, what they were

actually putting in the chest of drawers. Like, what items? Because it'd be funny if it was like... Typically clothes going there. I know, but what if it... I don't know. If it's an underwear drawer and it's haunted, it's kind of... it's funny. Yeah,. Yeah, you're right slapsticky, but it's funny. Yeah Sheesh, man. Oh that was that was almost too much. I almost don't want to do the show anymore Brent you've been a you've been a real delight you've been a real man So it's always a pleasure to be here whether or no sports talk or spooky season talk I love being it's a great time. We love having you on man. We appreciate you Do you do you

have any friends in the postseason that you're kind of pulling for? I have the most friends on the Royals just because I had a brief brief stint there. I'd like to see them. They have a good story. I'd like to see them play well. But it's like being able to I would say as a player, it's unique position, but being able to watch objectively and just kind of take the emotion out of it and just enjoy the the product being put on display is always fun for me. So I

have no rooting interest. I'm just enjoying watching and hoping to be a participant, you know, from the near future. Absolutely. We're hoping so too. Yeah. Well, fantastic. It's been a pleasure. Brent Rooker, ladies. We appreciate you, man. Have a good one. Enjoy. Enjoy the off season in the to maintain a good golf swing while also maintaining a baseball swing? A little bit, a little bit. I'm out of commission for a bit though. I got a, we got a thing here. I had a season ended Sunday. I had surgery on Tuesday to fix a little tendon tear in my arm there. So I'm out of golf commission. And when did that tear happen? How long you been playing with it? Game one. Holy shit. Okay. What? He's kind of

dealt with it all year. Oh my god. Perfect. That's what you want. Yeah. Is this public? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Wow. Yes. Sir, the the surgery had been has been reported publicly so I don't have any issues. We've been talking to you for 40 minutes

now. I haven't seen your right arm yet so it's yeah. There it is. It's all braced up. Man. Well, yeah. Dylan, you couldn't live like that. What are you doing. Come on, man. Come on. You're a big tub. I'm just saying you like to play baseball. All right, Brent, you're the man. Thank you, dude. See you guys. Thank you.

What a guy. Great guy. What a guy. What a guy. I mean, he can do it all. He's a triple threat. He's got he's got spooky stories. He's got an athletic career that he does professionally well. He's a hell of a nice guy as well. And he can do podcasts. Yeah. How about 39 piss jobs with a torn ligament in his in his elbow? Did not know. I kind of wish I had known that information earlier. You know, no, I'm playing, I'm messing with you. I'm messing with you, nothing.

Right, right. No, no, no, no. Right. We joke here, but seriously, you could hit 39 piss missiles if you just got along with your high school manager better. Yeah, he wouldn't let me swing away. I told you like literally don't hit home runs. Yeah, he was like, you're a gap to gap guy. And that's what I want you to do.

What's your big mind to gap guy? You had that t-shirt. Ooh, remember that face for a little bit? The chive was big. Was there ever a conversation at TFM, what's our mind the gap gonna be? Probably. Someone definitely said, what's our mind the gap gonna be?

Might've been me. We created TFM Girls. That's what happened. Did well. Quite. You did a great. Did well. Quite. You did a great job running that entire operation. I didn't. I didn't handle one of those posts, not a one.

I know he's joking, but you were a little horny little guy. Yeah, I still am. Still am. You still are, but you're good. You're looking good. How old are you now? About to turn 41. Thanks, Nicky.

Wow. Well, you know what I was doing? You know what I was doing when I was 41? What's that? Two and a half in Rikers. That's not a long stint, but I'm sorry that you were in there, man. You were racketeering? No, no, no. The guy caught up. We were selling cigarettes.

Really? Yeah. I didn't know that was illegal. You know, they were fake. Oh, fake. We were making them in our backyard. My grandma's backyard. My nonna. Your nonna.

Does she know this is happening? No, no. In her own backyard. The killer if she knew. She didn't know nothing. She didn't know nothing. I think you guys know what time it is. It's time for Dylan's cool unsolved matter of the week.

Of course, if you're new here, Dylan, there's nothing Dylan loves more than an unsolved murder. He hates when families get closure. Well, no. He hates closure. I like closure, but not right away. I want several months of like, there's a murderer on the loose and everyone's scared and looking over their shoulder at night.

But eventually I prefer if the murderer does go away, is locked up. It's always better when the murder goes away, right? Yeah. You know, it's something you don't want to be solved, right? You might know the guy, might be an old friend from school, one of the boys around the corner, around the way. This one comes to us from TikTok and you may have seen it. You may know how it panned out. You may not know but a young lady, her name is Katie Santry. She um I don't know what she does if she fancies herself to be a

TikTok personality but I don't think she is but she posted this and let's just watch it. It's not too long. Randy, give it to us. Yes, of course. Here you go, Dave. I think my house is haunted and I'm freaking out like I'm literally shaking. This is my sunroom. This is where I work.

I sit here every day. There's a playroom here, doors here. This is the space. I worked in here last night until about 630. Everything was fine. Shut my laptop. We close these doors. The dogs don't come in here at night. No one is in this room. I'm down this morning to work. Screen shattered. This stuff down here. This hanging off. But the fucking kicker for me is that this,

that only goes on the shelf and only goes on the shelf ever, up here. Why? I've never put it there. I don't put it here. My phone sits there when I work. Why was that there? Here's the next bit of important information.

So we're building a fence and back here we dug a hole There is a rolled up carpet Buried underground that we came across as we were digging this hole rolled up carpet Who the fuck and why the fuck is there a rolled up carpet underground? I Gotta say that last part's giving a the audacity I gotta say that last part's giving uh the audacity. I'm a straight white male with a **** mustache. Yeah, that's it. You remember her? Did they unroll the carpet to see what was in? Obviously, that's not part of the ditch. Just cool

your jets, man. Can you relax? This is this one viral. This guy's got no **** I don't have closure on this situation even though I did send this to Dave to make sure it was on his radar but I didn't I don't know how this entire ordeal ends. I just know that it exists. Anytime I'm like, come back to, you know, reality, I'm like, okay, these things aren't real, like ghosts aren't a thing. And then something like this just gets me right back into like, yeah, they are, you know, they're either, they are either a thing or many, many people have some sort of, there's something in our brain that triggers like the tricks us. There's something, you know that's the thing or many many

people have some sort of there's something in our brain that triggers like the tricks us. There's something you know what I mean that elicits that response because like too many unless there's like uh unless a quarter or a third of our

population are just making shit up. Okay. So, someone was in that room. Someone slammed their laptop shot a little quickly, little hard. Somebody somebody was in that room. In theory. I hate that you froze it on those hot faces. But like you know, I know exactly what she's talking about. I actually walked into our office yesterday morning and had this same reaction that she did because I went to my desk and like my charger was pulled out. There was a like my I could tell that

my mouse pad like my little track pad was to the side. a Bay juice was missing our Bay juice was just straight-up missing So hangovers was everywhere like it was just crazy somebody peepied on the seat. Yeah. Yeah, it was just like what's going on Yeah blame sauce for pretty much all that then you are the one responsible since you have the key in your hand Nobody peepied on you let everybody in I don't know we could give sauce a key to the office There was the time when these lights were on over the weekend. I think maybe it's the maybe it's me trying to Delay the ghosts, but I think that the lights coming on is a power issue Seems right. I think when the power comes back on it does something to the the party light it does comes back on it does something to the the party light it does I've noticed so she has like 30 videos she documented this entire thing and we can't play them

all but it I will say well when I when will sent this to me on Thursday or Friday I was like oh damn I was really catching up so she called police and they came out and they brought out the corn. They taped off that entire part of a yard. They brought out two cadaver dogs and you know cadaver dog. They'll typically they have like a signal where if they'll they sense or smell a corpse, they will sit down on the spot. They will sit where they think it is Both of them sat down shut up. Yeah. Yeah, but there's the video. There's video of both of them sitting down. Yeah, holy shit and So they brought out like the the excavator they start moving land they start digging they get the carpet up There's nothing in the carpet Okay, and that's it why would that still unsettling. Why would someone bury a carpet? Why are the cadavers sitting if there's no one in the carpet?

That's a really, really good point. Like they tested the carpet to see if there's any kind of- I was gonna say, maybe the carpet was used to move a body and then they had to bury the carpet. Yeah. A rolled up carpet is like, the first thing your brain goes to is, oh, there's a body rolled up in that carpet.

Like no one, who would bury a carpet for any reason? Unless it's haunted. Yeah, I don't get it. carpet is like the first thing your brain goes to is, oh, there's a body rolled up in that. Sure. Like no one who would bury a carpet for any reason. That makes no sense. Haunted. Yeah, I don't get it. That's interesting. But everybody was watching this and I was like, damn, I mean, I was sure they're going to find something and so was she and I gotta say like she was kind of walking a fine line of like wanting there to be a dead body because she knew like, yeah, she's about to blow up and she still is. She did blow up. She has 2.2 million followers now and this whole like saga was like averaging probably like 6 million views per video.

Yeah. It's rare that I see people on Twitter like posting numerous videos from one TikTok account being like, you have to watch this. But it was also unfolding in that moment. So like, even when I went to her TikTok profile, I had like the most recent update that I had seen was the dogs sitting there. So I didn't know that they hadn't found a body yet. Yeah. I wonder why the dogs, like why they were signaling. So there are people on TikTok are now

got the conspiracy heads on and they're like, the cops definitely found something but they're just not telling her because she's clearly being like very viral and like everything like it's investigation. They're not gonna inform her until like stuff. I thought about the same thing. Like even if the rug was covered in blood, like the cops don't want some like person covering this

now 2.2 million people. You would think that that's information they would have to disclose to the owner of the property though. Yeah. Maybe, do you think maybe they slitter a stack and said, you gotta put it, you gotta stop this right now. I don't know, man. Stop going viral.

That's wild. Isn't it kind of weird that this girl just found a rug in her backyard and now can make a living on TikTok for the rest of her, like, I mean, not for the rest of her life, but for, you know, few years. Remind me, why did she decide to? They're building a fence, putting a fence in. Okay.

That's why they started digging. Got it. So she was actually live streaming when they had the cadaver dogs were out. So go, can you zoom in on the, on the far left photo, Randy? This is when the first cadaver dog sat down. Oh, wow. Like on the livestream. Yeah. I didn't know that cadaver dogs were even a thing. It makes sense. Yeah. You know how we have drug dogs here and they're all like German shepherds and stuff like that?

The drug dogs in London when we flew into there were just like little like cute spaniels and stuff. Oh, yeah. Way more approachable but also more intimidating for some reason. The drug dog at my high school was a spaniel. Yeah. I think a cocker spaniel actually. These were boykin spaniels. They used to call me the drug dog. Yeah. Really? Fuck yeah dude. Because I would fucking sniff your drugs and take them. Really? And sniff them again. It's good. Quite the sense of smell. Yeah, so I don't know. There's a little bit of backlash. People are like, you were trying to exploit a whatever.

It's her backyard. I don't know. Who cares? No, it's not like her friend was murdered and then like went missing. And then like, she's like, oh, this could be my friend in this rough. How do you not document this? Yeah, I'm glad she documented it.

She's bringing, she's trying to explain the unexplained. this could be my friend in this route. How do you not document this? Yeah, I'm glad she documented it. She's bringing, she's trying to explain the unexplained. Maybe we're here to unexplain it. Maybe unexplaining it at the same time. That's what we're here. She's trying to pair the normal. You know what I mean? Yeah, that's wild.

That is wild. Guys wanna hop back into the nail bag? Somebody was in that room. Yeah, that's an unexplained portion of this. Jacked up her laptop? It's not cool. That's kind of like, yeah, once all the dust settles from this and you know,

they get rid of the rug, put that fence in, like you still gotta get a new laptop, that's pretty annoying. That laptop was handled very roughly to do that kind of damage to it. the in there. She was watching a cowboy game ended poorly and just punched it. She's streaming it. Steelers fan. She's Steelers fan. Could be. Could be. They thought they had it. This next one is called. Surrata.

It's called what? Surrata. OK, sorry. Sorry. I'm Jessica. Wanted to share the story with you as my girlfriend shared the story with me and I honestly had trouble sleeping for a month. Lights on all night and going into work and sleeping in an unused conference room. I am 29.

Not sure if giving away the university name will give away too much detail, but I will say the university is close to where Will went and is known for their Halloween parties. It's Ohio U. Ohio U. Home of the Bobcats. Again in Ohio.

I wish I would have gone, yeah. I think the Midwest may be more haunted than other parts of the country. I would say the Northeast is probably the most haunted. Young and restless. The New Orleans is very haunted. Facts. Facts. There's a lot of Northwest Indiana haunting.

Thank you for proving my point. When we first started dating, about two weeks into it, a casual conversation went down about do you believe the ghosts? And she gave a blunt, yes, I absolutely do. I've always been on edge of believing and I still don't believe if you know what I mean. I still don't want to believe if you know what I mean. I still don't want to believe if you know what I mean. So we'll tell this from her perspective, the way she told me. So it's a little hearsay.

Ish. When I was undergrad, I was rushing for Greek life. Generic. Rushing for Greece. I for Greek life. Just say which one. Just say rushing. Just say it's a fee. We were in frat. Just say which one. Just say rushing.

Just say it's a fee. We were in frat, we know what it means. Get it. It was all going great. And all the pledge hazing was pretty tame and good. Building camaraderie, et cetera. One night they sent us out to an old cemetery that was located in the same property

of an old insane asylum. And at least where they buried the patients when they passed away. They sent us out to walk around and get spooked and it was very scary and creepy. You know how it goes. But in the cemetery, we didn't see anything like a ghost or a spirit. However, there was a penny sitting on top of one of the headstones of someone's grave. I didn't know any better and I took it.

Big mistake. Mistake. Why? For her thoughts. You don't take things from the cemetery. Especially a penny with one cent. Like that's not, it didn't fall there out of someone's pocket. It was set there by somebody or something. Took this penny and put it in our dorm room as we were still living in dorms at the time and sleeping in the same room with the roommate, which is important for later. Came to find out that stealing pennies off gravestones

may have invited a demonic spirit to attach to me and follow me back to my dorm room. Oh, it's the worst. Yeah, thank you. First night we woke up to all the cabinets in the suite slash kitchen. Open. It was not much of a thought process. There's it could have been sleepwalking, but no one owned up to it. Next series of events took place over a three month timeframe fall semester.

So September to Thanksgiving break frequently Frequently between 3 AM and 3 45 AM, but mostly at exactly 3 15 AM, a demonic spirit hovered over my bed. The best way to describe it was that it looked like a Dementor from Harry Potter. Very creepy. It would not just hover over me, but it would scratch at my legs and groin similar to a golden retriever dog trying to dig a hole in sand or any dog really. It's not just Goldens, but Goldens do have a certain way they dig, right? It's kind of cute. It's very cute. It would also

always have a little friend standing next to the bed watching his friend that would be standing next to the bed was a miniature was miniature and had horns and it almost looked like Phil from the Disney movie Hercules but like a terrifying version. Oh you familiar with that? Yeah I think voiced by uh Danny DeVito. Danny DeVito would be spookier than that if Danny DeVito was next to your bed. Little guy. It's a Mike's thing. The worst part was when I was dreaming or would be dreaming and not able to breathe but then I would wake up to the demonic ghost slash spirit choking me and trying to kill me with both hands around my neck trying to choke me out.

That's how it probably sounded. Yeah. How do you think it sounded? Fuck. I was okay. If I'm getting choked out, that's what I'm sounding like. I don't think I can do better than what you just said. I thought that was pretty good. Yeah, don't try. No, it was pretty good. Okay, thank you. It's not pleasant. Maybe too real. It's not pleasant. Uncomfortable. You into that? No. Wait, do you know this person that submitted the story? Stop.

Let's go on. Didn't you tell me that you ran into sorority and you walked away with taste of pennies or something? You know I didn't tell you that. You're so dirty. You dated, her name was Penelope, right? Persephone? I never dated anyone named Penelope. My roommate said that she experienced the same things on her own with the same

demonic characters and would also see me being haunted and would start screaming. We ended up working together and would yell things like get out and no, not tonight, which actually made them leave. Yeah, I did. Don't fuck it. Get out here. Yeah, you know, it's like I'm trying to fucking sleep in this fucking thing. It comes into the room.

Fuck it. I don't know. I'm too old for, you know, maybe it's like a sign that I'm I need to get out of the game, right? I shouldn't be in a dorm room. I'm 65 years old. I should be retired. You quit the game with the game king can't quit you. Yeah, can't quit, you know, some things you just can't get out blood and blood out.

Right? That's what they tell you. You know what they don't tell you about? What? The fucking demons. Right. I live with them in my head every fucking day. I'm sorry.

I'm thinking about, I'm thinking about a tall Paul down at the 7-Eleven. You remember that night? I remember Tall Paul, yeah. He looked at me the wrong way. He looked at you the wrong way. He paid for it, didn't he? Paid for it, yeah.

He paid for it. We made him pay us $6. That was a lot of money back then. When I went home for Thanksgiving break, it followed me home. What? Nothing sacred to these fuckers. Holy shit.

I was eating breakfast with my family and my brother came down and told our family about the same demonic spirit hovering over him and the same thing I experienced. So my mom and dad finally believed me because up until that point, they just thought I was crazy or like drunk or high. All of these experience halls, smoke on the ground and the loopy stuff. My parents took me back to school for finals that winter. My mom was very religious, did a holy water ritual all over my dorm. And I haven't had any problems since. Now this is back to the boyfriend.

This is the boyfriend talking. Right. You can imagine my skepticism, but she maintained her story forever. She saw how it impacted me and tried to say that she made it up, but she said she couldn't keep a lie like that for me, especially with her friends and family being involved, potentially outing her later for lying. So she told me the worst part was when I was trying to get confirmation from my friends or coworkers and was like, listen, the story my girlfriend told me is crazy.

And they're like, oh yeah, that happened to me too. Or that happened to my brother. Don't let the spirit go into your mouth or it will control you. And I was like, what the fuck? What the fuck? Pretty terrifying. Hope the story makes it. Thanks for everything.

And you know what? There will be no fuck you, Dorn, but a Dorn, you are the man and I hope you are doing great. Oh, that's very sweet. You know, I needed that today. I appreciate that a lot. I just, I hope everyone listening understands that you just don't take things from cemeteries. I'd be so pissed as the roommate. Yeah. Like, are you seriously doing that?

Not cool. Even something like a penny, because it was placed there, like you said. I don't even like going to cemeteries. I don't think anyone does. No, there's definitely people that like it. Sickos. The rumor was like, maybe a listener will confirm,

Caio had a thing, wasn't Caio thing. Wasn't Kyle. They were the owl. They had the owl thing. And like, there's always a rumors like they have to like get in a coffin and like put underground. I didn't hear that one. And I was always like, I don't feel like they're going to that trouble. They're not going to the trouble to do all this shit. There may be a coffin, but I doubt that they're like getting buried in the

coffin because it's just a lot of work. And, you know. Sally was a coyote, I'll talk to her. Okay. I just sip codeine because I gotta kill a coffin. Whoa. Oh yes, damn. Okay.

Yeah. You got a lot of laughs here. Can I say something? We like, you guys let me Let me platform to say something. Yeah, I guess it's a fucking show. It was this was my favorite spooky season episode we've ever done. It's been good. There it is. There it is.

We got very we got Nicky the knife. Got Bram Rooker. He ain't no rookie. Let me tell you that that the nail bag we did with Rooker was an all-timer. Not great. Just an excellent episode through and through. You guys hear the one about Skeleton, right? Skeleton went to the party alone.

Do you hear the one with the Skeleton? He went to the party alone. Hey, hey, you don't tell the rest. You probably know how it goes. This fucking guy right here. No, did you hear about this? I did hear about this. The Skeleton went to the party alone. What happened next? He had no body to go with him

That's good Audience like that. I told you about the old broad, the old that old witch I used to date, right? No. Uh gross. She was over off of East Avenue over East and uh East and Park, right? Yeah. No, I didn't. I don't I don't

remember this. Yeah, we got a long grade but she had uh she had uh she was living with that other girl. I don't know. Her roommate was a real bitch. I don't know. Her broommate was a real bitch. I don't know. Her broommate was a real bitch. Holy shit. Holy shit. Holy shit.

Fucking broad hated me. Fucking broad hated me. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Nicky. I was always, I always had guys going in and out of there, bringing me packages. I get it. I get it. Looking back now, you do a lot of reflection in my age. Looking back, like, I would have hated me too, right?

I would have hated me too, right? Right, right. I would have hated me too, right? I would have hated me too, right? I would have hated me too, right? I would have hated me too, right? I would have hated me too, right? I would have hated me too, right?

I would have hated me too, right? I would have hated me too, right? I would have hated me too, right? I would have hated me too, right? I would have hated me too, right? I always had guys going in and out of there, bringing me packages. I get it, look them back now. You do a lot of reflection in my age. Look them back like, I would have hated me too, right? Right, right. I wasn't a nice guy then. No, certainly not. I had to do things. Bad things. Spooky things.

You had to make a living. Yeah. Broom-mate was a real bitch. Broom-mate, Broom-mate. He was a real bitch. You get it? I do, yeah. Okay.

She lived over East Avenue in Park. Huh? Yeah. Yeah. Good neighborhood too. Some good girls over there. Hey, let me find you one. Some good broads over there.

Hey, you go find yourself one down there. I still know. Hey. I get it, you need a couple bucks to take her out to the show? No funny stuff. To the show. Oh, I never, I never. My her out to the show. No funny stuff. Go to the show. Oh, I never, I never. My niece, my niece still lives down there,

so you don't, just saying. Take her out, show her a good time, take her to the picture show, whatever. Don't try to have funny stuff, you know what I mean? Picture show. I remember this guy, remember this guy? He used to fog up the windows in his car. I was like, what are you doing in there?

He was alone though. He was alone. He's a heavy breather, right? He's a heavy breather. Yeah, Randy's his name. He's a wacky one. The Northern Indiana guys are fucking... They're wild ass, aren't they? You got to be careful for them.

You know what they say about them Indiana girls on Indiana nights right yeah you know you wanna do one more you got another one one more we can do it's a quickie it It's called Zone of Death. The fuck love that. I'm gonna avoid that zone. I went to zone down. I swear that one merchant sells out of merchant of death. Ah, yes.

Doing great these days, by the way. He's been trying to acquire that property. Yeah. That's like that. That would be a great headline like merchant of death acquires zone of death. great these days by the way he's been trying to acquire that property yeah that's like that that would be a great headline like merchant of death acquires zone of death what huh i just spent the summer working as a park ranger in yellowstone national park right has he been to yellowstone or she's having probably i don't know at the time of writing this i'm less than a week from my end date and plan to listen to circling back archives during my three day drive home. Similar to the PCT or 80, the continental divide trail crosses through Yellowstone on its route to Canada from Canada to Mexico. My commute to work passed by the trail. So I would often see hitch

hikers on the side of the road looking for a ride to the nearest campground for the night. Wearing full ranger uniform and carrying a park radio, I felt secure enough to pick up several hikers this summer for the quick 15 minute ride even though I was a young woman by myself. As the temps dropped, the hikers make their way to the southern border. It has been a while since I've picked up any dirty hippies on the side of the road. But last week an old man came into our Ranger station asked if and Oh, he was saying that he used to work there back in the 70s right before he walked out

He asked if we had heard about the cannibal summer of 1970. Here's how the story goes the cannibal summer Okay, I'm not talking five young or fine young cannibals? Nobody was driving anybody crazy. Don't get the reference, but I'm sure people will. She drives me crazy. You're going to be upset on like, do you know the game show podcast that song ever comes up? It's a banger. It's not.

It could for spookies either. July of 1970s, Stanley Dean Baker was hitchhiking in Southern Montana. A young social worker named James Schlossler. Is that funny? Schlossler. Schlosser. It's Schlosser. Bicked him up and offered him a ride to Yellowstone National Park. The two men decided to camp together that night along the Yellowstone River. What? With the hitchhiker? Camping with the hitchhiker? Yeah. Okay. It's a wild ass group.

I wouldn't do that. It's the 70s. It's true. That's true. Well, James was sleeping, Stanley crept over and shot him twice in the head. Oh, that's why you don't camp out with hitchhikers. Then he cut off his arms, legs, and head.

Then he ate him. He ripped his heart out of his chest and ate it raw. Indiana Jones, Temple of Doom style. Calama, calama, calama. Right. You have seen that movie. It's a great movie. I've only seen the first one.

First one's, wait, is it the best? Can't remember. They're all good, they're all good. I think I saw the, I think I watched the first one and then started the second one, but had to stop watching it to like go to dinner or something like that. So I just never picked it back up.

No, it was one of those like, it's on TV and they're doing a marathon. So I'm just gonna ride this out on the couch until this dinner night. Good series. Yeah. He dumped the body in the river, stole his car and drove to California.

Dun dun dun dun dun, dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun. Going, going back to Callie Callie. We've been on the run eating some guy's heart. Now I'm trying to drive home. OK, he didn't. That song wasn't out yet. Wasn't written for years. No, this is 1970.

A few days later, a fisherman snagged the body on his line and reeled it in. Dude, caught it on his fly. Did. You know what kind of fly he was using? He tied it himself. Stanley crashed the car in Monterey and was picked up by police who found bones in his pockets.

Well, that is his money at the same time, so. He immediately told police, they ain't chicken bones. They're human fingers. I have a problem. I'm a cannibal. Pretty open about that, huh? I have a problem. I'm a cannibal. He admitted everything and they found a recipe for LSD and a copy of the satanic Bible in his possession. Thankfully for me, I didn't pick up any cannibals this summer that I know of and thankfully for the hitchh for me, I didn't pick up any cannibals this summer that I know of and thankfully

for the hitchhikers, I didn't hear the story until after they made their way to the park. Hope this one was spooky enough for you guys. Oh well. It was. Cannibalism will get you yeah that qualifies every time. Little LSD, a little satanic stuff, little fingers in the pocket. Hey. What a that's what he qualifies every when you go fishing. You remember what happened to Fredo when he went out on that bowl, right? Fredo, yeah, he did well. That was unfortunate for Fredo and his family. Didn't end well. You hear about this?

And that's spooky season. Oh, I heard about it. Okay. And that there is spooky season, folks. Beautiful. Beautiful. Loved it. Loved every second of it.

Thank you, Brent Rooker, for joining us for the Silly Silly Show. We will see you next Tuesday. Bye. Bye. Later. Ah. Thanks for watching!