just a little shady - Small Talk Is Scary | Ep. 14

Episode Date: October 22, 2022

Pointing out how our lack of ability to start a conversation puts us in awkward situations, getting nostalgic over childhood halloween movies while we discuss the sequels that have come out this year, discussing the “rat race” of life (literally and hypothetically), wondering how it works when celebrities join the military, and changing it up with this weeks spooky stories to reveal just how much we have in common with our listeners submissions. Submit your shady story to be featured in a future episode anonymously here: https://forms.gle/wntAePFeWhtfda7u7 Submit a question you want to be answered in a future episode here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScNKcB5aLaJMl5w-qxS56u8Xj1kV1c4zmjr7b9i_2qHF-XCrg/viewform Subscribe to our youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/justalittleshadypodcast Follow us on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/justalittleshadypodcast/ Watch us on Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTR6yk19Q/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

So how do you want to start this episode? I'm going to start talking about the Harry Potter stuff again. Okay, ready? Five, six, seven, eight. Once I make my move, then you're free to check the key. Run! No!

What is it? He's going to sacrifice. Yeah, what is it? He's going to sacrifice himself. Don't move your thing. You're going to lose your bird. I know. Peter's not doing well right now.

He's embodying our spirit. Oh, the amount of malfunctions that have happened today i mean it's small potatoes but it's just it's they're adding up the small potatoes are adding up we had a sick editor a sick brit Brittany, no internet, camera malfunction, bird falling. Yeah, Peter fell. What else happened? I feel like a lot. It's just been, it's been an evening.

I saw a rap this week. And that adds right into it. A lot's been going on some good things yeah yeah we have let's let's do our weekly recap let's start with some positive vibes get the morale up oh welcome back to the podcast um We are going to start with a weekly recap and yeah, let's start with some positive things. It was my dad's birthday this week. Cute. We all got together and it was actually really funny because, so it was friends and family, but while everyone was still strolling in and we were waiting for everybody to get there.

We ended up collecting at a table. And it was just like the family. And after like 10 minutes go by and we realized like people are coming in. It looked, it appeared as if we were having a meeting. Like that's what, and like after 10 minutes we look at each other and we're like this is a birthday party like I'm pretty sure we need to be social and I was like you can literally tell our family from everybody else socializing I'm like we need to um we need to be social yeah and yeah and it was just so funny like we but you know what it's who we are at our core it is who we are for sure because there's one thing about us we can maintain

and carry a conversation no problem but to start a conversation we're just not good at it no we struggle so hard to like facilitate the conversation once it's going we're golden yes but to start it no no no and you know we actually have a funny story about this so recently we were at a dinner not the birthday dinner me and Britt were at a dinner and we didn't really know everybody at our table and so it got to the point where we just honestly we did not know words it's like it's like when I'm in that situation the topics could be endless so that I can't even pick one. I just have an issue where it's every topic I think of or like question I have I overthink it and then I'm like well maybe that will offend them or maybe they don't want to talk about that or like me I don't know what it is because it's like mundane like normal small talk questions like

how are you and then see those don't bother me I can do that but it's I can't it's more so once if we're sitting together for so say that I can't decide on one. Yeah. And I overthink them. And you know, that's another problem I have, which we can get into on another day of not being able to make decisions. It's like decision paralysis. Yeah. You, I know, I know, but we'll get into that on another day. So anyway, so Britt and I go to this dinner. We don't know everybody at the table. And everybody was really nice.

And the small talk was easy to do. But then it got to the point where we don't know how to start a conversation. So we're just in our own world being like, okay, dinner's over. We cannot contribute to this conversation clearly. So we're just looking at each other like we are so awkward. We have to remove ourselves before other people notice our awkwardness. And so, you know, we formulate a plan using our eyes and we come to the conclusion that it's time to go. And so there was one small conversation of let's just confidently get up, say goodbye, and leave. Well, that's not what happened. No.

It couldn't be that easy. Nothing happened. So we get up. And when I moved my chair back, my purse strap got stuck under the chair so now I have to go under the table while we were trying to nonchalantly leave I have to go under the table and get my purse out which by the way nobody at this table was having a clue or care or thought of what we were doing no they were minding their own business but we were it was because we were in that we just had felt so awkward ourselves and we were doing that with each other that it was like it felt like everybody was looking at us but nobody was yeah no one no one cares so I'm under

the table and I'm just like oh my I'm untangling my purse from the chair. I'm like, oh my God, it just can't get worse. Oh, it got worse. And so I get up, and by the way, I wore what Brittany would describe as a cape. I would say it was a nice winter jacket, but it was abnormally large. It was a floor length highly extra it was jack it made a statement it was very cute it was something you don't want to wear when you're trying not to cause a scene and so it's too late and so i get the purse i try to grab the jacket but at this point i realized if i put this thing on there's gonna be a whirlwind in the room so I just drape it over my arms anyways so then I'm thinking to myself the whole confidently get

up and say goodbye to everybody wasn't working so no I decide in my head at that moment i'm just gonna lean in to one guy who he doesn't give a shit if i leave and i lean in i'm like have a good night i feel like i also like you said that you're like have a good night and i was like i just like nodded at him you were in the back like you have a good night and i was just like and like you do that and again he wasn't thinking anything of it he's like oh okay yeah i don't think he said a word after you said that i think he said i think he said oh you guys are leaving bye but we were trying to walk so fast like i don't even know it was all a fever dream everything we do just makes the situations way worse than they need to be we do it to ourselves and again it's just us like no one else knows that this is so uncomfortable or

feels that but just us yeah and so anyway so we go to walk out the door and i realize i'm like oh my god i'm like we don't our ride's not here. I'm like, we got to call them. So we were like, all right, let's go in the bathroom. But they were individual bathrooms that were unisex. So open to the public viewing each, each bathroom, because it was a room, it wasn't a stall. So we go in the same one, not thinking anything of it. We just panicked. We're just like, okay, go in this room. We opened the door, we go in and we close the door realizing now that okay everybody out there just saw us go into the one bathroom because it's a unisex thing and it's the view is to the public and so i'm like oh my god so i start trying to call on my phone the light didn't work we realized that the light in the bathroom so everybody just watched us go into a dark basically closet just me and her and she's got a flashlight on and i'm

like and you're like i can't sit still i'm like what's happening shining it around so if anyone saw that that probably looked so suspicious and what was going on and so anyways we call the ride and we leave but we made this situation all because all because we don't know how to start a conversation i mean yeah you have nothing to say for yourself i have nothing to say for myself because it's so true if i could be better at small talk and starting conversations and shooting the shit with someone i would love that but it's not who i am at my core i get so anxious about it it was even to the point that you and i had nothing left to say to each other because we had exhausted all the small talk that we could do because at that point what were we going to talk about? Like, we had done all that. We were talking about everything we could.

And then it was like us looking at each other, having combos with our eyes being like, We got to go. We are making this worse for ourselves. So, good times. Anyways, yeah, we need to learn how to start conversations. We can carry them out out but we cannot start them tips tricks best practices please yeah i feel like we are definitely not the only ones no i feel like so many people are like this i've talked to a lot of people that are like yeah

small talk not my thing can't do it see and it's not even small talk for me like i can do the basic stuff it is I always do think though how funny it'd be to just pull one over on somebody and when they're someone's trying to do casual small talk I'm like oh how are you to just be like terrible absolutely miserable because and honestly if somebody did that to me, I feel like I'd be like, oh, I'm good too. How are you? Like, you know, like the normal back and forth, you'd be like, oh, great to hear.

Like, yeah, that's probably what I would say back because I'm just so used to the normal back and forth of small talk that you're just ready to go with your responses to just switch it up on someone and be like, oh, I'm actually terrible. I'm actually having a terrible day. Oh yeah. And. I. I don't know.

I. I was unfortunately at a funeral this week. And a lot of people were asking like. How are you? And it's like. I feel like I can't say good. And then also like saying back to him. Like how are you?

Like clearly everyone here is upset. So. Yeah. It was a whole nother thing thing where I was weird situations like that too it's like you don't want to be rude and be like oh bad terrible but then you don't want to be like how are you insensitively and it's like how do you think I'm feeling like if you're like yeah everyone I was speaking to it's like right at a funeral so yeah I would just I would just hug people and said, like, I'm sorry. Yeah. It's always situations like that.

But we're also overthinkers. We are. I don't think anybody there would be, if you said, oh, good, how are you? No one's going to be like, you're good at a funeral. I know. And I did tell someone that i was okay and i felt bad about it i was like i'm an asshole no it's it's okay i promise um also this week we watched the new hocus pocus let's go i was really excited to see hocus pocus too because hocus pocus was

one of my favorite halloween movies growing up still to this day it was exciting to see all of the sanderson sanderson sisters back i should read your shirt i I wore my Sanderson's. I love that. I'm jealous. Bless you. Bless you. But they were back. I don't know why that's so funny. I don't know. It was cute.

It was cheesy. But I think the first movie was a little cheesy too. So I all in all liked it. I feel like it'll grow on me. What did you think? I felt really weird that they all look the exact same. Insanely similar to how they looked in the first movie. Yeah. And we kind of talked about it.

You were like, oh, well, they made them look older in the first one. and we kind of talked about it you were like oh well they made them look older in the first one and now they actually are older so it probably wasn't that you know difficult to do but still so we looked up the ages of some of them in real life and we're like wow good for them because we don't have half that energy no i didn't have an ounce of their energy yeah no i thought that was good it's the same thing with all sequels sometimes you're like just let it be the classic that it is yes but not with this one actually i didn't feel because i liked i like this it made sense they passed it on or whatever and it made sense but i also watched halloween ends oh did you and which was also a little cheesy. I heard that. I heard that people

were laughing. It was lacking in the jump scare section. However I still I liked the idea but it is one of those things where you know he supposedly died in like every movie. Multiple times. And then they're just like, oh no, he's actually not dead. Never mind. Yeah, never mind. It's good money for us. Yeah.

Never mind. But I actually saw this hilarious TikTok and Jamie Lee Curtis was agreeing with what we said in our last podcast. Was she? She goes, it was basically just a TikTok of her sitting there. And she was like, it's Halloween season. Why the fuck are people listening to Christmas music? What is wrong with everyone?

And I felt that in my soul. I was like, yes. Yeah. Yes. But another thing, I feel a little, little disappointed in how we've behaved this Halloween season. We have been slacking. We, I feel like any given year, aside from this year, before it's even like halfway through September, we've gone to every spirit Halloween. We've planned a hayride.

We've, like, done it all. To confess, this is the only Halloween decor I have in my whole house. So that's a problem but what is this can't just be us what is up with spirit Halloween what about spirit Halloween makes you have to go there I don't know because everything's always the same it's I'm gonna be 60 years old going because I have to go like it's something about it it's so nostalgic in there it is no reason I don't know I love it like we typically don't even buy our costumes from spirit Halloween but we get a kick out of going and go back multiple times i mean i have to go every year and it's for no reason other than to go this year no me either well that's what i'm saying i'm so disappointed and pumpkins and also by then by this time we usually have a whole Halloween party planned.

And, you know, we haven't done that yet. And it's about next weekend. Is that going to happen? I don't know. Who's to say? Honestly, there's been so much going on. And I don't know. There truly has.

I don't know where the time is going. But it's going. Yeah. I don't like it the time is going, but it's going. Yeah. I don't like it. Same. But yeah. Anyways, back to our Halloween movies. I feel like a good little discussion we can have.

Our favorite Halloween movies growing up, which you kind of already said, Hocus Pocus. How about Halloween Town? Big Halloween Town gal. I don't know what it is about those movies that's the same thing i am going to be watching those and 60 i'm going to be watching them at 100 if i'm around let's hope seriously it's something so nostalgic about them and i feel like for me especially halloween town i always used to watch it with my nana and so now when i watch it i just like reminds me of those times i'm like i love this movie but they're cute once they start switching up the actors no it's not the same i didn't stand for that when it came out the what was it the fourth movie they changed yeah marnie

it's so i don't i don't like when anything does that though it takes me like especially when they i mean and obviously they don't really ever address it but they never address it and you're just supposed to accept that this is the same person i can't do it i it doesn't feel like the same to me you know what who did that who wizards of waverly place didn't they change the brother randomly or something i don't think so did they i don't know maybe i'm making something up but i swear there was like a huge show on Disney that did that when we were younger. Changed a character? Yes. And they did it in the Halloween movie. And I'm watching House of Dragons right now.

Did they do it? And after like two episodes, it was a new character. And you were just supposed to accept that, oh, they aged like 10 years, like between episodes. It was like a 10-year gap. And I was like, what? Who is who right now? I don't even know who's supposed to be who. But then some characters, they kept the same. So like one character was a whole new person and aged 10 years.

And then to show that the other character aged, it was the same person, but they just like had different hair. And I'm like, what's going on here no yeah i can't get behind those kinds of things they did the only time that i feel like i accepted it was with harry potter dumbledore changes i think after the first or the second movie i can't remember which one but they change actors in that yeah i still can't remember which one, but they change actors in that. Yeah, I still can't. Overall, though, conclusion.

Halloween movies, the ones we watched this week, a little cheesy. And this brings us to our next point, which is, apparently, Chicago was the number one city for rats according to orkin i don't believe it for a second call bs i've never seen a living rat in chicago we did see one dead rat but i mean how many times have we gone there many and we never seen a live rat and but this is my theory this is my theory let's hear it people in chicago are more likely to call orcan for a rat so that's why orcan thinks they have the most could be but realistically other places have more so they're used to seeing them so they don't call as much that that feels like math is mathing the math is mathing there

because i feel like new york is known for having rats oh absolutely in fact i just saw tiktok i think you saw it too where they were making a news announcement about the rat problem. And the lady was like, the rats aren't going to like this announcement. What rat is listening to the news? And then the next guy was like, this is no place for Ratatouille. And it's like. Okay.

Thank you, sir. Anyway, so yeah, I feel like Nework is like known for having a rat oh yeah because they have all their trash it has to like sit outside yeah and so that also adds up but i feel like people there are just more used to seeing them so they're not calling orcan being like oh yeah because it's like it's normal for them but detroit was number six on there and i'd like to see i also i'd like to say that i've never seen a rat there, but I did see one Monday, which was alarming. It was very large and just out and about in Campus Martius, and I did not like it. This is why I tried to tell you to be grateful you had a mouse in your car and not anything larger because

imagine that it was the size like of a guinea pig the bigger than bigger than peter that's alarming i know i don't like it and my friend that i was walking with she didn't even see it and i was like um we cannot continue walking on this path you need to acknowledge this yeah she was filming and some guy on a bike like stopped in front of her camera and almost hit the rat she was like um you do know there's a rat there sir and he was like what and then like rode away awful oh i hate it they get really large. Yeah, it was large. Doesn't that freak you out? This is about to get a little weird. So you know how snakes eat rats and stuff? So they say that creatures can get as big as the space they can find.

Imagine a rat getting big. I just don't like it i know i don't know if i've talked about it no i have talked about it on the podcast before the one time i saw the snake he what was it yeah like a deer or something yeah yeah on a happier note i did see a tick tock of a snake befriending the mouse that they put in the cage for it to eat i mean and then the person had to start feeding the mouse so with they could heck hang out so was was the snake you know other mouses what if that mouse helped that mouse help help that snake eat the next mouse? I thought I saw something. What? Don't freak me out.

Also, this is just an announcement I feel I need to make. It has nothing to do with anything. And honestly, anybody listening wouldn't have a clue about this if I didn't say it, but I need to say it. Okay. Get it off your chest. I'm a good driver. No, you're not. And here's the thing about it.

People have been questioning my driving. Have they? So I have one friend who has maybe drove with me, I could count on my hands how many times. Yet, I consistently have received over the years videos and they'll be like, this is you driving. And it's always literally the worst videos of people driving ever. You know the ones where they'll like go over a curb and they'll just act like nothing happened i get that on the regular and you traumatize them and the one and evan's always so anxious when he gets in the car with me he's like why are you

driving like this and if there is one thing about me this is what it is first of all i'm an efficient driver will i change lanes more than the average person absolutely because i will take whatever route i think is the fastest will you go left and right a little in the car yeah well we're gonna get there the quickest you've ever gotten there uh-huh and so anyways that leads to my next point which Which is? I am always in a rush. Oh my gosh. What is wrong with me? Stay rushing. It's not even just with your driving.

It's with walking. I speed walk when I walk. It could be a Sunday afternoon. We're just, you know, having a nice time at Target. And you are hustling your bustle throughout the whole store. And I can't keep up with that. If there is something I don't, I've never relaxed in my life. No, you haven't.

I just don't know what's wrong. Like, I mean, I do. I'm not asking for a diagnosis here. You're aware of your problems. I'm very aware. But it's like even with driving with leisure activities that are supposed to be leisurely i catch myself speed walking i'm like girl what what is this about where are you going it's not good and i can't be good i mean i'm on the move

baby and that's all i can say i don't know I'm getting places and I'm getting there efficiently you're getting stuff done but for what at what cost the cost of my legs that's probably why my calves are so huge because I can't slow down no but yeah I'll give you one thing you're a better driver than me but that doesn't say much yeah i'll stand by that no this reminds me so i was just talking about this the other day which again this has nothing to do with anything but just about driving i am so uncomfortable with the fact that in driver's training they just let other kids be in the hands of other kids that don't know what they're doing. Like, I remember.

You're so right. Like, we're just out here risking everyone's life being like, learn how to drive. Yeah, you're just like trusting your friends in class. Like, no, and that's the thing. So the first time we ever went on the road in driver's training, it was me and a friend. But then they needed a third person in the car and there was somebody by themselves so we're like oh yeah you can come with us so this guy comes with us and he didn't even know which i mean maybe he wasn't paying attention in class but he didn't

even know which one was the turn signal he put on the windshield wipers when we went to turn i'm like we are going to get killed in here. Like, what is going on? And then I'm sitting there being like, we might not make it out of this session. And, you know, looking back on that, to this day, this is how driver's training works. We just put our kids' lives in the hands of other kids who don't know how to drive. And that's the thing, too, is when you, at least here in Michigan, in driver's training, once you start going on the road, there's no crash course. Like we're just going to drive around the parking lot a few times. Like they just take you straight out into the open ocean. And leave you there, do that.

Yes. Yeah. No, it's terrifying. I was terrified when I started driver's training even before it. My parents would try to get me to drive in parking lots. I was like, no, I'm not getting a ticket. I'm not playing this game. I always wanted to drive. to drive oh i didn't i always wanted to but and i don't want to till this day this stuck with me i don't drive anywhere yeah you really don't you're never the driver i'm passenger no i i enjoy driving but it's just i

always catch myself rushing and i'm And I just have no explanation. But that leads me to another thing where I couldn't relax. And Evan could. And this is what we've been talking about for a few weeks now. So the other day, I was having really bad anxiety. I couldn't sleep. So I had a lack of sleep. And then I had a lot of stuff to do.

So I told myself, I'm like, you need a nap or you're gonna be rude when i'm tired yes because when i am tired at least you're self-aware i am so mean like when i'm i that's one thing when i'm tired when i'm hungry i i'm like an infant baby. Like when I'm tired and hungry, I'm me. When I'm hungry, I get pretty cranky. Yeah, and there are certain, and it's not even to be funny. Like I genuinely do get an attitude. And it's like, girl, grow up. But anyway, so I was like, you need to nap because you have things to do. But it was one of those things where, did you ever, maybe not.

But I was trying to nap, but I couldn't. And so I would start getting stressed out that I'm just wasting time. When I feel like I'm wasting time, that is when I get the most upset with myself and the most frustrated. Yeah, because like 20 minutes would go by and I'd be like, I could have been doing stuff if I couldn't sleep. Yeah. And so anyway, so after like an hour goes by of me not being able to fall asleep i call evan i'm like hey what are you doing he's like nothing i have a minute i'm like okay can you come upstairs and just like sit up here so i can fall asleep and because sometimes when you're in that situation you feel like bad about yourself that you're like wasting time like if somebody

else is doing it then you're no longer wasting time then it's a group effort yeah and so i'm like can you just sit here for like 10 minutes so he gets up there and i freaking kid you not you know he's supposed to be letting me fall asleep i know the way this is within seconds within seconds this man was snoring peacefully i'm sure and and so you know what at this point i was like again piss pissed at his piece all the time how i just don't fathom it and so i i'm scrolling on my phone like i'm not gonna nap ever at this point and so i just pull up my phone i'm scrolling and it's loud the volume's on loud and i'm like no regard i'm like i hope he wakes up and so like two minutes later he's like what did you he goes he's like he's like this he looks at me he's like did you sleep i go evan it's been about two minutes and the only

thing that you contributed was a snore thank you very much um you're welcome needless to say i did not nap that day um and i ended up being fine somehow weren't cranky I can't I cannot confirm that's fine yeah so so that's me never relaxing um and yeah that that was pretty much it I had to I had to address my driving I had to address like me rushing You know what, though? I feel like that is such a common thing of people just feeling the need to rush and not waste time. And yeah, because you're getting so far. We can't rush through life. No, we can't. We have to take time to enjoy.

Oh, okay. You know, like that's like the same thing with Halloween. We're rushing through october we're not taking time to truly enjoy this wow i know that's meaningful and yeah i think i'm delusional right now um anyways yeah so that that's enough of that um and then one more thing before we get into the spooky stories that kind of happened. And I was a little shocked when I saw this. BTS is about to serve in the South Korean army. Yes, I saw that.

And I was interested because I know it's been a lot of back and forth on. If they were going to or not. Yeah, they weren't sure if they were going to be, I don't think mandated is the wrong word for it, but if they were going to be required to serve, if they weren't, if they would be exempted. Yeah, if they were going to be exempt from it, and now it looks like they're going. So actually, so I saw that, and I was like,

oh, I knew at some point it was a requirement there, and I didn't know there was ever talk of them possibly being exempt from it but apparently the reason that they ended up they chose to enlist good for them because they didn't like that they felt like it was out of their control and it was like one minute like okay you might be exempt or no you have to or you might be exempt or you have to and they were just like let's just do this like you know they know, they made the decision themselves. So, but it kind of reminded me. So I, I started watching the Elvis movie and I don't know if you watched it.

I've been meaning to haven't yet. It's a time commitment. I did not finish it, but I started it. And one of the things is I didn't know this before the movie, but Elvis was actually required to enlist in the army for two years. Didn't know that. Because basically the government was unhappy with what he was doing. They did not like his dance moves and they felt like he was, I don't know, causing riots and threatening whatever, their power. And so. Forb forbid. Oh man. And so anyways, they, they were threatening that if he didn't do this, that he was going to go to jail. So he, they made some kind of deal where he was going to do that for two years. He had to do some other stuff, but they made him go. And I'm just like, how does that

work? He was like an international superstar. And obviously he's Elvis. But so are they right now. What's about to happen. Yeah. That's so true. What? How is that going to work? Yeah.

Like, how does that work? I guess only time will tell. I don't know. I feel like. It's a very interesting. What a weird situation. It is. It's such a weird thing to think about.

Anyways. Yeah. So i thought that was interesting and um i hope everything works out i don't know how the hell that's gonna work best of luck to them yeah but i think that's pretty much it yeah we're gonna get into the spooky stories and i think well first i need to say which one was mine last week i don't think anyone really guessed in the comments i think we did a better job so the first time we did the guess my thing everybody freaking knew we gave it away because we we literally commented on every other spooky story like Like after we read it? Yeah, after we read it, we reacted to what the story was except for your story. So we made it a little obvious.

Oh, man. Yeah, we're not too good at that. I knew from the beginning it was going to be an issue because it's really hard for us to not react. It is. But I think we can do it today though just straight up spooky meter no comments i feel like we should do a little differently okay i think i think even for this episode and the next one because the next one's our last spooky episode i think we should read them and then at the end we can we can do just straight up do the spooky and then at the

end i'll say which one and then we can react to them okay i like that yeah because or else we're never going to react to them and like these are good stories they are really good stories um but last week mine was the tape recorder story and you know what's so funny about that it's not funny because it was honestly terrifying traumatic if you will and I was telling before we decided if we were going to like include a story of mine or how we were going to do it I was reading the story to one of my sisters who was obviously in yeah in that story and I started reading this story I'm like hey tell me if this is a good story to include and so like halfway through she stops me she's like is this story. I'm like, hey, tell me if this is a good story to include. And so like halfway through, she stops me.

She's like, is this real? And I was like, yeah, you were there. I'm like, let me finish it. So I finish it. And at the end, she's like, oh, my God, I actually remember that. And she's like, wait a second. She's like, do you remember that we were all so scared we went and stayed at a hotel for a night? Stop.

And I don't remember that. But I obviously believe that because it's terrifying it was a traumatic experience but yeah so anyways um it was real and we were terrified and if you don't remember that was the the tape recorder we like caught the ghost on the tape and then we went to hide the recorder and somehow the dog mysteriously got to it. And so, yeah. Anyways, we were scared. Yeah. Wild times.

Anyways, let's get into this week's spooky stories. So I will start with spooky story number one. Let's do it. Here's my spooky story. So there I was in Cabo for my birthday a few years ago. On the last night, I woke up in the middle of the night and saw someone was sitting next to me on my bed looking at me. I thought for a second that maybe I was still asleep, so I kept blinking my eyes to really

wake myself up and see clearly. I was definitely awake and I was definitely making eye contact with someone. I was sharing a room with my cousin, but this was definitely not my cousin. A adrenaline started running through me. I've never fought anyone before, and I knew even if I tried, I'm not going to be great at it. But I thought if I could slowly reach my arm behind me and grab my phone, maybe I could blind this person and then start hitting them and waking up my cousin. I started moving my arm back while keeping eye contact, but I couldn't feel my phone. Eventually, I had to break the eye contact to turn my head and grab my phone. I jumped up with my phone light on, turned back around, but the person wasn't there anymore. I got up and was looking around the room,

but I didn't see anyone. My cousin woke up and asked what I was doing. I told her that someone was in our room. She told me to go back to sleep. Eventually, I got back in bed and fell asleep. The next morning, she asked me what I was doing and why did I think someone was in our room. I told her what happened. I'm not sure that she completely believed me, but we were both glad to be leaving. Later, when I was telling someone about it, we decided to look online for any ghost sightings at this hotel. Sure enough, we found reviews of people saying that they had seen a ghost in that room before and that he seemed friendly either way i don't think i could stay in that hotel again eight out of ten that's an eight out of ten absolutely

on to spooky story number two after both of my grandparents had passed i would often have dreams about my nana but I never really had dreams about my papa it was always a weird experience in my dream because it was like everyone was aware that my nana had passed but she was just visiting it was always seemed like she was visiting me in spirit when she would appear in my dreams and in my dreams I would know that this was what was happening. However, the last dream I had with my Nana in it, she was giving me a phone call calling her spirit.

We were talking about how she missed us and her checking in on us as my mom and younger sister sat with me listening. We were about to hang up the phone call in my dream when my papa's voice chimed in on the call. In the dream, I was so shook to hear his voice because I hadn't heard it in so long and he had never visited in a dream before. He came to tell me specifically to make sure my mom kept an old chest with pictures of him in it. After we hung up in the dream, I immediately woke

up feeling like I literally got a message from my papa spirit. I thought the chances of the message in my dream being real were so slim, so I wasn't sure if I was going to bring it to my mom and ask about the chest. But after about a week, I couldn't get his voice out of my head, so I decided to ask her about it. Within a minute of me saying chest, my mom had pulled out an old suitcase slash chest of his filled with his pictures. I couldn't believe it. I obviously told her she better keep that thing, and I also felt like it just confirmed that my grandparents' spirits really had been visiting me. In a way, as much as it was a weird feeling, it was also peaceful. I feel like that's like a seven. Seven out of ten. Yeah. I agree. Okay. Spooky story number three. When I was in college, I shared a house that was built in 1901

with three roommates. Most of the time, my roommates would leave on the weekends, leaving me home alone frequently. It didn't bother me until the weird events started happening. One night, I woke up in the middle of the night to the sound of running water. I ignored it for a second, thinking it was probably one of my roommates, but then I remembered I was home alone and immediately freaked out. I woke up and walked to our bathroom and found that the faucet was on with the water running. I quickly shut the water off, ran back to my room, and locked the door. I didn't have any history of sleepwalking, and to this day, I still think it was a spirit or

a ghost that turned the faucet on. There were other instances that happened as well. For example, the basement door would randomly open on its own while I was in the kitchen, or there were often times where I'd wake up during the night and feel pressure on the edge of my bed like someone was sitting there. None of my roommates ever believed my stories, but to this day, I know those events happen and what made me believe that ghosts are real. I feel like that one might be another seven.

Maybe eight. I'd say seven. Seven eights. Seven and a half. That's a compromise. All right. Okay, so we can go back now and react and confess. Which one's mine?

But I really needed to react to these ones right away because the first story of the Cabo one wasn't mine but it's eerily similar to a situation that you actually had I literally had an experience like this in Cabo I feel like it's got to be the same hotel I'm gonna look it up after but basically I was in Cabo at the beginning of this year with a friend and in the middle of the night and obviously here's the thing first I want to say I would not be thinking about ghosts on a vacation like this is not what you're thinking last thing on your mind and we've said before you know, we feel like it's always a house or something that

that's what's haunted. So I would never think twice about this. And I didn't at the time either. So basically I woke up in the middle of the night because my bed literally shook back and forth, like to the point where it woke me up. I was shaking in the bed. And so I wake up and the person I was with was still sleeping and so I start googling I literally my first thought was it's an earthquake so I start googling earthquake in Cabo is there earthquakes in like are there earthquakes in Cabo so scary and I'm just like googling all the stuff nothing's coming up I'm like what the hell is going on and so then I got to the point where like I'm laying there and I'm thinking like what else could have been and I start getting that feeling that you know when you feel somebody looking at you oh yeah that I just start getting

that feeling and I'm thinking to myself I hate that in the moment I'm thinking to myself I'm like there's no freaking way I hate that so much I'm like there's no way why would there be a ghost in Cabo like I'm like literally trying to calm myself down like that ghosts don't exist in Cabo like no like that's just not real and so literally I and it was it when I thought when I started having that thought I got even more scared because I'm like the bed what we were in an earthquake before in California and it wasn't like a rumbling it was literally like a back and forth like the bed was being like pulled backwards and then pushed against the wall yes and so then I started like thinking too much about that and I was like oh my god there would that wouldn't have even happened I don't know

so anyways my story was really similar and I really want to look up now the hotel and see if it was the same one but yeah maybe we'll update you if we find anything um so that one was not my story but it I have a similar one and then the second story was my story and so both my grandparents passed away and I did always have dreams about my nana um and again it was weird because it was like literally like she was visiting in my dreams um but this one with my papa when it ended up being true like what he said I would have never known about this chest if I did not have this dream that's so insane to me and so after that I'm like okay what the hell is going on confirmed that like I just got a message I don't know why um but the fact that it was real I was literally like

what a weird feeling even before like that specific dream I always felt so weird about it because it did feel so much like real like a real experience of like being visited by somebody oh yeah and so like when this actually happened and was true, I was like, oh my God, what's going on here? It's a very weird, what you said about like it being like weird, but yet peaceful. I've had people that have passed away in my life visit me in dreams. And it's always really weird because in a lot of cases, like you haven't heard their voice in a really long time. But in the moment, in the dreams, because I've had, like, one of my friends that passed away visit me in a dream. Voice immediately sound exactly like them. But I haven't heard it in so long.

But it's, like, clear as day. Yeah. And it's very, I don't know, it's just interesting. I think dreams are very interesting. That's another topic we could probably go down a rabbit hole about yeah anyway so that was my story but then this third story I kind of felt like for sure we could relate a little bit because at least at MSU I feel like this is in a lot of college towns, but it's almost like all the houses around the campus are so old. Yeah.

And definitely have a little creepy vibe to them. And I don't know if it's because they historically landmark them or something, but definitely. So I used to have to walk Lottie and we would, you know, walk in the neighborhoods past a lot of these houses. And I'm always like, oh oh that's a little scary um and like you know when a house has been around that long it's it's seen some things it's seen too much seen too much because there's i don't know there's a there's a street like that main street i guess a lot of the houses in mount pleasant are very old i lived in one of them and i can confirm it is very unsettling to be there alone or like only one or two other people when it's like these big old houses don't recommend i don't like it yeah i wouldn't want to put myself in that situation again like yeah makes me nervous

you made it we did here we are but yeah so I think next week we'll do the same thing and just not react until they're all red and then react yeah I like this but next week is our last spooky stories episode so make sure if you have any good ones, submit them now so that we can hopefully read them next week. And I don't know if I have any, but I'll try to think of another one. I mean, I guess I could have shared the Cabo one myself. I know. But I just didn't even think of it.

I know. That was crazy. I tried to write that off as like not a ghost story in my head because I was like, nah, that just wasn't it. I think it might be. But it could have been. And so, yeah. So make sure to submit any good stories before this spooky season is over.

And also, I was thinking, which I didn't even really say to you, but for the AMAs, let's make it a little more specific so that it's just easier to address like answer questions so we could do for this one submit some amas about halloween like i don't know any traditions we kind of answered favorite movies this time or i don't know costumes that we've had in the past or anything you guys want to know about halloween ask those questions in the ama um google doc maybe i'll put something on the instagram too just like a question box um because yeah next week's the last pookie episode so we will see you guys then bye everyone bye