Morbid - Episode 701: Spooky Games That Will Ruin Your Actual Life Vol. 4

Episode Date: August 25, 2025

Weirdos, we needed to reset the energy and couldn't think of a better way to do it than talking about some spooky games that are almost certain to ruin your life! This fourth volume definitely shows that sometimes when you play spooky games, you get spooky prizes!Want to read about MORE games?? Purchase 'Dangerous Games to Play in the Dark' by Lucia Peters by visiting https://www.chroniclebooks.com/products/dangerous-games-to-play-in-the-dark.html Stay in the know - wondery.fm/morbid-wondery.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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available now wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, weirdos, I'm Ash. And I'm Elena. And this is morbid. Guys, it's Friday, August 8th when we record this. Portal Energy. I have had the best fucking week this week. No same.

It's been an iconic week. I missed you. We were away from each other. You guys as well. And we missed them. Yeah, and I was including Mikey as well. Oh, yeah, you missed all about it. I was like, we haven't really been away from the listener.

No, I missed both of you. Yeah, I missed both of you too. It was horrible. I said, Mikey's giving the Taylor Swift heart. He said, here you go. But it wasn't horrible. It was horrible to be away for my friends and family. Yeah. It was so nice. Yeah, it was a very nice week. I mean, like, right Monday, it was like, boom. Yeah, I just woke up to like the most beautiful day. Yeah, it really, it was a great day. It was. And I got to hang out with my family all week, and it was just lovely. It was great. Yeah, it was like a very refreshing week. It really was. I did cry because. I love my dog so much this week because we were off this past week and I was just looking down at her and I was like, does she understand that I have to go back to work? And I just, I really started, like, asked Drew, I started like cry crying. That's wild. I think I'm PMSing, but she's so beautiful and I just want her to know that even though I have to work, I love her. Yeah. You know,

she will. That's, Drew said that. Yeah. He said she knows. Yeah. As long as you're kind to them. I get it. I'm so kind to her. Yeah, exactly. I'm like wicked kind to her. Yeah. But yeah, I think it's been a good week. We got a lot of cool. Oh, you guys sold out the motherfucking Wilbur. Insane. Show in a matter of minutes. We got that news today in my head. Holy shit. Sporatically combusted. Yeah. I lost my mind. Truly. And, you know, we're looking into ways that we can, the people who didn't get tickets, because a lot of you have been messaging us or, you know, commenting or anything. and even people we knew we know in life are like hey i wanted to get tickets and so like you guys are rat as fuck for doing that but um we're looking into ways to make it so that you can all

hopefully make it to a show you know like we'll see we'll let you know as soon as we know not a tour yeah we're not doing a tour yeah it's going to be fun i'm excited we have a lot of good ideas up our sleeves we do this is going to be it's going to be fun and maybe another show in the future maybe i don't know who knows i don't know i don't know Who can be sure? Not me. You know? Who can be sure?

Not I. It's going to be fun. And, yeah. I was going to say, I was going to say I have the unlikely storybook event coming up, but like by the time this comes out, that will be far past happening. It was great. I bet you had fun. I bet you had fun. You know what?

I think this is the last few episodes that we will be doing that. So there's that. We'll be far into the past anymore. Yay. Is it going to be great, you guys? we're fucking excited and thank you for being excited for us yeah you guys have that when we announced that we you know found a home at serious you guys were unbelievably incredible yeah like the response was wild it was like beyond my expectation it really was for being so like with us yeah we

know and everybody was saying like we were deserving and like they know like i saw so many people being like, I've been here for like the full eight years, which is, this is my longest career. Yeah. That's crazy. Eight years. Eight years. I can't believe, I don't think we're out eight right now, but we're going into the, we're in the eighth year. Exactly. Yeah. Which is just crazy. But I've seen, I've saw, hello. I've seen so many, I see and I saw. I see and I saw the people. I seen so many people say that they've been here since the beginning and like they just love watching us succeed, which I was like, that's really nice. We're very excited for the future. Interesting enough, our last episode was Big 700.

That's crazy. And we weren't super in the mood to celebrate it at that point, but 701, we're ready. Here we go. 7-0-1. So that's crazy. That's a lot of episodes. Yeah, it's insane. It's a lot of fucking episodes.

It's insane, Madison. It's insane Madison. I've been re-watching all those. things like Southern Charm and all that shit and it is a trip yeah it really is a trip oh also we'll get into it don't worry this is a spooky episode we're going to be talking about dangerous spooky games we're also like in a celebratory mood so it's super loosey goosey we're coming off a week off so we're like silly when we're coming off of that a scorecard killer yes holy hell we need we need a loose goose yeah I need a little loose goose moment and so I just out of nowhere I heard it

This is such a weird way to connect this as well. I heard, the girls were watching something. Okay. And it had good vibrations in it from the Beach Boys. Yeah. Banger. And for some reason when I heard that, I was like, where have I heard that song in like a movie?

And then I was like, oh, the Catfish movie. It opens up with that like child chorus singing good vibrations. One thing about me is I fucking hate a child chorus. Well, the thing is, I was like, holy shit, I haven't watched the catfish movie. Did you rewatch it? I rewatched it.

It hits just as good as it did the first time. I rewatched it. I went through like this period in COVID where I would stay up until like 3 a.m. Like all the time and just like sleep all day. I rewatched it during COVID at like 3 a.m. That shit was genuinely scary. Yeah, it's very, uh. It's fucked up.

It is. And when you rewatch it, you're just like, whoa. Yeah. I got to rewatch that. It was like 15 profiles she was using or something like that. And they were all like family. Yeah, they were all interacting with each other. Like, and then I'm sorry, this movie is just, if you haven't watched the original catfish

movie from like 2008. You gotta. I'm telling you. And I remember when we used to live with like all of our friends in that apartment in Boston, we rented this movie when it came out. The Catfish movie? Yeah. Yeah, we got it to watch.

But we had no idea what it was about because at that point, catfishing was not a thing. No, the movie made it a thing. And that made it a thing. And so, like, we didn't know what it was about. And it was kind of almost billed to us as, like, a horror movie. It is. Like a found footage horror movie. So while we were watching it.

You always think he's going to die. No, we literally, when he shows up at the farm, like, when all three of them show up at the farm in the middle of the night, I remember John being like, oh, it's about to pop off here. Yeah. Like, he was like, this guy. was going to die and then it was like it does pop off but in a way different way not in the way you expect you know what too it's also a very sad movie oh it's so sad it's really sad yeah it is it's i'm telling everything if you haven't watched it it's an incredible watch yeah i like i know nothing after that i just remember that movie really having a certain vibe yeah and it was

really interesting to rewatch so that's just where i'm at right now do you know what i watched the other day you probably never seen it what you know how we were talking about rom-coms the other day yeah i said to drew i go i really want to watch a rom-com and i love um everything iconic with danny pellegrino and his favorite movie is you've got mail have you ever seen that movie you shouldn't i know that movie you shouldn't have you seen it maybe no it's it's it tom hanks yeah and uh megryan it's fucking awful yeah i'm sure it is it's like infidelity from the start which i was like immediately pissed off a lot of rom-coms are kind of based on infidelity or the idea of infidelity.

Yeah, when you really think about it, they actually are. That's why I'm not a huge. It tease me, oh. Yeah. And then the end is kind of stupid, in my opinion. Damn. So if you've ever seen, you've got mail, I need to know if you agree with me. And if you haven't seen it, well, just agree with me.

If you don't agree with me, don't tell me. Only agree with me. I'm in a happy place, okay? Just agree with me. But if you haven't seen it, don't. Don't watch it. No. I'm here to.

kill their careers right now. It's from like 1994. Here's the thing. Parts of it are really cute. At first I was like, oh, okay. Like, oh, oh, oh, and then it just progressively fell off from there. Yeah, I feel like impidelity is kind of just like, everyone's like, isn't it so cute? Yeah, no, it's not.

It's not. It's not. But yeah, those are movie recommendations. And non-recommendations. The fucking catfish. movie is my good feeling washed I'm like go watch this

it's such a comforting movie I don't know what to tell you to watch it's definitely oh wait I wish you had seen any bit of it has anybody watched haunting wives has anybody I need you to watch Elena like a couple of TikTok I'm probably not no no not the TV show

I need you do this at least watch a couple of TikTok clips it's insane I can do that it's insanity and I think I need to finish it because I need to know who murdered who and whatnot. Whoa. But, like, no, that's a thing. There's like a murder as part of it. Not even a spoiler.

Don't worry. I mean, I'm not worried. Don't worry. But it's in, no, it's just insane. So if you're watching it, let me know. Holy shit. And that's our recommendations with Ash and Elena. It is.

All I offered was the catfish movie from 2008. I'm sure you've got more. I do. I'll give some more. But yeah. So there's that. And now we're going to talk about. about dangerous games that you should never play.

Yeah, spooky-ass games. And I feel like always, I got these from like a few different places, mine. Yeah. But there's this one website that I highly encourage you to go to and buy the book. Is it ghost in my machine? Ghost in my machine. They get their information from a variety of sources. The book is amazing.

It's a book on Dangerous Games. You can get it through that website or like on it, you know, you can get it at any bookstore. But highly recommend it. Yeah, we'll link the book in the show notes. We'll link it all again just so you guys can make sure to go to that website. Because they have hundreds and hundreds of entries, all kinds of cool, like, legends and stuff. It's just a really interesting read. So I just wanted to start out by, like, sending you there.

No, it's fun. She'll tell you, like, the history of things and where they came from and, like, what the objective is. She goes really far into it. Yeah, yeah. Is it Lucia? Yeah, yeah. It is Lucia. Yeah.

She's just, like, really good. I got some of my information from there, too. Yeah. So, just another recommendation. See, Alinas are more in line with the show. Mine are all over the place. But that's akin to who we are. That makes sense. Yeah. Do you want to go first? Do you want to go back and forth? Yeah. Let's do that. So the first one that I saw that was very interesting was called, is anyone there? Hello? Hello? God, are you there? It's me, Margaret. That's what it's called. The most dangerous game to play is Connery, and there it's me, Mark. Honestly, valid. Yeah, it is. So this one, have you ever just been, like, sitting around and you've been like,

I would love to meet a ghost? Kind of, yeah. Not just see a ghost, I want to meet one. Yeah. Say hello. Talk about our lives. I kind of, I have that. So, like, I feel like most people have that list.

If you're ever sitting there thinking about it, you want to, you know, you want to meet a ghost or some other supernatural batty, that's the thing. Like, it's supposed to be a ghost, but like, could be a demon. Could something else creep in there? Could be a vamp. You know, you open a door for somebody and, like, three other people walk through, and you're like, I wasn't opening the door for you. Oh.

That's kind of how this is. It's like, maybe you open the door and a ghost comes in. Maybe you open a door and a demon from the netherworld comes in. That's rough. You know? And that's, you need to know that going in. That's the risk you take when you play these games, to be quite honest. This is an ad by Better Help.

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Black cloth that you can use as a blindfold, a watch. You got to be blindfolded. That's fucked up. Which I'm immediately out. How are you going to meet somebody blindfolded? Well, you're just going to have a conversation, you know? The truth is in the eyes. Don't worry.

The blindfold will come. come off eventually but they're shy you know she did like a little you did like the like what's her name from superstar katherine mary katherine gallagher she's shy yeah but yeah maybe they're just shy i don't know but you need a watch or some other you know probably now a phone that keeps time an empty room with a door in it and that door has to close completely it would also be like pretty sick if it locks. Okay. From the outside.

A second room, you need to be able to, like, sit or stand and wait in. So you need two rooms. Okay. So it has to be at 2 a.m. I'm sleeping. I was going to say it's so far past my bedtime. You might be up with kids. I might.

That's true. Hopefully not. But turn off the lights where you are. You have to turn up all the lights. I like dark. Make sure you're in front of the doorway that leads to the empty room. You're going to close that door. And then you're going to blindfold your stuff.

and make sure you can't see a thing. It's already dark. Why you got to do that shit? That's why I'm out. I can't do the blind dark thing. Yeah, that's double dark. That's what we call double dark. Double dark is for real business. That's a lot. So this, the first part of it is called the invitation. Ooh, that's ominous. So again, you're blindfolded. You can't see a goddamn thing. You're going to pick up the salt. You're going to pour some of that salt into your left hand. You can close your hand to hold the salt in there. Then you're going to pick up the knife and keep that in your right hand.

The knife or sharp, by the way. Yeah, holding salt and left hand, knife, sharp objects in your right. You're like pouring things, picking up things, and you're blindfolded. This is a lot of responsibility, and if you can't hack it, don't do it. All right. Okay, because this is serious. Now, you're going to knock on the closed door three times. With your salt hand.

With your salt hand. So boom, boom, boom. And then you're going to say out loud, is anyone there? Reach out again. knock with your left hand three more times and say is anyone there do it one more time left hand knock three times say is anyone there this is a ritual and then you wait and you just wait you may not hear anything and if you don't if you're not hearing anything and you're not sensing anything around you say in the i think this is really polite to be honest and i think it's nice if now is not a good

time i will wait until you're ready you know what that's which is pretty pretty like, that's a that's a therapist adult. That is. That's a

therapyized way to go about things. If you're not, if now's not a good time, I'll wait until you're ready. That's, I like that. That's nice.

And then you go into that second room that you have and you wait. You sit, you sit cross-legged, you do whatever you're comfortable doing. Sure.

And you wait. You keep that left-hand clothes. You do not open your right hand, hold that sharp thing, and you stay blindfolded. And here's the thing. They might need a minute, because you are holding a knife exactly and you did summon them so it's like i feel like if you're

like out of nowhere and you're just like whoa and someone's like hi holding salt in one hand in a knife and blindfolded yeah you may need a second to be like let me just gather myself agree first so you know you're doing that if you keep and again this is if you didn't hear anything okay you don't sense a present you don't hear anything you don't nothing you just go wait so you're waiting there if you keep hearing nothing at all for a while, the ritual failed. Failure. You put the knife down, you take off the blindfold, you get rid of the salts, you turn on the lights, and you keep the door to that empty room closed. Forever? If you can lock it, that would be great. Don't open that door until the sun rises. Oh, okay. All right. So lock it, let it stew. Don't open until the

There's the thing, though, for that's a ghost, they're not corporeal. It's true. As you learn from Buffy, so they might be able to look right through. Well, again, that's if you hear nothing and it failed. All right. So what happens if you hear something? If you hear something, you should, you know, say hello. Yeah, great.

You're the one summoning here. Yeah, you invited them here. Yeah, it's like having a dinner party with no dinner if you don't say anything. So you open the door and you take off the blindfold. And you may see something, or you may see nothing. But no matter what, you say, hello. Yeah. You have your manners.

Yeah, you absolutely do. And here is where you can ask questions, you can talk to them. They have agreed, according to this ritual, to chit chat with you. Yeah. So apparently, now, this all sounds great, you know, except like there's no way to close this ritual out that sounds awful so you like there's no formal way to be like this is over now you should go back to wherever you are coming from so they may just stay oh no I don't like an you can give it a try and be like okay bye now this was fun no but if they're like go fuck yourself

they might stick around I don't like an extended visit yeah and to me that doesn't feel worth it I love a heart out I love a heart out yeah I search my whole life in social situations for a hard out. I'll make up a hard out. If I don't have a heart out, here's the thing. I always have a hard out. I was just going to say the thing about me, I always have hard out. Whether I do or don't, I do.

You don't have to worry about that. Here, no. No hard out. It's pretty soft. I'm not going to do this. Yeah, I won't be doing this. But the blindfold was my immediate, like, it's a no-go for me. I need to be able to see.

Yeah, the multitasking also really threw me off. Sensory deprivation is not my, not my bag. can't do it so I was out immediately when the blindfold came into the situation but I mean I don't and again we don't recommend you do any of these games no do it at your own but you're you're a fucking whole ass adult I assume if you're listening to this so like you choose your own way yeah go your own way it's your prerogative like bobby brown said oh okay we're in different you know what though Bobby Brown said it first fair enough I said oops Fair enough.

Yeah, Bobby Brown said it. And then Brittany Spears repeated it. And it bears repeating again. Oh, Bertney. It's your prerogative. So yeah. So that's the is anyone there game. All right.

Well, I see that. And I raise you the white kimono game. Ooh. Let's go, girls. So this one you have to be really brave to play because it's a one player game. Which yours also sounded. It is. Sort of one player, but then there could be more because you're inviting people over.

Exactly. But this also kind of goes that way, too. So you also need a dark room for this game with four distinct corners. You need a light with a switch that's easily accessible, so like a lamp. Okay. You might want a compass, but it's not totally necessary. You just need to know which direction each of the corners of your room are in. For help, sunrises in the east, sets in the west.

Oh, there you go. Unless you're in the north or south pole, then I don't know what you do. It gets tricky then. Get a compass. Yeah. You have to start after. After midnight, and apparently between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. is the best time to play the white kimono game. That makes sense.

So what you're going to do is you're going to go into your room with your four distinct corners. You only want four. And lucky for you, at this point in time, your light is still long. But you need to make sure that you can turn them off while you're lying on your back in the middle of the room. So think about that. Yeah. Okay. So now you're lying on the floor in the middle of the room. So you focus on the ceiling.

Focus on it. Look at it. Look at it. Look at it. Look at it. And you get ready to play. When you're ready, you turn and look at the north corner, then the west, and then the south, and then the east. In that order, always looking around to the corners.

Do this two more times working counterclockwise so that once you're finished, you've done each corner three times. Okay. Now, once you're done looking around the room, cross your arms and repeat this chant three times. This is Japanese, so I'm going to do my best. On B. Iroki Yama Shironi-Sawaka. Okay. You have to say that three times. Here's the thing.

Nobody really knows what that translates to. I was just about to ask that. Yeah, nobody really knows. So you should probably think about that before you chanted at your ceiling. Yeah, I would absolutely think that one through. Yeah. I did put it into Google Translate and all I got was colorful machine. Okay.

So that could be part of it. That's nice. And it is the white kimono game. Yeah, so there you go. You know. Okay. So if you've decided to go through with the chant, now you're going to picture a woman with long black hair dressed in a white kimono, covered in blood, walking toward you.

Oh. In the beginning, I said, wow, what a beautiful picture. Covered in blood. Covered in blood. Yeah. Me personally, I don't know why you would choose this. Yeah. But that's on you.

Yeah. You make your own decisions. You're an adult. Hopefully. Yes. Bobby Brown, Britney Spears. Can do what you want to do. exactly. So as soon as she gets in front of you, you have to uncross your arms, turn off

the lights, and go to sleep, you cuckoo nut, man. You have to go to sleep? You have to go right to sleep. Straight to bed. What? Yeah, as soon as she gets right in front of you, uncross your arms and go to sleep. Just go to sleep. Turn off the light when she gets like right near you, right over you. No. You have to. No. You got to. You chose this. You chose this. You chose this. Me. So here's the deal. If you see this woman in your dreams, you did everything right. Oh. But don't get too excited because you're not done yet. I haven't been excited this whole time. She is going to try to talk to you in your dreams. I hate small talk so I know. Yeah, you'll be fine. You can't talk to her. Don't worry. You can't say shit. And this is big. Do not tell her your name. Oh, no. Never. Don't tell

her name. Do you know why? No. Oh, okay. I don't know why. It's just a ominous warning. It's just ominous. It's even better that way. Like, we don't need to know why. No, I don't ask questions. I just do what I'm told. Yeah. And also, don't let her get anywhere near your ears. Because if she whispers into that ear of yours, or both of them maybe even, you're done for. You're done for. You're fucking done for? Yeah. If you didn't heed my warning and she does whisper into your ear or both of them, ears, you better wake your ass up right away and check the question. corners of your room. And if by the grace of the sweet, sweet universe, you don't see her and you don't see anything, you're safe, but you can never do this again. I mean, who among us? If you wake up and

you do see a shadow in the corner of your room, you have to turn the lights on immediately and you can never be in the dark again. And if you can't wake up, you died. Oh, my God. RIP, brother. Mine's like, I don't know, you might talk to a ghost. Maybe they'll hang around. You're like, you and you die. I told you, I see your, in the dark, hello, is anyone there game, and I raise you the white kimono game. Yeah.

And you can never be in the dark again, so you just have to remain in the light forever? Yeah, if you wake up and you see a shadow in your room. Sounds awful. Turn those lights on and never, ever be in the dark again. Which will really complicate your life. Yeah, I don't, I'm not going to do this. Because also, everybody has kind of a broad definition of what the dark. of what dark is.

I would assume, like, you can't be in any kind of darkness, anybody's definition of darkness, physical darkness. Yeah. Not the dark, you'll probably be in the darkness in your head because you'll be, like, really freaking out. You'll be living in the diarkness. I mean, realistically, can you close your eyes? That's the dark.

Yeah. You're fucked. Oh, I hate that. Yeah, it's scary. I really don't like that at all. Like we said, spooky-ass games that will ruin your actual life. Yeah, and might actually kill you. RIP.

said like do you guys remember that three kings game i'll never forget that game as long as i live every time i live every time i come across anything about it i'm like that scared me to my core there are so many like little blogs about that yeah that just go on and on and on and i'm like why are people still playing it bucks me up it's scary the idea of that there's so many that we've covered that i'm like yeah what like didn't you did you cover dry bones did i maybe we didn't cover yet. I saw, I actually ran across drybones when I was researching. Like you have to like hide from him. I think I covered like a variation of it because I remember I was reading it and I was like fuck that. I think mine was the shadow man. Yeah I think it's similar to that. Yeah. It's like a variation

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slash morbid. Rocketmoney.com slash morbid. All right. What you got? I mean, mine's not that bad. Okay. You know. So mine's called Charlotte's Webb. I saw this one. It's pretty bad. I mean, it's, it's, it's, could be or it could be okay i suppose i me i'm not trying to do this but um so what we're trying to do here not me but maybe you are trying to get the spirit of charlotte webster to appear yeah who charlotte webster was was a seven-year-old little girl and she lived in the 15th century and her mother was accused of witchcraft and burned at the stake yeah charlotte watched the whole thing and then ran away into the woods and ended up dying in there.

Horrible. Pretty horrific. So, of course, why wouldn't we want to, you know, bring her back? Yeah. You know, why not? Let's ask her some questions. Life didn't mess with Charlotte enough. Let's bring her back.

Let's bring her back. Why let her rest, you know? Yeah. Like she earned it. So what we need for this is you need a room with a pretty large mirror. You need a flashlight. I got those things. You need two chairs.

I got those. A table. I have tables. And a child's toy. I actually don't think I have a child's toy. I have plenty of those. Can I use a cat toy? Yeah, we can work together for this.

I don't think that'll work. Oh, okay. So you have to play with one other person. Oh, okay. I like a group game. Yeah, I like it when there's another person. Or like a partner. You go to the room with the big mirror.

You bring the flashlight, you bring the toy with you. And it should be a toy that a little girl would find appealing. Hell yeah. You sit in the two chairs in front of the mirror. Facing the mirror And you put the table behind you And you put the toy on the table You should be able to see the toy in the mirror

So you look in the mirror And this is very important Because you only have one chance to say this And you have to say it at exactly the same time That's a lot of pressure Yeah, if you fuck it up you don't get to do it again You know what though We would probably be good at this

Because we say things in unison All the time Even when we don't mean to Yes, we would kill it So you have to say at the same time we want to play Charlotte's Webb. Okay. Charlotte is supposed to appear behind you.

Which I hated immediately. I don't like it. And she's going to start playing with the toy if she likes it. Okay. If she doesn't like it. Yeah. If she doesn't like it, she'll throw a, she'll go fucking, she'll do what a seven-year-old does and she'll throw a tantrum. Well, no, so she had a hard life.

She doesn't know about emotional regulation. And also, exactly. And don't give me a fucking, don't summon me back just to give me a shit toy that I don't want to play with. You better get her a Barbie dream house or some shit. You better show up with some K-pop Demon Hunter realness. Her kids are really into this right now. They are. That's a banger of a soundtrack. Okay. Guys, if you, if you, if you, I still have to watch it. If your children have not gotten into it, trust me, it sounds kooky. Because when I heard it, I was like, K-pop demon hunter? Like what is? Yeah. I thought that was like some crazy YouTube thing or something.

It sounds like it. You're not allowed on YouTube. What are you doing? No, it's on Netflix. It's awesome. of a soundtrack. I'll probably watch it tonight. I'm watching them. It's pretty great. All right. One of my kids is going to be roomy for Halloween, so let's fucking go. We gotta order hair and everything. So yeah, so give Charlotte some K-pop Demon Hunter shit. Like really come

to the fucking game prepared. Get one of those like wonder balls, the like mini, and you like open it and there's all these like mini things you can build. Yeah, or like Loll dolls. I just got a Loll Dahl. I think it's all well. I think it's a little. But I love. It should be

It should be a lull doll. You're right. Where was the marketing person on that? You're right. So, well, I just got the girls little wonder ball things that are little books. Shut up. Many versions of real books. That's so cute. They're really cool and they love them so far. I love it. But yeah, get on one of those. Yeah. I'm yelling at you guys. Like, you were coming to the table with some bullshit. But like, I'm just trying to warn you, really bring some stuff to the table here. We're just giving you ideas. Yeah, I don't want her throwing a temper tantrum in your house.

She could destroy your house and she can destroy you. So we're just looking out for you. And one of the main things is she's, so she shows up, if she starts freaking out, you just got to sit there. Don't turn around. Don't look at her. Don't say a goddamn word to her. So you're doing like the opposite of gentle parenting. You just have to sit there.

Yeah, you're doing the whole like, I'm not acknowledging this tantrum. Oh, wow. And you can't look at her in the mirror. Don't look at her in real life. Don't look at her. Don't look at her. Don't look at her. That's what she says when she shows up

She just said, don't look at me And then she starts freaking out But if she likes that new K-pop Demon Hunter thing you bought her Or Wonderball Or Wonderball Or Barbie Dreamhouse Then she'll start playing with it

And that's great Again, do not turn around and look at her Oh so even if she's happy Don't perceive her No, do not perceive her Okay Don't do it at all She does not want that

I don't blame her She's been perceived too much in life So you can just let her do her thing and then you can start talking to her and you can start asking her things but again do not turn around you can ask her questions and she'll answer them to the best of her ability

so you're just like looking at yourself in the mirror yeah you're just looking at yourself in the mirror and you're just asking her questions that'll fuck you up letting her play and the main thing is you have to be nice be nice be polite be gentle be kind if you have any kind of fucking attitude

she's going to be like my youngest and she's going to call your ass out for it. Yeah, she will. She will call you out. She'll make you think about all your life choices. She's like, she's like a COVID baby. Like they are built different. Charlotte is built different. Yeah, she's not going to put up with that shit. She's like a Spanish influenza baby. Yeah, she's definitely not putting into

that. She's before that. She's a black plague. I was going to see. There was some pandemic during her lifetime. Yeah, she's way back there. But so you can ask her the questions, talk to her, have a conversation. You know, like but again be chill and you should really like you shouldn't ask her things that like require her to be like all knowing you know yeah she's playing year old from the 15th century and she's busy yeah she's putting together her miniature so you know you got you got your your answers okay

got your little thing that's fine that's when you say goodbye charlotte oh that's a little bit rude and sudden and she might be like go fuck yourself and she might keep playing if she does keep playing you got to just sit there and wait for her to be done. So you sort of just adopt a child. You did. You're just babysitting a child. Yeah. A traumatized child at that.

Yeah. Who has no emotional regulation. So if she doesn't want to leave yet, you just got to sit there and let her do her thing. And when she does leave, she will just kind of fade back into the darkness. That's pretty darkness. That's pretty fucking metal of her. Yeah, she doesn't like, you know, she doesn't do like a spin kick and then like just. You know, and then just be like, Charlotte, out.

She just fades off. That's a bummer. She should work on it. And the thing is, you can't turn around until she is completely out of view. So if you turn around too quick, shit's going to go down. Yeah, so what happens if you do turn around? That's the thing. Nobody knows.

I don't know. Oh, that's, it's like scream when there's no motive. It's scarier that way. And if we haven't heard what happens, then we can assume that nobody is around to tell us what happens when so that's again if you piss her off she'll throw a tantrum she'll hurt you so don't do it i don't like it but that is the charlotte's web game all right that you might die from that you might die from maybe it's dangerous you could we don't know yeah that's the scariest thing we don't know it's terrifying all right well my next one is not as dire okay it could it could be it's the

picture game hmm i think i've heard of this one it's i kind of want to play this one i'm not going to lie. Oh, damn. This is one that I might want to play. This is Ash who won't be in the same room as a Ouija board. No, it's different. We had a full discussion about this. I know. And I'm sick of you people testing me. It makes zero sense. It makes sense. It's a gut feeling and you listen to your gut. Yeah. And Ouija boards are so much more complicated to close out. You don't know what you're fucking with. No. You don't know what you're fucking with here either, but there's not a lot of steps to close it out. So just listen to me, okay? For this game, you have to start right at midnight. And I like that. I like promptness. Yeah, I love that. I'm not good at.

I was just going to say. No, I like when I'm prompt. I like what I am prompt. It just doesn't happen a lot. Listen, stop coming for my throat or I'm not going to tell you about this game, you two. You just loved a meatball. Shut up. Get out of here.

We both went. I like when I'm on time because it doesn't happen often. It's true. But you have to be on time for this game. Okay, I'm on time. You have to start right at midnight. You're not always on time. Midnight, I can be on time.

Okay. So you'll need. I'll definitely get there. So here's what you're going to bring. You have to bring and prepare a string or a rope long enough to make a big circle by like tying the ends together. Okay. Once you tied the ends together and you have your circle of rope, you're going to set it up in the middle of the room and you're going to place a glass in the center. According to writer Chrissy Stockton from Thought Catalog, Wine is recommended to fill the glass.

But if you can't do wine, just use your own discretion. I don't care where you put in there. Cranberry juice. There you go. A Shirley Temple. A Frappuccino, if you're nasty. Grab all your players and have everybody sit around the rope outside of it. Oh, that's big.

Don't sit in it. Yes. Make sure you can easily hand somebody the camera that you're going to hand them when it's their turn. And make sure that nobody, for any motherfucking reason, steps inside the circle that you made with the rope. I don't know what happens if you do. Again. You go ahead and find out. You know it's not good.

I don't recommend it. Now, once each person is sitting, place a small mirror in front of them facing up toward the ceiling. And then you're going to grab your camera. And you really need like an actual camera, not your phone. Oh, okay. We're going old school. I was just going to say we're kicking it old school. I like it.

Yeah. Now make sure the flash is turned on, turn off all the lights in the room and go sit with the group. Okay. Everybody's going to close their eyes now and they're going to take each other's hands. It's like a little kumbaya moment. Love that. But instead of singing kumbayaa together, one person says, I trust you. And then the next person and so on and so forth until everybody in the circle establishes trust.

Cute. I kind of love it. It's like team building. You should do it with your work colleagues. Do it. Don't. I'm not recommending it. Don't.

So make sure it's stated one at a time, by the way. Like, I trust you. And then the next person goes, like not all in unison. Okay. So now in unison, all time. Together. All together now. All together now. Say, the door is open, please come in. And everybody can open their eyes at that point. Oh, it's a little spooky. This is very spooky. I like it. This is way spookier than Ouija. It's fun though. It feels more fun and more spooky. It doesn't feel as dangerous as Weja. Weja just feels so dangerous to me. See, this feels more dangerous to me because you're literally saying the door is open, come on in. Yeah, but you close it out. You kind of have to say that when you do Ouija too. You open the door. You can just kind of start I don't think you're supposed to do that

I think you're supposed to like actually make it a Well you can close it out but How do you close it out if you never open it? Opening it with such Bigger feels very I don't know I think you're stating your intentions But anyway Now somebody takes the camera and says I caught you

And takes a picture with the camera facing directly in front of them I caught you Yeah you could say it however you want You can say I caught you Oh damn now we're kissing the mom You could say, I caught you. You say how you say it. How are you going to say it?

I caught you. I didn't expect that. Wow. That was so weird. Melissa, the rewatcher. That just came out. He sounds like Molly from the rewatcher. That's who I channeled.

I think I would say, gotcha. Buddy, you can't say. I got to be quicker than that. I caught you. How would you say it, Mikey? I would say, cacha. Gotcha. Gotcha.

Gotcha. So that's how we're all saying it. And then you pass the camera to the next player. And everybody does the same. But don't look at any of the pictures until the game is finished. I won't. So you have to go around enough times for each person to take three pictures. Damn.

If during that time frame somebody starts to feel nauseous or starts crying, you skip them. Skip the stupid baby who's crying. I'm just kidding. So many people are like, oh, I'm out. It's like, nauseous girlie. If my dog comes, I just start crying. I'm like, oh, my God. I hope she knows I love her.

They're like, get out. So it's a poor person that's like, I don't feel good. And you're like, go fuck yourself. You can't take a picture. They have to stay there, but they have to just not take a picture. They just have to shut the fuck out. They sit there, but out. They sit there and nauseate.

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This time, everybody says the farewell together three times. You say, it's. time to go home it's time to go home it's time to go home i like it there's a beginning and an end that also feels very like time to make the donuts time to go home yeah it's a little stepford wivey i like it but then everybody turns their mirrors upside down at that at that point with the reflective part like facing down you're going to go turn on the lights and grab a knife or some scissors just to cut through the ropes you know just grab a knife yeah don't stab anyone yeah and then Pour the contents of the glass outside. Apparently you're supposed to do this on like some dirt. Okay. Now look at you being a brave bitch who just went outside after all that. Look at you.

Look at that. Then go into the safety question mark. The safety. Like the safety, like of your own home. Oh. But I don't know if it's safe anymore. Here's the thing. I know it's not. I can tell you right now. It's not. Safety of your own home. It's like sexy from Rodster. Yeah. Sexy. And we'll explain later. And look at your pictures. A lot. of people see really freaky shit um but it's important to know and this is from the ghost of my machine which we were talking about at the top of the show if anyone playing the game starts to feel sick or they start acting weird and they do take a picture do not look at that specific picture that they took i'm going to look at that picture well you can't there's no way you're going to tell me don't look at this picture you can't look at it you can't look at that picture and you also have to

destroy the camera if somebody takes a picture when they're acting you're not using my camera Well, that's what I said. I wrote this down. I said, definitely think about that going into it because if you break your mom's camera, I don't want her calling us. Yeah, I don't want that shit. I don't want to hear it. No. Also, if anybody says out loud that they're scared or freaked out. Shut up, chicken. No, I'm just kidding. You really should end the game right there or else that person becomes a target. Oh, no. So don't really stayed out loud that you're scared. You know what? Here we're here to tell you to repress your feelings. Don't speak them out loud. For the sake of this game. Nobody wants to. hear them. We don't. Emotions, gross. Not here. Don't want to hear it. Not until it's time to go home. It's time to go home. It's time to go home. And just for the couple of people that will take what I just said very seriously. Shut up. I am kidding. I'm not telling you to repress your emotions. Get out of here. You can say I'm just not during this fucking game. And I mean that. All right, what you got read. I like that one. It's fun. Would you play it? I want to play it. I kind of want to want to. But I also feel like I someone will not feel well I feel it will probably be me it will probably be me and then like if you took a picture I'd be like I just want to see that picture and then you'd have

to destroy your camera it's like curiosity I just wait I'm too curious there's the thing though nobody knows what happens if you look so it could be fine so maybe it'll be fine or it could be really detrimental to the life and safety picture of rod Stewart and everything would be okay and he would say sex is and we would say anything for rod anything for Ron anything for Rod. I think we discussed Rod Stewart on a past episode. I think we did. Yeah, we went to the concert. Anything for Rod. Yeah, anything for Rod. He played if you think I'm sexy. Yeah, we did because we sang it to people. You think I'm sexy. And then I thought the next lyric was, come on sugar baby, yeah. Yeah. But it's not. And I did not correct you when you said that. No, you never do. No, I never will.

I love your own lyrics. My lyrics are always better. They are. They're always superior. Here, so I just let them go. Ice queen. She's so beautiful. She's so beautiful. That one might be my favorite one. I wrote a better song than they did. Okay.

Like, I'm just going to be honest. I did. Humble brag. All right. So I have one last one. Okay, girl. Here, it's called The Answers game. Ooh.

This one isn't like super scary. It's more just like if you want some answers and then like potentially you could invite you know, sinister force into your house. Wow. But that's, you know. It's not guarantee. So yours are very answers coded they are I wanted answers you you're so curious I told you I'm curious so for this you need a small light any kind as long as you can bring it with you like a portable light like a little flashlight candle something like that oh bring a flashlight candle's kind of scary yeah candle could go out yeah you need a watch or something you know phone whatever you need a large flat surface and you need chalk matches are a lighter something too light something else a dish that is fireproof and lots of paper and a dark room okay so it's done after

nightfall so as long as dark no like real time go into a room that is pitch motherfucking black no make it as dark as you can draw shades put stuff over the windows you got to be in a place where you can't see your hand in front of your face you need to walk in that room and say hello darkness my And if you don't sing that when you walk in, the ritual fails. Oh. Yeah, so that's it. I knew. So get on it.

On the large flat surface, you're going to draw two boxes. And on top of one, you're going to write yes. And on top of the next one, you're going to write everybody? No. Are you asking this date to Braun? Will you go to Brommerty? Now use the lighter and burn one paper at a time. and you're going to collect all the ashes onto that dish.

Oh. Do this until you have a shit ton of ashes. Me. Yeah. All the ashes you need. And you're going to spread those ashes to cover each box. So you need enough ashes to cover both boxes. All right.

You're going to light that light that you brought, candle, flashlight, whatever it is. Only that light. Note the time or set a timer for an hour. No more than an hour. It's a long time. Yeah. That's plenty of time. It is.

but like it's very important you sit in front of the boxes and you say i invite you to cross the threshold speak to me oh wait until you feel something you have to feel a presence you have to like actually feel like there's someone or something in the room with you i kind of always feel that way when i'm alone i know i feel that way too so it could be misleading but you need that one little light is the only thing on in that room everything around you should be pitch black and then you'll start feeling something now it shouldn't take a ton of time and after after like close to an hour if you're still sitting there and you're not feeling anything the ritual failed okay you got to clean everything up and you just do like whatever kind of cleansing you really want to okay to kind of get rid of all the

bad yuckies if you do feel something in the room with you then keep going yeah stop now start asking your questions you should come in there with questions you don't want to start feeling something and then be like whoa wait a second what do I say because Because they're going to get pissed and be like, go fuck yourself. Yeah. So many of these entities are like, go fuck yourself if you don't do it right. So come in with questions. After you ask the question, look at the boxes.

If the answer is yes, then the ashes will be moved, like disturbed in the yes box. No, same thing. That's cool. Sometimes they'll be disturbed in both or in none. And that could mean that they're either fucking with you or that they don't have, like, a decent answer for you. Okay. It's like a maybe. All right.

You have to fix the ashes each time if you want to keep asking questions. You must end this game in an hour. Yeah. You cannot go over an hour. Why would you? If you go over an hour, you fucked. I don't want to do most things for over an hour. Yeah, don't do that.

And you thank them. You say thank you so much. Be courteous. For that. And then you say, it is time to leave now, though. But thank you. Really be appreciative. Yeah.

You cleanse the room and shit. and that should be good or there is a possibility that you invited something that is not super awesome they could lie to you yeah they could like fuck you over yeah and they could just stay like there's a potential that when you say bye it's time to leave thank you so much that they're like oh my god go fuck yourself your ghosts really love to say that that is the complication with any of these things and that's usually what turns me away because I don't like ambiguity. I don't want, and I, when I tell you, it's time.

When I tell you, it's time to leave. Get out. I'm done. When I'm done socializing, get out. Do you have a broom? Yeah. Do you do the, you got to do the broom trick. The broom trick?

Yeah. What is the broom trick? I need to make sure I have it right. Let me do a quick Google. It's either you flip a broom like upside down to get unwanted house gas out. Oh, sure. Right. I think it's upside down. I think like the bristles face the air. Shit. How to get rid of our unwanted houseguests with a brim.

Imagine if it's just like you hit them with the broom. They will leave. You start beating the shit out of them. Your house guests will leave if you strike them with a broom. Which, I mean, that is true. I'm not telling you by that, but I'm just saying it would work. Stand it up by its bristles near the door. Oh, there you go. How fucked up would that be, though? You just see someone get up and grab a broom and just place it by the door.

I'd be like, I think it's like nothing magical about that. I think it's just uncomfortability. Probably. That you'd be like, I'm going to go. Listen, that would be it. Whatever it takes. Because you'd be like, whatever's happening here is weird and I need to leave. Maybe they won't even come back after that.

That's even better. Oh, my God. There you go. You'll lose friends. Get out of it. Usually like your friends are okay to stay for a bit. Yeah. Just a little bit.

A little bit. a little bit. But yeah, those are my spooky, scary, dangerous games. Okay, well, I have one more. You have one more. It's a shorty, but a goody. I love that. It's, and I hope I say this right, this is Spanish. So it's El Luego del Libroroho, which translates into

red book game. Let's go. So all you need to play this one is a red hardcover book with no pictures inside. Okay. And you need one red candle. So first you've got to turn off all the lights at the mood. Hell yeah. And light your red candle. Whoever has playing puts the palm of their hand on the book and they ask red book can i enter your game

then with eyes closed they go to a random page and they point out a sentence and the sentence should answer your question but it's sort of up to you to use discretion here i kind of love this one no it's really i would actually probably do this yeah uh it's sort of up to you to use discretion to figure out the answer if you feel like it's a yes then you can start if it seems ambiguous like i said i don't like ambiguity you try again but if it says no then you better not continue playing. You better be like, okay, cool, bye. Cool, sorry I bothered you. Yep. Everybody playing can take turns if they get a yes, passing the book around, asking one question once they've been let in, and you close your eyes, opening to a different page, point at that

sentence on the page, and seeing if that answers your question. I like this. So, yeah, it seems pretty fun to end the game. You have to ask, Red Book, can I leave your game? Oh. And this is where it gets a little dangerous. No, I'm not leaving it up to someone else. Well, you have to if you play this. You can't end until everybody has got explicit permission to end the game. Oh, shit. And at that point, you can then turn your lights on, blow out your candle and go about your life. But if you don't get permission, you just have to keep going. So this could last you a whole lifetime.

Yeah. Wow. You could keep playing this until you perish. Yeah, you could. Whoa. That would really stink. Yeah, I won't be doing that. But there are examples of people who kept playing after the book told them, like, it was time to stop.

And shit got really fucking weird for them. No. Yeah. Don't do that. I read a story about a man who just disappeared. Oh, no. Yeah. Like into thin air?

Gone. He ran into the woods and they never found him again. Oh, no. Yeah. Shit. It had creepy pasta vibes, but I don't know. Could be real. But I like it either way.

I don't like it, but I'm afraid of it. I'm terrified. Also, I didn't fart. That was my foot. I saw you look. I did not fart. I thought he thought it was my foot. Let me recreate it.

See? Recreate it. You know, when you can't recreate it, you're like, I swear! I swear, I started fart! Well, what a good way to end in this episode. We are so happy. I'm so happy! So we hope you keep listening.

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