Morbid - Urban Legends

Episode Date: November 3, 2018

We didn't get baby-faced Jared Leto in for this one but we still managed to trudge through some of the spookiest and truest urban legends out there. We cover everything from Bloody Mary to the Carniva...l Corpse.  Also, I know it was by REM and not Dave Matthews Band. Trust me, you'll get it. Cowritten by Alaina Urquhart, Ash Kelley & Dave White (Since 10/2022)Produced & Edited by Mikie Sirois (Since 2023)Research by Dave White (Since 10/2022), Alaina Urquhart & Ash KelleyListener Correspondence & Collaboration by Debra LallyListener Tale Video Edited by Aidan McElman (Since 6/2025) Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hey weirdos, I'm Ash. And I'm Elena. And this is morbid. Halloween edition. Halloween. Halloweenies. Sam Hayne. I'm Sam and I'm Hayne, but then I didn't understand that.
Starting point is 00:00:40 And it was actually a great exchange that I wish I had recorded because I said the whole thing like, yeah, this is a great idea. And Ash just goes, I don't get it. I was like, I don't understand. And it's actually even funnier because we're recording from two separate places tonight for the first time ever. I know this is new and exciting and scary. It's exciting and scary and it feels really weird, but I feel like so independent. I know it's weird. Like I hit the record button and then I get to end it and then I have to save this whole file.
Starting point is 00:01:12 It's true. You have a lot of responsibility on you right now. I do. It took me almost an hour to figure out how to set this up. Now, let's just see how long it takes for me to figure out. out how to save this damn file. I'm really proud of you, though. Thank you. You got this far.
Starting point is 00:01:27 I mean, we're going. Now, let's just hope we get to the end of it and you're not like, oh. It wasn't recording. No, I'm actually watching it record because I was like freaking out. Also, apologize for my voice that you have to listen to for the next like hour. Your voice doesn't sound that bad though. It doesn't because I feel like it sounds like super raspy. No, it doesn't.
Starting point is 00:01:52 annoying to listen to. No, you honestly don't sound sick. So like maybe you're just lying. Shut up. Like I just, I posted last night to let everybody know why we're a little, little behind on our episode this week. And why no bonus episode came out is because a plague was cast upon our houses. Yeah, all of us are so sick. Yeah. Annie's sick now. She just got it. Oh, no. John already had it. The kids already had it. Everybody has it. So we're back, though. We'll move it on up. Should we dive into some patrons? Yes, let's say thank you to some wonderful patrons.
Starting point is 00:02:30 So we have a custom Patreon this week. Her name is Amy Hall. Hey, Amy. Thanks, Amy. And actually, that's a surprise gift from her fiancé Thomas. I am swooning. I know. I thought that was so sweet.
Starting point is 00:02:44 He wrote us an email and just wanted to surprise her and like make her a Patreon. And they're from Johannesburg, South Africa. Which I was like, oh, that's awesome. So thank you so much, Amy, and thank you so much, Thomas. That is the sweetest thing ever. That was so nice. And like, I just love that couples even listen to us together. I know, I love it.
Starting point is 00:03:07 We're just spreading love everywhere. Yeah, we really are. All over the globe. Seriously. Diving into window-latching coven, we have three window-latching coveners this week. So the coven's getting extra big. We got a big, powerful coven. We really do. We have another Madonna.
Starting point is 00:03:25 Ooh, another Madonna. Yes. And her name is not Madonna. It's just Caitlin. Caitlin. So hot right now. And she spells it like our little niece cousin spells it. Because it's your niece and my cousin. And I think our niece's mother listens to this. So hey Kim. Hey Kim. And thank you so much, Caitlin.
Starting point is 00:03:48 Yes, thank you, Caitlin. Our next one, also in the window latching coven, is Sherry v. Nixon. Hey, Sherry v. Nick. That's a really cool name. That is a wicked cool name. I wonder if she's a descendant of President Nixon. Who knows? Not me. I just like that she's got the V in the middle.
Starting point is 00:04:04 That makes it very official. Very cool. I'm going to start going by Ashley N. Kelly. I like it. Thank you. Well, thank you, Sherry. Our next donor is Darcy Urquhart, and she's in the window latching coven. I've never heard of her before.
Starting point is 00:04:20 Oh, you do? Yeah. Just kidding. It's my mom. She's very familiar. Thanks, Mom. That's Asch's mom and my sister. So thanks, Gus.
Starting point is 00:04:30 Thank you, thank you. Our next category is an even-all-onion, excuse me, evil onion. And we only have one lonely evil onion this week. Welcome, Evil Onion. So let's cheer her up. She's Haley Brady. Thanks, Haley.
Starting point is 00:04:48 Lee? Thank you. I thought you were going to say Haley Baldwin and I was like, wow. Hey, yo. Our next category is our jagged little bitches. I love the jagged little bitches. We have Shannon von Alt who actually upgraded her donation from, I believe she was an evil onion before. She was an evil onion before. And now she's a jagged little bitch. So thank you so much. Thank you so much, girl. And welcome to the jagged little bitches. Yes, welcome to the. That coven. That's amazing. We appreciate that.
Starting point is 00:05:20 They're all covins. And then our last Patreon this week, also in the Jagged Little Bitch category, is Jamie Mathis. Thank you, Jamie. Thank you, Jamie. I love you. I love you, too. I work with a woman named Jamie, and I always call her Jami. And she gets really mad at me.
Starting point is 00:05:40 Because she calls me Osh, and I'm like, what's up, Jom? You're very much an aw. Oh, yeah, so awash. You're very all. So posh. I was just about to say that. We're on the same wavelength. We may be not in the same pod lab, but we are in the same wavelength.
Starting point is 00:05:58 But we are of the same mind. We are kindred souls. We are. So, yeah, so thank you so much to all our new patrons. Thank you. Good things are coming. I promise. Yes.
Starting point is 00:06:13 In fact, some of our listeners have been helping me out with, like, contacting places to get different little goodies to send to the Patreon. So thank you to all our listeners for being awesome and helping me figure this shit out. We have awesome listeners. We really do. And actually, there is a couple of emails that we've gotten recently that will definitely be reading on the next episode because we've gotten some really interesting emails and I want to read some of them.
Starting point is 00:06:41 So I just want to email them and make sure they don't mind that we read them on the air. But so the next episode, we're definitely going to do some reader emails because we've been getting a few of them that are amazing. Ooh, I'm excited because when I got a new phone, I logged out of our email and I forgot to log back into it. So I should probably do that soon. Yeah, so you've just been out of the loop. I've been very out of the loop. Also, I'm just going to go ahead and say it. In my headphones, I don't know where it's coming from, but like there's this weird sound and it's not going away.
Starting point is 00:07:10 And it sounds like very extraterrestrial and I'm afraid. I kind of love that. I feel like I'm like entering another dimension. I feel like it's just, it should be there. I don't want it to be anymore. It's actually kind of like upsetting. Well, I feel like it's like a good environment to have since we're going to be talking about urban legends. Urban legends.
Starting point is 00:07:35 Also a great movie. I don't know if that counts. Do you know who I feel like right now though, actually? and this totally fits in. Wow, actually credit to me for thinking of this. Whoa. Oh, fuck, what's her name? Hold on. Who's the blonde in Urban Legend? Oh, Tara Reid. I feel like Tara Reid because my hair's like a little bit funky and I have like these big recording headphones on. Yeah. What's her name? Sasha.
Starting point is 00:08:03 Yeah, and she has like her own radio show. She does. She has a great radio show in that movie. That's a great movie. Such a good movie. We're definitely going to be watching that for a bonus episode. Yeah, hell yeah. At the end of this episode, everybody turn it off when you're finished and go turn on that movie. I don't care where you are. Because you're going to be in the mood. Yeah, you will. We're talking about ULs today. ULs. Urban legions. Urban legions tonight. Lurban urges. Do you want to hear a fun story actually? Because for once it wasn't me that said something dumb. Yes. I don't know who it was because the story was reiterated to me after the fact, but I was. sitting in the break room at work today in between my shift and the client that I had coming in.
Starting point is 00:08:48 And they were talking about how Whitey Boulder died. And they were saying that somebody said, oh, Whitey Bulder's wife, Whitney, died. And like somebody I worked with said that. Oh my God. It was something like that. And I was like, wow, that sounds like something Elena would say that I said. But like, and I was like I didn't. I like, I wouldn't have actually said it. Yeah, exactly. Wow. Whitney Bulder died. That's really sad. I know. It's so like Whitey and Whitney, R-I-P. R-I-P Whitney. You know, Woody Bultor's like rolling over in his grave, like cursing us right now. Well, you know what, dude? Like, he's lucky he lasted as long as he did, to be quite honest. Didn't he, like, kill one of his wives or something? Yeah, he's strangled a lady. Yeah, that's messed up. He's done a lot of bad shit. Yeah. But Boston, especially coming from Boston, we know that Boston. We know that Boston. Austin was like especially Southie was very split. Yeah. Like I'm pretty sure he asked my dad and he's like, he got the drugs out of Southie.
Starting point is 00:09:51 Like he's old. He's fine. Like dad wanted him let free. Like they were like, let's just let him live his life. He's 80. I was like dad, he's Whitey Bulger. Yeah, like maybe not. Maybe not. I feel like he's not just a harmless 80 year old.
Starting point is 00:10:05 He's Whitey Pulger. Yeah, exactly. There's movies about him. What's not. Right. But yeah, so he's dead. don't RIP. No, definitely don't.
Starting point is 00:10:15 Yeah. And so yeah, I think that's the last like true crime, weird ass update. And maybe you should just jump into this shit. Let's do it. So do you want to start with your ULs? Yeah, I'll start with mine. Sorry if you can hear paper wrestling if you can't edit it out somehow. Sorry to the listeners.
Starting point is 00:10:38 Because I went old school this week. I did more than the basicest amount of research. Yeah. And I wrote down my notes in a notebook. That's impressive. And then teared the pages out. So here we got. Urban legend number one.
Starting point is 00:10:55 Dead guy in a carnival was my first one. I love this one. So. Because this seems like it's not true. This story is actually wild. So in 1976, the TV show, the 6 million dollar man was preparing to film at Pike Amusement Park in Long Beach, California. So they had planned on capturing Steve Austin riding a ride,
Starting point is 00:11:19 or like riding alongside in a car by a ride. And the ride was called Laugh in the Dark. So it had a tunnel where like deep. Yeah, that's like the Are You Afraid of the Dark episode, Laughing in the Dark? Oh, yeah. Or big clowns. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:11:34 That episode is creepy as fuck. I'm acting like I remember that, but I think I was too young for Are You Afraid of Dark. But I liked your enthusiasm with pretending that you remembered that. Thank you. I really tried. A lot of our listeners will know what I'm talking about. I'm like, yeah, I loved that episode.
Starting point is 00:11:50 Oh, my God. That was the best episode. It really was. It was called Laughing in the Dark. And it was about a haunted house carnival ride. Yeah. This fucking kid steals a clown's nose and the clown goes and haunts him and takes his nose back. It's really scary.
Starting point is 00:12:05 Well, that will teach you a lesson to not steal things. But funny laughing in the dark. Yeah. Okay, so the ride was laughing the dark. And so during the ride, like, things would just, like, pop out at you, like, you know, demons, schools, etc. You know. I like it. You know.
Starting point is 00:12:25 So your car also, like, the car that you were in it, so I guess it was, like, kind of, like, a roller coaster sort of deal. It would, like, jump and, like, jolt side to side. Oh, okay. So, like. So it's one of those, like, old school, like, kind of, like, mine shaft rides, probably. Yeah, exactly. Right. So like you're jumping around and things are jumping at you and there's just a lot of jumping. It's a lot. And the club is jumping, jumping. Ladies, leave your clowns at home. Anyways. Leave your dead bodies at home.
Starting point is 00:12:54 Yeah, always leave your dead bodies at home or don't have dead bodies in your home. Bye. While they were getting ready for filming, one employee noticed a mannequin hanging from a noose in the corner. So he went to like pull it down because he was like, why is there a mannequin over there? like, we're about to film. And when he pulled it down, he reached for the hand and, like, the arm broke off, the mannequin's, like, entire arm. And he, like, kind of looked down and was like, wow, what a flimsy-ass mannequin. And, um, when he looked down, he noticed that there was, like, bone in the middle of, like, a bunch of layers of skin. Oh. And I don't see a problem yet. Oh, you don't because, no. The problem is that it was a fucking human arm and a human. And a
Starting point is 00:13:39 human body hanging from the corner. Ah! Isn't that like... So people have just been going by this thing? Apparently. Like in their little mind shaft car being like, ooh, spooky. Well, just going by...
Starting point is 00:13:54 Yeah, it was really fucking spooky because it was real. So this was like a straight up corpse and... Cool. You know, casual. It belonged to a guy named Elmer McCurdy. I knew it. Yeah. Have you heard of him? Yeah, totally.
Starting point is 00:14:09 Yeah, he's like, really popular. No me either. So he was... Did he create Elmer's glue? No, different. He created this fucking urban legend. Oh, good, okay. He, yeah, you know, like really close. He was an outlaw who had died in a gunfight, not too long before this incident, only 65 years before this. Oh, you know. So, like, a hot second before this incident occurred. A quick minute, you know. Yeah. Like a blink of an eye. I literally wrote in my notes, what question mark, question mark exclamation point? And wrote what in all capital letters?
Starting point is 00:14:47 Like I was like, what? So he'd been involved in a shootout with police 65 years earlier after robbing an Oklahoma train. And just in case you were wondering what he robbed from the train, he got away with like a lot. He got away with two jugs of whiskey, which is exactly what I would steal. Wow. And $46. Whoa. Which back then was probably a lot of money because it was like 19-11.
Starting point is 00:15:16 High roller. Yeah. You know, $46 could buy you a lot in 1911. I don't know if it's enough to get in a shootout and die. And end up hanging from a fucking carnival for... Like rock on, Elmer. Sixty-five years. Did you say Rock on Elmo?
Starting point is 00:15:33 Elmer. Oh, it sounded like you said Elmo. And I was like, no. I mean, rock on Elmo too. Rock on everybody. Yeah, just rock on. Rock on in your Elmo suit. Yeah, I'm sure there's an Elmo out there that wants to rock on right now.
Starting point is 00:15:45 Definitely. Okay, so that's what he got away with, and he died during a shootout with police. So, like, the police were catching up to him, and they were like, bang, bang, and he was like, bang, bang, and then he was like dead. Nice. Yeah, I think that's like an exact playback. Yeah, bang, bang, bang, dead. That's how it goes. So.
Starting point is 00:16:02 Not very excited. No, it was just like really chill. Yeah. So they brought his. body to a funeral home in Pawhuska, which I love it. I think is in Oklahoma. But as I'm not the researcher of the year, I don't know because I didn't look it up. Anyways, bye.
Starting point is 00:16:20 So they brought his body there, but nobody ever claimed it. Sad, kind of, you know. But yeah, I mean, like stop stealing ship. Yeah, exactly. He was an outlaw, so. Stop stealing chip. Yeah, you know, that's all life goes. So the Undertaker, who obviously.
Starting point is 00:16:36 was just like a normal guy, saw this as a money-making opportunity. I mean, who wouldn't? Right? You know, I mean, that's what I would do. So do you want to hear what his scheme was? Yes, I do. To get some extra money, he decided that he was going to embalm the corpse and he would allow people to view it if they placed a nickel in the mouth of the corpse. Huh. So this guy was only making nickels. He was making nickels and he was having them put in the mouth of the corpse. So it's like, how are you getting those back? He must just take him right out. I mean, he's an embalmer, so he's used to it.
Starting point is 00:17:16 That's a very, that's a lot. That's a lot to go through just to be theatrical as fuck. Yeah, I really is. So I wrote casual. Very casual. So five years into this scheme, how did it even go on that long? I was just going to say for five years, everybody was like, if you go to this place, you can stick a nickel in a dead guy's mouth.
Starting point is 00:17:38 It's like, if I had a nickel for every time, somebody said that. But this guy actually does have a nickel for every time. Somebody did that. Well, and it's funny because it's like people just walking up to this dead guy putting a nickel in his mouth and then being like, yep, that's a dead guy. Yeah, like you don't walk in away. You don't get anything out of it, right? You're just examining a dead guy? For, I mean, I guess it's only a nickel, so.
Starting point is 00:18:00 Yeah, mine as well. So anyways, five years into the scheme, a carnival worker showed up and claiming, or excuse me, a carnival worker showed up claiming he was a long-lost relative of McCurdy's and he wanted to claim the body so he could finally be put to rest. So he could get all them nickels. No, the undertaker already took all the nickels. Well, you never know. Some could be left in there. Well, this guy. Get clear them all out.
Starting point is 00:18:27 This guy was actually not related to him and he was not laying him to rest. I'm shocked. laying him to rest. That's not what happened. I'm shocked. He saw this as an opportunity to bring this dude to a carnival and just use him as a prop for years and years and years. I mean, there's only a couple paths in life. You know, like, get buried. You either claim a body and respect it, or you claim a body and you put it in a carnival haunted house ride as a prop. You only have two options. There's nowhere else to go. No, that's it. So, you know, 50-50 shot. Should I get buried? cremated or used at a carnival.
Starting point is 00:19:04 Always pick used as a carnival prop. Which box should you check? Always the carnival prop. So they brought it back to the carnival where it made rounds through haunted houses, wax museums, etc. for 60 actual years. 60 actual years. Damn. So it's unclear how it ended up at this particular carnival where they were filming.
Starting point is 00:19:30 but after that whole incident where the man who was filming found it and like ripped its arm off by accident or excuse me his arm off by accident they finally buried him oh that was that's nice of them yeah they were like you know what you've seen some shit i think it's time get the nickels out of that guy's mouth and you know bury him properly okay shake the nickels out of his face reattach his arm stick him in the ground you know it'll all be okay just it's fine yeah it's fine R.P. Elmer. Yeah. So that is the story of Elmer McCurdy. Yeah, who to thunk it.
Starting point is 00:20:05 And also the story of the dead guy at the carnival. You know that story. You know that casual ass story. That old chestnut. It kind of reminded me of like a Scooby-Doo episode. 100%. Yeah, like it seems like it would be a Scooby-Doo episode. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:20:19 So my next urban legend, are you ready? Your next U.S. My next Urban Legion. I'm ready. is waking up at your own funeral. That's a nightmare. Fuck. That is.
Starting point is 00:20:33 Yeah. No. Like, no thank you. Because I have some buried alive moments in mine. Ooh, that freaks me out. Everything about that. I have two cases where it actually happened. So it's not a legend.
Starting point is 00:20:45 It's real. It's not a legend. Most of these have truth in them. Yeah, a lot of them have like some true ass parts. Yeah, we tried to pick ones that have at least a little kernel of truth into them. A little kernel of the truth. Little kind of the truth. Little carnal.
Starting point is 00:20:58 So, um, this name is really hard to say, and I hope that I don't say it wrong. I faith in you. So Fajaloo, Makamet Zayanov, I think. I think that is 100% correct. If not, my apologies. She was 49 years old when she unfortunately really did die. However, she died. after waking up at her own funeral. Wow. So, I mean, shitty, but very convenient. Also,
Starting point is 00:21:32 soups, dupes, ironic. Very. So soups, dopes. It's too much. So morning relatives. But at least you can just close the casket and be like, welp. Well, she done now, so, bye. Dunsky. So morning relatives and friends were walking by paying the respects to the body and were likely stunned and horrified when Fajou, Fasolio. I'm really sorry. When she... Yeah. When she woke up screaming. Oh.
Starting point is 00:22:04 Casual. I'm just picturing that. Like, she literally, like, you're just, like, walking by, and then all of a sudden, the body sits upright and is screaming, aka the person, not even the body anymore. I don't... I don't even know how to react to that. I don't want that. No, thanks.
Starting point is 00:22:20 I would just be like, nope. I'd be like... And I'd just leave. Uh... That would be it. I have to go wash my cat, bye. I have to go take many showers. I've got to go.
Starting point is 00:22:33 And think many thoughts. I've got to go anywhere else but here. Literally anywhere else but here. I have to go breathe air into my lungs outside. I'm running late for something anywhere else but here. Bye. So her husband had, or excuse me, her husband who had first been told that his wife died of a heart attack. after she was brought to the hospital for collapsing at home in severe chest pain,
Starting point is 00:23:00 was told a second time that his wife truly was dead after having lived 12 minutes in the ICU. So she literally came back to life for 12 minutes and then died again? Mm-hmm. So they brought, so when she woke up screaming at the funeral, they brought her back to the hospital, clearly. And she lived for 12 minutes in the ICU and then was again pronounced dead. Did they bring her back to the same doctor that was like, yep, she's dead the first time? Unclear.
Starting point is 00:23:30 Because I would be like, maybe get a second opinion on this one. I'd be like, I'm not having another funeral, so. Yeah, so. So we're just going to go with this. We're going to go as she died first and just pay for the people's therapy bills. So that actually happened to somebody else, too. Oh, my God. Another man.
Starting point is 00:23:52 No, it's so fucked up. Another man, Watson Franklin, Mandujano Dorotio. Whoa. I hope. I hope. He was of a Peruvian city, Tango Maria, and was inside his coffin at his open casket funeral when family members noticed his rib cage rising and falling, aka he was breathing. You know.
Starting point is 00:24:18 You know, as one does. But, aka not when you're a corpse. Oh, this is like, this is what I think I see all the time in the morgue. Oh, fuck that. Like when you stare at someone to long enough, you can almost feel like you see a chest going up and down. So I feel like I would just think my mind was playing tricks on me. I think I would just walk away into the parking lot and drive anywhere else but there. That's my...
Starting point is 00:24:44 You just walk away into the abyss. That's my theme for people waking up at their own funerals. Like, I got to go anywhere else. Bye. I just got to leave. I'm going. Anywhere else. A whole pile of nope.
Starting point is 00:24:56 Bye. Bye. So Dorotio had been pronounced dead by his doctor after experience, or not, I mean, by a doctor, after experiencing fever and chills following a root canal. Oh. So he went in for a root canal. Okay, this could see even worse. Oh, it does. Like, it gets bad.
Starting point is 00:25:19 So. So back to the funeral. So that's how he supposedly died the first time. So he died after a Rukina? Well, he actually didn't. Not really. Well, kind of. Sort of.
Starting point is 00:25:32 So a doctor was immediately called to the funeral and confirmed that Doretio, that he was showing vital signs. So he was removed from the coffin and transferred to the hospital, where he was again pronounced dead. I'd be like, but how do you know? I'd be like, I question life itself. Like, where were these vital signs the first time? And then all of a sudden you see them and now they're gone again. Yeah. Like, are you using the right thing?
Starting point is 00:26:02 I don't think so. Are you using a Fisher Price stethoscope? It sounds like it. Seriously sounds like it. What the fuck. So his family felt that he may have been alive like all along and that he was just sedated as a result of the drugs that he'd been. given for the dental procedure.
Starting point is 00:26:20 Jesus Christ. So hopefully... That's horrifying. His family never went to the same dentist as him is my takeaway. Yeah. Yeah, that's my takeaway. And hopefully that poor family never had to go to another funeral ever again. Oh, my God.
Starting point is 00:26:36 Like, I would never want to go to whatever again. I'd be like, you know what? I just wouldn't. I'd be like, so I have PTSD and I can't go. RSVP, no. Yeah, I have PTSD from this. Um, my... My third and final Urban Legion is the best.
Starting point is 00:26:53 I saved the best for last. Yeah. Okay, so dead body in the swimming pool. Oh, fuck that. For repeat. I am not a swimmer, so this is just going to keep me farther away. I was like, aka the reason why I'm all set with public pools. Exactly.
Starting point is 00:27:10 No thanks. So this actually happened in Fall River, which is not too far. River, Massachusetts. From our neck of the woods. So, yeah, there's, like, a few things I don't want to find in a pool, and dead body is, like, at the top of the list. Yeah. Like, I'd say, like, right up there with poop.
Starting point is 00:27:28 I was just going to say that. That was my next joke. Yeah. But um, shh. Right up there with poop. So, unfortunately, some Fall River kids were not so lucky. And so they snuck into the public pool to just, like, have, like, a late night swim or whatever. Like, you know, kids do stupid shit.
Starting point is 00:27:45 night swimming which you never are gonna want to do again so they are approaching the pool getting ready to dive in I'm about to diving that's a song I was like I don't even know that one yeah I think it's true songs
Starting point is 00:28:03 I think mine was Dave Matthew's band why what did you say night swimming deserves this quiet night I didn't even realize that was Dave Matthew Yeah, it's a Dave Matthews fun. Oh, I thought that you were just like talking. I'm just, making up beats over here. Yeah. Yeah. You know me. So it turns out that that was the body of a woman named Marie Joseph. Oh, man, Marie.
Starting point is 00:28:35 So Marie had been rotting in the pool for almost three days. In the public pool for almost three days just below the surface where people had been like unknowing. Marco Poloing the shit out of their lives. Oh. Yeah. So people were swimming in the pool that she was founded. They were swimming in a pool of future faction. Talk about...
Starting point is 00:28:58 Talk about some fucked up shit. Talk about some PTSD. Shit. That water must have been cloudy. It was. You thought you were afraid of swimming? Oh. Nope.
Starting point is 00:29:10 You ain't got no reason, honey. These kids got all no reason. You know what? Probably, I mean, that's a double whammy, too. It was pooping there. That's for sure. Oh, yeah. Don't hit the poop pipe kid. Yeah, three days. That's happening. So, yeah, like I said, it belonged to 36-year-old, which is really sad. Woman, Marie Joseph. She'd been chaperoning at the pool. And it's, like, unclear what happened. I guess she just drowned, like, somehow. And, like, no one knew. And no one knew, yeah. So her friends thought that she, had just like left. Like she was there with friends. And they were like, oh, maybe she just left. Like, that's weird. And then three days went by. And they were like, huh? They were like, that's weird. And then these kids found her in the pool. And people were like, what? So,
Starting point is 00:30:02 apparently this pool also had like a 12 foot deep end, which is like pretty really deep. Yeah, that's really deep. Right. And also it's like six feet usually. Yeah. Like double. The, I think like the deepest pool that I've ever like knowingly been in was like eight feet deep. Yeah. Which is, I mean, and even that is like wicked deep. Like 12 feet. 12 feet is crazy. Yeah, no thing because I don't want that.
Starting point is 00:30:26 So apparently no one enjoyed cleaning the pool that much anyways. And the life. Yeah, apparently. Well, the lifeguards never noticed her at the bottom. Oh, my God. Of the pool. So it must have been, that must have been disgusting water. Oh, it was murky-ass water.
Starting point is 00:30:39 And if that wasn't bad enough, um, to. most likely now since fired health inspectors stopped by the pool to like just check it out while she was in while she was in there like rotting. So a day after they need to be fired. A day after she had gone missing they like went to check the pool out and they didn't see anything
Starting point is 00:30:59 but she was rotting in the deep end. Did they just go in there and be like yep that's a pool? Bye. Yeah. I don't know. So. They just didn't notice. And that is your urban legend of why you should never fucking pee in the pool. Because it's rude. And don't get in cloudy-ass public pool water, guys. You don't know what's in there.
Starting point is 00:31:25 No. There can also be crazy parasites and shit. There probably was in that one. Oh, that gives me the hebes. The hebes. The hebes. Well, you definitely ended on a high note. Thank you.
Starting point is 00:31:39 I tried. And by high, I mean. very, very low. I ended on a deep note. You did. But um... Okay. Well, I'll bring us back up with mine.
Starting point is 00:31:54 Don't worry about it. Totally, I'm sure you will. All mine are very fluffy. Yeah, totally fluffy. For Halloween, we wanted to be as fluffy as possible. Super fluffy. So, um, I have a few more than Ash had because Ash was very busy and I didn't want to overload with research.
Starting point is 00:32:10 Because Ash doesn't like to research. search. But I really, really tried. You know, you just got to bring out all the, all the good shit for Halloween. Exactly. I really wanted to contribute. We're all going to town here. So, so my first U.L. is the urban legend of the clown statue. Oh, I hate clowns. You might know this one. This one, I'll give you the little urban legend first. The urban legend is a babysitter calls the parents of the children she's babysitting for. The children's father answers, and she asked them if they would be offended if she put a sheet over some kind or like some kind of cover up over the clown statue that's in their room because although she appreciates their weird unique artistic taste it kind of
Starting point is 00:32:55 freaks her out there's a beat of silence on the phone and the father replies take the children and get out of the house now we do not have a clown statue in our house what i just got chills right you had to give you the heaps you had a better setup than me sorry i was just like here I think there's just spookiness running through my veins. I guess so. Although there's no specific case of this exact scenario happening, it does have some real life kind of like counterparts. For instance, I think we've all heard of John Wayne Gacy,
Starting point is 00:33:30 who dressed up as Pogo the clown in his free time. And the image of this is completely infamous and wholly nightmarish. And obviously we're going to get into John Wayne Gacy in a future episode. and we'll go way deep into it, but obviously he was horrific and prolific serial killer. And even now, we still get those random explosions
Starting point is 00:33:53 of clown sightings all over the place. You know, they always crop up in some place and they will experience, like, weeks at a time, sudden invasions of creepy clowns just staring at people or... Ugh. Some of them even try to chase people. I hate clowns so much.
Starting point is 00:34:10 This phenomenon is actually cited as beginning in Boston. Did it really? Yeah. According to Lauren Coleman's Mysterious America book, it apparently began in 1981 when reports started flooding in about men dressed as clowns who were trying to lure children into their vans in Boston. Hate it. So that's where the sudden weird phenomenon of where the fuck did all these clowns come from begin.
Starting point is 00:34:35 And the clinical term for fear of clowns is called colerophobia. I have it. It is also surprisingly widespread, especially among children. Really? There was a 2008 study done by the University of Sheffield in England in all of the 250 children that were surveyed in the study said that they did not like the clown images that were part of the decorations in the hospital they were in.
Starting point is 00:35:00 Oh, wow. Yeah. So this whole urban legend obviously hinges on the fact that clowns are nightmares and no one likes them. And then to imagine when inside your home without you knowing is, horrific. It's so weird. The whole part of it, this part in particular, the whole idea of someone waiting in your house while you're
Starting point is 00:35:20 inside of it, kind of harkens back to BTK, which again, we will cover, even though I fucking hate BTK. He actually waited inside of some of his victim's homes all day, and even when they arrived home, he would hide in a closet and
Starting point is 00:35:37 just wait for the perfect time to pop out. That is literally so fucked up. Right? Like so far. That's why I check every closet before I go to sleep. Yeah. So yeah, that's the clown statue, urban legend. The next one is a lot more people might know this one.
Starting point is 00:35:55 It's the vanishing hitchhiker. So this legend usually says that there's a good Samaritan driving along the road, sees a man or a woman hitching on the side of the road. They pick them up and either poof, they're suddenly gone, or sometimes it takes it a step further and says they gave them. them a ride home, only to find out from the homeowner that this particular person passed away sometimes years before. Spooky.
Starting point is 00:36:20 So again, because Massachusetts is spooky as fuck, we have our very own infamous vanishing hitchhiker in the Bridgewater Triangle. On Route 44, right? Yeah. We call him the red-headed hitchhiker. He not nice. He's not nice. He doesn't, I mean, he's spooky.
Starting point is 00:36:37 He's spooky. He's spooky. down Route 44 in Rahobith, Massachusetts. And obviously that is part of the Bridgewater triangle. His description is always the same. It varies very slightly, if at all. Someone is always driving near the Rojobith slash Seacconk line. And they come across a well-built somewhere between the ages of 45 and 55-year-old male. He has signature red hair, which is usually accompanied by a beard. He is said to be wearing a flannel shirt and jeans or work pants and work boots. Some people see him as very well put together, very clean. And then other times people will see him and he looks
Starting point is 00:37:18 disheveled and kind of like he just worked a really hard day. Either way, he's always described as wearing those clothes and he always looks the same. Now, when you pick him up, one thing that happens is he doesn't talk to you. He gets in the car. You might ask him a question or two, but he will not say a word to you. Some people say he just stares at you, which I'd be like, cool, cool, cool. I'd be time for you to go. But eventually you turn to look at him and poof, he fades away. Now when he fades away, he either laughs at you, taunts you, or screams at you. I told you he not nice. Which is not cool. No. There's also people who see him on the side of the road and he'll just wave and disappear, or he'll just go to walk into the woods and disappear before he gets there.
Starting point is 00:38:04 Remind me to never drive near there ever fucking again. And the worst one is some people say that they will be driving in the area and he just appears in their backseat for a hot second. No thanks. Exactly. I am all set. Shouldn't there be like some kind of rule where it's like if I don't invite you into my car, like even if you're dead, you can't come in? I know. That should be the rule.
Starting point is 00:38:26 Like we should live in a polite society, guys. It's like we should cover this at some point and that's why we drink has a really good episode on the Black Eyed Children. That's a great topic. For sure. I just gave my own self chills, just saying. I know, I did too. Yeah, it freaks me out. That just stressed me up.
Starting point is 00:38:44 Yeah. Yeah, we're definitely going to be covering them for sure. And we'll eventually, like I said, do a deep dive into the Bridgewater Triangle on an episode. So some of these stories will come back, but would definitely with more detail. So yeah, that's the vanishing hitchhiker. Freaky. The next one everybody knows. Bloody Mary.
Starting point is 00:39:04 You know I did this when I was younger? I think everybody did. Yeah. I was so scared. It's just part of growing up. No, it's horrifying. Like, don't do it. It's like, you know, add a sleepover, you go into the bathroom, you're supposed to take a lit candle,
Starting point is 00:39:22 I think just a single lit candle, and say her name three times into the mirror with all the lights off. Now what's supposed to happen kind of varies. Either she appears and just scares the shit out of you because she's coming. covered in blood, or she tries to drag your ass away. It can be a number of outcomes, but no outcome is good. It's never fun. Yeah, it's never a good outcome, so don't do it. Now, where did this come from?
Starting point is 00:39:46 Well, there could be a few different Marys that you could be meeting in the mirror when you do this. One point of origin could be Queen Mary the first. She was historically known in her life as Bloody Mary, because she was responsible for the deaths by burning at the stake of nearly 300 Protestants to make sure England stayed as Catholic as possible. So they called her Bloody Mary, which is one of the most metal nicknames ever. It really is.
Starting point is 00:40:13 Like if your name is Mary, just start going by Bloody Mary. Do it. I mean, don't start burning Protestants at the stake, but take that nickname for sure. Mary wasn't able to produce an heir or have any actual pregnancy, unfortunately. She did have a few phantom pregnancies. One of them was so real that they thought she was going into labor
Starting point is 00:40:33 and they were just like, oh, just kidding, you're not pregnant. What? Yeah, which is a phenomenon that's really interesting. But she had a few of them and actually ended up dying in the middle of one. So her version sometimes requires the person to say into the mirror or Bloody Mary, I have your baby. Oh. Which is just rude. I was going to say that's just like sad.
Starting point is 00:40:53 Like don't taunt an infertile dead woman. Yeah. That's just not chill. They're typically not in the highest of spirits. No. And you just don't need to go there with your spirit games. I would do the same thing. dragged them somewhere. I was scared of piss out of them. Now, it could also be Mary Queen of Scots.
Starting point is 00:41:08 She didn't directly cause any bloodshed, but she definitely had some shit happen around her, and she met a pretty grisly end. So she married her cousin. Woof. Never a good plan. Yeah, that's not recommended. She married her cousin, the Earl of Darnley, and he ended up being stabbed 56 times in front of her while she was pregnant with his child. Oh, wow. So, Bum City. Very bum city. People immediately see. started pointing fingers at her like she did it even though she didn't so she had just ended up fleeing with her infant son john who would later become the king of england fun fact because everyone was just like you did it burpeter so when she got to her cousin queen elizabeth the first crib
Starting point is 00:41:48 liz was just like uh and had her thrown in jail because she didn't want to deal with the bullshit that an uprising would have brought with it so she was like you know what let's just get rid of this real quick can you blame her yeah she was like i got shit to do i'm queen elizabeth first So Mary Queen of Scots ended up being imprisoned for 19 years. Wow, that's a long time. Yeah. And eventually she was beheaded, but it took several passes to do the job. What?
Starting point is 00:42:13 I think it took like three or four passes with the sword or axe, whatever they used. So that's rough. Because there was clearly a very unskilled executioner on shift that day. Even worse, somebody, like the executioner's assistant or something, went to lift her head and yell long live the queen, as one does. But he grabbed her red wig and her head fell to the floor and like rolled away. She had a wig? Yeah. Oh.
Starting point is 00:42:39 Most, a lot of them did have a wig. Damn. But that's just rough times. Yeah, that's just like humiliating. I would have been really pissed. So, yeah, well, that's the thing. It's like degree. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:42:49 So it definitely could be her. I wouldn't blame her. And there's also a woman that's cited often named Mary Worth. But there are so many variations of her story that it's kind of bullies. shit. It's like she's a witch. She wasn't. She's this. She's that. It's just I'm banking on it's Mary Queen of Scots or
Starting point is 00:43:10 Mary the first. So yeah, that is Bloody Mary. And my next urban legend is the Halloween decoration that turns out to not be a Halloween decoration. So it's kind of like your carnival one,
Starting point is 00:43:26 but kind of not. I was going to say. You're like, wait a second. I already did that one. I was like I did it. I did it. So this one is, you see a body hanging from someone's tree on Halloween? Turns out to be an actual dead body as opposed to a mob halarine decoration. No, boy, no. No.
Starting point is 00:43:46 That reminds me of the scream, like the first scream when Casey's hanging from the tree. Oh, yeah. You'd be like, that's a grisly Halloween decoration. Wow. That's really realistic. Very well done. Distasteful, but okay. So this actually happened in 2005.
Starting point is 00:44:04 Did it really? Yeah. In Frederica, Delaware, a 42-year-old woman climbed to a branch more than 15 feet in the air to hang herself at about 9 p.m. just a few days before Halloween. For several hours that night and then throughout the next day, the hanging body was very visible to everyone passing by. Literally, it was in the front yard of someone else's house. Oh, my God. It wasn't until around noon the following day that police were called when they realized it was a little too realistic. Turns out she did intentionally commit suicide.
Starting point is 00:44:42 I'm about to be checking all the trees tomorrow morning. And that is like, that's gnarly. Like, a few days before Halloween, you do that in someone's front yard where you know people are going to see you? Like, that's very metal. That's metal and like a little scary. In a scary way. Yeah. Yeah. That's black metal.
Starting point is 00:45:03 Yeah. That's death metal. That's death metal. So yeah, that one's real. So that's fun. Wow. This one kind of goes along with this one, but it's a little different. This one's the haunted house hanging decoration. That turns out to be a real person. So it's, again, another variation of yours. This tale is that a haunted house decides to go for the realism angle and uses a real dead body to hang from a noose among the props.
Starting point is 00:45:30 There is a real instance of this, but it doesn't pan out exactly the way the urban legend states. In Fenton, Montana, there's a haunted attraction called Creepy World, which is like super original news. On October 27th, 2011. Oh, damn, not that long ago. Yeah, not long ago at all. A 17-year-old actress in the haunt somehow slipped herself into a prop noose that was hanging over a bathtub. She must have slipped on the edge of the tub and began to hang herself. accidentally as people walked by all night thinking she was part of the show.
Starting point is 00:46:05 Oh my God. They found, yeah, they found shoe prints and scuff marks on the wall in the tub around her. So she was obviously struggling for a while. Oh. And luckily, a maintenance guy was checking the electrical work in the haunt like between groups. Yeah. And found her unconscious and hanging there. Oh, my God.
Starting point is 00:46:26 They all cut her down and she ended up surviving. She was unconscious. They brought her in, like, she had to go to the ICU. She was a while, but she survived. Thank God. So, yeah, and they said it was, it was just a horrific accident. Like, it wasn't intentional. So I think she was, like, supposed to be set up on the edge of the bathtub, and she was wearing, like, a white bathrobe or, like, a white bath towel. And she must have just, like, maybe tried to do something funny and, like, slip her head into it and slipped. And it actually, like, tightened around her.
Starting point is 00:46:58 Damn, that's really messed up. Thank God she lived. Yeah, it's like a nightmare. I know. So moving on from that urban legend, we're going to move into something a little different, which is a decapitation awareness. Okay. Urban legend states that a human head could remain aware for several seconds
Starting point is 00:47:16 after being decapitated from the body. Well, this isn't totally proven yet because it's weirdly kind of tough to get study this because we can't just go about chopping people's heads off. Why? I know. I don't know. Why don't we just ask a dead guy? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:47:34 That's what, I mean, everybody makes things so difficult. I mean, just like, come on. It's like, let's just give it a shot. One in one is two, you know? You know? It's one of those situations. I'm going to say that about everything now. It's true.
Starting point is 00:47:47 One and one is two, you know? Always, always. Every time. Every time. So that totally connects to this. I get it. Thank you. Well, luckily, luckily, I say, not luckily.
Starting point is 00:48:01 There is evidence to suggest that it is possible that decapitated heads sometimes know what the fuck is happening a few seconds after the fact. That's kind of cool. It's horrifying, too. I mean, it's fucking terrifying. It's cool in the most horrifying way. Yeah. An example of a study of this, Dr. Bureau, I think his name was, who conducted an experiment. on a French murderer named Languil.
Starting point is 00:48:29 Supposedly. So this guy, Languil, went to the guillotine because he was a murderer. And the doctor was like, I'm going to attend the execution, and I'm going to write down what I see. Because he just, he wanted to see, like, what the fuck goes on. So supposedly, after he was guillotined, Languil's eyes and mouth continued to move for five to six seconds, at which point he appeared to pass on.
Starting point is 00:48:53 Now that you can just chalk up to, like, nerve, bending, shooting off and stuff, you know. Right. Like non-voluntary movement. But then when Beiro shouted his name, his eyes popped open. Like to answer. Like to look at him, like what? What?
Starting point is 00:49:09 It gets worse. In Bureau's own words, quote, Languil's eyes very definitely fixed themselves on mine. Then the pupils focusing themselves. So then for the next 30 seconds, he kept trying to get him to look at him. Yeah, he kept it. So for 30 more seconds, he got him to look at him one more time when he shouted his name. He shouted his name a third time and he was finally dead. But he said that the look he gave him when he actually looked at him when he called his name was like somebody had interrupted, like when you're in deep thought and somebody interrupts you like the glare you give them. Like what? Wow. Like, yeah. That's wild. Which gives me all the chilly willies. Yeah. No, there's also like a sign. I'm in deep thought about you cutting.
Starting point is 00:49:54 my head off so yeah like he's just sitting there being like really yeah that's messed up and then he's like what dude um so there's also like a sciencey one which i thought was interesting a chemist named antoine lavasierre was one of the greatest french scientists doing during the super gnarly french revolution when everybody was just getting their heads chopped off and shit so that's unfortunate unfortunately he was also an investor in a private tax collection company and had a clash with one of the leaders of the revolution Jean-Paul Marat so all of that basically meant that he had to be guillotined oh you know you know it's just the way shake went yeah it's just the way the cookie crumbled it's just like one and one is always two one is always two you know what it's the way that the croissant crumbs
Starting point is 00:50:51 Same. This is French. My little croissant. My little croissant. That's a French ass name. That's a French ass name, Yvonne. If you don't know what I'm talking about, I hate you. You need to go YouTube that.
Starting point is 00:51:03 If you don't know what we're talking about. Just type in, that's a French ass name. My love croissant. So, yeah, he had to go to the guilty. Unfortunately. Sometimes you got to go. He was executed on the 8th of May 1794. And the cool thing about that.
Starting point is 00:51:21 him was he was dedicated to science even in the end. Hey-oh. He managed to participate in one experiment even during his death. He promised that after his beheading, he would keep blinking as long as he retained his consciousness. Oh, my God. And he asked his friend to watch him and record this if he did it because he said, I'm going to keep blinking. How long did he blink for? He reportedly continued to blink for 15 seconds.
Starting point is 00:51:49 Holy shit, that's a long time. Like kept blinking. And that's not just like a coincidence that he's like, I'm going to blink. No way. And he keeps blinking. So that's fucking terrifying. Now, this whole thing can be attributed to something called the quote, wave of death. Which immediately after the head.
Starting point is 00:52:07 It's pretty gnarly. It happens immediately after the head is removed from the body. They've done tests on lab rats, unfortunately. Oh. Test this out. Because oftentimes the way they euthanize lab rats is, by decapitation because they think that's the most humane way because it ends really quick.
Starting point is 00:52:27 Right. Or so they thought. Supposedly. But they were starting to see in these lab rats that all of a sudden there was this surge of brain activity that can cause the head to be aware and actually produce thoughts right after being removed. Damn. You can take in like auditory and visual things as your head is removed.
Starting point is 00:52:46 And it only stops after the brain is sufficiently. starved of glucose and oxygen long enough to die. So this provides basis for the argument that you could kind of, your head could kind of be saved if it was supplied with glucose and oxygen. Lava beep bananas. Isn't that bizarre? Yeah. I mean, I'm not saying you'd have, you could do anything, but technically it could still be alive.
Starting point is 00:53:12 That's like so weird to think of. Isn't it bizarre? Yeah. Because you think it like, I always say decapitation freaks me out. Me too. We were talking about the Gainesville Ripper. Yeah. That one's instance, it's like removing someone's head just seems like the most barbaric and scary thing you can do.
Starting point is 00:53:30 Because it just takes away the person. It just seems very inhumane. It is. It does. And at first, like, the guillotine to me always seemed like very humane. Like, at least it's quick and clean. And is there a humane way to die? I don't know.
Starting point is 00:53:46 Not really. But if you can start, if you can see. And I think there's like, there's also situations where like, I think Anne Boleyn was said after she was beheaded to like her lips were still moving in prayer. Yeah. And it's like, there's a few others. There was a woman who after she was guillotined, the guy, because they always held up the head and did something awful. Like, they were always just dicks about it. And I guess the guy who held up her head slapped her cheek and said something.
Starting point is 00:54:14 And people watching, like, it's in the history records that it says her cheeks flushed. she looked angry. Oh, wow. Like she made an angry face. Which, can you imagine the decapitated head making an angry face? No. Like, when the face was like one, like a different expression right before. Exactly.
Starting point is 00:54:31 It's like, nope. I would make a duck face. I'd be like, like, if I had 15 seconds to prove that theory, that's what I would do. I'd be like so scared because I was about to die. And then I'd just be like, hmm. Before you go, you'd be. be like, all right, so watch me. And if I start making duck faces, I'm conscious. And right now, Ash is making like a million selfie, rogue faces. I love it. Amazing. So yeah, that's decapitation
Starting point is 00:55:05 awareness. Hey, oh. Sounds like it's like a week. Like decapitation awareness week. It should be a week. Where we educate you on decapitation. So I only have like two more. left and they kind of have to do with each other. Okay. The next one is buried alive. The worst. The fuck does that have to do with? Well, the urban legend says that a woman who went to her grave, like a young woman,
Starting point is 00:55:36 who went to her grave after dying suddenly. Usually a family member has some kind of dream or feeling or vision that this woman isn't dead yet. They dig her up to ease this person's fears or to prove that she's fucking not. and they find scratch marks on the inside of the lid of the coffin. I hate that. Dun, dun dun dun.
Starting point is 00:55:53 So the medical term for the fear of being buried alive as a result of being incorrectly pronounced dead is tapaphobia. Okay. Definitely have that. Unfortunately, this liberal legend has proved to be true. There was actually an instance recorded in the New York Times on January 18, 1886. In Woodstock, Ontario, it says, this is what the news clipping said. Recently, a girl named Collins died here, as it was supposed very suddenly. A day or two ago, the body was exhumed prior to its removal to another burial place.
Starting point is 00:56:34 When the discovery was made that the girl had been buried alive, her shroud was torn into shreds, her knees were drawn up to her chin, one of her arms was twisted under her head, and her features bore evidence of dreadful torture. And that was like a real news clipping. No, thank you. Now, in 1905, the English reformer William Teb collected accounts of premature burial. He found that in 219 cases of near live burial had happened. What?
Starting point is 00:57:06 149 actual live burials had happened. 10 cases of live dissection happened. And two cases of awakening while being embalmed happened. What? Also, live dissection, goodbye. Yeah, no. Not about it. That would be rough.
Starting point is 00:57:24 I'm telling you. That's always my fear. When I go to cut into someone, I'm like, hello? There should be, like, tests. Like, you should just like... Speak now or forever hold that piece, girl. For real. Or like the opposite of peace.
Starting point is 00:57:39 We always know everybody's dead before we cut them just as a piano. I sure hope so. We do. It's modern medicine and all. So, like I just said, this was all before modern medical science. So checking for vital science was not something they could really accurately do back then. It was just super archaic. So someone could look and appear dead, but not actually be clinical dead, which can happen now.
Starting point is 00:58:06 Right. During these times, like the 18th, 19th, and even the early 20th century, people actually had their coffins outfitted with safety precautions. like bells and shit just in case they were prematurely entombed. I would do that shit. I would do that now. The first recorded safety cofton was Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick, which is an awesome name. Hell yeah. Before his death in 1792, he demanded to have a window installed to allow lighten,
Starting point is 00:58:38 an air tube to provide a supply of fresh air, and instead of having the lid nailed down, he had a lock fitted. and then in a special pocket in his shroud he had two keys one for the coffin lid and one to unlock the tomb door oh my god he was like let's do this but did he actually actually die he did yeah he didn't have to use all his shit but he was ready that's good it's better to be ready yeah i mean better safe than sorry now so in 1798 pg pezzler a german priest suggested that all coffins must have a tube inserted from which a cord would run to the church bells. So if an individual had been buried alive,
Starting point is 00:59:19 they could tell people by ringing the church bells from their coffin, which I think is a pretty good one. Now, this one's pretty rough. Pessler's colleague, Pastor Beck, suggested that coffins have a small trumpet-like tube attached, and each day the local priest could check the state of putrefaction of the corpse by sniffing the odors emanating from the tube. Ew, imagine having that job?
Starting point is 00:59:45 Like, what? So if no smell was smelled or the priest heard cries for help in the coffin, they could dig them up. That'd be like the priest in training. Yeah, that would be like the bitch priest. Like, I'm like the bitch of the salon right now and I would so have to do that. They'd be like, oh yeah, you would have to do that. Go smell for the bodies. They'd be like, go smell those trumpets, girl.
Starting point is 01:00:05 Yucky. You'd be like, no, thank you. No, thanks. And it's like, in a good day is coming back from that being like, They all smelled like shit. Yeah, true. Yay. Like a bad day is when you're like, no, it smells good.
Starting point is 01:00:20 Everyone's alive and we buried them. So in 1995, a modern safety coffin was patented by Fabrizio Cazelli. In what year, I'm sorry? 1995. Oh, wow, the year before of my birth. Yeah, exactly. Before of my birth, I just said. Before of your birth.
Starting point is 01:00:38 Before of me. Before of my birth. His design included an emergency alarm, an intercom system, a flashlight, breathing apparatus, and both a heart monitor and a stimulator. Wow. Yeah. And it's also believed that the phrase is saved by the bell, dead ringer, and graveyard shift come from the use of safety coffins. It makes sense.
Starting point is 01:01:01 What was the second one? Which makes a lot of sense. Dead ringer. Dead ringer. Because you would ring the bell. Yeah, yeah. And then graveyard shift is going to. around and smelling all the fucking tubes.
Starting point is 01:01:13 And saved by the bell is just like Kelly Kapowski. Exactly. That's where that came from. Yeah. Duh. It's fairly modern. Okay, I want to hear what goes with this. Bairied alive with an engagement ring. Oh. Don't worry. So this isn't really an urban legend, but it's fucking nuts
Starting point is 01:01:33 and I had to share it because it's a real thing that happened. So a woman named Mikalina Lewandoska. She's She was alive by her fiancé Marston Casbrec and his friend Patrick Boris in 2011. Oh, wow. Now, literally, he got bored with her and wanted to be with other women. So he was like, I'm just going to attack her and bury her alive. He attacked her with a taser.
Starting point is 01:02:09 She said, quote, I was trying to push him away with the taser. He knelt down. He pressed my ribs with his knee and continued to use the taser. Holy shit. She was tasered twice in the neck, bound and gagged, and put into a cardboard computer box. He then kept the box shut. What happened to just breaking up with someone?
Starting point is 01:02:28 That's the thing. It's like, can we just break up? Like, I'll get over that much faster than you tasering me and buried alive. That's fucked up. He taped the box shut, put her in the trunk of his car, then drove her to the woods, and buried her head down. Oh my God. Under nearly half a foot of dirt and then left.
Starting point is 01:02:51 So she testified that she struggled to breathe, then made use of the only tool she had. Her big-ass engagement rings. You motherfucker. She cut her legs free, then scratched the box with the diamond in her engagement ring, until she got all the way out. She said it took her a half an hour to cut herself out of the cardboard coffin, and then she flagged down a motorist to help her.
Starting point is 01:03:14 Oh my God. Can you imagine? And they all went to jail for attempted murder, by the way, so that's good. For how long? I don't even know, but the best part about this is that the way she got out was that big ass engagement ring that he gave her. Yeah, and then you sold that shit for mad money, I hope. Exactly. Because I would not want to keep it. But you know what?
Starting point is 01:03:36 Always get a big ass engagement ring. In case... I mean, that's my goal at Annie. Yeah. And that's the reason. Just so you can carve your way out of a cardboard box. Just in case, Annie buries me alive, which I don't see happening in the future. But who does?
Starting point is 01:03:50 I really hope that doesn't happen in the future. I mean, PSA don't allow it to. Yeah, I won't. So those are urban legends. We hope you enjoyed them. We wanted to keep it a little shorter and sweeter. Into the pointer. I think.
Starting point is 01:04:06 Into the pointer. This was so fun. And I was going to go into some of the urban legends of like the razor blades and candy and shit, but we all know them. Yeah. Just check your kids candy. We all know that's bullshit, too. That's not true. You don't know that?
Starting point is 01:04:21 Not all. Eat your candy. There's no instance of that happening. But check your candy anyways. We'll check your candy. Yeah, I think that's all the, we don't have a lot more business ass to tend to. But we are doing a bonus episode soon, I promise. Yes, we will.
Starting point is 01:04:37 Maybe we'll watch Urban Legend because it will be like fitting. Oh, there you go. Maybe we'll do that and then we'll keep House of a Thousand Corpses for another one. Yeah, let's do it. But yeah, so maybe we'll do Urban Legend and chat about that just to have a companion episode. So be on the lookout for that. We'll let you know when it's coming. It will come soon because we are all on the mend now so we can function again.
Starting point is 01:04:58 I hope so. I got some medicine at Whole Foods today. I'm trying to be holistic and shit. You got some earthy, crunchy meds. I did. It was like all natural. and fucking $12. Hey, whatever works, man.
Starting point is 01:05:10 Hopefully it does. Whatever blows this shit out of your system because it sucks. It said something about like bronchial infections and I was like, yeah, I think I have that. You're like, I got that. Self-diagnosed. MD. Then I bought some sushi. Yeah, that goes together.
Starting point is 01:05:25 So, yeah, so we'll let you know when that's coming out. And in the meantime, you can find us on Instagram. At Morbid Podcast. You can send us an email. Morbid Podcasts at gmail.com. You can follow us on Twitter. At a morbid podcast. And you can listen to us wherever you listen to podcasts.
Starting point is 01:05:45 Because we're air or where. Stitcher, Blueberry, iTunes, podcast app. Google Play, Podbean, all that shit. Life. And follow us on Facebook and join the Facebook group. Oh, yeah. It's getting bigger by the day and it's really fun and people are posting things and it's fun. I just recently reactivated my Facebook, so I will
Starting point is 01:06:06 join. Yay. Somebody invite me. What the fuck? You're an admin. Oh, it's the one we made. I didn't realize. Yeah. You can... You're an admin. So you can go in there wherever you want. You're a member. I'm an honorary member.
Starting point is 01:06:22 You're an honor I remember. And yeah, so we'll... Oh, we're going to do a Q&A soon. Yes. We're just trying to figure out a night so we can let you guys know ahead of time so you can be prepared. but so that'll be coming up soon. Yeah, yeah. And I think that's all we have on the agenda.
Starting point is 01:06:42 So rate and review and subscribe and all that good stuff. And thank you so much for the amazing reviews that you've been posting. We love you so much. I know, I love you guys so much. We're going to, and we got a little behind, but we're going to be producing as much content as possible from here on out. So stay tuned for a lot of more. morbid. Yeah, now that we've figured out how to record separately, it's going to be
Starting point is 01:07:08 fucking life-changing. Yeah, it makes our life a lot easier because now we don't have to, you know, be in the same room every single time. Yeah, I don't have to smell you. We're still going to be in the same room, but yeah, now. But, uh, so yeah, so you'll be getting a lot more from us, and we hope you keep listening. And we hope you keep it weird. Bye. Happy Halloween. Salutations. Happy Halloween.
Starting point is 01:07:40 Sam Hayne. Do the monster mash. It was a graveyard smash. He sounded just like him. I really tried. He did. You did it really good. All right.
Starting point is 01:07:53 Bye. Thriller. Cool's come about to dance, yeah. Yeah. Thriller. Okay. Bye.

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