My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark - MFM Minisode 54

Episode Date: January 22, 2018

Karen and Georgia cover your hometown stories from New Orleans, Atlanta, and Nashville including a good dog, foot stompings, a haunted elevator, some Satanic Panic, and more.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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New Orleans Cleveland Nashville just always throw Cleveland in Cleveland we're always coming to you so do you want me to go first okay you look like you're like do you want me to go below you want me to go first I'm going first um this one is for it's from Atlanta it's a story from Atlanta okay um I hate Georgia Karen Steven and fur babies goddamn you I wanted to share with you uh the night our pupper man strike two our pupper Charlie saved us from being murdered while I panicked and apparently changed outfits three times before the police even got there okay so my husband Brian and I gone to see paranormal activity too and we headed back to our tiny bungalow overlooking uh the cute shops um police station and restaurants in historic

norcross Georgia sounds adorable it's a little suburb right out of Atlanta's perimeter we went to bed fairly early because Brian had to fly out early the next morning for work but we were awoken in terror by our springer spaniel going absolutely crazy at about 3 a.m. uh no that's the just yeah after watching of the night paranormal activity yeah not what you want not cool springer spaniel it's never darker than at 3 a.m. um I knew uh the second that I heard his bark that something was really wrong oh no it was like no bark I'd ever heard from him or any other dog good boy we both immediately jumped up and started running toward the barking our tiny bungalow had a waist high white picket fence all the way around it with a big wrap around southern style front porch the side

door was glass and had the wavy old uh window panes and charlie starts going nuts attacking the window when we look up there's a man standing there staring at us with his arms casually by his side rocking back and forth with the most terrifying smile on his face no no I'm already scared because you know when I don't like sliding glass doors because like on a ground floor because you can't all you can see is your reflection when the lights are on that's right that's not okay you have that don't you I have that and that was just in a movie where we were talking about oh my god that's so perfect and then you turn the light off and it's it's someone inside at night yeah with all the with all windows going I feel someone is outside but I now I know they can see me and I can't see

that I'm just gonna live in a box hey that's all it's happening okay so brian who was buck-ass naked screamed at me to get our gun holy shit I was always scared of having guns in the house so we had a shotgun with no bullets oh god so I got the empty gun from the closet and brian still naked cracked it and held um held it through the window while I phoned someone's Canadian I phoned 911 as I'm waiting on the operator my husband tells me that I have to go back and check the porch he was convinced this guy was the distraction and that more were coming in the back oh my god no oh and that says what the fuck yeah yes okay by this point I'm totally out of my mind with panic the dog is still going berserk my husband is naked and holding the empty gun on seem to be some sort of

drugged out zombie but but luckily I didn't see anyone in back by this point the guy now has crossed his arms and is leaning his face against the window staring at brian through the glass he's that close just smiling giggling and whispering things under his no no no no no he didn't break eye contact with brian which somehow made it even more terrifying dude our home was just a few blocks from the police station you could literally stand on the front porch and see the station so once I was on the phone with the 911 operator she was like describe him so I did and she says oh goodness we know who that is whatever you do don't chase him if he runs um it says uh what the fuck I'm sorry apparently they had picked a guy up earlier in the night and he had just strolled

off from the station and ended up at our house while I was on the phone with 911 my husband said he kept seeing me run back and forth in and out of our bedroom each time I ran by I was in a different change of clothes he said I changed at least three times I have no memory of it whatsoever by the by the time the police showed up I had on a summer dress my hair was pulled up and I had on lipstick brian was still naked with an unloaded gun the police dragged the zombie criminal off the front porch and arrested him in the front yard they couldn't stop talking about how creepy the guy was which must be super creepy considering what cops see every day oh that's so awful oh my god after brian finally got um put on some shorts he asked one policeman what suggestions he had for

better home safety he said first get a dog and then get a security system and then get a gun she knows how to use as he pointed at me he looked me dead in the eye and said honey we generally show up to clean up the mess if he'd gotten in he could have killed you and gone in the time it takes us to get here it was our seat our sweet baby hero charlie who alerted us to something being wrong and was brave enough to not let up until the police got the bad guy good boy he kept his mom a sexy and he didn't let me get murdered good boy I love your show can't wait to see you live in Atlanta in january ssdgm katie charlie's a good boy you gotta have a dog you got to i'm a cat person through and through you know that but they're the best there's no there's no

substitution for a fucking dog the loyalty and the fucking fervor and the the when they were describing of the different sounding barking there is a barking george does at the front when there's somebody on the front porch that we don't know like and it sounds completely different than her normal bark well i know when they meow and they want food and when they meow and they just want to talk when they meow and they're you know this or that but it's not the same thing these cats will stare at you as someone breaks into the house they will watch it yeah as like they're fascinated absolutely like leave the door open because i'm gonna get the fuck out of here um oh my god that made me want to cry i didn't realize how close he was his face to the door

laughing and whispering to himself the whispering that's just someone who's completely gone their mind is gone yeah for whatever reason i'm also impressed with her husband who like took care of shit even though his dick was out yeah you know maybe because of it yeah maybe he was starting to feel himself yeah not literally never mind i'm in in that kind of a man of the earth way right yes like how funny would it be though if then he gets arrested they're like sir you like this crime yeah you're really into this okay um this one's called nashville foot stomper lighthearted okay great i don't know how that's gonna happen hi friends perfect i'm from nashville tennessee and for many years a man named george mitchell sparked fear in the toes of my hometown's

female citizens let's take a step back storyteller george grew up in a rough part of town at an early age was committing petty theft shoplifting turned into purse snatching and he soon discovered that purses were easier to snatch if you stomped on the woman's foot first it didn't take many stomping snatches with an stomping snatches stomping snatches for george to realize his true passion not stealing or snatching but rather just pure unadulterated toe stomping oh so he stopped stealing purses he was just like well wait a minute he just liked the feeling of smashing someone's toes what i'm really into is george was arrested over 40 times for smashing innocent little piggies with his wooden heel dress shoes between the 70s and 80s at some point in the mid 80s the stomping

suddenly halted and nashville women everywhere sided with relief as they dared to unbox their long lost open-toed sandals you can hear more about the nashville foot stomper in a documentary called injurious george injurious george injurious george that's what i meant i got it george has ceased his cringeworthy ways moved to another state and is now a dad and a grandfather what so there you have it a happy ending for all i don't know namely nashville's female population who enjoys showing a little toe from time to time ps i recently ran the marine corps marathon and saved multiple weeks of episodes so i could listen to non-stop mfm during my race thanks for getting me through two points 26.2 miles with murder and meows love and sexiness allison wow ouch first

of all allison congratulations on the marathon that's a hard thing to do and i will never do it i mean i hope never to do it i hope never to be forced to do that god damn it that's my ultimate fear never marathon skydiving never need to um what else bungee jumping uh yeah i guess i'm gonna go back to marathon just double down on that one i'm gonna triple down on marathon and walk away a winner okay this one the subject line is haunted elevator with this surprise celebrity cam cameo love it love it love it and how about this hi everybody perfect thank you um get creative though sometimes love it love everything about it that's the first line that's the best beautiful okay so my hometown in the lana georgia my hometown is at lana georgia and my hometown

murder forward slash ghost story also happens to include the single most bizarre encounter in my life back in 1994 my mother remarried into an extremely wealthy jewish family when she married get it girl my stepdad get it um and stack it up my new family and i come from vastly different backgrounds um don't know if you ladies have watched the show shameless but the character mickey milokovich is a male version of me when i was coming up if you haven't seen the show i was on my way to being a piece of convict garbage no offense to a convicted felons anyway on the first night of hanukkah 2002 my family celebrated at my step grandmother's home she lives in a high rise in an uber wealthy part of buckhead and her building has elevators you can only use

after the front attendant has given you clearance oh i get it love it fancy my stepdad andy is my usual sidekick at family functions but he wasn't feeling well that night so he didn't attend the party without him i felt out of place and ended up hanging out that's so sweet her stepdad was her sidekick i know it's very sweet um i felt out of place and ended up hanging out with one of the concierge staff in the downstairs lobby we were shooting the shit drinking some booze i'd smuggled down from the party um when i started hearing a consistent dinging sound coming from the elevator from a side corner of the lobby it sounded like somebody was pressing the button to open and close the elevator but wasn't getting off for whatever weird reason i looked over and could see

the floors opening and closing the doors opening and closing and the lights inside flickering on and off i asked the attendant if the elevator was broken and he casually was branded responded no it's just haunted he told me that a few years earlier a bloody man had run screaming into the building after being shot in an altercation down the street and had collapsed and died in the elevator no apparently the guy who had been the perpetrator was trying to run from the police but didn't make it very far um oh the guy had been the perpetrator and was trying to run from police okay but didn't make it very far the attendant told me that ever since the death the elevator had behaved strangely no matter how many times they had had it serviced the doors open and closed on its own and it acted

like it had a mind of its own taking tenants to random floors going up um going up them all the way back down without opening the door shit going up then all the way back down without opening the door and generally being pretty creepy i thought the attendant was just pulling my leg and i told him i thought he was full of shit when a pleasant british voice chimed in behind me saying oh no that's elevators most definitely haunted i'd i refuse to use it i turned around to see who else believed this bullshit only to see it was elton fucking john standing there what wearing a blue a pair of blue pajamas and one of those stocking cap hat things that you might expect to see on an elf when steven is laughing so hard right now did you write this as a prank this is insane you found

it and you're like i have to get this to them and you're he's he's laughing in a way that he's like excited oh it's so good it's so good it's you gotta love a celebrity cameo this is an epic um after a second of me staring at him while i tried to process what i was seeing he gave me a cute little head nod and wandered off down a side hallway what that's the story of how i learned that elton john lives in my step-grandmother's building that he believes the elevators haunted and that he has some sweet ass pajamas cheers amber ps my stepdad is my personal hero and best friend and without him i wouldn't be half of who i am today he listens to the podcast with me sometimes so on the off chance this was read i wanted to add that to the record what am i crying so much

that's lovely amber that's very sweet amber and a great fucking story that's beautiful i'm so happy for you amber amber good job we all deserve that i think your mother deserved it you and your mother and she found a wonderful man and a wonderful man it didn't matter if he had money it helps it doesn't it helps that he's rich that's why my mom would say it doesn't hurt never it never hurts looking for a better cooking routine with meal planning shopping and prepping handled hello fresh has you covered hello fresh makes home cooking easy and affordable so you can stay on track and on budget in the new year hello fresh meals are convenient seasonal and delicious stay cozy all winter long with classic comfort foods available weekly why stop with just dinner now you can

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are they born to kill or are they made to kill i'm kandace delong and on my new podcast killer psyche daily i share a quick 10 minute rundown every weekday on the motivations and behaviors of the criminal masterminds psychopaths and cold-blooded killers you hear about in the news i have decades of experience as a psychiatric nurse fbi agent and criminal profiler on killer psyche daily i'll give you insight into cases like ryan grantham and the newly arrested stockton serial killer i'll also bring on expert guests to dive deeper into the details share what it's like to work with a behavioral assessment unit at quantico answer some killer trivia and even host virtual q and a's where i'll answer your burning questions hey prime members listen to the amazon music exclusive

podcast killer psyche daily in the amazon music app download the app today hello hey georgia karen and steven doesn't fucking care about patsk cool uh long time listen you like that long time listener has been meaning to write you guys for a while my little sister reba turned me on to your show after you guys were on aniferous's pod even brothers i'm a guy and sisters are bonding over shared interests in mfm and we are coming together to your new orleans to your norleans there were two different lines show at the end of january 2018 we're also crazy cat ladies and love the per cast steven love it smiley face okay lafayette is a big catholic hub in southern louisiana there was a rumor going around town in 1987

that a satanic cult was looking to sacrifice a catholic priest along with a pregnant woman you know like satanists like to do um my mom was actually pregnant with my kid's sister i think it's reba at the time reba and my twin brother and i were about two years old so my mom was literally barefoot and pregnant chasing two toddlers around the house waiting on my sister to be born fuck that shit uh one afternoon when she was late into her third trimester she was on the phone with a female friend when my brother and i napped she noticed a strange car slowly driving down our street which was atypical of her quiet neighborhood the car parked at the end of the street and a woman exited the vehicle dressed in strange flashy clothing with a wild fiery red

hair picture susan surrounded after her makeover in the witches of east wick sure thank you for the reference she walked past six other houses up our drive up our driveway to the front door and began knocking thankfully my mom was a full on satanic panicked believer and knew whatever was going on it was fucking weird and she was not going to answer the door she told her friend to call the police if they got disconnected and my mom ducked down and hid behind a kitchen counter the woman knocked and jiggled the door handle for over five minutes before giving up walking back down the road and leaving in the vehicle she had arrived uh to this day my mom is certain this wild woman was there to kidnap her for a satanic sacrifice and also throws in a jab that if my

brother and i had not been napping one of us would likely have given her cover away because we loved when strangers or anyone knocked on the door i guess we'll never know thank you ladies for bringing humor and levity to this sometimes dark world and for sparking my interest in true crime much love from the cajun country ssdgm kori yay i love that that's so funny what are the other things it could have been though like an avon lady yeah but why would she walk by six houses just to go to this woman's house maybe she saw how badly she needed um foundation makeover yeah and she was like girl but why would let's fix those eyebrows it's weird i think that's a beautiful um that's a beautiful one to end on just a lot of uh we don't know doesn't necessarily

mean anybody was in danger right but satanic panic is fun and she played it safe and she played it safe she didn't get murdered because even if it wasn't a satanic the the you know head of a satanic cabal or something it could have just been a weirdo lady that was gonna like bum around i also want to say that if your kid even if you give your kids give you away and they're crying and screaming that doesn't mean you need to open the fucking door no you can fucking blow clearly blow the person off you can tiptoe to your door and they hear you and you can look through the people and nope the fuck out of there and not answer the door yeah you know what you should do look you can look through the people and then if you get caught then you look out the window and start

whispering and smiling uh why can't you be the creep don't be scared of the creep outside you be the creep what if no one ever wants to come into your house because you're a creep you know it's really funny i was what i think i've said this to you before but i was walking george one night and i was getting scared i was like around the corner and then i looked inside someone's window and i realized i'm the creep right now i'm looking into the windows they no one can see me i get to be the creep yeah i thought about that too like late at night and i'm in bed and like if you hear someone like break into your house let's say and it's like they're coming for you it's like they can't see anything either right in the fucking darkness and you know your house better than they

do and your eyes are fucking used to this light because you're an insomniac and you've been up for four hours so you're you can be a fucking scary person too that's right and you have run this scenario through your head at least five times right so get up out of that bed and if you're like you're all you have your fucking pepper spray and a knife in your fucking bedside table i would hope you have the very man's a butter knife a kitchen knife or as my dad used to have a full on switchblade in his nightstand that's my favorite i have a switchblade and pepper spray switch blades yeah yeah i can't close mine so it's just an open switchblade switchbates are very scary on the on the going back inside yeah i wouldn't fuck with that listen just fuck with people that's right

and uh send us your hometowns and anything similar to my favorite murder at gmail yeah everything any similar to anything you heard today especially if if you've got a story about meeting elton john we want to wear it ghost stories are great we love them if your ghost dad is a good person i would say it's really way up there especially if he was wearing his donald duck costume when you met him i can see him having glorious pajamas and also just being like hilarious and leaving like knowing it's like look it's me bye yeah i'm just gonna say one thing goodbye like the way like um what's his name uh oh never mind cuz somebody who says one thing no how what's his face uh when people um in the background of photos photo mom yeah but it's um tom hanks no bill murray

thank you steven bill murray photo mom's photos all the time does yeah he does that's like yeah you can do that because you're bill murray that's right the best story i mean once you get to that level your life is so weird anyway there's so many things you can't do want to do a couple things you can do yeah make it weirder fun times wear an elf hat and go talk to people about the elevator and also stay sexy and don't get murdered goodbye Elvis you want cookie