Triforce! - YoGPoD 44: Halloween Spack-2-cular

Episode Date: October 28, 2012

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Starting point is 00:01:48 So, for those watching on YouTube, we're in a studio. Shin's, Shin and Sips' studio. It's nice, isn't it? I like it here. It's good. We've decorated it a little bit for Halloween. For everyone else on the podcast, you're not missing much. There's a little golem here with his arm cut off.
Starting point is 00:02:01 There's blood everywhere. Simon's covered in blood. I've got a chainsaw But that's fine It's fine You don't want to see any video of this Sounds boring really Sounds pretty boring So we're here to talk about Halloween And read out some scary stories
Starting point is 00:02:14 And generally pee our pants Have you got any Lovely Have you got any scary That's what Halloween's all about isn't it Peeing your pants and getting candy Halloween is all about peeing your pants That's quite a Have you got a horror about isn't it peeing your pants and getting candy halloween is all about peeing your pants that's quite have you got a horror story about halloween about peeing your pants i have got a bit of a scary story actually but this isn't this isn't one of the ones that
Starting point is 00:02:33 we're going to do yeah this morning i was in my flat having a shower paint the scene so you were totally naked i was completely naked water like, striking your bare chest. That's right. Steam's rising. It's dark. It's dark outside. I'm all alone in the house because Hannah's gone away. You know, she's gone to Canada.
Starting point is 00:02:54 And, of course, because I'm all alone in my house, I haven't locked the bathroom door. Oh, my God. So. Slender Man came in and he scrubbed your back. No, what happened was I was in the bathroom having a nice shower okay and i was just like minding my own business i was thinking about various things you know what i'm going to do today i wasn't really paying attention i was just sort of going through the normal routine and suddenly the light went off and i was like whoa well because
Starting point is 00:03:19 it's it threw the bathroom into pitch darkness because there's no window in my bathroom oh god and so i couldn't see anything so i was actually in the sort of the bath the shower bath thing yeah so i was like slipping and struggling to get out of the bath i was like all scared i was like i was like hello and this man's voice from right outside the door came hello no fucking. From in my hallway. No. And I was like, hello? And he was like, I'm here to do some maintenance. There's some mould in the bathroom. And at that, he opened the bathroom door slightly.
Starting point is 00:03:54 And he went, ahhh! Right? So, like, a crack. So some light came in. I like, obviously, I like. You're naked. I'm, like, completely naked in the bathroom. But by this time, I've managed to get the, you know, like...
Starting point is 00:04:07 You've got a flannel, and you're, like, covering your groin with it. No, I picked up the... Please, don't come in. I'm not decent. The bath mat, you know, where you, like, have it outside the shower. Right. It's, like, quite a thick mat. Anyway, I've pulled that off.
Starting point is 00:04:19 You're wearing it like a rug. I was like, I'm in the shower. Give me a second. You know, I was, like, totally normal about it. Okay. And so the guy's like, oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I didn me a second you know i was like totally normal about it okay and um so the guy's like oh i'm sorry i'm sorry i didn't realize you know you were here and then he closes the door and so he said i'll just wait outside so he went out he disappeared off okay so i i was like you know i pulled myself back together i put my dressing gown i opened the
Starting point is 00:04:39 front door and this guy had hannah had asked him to i'm biting my nails to this. To change the shower curtain, because it's all mouldy. Oh. Right? So he'd come in to do that and not assume that I would be there. And also, the thing is, he'd come into the house, because he'd obviously rang the doorbell. There'd be no answer, because I'd been in the shower. He didn't lock the front door?
Starting point is 00:05:01 No. No, he'd got a key. He's a maintenance guy. Oh. For some reason. I didn't know he had a key. Anyway, he'd got a key. He's a maintenance guy. Oh. For some reason. I didn't know he had a key. Anyway, he came in, and because it was dark in the hallway, he went for the nearest light switch. Now, in my flat, the nearest light switch actually is the light switch to the bathroom, not the hallway light.
Starting point is 00:05:18 So, he'd pulled that, thinking it would turn the hallway light on. Right. In fact, it just made it dark in the bathroom. So, it's in the bathroom rational explanation for everything yeah and then when he opened the door he didn't know what was through that door but it happened to be the bus but it was dark in there so he didn't know i was in there naked okay fucking hell what a bit of a mess so anyway um that was my scary story from this morning wow and then he and then you couldn't find him it's like he left and then he called
Starting point is 00:05:46 the maintenance people and he said where's the guy that you sent round and they said he died 10 years ago oh my goodness that is scary the vanishing maintenance man and i was yeah god that is a terrifying story, Lewis. I don't think I can possibly top this with any of these stories that I found on Reddit. Oh, okay. I didn't know that's where you got them from. Yeah, I was going to look at some urban legends and stuff, but I basically know all of them, and I'm so familiar with them that they don't really scare me or freak me out or
Starting point is 00:06:25 anything no because i mean we've been through them on a previous podcast about you know cooking from the inside you know that woman who was going to have a wedding and she got a tan and it cooked her inside because she went to so many tanning beds and all those terrible stories that i don't think they're really scary i think what's really scary is like messed up stories like this one that i found called my dad might be a time traveler oh what yeah this now this is by time traveler junior right which is funny because he didn't make that account just to post this story um he's had that account for like years right but maybe his dad created the account because he's a time traveler knowing that he was going to post a story about time travel i don't know i mean that is a convenient thing if you're a time traveler you can go back in time and get all the usernames oh my god that would be the most useful thing to do i mean sob killing hitler i
Starting point is 00:07:30 want i want to get like www dot uh oh jesus i don't want to think but crikey that's that's pretty much useful otherwise you know in the future all the urls are going to totally run out i mean yeah they're already having trouble with like new movies coming out like james bond i think the official website for the new movie is like james bond hyphen the movie hyphen skyfall.co.uk wow that's a dreadful url url and it's only going to get worse you know can you imagine what it would be like in 10 years' time? This is why there's QR codes for everything, because people can never remember the complicated URLs anymore.
Starting point is 00:08:10 Yeah. OK, so this story, right? Right, I'm excited. Now, the first bit is like a little teaser almost, and it starts, Hey guys, I have very distinct memories of playing Angry Birds on my dad's ipad back in the late 80s when i was a kid right so he remembers all because i mean there's a lot of kids that probably listen to us and watch our videos but back in the 1980s we didn't have ipads and angry birds
Starting point is 00:08:42 no we didn't so this this is like oh it's spooky right what did we have we had like pong i think pong you had space invaders but pinball we had pinball wizards real pinball that was it so this he continues my dad was always take off for weeks at a time to Europe. And now I'm thinking he's part of something bigger. He always seemed to know when something was going to happen. Right. And he says he would bring back candles, candies, not candles. He'd bring back candies and stuff.
Starting point is 00:09:24 A lot of brands I knew about, but with completely different packaging. Maybe future packaging. Right. Right? Sinister. So this guy continues with the next part, right? And he says, right, now this is going to blow your mind, okay? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:09:39 Right? Anyway, my dad came home on Friday afternoon and I i went to my parents straight from work for dinner my brother and i had been exchanging memories and remember when and remember when's even do you remember when you know that's what they're called remember when's yeah that's a strange term i've never heard of and remember when's is that remember when's all week leading up to the dinner things like right this is it okay now hold hold on to your horses right yeah things like how my dad on september the 10th 2001 said casually the night before that he was probably going to take the day off tomorrow to stay home and watch TV. Right.
Starting point is 00:10:27 Now, I don't know if you're aware of this, Lewis, right? But the day after, September the 11th, 2001, that was when the World Trade Center was hit by a couple of planes. That was a very famous day for television, I suppose. So naturally, his dad, who knew that it was going to happen... Took the whole day off to watch the news. Booked the day off and watched telly. He could have helped.
Starting point is 00:10:54 He could have prevented it, possibly. Done something. But no. But he just stayed and watched it on telly. That's evidence. Whilst eating a big bag of popcorn, loving every minute of it laughing and pointing that's what you would do that's what you would do if you were a time traveler that is
Starting point is 00:11:10 outrageous his dad is the shittest time traveler ever he goes back he registers good usernames right he's probably got like gmail accounts just like you know d at Gmail.com. Oh, my goodness. I fancy emailing that guy and just saying, you have the best email address ever. It's premium. Those things would go for tens of thousands of pounds on eBay, wouldn't they? I don't know if you're allowed to sell email accounts and stuff. Google accounts, probably not.
Starting point is 00:11:41 Yeah. But, yeah, I mean, well, that's's the story there's a bit more to it but you know it's even more bollocks than that but i thought you know that was spooky did that put the willies up you lewis not even close i hope they're gonna get better than this well i thought i'd start with a strong one on a high i thought my story was pretty good i think your story there were quite a lot of willies in my one as well your story of being in the shower in the dark with a man knocking on the door is scarier than that yeah god but there you go okay well i guess it's my go then i've got one here
Starting point is 00:12:20 which is from fipple fit it says it's called my friend was almost a victim of a killing oh my god just digest that um title it's quite a good title that's a strange wording isn't it he was almost he was almost a victim a victim of a killing of a killing so almost killed he was almost killed my friend was almost killed almost a victim of a killing okay Of a killing. So almost killed? He was almost killed. My friend was almost killed. Almost a victim of a killing. Okay. So here's a story of my friend. He lives in an apartment complex in the city.
Starting point is 00:12:54 The place is ten stories high and he lives on the 8th. One night he was going home and arrived at the main lobby at around 11 p.m he waited for the elevator and when the door opened a man rudely bumped into him and hurriedly walked out of the lobby what a rude man just bumping into people everywhere i know oh do you reckon he had like an overcoat on i reckon he had like a hat that was just covering yeah all his face. And he was very shifty-eyed. He had the collar turned up on his jacket. He had an odd smell. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:13:30 You know, strange man. And he felt that the air was cold as well. No, he didn't. The air was cold. Cough. Also, it smelled faintly of farts in the elevator. Oh, my God. That's terrifying.
Starting point is 00:13:45 My friend didn't think much of it. Oh, Jesus. Until he got back into his room. As he looked into his bathroom mirror to brush his teeth, he found bits of blood on the very shoulder the man had bumped. Oh, my God. That's a bit strange, isn't it? Bits of blood.
Starting point is 00:14:04 Bits of blood. blood chunks of blood on the very shoulder the man had bumped oh my god god i mean there's a lot of things that could happen to you that's scary when you're looking into a bathroom mirror to brush your teeth like you know your teeth could fall out and there could be blood everywhere or you could see a horrible thing over your shoulder and then you turn around and it's it's not there oh god you know or all sorts of horrible stuff could happen but no you could also have one of those bathroom you know those bathroom cabinets with the mirror on it when you open the bathroom mirror cabinet like as it turns oh there's something in the reflection oh that's good oh i like that but
Starting point is 00:14:40 no that none of that happened he found bits of. That's pretty scary because it's more real, isn't it? Bits of blood. Bits of blood on the very shoulder the man had bumped. The next day was a Saturday and he was getting ready for a date. Oh. Okay. Hot date. He had just taken a shower when he heard a knock on the door.
Starting point is 00:14:59 Oh my God, it's like your story. Oh my God. Except it's not, though. He just finished his shower and he heard a knock on the door peering through the eye hole i heard you got a moldy uh shower curtain oh my god no no that didn't happen so the next day was saturday to get ready for a day he just took a shower when he heard a knock at the door peering through the eye hole just do the knock peering through the eye hole oh he saw a police man oh a police man yeah two words the police man was a guy in his mid-40s with short dark hair with a shaved off left eyebrow that's a bit weird a shaved off left eyebrow why did he
Starting point is 00:15:48 have his eyebrows shaved off well i don't know okay the the police man maybe we'll find out the police man asked through the door there was a murder last night at around 10 50 p.m and i would like to ask if you saw anything in particular. Okay. My friend did see something in particular. He had bumped into a man who'd left some bits of blood on his very shoulder. Yes. But he replied,
Starting point is 00:16:15 No, sir. I know nothing of the sort. Wait, why did he lie to the policeman? I don't know. What the hell? It was maybe the eyebrow maybe it was like peering through the eye hole okay weird was the policeman peering back through the eye hole at him i wouldn't have thought so he's probably just knocking because he's going door to door he's probably knocking on everyone's door in the apartment building i mean if you saw a policeman through your eye hole though you
Starting point is 00:16:37 you'd like open the door wouldn't you i don't know if i would though honestly i don't know if i would what especially if he had a shaved off left eyebrow i'd probably just like wait and see if he went away right okay so why didn't this guy do it why did he like say you know hello no he didn't say hello the police would just ask straight away and then he said the police would know that he was there what i don't know it's sinister that's oh my god the policeman can see through the door yeah he could see through the eye hole oh right okay but i guess you know it's not supposed to be able to see through the eye hole maybe it was put in the wrong way around that eye hole yeah but then how would he have seen never mind let's move on okay
Starting point is 00:17:21 what happened what happened my friend was already late for his date and didn't want to get involved oh right okay that's why he lied right the policeman responded all right thank you for your time and left okay my friend went to his date and came back home later that day feeling a bit guilty because he had lied to a police officer that's bad that's a that is a crime that is a criminal offense that is a crime lying to a police officer then he flicked on the tv and the news was talking about the murder at his apartment oh my god okay great he thought way to make me feel more guilty But then the news went on to say That the killer was caught Oh my god
Starting point is 00:18:09 The culprit's photo came on the screen And there the murderer was A guy In his mid 40's With short dark hair What was that fucking noise And a shaved off left eyebrow Oh my god Oh god it was the cop
Starting point is 00:18:28 he wasn't a police officer at all he was a man who was out to kill the witnesses oh my god wow that was absolutely terrifying there you go that was absolutely terrifying that's that's good thing you didn't open the door isn't it oh my god i honestly i swore i heard something what it what around here it was like no no like in real life not in minecraft or anything or like well it's late at night it's like 2 a.m here at york towers maybe something fell over or are you okay i think so do you need to come in there and like check i'd rather you didn't that would be even scarier hello i've come to fix the moldy curtain he's back moldy curtain it's fine i'll put up with it oh my god that was weird that was intense okay your turn what have we got now okay
Starting point is 00:19:28 um all right i've got a long a long one here okay i can't remember this one i can't remember this one but i picked it okay right i think this is the this is the highest rated story that i could find right on reddit scary story right it's the highest rated okay and this won like an award oh wow well this is the one we've been waiting for this is probably the best scary story we've been saving it that anyone's ever written okay okay and this is by blue tidal okay okay and it's called the smiling man the smiling which actually isn't really scary is it because that's nice to sort of smile at people no it is quite scary the smiling man that's scary hi yeah how you doing oh wait no it's just a man smiling that's yeah but he's smiling in like he's like smiling he's like got this fixed smile.
Starting point is 00:20:26 That's not what it's called. It's not called the man with the fixed smile who's staring at you just a little bit too intently. Yeah, I suppose. My friend was almost a victim of a killing. Of a smile. A victim. He was almost a victim of a smiling.
Starting point is 00:20:46 Yeah. Okay. Okay. About five years ago, I lived downtown in a major city in the US. Right. I've always been a night person, so would often find myself bored after my roommate, who was decidedly not a night person, went to sleep. Right.
Starting point is 00:21:04 I mean, that's really bad grammar there. To pass the time, I used to go for long walks and spend the time thinking. Now, just a recommendation. We do have Netflix. You know, you could just watch something. He's a night person. Yeah, just stay up, play some video games. You know, you don't have to walk in the dark by
Starting point is 00:21:25 yourself and think you know yeah yeah i mean so i guess night people are people who just stay up really late and get up really late as well am i a night person lewis probably then yeah should i go for long walks and then maybe i'd have scary stories of my own to tell spend the time thinking yeah really who goes for long walks and spends the time thinking i don't know people who don't know about the internet i think okay so let's just go with this so this guy he's a bit weird i spent four years like that walking alone at night and never once had a reason to feel afraid i always used to joke with my roommate that even the drug dealers in the city were polite oh oh how we would laugh about that one but all of that changed in just a few minutes
Starting point is 00:22:15 of one evening right it was a wednesday the scariest of days somewhere between one and two in the morning i mean that's not that late really is it no i think the scariest stuff happens you know much later like between four and five yeah something that's the creepiest time that's the scariest because no one no one has a good reason to be up at like 4 30 in the morning even the people who make donuts and gregs are usually getting up about five you know to put the donuts on well those donuts we had for your birthday they were made at 4 a.m were they creepy doughnuts
Starting point is 00:22:53 they were haunted so i'm literally one and a half paragraphs into this like 47 paragraph story this is gonna take a while that's okay okay. I'm going to keep interrupting. That's good. It makes it more interesting. Certainly. So it was a Wednesday, somewhere between one and two in the morning. And I was walking near a police patrolled park
Starting point is 00:23:14 quite a ways from my apartment. Police patrolled park. Police patrolled park. It was a quiet night, even for a weeknight, which is usually the busiest of nights. And very little traffic and almost no one was on foot. Right. The park, as it was most nights, was completely empty.
Starting point is 00:23:34 Yeah. I turned down a short side street in order to loop back to my apartment when I first noticed him. At the far end of the street on my side was the silhouette of a man dancing. It was a strange dance, similar to a waltz, but he finished each box with an odd forward stride. Now, do you understand that term, box? Yeah, yeah. So basically what he's doing is the man is like turning in circles on the spot. And each of those is called, I think it's called a box. So you kind of, you go, you know, you forward, you rotate, you forward, you rotate, you forward, you rotate.
Starting point is 00:24:17 And that's a box. Oh, okay. It's like a segment. So he faces each sort of orthogonal direction. And when he gets back to where he started he's done a box so he's spinning around on his own like he's dancing with a waltz is something that's normally done with a partner i think and so you end up spinning round in a circle okay and then so it's almost like when you do the macarena you come back round and then he does a
Starting point is 00:24:39 forward stride at the end so he's i mean it says I guess you could say he was dance walking headed straight for me and the narrator continues deciding he was probably drunk I stepped as close as I could to the road to give him the majority of the sidewalk to pass me by the closer he got the more I realized how gracefully he was moving he was very tall and lanky and wearing an old suit. He danced closer still until I could make out his face. His eyes were open wide and wild, head tilted back slightly, looking off at the sky. His mouth was formed in a painfully wide cartoon of a smile.
Starting point is 00:25:28 Between the eyes and the smile, I decided to cross the street before he danced any closer. Oh, God. Okay. This is going to be scary. Yeah. Oh, God. I keep looking around me like you know is there anyone here no one's here i'm alone so hang on so this guy it's it's it's late wednesday night he's walking past a police patrol park down a short side street to get back home to get back home and this guy is
Starting point is 00:26:05 dancing towards him he's got wild open eyes he's looking up at the sky and he's got a big cartoon of a smile painfully wide cartoon painfully wide god he's a creepy creepy man in a suit spinning round and round as he comes closer i took my eyes off of him to cross the empty street. As I reached the other side, I glanced back and then stopped dead in my tracks. He had stopped dancing and was standing with one foot on the street perfectly parallel to me. He was facing me, but still looking skyward, smile still wide on his lips. I was completely and utterly unnerved by this. I started walking again, but kept my eyes on the man. He didn't move. Once I had put about half a block between us, I turned away from him for a moment to watch the sidewalk in front of me.
Starting point is 00:27:07 The street and sidewalk ahead of me were completely empty. Still unnerved, I looked back to where he had been standing to find him gone. For the briefest of moments I felt relieved until I noticed him. He had crossed the street and was now slightly crouched down. I couldn't tell for sure due to the distance and the shadows, but I was certain he was facing me. I had looked away from him for no more than ten seconds, so it was clear that he had moved fast
Starting point is 00:27:45 oh god now this is a real story remember this is real this actually happened yeah okay this is someone writing down what actually happened to them yeah so it's like ours it's like our story yeah it's like your story with the man it's like your story with a man. It's like my story. It's true. With you naked in your bathroom and a man. I want to see your mouldy curtains. I was so shocked that I stood there for some time staring at him. And then he started moving towards me again. Oh, no. He took giant, exaggerated, tiptoed steps,
Starting point is 00:28:28 as if he were a cartoon character sneaking up on someone. Except he was moving very, very quickly. I'd like to say at this point I ran away or pulled out my pepper spray. Hang on, what? Is this a man telling this story? I don't know. With pepper spray hang on what is this a man telling this story i don't know with pepper spray what i can't imagine that a man has pepper spray hmm okay uh that is strange as well it must be maybe it's a girl then who's writing this that makes it even more creepy i like to say at this
Starting point is 00:29:01 point i ran away or pulled out my pepper spray or my cell phone or anything at all, but I didn't. I just stood there, completely frozen as the smiling man crept towards me. And then he stopped again, about a car length away from me, still smiling his smile, still looking to the sky. smiling his smile, still looking to the sky. When I finally found my voice, I blurted out the first thing that came to mind. What I meant to ask was, What the bloody hell are you? What are you, booger?
Starting point is 00:29:40 In an angry, commanding tone, what came out was a whimper, What the fuck? Regardless of whether or not humans can smell fear They can certainly hear it I heard it in my own voice And that only made me more afraid But he didn't react to it at all He just stood there smiling
Starting point is 00:30:02 And then after what felt like forever, he turned around very slowly and started to dance, walking again, away from me, just like that. Not wanting to turn my back to him again, I just watched him go until he was far enough away to almost be out of sight. And then I realised something. He wasn't moving away anymore, nor was he dancing. I watched in horror as the distant shape of him grew larger and larger. He was coming back my way,
Starting point is 00:30:46 and this time he was running. I ran too. I ran until I was off of the side road and back into a better lit road with the sparse traffic. Looking behind me then, he was nowhere to be found. The rest of the way home, I kept glancing over my shoulder, always expecting to see his stupid smile, but he was never there. I lived in that city for six
Starting point is 00:31:17 months after that night, and I never went out for another walk. There was something about his face that always haunted me. He didn't look drunk. He didn't look high. He looked completely and utterly insane. And that's a very, very scary thing to see. My God. And also he had a really dodgy looking beard and one of his eyes looked off in a slightly different direction to the other one wow
Starting point is 00:31:53 and he had a mole oh oh god no this is so you could see why these... That was terrifying. That was absolutely terrifying. Oh, my God. It's a good story, isn't it? I mean, this is obviously written by someone who really does... This isn't fiction. This is a true story that happened to someone. Oh, my God. God.
Starting point is 00:32:19 What do you think happened? That is a bit creepy, isn't it? It was just a man. Just an insane man. that's what's great about it it's not like a supernatural story it's not a ghost it's just a man dancing in the street and that's that's scarier than any spooks or ghasts or geists or phantasms or or wraiths right is it my go i think it's your go yeah okay let's go with this one from thought pod i received this letter from my best friend who went overseas a few days ago with no warning except a weird facebook update okay so this is the lol going on holiday what that's their facebook yeah yeah uh it doesn't
Starting point is 00:33:09 actually say what the weird facebook update was but it says what the letter was okay oh god is this is this scary yeah oh god how scary is it out of 10 it's I don't know. How many dancing skeletons out of 10? Out of 15? Look, you'll have to just take it as it comes, okay? Okay. Jason, I need you to do something for me tonight. It's very, very important you do it exactly as I ask. No questions, all right?
Starting point is 00:33:41 If you think that I'm going crazy, then just humor me, and we can have a laugh about it when I'm back. Do you remember the vase that we found half buried in Stromlo Forest after the fire? The brass one with the odd markings embossed onto its base? Oh, yeah, I remember it. Yeah, it's a nice vase. Put a bit of flowers in it. It's beautiful. It's beautiful. It's beautiful. It's beautiful. It's sitting in my bedroom on my dresser next to the little ring tree and makeup bag.
Starting point is 00:34:10 Oh, this is a lady. This is a lady. Oh. Well, you know, it might not be, you know, these days. I need you to get a black Sharpie and draw two eyes on your palms. What? Just simple ones. It doesn't matter how they look as long as they are open and the pupil is on your palms. What? Just simple ones. Doesn't matter how they look,
Starting point is 00:34:27 as long as they are open and the pupil is in the middle of your palm. Oh. Then I need you to go to my apartment and get inside. The key is in the envelope that this letter came in. And make sure you get an empty gym bag and bring it with you. The apartment will be dark. Don't turn the lights on. Oh. you can take a torch if you like but
Starting point is 00:34:47 don't let its beam touch the vase okay okay keep it angled at the ceiling or something or just take a candle this is weird this is such a weird letter when you enter my bedroom you may hear a whispering sound coming from someone under the bed behind the door or something just ignore it don't let it freak you out or convince you of anything everything it says is a lie oh god ignore it go to the vase and pick it up with both hands simultaneously making sure the eyes on your palms are touching the brass. If anything happens or something touches your skin, apart from the brass, remember, none of it can hurt you. Ignore it.
Starting point is 00:35:36 Tip the vase over until all the blood has drained out. Wait, what? It can just go on the carpet or whatever. Keep it tilted until no more drops of blood are dripping out of its mouth. Do not look inside or put a finger inside for God's sake. Just put it in your bag and get rid of it. Somewhere no one will ever be able to get their hands on it. Don't ask me where.
Starting point is 00:35:59 Get creative. I'm sorry I have to ask you to do this, Jason. It's just that you're the only person I completely trust If I'd known what I know now Ah, well Hindsight is a wonderful thing, I guess I'm a bit ill at the moment I hope to be well enough to fly home next week
Starting point is 00:36:18 So I'll see you then If everything goes well All my love, Jules what the hell and he was never heard from again why that is the weirdest letter could you imagine if she put that on facebook so someone really received this as a letter yeah wow what the hell what A weird letter. Eyes on your palm, whispering voices telling you lies. Blood in a vase. How? Why does she have this vase?
Starting point is 00:36:51 It's really sinister, isn't it, actually? Don't put your finger inside, for God's sake. That, oh, that's creepy. I don't like it. Can we, is there a happy story? Is there a happy story? Happy stories for children. Happy stories for children.
Starting point is 00:37:15 I don't think we're allowed happy stories for children. Happy short stories about corgis. Once upon a time, there was a lovely little corgi named Frumples. And then he died! No! Why? Oh, God, why?
Starting point is 00:37:38 Oh, Jesus Christ. Well, that was horrible. Well that was horrible So there's some very There's some very short ones Oh god what was that noise What Oh god I don't know
Starting point is 00:37:59 Okay what have we got now Mummy told me never to open the basement door But I wanted to see What was making that noise down there What have we got now? What have we got? Mummy told me never to open the basement door, but I wanted to see what was making that noise down there. It kind of sounded like a puppy, and I've always wanted a puppy. So I opened the basement door and just tiptoed down a bit. I just wanted a peek at the puppy and all. I didn't see a puppy, and then Mummy came and yanked me back upstairs and yelled at me to never go down there again. Never, never, never. Mummy had never yelled at me before so I was
Starting point is 00:38:33 scared and I cried and she said honey I'm sorry and gave me a cookie. It was chocolate chip which is my favourite and I felt better so I didn't ask her why the boy in the basement was making that sad puppy noise or why he had no hands or feet oh my fucking god that's horrible that's so creepy
Starting point is 00:39:00 now that is a story that is really shit jesus oh oh oh my god that was bad that one i need i think i need a minute that was unexpected where did you get that one from jesus short scary stories you got any more short scary stories this is a really really short one okay okay called reality oh god let's just probably say the last one was by dreary day did mommy told me oh dear and that scary story was by Dreary Day. And this is another one. Reality, a very, very short one by Spider Ho of Love. Yeah, I don't. That's a strange username.
Starting point is 00:39:52 Okay. Obviously, they don't have a dad that time travels. No. Okay. Do you know what the scariest part of reality is? That tonight, after I wash off the blood and dispose of the remains i will still wake up in the morning and go to work i will blend right into the crowd and you will have no idea that's it that's creepy that's it that's all it is creepy that's
Starting point is 00:40:22 spider hoe of love. Thank you. Are we going to be able to sleep after this? I don't know if I want to. Because what if, you know, what if something gets us, Lewis? It's all right. We'll be zombies. We'll come in as zombies tomorrow. We'll be fine.
Starting point is 00:40:37 The Oxcast will continue just with us as zombies. It'll be a lot more brains-related chat. So here's a Minecraft mod. It's all about brains. Every block is a delicious brain. Again. Cake has been turned into brains. Cookies are now brains.
Starting point is 00:40:54 Watermelon's a big brain. Oh, that'd be delicious, wouldn't it? Sounds amazing. I fancy some brains. Ah! What was that noise? What was that? see some brains oh my god okay this is brilliant this is shelf toppers by boxer bebop okay this is really short it's two sentences right right i used to enjoy watching people pass by my window that was before i lived on the fourth floor wow oh wow what a creepy story that is very creepy well there you go. Crikey. Thank you, everyone, for joining us on the Halloween Spectacular.
Starting point is 00:41:47 It's been terrifying. You can join us again when we do more of these, I'm sure. Send in your stories at yorkscarstitchemur.com. And we'll see you next time. Maybe. If we're still alive. Maybe If we're still alive Oh god I'm sorry
Starting point is 00:42:16 I'm sorry Oh dear Sorry about that mate I accidentally killed you.

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