Monthly Spooky | Haunted Morgues, Cropsey and Staten Island Horror

0:00 Exploring and abandoned Morgue Ghostly sex gone right, but don't worry. That's just a turtle down my pants, and we dive into the true and sad story of Cropsy. Get comfortable, thrown off the lights. It's Monthly Spooky. Hello, my spookies, you are not mistaken. It is indeed that time of the I am, of course, your host, Enrique Kuto, here with my good buddy and co host at Monthly Spooky Michelle, Michelle, how are you?

0:49 I don't know, I don't know. I should have started with like easier questions to like build you up. I guess, warm me up a little bit. I apologize that that's on me. That's on me. I let you down and I apologize, is it though? Sure? All right, I'll take that. So so we're here even negating any technical issues or technical difficulties. So which is which is a blessing? Usually I'm the one fighting with Google Chrome or whatever, but this time it.

1:30 Was Michelle, Yeah about it. I'm sorry, pal. I felt I felt completely betrayed the when when I had Google Chrome start messing up recordings, not just with you and me, but with tons of other shows I was doing. When it first started happening for me, I had literally been I had made the mistake of like saying out loud, boy, I need to finally make the move and stop using Safari altogether and only use Chrome. And then Chrome was like, oh, yeah, well, now nothing will ever work. And I was like, oh great. I like Chrome because I'm glad you like Chrome. It works usually except right now.

2:15 Yet yet you're using Microsoft Edge. It's not my fault that Microsoft Edge for some reason is working. I yeah, I couldn't tell you, tell you why for sure. Yeah. So, but we are here for better or worse. And before we started the program, Chelle and I were sharing our experiences with sliced up fingers. Oh yeah, because a couple months ago I cut my finger pretty deep and it was right around the same time you had a incident with a drone. Yeah, yeah, that cut up your finger pretty good. Probably, but both of Yeah, I don't think we talked about it much, but yeah, we probably both should have went to some kind of a hospital or urgent care. Sure, probably we didn't. I'm just saying we probably should have. I'm sure there are many people who would say based on the fact that, like, my cut was so deep that that two months or that a month later the nail was was sliced like as it was growing out. They'd probably say, oh, that means that was a pretty deep cut. And to them, I say, sounds like you're a coward. It doesn't sharpen your kitchen knives enough.

3:31 Yeah, but also, your nail isn't that far from the top of your finger, so it almost seems like. But it went through it. That's the part that yeah, okay, through it. That's the part. Yeah, because I remember because right when I came out to visit you last I was my finger was swelling up and I was like, oh my god, it's infected. And then I realized it was because the nail was pushing through the cuticle and it because it was all jagged. It was just making me yeah, yeah, I'm sorry, this is where you're groaning. But when I showed it to you in person, you were like, Oh, it's like it's all about the theater of the mind with you, isn't it. I don't know, No, I don't think that's it.

4:19 I don't remember. But now you have gone and done hurt your finger. What did you do to that poor little piggy. I still don't know. I was. It was at an inspection and I was trying to open like the gate, like a fence gate to the backyard and it's got like one of those really big, like I don't know, like hinged things latch those watch yeah. Yeah, And I was trying to open it, and I think the gate was kind of being held up slightly by the latch and so like it just slammed down on my finger and like crushed it, and I thought I was I was really surprised I didn't break my finger because of how much force it was.

5:05 But I did see a layer skin skin just comemore. Yeah, you know because normally, like when I've cut myself, I don't actually see the skin. I totally saw the skin. So I was like, oh, that's not good. So I have this like giant like hole just now. I mean, it's not deep at all, it's just the skin. But it's it's it's wide, it's got it's got surface area. Yeah. And I just noticed after I showered today that I actually have a cut on the other side of my finger too. It's just super minor. Yeah, because it was the other one was so bad. Also, it was under the band aid, so I didn't ye like.

5:47 A sibling, you know, the one the problem the attention and the other one is forgotten. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Life is a lot like a cut to your finger. Yeah, lots of I mean fair, that's a fair point. But other than smashing your finger, how have you been? No, just not happy. I don't know, is that different than usual? Yeah? I don't know. I'm sad because I haven't talked to my mom in a. Week because she's in Costa Rica. Right. She actually just came home last night, but she's still at her friend's house, so I still haven't talked to her.

6:31 So what you're saying is she was away from you, from you for a week and got home and realized that was pretty nice. Yeah exactly. She was like, wow, I only had to talk about banana fish one time because we did because lightly, I just did, like, here have this gift. So when your mom was she was in for a week Costa Rica. Yeah, so she didn't call from there or she only called very sparingly. No, we talked on What's app. We texted Oh okay, that's not so, I mean it's still yeah. It was day right, Yeah, and it was like at like ten thirty at night because it's a couple hours earlier, and she was doing bus tour, so she was just and she like didn't have any internet, so it was just like hard and I was tired, so and she wasn't getting my messages in order sometimes, so the responses were weird.

7:30 So oh that's fun. Yeah, it's real fun. Yeah. Yeah, no, that's that's a lot. You know, your mom's probably just trying to adjust to the I don't know what the time difference is over there. To you, it's two hours two hours. Okay, that's not too bad. It's basically California time, I guess, so, yeah, something like that. In theory. No, California time is three two hours. California's three, I think, yeah, because because there's the there's a middle one, and then there's Mountain time. There's Central than Mountain, then Pacific. Yeah, the middle one. Yeah. Oh okay, Well, did she have fun at least? I think? I hope. So she seemed like she had an okay time. She seems like it was too long, But a week is.

8:15 A long time, especially if you're not used to taking like week long holidays like I am not yeah, because I have friends who are like, we're gonna do two weeks at whatever, and I'm like, my god, that's half a month. Yeah, like that's like your whole life. Yeah. I mean that's probably the ADHD talking, but that's the way I feel. So yeah, yeah, Well at least she got back safe and sound. And did she bring you back like a monkey or anything. I hope not, because you know, I'm really scared of monkeys. You need to face your fears. It's probably the only ways you can grow. No, I don't like them. There's like too much like people, and then but we act like they're animals. Scares me.

9:02 I mean they're they're a bit different, but they're too stair enough. You don't like their thumbs. The thumbs are what upset you. It's just that, like I just feel like they should we should just have like normal conversations with them, and they should just live in houses next to us. And if they're not, I'm confused. That is the That is the most interesting monkey take I think I've ever heard. Well done. No, I felt that way until right now. You know. I mean, I'm happy you shared it with me, but I feel like a therapist would love to talk about that. I know they said they didn't want to get into that anymore anymore.

9:44 Michelle. We've talked about this for the last forty seven sessions, and I feel like we've explored everything we can. But you don't understand why are they out there? They should be living next to us in houses. Well. I tried to explain to you that from a scientific standpoint, their brains are substantially smaller than ours, which makes it harder for them to commit to substantial reasoning. They also have fur that covers their bodies and allows them to not need clothes, and especially not to need vests or bowler hats, which you seem to think they need very much.

10:26 No, I was trying to tell you that I thought that was speciesiest. I don't know why you're not listening to me. I don't think this is working out. I think that the real problem is all you think about from the moment you leave our sessions is more things you're going to talk about about monkeys, and we're not even we're supposed to be talking about you. Michelle, this is about me. It's all I think about. So, like, what else you want to know? Do you believe you are among key you know what I feel?

11:06 No, no, no, because I'm just trying to explain to you that I think that monkeys are misunderstood and you're misunderstanding me. So maybe I am a monkey. I don't know. I'm so confused. Before we wrap up our time today, I'm just going to open my lunch box and ask you one simple thing. No, don't do it. Would you like a banana? No, I wouldn't like a banana. I would not like a banana. It's right, but not overly right. I would not like a banana at all. Give me that banana.

11:55 We're gonna take a quick break and we'll be back with the speaky news. All right, my friends, my spookies, I think it's just about time we dive deep into a little spooky news, the spooky news. This first one is from the Scottish Sun dot co dot UK. Hmm. Yeah, I've been able to get my feelers deeper into the realm of spooky news stories, so it's not just Mirror dot co dot UK and NPR okay, but mostly yeah, yeah yeah, But this article the headline is spook Show Inside Scotland's most haunted cinema, where staff here voices and shadowy figure and shadowy figure roamsthehalls.

13:00 Wow, just as good as Marr do co. Well done the Scottish Sun and shadowy figure roams the halls. So I mean, I'm not I look, I didn't graduate high school, but even I know it should either be and a shadowy figure rooms halls or and shadowy figures roam the hall room the halls. So it looks like they forgot a definite article being a. Well, we don't know. Maybe it's multiple shadowy figures and they forgot the s. The reason, I think, Well, but then they put the S at the end of rome because it would have been a shadowy roams the halls. Yeah, so I think I think that's just the least amount of mis say I'm being a little too kind to the Scottish Sun.

13:43 Maybe maybe I have some degree of ancestors from Scotland. Maybe I'm just feeling bad. You know that we left, and but I still like to wear a skirt from now and then all right, they say shadowy figure, A shadowy figure walks through the halls, and the toilet door items fly through the air, and disembodied voices whisper in the dark. A second spook is said, that's not okay, is said to be dressed in the period clothes of a fish wife. Oh my gosh, this is all like UK slang a fishwife. I'm gonna look it up because most of our listeners are not in the UK.

14:33 We do have someone who's married to a fish, but I could be wrong. A coarse mannered woman who is prone to shouting. Oh wow, not a fish at all. Huh. Apparently the archaic term would be a woman who sells fish, but that's not a common usage. It's it's more for a woman who shouts a great deal, and it's considered derogatory. This is just so much. Well, it does in the period clothes of a fishwife, so it must mean a fish monger woman. Yeah, yeah, okay, okay. The Cinema in Elgin has been the venue for a whole host of ghostly happenings. General manager Steven Betsky Yetski bis Key and his employees have had multiple paranormal encounters in the past few years. All of these things have been witnessed at the cinema, which was built in nineteen thirty nine.

15:32 Wow, it's new. I like that. That's how you feel about things being new. I'm like, wow, that's old. That's like almost when cinema was invented. I mean, I mean sound cinema. I mean, to be fair, I also think it's old. But I felt like in Scotland that that's not very old at all. Oh, I would agree with that assessment. It's more like I balanced it with like my opinion of like Scottish stuff and then cinema, because cinema is not that old. Yeah, that's why I. Like it's going to be the sixteenth century cinema. Yeah, well, like Queen Well in small town, That's what I was gonna say. In small towns. Even in America, a lot of the cinemas in like excuse me if they're like in downtown are converted playhouses right right right, And that would make sense. So when it says it was built in nineteen thirty five, I'm like, oh, okay, so it was built to just be a cinema. He said. Quote.

16:27 We have had some spooky going on goings on in the cinema in the past few years. Our most recent event involved the Kiosk d To my surprise, we had three piles of hot cup lids kindly remove themselves from the counter. I think that's literal. I think that's not a I think that just means the lids you put on like cuff coffee. Oh okay, Like, yeah, okay, they weren't hot at the time. They were for cups that are hot. Yeah, they're hot cupleds, not hot cup lids. Yeah, yeah, got it. Where they are stored and landed down in front of the microwave. I was in the building myself, nobody else was here at all. I heard the noise and came through and immediately saw what it was. Those cup lids that were on the floor do not get stored anywhere near there. Sadly, nothing was picked up on our closed circuit television cameras as it doesn't cover that area.

17:26 That was probably two months ago. You made a face, are you, like, why wouldn't the closed circuit TV cameras be pointed towards like the kiosk? Well, yes, yes, but also like then, it could have been anything. That's true. It could have been a person. It could have been a little monkey. No, it's not a monkey trying to live among the people. No, No, give me those bananas. Oh okay, Okay, far more has happened in the past four years as well. I've been there, and there have been lots of more going on before my time as well. The foyer for Cinema two and three. Oh, it's a multi screen cinema two. That was I mean it probably was converted.

18:15 Or even Oh sorry, I was gonna say, maybe they even expanded it too. Oh, that could be too. You're right. The foyer for Cinema two and three is where I've seen my most impressive spooky situation here. I was locking up one night and came around the corner right in front of the gents toilet. A shadowy figure came through the toilet door, actually through the door. The door didn't move. Wow, Because I'm American. When I hear toilet door, I imagine a door that goes into a literal like porcelain toilet. Like. Ah, yes, the toilet door, What good would that be? Like the lid basically, well, it's not a door. If it's a lid, it's kind unless it's a hot lid.

18:58 Yeah. Yeah, it came out and walked around the corner and walked into the door on the right hand side to the staff room. Oh, It's strange that it's happened in this corner because another situation that I had was when I was opening up one morning. The door to the cleaning cupboard has all our light switches in here. On Wednesday morning, I was opening up, and as soon as I put the key in the door, I heard a voice, clear as day over my right hand shoulder. It said, are you ready for what to rumble? I instantly got the goosebumps. When you hear things as clear as day.

19:44 I know I'm not going crazy, but it is a shock to the system. Other members of the staff have also said they've seen and heard things in this cinema. They've heard stories of people who've experienced things here, or they've seen and heard things themselves. It's it's like what happened things? Everyone saw things, other people they had stuff happened to them. Oh my god. I think the big problem with this article is it's a that was a very the quote still going. This is just the guy talking. They didn't edit him for for revity. This is clearly a transcription of a recording. Yes, that's why it feels like he's not making any sense because a lot of times transcriptions don't make sense. They read them out loud again because there's no inflection. Workmen in the building have also heard voices, especially when Cinema THII was getting built. You're right, they expanded a lot of stuff tends to happen when there are big changes.

20:45 But although these oh, this is the end of the quotes over now. But although these mysterious events have caused goosebumps, they've thankfully not caused any greater harm. So goosebumps are a type of harm. Yes, Stephen said, quote The biggest shock was the shadow through the door, because I actually saw that with my own eyes. I had to run downstairs. I had to run downstairs and get help because I didn't want to be up there by myself. But I never once felt threatened. It's almost as though we're a part of a family. What I'm so so you couldn't be up to the Harris by yourself, but you didn't feel threatened, and you felt like this was part of your family. None of this sounds good for what you think family is.

21:30 Yeah, this makes me worry that you have not watched all of the Fast and the Furious movies so that you can understand family. Yeah, Wow. I feel really bad now I don't. Oh, but we're gonna take a quick break, and when we get back, we're gonna read a news story that the headline actually made me freaked out. I'm so excited to talk about it. We'll get to that right after this. We are back with even more spooky news, this time heading to Michelle's favorite news source and general source of entertainment.

22:19 Oh what, it's NPR. I know I don't think of it as entertainment though. No one does, so but up up, up up. But I saw this headline cell and it gave me pause, Like I was like, what the headline is? Authority say a babysitter checked under the bed for monsters and found someone. Oh shit, right, Oh I just heard about Oh that wasn't real? Never mind yay, Like wasn't real. Like you read it in a book, or was it real like you imagined it while like like spacing out.

23:01 It's neither of those. It was on NPR, but it was specifically not real on NPR. Oh okay, Well, we're already starting off weird because the first line is the myth of the bogie Man, not Boogieyman, the bogey man. Wow. I feel like that's an actual debate. Really, people say bogey man and some people say boogieyman. Never heard anyone say bogie man before. Real or maybe it's just spelling it with one O is supposed to also say boogieyman as possible. Well, now I have to know both bogey man and Boogieyman refer to the same mythical creature. Boogie Man is more common in American English, and bogey man also being used in British English. That makes sense, so they're not using the right style guide right in VR weird not cool. The myth of a boogieyman hiding under the bed came true for one Kansas family this week after a child's complaint led to a man's arrest oh No. The Barton County Sheriff's Office said in a statement that it responded to reports of a disturbance at a house outside the city of Great Bend on Monday. The unnamed babysitter told authorities that she was getting the kids ready for bed when one complained about a quote monster under their bed. Her efforts to reassure them otherwise didn't go quite as planned.

24:29 When the victim attempt oh sir. This is quote. When the victim attempted to show the child there was nothing under the bed, she came face to face with a male suspect who was hiding there. The Sheriff's office statement said, an altercation ensued with the babysitter and one child with the babysitter, and one child was knocked over in the struggle. Oh was he just trying to get away? I'm sure hope? So. Yeah. The suspect is a twenty four year old man who quote once lived at the residents. Oh no, how long has he been there? So? Oh? Oh, this makes it sadder and not as scary in some ways and much more scary in other ways. Yeah, apparently he didn't live there before them. He lived there with them, but he was not supposed to be there anymore.

25:20 It gets worse, the statement says, but who was under a quote protection from abuse order that required him to stay away from the property. Okay. NPR is not publishing his name because whether he has been charged in connection with this incident is unclear. Online court records cited by CNN and Kake News show he posted bond at about ten days earlier after being charged with criminal threat domestic battery and violating a protection from abuse order related to incidents in January and February. Oh, this is scarier. It's just not the scary Yeah yeah.

26:03 NPR has reached out to the Sheriff's office in Barton County Attorney for more information. The statement says the suspect fled the scene before deputies arrived on Monday night, but was spotted in the area and after a quote short foot pursuit, taken into custody. The next morning. He was arrested on charges of aggravated kidnapping, aggravated burglary, aggravated battery, child endangerment, fell in, the obstruction of a law enforcement officer, and violation of a protection from abuse order. The statement says. Wait, aggravated kidnapping. Aggravated kidnapping. Well, it says he was arrested on charges, it doesn't say that that was then charged, so they could have thought he was attempting to kidnap somebody. Okay, maybe, I mean, I could look up what aggravated kidnapping means.

26:49 What does it because we're not lawyers here, unfortunately. I mean, Michelle, why didn't you become a lawyer? Because I'm scared of people, really scared of people a lot. It seemed like a bad idea. Okay. Also, I don't understand law. Well that's easy enough. So basically it means kidnapping with additional malicious intent. Oh so, like if you would if you have abused a child and then you're trying to kidnap them, they could assume to continue abusing the child. Right, And if it was someone, if it was like you were kidnapped by your parent, because there's a custody thing, that wouldn't be aggravated kidnapping unless CRUs Yeah.

27:36 Okay, aggravated kidnapping is considered substantially more serious than normal kidnapping. Okay. Interesting, I'm scared of everything. Good, good, good, that's the way to be. According to the statement, the man is being held in county jail in lieu of a five hundred thousand dollars bond. It is not clear whether he has retained a lawyer. While fears of someone hiding under the bed are ubiquitous, they don't materialize very often. In two thousand and six, a former Washington DC hospital valet was sentenced to more than three years in prison for stalking a hospital employee. He allegedly made copies of her keys, snuck a video camera onto her dresser, and hid under her bed for two nights before he was discovered by the woman's boyfriend.

28:22 Oh jeez. In twenty sixteen, a Tennessee woman discovered her ex boyfriend hiding her hiding under her bed while she was having a security system installed to protect herself from him. Oh my god. She had already filed a protective order and changed her locks multiple times. According to a Nashville police affidavit reported by WZTV news, she shot him in the foot and held him at gunpoint until police arrived. Yay, well, it did open with a Tennessee woman, okay, oh, and then in oh and then in twenty twenty five, a young woman living outside the Philadelphia area alone had it. Sorry, because you would know it was just your printer under your bed.

29:13 Oh no, no, that's not the reason. Why Because I because I look under my bed, so nobody could hide there for more more than a couple hours. Plus gigs would want to hang out with them. Yeah. If I was like, gigs, where are you and I didn't find her, and since she was just under my bed with some criminal, purring. Yeah, exactly. I have drawers under my bed, so there's nothing under there except for you know, clothing that I probably will never wear because I put it in the drawers under my bed yeahead of you know, an addresser. That story was freaky though, Like I just can't imagine looking I've checked under a bed many times in my life, and I can't imagine ever finding anything. Mm hmmm.

29:59 Yeah. Yeah. It's scary when you have a bed that has an under area, but you have a lot of stuff under there that's not you know, like and there's like little crevices, crevices or something, so they could be persons could be under there or something. I don't know. When I was a kid, I used to keep stuff under my bed so that there could be nothing under there. Like I used to just stuff it with things like like extra blankets or whatever. Like I just keep them there that way, you know. That was my That was my method. I would be afraid because somebody could take some of them out and then hide and you just never know. But where would they put. Them in the garbage? I don't know.

30:41 I mean that's a lot of effort. I mean in the closet at that. Point, there's literally nothing under my bed, so when I look under it, I can tell immediately that no one's there. Okay, fine, Were you afraid there was something under your bed when you were a kid? Well, for most of the time that I, you know, had a bed as a kid, I had bunk beds. So my sister was under my bed. Oh that's worse. Yeah, you feel. Like that's why I have to look, because I have to make sure she's not stillware. What would you do if you just are like check out of your bed and your sister's is. Like hey, I would just literally be like oh hi, and then walk away and then be like, oh fuck, what's happening?

31:22 Just like just getting a gunloading it waiting. I mean, I was just gonna like get in my car and go to the hospital. But I like that, Yeah, it's like, okay, So either my sister is actually under my bed, I've gone insane, or it's a changeling. Those are the three options. So I'm gonna go with number. Two going to the hospital. I mean, of course, you could always call your sister like the moment you see that and be like I sure, hope I hear a phone ringing under my bed. Yeah, no, I'm just going to the hospital because I could just hallucinate the ring too, So that's true. Do you remember when I came I came down to hell you with your shoulder? Do you remember that first morning I was there. I was sitting at your at your dining room table doing stuff on the computer, and I Facebook messaged you and just said, hey, tell, looks like I'll be getting on the road a little later than I thought, but I'm really excited to help you with your shoulder. And you were plaied, Wait, you're not here already, And then I just glared at you. So you looked over and I was just like, is that like this? Lookly?

32:25 Yeah? That was good. That was pretty good. All Right, we're gonna take a quick break, but when we get back, we're gonna head to New Jersey. Oh so yeah, for something a little lighter right after this. All right, we're back and heading to the homeland of cell well not de Bronze, but the other one. Okay, the other homeland, New Jersey. Okay, we've got an article from Huffington Post. This headline caught me, but not for the reason the other one did. Oh not, because it was like freaking mortifying tsa catches man smuggling live turtle in his pants at New Jersey airport. But why, I mean, because you're not allowed to just bring a turtle back from somewhere.

33:26 Why why? Because it could destroy the ecosystem. You complain about stuff like this sometimes, Oh, you don't remember when you like would go off about you have gone off about like invasive species. I feel like, oh I have. Yeah, I'm just confused about why you put a turtle in your pants. I understand everything. I just don't get it. Wow, that's a cocky statement. I understand everything. Fine, you don't understand what I mean. Where would you if you needed to sneak a turtle through airport? What would you do? How would you do it? I mean I think it's pretty, you know, like obvious.

34:10 You put it under. A hat, like a normal size hat or one that fits on the turtle's little head. So you get like one of those top hats and you put the turtle under the top hat. But first you also have to give it a top hat, so if someone takes off, you know, this isn't added surprise. I'm actually really curious how they caught him. I'm hoping. Oh oh, I'm very curious. All right. A Pennsylvania man who was going through security at a New Jersey airport was found to have a live turtle concealed in his pants. According to Federal Transportation Security Administration, the turtle was detected Friday.

34:55 Oh my god, after a body scanner alarm went off at Newark Liberty International Airport. That's kind of how I figured they'd find it. Yeah, because they're going, Yeah. I just assumed you would say you would refuse the body scanner if you had a freaking turtle in your pants. You can't refuse the body scanner. You can opt for a pat down. Oh that would be better. Then they'd really find the Yeah. No, I think this is pretty funny. I mean it is. But can you refuse a body scan at the airport? Yes, you can refuse and opt for a pat down instead. Well, the nice thing about pat downs is some people are really lazy. They just or they like it's awkward. Like I'm sure if you like licked your lips a lot while they were doing the pat down, they'd do a really bad.

35:41 Job maybe, or maybe they'd be into. That or like as they patted you down, My move would be to be like, let's talk about you. How are you? A TSA officer then conducted a pat down on the East Stroudsburg man and determined that there was something concealed in the groin area of his pants. Okay, cool. So it wasn't just like in a pocket. Okay, good, because I. Mean, come on, that's that's where you if you're not gonna put it under your hat. When questioned further, the man reached into his pants and pulled out the turtle, which was about five inches long and wrapped in a small blue towel.

36:23 Oh, poor turtle. That sounds cozy, thing, It sounds cozy. You don't like small blue towels. I like small blue towels. No, I don't like being wrapped in towels my entire body. I don't know. Fine, it sounds great. He said. It was a red ear slider turtle, a species that is popular as a pet. The man, whose name was not released, was escorted from the checkpoint area by Port Authority police and ended up missing his flight. The turtle was confiscated. He was smuggling it out. Oh them really interested.

37:06 And it's not clear if the turtle was the man's pet or why he had it in his pants. Quote. We have seen travelers try to conceal knives and other weapons on their person, in their shoes and in their luggage. However, I believe this is the first time we have come across someone who was concealing a live animal down the front of his pants, said Thomas Carter, TSA's federal security director for New Jersey. As best we could tell, the turtle was not harmed by the man's actions. Good, it's nice. Good, he said. The incident remains under investigation, and it wasn't clear if the man would face any charges or penalties.

37:49 Follow up turtle down pants New Jersey Airport. I have to know if they figured it out. Wow, there's uh not a lot. Oh man tried to sneak invasive turtle through airport security in his pants? Yeah, it doesn't. It doesn't seem to be a reason why they didn't. They didn't ask. Him, or they didn't tell the press. H Yeah, I've tried to find like sort by date. Yeah, there's no there's no follow ups. O. Well, what a bummer. I really wanted to know more. Yeah, oh, well, why would you sneak a turtle? In the airport in your pants.

38:43 I would never sneak a turtle in the airport in my pants at all. It would just never happen. Sorry, you sneak a turtle at all? I wouldn't. I mean I would, but only if I had to get it out of the country to save its life from. It wouldn't be because the friends you've made on the internet that are monkeys overseas wanted to have a pet box turtle for the first time. No, No, they're not like that. They don't like pets. They don't like crime.

39:25 Have you met the same monkeys I've met? Because they love mischief. It's different. It's actually kind of endearing about them. Yeah, that's why I don't like monkeys. Whoa I thought you did. No, you just put that on me. Well, it seems like you want them to live among us, so that made me think that you like them. I just don't. I just don't know what I'm talking about anymore. That's okay. I never know what I'm talking about either. But when we get back, we're going to go this article looks prett creepy. Actually, we're gonna head back in time to the Victorian era sort of right after this.

40:14 All right, we're back and this this is another one from the Irish Sun. I gotta say the haunted and creepy news stories really big in the UK and surrounding areas. H Like I always find something, but this headline definitely made me curious. Inside creepy abandoned cemetery morgue with eerie Victorian era funeral hearse and autopsy table left to rot for decades. Wow, spooky pictures reveal morgue that's falling apart. So I'm gonna show this to you, Chelle. Yay, Wait, that's not the what what the hell? It's showing you the wrong thing.

40:58 It's not showing me that anything. Really Yeah, oh boy, I'll just pretend. Yeah, exactly. Wow, No, I messed up. This is on me. All right. Well, first, the most interesting thing to me is the autopsy table has like street lamps, like cool like all over it. I wish I was kidding because it looks really creepy. They literally look like the lamps like you'd have on the street, like the oil ones. M cool. Wow. The spooky building is falling apart but still has some of the original equipment. Those equipment, those carving of bodies one hundred and fifty years ago used. Wow. And there's just a big literal stone slab, like literal slab. Ooh.

41:47 The wheels on the autopsy cart are like bicycle wheels. Cool, like big okay, yeah. Yeah, they're just like bicycle wheels. Wow. Yeah. Oh, I guess that's technically a hearse. That's what they used to be called that cart. I was mistaken. The slab is where they did the autopsies, which is weird because it's very low. The cart with the lights on it apparently is a hearse back in those days, that's what they called it. Did they have to like sit down to do the autopsy. It looks like you have to be on your knees wow. Ooh. And then there's there's some exercise equipment and old bed frame a bunch of old beds. Wow. So it's in Belgium ooh. And it's got to its gorgeous property. It's huge too. The abandoned morgue is part of a hospital complex in Belgium which was used up in the up up into the twentieth century. From the outside, there's a small building with a statue of Jesus on a sign of the Cross, alongside a couple of headstones set among the pebbled grounds. In the morgue, there's a stone autopsy table and Torian era hearse wow. The beautiful ancient vehicle has carriage lamp brackets, while white metal detailing and large wheels.

43:11 The hospital section of the complex has a few more modern comforts that patients would have used, now covered in plaster and rubble. There are sofa chairs, stair lifts, and the metal chassis of modern hospital beds. One British urban explorer has even searched through the building. Chloe Urbeck's twenty three said she found the abandoned site super spooky. Wow quote. There was a little bit of a spooky atmosphere due to the fact a storm hit while I was there. Oh that'd be bitch. And you go into an abandoned morgan than a thunderstorm breaks. Out and then you get all like wet because the roof is like soaking wet.

43:51 Yeah yeah, and you get trench foot. Yeah because you don't ever take off your boots or shoes or whatever ever ever. Even in the shower no quote meaning we were hit with both thunder and rain. Inside the mortuary, there was a hearse and autopsy table. Chloe revealed the Morgan opposed to TikTok, of course, because all news is basically reporting TikTok's where fans were shocked to see inside. One person sorry, please please. I was going to say. Did someone say I'm shocked? I wish? One person wrote fascinating. Oh, Another another said wows amaze balls sick then just a little sick next week, oh, while a third commented, Oh, I love that. I'm so embarrassed for for journalism. Yeah, yeah, me too. That's that's maybe my favorite part of the show is just kind of like looking at journalism because I don't read the news that much. I mean, I do, but don't you know what I mean. Chloe Urbez has previously found a creepy abandoned horror museum where she felt someone was watching her.

45:09 What the hell's a horror museum? How is it there? An abandoned horror museum. It's not a horror museum. It's just a it's a it's they're they're using it as like because it's creepy because it was a Oh no, no, it is a. Horror museum that's abandoned. Yeah, I guess so, I guess it used to be like a museum to creep people out, so now that it's all dilapidated, it looks even creepier. Yeah I could see that. Yeah, I'll send you this link. It's it's interesting. But where she felt like someone was watching her, she found old posters, with one advertising a ghost hunt event. Another snap showed an old wanted for murder poster seeking the infamous Jack the Ripper. One stairwell appeared to have been decorated to look as if blood had been splattered on the walls. Yeah. Yeah, that was the end of the This is terrible. That was the end of the article.

46:11 It's just that, was it. It just it just ended, Hartstall. I I got nothing that was really funny. You could you do too? Well? Though, they'd be mad, they'd be like, you spell checked this, didn't you? You're fired? Oh make us all look bad with your competence. Wouldn't like pay me a lot or anything? No, probably not, probably. Pay me like twenty cents a word sentence. No, I was going to say a word that that would be actually some money after a little while. Yeah that would be okay. Yeah, Well I thought this would be a little bit more interesting, but it was mostly just you know, reviewing tiktoks, which is, like I said, that's pretty much the state of modern journalism. Yeah, but Cell, what this next story is pretty scary because to me, nothing is quite as terrifying as government. We'll get to that, I know, right, We'll get to that right after these words, before we get to this next story. Cell. Yes, did I tell you I ordered some macaroni and cheese via

47:42 the Internet the other day? No? I did not. I had just been working a long day and I decided that I had the blues, the Blue Box Blues. Do you remember that crap when we were kids, a commercial for macaroni and cheese? Yeah, I every and then I just want a plane box of macaroni and cheese. I just do. It's like every now and then I want ramen like like not like in any way nice, just like the way it is. Yeah, So I ate a box of mac and cheese. But then I was like, oh, that was the last of my like reserve of macaroni and cheese I keep in the house. So I was like, I should probably buy something. And I was like, I wonder what if the price on Amazon isn't too bad.

48:26 So I checked and it was pretty much the same price if you bought six. It was pretty much the same price as at the grocery store. So I was like, oh, well, then I'll just order it now and you know, worry about it later. So I order the six pack of mac and cheese and then find out that the sale was was like on individual boxes, but that you combine them it got the price lower. Ah. So it was six different orders all at once, and I was like, well, that's kind of annoying. And then when I came home last night from the cigar lounge, there were six Indivision jewel envelopes, each with one box of macaroni and cheese in them. Wow. Wow.

49:06 I ordered them as a group package, like it was very very unexpected. That's really interesting. So just six padded mailing envelopes each with one box of mac and cheese, and I got, you know, like six your thing was delivered notices all at once. Did you get six pictures too? Oh? I did, Yeah, of the exact same pile of Oh I just wanted to share that. Yeah, I wonder if it's cheaper for some reason you use those little mailers. So they were just like, let's just I'm just not even combine. Whenever packaging makes no sense, but not in like a destructive way, because I've also had bad experience with Amazon sending me like packages of sparkling water on top of a blu ray of a movie and the case is just smashed and I'm like, God, damn it. So I've definitely had that happen. But I've also had you know, where things come in a way too big box but like you know, padding it has to be because it's cheaper for them to just get it out, yeah, than it is for them to go and find the right packaging for it or go and like put them all together, because it's you know, if anything is an economy of scale, it's Amazon.

50:25 Yeah. So whenever I get something that doesn't make any sense, I'm like, it probably made sense in the moment that it just needed to be done and didn't really matter if the box was too big or whatever. It would have cost more money for someone to go and find the right one, yeah, than to just put it out and get it out and put it in and get it out and put it in and get it out. So anyway, speaking of bizarre inefficiencies. This story from the Huffington Post says New Zealand parmelent Parliament ghost tour shows off its spooky side. The New Zealand's Parliament is doing a ghost tour. Okay ooh you know, I always thought it'd be funny, you know if, like the if the federal government ran a haunted house, it would have like two attractions and cost like eighteen point five billion dollars a year to run. Yeah yeah, and like two of the attractions would just be like those photographs that when you turn your head they change a little bit. Like that would be two of them too. I'd be like, well those cost us. We didn't buy them, we leased them for seventeen million dollars a month, Wellington, New Zealand.

51:37 A veiled woman burst. A veiled woman burst, screaming from an elevator. The small crowd gathered in a basement corridor of New Zealand's Parliament parl New Zealand's Parliament drew back nervously. Their guide, wearing a trailing white gown, smiled sweetly. You're welcome to take the elevator, she said. Nobody did. Oh, I would take the elevator. We know you would. Mysterious deaths, unexplained noises, and late night apparitions are not the usual fodder of daily tours offered at the Parliament Buildings in Wellington after hours on Thursday, however, guides donned Victorian era garb to regale visitors with the precinct's less savory history quote mostly factual tales of real world tragedy and paranormal lore that have grown established among political staffers through decades of colorful retelling. And I want to mention very timely because this news articles from March twenty first of this year, so not even around Halloween.

52:42 I love that. Yeah, well that it's not even Halloween. Walking through a cavernous parliamentary atrium, the guide let out a hair raising screen that echoed up to the open windows of lawmakers offices. It explained why the so called spooky tours are reserved for weeks when Parliament is not in session. Then you can be like, the real horror is how much you're paying. These people do. Not work exactly. Parliament's Library is a gloomy and ornate building where stained glass windows and crystal chandeliers dimly reveal wrought iron banisters and Venetian decor. Designed by Thomas Turnbull and completed in eighteen ninety nine. It remains in use by staff seeking information or some slightly eerie peace and quiet do liminal spaces bother you? No, no, not at all. Sometimes.

53:42 I mean I don't. I don't really think about him that much. So maybe, Well. When you were a kid, did you did you ever go to like work with your dad? No? No, never, No, not even on bringing your daughter to workday. No. No, you like traveled a lot and stuff. That's even better. No, you should have been like dad, just wrap me in a little blue towel and put me in your lants. I'll be fine. No. I went to work with my mom quite a bit, in part because a lot of the time it was just us, yeah, And in part because at the time when I was a kid, they were shifting bring your daughter to work day into just bring your child to work day, So my mom insistently, I'm bringing my son. Yeah. So back then, my mother worked in an office building downtown, one of the biggest office buildings downtown before they moved to a campus in the suburbs, and I loved visiting her work because the people were super friendly and super nice, and they had a vending machine that had that contained only cherry life savers.

55:00 Wow. Wow, I would look. I would say, I'm not kidding. When Mom would say, like, you're coming to work with me on Thursday, I would save up all of my quarters so I could get as many of those as I could. Wow. Well, when you're like seven, do what. I'm so confused by what? Why are They're only cherry lifesaver. They're just the packs that are only cherry. But this is you know, this is back in the days when if you found something like that you had to like take advantage because you couldn't just go on the internet and be like I want a six pack of that specific flavor of candy or whatever. It was like, whoa, I'd never seen that out in the wild, you know. Yeah. So I loved going to work with my mother. But there were a couple of times, because this was a big office building, there were a couple of times Mom and I would go in on like a Friday night or a Saturday because she needed to drop something off or pick something up or something like that, and every time I was shocked how creepy it was. Once we got out of the elevator and we were in the spaces where it's supposed to be full of people and there's nobody. I find that I feel like the bigger the space, the more people are normally there, the creepier it would be. Like if you went to like JFK Airport and it was totally empty, it would be so weird.

56:20 Yeah, I guess. So have you flown out of JFK before? No, Oh, my gosh, it's just it's so packed. You know, it's big and it's packed. I'm sure Newark's about the same. I only flew out of I only fled out of JFK and uh, the other one, LaGuardia. You never flew out of Newark before? Oh my god, I'm sorry. I don't know what to say except I really am sorry. How are you? I flew out of the LaGuardia and JFK. That is not Newark, I know it. With the other options fine jeez. But yeah, that was the first time I had an experience with limal spaces, realizing like, there's something creepy about a place meant to hold tons of people doing things being empty, especially once it gets more into like you know, a warehouse, it's like whatever, because a warehouse could have five people or it could have seventy five people working. You know, it's just a warehouse. But an office complex where it's like you're looking at three dozen cubicles all empty, that's creepy.

57:24 It just is. I think it's just a human brain thing, you know, because we we fill in details all the time so that we don't actually have to pay attention to things around us, so we can we can put that focus toward more beneficial things like finding burritos or something. But for me anyway, but I want a burrito so bad. But when it comes to like walking into the spaces, I feel like maybe that's the feeling in some way. Is that feeling where we're like, we have to take the surroundings in fully because it's not what we expect and it's not what we're used to. Therefore we're on edge because all of a sudden, it's like your radar has to run at full power, and if your radar doesn't run at full power, you're gonna think you're seeing fucking people around mm hmm. You're gonna think you saw somebody at the copy machine because you're supposed to see people at the copy machine, but there are none. That's what I think makes it creepy.

58:20 Okay, I can understand that. I don't know if I it's like something that I don't know if I've thought about enough to like say like, oh, I agree, you know, sure, but I do find places where there are lots of people really upsetting. So I'm not sure when the people are there yet. Oh okay, fair well, we're gonna take a quick break and we'll get back maybe psychoanalyzing what Michelle just said, and then also talking about New Zealand Parliament's ghost tour right after this. All right, so Shell, you've you never found empty spaces off putting.

59:08 More so than spaces where there's lots of people. I don't know, I really don't know, but kind of nice when there's not people there. I mean, well, but see, that's the thing. If it's a space where sometimes there's not a lot of people and sometimes there's a ton, I think it makes more sense. Like a park could be crammed full of people, or there could be like two people or basically nobody. Right, it's a lot more average, but like an office building or or like an airport terminal. It's like there's gonna be lots of people. I mean, you know, there will be a varying degree, but it's not as intense, like it's very rare. There'll be two people. You know, there may be ten people, or twenty people, or one hundred and fifty people, but there won't be almost nobody very often.

59:58 Maybe I just don't no places where there aren't people what they're supposed to be people. I thought you're gonna say maybe I just don't, and then you were just going to be done to. Yeah, it just don't. No, I mean it could be. I don't know. I definitely thought about it a little bit more. Well, like, did you never feel creeped out like when you worked your your retail jobs when when there'd be nobody, Because actually that was probably my favorite creepy liminal space when I worked at a Spencer's Gifts when the mall was empty. Yeah weird. I was thinking about that while you were talking, and I couldn't remember feeling creeped out. Sorry, well this was back when a mall being empty was unusual too.

1:00:40 Well, I mean now yeah, yeah. Well there's this one mall. I think it's still around down by Cincinnati that basically there's nothing there anymore except this arcade that got opened up there that brings a lot of people. It's one where you come in and you pay twenty dollars, but that's it. Then all the machines are free. Okay, So it's actually pretty nice because like if you spend you know, more than in a couple hours there, you really get your money's whether you buy drinks and soda and candy and stuff in there too, And there might be like a couple of up charges, but like all of the arcade games, you just walk up and start playing them. And but the creepy thing about that is we didn't know the mall, so we just parked and came in and had to walk through like seven minutes of dark, nothing mall to get to this one spot that's like totally lively and open.

1:01:28 Interesting. It was cool. It was kind of creepy, a little bit creepy, like my Spencer's gift store. I remember feeling a little creepy when there'd just being nobody there. But it was quiet. That's the other thing. Spaces that are not normally quiet being quiet is really weird. Okay, Like I feel like that was weirder with the mall than not seeing anyone was just how quiet it would be. There's no musac, there's no people talking. It's just really all you're hearing is maybe your footsteps. Yeah, Spoopy, one day we'll figure out what actually scares you than other people. Oh the good luck. Parliaments. Oh I read that part. When visitors arrived Thursday, they were greeted by spectral figures who shrieked as they glided down staircases beneath the portraits of former head librarians and New Zealand prime ministers. That sounds scary. The last part, tour guides told a hushed audience that the library was imperiled by a savage storm that struck Wellington in nineteen sixty eight, sinking a passenger ferry in the harbor, with the deaths of fifty three people. Oh whoa nobody tell them about Vietnam. It was happening at the same time.

1:02:39 It wasn't right there. It was actually closer than us. Yeah, the tempest lash. The tempest lashed Parliament too, tearing out skylights and prompting librarians to climb onto the roof as they tried to protect the books. According to a guide who sported Victorian garb and dark shadows under her eyes, I hope nobody caught that I accidentally said roof. Oh I didn't. Good. Now everyone knows I'm trying. So I've been my whole life trying to get that out. Why because it's roof. It's whatever you wanted to be. No, it's roof, not roof, it's roof.

1:03:22 That's just your accent. I don't have an accent. Oh, dare you? You do have an accent? It's roof, it's orange, it's Trenton. No, it's Florida. No quote. For mysterious and unknown reasons, they did this in their underwear. She told the visitors. They don't want to get their clothes wet. I would assume it, so they have dry clothes to put on. Yeah. Yeah, quote. There seems to be a history of people losing their pants here in this parliament. She says that.

1:04:02 She's like, anyway, here's a list of sexual assaults. It's just like, thanks, The guide added with relish, I haven't even started on the politicians. That's funny. I like good. Eventually, the tour turned to lawmakers too. Well known in New Zealand is the story of William Larnak, a politician who in eighteen ninety eight was found dead in a room at Parliament with a revolver in his hand while experiencing financial and family strife, So. He killed himself. Well, I wouldn't get ahead of yourself. Larnick's ghost, some claim, remains in the building. His skull, however, was stolen. Why someone stole a skull and in nineteen seventy two was rediscovered in a college student's bedroom.

1:04:52 Oh. I mean, I have some questions, but not a lot actually, because I assume that like somehow it ended up at a university because somebody sold it and the university was like, I don't know, and then some college students was like, oh cool and just took it. It's sad because since it's the seventies, I feel like it's a little too early for them to have turned it into a bong. But maybe they did. Another spirit reported to Linger is that of the first full time librarian, Ewan McCall, whose death was partly attributed by some official sources to overwork. How do you overwm? Not picking on the librarians out there. I mean, I'm sincerely, how do you overwork a librarian to death?

1:05:39 Maybe they just they're not allowed to go home or eat or anything, and then they die. Maybe they're not allowed to sleep. I feel like that's not overworking so much as that's like literal torture, torment and murder like um. It depends fair. As the tour descends to the building's basement, the ceilings grew low and the corridor's narrow Frantic banging resounded from an apparently locked room. The subterranean floors are home to an archive containing the historical and esoteric. It's also the sight of some of the building's strangest reported occurrences. Tour guide said. Urban legends passed down by staff include stories of hands reaching out from the stacks, songs emanating from empty bathrooms. I can hear it come in in the to night. That must be the song, the apparition of a ghostly woman in a mirror, and locked doors swinging open.

1:06:41 More earthly horrors included a cat, that's all it says, A cat wow, a subsequent flea oh, and subsequent flea infestation. Oh no, it was a cat and flea infestation in nineteen seventy seven. That makes more sense if it's not just a single cat. It's yeah, like the place got flooded with cats with flea. After one last fright, visitors emerged slightly shaken into Parliament's near empty lobby as darkness fell. The tour was quote a bit spookier than I expected, said Holly Masters, who attended the Spooky Tour now, who had last visited Parliament as a child. Quote, there was a there was quite a few deaths here that I did not expect to find out about. What deaths did you expect to find out about? I expect to find out about Ron, Like, yeah, Ron died here, but I didn't think I was gonna find out all his other people.

1:07:33 Yeah. Another visiting visitor, Sally Giles, said she was fascinated to learn the stories of those who worked and died in the precinct and quote what they've left behind and how that surfaces every now and then. The tour guides would return to their regular authorized scripts on Friday's tour, but some said the building's spooky side was never far away. Quote. I always open up the tour route in the morning, said Brand, the team leader. It does always feel a bit tingly when you're the one, when you're one of the first people walking around. Hmmm, h good.

1:08:15 Job, New Zealand. You interested me. I am I actually thought that that. I mean, you delivered it very nicely, but I thought it was written pretty well. No, it was surprisingly No, That's what That's what inspired me to read it with like such gusto, was that it was like flowing great. Yeah, yeah, yeah that was Who was that? The Huffington Post? I think so I just closed it, damn it. Oh, I'm pretty sure that's what you said. Yeah, I think it was the Huffington Post. Well, when we get back, we have something really weird and I'm excited to read it. So well, we'll be back in just a moment. We're back, and this story is from the New York Posts, so you know it's good. I don't know how I missed this story, because this actually came out a little a few months ago, but I completely completely zoomed right past me. Rocker Alice Cooper's daughter claims her friend had orgasmic sex with a ghost.

1:09:17 Oh okay, you. Thought that, you were like, oh, I thought this would be something strange. Yeah, yeah, this is pretty pretty average. Well, thank you. The daughter of shock rocker Alice Cooper says ghosts are the daughter of this is what it says. The daughter of shock rocker Alice Cooper says ghost are real. Wow. Ghost just the one, just the one. Maybe that movie Ghost. I do love that movie Ghost. It's pretty good. Yeah. Her and her friend even had sex with one. Wow.

1:09:59 Calico Cooper forty three says she experienced a spooky encounter while on a boat when she felt a presence following her and watching her. The singer, dancer, and stage performer made the revelation to Brocarti, a British singer who once famously married then divorced a ghost. Oh okay. Kaliko is the daughter of shock rock singer Alice Cooper, famous for his gothic horror persona. She and Brocardi recently met at Wacken at Whacken Open Air and bonded over ghost sex and their sightings. Wow. I mean, I guess you gotta find the ways to bond, right, Yeah, yeah, Brocarti said quote. I find it fascinating that the thing everybody wants to know about is ghost sex. Do you do you?

1:10:51 I mean, maybe. You think that that's you think it's fascinating. Everybody wants to know about that? Well, I mean, yeah, yeah, I feel. What you're like. I feel I thought they'd be more interested in, like how did the wedding certificate get issued? Or now? Actually I am more interested in that. I'm really confused. I'm guessing it wasn't issued. If it was a legal marriage, there would have to have been like a hearing for the divorce. Mmmm. I want to know about all that stuff. Quote. I will always get asked that question when talking about being married to ghost. Maybe maybe it's its name as well.

1:11:38 Yeah. I think it's brilliant because I think strangers would be slightly more cautious when asking you about how good sex with a human partner is, yes, because they've all had sex with a human partner in theory, like what, you married a ghost and yeah, you know what, and you didn't just marry a ghost. You told everybody you married a ghost. Yeah, so of course they want to know about the sex or something, and. Well, they would at least want to well, I mean, what else. Okay, So okay, you let's say let's do this. Okay, you are in a room with a woman who has proclaimed publicly in news and media that she was married to a ghost. Okay, what do you want to ask? So?

1:12:24 Did you have a wedding? Women are so like that they just want to know about the wedding. Like if if the person is like I had sex with ghosts, I'm gonna ask like, well how was that? But if it's about being married, I want to know like the details, like was there a wedding? Was there a cake? Yeah? Like did the ghost eat the cake? Like? How did this happen? Who was like in the groom's party? Because there's good he's dead? Like, and how did they get a marriage certificate? Oh, there's a video of the vowel. Oh, there's just nobody there. It's just her and a priest and then nobody was.

1:13:05 But like did people come to this? Were they? How crazy? Are you? Like? What's going on? Apparently the ghost name was EDWARDO. Oh that's good. Then how come she's not referring to him as Eduardo? I don't know? And they got married at the asylum chapel. Oh, and she walked down the aisle to her own song that she was singing as she was I don't think I don't know it didn't say she was singing, but yeah, okay, and she says that Edwardo was making sure I knew he was here throughout the ceremony by whispering things in my ear and gently nudging me. Oh so, then how was the sex.

1:13:54 That you you? That was? That was solid? All right? Back to the new story. Oh my gosh, I used to be so shy of that question. Used to be she was married to the ghost in twenty twenty two. Wow, so do that long ago? Of course? Well they're in show business, so you know how those weddings are. Yeah. I used to be so shy of that question, but it makes me laugh now because everybody wants out of this world sex, So I'm quite lucky, really, Oh once out of this world. See, yeah, yeah, gosh. Brocardi has spoken about her experience of having sex with a ghost on several occasions, describing ghost sex as very erotic and powerful. Okay. She believes ghosts to be energy forces that can touch your body in the same way a human can and leave you feeling stimulated. Okay, but how's the alimony work exactly? On an episode of Say Yes to the Dress, Brocardi described ghost sex as quote orgasmic.

1:14:59 When speaking to Tan France, Kaliko shared a story about how this is so bad. Kaliko shared a story about how he friend I think they met her friend had experienced ghost sex. Man, this is bad, Brocarti said, quote. I love it when I meet people and they are not afraid to talk of ghosts and things that are out of the ordinary. I have such a curiosity for the topic, and I love to learn and embrace everybody's encounters. Kaliko also shared with Brocarti a ghost encounter she had whilst on board the Queen Mary in the Long Beach. Okay, Kaliko felt the presence of a ghost following her and watching her. See They're like, you wouldn't ask how the sex is with a human partner. Okay, well you would call that fucking stalking if it was a human person.

1:15:45 By the way, this following her and watching her, she said, the encounter, Oh god, this gets awful to me. I'm sorry, She said. The encounter made her feel chosen. That's creepy. It is pretty creepy. I thought I felt stalked, but then I also felt like, yay, I'm wanted. That's well. I was about to say that sounds like your dad was there. We have it. Yeah, yeah, that sounds Cooper. So there you go. Yeah yeah, maybe instead of tooring, you should have went to her viola recital. Then maybe she In this news story, Brocardi divorced her ghost lover by means of an exorcism. Oh fuck her, Okay, I'm done. Fuck that is not okay.

1:16:34 I forgot how you feel about exorcisms. We expect we learned about that a lot of Yeah, yeah, what the fuck, But it hasn't stopped her curiosity about reach researching into the paranormal world. Over the last year, Brocardi has traveled the world in order to learn more about her ghost whispering abilities. She's conducted paranormal paranormal investigations in some of the world's most haunted locations. She's been locked in an executioner chamber on death row. She's adopted a possessed. It doesn't there's no word she adopted a possessed. Oh, it literally says she adopted it possessed, and then the next line starts, there's no punctuation or anything. She adopted a possessed And then it says Bricardi has also interviewed the world's most respected rock bands about their supernatural encounters.

1:17:33 Oh so. She adopted a possessed Yeah, I mean. That could be anything a doll, probably or house. I adopted a possessed clown doll after my marriage, That's what it is. I'm so confused. And she claims that the doll made her ex jealous, but. I thought that they exercised him. Yeah, I'm starting to think this isn't very true. Also, I feel like I didn't learn anything about the sexon. No, there's like nothing then except it was good. Like the fuck. Well, don't worry, Chelle, because after this quick break, we're gonna cover one more story and we're heading back to our stalwart, our good friends at Mirror dot co dot uk right after this. And now we're returning like the Prodigal Sun to Mirror dot co dot UK. Yay, so this one good headline. I was burnt at the stake, but my past life flashbacks show I'm here for one reason.

1:18:55 Now, Okay, sure, you're like. Yeah, okay. It was four am and Alexandra whenman was in a B and B high up in the mountains of Cusco Peru eleven thousand feet above sea level. Since arriving the day before, she had been suffering from altitude sickness, feeling dizzy and nauseous. Quote. I woke up in the early hours feeling terrible, and I searched in my bag for my rainbow obsidian. I carry crystals everywhere, says Alexandria forty seven from Tottenham, North London. Quote. I'd brought this crystal because it's a grounding stone. It pulls you back to earth. I knew that being high up in the altitude would affect me and my long standing fear of heights would surface. Two very intuitive she figured out that being up high would affect her fear of heights.

1:19:49 Yeah, I actually wouldn't think that the altitude would affect your fear of heights because it's not like she's on a bridge and she's looking down all that way, just in a place. So unless yeah, so I think that that's bullshit. But that's over. Oh are you just gas lampinger? So holding the crystal, Alexandra hoped its healing properties would reduce her nausea. However, hey, maybe you should try that. Yeah. Sure. How However, within seconds of touching the stone, Alexandra was experienced a terrifying past life flashback. Oh quote. I saw myself in the Inca city of Machu Picchu, and I was being punished for stealing grain. My hands were brutally hacked off by guards. Then I was put into a net and lowered over a cliff, says Alexandra. Quote. The vision was like a memory, but stronger.

1:20:50 Hmm. I was reliving the moment. I could smell the earth and feel the intense pain as I hung over the cliff. I saw myself trying to grab the rock face with my bleeding stumps. Funny, it is funny. Then I fell to my death. Yay. The vision ended, but Alexandra instinctively understood that her long standing fear of heights had come from this past life. The following day, oh quote. The following day, I visited Machu Picchu and explored the ruins. It didn't take me long to find the spot on the path near the cliff edge where I'd fallen to my death centuries before.

1:21:36 I quietly said words of forgiveness for my killers and for myself. My altitude sickness vanished. That's interesting, and my fear of heights eased since this experience, in twenty sixteen, my phobia hasn't returned. Wow, So maybe your fear of crowds has to do with a past life thing. Yeah, I mean, I don't see why not. Maybe a crowd killed me, that's how. Yeah, Or you killed a crowd. Maybe I killed a crowd. Yeah yeah, see there you go. Cool? Yeah, awesome. Although this past life past life holiday experience was spontaneous, it wasn't Alexander's first encounter with the spirit world. As a four year old, she saw faces and angelic lights, and within a few years she could sense people's emotions. Yeah, that's how most children are within like a four year old, within a few years they start to have empathy. That's that's the thing. Quote. My mother, Barbara, a nurse, and my father, John, a doctor, were practical people, but they supported my gifts. My mother comes from a long line of psychics. They were practical people. My mother, of course, from a long line of psychics.

1:22:54 Yeah, okay, I mean she didn't she didn't say what her mom was doing. Was like maybe her mom wasn't into that. So that's yeah, practical. As a child, her lifelong belief in their power and ability to help commune with the other side began. She also learned that each crystal is believed to be linked to different traits. For instance, rose quartz promotes love and compassion, and orange satellite boosts creativity. Hmm, I gotta be honest. The only crystal I know that really boosts creativity and productivity is meth Quote. When I was twelve, I bought my first two crystals, a rose quartz and an anthist.

1:23:37 I carried the stones everywhere and slept with them under my pillow. The crystals felt alive and like friends. I was bullied at school, but once I had the crystals, this calmed down. They protected me. She said. She hit them with the crystals. She just or she just held it at tor then went like, you can't do that. I have a crystal, and they were like, let's get away from this weird person. I don't like this anymore. She says that she learned instinctively by sitting with them in her hand how to listen to crystals. Quote. I discovered the messages can come in various ways. I sense the information as a knowing or I've flash. I have flashes of events like in Peru, or hear words. So basically every way that you could get a message is how you You either have a feeling or see flashes or hear words, So basically all the ways, all the way. Like the only one she didn't mention was that sometimes I smell the messages. That's the only one she didn't throw in there. Yet it's coming, it's coming. It's the stink courts. That's how the stink courts talks to you. My mum had taken me to the Crystal Castle in Byron Bay, near where I grew up in Australia. It's the home to some of the world's biggest crystals, set in beautiful gardens. That explains why nothing bad has ever happened in or around Australia because of all these giant crystals. Quote. As soon as I was out of the car, I spotted a rose quartz obelisk taller than me. I felt the stone calling and ran over and put my arms around its middle. The

1:25:07 crystal gave me flashes of a past life as a female Aboriginal elder. It was a powerful moment, and I understood that crystals are record keepers. So this is just I'm sorry, this is an annoying, obnoxious white lady who is fantasizing about being people of other cultures and dying. I'm sorry, that's how I feel. So she only should fantasize about being her own culture. And yes, yes she should. She should be like I was a river dancer and then I was shot by Napoleon's army. That's what it should be.

1:25:54 Hmmm. I feel like that's racist too, but. It's better racist. Oh no, I mean from her perspective, not from mine. I mean, like, like in general, it's better racist. I don't know, I don't know how I feel. I mean, because I do understand your point, especially when you when she was like I went here, and now I think that I, you know, was from this tribe. Thru Yeah it was Inca, Inca. Yeah, it's a little bit weird. And then it's like I was an aboriginal person. Like it's like, uh, it just it just drives me crazy because you know, you have that kind of thing with these like you know, woo woo white ladies. It's like, I'm forty, I'm bored. I want to be something else, like desperately, so the courts will do it.

1:26:41 I mean, I don't know if it's that complicated, she could just literally be crazy. I mean that we can hope. Oh so I'm going to skip ahead because this article is shockingly long and it's mostly about how the crystals emit things h and I just don't I don't care. But she said, I'm never shocked by the past lives that surface for my clients or now for me when I'm traveling, said Alexandra. Since Peru, I've experienced FLA flashbacks while visit visiting France, Ibiza, Brazil, Bali, Australia, Guatemala and Thailand. I thought she said she was from Australia. Yeah, I thought so too, But I don't know. Maybe she just went there again and she got another flashback.

1:27:27 In Carcasso in France in twenty seventeen, I experienced a flashback of being burnt alive at the stake for being a heretic. Why do you have such interesting lives too? That's the other thing, like lucky, Like I hope she dies horribly now, otherwise she's broken the chain and become boring. Well, it's possible she's had hundreds of thousands of past lives and she just remembering the cool ones. Well, I mean, but they would have to not overlap right. Oh, I don't know is that how that works? I have no idea. While on holiday and Abiza in twenty eighteen, I was meditating on the beach with a clear quartz crystal when I saw myself as a young girl being killed by an invader on the same beach.

1:28:13 I love what it's never like. And then I was born. Then I saw myself I was a peasant in London. I died of you know, starvation at seventeen or something. You know, it's never anything that you know interesting, it's like that that actually happened. It's always something super interesting, super poignant. In Thailand in twenty twenty three, I was leading a retreat when I had a flashback to a peaceful life as a fisherman. Okay, so that's the only one there, you go. Yeah. Plus in Averbury in twenty twenty four, I visited the Stones Circle and had a vision of myself centuries ago with a group of women bringing healing to the earth. Oh that's nice. I'm so glad. That's a fair point, because I know we haven't had any illness or sickness since then.

1:28:53 Well maybe that's a particular part of the earth, not people. But the earth itself feels better now. I think the combination of being in a place connected to my past and my powerful crystals creates a link across the centuries, says Alexandra. Often my experience leads to my own healing afterwards, and I feel a calm. I feel calm, like a weight has been lifted. However, one of Andrea's past lives stands out. In twenty twenty four, she visited Egypt and spent time at various temples and the Great Pyramids in Cairo. Quote. As I stood amongst the towering pyramids holding a lapus lazuli, a stone sacred to the ancient Egyptians, I saw myself as an elderly high priestess at the temple of Dennett of Dendera on the west bank of the Nile. Quote. I knew it was my time to die, and I had the power to choose when to leave this earth. I watched myself enter the temple and lay down on a stone altar.

1:29:48 I saw myself close my eyes, my spirit leave my body, then brilliant white lights beings from the afterlife. What after life? You keep getting reincarnated? You don't go to the afterlife lady. I think that she does, and then she gets reincarnated. Oh like in Quantum Leap. Okay, I like that. If it's like quantum Leap, then I'm in okay. Cool. Suddenly Alexandra was back in the modern world, surrounded by the pyramids, with tears streaming down her face. Quote the powerful experience was a validation that in this life, I'm continuing my destiny. I'm helping to heal people by selling them crappy rocks and sitting in a room holding their hands saying I'll cure your lime, disease and depression. I hate people like this, I really do. I know you do, because you're selling people a world that is not real.

1:30:40 Because I skimmed over some stuff because it was like, honestly ticking me off and boring. But she says that people see her for problems from depression to back pain. Often their issues are past life based. I would not treat your depression with this woman, because this woman will, of course. I mean, if maybe if one of her past life progress was one time I was really depressed and I held a rock and thought it would help, but then I killed myself instead. You know, maybe if that was one of her past life regressions. I hate stuff like this. You're when you're dealing with people that desperate, especially if it's depression and they're coming to a crystal healer. They're desperate. We all have our problems, and mental health is not a fucking joke. That's why I get angry.

1:31:21 It's not a joke, that's all. So if you like crystals and stuff like that, you know, enjoy your hobby. But shit's real. Sorry, this stuff I have a real personal problem with. Yeah, so you do. So Michelle explain how this is all good and helpful. So I can, you know, not be the jerk. Oh, I don't know. I mean it could be. You can pretty much make your brain do whatever you want to if you believe it. You know, like you can placebo yourself into feeling better. It doesn't work forever, yeah, but it works for a little while. The end.

1:32:08 Fair, Well, we're gonna take a quick break and then we're gonna talk about our topic, which I didn't mention at the beginning of the show because we were too busy talking about bleeding fingers, and that is the cropsy urban legend out of Long Island. Oh so somewhat near your ancestral homeland. Still not but close. Yeah. But the cropsy legend is something I've always been fascinated by, and we'll be talking about that right after this. Oh damn, oh damn. Indeed, we are about to talk about the cropsy urban legend. Sheille. I'm guessing you've never heard of this.

1:32:50 I've never heard of this. You somehow grew up in like a bubble of avoiding all urban legends, it seems. Yeah, I didn't really have friends that'll do it. Yeah, I mean, although I don't know, I had so few friends that I had to know about urban legends like it. It was the only way I could be amused. Oh, I just didn't do anything. Oh that's fair, fair point. I'll give that one to you. So I wanted to talk about the cropsy legend a little bit because this has become a famous thing, believe it or not. Movies like Friday the Thirteenth are loosely based on the Cropsy legend. The film The Burning, which is a very famous horror movie, is directly based on the Cropsy legend. Without giving away a ton because we're gonna read about this article from Historic Mysteries dot com. Basically, cropsy is is basically the concept of the stories of like you're at a summer camp or a hospital or a school, and there's a guy who worked there who was kind of weird. People used to bully him adult then through some horrible turn of events, he gets set on fire, survives, and now he's a scarred monster haunting the woods near where it happened and killing people. Okay, that's like as loose as it gets with the cropsy legend.

1:34:24 So that cropsy was kind of who started all of those legends in that kind of similar vein. Okay, So, and there's a decent amount of him, like you know, the camp counselor that got killed, or the janitor that does that haunts the whatever. It's a very common kind of tactic in places where kids congregate, especially Urban legends are the modern version of camp campfire tales, updated for city living. These spooky stories told to frighten and thrill are almost always macabre, gory, or otherwise threatening, and we can see this in their form. They almost always involve some sort of of danger which resonates with the listener because it taps into a real and present fear home invasions, your car breaking down late at night, terrible things in the sewers beneath your feet. You can almost see the torch held underneath the face as they are told to wide eyed audiences. That's a good intro. Happily, these stories are also near universally untrue. But sometimes at the bottom of a story there is a truth. Sometimes a terrifying urban legend is actually real. No, this story of Cropsy, the child murdered of the child murderer of Staten Island, this is that story. I may have read that weird.

1:35:48 I apologize for everything. Cropsy was a killer rumored to haunt Staten Island. Oh, Staten Island, not Long Island. That's an unforgivable sin. I am so sorry. It's okay. I think Staten Island is funny. Okay, I like, I agree. During the nineteen seventies, the legend talks about a man who kidnapped young children after he lost his own son. Oh, I'm interested because I watched the whole documentary on Cropsy and it's changed a lot. But then again, this is the true story. I think, maybe sort of, this man was mentally unstable, so the story went out of grief, he had resorted to stealing the children of others as replacements. Oh Staten Island is very different from the rest of New York. Large areas of undeveloped woodland, but against the streets and houses of its occupants. And in the woods there are ruins. It can be easy to get lost in them. This was Cropsy's hunting ground. New Yorkers often emphasized the physical when they described the figure of Cropsy. For example, it is said that, like a Disney film villain, Cropsy has a hook for a hand. Some people believe that Cropsy looked horrible, with scars and burns on his body and face. Such deformities are common in these urban legends, adding to the ghoulish nature of the killer. With these descriptions, it is

1:37:23 clear that Cropsy's tale is one that grew in the telling. When something is included in a story which evokes some fundamental fear in this way, such as a detail, such a detail will be an embellishment to make the story scarier. It's like doing material on stage. You say something, you get laughed, so you keep saying it and trying or trying to make it even funnier. Some other examples, by the way, would be the mad Gasser of Matune, Illinois and Perak the Springman Prog's own spring heeled jack. Those are a few examples that mentioned. However, remove the hook hand, the scars, and the burns and you start to approach the truth. Oh there was a real cropsy and his name was Andre Rand. Andre Rand was born sometime in the nineteen forties. By the year nineteen eighty three, Andre worked as a custodian at the Willowbrook State School of Staten Island. That year, he took out a school bus with eleven kids in it without authorization from the school and drove the bus to New Jersey's Newark Liberty International Airport fuck, where he hid a turtle in his pants.

1:38:44 Now wow. While his kidnapping attempt came to nothing, it was not clear why he did it. He was given a ten month sentence and the kids were rescued. Rand was never a trustworthy person to the parents of the area. Parents would see Rand randomly hanging out with the kids, although he was much older than them. Hmmm. He would try to befriend them, go on walks with them, and even take them to the local diner for a bite to eat. Now, all this might seem good natured, but his intentions were never clear, and he creeped the parents and children out to a great extent. Apart from his random kidnapping of a busload of school children, he would also often be the last person seen with missing children.

1:39:38 Oh however, no one could ever prove that he played a part in the kidnapping or disappearance of the kids. Many people would accuse him of kidnapping and even killing children, but there simply was no proof. I mean, I would say, with that kind of ill advised try to escape to from Newark Airport thing, he probably was not with it enough to murder people and hide it. In my opinion, you. Know, it sounds like he's pretty far off. Yeah yeah, but things are about to take a very strange turn in this story. Stranger even stranger. Oh and we'll get to that right after this. All right, we're back talking about the real life cropsy. At least according to Historic Mysteries dot Com, it was only in the year nineteen eighty seven that things began to change in Staten Island.

1:40:52 That year, twelve year old jen Jennifer Schweiger would disappear in nineteen ninety eight, Andre Rand was taken into custody for kidnapping and first degree murder of the child. Oh it was the first disappearance with which Rand was legally tied. However, it was not the last one. Oh damn. In the same year, he would be accused of the disappearance, accused of the disappearance, accused of the disappearance of kids like Alice Perea, Holly Anne Hughes, Tias Jackson, and Hank Gafforio. However, he would only be charged with kidnapping of Holly Anne Hughes.

1:41:38 The interesting and terrifying fact about these charges is that while the jury was able to find out that it was Rand who kidnapped the children, it could never prove that he murdered them. That he probably murdered them, because I mean, yeah, I mean maybe, I mean unless he just like threw them in the woods and then they died or something. Well, they disappeared. I don't think there were bodies of most of them. Okay, So okay, so he might have just done something else with them. Well, I mean, no body, it's hard to prove that crime, that one crime. Yeah, so absent to murder conviction, he was convicted of kidnapping on both counts. His sentence, however, reflected the extreme nature of his crimes, which would put him behind bars until two thousand and thirty seven. He would only come out of prison if he lived to see his nineties.

1:42:35 Wow. In truth, Rand had been known to the police for many years and had a history of crimes against children. In nineteen sixty nine, he served a sentence of sixteen months in jail for attempted sexual assault of a nine year old. What the fuck. That he was employed as a custodian at a school in Staten Island is a shock and unbelieva outcome after that sentence. Yeah, yeah, I would say so. Yeah. However, the reputation of Willowbrook State School of scott and Staten Island at that time was also not so great.

1:43:17 They were like, I don't know, we can't get anyone to be a janitor. There's this pedophile, I know, let's get him. Yeah, well he attempted pedophile. They were like, oh okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Get him to fill out a W nine. However, the reputation was not that great. The school was meant for children who faced difficulties in learning so people who would be more yeah, more vulnerable. However, instead of being a safe place for such kids, that has been described as a hell where the children were subjected to crimes and horrors, the children would face sexual abuse, punishment, and unsanitary conditions at this infamous school.

1:44:05 So we actually so we know why he was there then, like because they were like, oh, just he fits so well with the rest of the staff. You fit exactly with our business plan. Therefore, it is a possibility that Andre Rand was involved in many more crimes against children, and the authorities of the Willowbrook State School of Staten Island were aware of his nature and disposition towards children. The public was not aware of the conditions at the school or the crimes of Rand until the nineteen seventies. Even then, it took more than a decade to shut down the school and punish Rand and other staff of the school for the atrocities they had committed.

1:44:45 By the time Cropsy was arrested in nineteen eighty eight, he had been a danger to children for decades. You know, you know, it's not okay. I'm supposed to just take lots and lots years to get these people off the streets. No, it brings reassurance to Staten Islanders that the real Cropsy is behind bars. The backwoods of Staten Island may still be unsafe for the wary, but they do not hold a child kidnapper. Probably, in the years since Cropsy has proved an irresistible In the years since Cropsy has proved an irresistible fascination for filmmakers, many living in the area have dug deeper into the legend and have inter interacted with the families that were really affected by Rand's crimes.

1:45:39 As more comes to light, it has become unclear or has become clear, that Cropsy was not just a scary story told to frighten people. Sometimes an urban legend can be very real. This is interesting because he was I knew some of the basics of the quote quote real Cropsy, but there were movies like The Burning. I think The Burning came out in nineteen eighty one, and that's a movie where where the killer was literally named Cropsy. Yeah. So I'm guessing that the concept is, or the thought process is that he became infamous even before he was caught, as like, there's a guy who lurks and whatever, and it's just that he was brought to justice later, thinking that's what it was, that sounds somewhat reasonable, I guess, yeah, because yeah, cropsy, you know the concept of just the evil villain. You know that kids all knew he does meet that criteria, and because the school was so terrible, they protected it.

1:46:54 Yeah. I mean, to be fair, I think even if the school wasn't that terrible, I mean of a place, not of like, they probably still would have protected him because I just feel like that was, you know, more common back then in that time. Yeah, in that time period. What's crazy is like at the end it was like the Satanic Panic was happening. You'd think that that would but that didn't affect that area apparently, or that school at all. Yeah, because lots of people were being accused of way worse for just like spending time with your kids reading books. They'd be like, you're a you know, Satan worshiper and you're hypnotizing our kids. And they'd be like, what the hell are you talking about? And then like we group hypnotized our kids to believe this stuff. I should we should do the Satanic panic sometime, like try and find a good overview of it. Because it's really interesting. Yeah, so, but that's the supposed true cropsy story.

1:47:49 Yay. If that's the way you feel, yay is fine. I was not going to go with yay. Oh wow, sorry it's oh no, no, it's fine. I'm the one to blame. So we're gonna take a quick break and then we're gonna wrap things up. I have a few great horror movies I saw in the theater to talk about, and Michelle told me off air that she found one of the most interesting Reddit stories she's ever read in her Life's so mean, so she's gonna share it right after this. All right, we're here wrapping up this month's week monthly Spooky too many titles. Yeah, thank you for giving me a little grace on that. But this month, Celle, this last month was a really interesting time for horror movies in the theaters. Yeah yeah. I saw two horror films in the theater that I thought were really excellent and one that was pretty good.

1:48:55 Hmm. The first one I saw was The Woman in the Yard, a movie that really surprised me. The concept being there's a family in a house and then this woman's in the yard. Who is she? What does she want, she won't leave. I know, it's like it sounds silly, but you know it's creepy, like she's wearing a veil and sitting just sitting in a chair. They don't live near anything, and there's no car around, so it's like, how did she get there? Yeah? I mean to me, I mean, I don't think it's funny. I just think it's funny that it's called the Woman in the yard, and then it's like it's about a woman. In a yard the yard Okay, Yeah, I mean, we'll see how much you think it's funny when there's a woman in your yard.

1:49:38 That there are people in my yard all the time. But if she's just if what would you do if you opened your your blinds and there was just a woman all in black with a black veil on, sitting in a chair facing your house. In your case, well, I probably not do anything for a while and just hope that she goes away. And then if she doesn't go away, I probably say are you okay? And if she doesn't answer me, I'm probably calling ops. The first thing they did was ask are you okay? Oh that's good, I'm glad, and then they couldn't call the cops because they had their power got shut off due to lack of payment and their phones are dead. Oh well, I could just go to the cops. Yeah, that's true, because you have neighbors. You live in a neighborhood. So it was a really good movie, great atmosphere, super scary, and the ending made me cry my eyes out.

1:50:25 It didn't go in the directions. I thought it went in more interesting places than I was expecting. It really blew me away. I was not expecting it to be quite so good and so scary. It's unfortunately pretty much out of the theaters already. I caught it a little late, but if you have a chance to watch The Woman in the Yard, I think you'll really like it. It was simply scary. The next horror film I saw in the theater was Death of a Unicorn, which was fine. I'm not trying to be mean, but I thought it would be funnier because it was supposed to be it's a horror comedy. Oh, there was a lot of interesting stuff about the concept of a real unicorn that was pretty cool. I definitely liked that the actors were phenomenal, Like every performance was completely great, but it just wasn't the best movie I'd seen in the theater, you know, in a while, So no hate, it was still really fun.

1:51:18 If you love Paul Rudd, you know, it's worth going to see just for him, because he's very, very good in it. So I do recommend checking it out. If that's it's, you know, in the words of Abe Lincoln, it's the kind of thing you like, if you like that kind of thing without a doubt. Yeah, So Death of a Unicorn was really fun. I'm not used to having so many horror releases back to back, but then the last one that I saw recently that just came out was Sinners, which is directed by Ryan Coogler of Creed and Black Panther fame. He directed those films they were huge hits. Sinners is a movie that takes place during segregation and Jim Crow about these two brothers who bought a barn and turn it into a juke joint, and their raucous celebration and liveliness attracts vampires who want to kill them.

1:52:11 Oh NPR was telling me about this. It's really good. It sounds sillier than it is. It's really good, really fun. Had a few really good scares, very deliberately paced. It's two hours and fifteen minutes long. It's not a short movie, and there are no vampires for like literally thirty or forty minutes. It is just but instead they're just establishing the world it's in, which is you know, Jim Crow, America and Mississippi. So it's fascinating to watch and it really keeps you engrossed. The vampires are really well done and scary. The characters are really interesting. They're all very multifaceted. The ending I didn't.

1:52:51 It has two endings sort of. The first ending I thought was fine. The second ending I really loved. Ok, So I really enjoyed Sinners, and that's one. It's becoming a huge hit, which is great. So I really recommend seeing that one in the theater because it's gorgeous. It's a beautifully shot movie and it's very fun. So Sinner, excuse me, Sinner's super good, super super good. It's been a very good month for horror movies in the theater. That's my thought. Yay, Sochell, if you have any Reddit creepies for us, so I could. Try it to tell this one because I found I found several but like, so there's these kids, right, and this was not this was like when this person was a kid. Whoever they are, and I don't know how old they are, but they live in like London, and you know, I guess it's the summer, and they're like they just go and hang out with their friends, and when they get really bored, they like to climb up this wall that like has a golf course and I don't know if there's like a fence or it's like a stone wall and it's I don't know what it is.

1:53:56 But and then they go and try to find falls, like golf balls because they're kids and they're weird. So this one day, it's like really kind of weirdly quiet in the neighborhood. But the kid, like the guy like finds his other friend and they're like, no one else is around, let's just go and find some golf balls, because that's what we do. So they walk over to the place that's the golf course is and they climb up the whatever the hell it is, I don't know, and they his friend gets up there first and it's just like staring at it, like what the fuck? He gets up there and it's not a golf course. It's like the big area that has like all of these weird little greenhouses, like old abandoned greenhouses that are like they have like like tarps on them instead of you know, like like plastic instead of like the glass, because they're old and falling apart, and they're just like lots of them.

1:54:51 So they're like, Okay, maybe we went up into like a weird area. So they're like walking to try to find the golf course, which is weird because they always go up in the same place. They're walking in the just all of these greenhouses, and they just keep going and like they're like how much is this? This is ridiculous, And then his friend just stops and it's like do you hear that? And there's just like this really like low buzzing sound, like kind of you know, like that electrical like buzzing sound. It gets louder and louder, and they start like freaking out, so they start like power walking back, and then they hear something from behind them that sounds like metal, like not like a person or like an animal chasing them, So they're like running and they can't see behind them very far because they are all these greenhouses and all, like the plastic is blowing in the wind, so they like don't know what the fuck's chasing them. They get to the edge, they get back down and they're like what the fuck? So they tell their friends. Oh and then like when when they get back to the street and everything kind of normal traffic and stuff is resumed, it's not super quiet anymore, like okay, So like the next day they're telling all their friends like what happened, and their friends are like, I gotta go there, like right now and see it.

1:56:02 Go back. It's just the golf course. Never figured out what happened. That's a really good one. Actually, yeah, I like that one. Yeah that's scary. Yeah, oh god, now that's really creepy. So did anybody postulate any theories? Everyone was like, oh, except one person who was like, I'm from London and there's just another world. But I didn't and you should check my comments. But I didn't check his comments, so I don't know, harsh, but oh, someone to like, have you checked like Google maps to see, like you know, and to see like maybe there was like a time slip and you went to the past or the future or something like that. So like maybe now their greenhouse is there and there weren't then, and he the guy was like, I can't even find the golf course.

1:56:51 So I mean, when you're a kid, you can get confused and stuff too, So it's tricky. But that's really creepy. Great, that's a great one. Yeah. Yeah, I'm glad you keep up on Reddit for us so we can know when there's something spooky. I try really hard. I know, Pal, I know, well, I guess it's time to wrap things up. So thank you Chell for hanging out with me for another episode of Monthly Spooky. And I want to say a big thank you to everybody who's tuned in. I know it's a surprising amount of people who dig on Monthly Spooky. I mean, as a bonus showed a Weekly Spooky. It's very different. It's not it's conversational, it's not just storytelling and things like that.

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1:59:03 It's please give it to me already Okay, it's yours.