Monthly Spooky | Strange New Years, Mystery Money and Ghostly Doors!

0:00 In the rest of the world, New Year's traditions aren't quite so clear cut, and they can be downright terrifying. In some cases, a ghostly encounter scares a family obsessed with the occult and just playing a big box of money, get comfort, turn off the life. It's Monthly Spooky. Well, hello, my spookgees, and I guess not to get presumptuous, but happy New Year because it's the day before New Year's Eve. It's December thirtieth and almost the thirtieest. It's been a long year, kids, and this is Monthly Spooky, our month. In end wrap up show, I'm, of course Enrique Kuto here with my good buddy and co host Michelle. Michelle, how are you?

0:57 I hate everything? Ill? I know, dear, I know, there's a lot to get into. Well, so cell I was going, like the instinct is to ask, how was your holiday? Oh, it wasn't really good, right, yeah, that was it wasn't good because you're Jewish? Yeah no, actually, and also it's it's stillhanika, right yeah yeah, but no, no, I've just been I got really bad food poisoning and everything sucks and I hate everything, and that's my biggest fear. So I'm trying to recover emotionally.

1:40 Now, your biggest fear is hating everything. Oh no, no, that's just the normal, normal things. I I so to make matters more interesting, I was actually physically in your home. Yes, when you when you got ill. Yes, so I I'm sorry. It's okay. No, no, it's it's bad. But like, but I will say, like from being I've had much worse food poisoning just for the right. I mean I've had I've had worse bouts of throwing up, but I haven't had one affect me this long.

2:21 No, that's fair. No, that's super deeper. Fair. Yeah, usually for me with food poisoning. Once I Ralph, that's the beginning of things getting better, although one time it did give like three days of just hell. Yeah yeah. So no, I'm sorry that my friendship makes you sick. It's okay. Right before Christmas, I made a trip out east, visited some friends in New Jersey, visited some friends in northeastern Pennsylvania, and then landed outside of Philadelphia to hang out with you, Michelle, where we ate good food and then apparently not so good food. The weird thing is like there's only one thing you ate that we didn't share, so I guess that must have.

3:06 Been it was that. Yeah. Yeah yeah. So are you ever going to eat Korean food again? To be fair, not not from there, probably never. Yeah. Yeah, so I kind of painted the h Mart experience for me. Yeah. I don't even really want to go to h Mart anymore. And not that it's the h Mart's fault. I just now I have like like a trigger bad memory. Oh no, so. Yeah. Yeah. For those who are unaware, that bump you heard was Michelle hitting her into the microphone, Oh yeah, sorry punctuate her suffering. Yeah, no, it's yeah, no, that's that's one of the worst. It was you You kept thinking that the situation was terrible for me, but because you thought I was just like that you were just being an awful friend or a bad host or yeah or whatever.

3:59 But it was terrible for me because I knew that it was terrible for you. I was just sitting there. I'm like, I'm fine, I can just look at my phone. I just feel bad for you that you're sick, yeah, and that you're like I'm sorry, I'm sick, and I'm like, I it's I mean it's fine. It's not fine, but it's fine. Yeah, you know, to be sick, but we did have some fun. You were nice enough to wait until the night before I left to get sick. Yeah. I appreciate. It's very polite, very thoughtful. I tried. So we went to the what was it called the Philadelphia Christmas Village. I don't know, something like that. It's the Christmas Village in Philly. Yeah. Yeah, So we went down into Philly and walked around this big market place that was decorated for Christmas.

4:43 I was very impressed to find out that it went on for like thirty days. Yeah, it's crazy. I mean, I mean like, I mean, it's it's you know, the booths looked like they could stand up for thirty days. They were made of like wood and metal. It's just it's just wild for a hop up to last that long. To me, that's just how did they do it? Hey? I mean no, that's cool and apparently it's worth the time. Although I have to say the guy who had the hot sauces, he had the right idea. He just like immediately admitted that he didn't see me walk up because he was playing Halo like he has a TV in his stream, like below the thing, and I was like and I was like, hey, whatever works. He's like, I'm here for thirty days, so I figured it may as well set it up. But his hot sauces were really good, by the way.

5:28 Good. I would plug them, But I don't remember the name of the hot sauces. Yeah, so if you really care, you can email us at Weeklyspooky at gmail dot com and I will if you send that email saying what was the hot sauce, I will get up from my desk, go into my kitchen, pick up the bottle and write down the name. But for right now, not so much, not so much at all, so anyhow, but we did have other fun too. We watched Banana Fish. Yeah, some episodes of banana Fish your favorite well, your second favorite anime and first favorite manga. Yeah, there you go, I remembered it, right, you go? Yeah? Yeah? Hey, which if people are curious about Banana Fish, they can go to Michelle Explains Anime, but don't be I mean that may be fair. You can go to Michelle Explains Anime Poorly on your favorite podcasting app and listen to Michelle talk about anime poorly and right now you are diving deep into banana fish.

6:30 Yeah. Yeah, we're done about twenty twenty episodes, right, so there's four more to go if. That's how you count, If that's how you count. Yeah, that's how you count. And then we're going to do the the four to one shots from the manga and then yeah, because the one because when I asked, one person responded, So we're gonna do it. We'll have spoken the person has the person. Yeah, so that's gonna be fun because they're they're really really upsetting, they're worse a. Lot.

7:12 So yeah, I'm not saying that anyone should care. And also though, like you don't actually have to watch the show to understand what I'm talking about, because I just I just recite the entire episode, so well yeah, mostly the entire. Just never ending stream of tears. No, but Michelle's show is really fun and if you're into anime, I can't recommend listening to it enough, or if you just like Michelle's sardonic wit, I'm not. I was smoking cigars with Keith Tomlin yesterday, uh, the author from Weekly Spooky and My Good Buddy, and he was talking about your sardonic wit, specifically do I have that. Apparently more so your sardonic wit when you're it's more so when you're writing, like characters like you yourself are not a particularly sardonic person, yeah, because you're not very apathetic or although now you are, now that you've thrown up, you're fish just like whatever, everything's destroying.

8:13 Yeah. But anyway, I've reached about the limit of the legal amount I'm allowed to say the term sardonic, so I'm gonna stop now before it's too late. But no, uh uh. So one nice thing though, that didn't cause you food poisoning. I took you to Hot Pot for your first time. Yeah, yeah, and you seem to enjoy it. Okay, Yeah, it was nice, but it was too much food really. I mean that is kind of the benefit of Hot Pot is they're just like, here's everything. Yeah, that's it's a little bit too much pressure. So I went right back to Hot Pot on Christmas Day. I couldn't wait. I am obsessed with Hot Pot. I feel like a king. They just bring you out everything you ask for in mass and then you cook and eat it at your own you know, leisure. Yeah, but I went to Hot Pod on Christmas Day. I saw a movie with my mother on Christmas Day, and then I made a pot roast and watched Christmas Story fat Man, and I think we watched watched Christmas Story fat Man.

9:18 There was one, oh and Christmas Evil. That's nice. Yeah, Christmas Evil was my favorite. So yeah, I pretty much just watched OZ. I guess you are so lucky. I just I didn't really want to do Christmas anymore. I get that I fought with that feeling even without throwing up, So I get it. But I'm glad that OZ could be there to soothe you. Thanks well. I started trying to get you to watch OZ in twenty nineteen. Yeah, yeah, and you were for a while. You were like watching a lot of it, and then you fell out. So I kind of brought it up when we were talking and you were like, maybe I will.

9:58 Then you got sick and you just started watching and the hell out of it. You're just like, because it's having something to binge when you're sick really helps. Mm hmm. Yeah, without a doubt, especially when it's like really really violent. It's got to be like really violent, any type of violence. The darkness of Michelle is becoming ever a parent, I. Want to see people get killed and named. I know, dear, I know, that's the only thing you want. I know this. Oh, we're going to take a quick break because this is very upsetting, and then when we come back, we're going to talk about some spooky news stories from around the globe. But I also want to mention tonight's topic is we're going to cover because for the last few years we always did a Christmasy monthly Spooky.

10:50 This year, I wanted to do something different, So we're going to cover a few lists. I have a couple of lists of creepy and weird New Year's traditions from around the world, and most of these I'd never heard of. So we'll talk about that. But first we're gonna get to the spooky news. But that is of course after this, and we are back with our last edition of this in the year. It's the Spooky News. The Spooky News, all right. This first story I had to choose because it's Christmasy. It comes from the Huffington Post. The headline reads, dumb mistake. Baby Jesus goes missing, reappears with note at Colorado Nativity scene. Oh so apparently, Yeah, the baby Jesus got stolen from a nativity scene, but then got returned with a note.

11:55 So he just got borrowed. Yeah, borrowed without permission, which I think is still. No. Should have been a lawyer, Denver, Colorado. A baby Jesus figurine snatched from a nativity scene in Colorado has been returned in time for Christmas with an apology. Ah. The statuette of Jesus lying in a major stolen from a public display in downtown Fort Collins early Sunday, was dropped off anonymously at a fire station Thursday. Police said it was accompanied by a handwritten note saying quote, I'm really sorry. I made a dumb mistake in the moment.

12:36 It won't happen again, and I will not be facing consequences. Yeah. Yeah. The funny thing is, so I'm not a handwriting expert, but I'm looking at this note and it was my instinct was to say, it looks like it was written by a child or like a quirky middle aged woman. Okay, this is based on nothing, just the way I see handwriting. My handwriting looks like it's one to five steps worse than the Zodiac Killer. Like I have the worst handwriting on the planet. But yeah, it's just kind of the handwriting looks a little odd, like like I don't know, but it could be a kid, probably a.

13:24 Kid maybe, or maybe it was a drunk person and they do just like steal baby Jesus. And then they like woke up the next morning and they were like, what the fuck? Uh nothing, nothing quite like waking up the next morning to find a baby Jesus next to you in bed to go, oh, man, I made some mistakes. Well regardless, it's nice of them to return the baby Jay, but I like it just says it won't happen again. No signature, no nothing, because. Why would sign Yeah. A signed person who stole baby gess that's uh, the plot thickens, oh dear. It was returned two days after police in the college town of sixty about sixty five miles north of Denver, posted surveillance video of the suspected grinch on social media. The person appeared to be a teen or young adult. Hmmmm, he looks like fifteen year old boy. Okay, fourteen fifteen years old? And then the post, by the way with the photo says, can you id this grinch who tried to ruin Christmas? By stealing the Baby Jesus from the Old Town Square Nativity scene. If you recognize the suspect, please notify Officer Brittingham and then it gives a phone number. So yeah, this is like they were afraid. They're like, jeas, don't come looking for me.

14:54 Yeah. Yeah, there's no other information about who stole the figurine, police said Friday. The fire station has a motion sensing door camera, but it was not activated when the statue was returned. Police said that it was stolen by the fire chief Sun. I'm yeah, right now, what do you mean it wasn't activated when the statue was returned. You have a motion sensing door camera and it didn't turn what I mean like if you had thrown the Baby Jesus to the doorstep, it would have turned on the camera. One of my neighborhood cats turns on my camera like eighteen times a night. Well, what if it's one of those Like I've never you know, dealt with the motion sensing camera, but I've dealt with those motion sensing lights, and sometimes they just don't sense motion in the right spot. So you have to like I would have to like walk down the driveway and like wave for it.

15:44 To come it definitely yeah, so like. Maybe it wasn't pointed the right way. I mean, I definitely agree because like my motion sensing light, like even the brand new fancy I means on that fancy, but my brand new led one that I have, you have to wave your arms kind of frantic to get it to turn on sometimes. Yeah, but my Ring camera that cost twenty times as much money always turns on when there's motion. My favorite is when it says like there's a person at your door and I open it up and it's just a freaking spider like on the lens and I'm like, oh, that's that's scary fun. Okay, cool, thanks thanks Ring. Last piece of this article, by the way, says the business that takes care of the Nativity scene does not want to pursue charges. Good I think there.

16:32 I think this kid worked for the fire department, because why would turn the kid to the fire department. Although that is hilarious because that's like where you like dump kids, you know, children. Yeah, I'm gonna leave it at the firehouse. It'll be fine and they'll figure it out. Yeah, it'll be fine, it'll be fine. So man, yeah, I don't know, I that's suspect. I mean, maybe I'm just becoming a scrooge as I get older, But like I'm just like, oh, yeah, you know what, I would have felt really great about you returning it if it had if there hadn't been a photo of you on social media that people were trying to identify you because you're like trying to ditch the heat. That bothers me. Yeah, if you had just done it, because you know, you were like sitting in your living room and you were hearing the beating of the hideous heart of the baby Jesus that you know, if that's pure guilt, pure you know, need for redemption, that's morality. But if you're just afraid that the Internet is going to okay, I mean I would be afraid of the Internet too, because they're not just like they're gonna be like here's his identity and a list of his fears and also we got a bunch of credit cards with his name.

17:45 Yeah, yeah, they're bad the Internet. You want to say that that's where we're broadcasting to. That's okay. The Internet knows it's. Bad, that's true. It's pretty proud of it. Actually. Yeah, So this next one is from newsweek dot com and this one got me curious. This one might take a bit more thought to I don't dissect. The headline is mom baffled by what she sees when filming toddler. Quote Can someone explain? Did she see a toddler? I mean, can someone expay when a man and a woman love each other very very much? A woman was left baffled after she recorded her child playing and noticed that noticed what appeared to be something pulling her leg.

18:39 Justice Q twenty three from Idaho not a real name, no justice tew interesting spotted something strange about her daughter's movements when she replayed the recording. In the video, the girl crawls around and one of her legs randomly ascends into the air. Wow. Quote. I was watching her dance and play with her toys, and so I recorded like I am, like I'm always doing, and I noticed something off about her movements. So I stopped the recording to rewatch and noticed that it looked like something pulled her hmmm. Quote. I felt a little scared and worried, so I immediately started praying over her and the house.

19:23 Okay, that's something you can do for it. I mean, if you believe in this stuff? Why not? You know, Like, if you think there could be ghosts or something evil, you know, why not? Two? I'm gonna say two is how you hear? Two uploaded the video to TikTok along with the on screen caption did a ghost just pull her leg? The clip, which included the caption can someone explain? Guarded three hundred and four thousand, seven hundred likes and five point nine million views on TikTok. Quote social media blew up and told me to cleanse the house and move out. Move out mainly too, added Some comments under the video show viewers spooked by the scene, weighing in on whether the leg movement was a result of some kind of paranormal intervention or not. Quote. Okay, so when this happens, usually it just means you need to pack all your stuff and leave like yesterday. Hope this helps, said Erica. However, a number of users thought the child's movement was just a result of her getting to grips with crawling and lifting her leg to stabilize herself after losing balance. The image does look like the babies kind of doing yoga to me, like her leg is a shooting straight out, but what I know about babies or yoga. Quote looks like her other knee slipped and she tried to catch herself from falling. If that's wrong, I was just helping you be able to sleep at night, wrote one viewer. Quote comes from her left arm, causing her to stagger and try to stabilize with a right leg.

20:55 Don't worry, said another user. Quote after looking at this a few times, the baby's left arm lost balance as she stopped herself from falling. That's why her leg went up, suggested a different viewer. Quote. She lost balance and was trying to write herself, wrote another. Crawling is a critical developmental milestone that supports a child's physical and cognitive growth. According to the OT Toolbox, there are various types of crawling, including belly crawling, hands and knees crawling, and bear crawling, each offering unique benefits for motor coordination and sensory processing. Observing a child's crawling patterns can reveal important details about their development, which could be helpful in understanding movements like those seen in Justice Two's viral video.

21:40 Oh okay, oh, I know a lot about crawling. I guess I know. We learned so much about crawling and almost nothing about ghosts. Yeah, well, fair enough. We're gonna take a quick break and we'll be back with even more spooky news, but substantially less information about crawling. And we're back with even more spooky news. As we tell a story, read a story, tell a story. Why would I think tell a story. It's not like that's what I do on ninety five percent of this channel.

22:21 But we have a story from Huffington Post that is just for Rachel, my good buddy and co host of cutting Deep into horror. Although I hope this isn't as sad as it could sound. Oh man, it can't be, because this article uses so many puns. Oh my god. The headline is man surrenders nearly one thousand rodents to New Hampshire shelter. Wow. One thousand, Wow nearly so it might have been eight something, and they're just. Yeah, yeah. The subheadline says the shelter now has an e nor mouse problem on its hands. Boo. I knew you were gonna boom boohhhh, No, away with the really Stratham, New Hampshire. A group of mice is called a nest, But what do you call one thousand of them in one animal shelter. Oh, this is where it gets said. Crippling, said Lisa Dennison, executive director of the New Hampshire Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, which is scrambling to care for an overwhelming influx of rapidly reproducing rodents.

23:36 Have so much alliteration? Did you like that so much? That was so much better than enor mouse problem? Yes, get out of here with that Huffington Post. You're not trying that hard. Did you ever have pet rodents? No? Not at all. Well, I had like a hamster. Okay, what was the hamster's name? I had two, and one of them was Brownie and the other one was Oreo. Was that because of their colors? Yes? So I'm assuming one was black and white woman was brown. Yes, I had two hamsters. One was named Rascal, who was brown, and the other was blonde and white. And he was named Terminator. Okay, I bet you can't guess which one I named and which one my sister named I don't.

24:27 I don't know. When Terminator. When he died, Mom got me another one and I named him Terminator too. Judgment day, Not really, I didn't. That wasn't that I wasn't that funny when I was that young. But I named him Terminator too well, So I had I had a few hamsters as a kid. I had I had a couple of mice, and I did have a rat okay for a while, all not at the same time, because the would eat everything else. I just described. That is one of my favorite things that like non rodent people ask them, like, do the rats like the mice. I'm like, they love them. They love to eat them very much. They're delicious. They're just not the same thing. And the big difference between like rats and mice and hamsters, in my opinion, is you can tell rats are have a lot more going on in their brains, like you can get in a loof rat, but like most mice are a loof, most hamsters are a loof. But some rats are pretty smart, like they're thinking quite a bit when you're playing with them or holding them or whatever. So but I liked having rodents here and there as a kid. I just as the older I got, the more I couldn't handle the quick heartbreak.

25:46 Yeah. Yeah, they just don't live very long they are. It sucks and when they get sick. There's almost nothing you can do. I mean, it's just yeah. It all started Monday when a man arrived saying he wanted to give up one hundred and fIF fifty mice, but then he clarified it was one hundred and fifty containers of oh not individual critters. Oh god. He had seventy three mice with him that day, and by Friday morning, about four hundred and fifty had been transferred to the shelter. Another five hundred or so were on the way. Wow, I want to pull that scam on somebody, like can can me and my can you know I don't have it, I say, I don't even have an example of like yeah, yeah, could I borrow could I borrow five dollars? I'm sorry, I meant five cases of dollars. Give give it up, hand it over, Oh my gosh. And that number is growing thanks to some basic biology. Many of the mice arrived pregnant, oh god, and at Christmas right, yeah, around Christmas time, so one of them could have been like giving birth to the Messiah. Yeah, you don't know. Yeah, there was no room at the end, so they had to all cod to the Humane Society of New Hampshire. Yeah, one of the quote one of the challenges is that gestation is short and breeding begins very early on, said Dennison. Quote it's an enormous problem.

27:16 This is something that got out of control significantly. Part of the shelter, I bet. I mean, you've got to sex segregate the mice. It's like the only option. When I was a kid, my dad used to breed mice to feed his lizards because he had he had a snake, and he had a monitor lizard, and he had an alligator. Although he wouldn't feed the alligator anything alive because he said it makes them aggressive, so he'd only feed that like dead fish or like meat. That's said because that alligator probably wanted a live things really bad. He wanted a lot of killing. Yeah. Yeah. The monitor lizard's name was Doc. I remember that.

28:00 But I remember just being like ah, because I thought the mice were so cute. I don't really care about the I mean the lizard's were right, you know, Yeah, they were fine. I guess. Part of the shelter's cat pavilion has been turned into a mouse hospital and hotel, with dozens of containers lined up on the floor. Resting atop multiple tables and stacked on shelves. It's a lot of work for a facility that at most once took in one hundred and twenty five animals in one day. Oh my god, those poor people. Quote, it does happen where you take a large number. But even when we took in fifty four goats or we took in thirty nine cats, I mean, those are still large numbers, but much more manageable, as you can imagine, than hundreds and hundreds of mice. Dennison said, Yeah, that's a lot of mice.

28:49 Can't they just shift them to other humane societies like a box each got? No, I really don't know, because, like mice is, it's tricky with mice too, because they do breed so aggressively, whether in captivity or in nature. Yeah, what do you do with them? And put them outside? But that could cause an immense amount of problems and most of them would just die, which then it's like but then it's like, okay, so you're just sparing yourself the agony of being involved in their deaths, but giving them a worse death, No worse, you don't know. I mean, like, if you're going to go that route, why not just give them to lizard breeders to eat. I'm not saying that's what they should do. I'm just saying, like, if the answer is like, who cares about their well being? Well, then why then I guess you could just do that.

29:45 Yeah. It also doesn't say what type of mice they are, like if they're a special breed of mice, because there are lots of different breeds of mice. It doesn't say any of that stuff either. But also, I just feel bad because I know that animal lovers can get really they can kind of lose the plot pretty quick. I mean, I'm an animal lover, but not like I have friends who like breed lizards and breed mice and rats, and I'm not that kind of person. Yeah yeah, but. But I could see, like, you know, feeling happy to be breeding mice, and then all of a sudden, you're like, I have hundreds of mice. Yeah shit, you know, I don't want any of them to die, so I guess I'll just keep them and allow them to keep breeding unrestrained. That's not good, that's not good. That's bad for the mice.

30:30 But they seem to be holding on, so I guess that's what matters. Oh, but here this answers your question. The last line of the article says other shelters have agreed to take some of the mice, and some are being sent to foster homes. At least four at least four were adopted Friday. Guys, that's a solid dent on that in that nearly one thousand. Wow, we did it. Four Ooh. We have some comments from a guy who calls himself Bernie Lizard or Bernie is Land. Sorry, I misread that this happened to me when I was ten, because my mother had mistakenly brought home a male and a female mouse for my birthday, having been told they were two males, which should never be housed together anyway because they'll kill each other. That is true that that happened with my mice. No, the last two mice I had, they killed each other. I didn't know about the male thing.

31:35 Within weeks we had cages and sinks and bathtubs full of them. The problem is, by the time they're old enough you can tell their sex, they're old enough to breed. Yeah, I'm very happy to have them. Bird Rehabilitation Sanctuary was kind enough to take them off my hands, Thank Gord, says Gord. I spent the next few years breeding them for this purpose, but never let things get like that again. Uh, Melinda said, I am a total animal lover, but keeping them in a cage is not the answer. If you feel badly about euthanasia, load them all up and release them into the wild at a good distance away. All the predators will have a fine meal and the problem will be solved. I don't like Melinda, that's mean.

32:17 Yeah. Yeah, why did I read the comments? It's always an awful decision. Yeah, I made a horrible decision. My new that's it. You know what, Shell, My new year's resolution is going to be not to read the comments. Okay, that make you less sad, probably in theory. Yeah, But we have more spooky news sans comments after this. All right, we're back with even more spooky news. And now I know you've been waiting for this cell No, yes, you have. We have a story from Mirror dot co dot uk.

33:06 Okay, I was kind of waiting for that. And this is the kind of headline that only Mirror dot co dot uk would serve. Us because it has like Typo's in. It or their headlines don't generally have typos, although they do have like grammatical errors sometimes. But this says terrifying moment ghost opens creaky door in Britain's most haunted house. Oh there should have been a common after terrifying moment because that was weird the way that we're Yeah, but don't worry, Shelle. This story is based on the TikTok so it's real needs. The subheading says paranormal investigators. The Occult Family were filming a TikTok live video at a Pontefract property known as Britain's Most Haunted House when they captured the creepy evidence. I feel like Britain has a lot of most haunted.

34:00 Yeah. Yeah, every other week we're learning about a new most Haunted house in all of Britain. Yeah. Maybe most doesn't mean what it means here. Maybe I just google what does the British most mean? A ghost hunting family has captured terrifying footage of the moment a ghost appears to open a creaky door in a haunted house that they were investigating. Known as the Occult Family. The paranormal enthusiasts were hosting a TikTok live video as they investigated the house when all of a sudden there rose such a chatter no sorry, When all of a sudden the door appeared to fling itself open.

34:43 Thirty eight year old Timmy Jeffrey and her partner JP thirty four, were left shocked at what they witnessed, given that the movement of the door seemed completely unnatural. I mean, doors open, that's not really unnatural. Okay, how but that's not the most common thing. Doors do. What is close not do anything? I mean, I guess it depends on what you consider the function of a door. Some would say the function is to keep things out. Some would say the function is to let things through. I'm on the let things through camp, because I believe you put a door into a wall. You don't build a wall around a door.

35:25 Are you sure? I'm not sure. You're the home inspector here, you tell me how it's supposed to be done. You put the door up, and then you're like, okay, so that's how you get in. So what are you going to get in? Now we have this door, we may as well make it enter something. Yeah. That's actually how homes were invented. Structures were invented was a guy built a door and was like, yeah, it's a nice door, should go into something, so that he invented structures. That's exactly what happens, beautiful. His name was uh Uga Buga Chad from nineteen twenty four.

36:09 It's just riding a bicycle with a big top front wheel and he's just like, I say, invented door. Sorry, I I'm a silly man. I am just now starting to be fully recovered from the holidays. There was so much going on. Yeah, it was fun, but it was tiring. The family from Cheshire heard a creek near the entrance before the spooky moment. Kimmy then asked anyone who was there to move the door, which is when it appeared to open by itself. Are you scared yet? Yeah, that the door is not properly balanced.

36:50 Ooh. The best part is there's a picture of the door and it's just a door. There's a TV tray on the other side. Like it's just the most normal, average door ever. Like, it's not a Victorian door, it's not an ornate door. It's just like a white door in a room of white walls that goes to another room and there's literally a TV train in what looks like maybe it's a computer router or something like that. I also like they posted a picture of over their kids, and their kids are named Snow and Pebble. We've we've the Mirro dot codat UK's talked about them before. I remember a paranormal investigation family with a Snow and a Pebble. I don't we've done a lot of these. Yeah, we've done over twenty of these. Wow, So it's okay that you you immediately have to drink to forget when it's over.

37:39 You're like, don't don't send me a nice dinner after record, send me unfiltered whiskey. Yeah, or filtered whisky. Whatever is the worst one? Yeah, I don't know which one is the one. Quote. The door didn't just swing open like it would if a draft hit it. No windows were open or drafts. I like the like, there's no windows or drafts. They said the door opened as if someone was listening to us and pushed it open. Yeah. Did they try asking everybody around like, hey, did anybody do that? Yeah? They did? Okay, good quote. At the time, we were shocked that the door opened on command and that the door actually opened with no one near the door. We tried to debunk it and shut the door again, asking whoever did it to do it again. The door did not move all evening. Wait, how is that debunking it? We closed it and asked it to do it again and it didn't.

38:35 That debunks it? No, that I don't know if that bunks it? Does that bunk it? Then? If it's not debunking. It, I think I think that that if if they closed it and opened back up again immediately, would be debunking it. Well, the problem is they said they shut the door and asked whoever did it to do it again. Yeah, so we really didn't get anything. Now, Yeah, because if they were debunking, they just close it to see if it naturally did it again. But by saying could you do that again and then it not happening, how is that proving anything? Either way? It might prove that the ghost really didn't want the door to open again, so they're holding it closed now. Okay, now I'm following. See all I needed was a tiny bit of logic. Yeah, yes, it's all I needed. Quote.

39:21 This is a very rare occasion. We have been investigating for two years and have only had three things that we caught that we can truly say are paranormal. Usually in the paranormal world, things happen off camera and are not caught. The ghosts now they don't want to get caught. I like that. They're like, look, all we do is make a career out of catching paranormal things or like trying to investigate them with cameras. By the way, they never happen on camera, And no matter how much we add more cameras to our lives, they never happen on camera. Yeah. It's only when just don't. Yeah, like you walk out the door and then it happens. Yeah, this, this is freaking ridiculous quote. We have had many people contact us via our social media saying that they have visited the house on numerous occasions and been in the room and know that door does not open naturally like that.

40:15 Mm. We used to film a bunch of scary movies in this little house in Waynesville, Ohio that was not abandoned, but it was owned by a family and nobody lived there full time. It was basically used for storage and to do They would do a yard sale every year to try and pay the tax bill. Wow. So people would store like knick knacks and crap that was going to be put out to sell from the family. So we would film there with the agreement that we would respect the property and protect the property inside, and we filmed. I mean, we did a good job. We filmed like six or seven films there, a varying degree. Some of them were entirely in this old house, some of them weren't. It was a really great location. I'm sad because now somebody lives there full time that anymore. Yeah, well I'm happy that. I'm happy the house has somebody living in it, So what's being taken care of? Though? Yeah, but that was like, I mean you could be on the top floor and like move your weight around really fast and feel the house shift.

41:12 Mm hmm. That's I think it was built in like nineteen hundred. Yeah. I to get like that. Yeah, or they were always like that and it was just fine. But yeah, but not. A bad house. I mean, it's a pretty cool house near a gun range. That was the only negative. You could hear the gun firing sometimes. Yeah, like where I grew up. Yeah, man, lucky. So yeah, you know, I didn't know what that was until I was an adult. We just always heard the sound and just thought like, Oh, it's just some weird thing that happens here. And then like at some point, like one of my parents was like, no, there's a gun range over there. Oh you're lucky I wasn't your friend back then, because I would have been like, oh, that's the Jersey Devil.

41:53 Yeah, that's all. I remember one of the first times I went out there and I was with an actress i'd been working with, and she and we heard the pops and she was like, is it Hunters? But it was like pop pop pop pop? And I was like, they must be really good or really bad hunters then, because they are all they're firing a lot. Yeah. But there was something that I loved about that place, which was upstairs. There was this attic room off of the master bedroom, and it had a door made of wood planks, you know, just old school door made of planks. And when you go there, there's a chair there was a chair just butted up against it, and if you took the chair off, the door just open because it just couldn't stay shut on its own. Yeah, that's why that was there. So I would constantly scare people when they came to that location for the first time by moving the chair and then the doors going because it looked creepy inside too. It was like it was super old and dirty and full of just random crap, and the windows were all weird shaped, you know, like antique shaped, you know, like stuff that we wouldn't do now, so it would like creep people out there be like h The other thing I loved about that place was they had a gazebo put in in the eighties, so it was like very much more modern compared to the rest of the house. But they built the gazebo over the entrance to the cellar, which made the cellar accessible from inside the house, which is nice, right, I mean, to be able to go to the cellar from inside.

43:20 But it had this like you pulled this string this rope down and it would like you know, open up, like straight up, and then you'd walk down there and it was very creepy. Yeah, full of preserves, that was all. It was full of shelves and shelves of jars. And one year we came back and a bunch of the shelves had fallen over and the jar and wel we told the family, We're like, we didn't do this. We would tell you if we did, we'd antmit it, but like this had happened, and they were like, oh, I don't even know how long that had, like they had been in there, Like they were like, oh, those shelves probably just collapsed because they were rotting or something like we weren't checking on it in any way. Well, what would you like us do? And they're like, oh, don't, don't worry, don't bother yourself with broken glass and stuff, just like just don't mess with it. And we're like, okay, So we just shot on the other side of the basement where there wasn't broken glass. It didn't stink down there too bad, so.

44:17 Huh, maybe maybe it had been a while. Yeah, it had been at least seven or eight months since we had been down there minimum, so anyway. They shared an account of their experience on various social media platforms, including Facebook, explaining that they were at quote one of the most perceived haunted houses in Europe. Located in Pontefract, The family explained that they had been here on many occasions with subtle, if any activity. The Pontifact home holds the reputations one of Britain's most haunted houses home to one of the most violent poultergeists in the world. The nineteen fifties Council House was home to the Pritchard family from August nineteen sixty six. Would strange things immediately started happening.

45:00 Pools of water appeared in front of their eyes with no explanation. Green foam appeared from taps and toilets even after the water was turned off. Cupboards would shake violently, photos were slashed with a sharp knife, and countless objects would levitate or be thrown, including a solid oak sideboard. The family referred to their poltergeist guest as Fred. I mean, if all of that's true, that would be really upsetting, but I somehow doubt it since this family of a cult family went there and all that happened was the door opened. I've heard of the Pontefract home. It just slipped my mind because I remember the ghost being named Fred. In a bid to evict Fred, exorcisms were held, but walls would seep holy water. People were slapped and even pushed down the stairs.

45:47 No no, no, no, no, no no. Uh how did they know it was holy water that the walls were seeping. Oh, this is the hill you're gonna die on. Yes, there's no way. You would know that, so it's just all bullshits. Well, basically, one of the people who was investigating was a vampire and when they to oh okay, then they were like, ah, this doesn't like an acid, it must be holy water. In one chilling event, Diane, the Pritchard's daughter was dragged, kicking and screaming up the stairs. Eventually, the family fled in the nineteen eighties and the property has not been lived in since. Mmmm, that's a long time. Yeah, we'll look into maybe I'll ask you some questions about what could have caused those things as a home inspector, But after this and we are back now before we jump into some more spooky news though Chell, As a home inspector, when you hear pools of water appeared in front of their eyes with no explanation, what do you think might be causing that?

46:53 Like a pipe break in probably, Or like it's raining outside and your roof has a leak, it's probably one of those, yeah, Or your refrigerators leaking, or your sink is leaking. That's a pipe again, I don't your first. Instinct be to check, like the attic, to see if it's from the ceiling or from the roof. Rather, my first instinct would be to look at the ceiling and see where it's coming from, Like, do you see water on the ceiling? Is there a stain? That kind of stuff? Now, what about me? What about this one? Green foam appeared from taps and toilets even after the water was turned off, So.

47:37 I assume there's just something new. There's just probably something in the line that's causing it, Like maybe there's a hole in the line somewhere and some sort of chemicals have gotten in and they're still in there even if you turn the taps off, like it's still sitting in there. But also, I just don't believe that happened. So damn Kiddy's got claws over here. Maybe it had. Maybe it's like a chemical reaction to like what the pipes are made of, but I don't really know what that would be weird. I don't know, Yeah, that would be weird. And then cupboards shaking. Violently they they're near a train.

48:18 Well, you know, the Europeans love to brag and brag and brag about all their great rail systems and all this stuff. Their public transportation. So it's so great, Well does it shake your whole house? We don't know. We have ghosts. Where I grew up. When planes flew overhead and they weren't flying very low, they would shake the cabinets. I believe you now, Uh, you got it. I live near one of the biggest Air Force baces in America. I live near Wright Patterson Air Force Bace. So every now and then it's rare. I mean when I say every now and then, I mean like every three four years, Like we get like a sonic boom or something. Yeah, and everybody goes hu. And then we're all on social media and they're like, yeah, the Air Force did a thing.

49:08 Although the funniest sonic boom air quotes funniest was when they did when they had an unexpected sonic boom from the Air Force base on September eleventh, two thousand and one. Oh God, that didn't scare everyone. Wow, that was It was so scary. We're just sitting around. I'm like on like, I'm painting you a picture. I'm on Alell instant messenger, like with my friends after school and we're all talking about like, what the hell. I'm like, and I think it was an eighth grade or ninth grade. I think it was eighth grade. We're like, yeah, what the hell? Then burn They're all like it turned out as fighter jets heading I'm guessing to d C. To secure DC would be my guess. Yeah, and they decided that going the speed of sound was the way to do it.

50:00 I guess. So huh So, anyway, let's talk about some better fortune. Maybe this one is from Huffington Post. The headline reads, New York magnet fisher recovers safe full of soggy one hundred dollar bills. Yay. James Kane estimates he found more than one hundred thousand dollars in damaged currency in the safe. That's so cool because because since money US currency isn't made out of paper, it's made basically out of cotton. Yes, yeah, it's like a fabric. Yeah, it could just be underwater and everything will be fine. It does eventually rot, no, because there are those famous I mean maybe they've changed it since then, but there are those famous stories about the money that Escobar buried, like it just started rotting.

50:53 I mean yeah, you think eventually, yeah, and. That wasn't even underwater, that was just underground for too long. He If you've ever read about Escobar, I can't recommend it enough. Like he made so much money that he would bury it to like for safekeeping, because he didn't want to have too much in banks and shell companies and stuff. And then he would absolutely forget he'd buried the money. He'd never go back to it because he was making so much money it just didn't matter. Yeah, there was an estimate at one point that his cocaine operation was making more money than Ford Wow per year. Oh that's crazy anyway, Highly recommend learning about Escobar. James Cain has used a magnet to fish all manner of junk from New York City waterways, but stacks of one hundred dollars bills he pulled from a safe were something else entirely. Cain's girlfriend Barbie Agostini thirty nine, Italian last name, and I don't think this was I don't think this was an accident. I can make that joke. My girlfriend's last name is Ridolfhi thought he was joking when he said their life was about to change, she told Associated Press on Monday. She was filming as Cane forty pulled a slimy safe out of a lake in Flushing Meadows Corona Park and extracted bags of water logged benjamins from inside it. Oh that's money, Caine said Friday in the video he posted online. Oh it is stacks of bills. Dude,

52:25 I love these quotes. Oh my god, Agustini said in the video. The couple estimates the safe contained one hundred thousand dollars in damage currency. The bills featured the three D security ribbon that indicates recent vintage, but the safe bore no clues to a rightful owner. That freaks me out. Yeah, that's really weird. Yeah, why would there be? Yeah, that's really weird because that's recent. So somebody, I mean, unless it was somebody threw a safe in the lake. Where the hell it was? Wow? Why, I don't know where? In New York Flushing.

53:08 Yeah, so Queens. Oh okay, so new York, New York. Yeah, like like yeah, okay, so like yeah, New York City, New York, Flushing Shadows, Corona Park. Yeah, it sounds like Queens. Could it be a hurricane related thing from Sandy? Hmm? I don't know, I mean, I don't know, how what parts were affected, you know, but it kind of seems like a safe wouldn't be you know, like that's a weird thing. But it could. It could wash away if you had enough water pressure, because yeah, especially about air inside it at first, that would kind of not saying it would make it float, but it would alleviate the weight underwater. Maybe maybe Flushing, New York Hurricane Sandy damage spelled everything wrong that was wonderful. Hurricane Sandy cause significant damage to Flushing, New York, including flooding, damaged wastewater facilities, economic losses, and displacement.

54:09 Okay, so it's possible. Thousands of homes and estimated two hundred and fifty thousand vehicles were destroyed. Now, of course that's in New York in general. It's basically just saying that, yeah, that that's the same as like, Hurricane Sandy affected New York City very badly. Okay, Well, but the thing is like, of course we don't know, because neither of us are familiar with this particular lake and stuff. We don't know how affected the houses around it were, or if it feeds into something else or. Well, I'm just gonna go on a limb and say it has to feed somewhere, because otherwise magnet fishing would get you nothing. If this was just a body of water with no no you know, feeding into it or out of it.

54:49 And I mean considering New York City is right on like the Atlantic pretty much it Yeah, that would make sense if it fed into something. Well, apparently it also made dollars. Oh, I'm so funny. We're going to get into the story a little bit more, but we need to take a quick break and we'll be back after this. Now that we're back, let's talk about this hundred thousand dollars in bills that are like brand new, I mean not brand new, but like, I don't know when the ribbon started, but that wasn't that long ago. It's maybe twenty years ago. At most.

55:36 I think it was less than twenty years ago, because that would make me twenty and I'm pretty sure I don't think it was the entire time I was working at a topic or that looked like that. Uh uhhh, I found it. Wait what Yeah, never mind, that was Gemini failing me yet again. See stop looking at it. No, we gave me the right info, it just didn't read write twenty. Thirteen okay, see yeah, yeah. That was when it was when it was unveiled. Yeah, Joe and I just referred to it as a new design, but not a new security feature. Sorry, So that's why.

56:18 But because I remember I worked in retail right when those were being introduced, and we would get a lot of old hundreds and they'd be like, you have to pen test them, you have to pen test them. We even pen tested the new hundreds. Yeah, testiment ribbons. If you get a chance to watch YouTube videos about people who are really good at counterfeiting money, it's fascinating how good they got at it. Like they'd figure out, like if you take this like chemical compound and spray it on the bill, it'll work when the marker for like one time, wow, exadly, Like they would figure out like weird tricks that would make it kind of work for a minute, and they'd like it's just long enough. All you have to do is get the cashier to put it in the thing and give you change, and you're good, right, because.

57:01 Yeah, they're not going to catch it until the bank takes it then. Exactly. So anyway, the bills, oh yeah, they featured the three D security ribbon. Kan and Augustini did said they called the police to report their discovery, and the police said there was no evidence of a crime. Yay. You'd think they'd be like, how about we write down a couple of them serial numbers? Mm hmm. Maybe they were probably like really busy, and they were like, listen, I don't care about the safe of money that you supposedly found. It's nothing to do with us. So right, right, you found a bunch of money, good for you. They gave it. This is a quote. They gave it to us, as I guess you call it a finder's keepers thing. Kine said. The New York Police Department did not respond to requests for confirmation of Kane's discovery.

57:52 They were just like, we didn't actually do any of that, Okay. We never spoke to anyone. Kane said, he and Augustine you plan to take their soggy money to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington to redeem it. Hmm. That makes sense, because the bills are not really spendable anymore. It would be shitty to put them into the well, it'd be shitty to put them into circulation because they're gonna they're all worn out from soaking in water. Who cares? Just just do it. No, one's not gonna take it. According to this it says some portion of the bills will likely be too damage to recover. Okay, fine. The pair have ideas for spending whatever they end up with, including a new vehicle and upgrades to the equipment they use to produce content. Hmmm, okay, I mean just like six grand, You'll have all the content shit you need.

58:41 You're good, YEA six grand will do it. Kane is far from the only magnet fisher who has made a mark in recent years. All it takes is a powerful magnet, a body of water, and a rope a magnet fisher. Oh you're gonna like this? Oh god, Oh my god? What what? What? What? How did I not see this article or this story. A magnet fisher found a human skull padlocked to an exercise dumbbell in New Orleans last month. Oh my god. And someone fishing in a creek in Georgia and April pulled up a rifle and some belongings of a couple who were murdered nine years ago. Cool, let's do this, dude. You want to go to the school with me?

59:21 And just like, yeah, many bodies we'd. Find, Oh my gosh, how many metal bodies they would. Have to Yeah, well maybe they have like like metal plates in their heads. They I'm sure that those don't aren't magnetic, because there would be problems. But still, yeah, as magnet fishing videos rack up views on YouTube, man, that's something I haven't even wasted my life watching yet. That's so I'm gonna fishing. Skeptics grumble on Reddit that some of the finds must be fake. Caine may just be lucky. He's hauled up bicycles, guns, grenades, and jewelry from New York City waterways, promoting his ex exploits on YouTube, TikTok and Instagram. Quote. I have seen and worked with other magnet fishers that can hit a spot for three months, and I'll come along and throw the same magnet and get and find something that they've been trying to get the entire time, he said, I personally can't explain it.

1:00:17 Maybe his magnet is. Better I maybe, or maybe it's just plain skill, girl, just plain skill. I can't believe I never saw this thing about a human skull padlock to a dumbbell. Yeah, yeah, when would did that even happen? It happened this year? How did I not find it? A fifteen pounds dumbell was padlocked to a skull which was fully decomposed, lacking a jaw or top row of teeth. Wow. Wow, the article is barely anything considering like a person's dead. Oh well, New Orleans, what do you want? Yeah? I have all the time. All right, Well, let's go from well before we get to that. Uh So, my thought was hurricane could have caused the safe criminals, I mean, theft obviously would make a lot of sense.

1:01:08 Yeah, somebody trying to hide a crime. You know, or dumping a safe out of frustration for being unable to open it. Because let's be real, if you're so stupid that you can't realize you can't open a safe, maybe you're so stupid you throw it in a river. No no, no, no, because then you can't ever have what's inside. You could, neither could anyone else except YouTubers. Yeah exactly. I don't know. Part of me thinks it's fake. I mean maybe or what if it's like some person who was trying to do make like a treasure hunt. They were going to like make this because you know, they're like, there are like dudes who are like, you know, make treasure hunts. So maybe he was making one. Don't say it like that.

1:01:56 There totally are one thousand dollars prize. Yeah, maybe he was some rich guy shell and that was the big prize at the end. I don't know, man, that would be airplane. But that body of water, well, but it could have landed in a bigger body of water and wound up there. Okay, I could see that one. Maybe dolphins carried it there. Hey. Ever tell you about a friend who when he was younger, he had family members in the mafia in New York and they used to produce movies and they would give him money when a movie when they was timed to cash in the insurance policy and a movie, he would give him money to go to the lab film lab in the middle of the night because they would be open twenty four hours back then and just take a reel of the movie and walk across the street and just drop it in the Hudson because then it would it was insured. So they get their money back. Wow, because then like, where's the other reel of my movie?

1:03:03 They're like, oh, no, I guess it's it's lost or damage. So here's the paperwork for your insurance policy. And we wonder why insurance is so expensive now, wow, because people like the fraud was so outrageous. Like you ever read those old mob those books, like from old mobsters from like the sixties and seventies. They were just constantly torching businesses. Boy fire sure our comment at businesses huh yeah, cop businesses, restaurants, they all just they're very flammable occupations, I suppose, huh. I wonder what happened there. Uh, I don't know, But all I know is I would be very nervous about getting a big sack of money I didn't know where it came from, and I'd be even more nervous about news stories being written about it and where it was found.

1:03:53 Yeah, yeah, it's probably fine. The police said it was fine. It's probably fine. Except then the police didn't confirm they said it was fine. They didn't confirm that they'd spoken to them. That's because they were probably not supposed to say that. And someone was just there and like it, like like hungover, and they're like, I don't know, man, just whatever you want with it, it's fine to me. It sounds like clout. It sounds like this is all clout, Like they just want people to like subscribe to their YouTube channel. It's possible, but it's not like people don't find cool things. So I don't think I even said though, that like somehow he always finds the coolest things, no matter how many other people are around. And I'm like, that's pretty ballsy to say.

1:04:40 Well, hopefully if he was actually just making it up, he wouldn't be stupid enough to say stuff like that. Though. I don't know. I've met some dummies in my day. But well, we're gonna take a quick break and we'll be back with some more booky news and hopefully a big box of money would be nice after this. All right, we're back at Mirror dot co dot uk. Baby. The headline is quote, I died on operating table. When I woke again, I saw something impossible. Oh what, Well, I guess we could find out if you want, or you could skip the article.

1:05:34 You mean to skip it, It's fine, okay. A woman who was put into a near death during brain surgery, uh says wow? A woman who A woman? A woman who was put into a near death during brain surgery. She floated above. This is the get a copy editor Mirror dot co dot UK. A woman who was put into a near death during brain surgery I'm assuming, said she floated above a doctor's shoulder and witnessed details she shouldn't have been able to see. I think that that's like when you dissociate. I think that can happen.

1:06:17 It very well could. Yeah. The case of Pam Reynold's lowery is one of the most well documented and significant near death experience accounts on record. Podcaster Christina Randall, who has extensively researched the case, explains that Pam had been experiencing symptoms of dizziness, temporary loss of speech, and bouts of paralysis. A scan revealed that she had a large anneurism close to her brainstem. Because of the aneurism's location, surgery to repair it would be extremely risky, Christina said quote. As a last resort, a neurosurgeon of the Barow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona, decided that a rarely performed procedure called a stand still operation could improve Pam's chances of surviving.

1:07:12 A standstill operation effectively reduces the patient's vital signs to a near death state. Okay, Christina explained, quote, Pam's body temperature was lowered to fifty degrees fahrenheit or ten degrees centigrade, her breathing and her heartbeat completely stopped, and the blood was completely drained from her head. That's fine. I wonder how long you can do that before you stay dead. I don't hard. It seems kind of weird. I don't think you have very long. Can't be very long. But despite this, oh sorry, As a matter of routine, Pam's eyes were taped shut and a headset that played a series of loud clocking sounds was placed over her ears.

1:08:00 So okay, so yeah, yeah, it is she like not anesthetized during this, Like what's happening? Because I know that I'm pretty sure during aneste do they do put tafe over your eyes? That's what Reddit told me one time. I mean, they couldn't be lying. So yeah, the sounds, which would have been intensely annoying if Pam had been conscious. Okay, there we go. Enabled the anesthetist. The anesthetist. It's the thh in there that throws anesthetist to confine to confine that they're confined that there was no activity in the patient's brain. I think they can conffirm.

1:08:43 Yeah. But despite this, Pam reported a series of incredible experiences while she was technically dead. Pam, who was a music why is it? Why is that in the past? Tense who was a musician. It turns out the aneurysm was caused by playing guitar, So no more. Pam, who was a musician, identified a continuous tone corresponding to the note. D huh, I can't do that. This sound somehow lifted her consciousness out of her body. Christina recalled quote. Pam said during this she felt more aware than normal, and her vision was more focused and clearer than normal. Her senses became so hyper aware it was as if she had more than five senses.

1:09:34 Well, you do have probably more than five senses. I thought we only had five senses. I don't know. With the sixth sense being the ability to know that Bruce Willis is actually dead. Yeah, yeah, with his unnaturally With this unnaturally clear perception, Pam watched as the surgeons drilled through her skull to reach the aneurism quote. She was able to see the elect saw that was pulled out to use on her, and she described it as looking like an electric toothbrush. Christina went on, I mean I would imagine what else would look like, I mean really. Yeah, like like a little drummer. Basically. Yeah.

1:10:15 There was a number of telling details that led experts to believe that Pam had somehow witnessed the dramatic life saving procedure from outside her own body. In an interview, Pam recalled quote, I was looking down at the body. I knew it was my body, but I didn't care. My vantage point was sort of sitting on the doctor's shoulder, all like a little like Angel and the Devil. Yeah, and like help her aneurysm. I was like, kill her. I remember the instrument in his hand and it looked like the handle of my electric toothbrush. Oh. Unfortunately Pam passed away in twenty ten, so this is like, oh, they're bringing this up in a new way. Oh. She added quote, I had assumed that they were going to open the skull with a saw. I had heard the term saw, but what I saw looked a lot more like a drill than a saw. He even had little bits that were kept in this case that looked like the case that my father stored his socket wrenches in when I was a child.

1:11:16 Yeah, so it's like a dremal basically. Yeah, yeah, that's dremll. Pam even remembered details of discussions that the doctor and doctors and nurses had while they were operating on her. But as she calmly observed the operation, she became aware that she was not alone. Because she was in the room with the doctors. Or Christina said quote. When she tried making out the figures, she realized that it was her grandmother and uncle and other deceased people that she knew. Hum, you'd think they have something better to do than watch her get brain surgery. But really, I think that's kind of a big deal watching someone get brain surgery.

1:11:57 I would just be like, Eh, if she dies, I'll know when she hes a neighbor that would be That would have been me watching watching TV in the after life. In particular, Pam said, her late uncle, who had died when he was only thirty nine, I don't like that I'm thirty eight, seemed to be taking part of a guide. Taking the part of a guide, She went on, quote, my uncle was the one who brought me back down to the body. But then I got to where the body was and I looked at the thing, and I for sure did not want to get in. You. Yeah, I mean I could see that, like I gotta go back in there. That's okay, highly disagree. When I look at my own body and photos and in the mirror, I think I look very cozy.

1:12:42 Okay, I mean I could see that, Thank you. Pam said her body looked lifeless and she was reluctant to go back into it. She went on, quote, I didn't want to get in, but he kept reasoning with me, he said, quote a double quote. I guess it's like diving into a swimming Just jump in, he pushed me. He gave me a little help there. After a grueling seven hour procedure, Pam was wheeled into recovery. As soon as she came to, she stunned doctors with her recollections of what had happened while she was technically dead. Some skeptics have attempted to debunk Pam's story, suggesting it might be a case of anesthesia awareness, a condition where patients can recall details of surgery despite being under general anesthetic, but in this case, Pam's eyes had been taped shut, and her hearing would have been blocked by the loud audio clicks coming from her headphones. Cardiologist Michael Sambaum. Sabam is convinced that Pam's case is genuine, though he and he's identified over a hundred instances of an esthetized or seriously injured people having an experience that hints at some sort of life after death.

1:13:55 I mean, I mean, it could just be that people can astral project. It doesn't have to be life after death. Well, I know that they've done an immense amount of story era of studies about how people whose brains are deprived blood and oxygen have wild hallucinations, including leaving your own body. Well, yeah, and like I said about dissociation, that could be like that too. But like, it doesn't explain if she was right about the details that being said, it's not impossible that she couldn't have kind of imagined something similar. Well, and I'm going to take another I'm going to take another bit attacked with this. It's not like these doctors are so interesting that what they said couldn't be guessed.

1:14:43 Talking about does work? Talking about stuff anybody talk about it's easy to accidentally guess it. No, it's not. I think it is. I mean, what the what do they say? Like doctor, doctor, that's what they say, like the entire the entire surgery doctors. Doctor. They like listen to music and they talk about their lives and stuff, and they say like suction. Yeah, but mostly they're talking about their lives and a hot date they went on. Yeah, yeah, that sounds fun. It's not a bad not a bad job. We're going to take a break. I have one more weekly or one more spooky news I want to get to because it is Christmasy, and then we're going to get to our topic right after this. All right, we're back with one more little bit of spooky news because I wanted to end festively. Yeah, I'm looking forward to this one. So we're heading back to the Huffington Post, where the headline reads, owl strikes perfect pose on Christmas tree after flying down chimney.

1:15:53 I saw this, Yeah, yeah, I love this. Oh no, but the first line is oh, owy night. I hate them. A Virginia family had an unexpected holiday visitor recently when an owl flew down their chimney and promptly found a picturesque place to rest. Quote, this beautiful barred owl decided to play Santa and drop in literally through the chimney of a local home and declared himself the newest star on top of their Christmas tree, The Animal Welfare League of Arlington wrote Thursday on a social media post, adding that the feathered guest had knocked the old star over to make room for himself on the tree. The picture is amazing. It's just an owl sitting like a wild owl, just sitting on top of a nicely decorated Christmas tree.

1:16:50 Yeah, I mean, I have a lot to say about this, but oh yeah, well yeah, because owls can't fly into chimneys. If you have a rain cap on your chimney, you should have a rain cap on your chimney because if you don't, owls and other animals and rain will get in there and it will deteriorate your flu and destroy your chimney and then you'll dive of carbon monoxide poison it. Post a lot of weird reddits because yeah, well okay, I'll see your point and add this. Then, how Santa is supposed to get in? He has tools we have to like we just to like take them off the rain caps. He can't really get in. I don't want Santas to get in anyone's house anymore anymore. No more.

1:17:42 Oh, you just want the world to burn basically. Yeah. The nonprofit, which provides animal services in Arlington County shared two photos of the owl on the tree, as well as a video showing the bird of prey flying around the room as children in the home laugh. Yeah. Those kids do not know enough about owls. I would not think that's funny. I was violent. They're not gonna hurt you. Yeah, okay, Hey, I think the. Owl is just going to swoop down and attack you. Yes, why if it feels threatened. I mean, it's not going to just do it for no. Reason exactly, So it's on to threaten it. Oh so now it's my fault, okay. Yeah. The video also shows the owl flying free outside after being caught in a net by animal control Sergeant Spencer Murray.

1:18:28 She just gonna fall back in. Yeah, that's what it is. Once they get a taste for, you know, the warmth in there and like apple cider or something, and they're like, I can't go back. Following the stint inside, the owl was quote uninjured uninjured and totally healthy. Chelsea's Jones, a spokesperson for the organization, told Hugh Post via Facebook. She added that the nonprofit is so grateful to the family for staying calm and allowing our sergeant to safely remove the owl. Uh. I guess no, he got like a good rifle for Christmas, or they would have been like, hold on, I got this. You can't shoot things. In your own home.

1:19:09 In your own home. Yeah, Uh, I think you're wrong. Oh, I think you're wrong. The Animal Welfare League of Arlington noted that the incident is quote a great reminder to keep your chimneys capped this season, curious critters from coming to visit. There we go. Do you feel seen? I feel vindicated? Good. Good. You deserve that after all you've been through. You you earned that. Great. I did not just make that part up. That is in the article. Now, I don't believe you. No, it's in the It's in the article. The photo and video footage prompted thousands of social media comments, most of them delighted. Quote, it's been such a wonderful experience seeing the joy this has brought people. Joan said, Oh, and there are thirty four comments. Wow, they're really good.

1:20:05 Number one comment, Now that's a tree topper. Yeah, yeah it is. That was when I sorted it by best Wow. Sorry it's not this. It's not New Year's yet. I can still read comments. And then one comment was a musical notes that it said owl I want for Christmas is a bird on my tree. So I guess I'm supposed to sing that. Okay, a good ending for a true story at Christmas.

1:20:48 People who comment on news articles are weird. Some of these have got to be bots, right, I hope. So somebody said better than a cat to keep mice away? That's true. Hmmm. Did you dissect owl pellets when you were a kid. Yeah, yeah, that's why I'm afraid of owls. I've got a healthy fear of owls. I think they're cool because they throw up phones in fur. Wait. I thought you didn't like throwing up, and now you think throwing up is cool. No, it's different so much. It's different because it's not like they're sick. That's the function of their digestive system. That's the function of yours. Two occasions, No on rare, So you're scaring me, please stop? Okay, that actually startled me a little bit well before we go to break and then we talk about creepy and weird New Year's traditions.

1:21:44 Do you have any New Year's traditions you always do or have always done, or did when you were a kid. I mean, we used to like eat or derms and like watch like Twilight Zone and stuff. Now I don't do anything. I'm I'll probably Twilight Zone, but like, I'm not gonna eat anything good this year. You don't want to eat much of anything at all right now? No, but I have to, but they have to be things that I cooked in my house now for a while. Yeah, I understand. I haven't had food poisoning. And that's the weird thing though. Whenever when people get freaked out because they get food poisoning, like I can't eat out anymore, all I think is, like, man, I eat out like way too much, like way too much, and I haven't had food poisoning five years.

1:22:30 Yeah, I mean, I understand it's super rare obviously, but I kind of just don't want to do it right now, Like it sounds the whole, the whole just eating food out just sounds really unappetizing At the moment. I know, I totally and it's been it's really recent. So no, it's more just weird that I'm like, man, you'd think, I mean, I've got to be at really high risk just from eating out so much, and I'm it just doesn't happen that often. It's weird. Yeah, maybe time, Yeah, maybe next time. Next time, I'll get them. We ain't from the same restaurant too, I mean, like it was just different dishes. Yeah, I mean it's it's always possible, and it was from something the day before, because it can take a little while. No, okay, I don't buy that. Well then then I guess you were just lucky that you didn't need what I ate.

1:23:23 Well, I went for something mild for the stomach, which is I went for fried pork belly and and and octopus. I have no idea why I was fine and you weren't. Yeah. Maybe it's just I'm just stronger, you know, just as a person. Yeah, I have a better moral compass, so I'm able to be all right. I figured, you know. That's you were like. I kind of assumed it just was it was a it was a character flaw on my part. That yeah, Ill, that's. Usually what it is, so it's almost always. What it is. Well, when I was a kid, we would we would eat our meat and cheese tray, you know, with crackers that my mom was gifted from somebody at work.

1:24:11 Every year, every year Christmas was a ham that a client gave my mom, and every year New Year's was some cheese and cracker thing that my mom was given as well, which is hilarious because looking back, it was just like you goblins, take this. I'll be in the other room, you know, just like leave me alone, and we would watch the countdown. That was the thing, although my mom would almost always go to bed before it, so it would be me and my sister staying up. And but but my mom, because of her like kind of old school Kentucky Southern Ohio upbringing, she would like we would get like noisemakers, you know, things like that. But she would also like pull out the pots and pans and be like you can bang them together, but not too hard, like don't break them, but you can bang them together. So we would blow and then we would like bang pots and pans together.

1:24:59 My neighbor did that nice. Yeah, Well, when we get back, when we talk a little bit about some traditions of New Year's They might be meant. There might be mentioned of why some people think you should make tons of noise on the New Year, or maybe not. I guess you'll have to wait to find out after this. All right, it's time to dive into this month's topic, which is creepy New Year's traditions, superstitions, things like that. So I found an article or a listicle or what I don't know what they call ease.

1:25:44 It's a list it's seven creepy New Year's superstitions that will help you keep that'll keep you up past midnight. And it's from mentalflows dot com. Wow, they have some stuff every now and then, and it's a recent one. This was published on the twelfth of December of this year. Okay, so let's see what we've got. Sparklers and confetti check noise makers. Yep, Champagne got the Costco bulk pack freshmaghet or sour noble at to beat against the walls of your house during a New Year's Eve party to chase away evil spirits or uh, maybe that's when the New Year's custom you're a little less familiar with when it comes to traditions people embrace to ring in the new year.

1:26:28 Some are less known than others, and many are downright spooky, so much so that they could give baby New Year and father time nightmares. Below our six unsettling superstitions from around the world that make December thirty first feel more like October thirty first. It said six, but the headline says seven. Eh, they're not sure. There are seven. Oh now I'm really confused. So this one you might like. This one use bread to scare away spirits that mean you harm. You like bread, yeah, but I. Don't like to use it for non food things.

1:27:09 That sour dough bread baking hobby will come in handy if you want to partake in this old Irish New Year's Eve tradition. Back in the day, residents of the Emerald Isle would bang loaves against doors and walls just before midnight to ward off any angry apparitions or problematic phantoms that might be lurking. I mean, I don't know why that would work for sure. Whacking wheat bread and clubbing shabbata against the wall is also believed to send the bad luck packing and ensure that your family won't go hungry. For the next twelve months. Okay, sure, it doesn't. Sound like you have to ruin the bread. You're just beating stuff with it and then you eat.

1:27:50 It later, feed it too hard and gets all messed up. Not everyone has what I would call passion issues, like you do. Fine, she's violent everybody. Oh, here's another one. Set a place at the dinner table for lost loved ones. Another Irish New Year's Eve custom is to leave the door unlocked and set a place at the dinner table on New Year's Eve to welcome back the spirits of loved ones who were lost during the last year. To some, it might suggest that Irish households are a revolving door of wanted and unwanted specters during this holiday.

1:28:30 I guess. You did. You just hate New Year's Like you just don't want to You're just like, no, don't don't like New Years? Really? I love New Year's a what? How? Okay? Whoa? How is it stupid? Like? What what are we doing? It's just another day? We Harvish farily decided that this was the end of the year. I hate everything. There are other New Years too, Yeah, so I have saying like there's a lot of arbitrary choices. But what about but what about all the other holidays? You can say exactly. You just feel that way about all holidays? Now? Is that? Is that your move? Yeah? Like, why do we even care? It's just Christmas, It's just twenty fifth?

1:29:12 Yeah, who the fuck cares? We just made this up anyway. You're hurtful. I'm sorry. What is with you? Man? I'm sad. I'm gonna call your mother. No, I'm making. He's already worried about me. I know. And that's why I owe this to her. No, I think it's gonna have to happen. This next one I've never heard about at all. Don't even think about going into the laundry room on New Year's Day. Oh, for most people, doing laundry is an everyday household task. Every day every day. It's like a couple of times a week at most. I do laundry once a month.

1:29:56 We know, I can. I can smell it from here, No, well I will. I was when my dogs were sick, I was doing laundry every single day because I had bought reusable peapads because it was much easier. So yeah, then I was running laundry like constantly, but let's see from every day. But as it turns out, there is a shocking number of spooky superstitions that revolve around performing this seemingly mundane chore around the New year. The most severe claims that if you clean clothes on January first, you'll be washing for the dead and the member. Of Oh sorry, no continue, sorry sorry. And a member of your family will be washed away, which is really just a poetic way of saying someone you love will die at some point in the coming year.

1:30:44 Gee will also send a year of good fortune spiraling down the drain. Well that's mean. Even the least ominous of these laundry related superstitions is still no laughing matter. Tradition holds that if you wash alone of clothing on New Year's Day, you'll jinx yourself into having more laundry than usual all year. I like how that one's just kind of charming. Yeah. The other one's like your family will die, you know. Okay, here's another one I've never heard before. Don't get rid of anything until January second or else. According to this New Year's superstition, nothing be it leftover pizza, empty wine bottles.

1:31:32 You get. The idea should be removed from your house until after New Year's Day. It was even a thing back in the Victorian era, although our nineteenth century forebearers believed you could get rid of stuff with no problems, provided you replaced whatever you toss with something new. Hmm. Either way, the consequences for not adhering to this custom are dire. The idea is that it'll set the tone for a steady of people and things to leave you in the year to come. If you want to avoid a year of misfortune, maybe hold off on shopping spreeze for a couple of days.

1:32:12 Okay. I do have a weird like tradition that I try to eat like my absolute favorite food that I can get my hands on on New Year's Day to start the year on that foot. Okay. So for a long time it was cheeseburger, and then I got more hoity toity, So now it's been sushi. Okay, I start the new year by eating like a ton of sushi. That sounds good this year. Maybe I should just go get hot Pot again. I just want to live. Yeah, yeah, I just want the hot Pot forever. I know. Gosh, so judgy. This next one. Burn effigies to get rid of last year's bad vibes. Okay, I could do that.

1:32:55 New Year's Eve is particularly lit in Ecuador, where at the stroke of midnight, the country to the streets to burn effigies referred to as montegotts of politicians, pop culture figures, and other icons that represent the Anno Yeho old year. This is often after men dress as morning widows beg for money while in costume and parade the dummies through the streets. Okay, Ecuador, are you okay? I think that sounds fun bro Ecuador. You are right. The symbolic cleansing dates back to an eighteen ninety five yellow fever outbreak. Back then, people stuffed caskets full of clothes from the deceased and set them ablaze as a literal and figurative purification ritual. Nowadays, some folks also hide messages in the monigotes, listing off all the bad things from the past year that they want to put behind them in the upcoming one. Okay, if you can't afford an elaborate moneygotte of your own, you can use a simple scarecrow and mask. Added luck in the Anio noise is also said to come to anyone who jumps the flame once for every month of the year.

1:34:07 So you jump over the effigy twelve times till I guarantee you good good fortune. What if you get caught on fire though, I. Mean, I guess that would start your year a little rough. Yeah, that's when it's anos nuevos anos weenos fumas. Flames make lots of noise on New Year's Eve. But don't forget to open all the doors and windows. No, it's cold outside. Don't mess this up at the risk of catching your death of cold. Consider implementing an old strategy from the Philippines.

1:34:47 Homeowners open all the doors and windows just before midnight to serve up an eviction notice to any bad juju that might be lingering around and usher positive auras into their abodes. That's not the only way to keep wicked rates from darkening your doorstep either. According to Filipino tradition, the more noise you make on December thirty first, the better. As it's also believed that a big ruckus helps to drive away evil spirits. You'll have a reason to be loud and scared all over again when the extra high heating bill from your party comes in the mail. That's pretty good mental floss. I'll give you that one. Yeah, my cigar lounge. They're doing a this year. They're doing a pajama karaoke party for New Year's.

1:35:28 That's pretty nice. Yeah, I'm excited. Usually it's just sit around it's New Year's like, that's it. That was the whole. This year, we're doing pajama party karaoke. Hum. Yeah, all right, one last one. This one looks like it's from the part of the world. You like, No Japan Weebville. We need to just change the name of Japan to like weep something. That's not very nice. Japan isn't very nice. Uh, dress up like a demon and maybe ensure a good harvest. Like Halloween. Some New Year superstitions involve a costume change. In small villages around Japan, including Oga, young men dressed as the Nama haji ogre like demon and go door to door to frighten lazy people nice. They also threaten to snatch away misbehaving children, but back off once the head of the household offers sake or rice cakes. Basically, it's like crampis only significantly more menacing and tied to New Year instead of Christmas.

1:36:30 These terrifying figures are also believed to bring protection from illness and disasters once appeased, as well as a good harvest and plentiful food year round. So at least there is an upside. Yay, that's a. Pretty good little article. Yeah, that's pretty good. Well, I do have one more article with some more examples, and I don't think it it's repetitive. We're gonna go through those real quick after this. I wouldn't want to leave people high and dry. So we have a few more creepy and weird New Year's traditions from around the globe. This time we have a few from creepybonfire dot com.

1:37:15 And these are different than the other ones. That's why I pulled up too. The first one they reference is called the Dark Rider of Scotland, also known as the First Footing tradition. In the heart of Scotland, as the old year gives way to the new, a unique and suspenseful tradition unfolds first footing. Rooted in Scottish, Northern English and Manx folklore, this custom dictates that the first person to enter a home after the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day will bring either good fortune, fortune or misfortune for the year ahead. The ideal first footer is often a tall, dark haired male. Hey, I'm not tall, believe to bring the best luck. This figure stepping into the house at the very start of the year is laden with eymbolism and expectation.

1:38:02 Hmm. The roots of first footing are shrouded in mystery, with some tracing it back to the Viking invasions of the British Isles. A stranger's arrival, especially a dark haired one, once stirred fear, reminiscent of the alarming days of Viking raids. This tradition has evolved over time, intertwining with local customs and superstitions. In Scotland, the practice varies from place to place, but it generally involves the first footer bringing symbolic gifts such as coal, coins, whiskey, or black buns. Whoa, I can go for some. Yeah. These gifts are not just tokens of goodwill, but also emblems of warmth, prosperity, and celebration.

1:38:45 In return, the first footer is often greeted with food and drink, making a communal start to the new year. That's kind of nice. You just go to people's houses. Want to be the first person they'll feed me. Yes, as long as you have dark hair, I guess yeah. It's freaking awesome. So this one. Have you ever heard of this? Japan's Bell of Forgetfulness? I don't think so. As the new year approaches in Duet, are they real? I don't know. It looks like it. As the new year approaches in Japan, a profound and resonant tradition takes place. Joya no khan Kane. I keep wanting to read this in Spanish. This ritual, deeply rooted in Japanese Buddhist customs, is observed on New Year's Eve as part of the Olmosaka celebrations. The heart of this tradition lies in the striking of the temple bell or bon show one hundred and eight times at midnight. This practice, primarily celebrated in Japan, but also observed in South Korea and at Japanese Buddhist temples worldwide, symbolizes the purification of the soul.

1:39:57 Okay, I don't know if this is a real thing. Tried to look it up. Oh is it not coming up? No? Are you serious? Uh? When I look up Bell of forgetfulness. I get the Memory Bell by Kate Flanny Flannery. Uh, if you look up Joya no Caine, it comes up. Okay. It's also known as the midnight Bell. I'm not sure how to spell joya nokaine j. O y a n o k n a k a n e. Okay, I give Yeah, this is not some made up A. I think. I think you spend too much time with A. I I do. I'm worried about you. We're all very worried about you.

1:40:39 Okay, Yeah you should be. It's Joya no kane with Kanye. Yeah. That's how you'd say it in Spanish and in Italian. Yeah. But the origin of the Joya o Khanee can be traced back to Zen Buddhist customs from the Song dynasty in China, adopted by Japanese Zen temples during the Kamakura period. The ritual of ringing the bell one d eight times to steeped in Buddhist philosophy. In Buddhism, it is believed that humans have one hundred and eight sins. These are derived from the sixth senses sight, hearing, smell, taste, body and mind. Ah So smell and taste are separate, all right. I appreciate that also body, your sense of body and mind, each with pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral variations, further divided into pure and impure categories. These variations, multiplied by the three aspects of time, past, present, and future, result in one hundred and eight. Okay, this one. I'm sure you've heard of the merry lude or Lloyd whatever. It's a it's a horse skull under a sheet. No, it's in Wales.

1:41:45 You've never heard of this? No? Oh man, I don't how do you say mary lude? It's it's This is one of the few weird New Year's traditions I knew about. Although I don't know how to say it, but it's literally like a guy in a horse, like in a costume with a horse skull. It looks really creepy and weird. In the wintry landscapes of South Wales, a haunting an enigmatic transit tradition known as Marry or It's e fairy Lloyd is absurd. I don't know how to say it. This was sailing folk custom, deeply rooted in Welsh culture, involves a peculiar and evil figure a hobby horse made from a horse's skull mounted on a pole, shrouded in a white sheet, carried by an individual concealed beneath sackcloth.

1:42:30 The Merry Louid, or however we say it, is a striking and ghostly presence, embodying a blend of festivity and macabre. Performed during winter festivities. The custom varied in date and duration between villages. Adorned with colorful ribbons and rosettes, it would bring a blend of fear and amusement inside the houses. The merry load would then create chaos, snapping its jaws and neighing while the group and entertained the householders with music and merriment. Okay, some referred to it as the gray Mare. That makes sense because yeah. In Spain they have the twelve Grapes of Luck. H never heard of this one. Grapes in Spain has midnight on December thirty first approaches. A vibrant tradition unfolds The twelve Grapes of Luck, embedded in Spanish culture, entails eating a grape with each chime of the clock at midnight, symbolizing the new year's welcome. Each grape signifies a forthcoming month believed to bring good luck and prosperity for the year ahead.

1:43:36 I don't like that because you have to eat the grapes really fast. Dong dong. Yeah, that's too fast for you. It's too much pressure. I think you could just pop a new one in your mouth and just keep just going. No, what's wrong with that. I don't know. It sounds like that's not the right way to do it. You just have to hate all the good stuff. Well, this is one I know you'll like. Romania's bear dance. I don't like bears, but it's people dressed as bears. I guess that's only that's a little better.

1:44:18 In Romania, the bear dance is a captivating and colorful tradition that marks the new year's celebration. The country's folklore and cultural heritage deeply rooted this In this unique custom, the bear dance isn't just a winter performance. It's a symbolic ritual embodying the cycle of time, signifying both death and rebirth. Believed to purify and enrich the soil of the upcoming year, it holds a deeper significance beyond just a mere dance. It showcases Romania's rich cultural heritage and deep ties to nature. The bear dance in Romania is a remarkable blend of past and present, a ritual that brings communities together in celebration and hope for the new year. Okay, now these are all strange. We have one more. Okay, the graveyard vigil of Talca, Chile, or a Night among the Tombstones. I've heard of this one in the small town of Talca.

1:45:09 Du what oh I just said? I haven't sorry, Well, you don't. Care about Chile, clearly, which is hateful. In the small town of Talca, located in the Mali region of Chile, there exists a unique New Year's tradition. As midnight approaches on December thirty first, some locals engage in a practice that might seem unusual to outsiders. They spend the night in the graveyard, keeping vigil among the tombstones. This tradition, our participants bring candles, flowers, and even set up picnics beside the graves of their family members and friends. The atmosphere, contrary to what one might expect, is not morose or overlea somber. Instead, it is a time of reflection, remembrance, and even celebration of the lives of those who passed this practice. The singular Sorry Singular vigil showcases the very cultural celebrations worldwide and serves as appointant room reminder of universal themes like love, memory, and the passage of time.

1:46:03 They used a lot of AI to make this list, they did. I'm just admitting it. They use a lot of AI to make that list. But those are some interesting ones to chew on, especially if you like grapes for the new year. So we're gonna take a break and we're gonna come back wrapping things up and saying goodbye to twenty twenty four after Michelle tells us what she's grateful for from the past year. Right after this, I thought you'd be more upset by that. No, I give up, h fair, All right, Shelle, now's the time you've rehearsed for ald Lang Sin take it away?

1:46:52 What am I doing? Old Lang sign? Oh? I don't know that you we've been preparing this for months. I no, I haven't been. I just keep telling you that I'm preparing it. That is so cruel. It's like deeply cruel. It wasn't supposed to be a lie. I just hadn't gotten around to it and then things got all crazy and you know. Uh, well, we are wrapping up the year, so a few things I want to get to. As far as horror media goes, I saw There's Something in the Barn on Netflix. It's a new to me Christmas horror comedy, super fun. I recommend it's about a killer. It's about a family moves to Norway and there's a killer in their elf in their barn. But it's played. It's played for laughs, but it's also really fun and it gets really outrageous. The other big Christmas horror media I saw.

1:47:51 I saw Black Christmas fiftieth anniversary screening. It was really awesome and rest in peace to Olivia Hussey, one of the lead actresses who passed away yesterday. Oh god, that was in Black Christmas. I also saw No Sparatu, the remake of the German ripoff of Dracula, and I liked it. I I Black Christmas is amazing. By the way, I just got really depressed talking about Olivia Hussey just passing away. I like No Sparatu. My biggest complaint was it didn't do a lot of new stuff. Yeah, you know, it was very very much a remake and it felt like a remake, but it was well done. The performances were incredible. I'm I'm the worst because like people will say, like I love that movie because the cinematography blew me away or it was so beautiful look at and I'm like it absolutely was. I get bored by that, like really fast.

1:48:42 Like if everything is like incredibly designed, I'm like wow, and then it's just the room, like I like completely. Maybe I'm just like so like stupid that aesthetics don't get me the way they sometimes get other people. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, I'm a bad person and I know it. It's okay, is it? I don't know, it's probably not okay, right, Like, promise me that you'll that you'll you'll help ye sure, You're like, oh god, I don't even know what I'm agreeing to, but I'm agreeing to it, so all right. Well, but that was my horror media. Not a ton of new like Christmas horror for this year. Terrifier three came out even though it was a Christmas week, it came out in October, so it doesn't count. But but this was an incredible year for horror movies. Cuckoo was one of my favorite horror movies I've seen in a very long time.

1:49:44 We had Maxine, We had just a ton too much to go through. So very good year for seeing horror movies in the movie theater. Yeah cool not you know, and it was quite a year. So check, Well, do you have anything to wrap up this year from reddits? Let's see, because I definitely saved a couple of things. They weren't very good. Oh okay, I can do this one. This one is insane, so huh okay, I'll try. I'll try to like recount this because I don't want to like just like sit and figure out what it was.

1:50:26 But anyway, on Glitch on the glitch in the matrix reddits, there's this person like so, like, let's say like eight months ago, this family lost their remote control for the TV, like it's just gone. They looked all over, can't find it. They have kids, went somewhere nobody knows, so they I think this has happened before. So they were finally just like, let's just just they're literally paying for an app on their phone to do like a universal remote, and everyone in the comments was roasting them and saying like you could just get a free one. You don't have to pay for it. But anyway, that's one of your favorite like sticking points. Yeah, no, that's that's like literally what half of the comments were like, you know, you don't have to pay for them, right. So so she, I guess, is sitting on the couch like she had been watching Fluie with her kid, but her kid went to bed and she's sitting on the couch and she changed the channel, you know, because she didn't want to watch Flue anymore. And then while she's watching, it keeps flipping back like she's watching it and it flips back and she and so she's like, okay, what the fuck? Like and then she's like, am I sitting on the remote and she picks up the cushion and it's there. Now, that would be weird, but you can miss a remote. That couch is new, No, that couse is only like four months old. So it didn't get lost in that couch. How did it get there? Somebody?

1:51:53 Well the couch, what did you say? Somebody probably just put it? Oh yeah, the could it have been like up her ass for months and she just didn't realize it. No, because she'd have some sort of infection if that happened. Okay, Okay, that checks out. Yeah. No, that one's really weird because I struggle with a remote control loss. I'm getting better, but like my tea, I have a Samsung and the remote is like so small. It's like this, It's like smaller than a candy bar, you know, like it's really really tiny, and I'm always worried I'm gonna lose it. And one time Rachel was like, you should put a air tag on it, and I was like, well, the problem is the air tag is wider, oh god, thicker than the remote, so it would be really weird.

1:52:37 Yeah. So, but I don't know what's do you have a theory? You think just somebody just put it there? Yeah? I think their kids, and you know they found some one of them like found it under something and then was like playing around and it got lost in the couch. You know. I often tell Rachel that, like, because she often is sitting on things that like they aren't even there until she sits down, like it's magic. Like I'm like, where's the remote? Rachel? Sit here? She says, sound like now get up, and I get the run out. I'm like thanks. So I don't know that one that one. I mean with something as mundane as a remote. But also they're so lazy they use the app, like just get a new universal remote on Amazon for like eleven dollars.

1:53:18 Well they're just using the app and paying four dollars a month for it. So well, okay, they deserve to be roasted if it's a monthly Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I don't know that one's sad you hurt me? Is there anymore? Or is that the best you got? That's the best I got? There really wasn't very much. Yeah, that's fair, that's fair. The matrix is learning and it's not glitching as much. Yeah, which is good but also worrisome. It's probably fine. Well, I guess we'll wrap this up, so I will say, Uh, it's been a it was a really tumultuous year, and I'm very grateful to everybody who has been around for me, who's been to me, as I've needed a lot of kindness in a lot of different directions this year. I've needed kindness while I grieve. I've needed kindness while I recover, while I heal, while I am selfish. I've needed a lot of kindness. Why are you making that face? Cell?

1:54:17 You're totally making a face. Okay, fine, I deserve that face, You're right, but no, I really so I want to say thank you to all the people who have been listening and writing in and saying kind things, and to my friends like Michelle, who you know, I was. I was really struggling with just having a very dark holiday, and getting to spend a couple of days with you really turned a lot of my mind around, and not just because you're a good friend, but also because you're a great friend and you had really great conversations with me in between ranting and raving about banana fish, which was fun, you know, telling me you were just being a good friend, and I'm really grateful for you. I'm looking forward to a new year, doing this podcast and just kind of seeing what comes next, because this year was all change. Every goddamn week. It feels like there was a massive change to my life.

1:55:15 Yeah. Yeah, so I'm looking forward to seeing how it all settles, I guess, And I'm looking forward to you writing more episodes of Weekly Spooky. Okay please, okay. Okay, Well, we're gonna get out of here. I hope everybody listening to us has a happy, healthy, and safe new Year, and we really do appreciate you. If you love what we do here at Weekly Spooky, you can go to Weeklyspooky dot com slash join, sign up for a Patreon for as little as one dollar a month, and at two bonus shows and four years of previous bonus shows and audiobooks. We really do appreciate the support, and you can email us at Weekly Spooky at gmail dot com. We would love to hear from you if you have anything to question or comment, I'm here and I'll be reading it. So tell, what do you have to say for yourself?

1:56:06 Not really, anytime I. Guess anything about the year, about your resolution, anything like that. I don't have any resolutions because everything sucks and it's just gonna get worse. So your resolution is that things will get worse. No, that's just reality. You seem awfully cocky about you being right. Yeah, it's okay. It's good to have that kind of confidence in yourself. Oh, to be like I'm right. No, Well tell, I'll see you next year. Okay, we're gonna do this show next month, so stay subscribed. Thank you guys. From bottom my heart.

1:56:48 I'm not gonna get super much because I'll save that for the weekly spooky Proper episode where I might cry. You never know. You'll have to be subscribed to find out. Kid you guys next time.