WEBVTT 1 00:00:09.960 --> 00:00:14.919 He was cold Cold. That was the name. He was cold on. 2 00:00:24.000 --> 00:00:32.240 What's going on up there could be the most important event in history. Now 3 00:00:32.280 --> 00:00:41.840 I have become the destroyer of the worlds, I said. I hope this 4 00:00:42.000 --> 00:01:04.319 is close to hell is all never again. Hello, and welcome to the 5 00:01:04.319 --> 00:01:07.200 Tales in the Dark podcast. I'm your host Bob here with my co host 6 00:01:07.200 --> 00:01:11.719 Brittany. Hey, guys, what's up. Brittany? How are you doing 7 00:01:11.760 --> 00:01:17.319 on this freezing cold Halloween? I am doing good. It is too damn 8 00:01:17.359 --> 00:01:19.120 cold outside, though, I'll tell you that right now. Yeah, I 9 00:01:19.159 --> 00:01:23.719 don't want to hear it. I don't know. You have at least snow 10 00:01:23.799 --> 00:01:26.319 right now, which we have in Ohio. All right, you know what, 11 00:01:26.359 --> 00:01:29.519 that's fair. It's fair. I was gonna say, it's only six 12 00:01:29.560 --> 00:01:33.400 degrees like warmer than where you're at now, but at least you didn't have 13 00:01:33.439 --> 00:01:37.519 to sit outside. Yeah, that's fair. Let me tell you, guys, 14 00:01:37.519 --> 00:01:42.200 the frustration I have right now. Last or over the weekend, I 15 00:01:42.239 --> 00:01:46.319 was up in Toledo and it was fifty five sixty. It was humid at 16 00:01:46.400 --> 00:01:49.879 night. It didn't even feel like it felt like the first good day of 17 00:01:49.959 --> 00:01:57.680 fall. And here we are three days later and it's legitimately like snow floories 18 00:01:57.719 --> 00:02:01.439 outside. We skip fall and we went straight to winter. So it went 19 00:02:01.519 --> 00:02:06.680 from summer to winter straight away. Well, and the thing is, if 20 00:02:06.680 --> 00:02:08.120 you don't like Ohio weather, just wait a second, it's going to change 21 00:02:08.120 --> 00:02:12.240 again. But this is nonsense. And I really do feel bad for the 22 00:02:12.319 --> 00:02:15.479 kids because I'm a member of like a handful of like small town Facebook groups, 23 00:02:16.199 --> 00:02:20.240 and seeing everybody with like their hot chocolate, they're all bundled together, 24 00:02:20.280 --> 00:02:23.080 they're snow on the ground. I'm like, this has to suck to be 25 00:02:23.120 --> 00:02:27.479 a kid. There's only one Halloween that I remember that it actually snowed a 26 00:02:27.520 --> 00:02:30.680 little bit and it was freezing cold. I remember we went to the trunk 27 00:02:30.719 --> 00:02:34.680 er tree, and I got really upset because we only we went to the 28 00:02:34.680 --> 00:02:38.319 trunker tree at the church, and then we went to like one row of 29 00:02:38.360 --> 00:02:42.199 houses and they forced me to go home because it was too cold. I 30 00:02:42.240 --> 00:02:45.599 wasn't even that cold because I had my hot cocoa and my apple cider and 31 00:02:45.599 --> 00:02:47.759 stuff like that, but the parents got too cold and so most of everyone 32 00:02:47.840 --> 00:02:54.840 left. Was first off, those parents are just they're they're not really fans 33 00:02:54.879 --> 00:02:59.439 of the season, because everyone knows that you put up with the cold. 34 00:03:00.400 --> 00:03:04.680 When it comes to trick or treaty, let me let me tell you. 35 00:03:05.240 --> 00:03:12.199 I was probably oh, ten eleven years old something like that, and I 36 00:03:12.199 --> 00:03:14.360 grew up in Sydney, Ohio. So we used to go trick or treat 37 00:03:14.400 --> 00:03:16.240 up by the YMCA because that was where like the rich people were, so 38 00:03:16.319 --> 00:03:21.360 you got the best candy, and the houses were like crazy close together, 39 00:03:21.520 --> 00:03:25.840 so you could hit like sixty houses in record pace. Well, somebody had 40 00:03:25.879 --> 00:03:30.639 told my dad, hey, if you take your kids to Domino's Pizza in 41 00:03:30.680 --> 00:03:34.840 Sydney, they'll get a free piece of pizza, which was true, so 42 00:03:35.039 --> 00:03:37.680 we go down, we went and did our trick or treating. My dad 43 00:03:37.879 --> 00:03:40.479 like one hundred percent, his mind was on that fucking pizza. He could 44 00:03:40.479 --> 00:03:45.800 not care less what was occurring with the trick or treat. He wanted to 45 00:03:45.800 --> 00:03:50.400 get himself some free pizza. So we finally get to Domino's Pizza and it's 46 00:03:50.639 --> 00:03:53.680 like right at closing time, they were going out like free slices of pizza 47 00:03:53.719 --> 00:03:59.240 on these like small paper plates. Well, no one had told me the 48 00:03:59.360 --> 00:04:02.960 levels of molton lava that pizza actually is when it first comes off that oven. 49 00:04:03.759 --> 00:04:08.159 So I'm sitting there, there's a huge amount of people in the store. 50 00:04:08.639 --> 00:04:11.840 I grabbed that pizza, take a bite, and I'm pretty sure I 51 00:04:11.919 --> 00:04:15.800 still have like blisters inside my mouth almost thirty years later from that pizza. 52 00:04:16.439 --> 00:04:23.319 You just straight up raw dogged hot lava. Well, here's the thing. 53 00:04:23.920 --> 00:04:28.600 You're not wrong. And it was horrible. And my dad, I think 54 00:04:28.639 --> 00:04:31.839 he still got his pizza, pizza, pizza, but he was so upset 55 00:04:31.879 --> 00:04:34.560 that I had pulled him away from the thing that he'd been obsessing for. 56 00:04:35.079 --> 00:04:41.160 I want to say he taxed like sixty two percent of my candy, not 57 00:04:41.360 --> 00:04:46.120 the parent tax. Oh my god. Every dad out there just waits for 58 00:04:46.160 --> 00:04:47.360 their kid to be old enough to trigger treat now, you know, because 59 00:04:47.360 --> 00:04:50.399 the moms are usually Oh, I got this really cute costume idea where new 60 00:04:50.480 --> 00:04:55.920 families costume the dad just like I'm getting that fucking butterfinger. I'm waiting till 61 00:04:55.920 --> 00:05:00.839 he goes asleep and I'm taxing the shit out of his Halloween candy. Every 62 00:05:00.920 --> 00:05:03.279 dad does it. No one can convince me otherwise. It's not just dads, 63 00:05:03.319 --> 00:05:08.759 it's parents in general. Because my guardian, she used to she used 64 00:05:08.759 --> 00:05:12.639 to tax the shit out of my my candy too, and would leave me 65 00:05:12.680 --> 00:05:15.800 with like those crappy dots. By the way, if you're a person who 66 00:05:15.920 --> 00:05:21.560 who is giving out Halloween candy and you give out those dots that are harder 67 00:05:23.000 --> 00:05:27.279 than cement, you are a terrible person. Do not put dots in your 68 00:05:27.279 --> 00:05:30.920 Halloween candy giveaway. Just don't do it. Okay, Well, let me 69 00:05:30.920 --> 00:05:32.839 ask you this what what is your uh? This is your formal opinion. 70 00:05:32.920 --> 00:05:35.160 So this is gonna be important. This is this If you ever run for 71 00:05:35.519 --> 00:05:39.439 any kind of political office, this is going to count against you. Where 72 00:05:39.439 --> 00:05:45.680 do you land on circus peanuts as Halloween candy? Are they individually packaged or 73 00:05:45.839 --> 00:05:49.160 just circus circus peanuts like just out of the package one at a time. 74 00:05:49.879 --> 00:05:54.920 Do you know what circus peanuts are? Of course I know what circus peanuts 75 00:05:54.920 --> 00:05:58.319 are. I'm talking about there. They're they're the orange things that you eat, 76 00:05:58.439 --> 00:06:01.920 the thoamy ones. I have never in my life seen individually packaged circus 77 00:06:01.920 --> 00:06:08.519 peanuts. Do those even exist? Like I'm talking like small packages, like 78 00:06:08.600 --> 00:06:11.319 you know, okay, like little little fun size bags. That's what I'm 79 00:06:11.319 --> 00:06:15.480 asking. Are people just handing you a handful of circus peanuts? No? 80 00:06:15.759 --> 00:06:17.600 I mean I would be fine with that, especially that at my age, 81 00:06:17.600 --> 00:06:20.839 like if someone just wants to like give me individual Circus peanuts throughout the day, 82 00:06:20.920 --> 00:06:25.240 Oh I did that. That that paperwork's done. Here's a Circus peanut. 83 00:06:25.360 --> 00:06:29.360 Like Pavlov the shit out of me with circus peanuts because that's my favorite 84 00:06:29.360 --> 00:06:32.439 candy. Now I have the secrets to our relationship. Circus peanuts are fine. 85 00:06:32.480 --> 00:06:35.480 They're not definitely not my favorite, but I will eat them if they 86 00:06:35.519 --> 00:06:42.399 are available. I'm all in on Circus peanuts. I'm pretty sure I hold 87 00:06:42.480 --> 00:06:45.839 at least like sixty two percent of the stock in the Circus Peanut Company, 88 00:06:46.879 --> 00:06:53.279 just the whole company, the entire company. It's peanuts. No, But 89 00:06:53.439 --> 00:06:57.040 between that and Penny Candy, I still wish that we would bring back pennycas 90 00:06:57.040 --> 00:07:00.279 in this economy. We all deserve Penny candy. For real, in this 91 00:07:00.360 --> 00:07:03.759 economy, we all need Penny Candy. No, that's how it works. 92 00:07:03.759 --> 00:07:08.399 So let me ask you, did you have any halloweens growing up that you 93 00:07:08.600 --> 00:07:11.439 like that really stand out to you? Because most of mine are a blur 94 00:07:11.720 --> 00:07:15.639 until like teenage years. I remember the pizza incident, and then I remember 95 00:07:16.240 --> 00:07:20.720 I remember this like it was fucking yesterday. I had convinced my mom that 96 00:07:20.800 --> 00:07:24.879 I really wanted the These became a thing when I was a kid, like 97 00:07:24.920 --> 00:07:28.439 the jug jack o' lantern heads that were like plastic do you know what I'm 98 00:07:28.439 --> 00:07:32.120 talking about, that you would kerry candy in. Yeah, So these became 99 00:07:32.439 --> 00:07:35.279 like a thing because there was a glow in the dark one you could get 100 00:07:35.279 --> 00:07:38.399 at Walmart. And I told my mom, like, I have to have 101 00:07:38.439 --> 00:07:41.879 this, and She's like, just use either an old T shirt that we 102 00:07:41.959 --> 00:07:44.399 tie up or use a pillow case. You're gonna get way more candy. 103 00:07:44.439 --> 00:07:48.519 And I'm like, no, I have to have this. I fucking badgered 104 00:07:48.560 --> 00:07:54.279 my parents for months leading up to Halloween because I'd seen I think I'm wanna 105 00:07:54.279 --> 00:07:57.399 say I saw it on Goosebumps. Well, they got it for me. 106 00:07:57.800 --> 00:08:01.079 I come home and my dad kept on me like, hey, stop swinging 107 00:08:01.120 --> 00:08:03.720 that around. The thin little piece of plastic that you use as a handle, 108 00:08:03.759 --> 00:08:07.199 it's going to break. Of course, I know better than my parents 109 00:08:07.240 --> 00:08:09.680 at this point in time, so I'm swinging the shit out of this jack 110 00:08:09.680 --> 00:08:15.560 o' lantern. It broke open on our like when we live when we lived 111 00:08:15.560 --> 00:08:18.959 in the White House growing up, it broke open on the staircase, It 112 00:08:18.040 --> 00:08:22.560 bounced off the ground, candy went everywhere, and my dad may become inside. 113 00:08:22.600 --> 00:08:24.360 He's like, you're not picking that up. I told you not to 114 00:08:24.439 --> 00:08:28.120 do this. You're going inside. I'm not saying I plotted to murder my 115 00:08:28.240 --> 00:08:31.879 entire family that night. I'm just saying I'm surprised it didn't happen. How 116 00:08:31.959 --> 00:08:35.080 close did it was the Ferbie incident and this incident, Because now we might 117 00:08:35.120 --> 00:08:39.000 have some rational thinking here, I want to say it was a couple of 118 00:08:39.080 --> 00:08:43.679 years apart. So yeah, I definitely had some time to let the uh 119 00:08:43.320 --> 00:08:48.200 the anger build inside of me, and I think we just yep, I'm 120 00:08:48.200 --> 00:08:54.559 pretty sure we just cemented where the anger from the Ferby came from. I 121 00:08:54.600 --> 00:08:56.600 mean, it makes perfect sense. Yeah, So what about you. Do 122 00:08:56.600 --> 00:09:00.600 you have any Halloween trigger treat stuff that you really remember, because again, 123 00:09:00.720 --> 00:09:03.360 my only other thing that I wanted to bring up wash we had a Sunday 124 00:09:03.399 --> 00:09:07.720 school night the night before or the night of trick or treat once when I 125 00:09:07.759 --> 00:09:11.240 was very young, and all, and when I say all, I mean 126 00:09:11.320 --> 00:09:15.639 every single like adult member of the congregation was like, look, guys, 127 00:09:16.240 --> 00:09:18.720 we know you're excited for candy, but you really need to be excited about 128 00:09:18.799 --> 00:09:22.480 is Jesus, because the problem is the devil is making its way into your 129 00:09:22.480 --> 00:09:26.000 heart through this candy. And I remember having this though as a kid, 130 00:09:26.080 --> 00:09:30.200 like he's doing a fucking good job because I'm like six peanut butter. Eminem's 131 00:09:30.200 --> 00:09:35.799 away from like completely renouncing my religious affiliations and just going ham on the devil. 132 00:09:35.240 --> 00:09:48.200 If this is the payout, are he just gonna see here being silent? 133 00:09:50.360 --> 00:09:52.120 Oh? Thought I thought you were going to add to that in my 134 00:09:52.200 --> 00:09:56.120 mind, and you were supposed to say what oh, And I didn't hear 135 00:09:56.159 --> 00:09:58.559 a single anything. I just thought you were like, you know what, 136 00:10:00.039 --> 00:10:03.360 this makes sense. It's all coming together, the furby, the witchcraft, 137 00:10:03.440 --> 00:10:07.440 all of it makes sense. The devil made its way into your heart with 138 00:10:07.440 --> 00:10:11.960 peanut butter, and I get it now, but I mean that makes I 139 00:10:11.320 --> 00:10:16.919 legitimly was waiting for your like, hallelujah, all hope is now gained. 140 00:10:18.000 --> 00:10:22.480 Moment you gained the immortal insight into my brain bringing you sat there for a 141 00:10:22.600 --> 00:10:28.759 whole minute in silence. I was waiting for the judgment to come. I 142 00:10:28.840 --> 00:10:35.759 knew what was coming, I just didn't know when. Okay, what about 143 00:10:35.799 --> 00:10:39.600 you? What were your Halloween. Well, speaking of the church and the 144 00:10:39.639 --> 00:10:45.200 devil, most of my Halloween events, even into my teenage years were all 145 00:10:45.279 --> 00:10:50.279 revolving around the church. So we had our trunk re treat. But the 146 00:10:50.320 --> 00:10:54.440 ones that I really remember are the times that the church took a van and 147 00:10:54.480 --> 00:11:01.279 took us to the Haunted Mace. Did your church ever do that the Haunted 148 00:11:01.360 --> 00:11:03.519 Maze with the church? Yeah, we got in the van and we went 149 00:11:03.519 --> 00:11:07.320 to the Haunted Maze as a group. No, No, my church was 150 00:11:07.360 --> 00:11:11.759 too busy health iron brimstoning us to take us to the church or the Haunted 151 00:11:11.799 --> 00:11:16.360 Maze. Yeah, so we took the youth group went to the Haunted Maze 152 00:11:16.960 --> 00:11:20.200 and we went for a few years in a row. Actually it was really 153 00:11:20.240 --> 00:11:24.960 fun. You know, we got s'mores and stuff like that. And I'm 154 00:11:24.960 --> 00:11:26.759 pretty sure at one point in my years I peed my pants because I got 155 00:11:26.759 --> 00:11:33.000 so scared in the in the Mace. That was actually twenty nineteen for that's 156 00:11:33.200 --> 00:11:37.840 it was actually like twenty hours ago. So I'm still in my pist pants 157 00:11:37.919 --> 00:11:43.240 right now. The pist pants. No, but uh yeah, that's that's 158 00:11:43.240 --> 00:11:48.720 really all I remember. Slowly, memories start coming back from my childhood, 159 00:11:48.720 --> 00:11:52.480 but as of right now. That's all I got. See, I worked. 160 00:11:52.720 --> 00:11:56.559 Have I told the listeners about my time working at a haunted attraction. 161 00:11:56.879 --> 00:11:58.399 I'm pretty sure you've talked about it. I don't know if there's a funny 162 00:11:58.399 --> 00:12:03.080 story about to tell her not though, oh I have a million stories. 163 00:12:03.080 --> 00:12:05.360 So first off, I worked at it. I don't want to say the 164 00:12:05.399 --> 00:12:09.000 name of the place because it's still open. But through my high school years 165 00:12:09.039 --> 00:12:11.960 I worked at a haunted attraction as a clown. I was a killer clown. 166 00:12:11.679 --> 00:12:15.679 And when you first start, you're at the bottom of the totem pole. 167 00:12:16.000 --> 00:12:18.759 And I know you can't get much lower than the bottom of a totem 168 00:12:18.759 --> 00:12:22.879 pole at a mom and pop like outdoor haunted attraction. But that's where I 169 00:12:22.919 --> 00:12:28.120 started, and there was no training in my brain. I had like mentally 170 00:12:28.159 --> 00:12:33.080 prepared for Okay, I'm gonna go out there, get this job, acting 171 00:12:33.200 --> 00:12:35.240 class. We're gonna go through the scenes. I'm gonna you know, I'm 172 00:12:35.240 --> 00:12:37.960 gonna nail it. I'm gonna show them that I am the top scarer. 173 00:12:39.679 --> 00:12:43.559 That is my only reason for existing. So I get out there and I 174 00:12:43.600 --> 00:12:48.399 meet the owners, great guys, great family type environment, but zero preparation. 175 00:12:48.480 --> 00:12:52.759 They're like yep. You ever scare someone before. I'm like, oh, 176 00:12:52.759 --> 00:12:54.519 I have three sisters. I'm born for this shit, one hundred percent. 177 00:12:56.279 --> 00:12:58.879 I'm your guy. Like, Okay, here's a clown mask, here's 178 00:12:58.879 --> 00:13:03.879 a costume. You're gonna stand right there and you're gonna scare people. So 179 00:13:03.039 --> 00:13:07.440 I'm again, I'm waiting for the training, I'm waiting for the acting class. 180 00:13:07.440 --> 00:13:09.440 I'm waiting for Kevin Bacon to come up and like, this is this 181 00:13:09.480 --> 00:13:13.200 is how you get into the mind of the people that are paying to get 182 00:13:13.200 --> 00:13:18.080 scared. I cannot make this up. The very first group that came through, 183 00:13:18.840 --> 00:13:22.440 I panic froze. So I stood there and there and one woman in 184 00:13:22.480 --> 00:13:24.679 the group I think it was a mom and some kids is like, oh, 185 00:13:26.080 --> 00:13:30.840 that's a really lifelike animatronic. So for the entire I don't know seven 186 00:13:30.960 --> 00:13:35.200 minutes that they were in the clown area, I had to stand as still 187 00:13:35.240 --> 00:13:39.120 as a statue because I was too embarrassed at that point to admit my failure. 188 00:13:41.039 --> 00:13:43.080 And they walked through. They end up telling them own're like, oh 189 00:13:43.080 --> 00:13:46.600 that that was a really cool, like lifelike animatronic they had in the clown 190 00:13:46.600 --> 00:13:50.840 area, And he's like, what are you talking about we have no animatronics 191 00:13:50.840 --> 00:13:54.159 back there, so I had thought I'd gotten away with it. Didn't get 192 00:13:54.159 --> 00:13:58.480 away with it at all. And that same night I had ran down because 193 00:13:58.480 --> 00:14:00.200 I was like, I'm gonna make up for this, and I'm gonna go 194 00:14:00.320 --> 00:14:03.759 I'm gonna be extra. I will never forget this. We have a group 195 00:14:03.799 --> 00:14:07.600 coming through, probably like fifteen high school kids, seniors, and you walk 196 00:14:07.720 --> 00:14:11.840 through this long pathway that's made up of like old skids, kind of out 197 00:14:11.840 --> 00:14:16.639 in the woods. I ran through, didn't see what I was doing. 198 00:14:16.720 --> 00:14:22.279 I tripped and Superman flew in front of this group into a tree head on. 199 00:14:24.720 --> 00:14:30.480 I cannot explain to you the level of embarrassment, because again, I'm 200 00:14:30.519 --> 00:14:33.600 like, I'm gonna get him good. They're gonna remember this. I'm gonna 201 00:14:33.600 --> 00:14:37.279 be the coolest kid at high school because I am the killer clown. At 202 00:14:37.279 --> 00:14:43.919 this point, no I ate shit into the tree. No one came to 203 00:14:43.000 --> 00:14:46.399 check on me. They had just let me just wallow in my own embarrassment 204 00:14:46.559 --> 00:14:50.480 for thirty straight minutes, and then someone finally came up just like, hey, 205 00:14:52.320 --> 00:14:54.759 Bob, are you okay? And I'm like, I don't want to 206 00:14:54.799 --> 00:15:03.120 live anymore. My god. It was fantastic. Some of my favorite high 207 00:15:03.120 --> 00:15:07.279 school memories came from working in this haunted attraction. It was great. I 208 00:15:07.399 --> 00:15:11.000 met some of the best people ever. But goddamn did I have some embarrassing 209 00:15:11.039 --> 00:15:18.200 times out there? Are you? Honestly? There was that that we had 210 00:15:18.200 --> 00:15:20.000 an old oil drum out there and I was like, I'm gonna pick this 211 00:15:20.000 --> 00:15:24.759 oil drum up and throw it against the wall. Understand, at fourteen, 212 00:15:24.840 --> 00:15:28.519 I had zero muscle mass and this oil drum. I tried to pick it 213 00:15:28.639 --> 00:15:31.480 up and failed miserably fell on top of the oil drum in front of a 214 00:15:31.480 --> 00:15:35.759 group. They all laughed, and I'm like, oh, I'm going to 215 00:15:35.840 --> 00:15:39.200 start making this into an actual like gag. You know that I can't pick 216 00:15:39.240 --> 00:15:41.600 up this oil drum. It's gonna be a whole funny thing. I go 217 00:15:41.679 --> 00:15:45.480 to pick it up when it was probably the last group of one night. 218 00:15:45.519 --> 00:15:48.240 I go to pick it up. I sliced my hand open on this rusty 219 00:15:48.279 --> 00:15:52.440 oil drum and had to go to the er that night and get a tetano 220 00:15:52.480 --> 00:15:56.519 shot. Oh my god, do you know how embarrassing that is to like, 221 00:15:56.840 --> 00:15:58.000 hey, sorry, I can't stick around to get paid. I have 222 00:15:58.039 --> 00:16:00.799 to go to the emergency room because I can't. I'm not physically strong enough 223 00:16:00.840 --> 00:16:03.879 to pick up a fucking oil drum. Sorry, not so. And for 224 00:16:03.919 --> 00:16:07.360 everyone listening, this was an empty oil drum. It's not like it was 225 00:16:07.360 --> 00:16:10.480 a full one. They're like, oh, I get that, that's crazy. 226 00:16:10.559 --> 00:16:15.440 No, no, no, this was an empty oil drum that had 227 00:16:15.440 --> 00:16:18.600 been crushed and weighed probably fifty pounds at this point in time. Oh no, 228 00:16:19.000 --> 00:16:25.039 Bob, it's fine. It's the end of spooky season. We can 229 00:16:25.120 --> 00:16:29.519 kind of all let it go right now. So Horrible Memories one hundred percent. 230 00:16:29.600 --> 00:16:32.039 So we're gonna tell you guys some cool horror stories. You know, 231 00:16:32.279 --> 00:16:34.720 it tis the season, and I did want to let everyone know I'm working 232 00:16:34.720 --> 00:16:38.120 on another Craigslist Horror Stories episode. But what I need from the listeners, 233 00:16:38.159 --> 00:16:41.440 if you guys can, I actually need two things. One, we need 234 00:16:41.440 --> 00:16:45.159 more listener stories. I want to do a November Listener Stories episode. And 235 00:16:45.159 --> 00:16:51.200 two, if you guys can find me your favorite or worst like local Craigslist 236 00:16:51.320 --> 00:16:55.240 or marketplace postings or stories, send them in over at Tales from the Dark 237 00:16:55.279 --> 00:16:57.200 dot Net. I want to include them in this next episode because we've gotten 238 00:16:57.240 --> 00:17:02.879 a lot of interest in quest for another Craigslist horror stories. The problem is 239 00:17:03.480 --> 00:17:06.720 Craigslist is kind of dead in twenty twenty three, so we might have to 240 00:17:06.759 --> 00:17:11.279 expand that out to like Marketplace or Kagigi, those sorts of places. So 241 00:17:11.400 --> 00:17:12.960 send those over to Tails from the Dark dot net. But Brittany, I'll 242 00:17:14.000 --> 00:17:18.319 let you go ahead with our first horror story, all right. So the 243 00:17:18.319 --> 00:17:22.480 first one we're going to cover is called the funeral Home. My family home 244 00:17:22.559 --> 00:17:26.240 used to be a funeral home. It's over one hundred years old, and 245 00:17:26.279 --> 00:17:30.759 I'm pretty certain it's haunted. I used to have sleep paralysis sometimes when I 246 00:17:30.759 --> 00:17:34.079 would come home on breaks from college, where I would wake up unable to 247 00:17:34.119 --> 00:17:38.519 move, but could see a pale figure of a girl with a dark headband 248 00:17:38.960 --> 00:17:42.680 standing next to my bed. She was always facing the window, so I 249 00:17:42.720 --> 00:17:48.880 never saw her face, but man, it was terrifying. My dog would 250 00:17:48.920 --> 00:17:51.359 also sleep in my bed and wake up in the middle of the night to 251 00:17:51.440 --> 00:17:56.400 bark at a dark corner in my room and other stuff like that. After 252 00:17:56.440 --> 00:17:59.759 I had sleep paralysis, I spent the rest of that Christmas break sleeping in 253 00:17:59.759 --> 00:18:04.119 my mind. Her. I don't blame you, no, no, not 254 00:18:04.240 --> 00:18:07.839 at all. What's really weird about that is that she didn't say she had 255 00:18:07.880 --> 00:18:14.319 any history of sleep paralysis that only happened when she came home from college at 256 00:18:14.359 --> 00:18:18.200 Christmas break Well, I mean that could be explained by a change in environment. 257 00:18:18.319 --> 00:18:21.440 I mean, what you know, I didn't sleep in the dorm rooms 258 00:18:21.440 --> 00:18:23.319 when I was in college, but I did visit a few of them. 259 00:18:23.720 --> 00:18:29.359 They were always like a lot more hectic than your regular apartment complex because someone 260 00:18:29.480 --> 00:18:32.079 was always awake, there was always a nine hour or someone was always doing 261 00:18:32.119 --> 00:18:36.359 something. So maybe it was the lack of noise, the lack of activity 262 00:18:36.400 --> 00:18:38.440 happening in the dorm room, or the fact that she was sleeping alone at 263 00:18:38.480 --> 00:18:44.200 home apart from her dog that may have caused that. But sleep paralysis in 264 00:18:44.240 --> 00:18:48.759 general is something that I didn't anticipate being as common as it actually is, 265 00:18:48.759 --> 00:18:52.279 because when we started talking about the hat Man and diving into sleep paralysis demons 266 00:18:52.480 --> 00:18:56.079 here on the show, I was forded the amount of people that actually have 267 00:18:56.279 --> 00:19:02.920 this as an ongoing problem. Well, you knew about sleep paralysis somewhat before 268 00:19:03.039 --> 00:19:07.240 we started talking about on the show, because I started experiencing it as a 269 00:19:07.599 --> 00:19:11.799 more recent like within the recent years of development. Yeah, I never really 270 00:19:11.880 --> 00:19:15.279 I can't remember, but I don't really think I had it as a kid 271 00:19:15.400 --> 00:19:22.440 very often at all. And then certain houses that we moved into it's just 272 00:19:22.519 --> 00:19:25.839 been more intense. I mean, like the apartment we moved into. You 273 00:19:25.839 --> 00:19:29.599 talked about the old woman sitting on your chest. She you know, you 274 00:19:29.839 --> 00:19:34.079 started experiencing sleep paralysis. So maybe it is environment specific. But even as 275 00:19:34.119 --> 00:19:40.559 we got more comfortable in these places, the sleep parass the sleep paralysis continued. 276 00:19:40.599 --> 00:19:42.960 So I don't I don't really understand it, honestly. Yeah, No, 277 00:19:44.039 --> 00:19:47.759 it's defly something that needs to be studied more and with a larger test 278 00:19:47.799 --> 00:19:51.240 pool. Because the only weird thing I remember as a kid really having is 279 00:19:51.400 --> 00:19:53.960 I had this. This is really weird now that I kind of remember this. 280 00:19:55.720 --> 00:19:57.319 So growing up, like we grew up poor, so me and my 281 00:19:57.359 --> 00:20:03.039 sisters had to share the same bed for several years growing up, I had 282 00:20:03.079 --> 00:20:06.559 this issue where if if my sister was sleeping to the right, like facing 283 00:20:06.599 --> 00:20:08.920 the wall, I had to be facing towards the wall while she was sleeping, 284 00:20:10.480 --> 00:20:12.079 and if I didn't, I would have a nightmare. And it was 285 00:20:12.119 --> 00:20:17.759 like clockwork. I had like acknowledged and figured out this pattern that if I 286 00:20:17.799 --> 00:20:19.240 was sleeping with someone in the bed rather be my parents' bed, or with 287 00:20:19.319 --> 00:20:25.119 my sister's or whatever. If I wasn't sleeping the direction they were for some 288 00:20:25.160 --> 00:20:29.359 reason, I would have a horrible fucking nightmare. And I had a reoccurring 289 00:20:29.440 --> 00:20:33.960 nightmare as a kid. There was a so my best friend lived like three 290 00:20:33.960 --> 00:20:36.920 houses down. I used to go to his house all the time, and 291 00:20:37.000 --> 00:20:41.359 right next to his house was this old grapevine. And when I say old, 292 00:20:41.400 --> 00:20:45.039 I mean like extremely old. We had to set up a clubhouse back 293 00:20:45.079 --> 00:20:48.680 there, and at some point we even like unearthed an old church sign, 294 00:20:48.759 --> 00:20:51.640 like there was a church there. At one point there was like concrete steps 295 00:20:51.680 --> 00:20:55.480 back there, and it was It was really odd. But I would consistently 296 00:20:55.559 --> 00:21:02.200 have nightmares about a man very similar forgets played Resident Evil four the Merchant. 297 00:21:02.519 --> 00:21:04.400 A guy would be in a trench coat style, but he would have a 298 00:21:04.440 --> 00:21:07.839 hat on, not like the hat man, but he would have some kind 299 00:21:07.880 --> 00:21:12.000 of like a cowboy style hat underneath this trench coat. And I would have 300 00:21:12.440 --> 00:21:19.319 a reoccurring nightmare about meeting this guy back there in the back of the the 301 00:21:19.359 --> 00:21:23.799 grapevine. And what's really bizarre is around a year or two after having these 302 00:21:23.880 --> 00:21:30.440 dreams, literally two houses down from his house was where the like the most 303 00:21:30.440 --> 00:21:33.160 brutal murders in my hometown's history happened when I was like, I don't know, 304 00:21:33.160 --> 00:21:37.759 eleven, twelve years old, So not saying there's a correlation, but 305 00:21:37.759 --> 00:21:41.119 this show has helped me on earth so much childhood trauma. It's actually kind 306 00:21:41.119 --> 00:21:47.400 of disturbing. Same like we always try to push those memories away and not 307 00:21:47.480 --> 00:21:51.720 think about it, and then when we're diving into these weird topics and diving 308 00:21:51.759 --> 00:21:56.039 into these horror stories especially, it's it's weird how much we can relate to 309 00:21:56.119 --> 00:22:02.240 this this weird information. Yeah, well this story is no different. So 310 00:22:02.279 --> 00:22:04.319 when I was twelve, every night for close to two months, someone would 311 00:22:04.359 --> 00:22:08.440 knock on my bedroom window. It was usually after eleven pm and before two 312 00:22:08.440 --> 00:22:11.880 am, and at the beginning would wake me up from a dead sleep. 313 00:22:12.880 --> 00:22:15.839 A few times I even heard the knocking in my dreams and then woke up 314 00:22:15.880 --> 00:22:19.960 and the knocking was still happening. I lived in a ranch in a Newish 315 00:22:19.960 --> 00:22:23.799 neighborhood, so there wasn't any mature trees whose branches could be hitting the house, 316 00:22:25.000 --> 00:22:29.960 and I was certain on the distinct sound of knuckles on glass. I 317 00:22:30.000 --> 00:22:33.480 had a small night light, but no night stand lamp, so I would 318 00:22:33.519 --> 00:22:34.440 have to get out of bed and go to the other side of the room 319 00:22:34.440 --> 00:22:37.960 to flip on the switch turn the lights on. I had many blinds that 320 00:22:38.000 --> 00:22:42.200 covered the windows, but the thought of being illuminated with someone outside terrified me, 321 00:22:44.039 --> 00:22:48.640 especially because my bedroom window faced the backyard, which faced a giant cornfield. 322 00:22:48.599 --> 00:22:52.799 Everything outside at night was pitch black unless the moon was close to full. 323 00:22:52.839 --> 00:22:56.759 After a week or so of knocking, I asked my younger sister if 324 00:22:56.799 --> 00:23:00.400 she was doing it. She was seven at the time, in me even 325 00:23:00.440 --> 00:23:03.559 asking about it scarer, so she tattled on me to my parents. They 326 00:23:03.680 --> 00:23:07.839 confronted me, saying I was telling stories, and I swore up and down 327 00:23:07.880 --> 00:23:11.960 I wasn't. The knocking kept happening for weeks and weeks, and my behavior 328 00:23:11.079 --> 00:23:17.119 changed because I was always afraid in never sleeping. A teacher pulled me aside 329 00:23:17.119 --> 00:23:19.720 to inquire about my day's state and not paying attention in class, and I 330 00:23:19.720 --> 00:23:23.559 told her about the whole window knocking. She took me to the principal's office 331 00:23:23.599 --> 00:23:26.759 and he called my mom and they had a meeting behind closed doors that my 332 00:23:26.799 --> 00:23:30.799 mom would not tell me about. My mom slept on the trundle bed that 333 00:23:30.880 --> 00:23:33.960 night in my room to see if I was telling the truth. I woke 334 00:23:34.039 --> 00:23:37.440 up at around one thirty am to the knocking of my window and reached down 335 00:23:37.480 --> 00:23:41.880 to wake up my mom and she wasn't there. I was terrified, stiff, 336 00:23:42.079 --> 00:23:47.640 and laid there until the knocking stopped maybe thirty seconds, and then slid 337 00:23:47.720 --> 00:23:49.359 to the floor. An army crawled down the hall and into the living room. 338 00:23:51.039 --> 00:23:53.799 My parents were asleep on the couch with a TV on. Out of 339 00:23:53.920 --> 00:23:59.400 probably fear, frustration, and disappointment, I started screaming crying, which startled 340 00:23:59.440 --> 00:24:03.319 my parents away. My dad got angry and said something like, fine, 341 00:24:03.759 --> 00:24:07.039 then tomorrow, me, you and my shotgun will wait outside the next night. 342 00:24:07.039 --> 00:24:11.440 I'd hope you've forgotten about the promise, but nope. We bundled up 343 00:24:11.480 --> 00:24:15.000 in all black and camo and wedged yourself between the back deck and the house, 344 00:24:15.200 --> 00:24:19.119 with a clear view of both the cornfield and my bedroom window. A 345 00:24:19.200 --> 00:24:22.559 partial moon was up in clear skies, so you can make out the outline 346 00:24:22.559 --> 00:24:26.559 of the landscape and the house. I stargazed for a bit but fell asleep 347 00:24:26.559 --> 00:24:30.680 pretty quickly, and my dad woke me up at around four am to take 348 00:24:30.720 --> 00:24:33.880 me back inside, saying all he saw were some deer in the cornfield and 349 00:24:33.960 --> 00:24:38.359 maybe i'd heard bucks fighting. Then you went to bed. No more than 350 00:24:38.400 --> 00:24:41.839 five minutes later, I heard a loud bang, bang bang that hit so 351 00:24:41.960 --> 00:24:45.519 hard it rattled the blinds on the window. I almost peed myself. I 352 00:24:45.559 --> 00:24:48.880 was so scared and laid awake for the rest of the night with my heart 353 00:24:48.920 --> 00:24:52.880 pounding so hard I thought it was going to explode. The knocking never returned 354 00:24:52.920 --> 00:24:57.359 after that. My parents maintained to this day it was all in my head. 355 00:24:57.880 --> 00:25:02.640 Oof. I don't like that at all. If I told my parents, 356 00:25:03.000 --> 00:25:04.960 and we've talked about this before when it comes to kids telling stories like 357 00:25:06.039 --> 00:25:10.839 this, I get you're frustrated. You know, they're waking you up and 358 00:25:10.880 --> 00:25:14.559 you and they're sleep and you're trying to sleep. But if your kid is 359 00:25:14.680 --> 00:25:22.039 genuinely terrified of this, don't be an asshole and actually go investigate the fact 360 00:25:22.039 --> 00:25:25.559 that the mom said that she would sleep in the room with her and then 361 00:25:25.680 --> 00:25:32.039 ended up falling asleep on the couch is bullshit. ID does not feel safe 362 00:25:32.720 --> 00:25:36.119 do something about it. That's that's ridiculous. That just makes me like, 363 00:25:36.279 --> 00:25:40.599 really mad, because that could have been it could have been a tree knocking 364 00:25:40.599 --> 00:25:45.000 against the window. I get it, but it also could be someone trying 365 00:25:45.039 --> 00:25:51.000 to kidnap your child. It's better safe than sorry. This reminds me, 366 00:25:51.240 --> 00:25:52.680 and I know you have got one more story before we go, because I 367 00:25:52.680 --> 00:25:56.680 know it's a shorter episode, but we wanted to get something out for Halloween. 368 00:25:56.240 --> 00:26:00.960 But when I was younger, we had just moved on a on Fairmount 369 00:26:00.119 --> 00:26:03.400 Drive, which was right by the middle school and the time I grew up 370 00:26:03.400 --> 00:26:07.759 in And this was a huge step up for me, for my entire family 371 00:26:07.759 --> 00:26:12.640 because before this, we'd always lived in like low income housing and the houses 372 00:26:12.680 --> 00:26:18.599 were always just not great, like they were always falling apart, dilapidated, 373 00:26:18.640 --> 00:26:21.559 there was something wrong with the house. Pipes would leak, that sort of 374 00:26:21.559 --> 00:26:25.440 thing. And this was the first like semi modern house we had lived in. 375 00:26:26.279 --> 00:26:30.400 So we get moved into this house and probably a month into it, 376 00:26:30.440 --> 00:26:32.559 give or take. We moved during the summer, so I didn't tell anyone 377 00:26:32.559 --> 00:26:34.200 where we had lived. My friends didn't really know. One friend knew where 378 00:26:34.200 --> 00:26:37.599 I lived, and it was probably a half hour bike ride from the house, 379 00:26:37.640 --> 00:26:41.759 so I know this wasn't him. One night, I went to bed 380 00:26:41.759 --> 00:26:45.200 semi early. It was, I said, summer, but it wasn't super 381 00:26:45.200 --> 00:26:48.759 hot. So I had the window open, fell asleep, and I woke 382 00:26:48.839 --> 00:26:52.839 up because I thought I heard someone outside the window. And to this day, 383 00:26:52.960 --> 00:26:56.480 I mean, we're probably fifteen years later. At this point, I 384 00:26:56.839 --> 00:27:02.039 am adamant that I heard somebody outside my window say is Bobby there? And 385 00:27:02.160 --> 00:27:06.480 like a super low, gravelly voice. It scared the hell out of me. 386 00:27:06.559 --> 00:27:10.519 I got up, ran out, screaming my head off. My parents 387 00:27:10.519 --> 00:27:12.160 would tell me just basically shut the fuck up, that I was just that 388 00:27:12.160 --> 00:27:15.480 it was a dream, I was asleep, that I'm making it up, 389 00:27:15.759 --> 00:27:18.359 that I just wanted attention, so on and so forth. And so my 390 00:27:18.480 --> 00:27:22.960 dad goes outside to look, and we hadn't mowed the grass, and sure 391 00:27:22.960 --> 00:27:27.480 a shit, there were footsteps, like footprints outside of our window in the 392 00:27:27.519 --> 00:27:32.960 wet grass. And my dad still was adamant that I had made it up 393 00:27:33.000 --> 00:27:37.160 in my own head and that those were my footprints from earlier, which I 394 00:27:37.240 --> 00:27:41.519 knew not to be the case. And I would say at least four or 395 00:27:41.519 --> 00:27:44.640 five more times during the time I lived there, I'd have the window open, 396 00:27:44.839 --> 00:27:47.759 I'd be playing video games, playing PlayStation, and one time I had 397 00:27:47.799 --> 00:27:51.759 a friend over he heard it as well. We distinctly heard an adult man 398 00:27:51.880 --> 00:27:56.440 ask is Bobby there outside of the window. Now, my dad's name is 399 00:27:56.480 --> 00:28:00.319 also Bobby, so it could have been one of his friends. Whatever, 400 00:28:02.119 --> 00:28:04.559 But my parents didn't believe me, and this has stuck with me for all 401 00:28:04.599 --> 00:28:07.759 these years to always be like, if we ever have children, we will 402 00:28:07.759 --> 00:28:11.400 one believe them when they say there's a fucking monster in their closet, because 403 00:28:11.400 --> 00:28:17.160 they're very well could be well. Not only that, but the fact is, 404 00:28:17.319 --> 00:28:22.839 like us as adults, if I hear something weird, we go investigate, 405 00:28:22.599 --> 00:28:27.240 regardless of high strangeness, being paranormal investigators, none of that. If 406 00:28:27.279 --> 00:28:33.440 we hear a weird noise outside inside, no matter what, we investigate. 407 00:28:33.160 --> 00:28:36.720 If I tell you I heard something, you go look. If you tell 408 00:28:36.759 --> 00:28:41.799 me you heard something, we go look. Like it's we trust each other's 409 00:28:41.880 --> 00:28:45.599 judgment to the point that we know if something is off for one person, 410 00:28:45.839 --> 00:28:51.000 it's justified in looking into it. And it should be the same way with 411 00:28:51.039 --> 00:28:53.680 your kids, Like, yeah it could be annoying, Yeah they could. 412 00:28:53.720 --> 00:28:57.319 They could interrupt you in whatever you're doing. But if they do not feel 413 00:28:57.319 --> 00:29:00.680 safe, there's a good chance you might not be safe if you don't actually 414 00:29:00.720 --> 00:29:06.160 look and pay attention. It just it's that kind of stuff that makes me 415 00:29:06.640 --> 00:29:11.200 so mad. It's just I hate that. I hate that mentality. I 416 00:29:11.240 --> 00:29:18.039 hate that whole conversation because I have experienced that as well. So parents out 417 00:29:18.079 --> 00:29:22.519 there, if you listen to this podcast, make sure your kid feels safe. 418 00:29:22.680 --> 00:29:25.960 Yeah, because if not, they're going to start a podcast in twenty 419 00:29:26.000 --> 00:29:29.079 years and they're going to drag you through the fucking mud. Oh. I've 420 00:29:29.119 --> 00:29:32.559 still got so much to say about that too. So that's that's a way 421 00:29:32.640 --> 00:29:34.720 later episode. So all right, well, I know you got one more 422 00:29:34.759 --> 00:29:40.599 before we go take us away. So this one's called The Rural Homes Dark 423 00:29:40.720 --> 00:29:45.160 Secret. I grew up in a very old home in rural Wisconsin. Actually, 424 00:29:45.240 --> 00:29:48.960 one one more thing I want to say. That's very a very weird 425 00:29:48.039 --> 00:29:52.119 coincidence considering one of the horror stories we actually covered in the YouTube video that 426 00:29:52.160 --> 00:29:57.000 we did today. Yeah, because it could very well be a possibility of 427 00:29:57.359 --> 00:30:03.440 kidnapping and stuff like that, especially for younger boys. So keep an eye 428 00:30:03.480 --> 00:30:07.880 out, guys. It's a unsafe world up there. I grew up in 429 00:30:07.920 --> 00:30:11.400 a very old home in rural Wisconsin. It was over one hundred years old 430 00:30:11.480 --> 00:30:15.680 when we moved in, and the original structure was added on two throughout the 431 00:30:15.759 --> 00:30:21.000 years before we moved in. It was originally a one room house. When 432 00:30:21.000 --> 00:30:23.480 I was little little, my brother Dylan, and I would always see and 433 00:30:23.519 --> 00:30:29.640 hear weird things. As an adult, we remember them vividly, but when 434 00:30:29.640 --> 00:30:32.279 we were kids, we'd brush it off and our parents would say, we're 435 00:30:32.279 --> 00:30:36.960 imagining things. It is a common theme in these stories. Parents pay attention. 436 00:30:37.680 --> 00:30:41.960 Yeah, one time Dylan went up to our mom's room to grab something 437 00:30:41.000 --> 00:30:45.279 for her and turned around to see a little boy standing in the doorway of 438 00:30:45.279 --> 00:30:48.559 our shared room. The right side was always particularly creepy, and it was 439 00:30:48.599 --> 00:30:53.000 a renovated attic, And when I was a kid in that same room, 440 00:30:53.039 --> 00:30:59.119 I would see my barbies moving on top of my flat dollhouse. Microwave, 441 00:31:00.799 --> 00:31:10.319 Is that just the solution if the FURBI fits? Yes? Okay. My 442 00:31:10.440 --> 00:31:12.839 mom had friends to stay over one night, and one stayed on our couch. 443 00:31:14.440 --> 00:31:18.079 He woke up in the middle of the night to someone choking him and 444 00:31:18.279 --> 00:31:22.359 was like, there's something here and I need to leave, and bolted out 445 00:31:22.400 --> 00:31:26.119 of the house. The real clinger is that when I was in high school. 446 00:31:26.519 --> 00:31:30.240 We got to get we had to get a new septic take and my 447 00:31:30.279 --> 00:31:34.079 parents couldn't find it anywhere because the records were awful. So they ended up 448 00:31:34.400 --> 00:31:38.519 getting a hold of the son of the original owners. He was a million 449 00:31:38.599 --> 00:31:41.920 years old, and he told my parents where the tank was because he helped 450 00:31:41.920 --> 00:31:45.240 dig it out. My mom was like, I have to ask. We've 451 00:31:45.240 --> 00:31:48.799 had some creepy stuff happen here, but whatever it is, it seems to 452 00:31:48.920 --> 00:31:52.519 like our family. She asked if the place was haunted, and according to 453 00:31:52.559 --> 00:31:56.920 my mom, when she asked him, his face turned white and blank, 454 00:31:57.960 --> 00:32:04.519 it was because his brother Fure hung himself as a teenager in our living room. 455 00:32:04.559 --> 00:32:08.759 Holy shit. That is a prime example of know what happened in your 456 00:32:08.759 --> 00:32:13.240 home before you move in, do your due diligence, and if it's too 457 00:32:13.319 --> 00:32:17.720 cheap, it's too cheap because it's haunted. End of discussion. Yeah so 458 00:32:19.240 --> 00:32:21.440 yeah, no, no, no thanks. I have nothing to add. 459 00:32:21.480 --> 00:32:23.319 We all know what happened there. It's a ghost and it's bad. It's 460 00:32:23.319 --> 00:32:29.640 bild, spooky ghost and spooky holse. Well, with that being said, 461 00:32:29.640 --> 00:32:30.559 miss Burtney, the only thing else that I'd like to add is we do 462 00:32:30.599 --> 00:32:35.400 have a brand new YouTube video up over at YouTube dot com slash Tales from 463 00:32:35.400 --> 00:32:38.880 the Dark, where we cover three true, allegedly true Halloween horror stories and 464 00:32:38.880 --> 00:32:43.440 you can watch it in video form. We're gonna play after the outro here 465 00:32:43.480 --> 00:32:46.359 stick around. We're gonna play the first story from that video. But I 466 00:32:46.480 --> 00:32:50.960 encourage you guys to please go and watch the video. Let me know what 467 00:32:50.960 --> 00:32:52.240 you think of it in the comments. If you haven't subscribed already, please 468 00:32:52.240 --> 00:32:57.359 subscribe out. I want to start doing more consistent YouTube videos, especially if 469 00:32:57.359 --> 00:33:00.480 you guys enjoy these horror stories. I really did enjoy doing the research, 470 00:33:00.519 --> 00:33:02.640 recording them, putting them together. I think it's a lot of fun. 471 00:33:02.680 --> 00:33:07.359 It's a kind of a break from our typical content we do over on YouTube, 472 00:33:07.359 --> 00:33:08.279 and I thought it was a lot of fun. So please check that 473 00:33:08.359 --> 00:33:12.359 out. So, Miss Britney, is the anything else that you'd like to 474 00:33:12.400 --> 00:33:16.240 add? Happy Halloween? Everybody, Happy Halloween. So with that being said, 475 00:33:16.240 --> 00:33:20.200 I think we're gona have to add this episode of Halloween twenty twenty three 476 00:33:20.960 --> 00:35:12.920 to our never ending but are always growing Tails from the Dark in When I 477 00:35:12.960 --> 00:35:17.000 was younger, we often visited my grandparents around the holidays, even though we 478 00:35:17.000 --> 00:35:22.360 didn't live in the same town. My aunt lived two houses down from my 479 00:35:22.400 --> 00:35:27.719 grandparents. The lady in the house between was creepy. She was a large 480 00:35:27.719 --> 00:35:31.440 woman, over six feet. She wore logging chains around her neck, a 481 00:35:31.559 --> 00:35:37.360 dress, and work boots. The only time I remember seeing her outside was 482 00:35:37.400 --> 00:35:42.119 either in our garden in the back, or when she was washing the outside 483 00:35:42.159 --> 00:35:47.599 of our house, scrubbing the actual building. She did this often. During 484 00:35:47.639 --> 00:35:52.079 these times, she would yell at us kids and call us all kinds of 485 00:35:52.119 --> 00:35:57.679 things. She would tell us the devil would be coming for us. The 486 00:35:57.760 --> 00:36:00.639 adults told us to leave her alone, and just to avoid her, we 487 00:36:00.679 --> 00:36:06.000 would run the distance between my aunts and my grandparents because when you passed by, 488 00:36:06.159 --> 00:36:09.639 she was watching out the windows. It was creepy and we never went 489 00:36:09.719 --> 00:36:15.559 alone. One Halloween, one of the cousins dared us to trick or treat 490 00:36:15.599 --> 00:36:20.840 her house. I remember how scared I was, but I didn't want to 491 00:36:20.840 --> 00:36:24.320 be a chicken, Plus I was going with the group. One of us 492 00:36:24.400 --> 00:36:32.000 rang the doorbell and there was a lot of banging noises in the house suddenly 493 00:36:32.480 --> 00:36:37.719 like door slamming. When she answered the door, she had a severed head 494 00:36:37.760 --> 00:36:40.360 in her hands, and we all went screaming. The adults told us it 495 00:36:40.400 --> 00:36:45.519 was a Halloween prop and we knew we shouldn't be bothering her and deserve to 496 00:36:45.559 --> 00:36:52.719 be scared. Around a month later, my parents got a phone call that 497 00:36:52.800 --> 00:36:57.360 the lady had tried to kill my aunt while she was bringing in groceries and 498 00:36:57.400 --> 00:37:00.360 had my young cousin in her arms. The lady had one of those rope 499 00:37:00.400 --> 00:37:05.079 saws and had come up behind my aunt with it. She put it over 500 00:37:05.079 --> 00:37:09.239 her head and around her neck and proceeded a saw. My aunt naturally freaked 501 00:37:09.239 --> 00:37:14.360 out and started kicking the door. My uncle came out and beat the lady 502 00:37:14.400 --> 00:37:19.440 down with a fire poker. The police investigation revealed that the woman had been 503 00:37:19.440 --> 00:37:22.480 digging tunnels under her home, which were coming up under my aunts, my 504 00:37:22.599 --> 00:37:28.480 grandparents, and other neighbors' houses. She had been bringing the dirt up and 505 00:37:28.519 --> 00:37:31.480 putting it in raised beds of the gardens. She also had a shrine of 506 00:37:31.519 --> 00:37:37.559 some sort underground which had a few severed heads around it. Now, thankfully, 507 00:37:37.840 --> 00:37:40.639 my aunt did survive, but was left with a long scar across her 508 00:37:40.679 --> 00:37:45.320 neck. I guess the lesson learned here was you can never trust your neighbors.