Speaker 1: Hi, this is Ragon and Vena if you will, if
you will? Yeah, no, this is Christina and Carmen. Poky
tells this is our last episode of random Costumes. Oh yeah,
if you're on video, you have to see Karmen copyright. Yeah,
but yeah, Carmen is a Mari. I'm gonna miss October
so much. I love recording in random ass costumes. Me too.
It was probably my favorite thing. I'm so glad we
thought of it. Yeah, me too. Yeah. The minute the
Olympics were over, I was like, let me search for
a Reagan costume. Literally, yeah, it was still summertime, right, yes,
And I bought this yeah, like the end of August,
and it arrived like, what was it, two weeks ago?
I can't believe it took that long. Yeah. Yeah, I
was afraid it wasn't gonna get here, and then the
hat even longer. This got here like last week. It's
a little funny shaped, but whatever worth it? Yeah? Oh yeah, yeah,
it's very comfortable. I was going to do a Halloween
five K that's not happening because I haven't been running enough.
So oh and you were said this was gonna be
my costume for that. Yeah, that's not happening, but it's
still worth it for just recording with it on. Yeah, yeah,
well what are you gonna do a different custom on
Halloween Day? When you yesma, oh that's right, that's right. Yeah.
I still write out of time here, but I need
to do my trunck re treat. Oh my child's school.
You know you have thirty minutes. You're a week Yeah,
and it feels like thirty minutes. I was like thirty
minutes for what I know. I saw you like kind
of like take it reverend to respond, and I was like,
did you forget the memory? What? But you know what,
it's gonna, it's gonna happen. I I make last minute
Halloween things happen all the time. I actually haven't even
put my decorations out. I don't like that. No, me neither.
I don't know what's going on. Well, I was sick
for like, I don't know, a week and a half.
That's true. But it was already the middle of October,
that's true. I don't know. I start late September normally
October first. I'm I'm putting them already out there has
joined us? Oh hello Millo. But yeah, I don't know
I don't know what happened this October. I'm going to
put them out tomorrow though, because I need I can't
not put them out. So yeah, that's where I'm at.
You might as well not. Hell, it's almost we're going
to do it and then it's going to stay there
until the new year. Anyway, That's what I'm saying. Just
don't no, I need to. I need to anyway, moving Okay, okay,
right right, a listener story. If you have any stories
that you want to send it up the podcast for
us to read. You could email as Poito gmail dot com.
You can DM us on any of our socials. You
can submit it on discord, a lot of options. You
can call you Pookie hotline. That's another option. So yeah, Carmen,
you ready for the listener story? Yeah, and this is
from the art discord from Running on Coffee. I have
a short story that I recently remembered. I used to
live in a rural town in southern California. So when
I had recently moved in, I met my neighbors. They
were in their late sixties or early seventies. They were
really nice and mostly smoked weed, so they were chill
and laid back. Well, come to find out the wife
had I believe bone cancer. They wrote the word and
I don't know how to pronounce it, okay, also saracoma. Yeah,
so because of the cancer, and she didn't want to
go through the chemo due to her prognosis, so she
smoked to relieve her pain. Well months later, we were
kind of concerned that we hadn't seen them. Upon returning
from a getaway that my husband and I went to,
we found out that the husband killed his wife and himself.
Oh you know, someone expected me neither. I was just
going to die for cancer. Wow, this is turned dark
really that. I don't know if it was related to
the cancer. For the murder suicide, I don't know either,
probably not anymore. Maybe they had like an agreement, you know,
I guess maybe that could be true. Hard to say.
But we could see my neighbor's dad. It says we
could see my neighbor's dad, older man come. But we
could see an older man come and clean the outside,
and we would offer to help, but he always said no.
It was just so sad and all. Here comes the
spooky part. A few weeks later, my husband and I
come home like midnight or one am from an outing
and we hear chains rattling, like tables and chairs being
thrown away, So we called nine one one, Like, shit,
maybe someone is rantacking the place. I told this patcher, hey, like,
I think someone broke into my neighbor's house. She says,
what makes you think that? So I explain it's empty,
No one's occupying the house. She says, maybe they're moving
furniture around. And I tell her, ma'am, my neighbors committed
murder suicide. And they were like in their late sixties
or seventies, and the dad is even older. Also, it
was a dad when I said that earlier, when I
said older man earlier, it was the dad who was
an older man. The dad of the man in the
late sixties or seventies, so he wasn't been like ninety
and he's moving things around. M hmmmm. I'd rather be
dead at ninety than be moving my dead child's things around. So, yeah,
they're in their late sixties or seventies. The dad is
even older. How the hell would he be throwing tables
and chairs around at this time with the lights off.
So she said, we'll send an officer over for a
while's check this emoji. Okay, got it? And that was
a face palm and shrug. Yeah. For those that are
not watching, Hartman was acting out the emojis. Yeah, it
was a face palm shrug emoji combo. Well, needless to say,
no one ever came by and the house went up
for sell. Those neighbors that moved in were really nice
and got a super cheap house and they cleansed it
before and never experienced anything paranormal. It was just sad overall. Also,
my neighbor on the other side of us also had
osteos or cooma died and a year later the nice
little Mexican lady across the street from us also passed away,
but she's also blind and older too. After that, and
I told my husband, hell no, we are in next
and we moved out. That's so odd though. Wow. Yeah,
it is first super creepy, but also very odd that
everyone died. Yeah, very creepy. Also, like, what was the
rattling stuff? Yeah, what was all of it? Honestly, yeah,
I don't like it. I don't like it one bit.
I forgot to say before you read the listening story,
but we are sharing some possession stories. Oh yeah, we
didn't even say what today's yeah, possession stories. This is
going to be a shorter episode because I'm still recovery. Yeah,
I'm telling you. When I'm sick, it takes like a
three weeks. It takes you out, yeah, out. So this
is going to be a little shorter. But we do
have two position stories. The first one is a little
uh shorter, and then the second story is longer. So
the first one is from a YouTube channel. Ooh, and
it was titled fue exorcista estef mi pergason for my
Spanish challenge friends. That was I was an exorcist. This
was my worst case. All right, let's just get into it.
So and these are these were sent into those channels
like the person telling their own stories, so I will
be reading it in that manner. I think most of
the time we do like third person yeah type stories,
but today first person. So I work as an exorcist
for twenty years. The following is the case that forced
me to retire. It still keeps me awake. Oh no,
it was nineteen ninety eight. I was called to work
on a case one of the nice parts of town.
It was always rumored that there were satanic Satanic cults
performing rituals to keep this part of town so nice.
I walked up to the apartment complex. It was dark.
I knocked, and a twenty year old woman quickly opened
the door. Please help him. I didn't know it would
get this bad. She showed me where he was. The
smell was horrible. When I finally saw the possessed young man,
it was worse than I thought. He was bloody, all
from self inflicted wounds. It was hard to see his face,
but I'm guessing he was around twenty like her. I
gathered my thoughts and got started with a prayer. When
I began, he started to look at me and gave
me a smile that still haunts me. He started laughing
and laughing and laughing. I threw some holy water on him.
Sorry this visual, yeah, like salt, babe with holy water.
I threw some holy water on him, and it evaporated
as it landed on him. He broke free from his restraints.
I would have quit, because someone else called the next
person called the Vatican bitch. Yeap. He broke free from
his restraints and started walking towards me. Then he stopped.
He said, let's make a deal. You let me take
these people to hell and you walk free. I'd be like,
yes and yeah, I would honestly take that deal. You
have a deal seaway, I thought it. I had never
faced anything like this. I didn't know how many people
I would be condemning if I took the deal. Would
it even be my fall? No, the possessed man told
me I was written out of time. Then I said,
I accept your deal. Oh I wasn't expecting that. No, No,
what kind of priest is this? Well, he said he's
an extressist. He didn't say he's a priest. You're right,
You're right. I just assume they're all priests. But no, no,
My vision was fading in and out. But before I
passed out, he made sure that I could see what
happened next. The woman that opened the door for me,
He grabbed her, held her in his arms, then he
pulled her head off. Then I passed out. I woke
up in the hospital. I don't know what became of
those people. Oh well, probably the same thing as that woman.
Oh my god. I got better eventually, and I tried
to move on. But when my nephew turned seventeen, he
started acting weird. One night we were watching TV and
he turned looked at me and laughed and laughed and laughed,
and I knew that laugh. It was the same demon
from all those years before he was back. I don't
like that it ends there. Oh that's where it ends.
That's where the story ends. Well, what happened next? He
probably pulled his head off and that's why. That's the
end of it. And it was actually the demon who
wrote it up. He actually wasn't able to finish the story. Yeah,
you're right, the demon typed it out after the possessed
nephew type the story up. The priests exorcist was no more.
Don't like that? Yeah that was That was a creepy one. No, no,
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and we're back. The second story that I have for
you is from a YouTube page Bactos Sestros. I love
that name. Sinister packs. Yeah, this one was titled hamas
who I guess a la wija Mexico. Never play the
Ouiji word Real exorcism in Mexico. That's the title. It
was sent in to that channel. So are you ready?
This one was very creepy. Oh yeah, I'm ready. Okay.
I heard your call for Wigi Boar stories and I
convinced my mom to let me send her story in
not a mom's story, These are the creepiest. If your
mind like a great story, you know it's the worst. Yeah,
slash best, the worst and the best ways. So she
used to work cleaning homes. She never had a paranorm
experience before this until she did one of the homes.
She cleaned in was owned by a man and his wife,
and they loved all things horror, horror movies, anything creepy cute.
One night, she was working late cleaning their house and
they had gotten back from some sort of yard sale.
As my mom was busy cleaning, they called her over.
They told her, hey, take a break, stop working so hard,
just stay with us. They had set up a Wigi
board that they had just bought at the yard sale.
I'm sorry, it just seems exploitative. Yeah, right, like there's
a power imbalance. How you to forge your employee to
play the Ouisi board? Like right right, there should be
some kind of law against that. I know, I agree.
She said, downe with them because she was tired. She
was like, whatever, I'll play. I don't I don't just
want to break. Maybe she wasn't getting breaks, so she
agreed and she joined them. They started asking the typical questions,
all of them touching the plant chet and so typical
questions like is anyone here with us? The planchet moved
y e s The wife yelled because she you know,
was like scared, but my mom she thought her boss
was moving the planchet. Then slowly the room started getting
colder and colder as the couple began to ask the
next question. My mom filed the room get darker. Suddenly
it sounded like someone sat in the chair next to her.
She was afraid to turn, but when she did, she
saw a shadow figure in the previously empty chair. It
turned to look at her, raising its dark hand to
its lips, making a oh I was picturing this. Hey, no,
that's that's that'd be a little silly. This is scary.
This not scary. So yeah, it turned to look at her,
raising in dark hand to its lips, making aush motion.
My mom ran out of the house. She's like, I quit,
but she didn't properly close out the Wuiji session. I
supposed to say goodbye. No ad even says say goodbye.
Never forget to say bye. The next day she went
back to work. Personally, I would not have gone back
to work ever, but she went back. Her bosses were
still in bed with zero energy. My mom though, she
felt great. She has so much energy. She finished cleaning
so fast she didn't even have her cup of coffee
that day, and she felt this great for the next
five days. She didn't even need to sleep, but she
looked great, She didn't look like she hadn't slept. She
was stronger faster. Then on the sixth day, while at
work at the same house, she fainted, not the sixth
day right. The couple heard the thud as she hit
the floor. They tried to wake her up by waving
some alcohol under her nose. As they did that, suddenly
she looked like death. Though he as under her eyes
were suddenly there because they weren't there before. But on
top of being there, they were just terrible. It looked
like she hadn't slept in days. She her skin got
so dry and shrivially. She suddenly looked so skinny. She
looked like death. Wow, insummation. So they took her to
the hospital. She stayed there for one day, and then
they told her, you know, take two weeks off work
and then you'll be fine. On the third day of this,
she felt a little better, but then she got way
way worse. She started to wake up crying and screaming,
saying something wanted to take her to hell. She started
hearing voices when she was awake. These voices told her
to stop eating, to not drink water, to not leave
her house. She had to stop working, me and my
siblings all have to go to work for her. She
started fighting someone we couldn't see. It was always around
three am. She felt like someone was trying to take
over her body. The voices she heard insulted her and
forced her to hurt herself. This went on for five months.
She was pale, her lips were dry, she didn't eat anymore.
We never left her alone. We took her to different
doctors psychiatrists during that time, and nothing worked. They kept
saying nothing was wrong with her. We took turns watching
her at night. One night, at three am always, we
heard a terrible scream, along with the whinnie of a horse. Well,
we got to her room. She was standing on her
bed doing nothing. At least that's what it looked like.
Oh that's it was dark. They opened the door. She's
just standing in the middle of her bed. No mag
guygrooom and meto. We called to her, mom, Mom, are
you okay. It wasn't until we turned the light on
that we realized she was actually floating above her bed.
Oh my god, her eyes were all black and she
laughed and laughed. Everywhere said it got worse and worse.
It was her voice, along with the voice of a
different man. Her mouth got bigger and bigger as she
laughed until her jaw dislocated. Then a spider crawled out
of her mouth. It just gets worse. Oh no, I
was frozen in fear. My brother grabbed the spider and
flung it toward the wall. My mom passed out after this.
We took her to the hospital, where, like always, she
was just given some ivy fluids and released. She was floating. Uh,
what are her symptoms? She was floating, She was floating
above her bed, and then a spider crawled out of
her dislocated jaw. And also she has two voices coming
out of her one. What is a man? Okay, here's
an iv pretty much. Yeah, So they sent her back home.
We got home that night and humped in bed. That's
when I noticed she wasn't herself again. This time her
eyes were yellow and she did it again. She laughed
and laughed and laughed, and her jaw was dislocated again.
This time, insects began to fill the room. We decided
to restrain her with some belts that were lying around
the house. My little sister cried and cried, telling us
to stop. We had no choice. My mom kept asking us, Mikho, mikho,
why are you doing this my babies? Why do you
hurt me? That's not your mom girl? Oh no, boy, no, no,
mi michuet mikite, This is not your mammy. Te I'm
sorry that I'm just saying that because of that video
that I thought it was hilarious. When she's like, Papa,
is that not Pappite's It wasn't my mom's voice. Then
she started insulting us, telling us she was going to
drag us to hell. We tried to cover her mouth again,
but we didn't want to dislocate it. We couldn't. We
couldn't do it. She was full of scratches and strange
symbols all over her body. I ran out of the
house to find the closest church. When I got to
the car and turned it on, flies came out of nowhere.
I couldn't even see. I'm sorry. This is like being
at that right, literally what I thought of with the moths, right,
being at that, That's what it is. Yeah, I got
out of the car and I had to run instead.
When I found the closest church, the people inside didn't
want to get the priest but he came anyway. He
agreed to help. He came back to our place. He
said my mom was too far gone and that he
wasn't the right person for this job. I would have
said no, no, he I thought I was trying to
get out of it. No, he helped them anyway, But
I would have been like, uh, this is actually not
this is above my paint rain, above my scope of practice.
I literally cannot do this. It's ethical if I tried
to do this. No, no, this, this priest tries that
it was going to try and help them. So he
said he wasn't the right person for this, but there
was no time to get anyone else. He was going
to try and help. As he threw holy water on her,
it looked like it was burning her. She screened in Spanish,
but then in English and Latin, languages that she had
never learned. He asked us to repeat his prayer, and
when we did, things got even more strange. The room
began to fill up with some kind of mist, and
it got so much colder. The bed sorry to levitate.
When we stopped, the bed fell. He kept praying. The
demons started yelling. Now all the since we have committed
I'm not going to repeat them because it's embarrassing. I
wanted to know, but okay, I would have wanted to
know honestly. Yeah, it yelled even though my mom's job
was dislocated, which sounds painful. Demons don't care. Yeah, they
don't care. That's not their body. Yeah yeah yeah. The
lights went out and the priest told us keep praying,
no matter what. The demon's going to try and confuse us.
We told them we would keep praying. But then the
closet door started shaking. We tried to ignore the sounds,
and so we heard my mom's voice from inside the
closet asking for help, what, begging us to let her out?
Oh my god, but she wasn't in the closet right, No,
Oh my god, it's the deem playing tricks on them
right right. My little sister ran towards the closet and
we held her back. I'm sorry, kids. Yes, I was
gonna say, like in all these scary movies, it's like
some kids who doesn't realize or like a zombie movie,
let's say, and they drop their toy and they just
have to go get their toy, you know, like it's
always that. Yeah. The door opened slowly. It looked like
my mom. Her hands were reaching out to us. Oh no,
and again we held my little sister back from growing
to her. The priest yelled, no, that's not her, that's
not your mom. Keep praying, and we did for ten hours.
Oh my god. After those ten hours, I saw my
mom's eyes. It was her again, It was really her.
Her skin looked better. Injuries aside, we were all exhausted.
Her jaws so broken, Her skin looked better except for
her dog. Her jaw was the lack, but her skin
was no longer dry. So all stod here. This is skin,
it is. Her skin looked better. Injuries aside, We were exhausted.
I wasn't sure the demon was gone or if this
was another trick. The breese told me it wasn't like
the movies. Sometimes the demon just leaves, and he was
pretty sure that it was gone. Now. My mom started crying.
My little sister ran to her, and then the rest
of us followed. We cried together. I said, watching come back,
watch her start cussing them out. Okay, good, good, glad,
I'm glad. We cried together. The father told us to
make sure to go to church. Jen confess all the
sins that human was yelling at us. Then we committed.
At the time of me sending the story in, things
are so much better for us. My mom is almost
back to full health and we did go to church. Okay,
I just want to add one last thing for anyone listening.
If you don't believe in demons, know that they are real.
I don't like it. I don't like it. One bill also,
that was very creepy. It was it was crapy. I
was listening to it and I was like, oh my god,
what was that sound. I better not have some crazy
ass dream tonight. You probably will. Yeah, yeah, as long
as it's not like that one other dream that's still
to me to this day. No, no, no, that was terrible.
But yeah, those are the stories that I have for
this episode. Amazing. I really liked them. Yeah, that last one.
I don't know if I'll recover from that. What a
perfect way to wrap up the spooky month. Although it's
always spooky around here anyway, it is always around here.
But next episode we'll go back to a true crime
and a spooky story. So there was no I forgot.
I was gonna say there was something by the time
this comes out, I will have sent out discussion questions
for Pinata, and then we should be able to record
that episode, the Pinata episode. I like the book though,
but I don't want to say more, and so yeah
either yeah, okay, well, do you have spooky recommendations? I do.
Let me find my notes. I think I did take
notes on them. Okay, Well, while you're searching, I can
share mine. Okay, go ahead, because I'm finally on season
eleven of The Walking Dead, the final season. Last season. Wow, yeah,
the last season. I didn't know that it was filming
so recently, like season eleven got held up by COVID.
Oh really, yeah, so I thought it ended way before that,
and I mean I don't even think that by the
end of season eleven, and I don't think anything's wrapped up.
And that's why there's all these spin offs. Oh wow. Yeah,
so that's a little like not satisfying. It would have
been nice to get an answer and like why did
the outbreak happen? But you know that's what the break
is for, right, yeah? I And from what I've read,
they actually don't really go into it. Okay, wow, that's
I think. So we'll see I'm not sure if I'm
going to continue checking out some of the spin offs,
and I might just cause again I love zombie stuff.
And yeah, this season, season eleven has felt a little
like it's dragging on. I mean that makes sense to me,
and you know now that i've I'm like almost done
with a half four episodes left, but it really feels
like it should have been two separate seasons. And after
a while I or I did some reading and it
looks like it was meant to be two separate seasons
because there's like these two arcs going on, these two
bad guys, and it like it doesn't make sense to
have like normally one bad group that yeah, or one
bad thing happening per season, like you know, season three,
the prison, Season two the search for so yuh yeah,
the later the farm and then like they run into
the governor you know, Meagan or whatever his name is. Yeah,
Like there's like one thing going on with a bunch
of little like b plots, but like this was like
two different things. That's the major playing randomly me. Yeah,
so that felt a little like I'm like, why is
why are these group of people you've been here the Reapers?
Like if you know, if anyone has watched I know,
you know, I don't know, Yeah, you don't know, although
I will say I don't. I don't think. I think
if I because you know, I like rewatching shows. If
I do rewatch, I think after this it'll only be
seasons one through like six, because even even the Meagan
things get a little like like they go on too
long for me. I'm like, and I thought nine, Season
nine wasn't that bad for losing the main character and
then the other main character, Like, I didn't think it
was that bad for that happening. It was pretty good. Ten.
I didn't think it was that bad either. Honestly, they
were not bad at all, especially for not if we're
trying to continue on without like the main characters that
we all know liked me shown Carl, you know. Yeah,
so it's honestly not that bad. But eleven, I'm like, man,
when is this going to end? But you know, I
love zombie things, So I'm going to finish this season
for sure, and I don't know if I'll continue with
the spinof. But again, those seasons one through five top
notch zombie zombie things, you know, So that's still my recommendation,
because that's still the only thing I've been watching. It
took over my life while I was sick, and it's
not healthy. How quickly I got to season eleven and
will that was a little too fast? Definitely, Yeah, it's
quite quite unhealthy. So yeah, that's all I've been watching. Okay, Well,
onto my speaker recommendations. I finished an audiobook and a
book on Kindle, both from Libby. So I listened to
Human Sacrifices by Maria Fernanda Amburo. Oh, that's on my
tv are how I saw on stoygraphed that it was
in your TVR. It was really good. I rated five
out of five. Let me read the synopsis. Okay, okay,
Well it's like short the short stories. Okay, okay, yeah, yeah.
So a groundbreaking voice in contemporary Latin American literature, Maria
Fernanda Ambuto's writing is raw and savage as she confronts machismo, inequity,
and violence. In this acclaimed short story collection, an undocumented
woman answers a job posting, only to find herself held hostage.
A group of outcasts, obsessed over boys drowned while surfing,
and an unhappy couple finds themselves trapped in a terrifying maze.
With scalpel like precision, Abuto considers the price paid by
those on the margins so that the elite might lounge comfortably,
considering themselves safe in their homes, simultaneously terrifying and exquisite
human sacrifices is quote tropical Gothic at its finest. Decay
and oppression underlye our humid and hostile world where working
class women and children are consistently the weakest links in
a capitalist economy. Against this backdrop of erosion and rot,
these twelve stories contemplate the nature of exploitation and abuse,
illuminating the realities of those society consumes for its own
pitiless ends. Pitilessens, but no pitilessens. Both would make sense,
I think. Yeah, that's why I wasn't sure which one
it was. It was very good. I think the first
story was the most intense and captivating. I will say,
I don't know if I like listening to short stories,
because it's easy to miss the beginning of one in
the end, you know what I mean. Yeah, so I
think I was still good. I still ready it if
five were a five, But I think I would have
preferred reading it then listening to it, but it was
it was scary, like the first one was scary. And
there's like a lot of like I mean, I think
anybody that listens to spooky Tells would enjoy this book
because there's a lot of like folklore myths that are
tied into the stories, Like in still One, I recognized him. Yeah,
And there's like just a lot of that that you
kind of like recognize if you get into Latin American folklore.
Very good, and like the description says, it's like themes
of like feminism, machismo. It's like, you know, the kind
of stuff I like. Yeah, it's like creepy in the
men are the real creeps are the real creepy thing
kind of way, you know what I mean. Also, I
finished Loia finally. Oh. I love that I'm still in
the same place I was like two months ago. I
still have most of my favorite stories are in the beginning,
but I still tab some of the later ones. And
the last one is a good way to wrap it up. Okay,
it is a tie into any of the other stories,
but it's based on the actual the whole thing, the
whole thing. Yeah, Oh, how cool Okay, very good. Also
like what else is there to say? Okay? And then
I read Delicate Condition, which I guess that one one
of the a Ahs American Horses story shows is based on,
which they didn't watch because I don't want it's because
it's the one that Kim Kardashian is in. And I
was like, that's even It's not that I am a
Kardashian hater, but that's besides the point. It's that she's
not a good actress. I was gonna say, it's just
that nothing I've seen, she's like just not a good actress,
and I'm just not going to subject myself to that.
Even when people say there's not good acting in The
Walking Dead, it's honestly, it's fine. I never felt that.
I feel like it has to be real, like wooden
and stiff for me to actually notice. And that's what
Kim Kardashian is like Cass and she can you know,
So I'm not going to watch something that and Emma
Roberts so she can only play one character, which is
herself a fucking bitch. Yeah, I was gonna say, I
can't picture her as this character. I can't. Okay, let
me read the description of that one. It was gone
good but also very intense, like I could see it
being triggering to people. Oh oh, I didn't even say
who this one was by. This is by Danielle Valentine.
I guess she writes hya. This is her first like
adult novel. Oh interesting, so description The Push meets the
Silent Patient having written either of those, and a gripping
thriller that follows the women convinced that a sinister figure
is going to great lengths to make sure her pregnancy
never happens, while the men in her life refuse to
believe a word she says. Anna Alcott is desperate to
have a family, but as she tries to balunt her
increasingly public life as an indie actress with the grueling
IVF Journey, she starts to suspect that someone is going
to great lengths to make sure that never happens. Crucial
medicines are lost, appointments get swapped without her knowledge, Cryptic
warnings have her jumping at shadows, and despite everything she's
gone through to make this pregnancy a reality, not even
her husband is willing to believe that someone is playing
twisted games with her. Then her doctor tells her she's
had a miscarriage, except Anna's convinced that she's still pregnant
despite everything. The grave faced men around her claim she
can feel the baby moving inside her, can see the
strain it's taking on her weakening body. Big warnings become
direct threat as someone stocks her to the bleak ghost
town of the snowy Hampton's. As her symptoms and sentim
of danger grow even more horrifying, Anna can't help but
wonder what exactly she's carrying inside of her and why
no one will listen when she says something is horribly
painfully wrong. So it's like, I feel like it's so
intense in so many different areas, right, like if you
winty IBF, like it could be triggering in that sense
if you got pregnant and had a physically difficult pregnancy.
A lot of it, yes, triggering, because it's like body
Horror and the Kindle version, the digital book whatever it
has authors no at the end where she described like
scenes she wanted to put in but didn't end up
in there, and like why she wrote her in things
very interesting to read, and she's like fascinating everything the
body horror that's described in the book is based on real,
real symptoms, but just like worsened, but they're based in reality.
Like it was. It was a lot, but it was good.
It's like twist after twist. When I was reading the reviews,
a lot of people didn't like how it ended, but
it was surprising. It was Okay, twist, it's called delicate condition. Okay,
I'm gonna edd to my tv R as well, should
be should you know what I thought about that? I
need to start doing putting our recommendations that we say
at the end of every episode as a thing on
Patreon like a free memory members, not like behind a paywall.
But if you're a free member, you can see this
post and you can comment on it. Just listening to
them all that way per episode. I feel like I
thought that I had told you should do that you
had and now I'm presenting it as if I thought
of it myself. This fucking bitch, I fucking told her
you did. I forgot you told me that's what I
thought about it, and you're like, good idea. I randomly
remember like I thought of the idea, but like you
implanted it in my brain. You know, what's a good idea? Wow.
So yeah, like body psychological horror, medical horror also and
like very like the real horrors men not again, oh no,
but like you know, like being gas lit and not
listened to. Not that I was gonna say, this sounds
very like the typical like the husband in a horror
movie doesn't believe everything. Yeah, it was that, but also
he was so much worse involved. Yeah, I was gonna say,
because if it's not that, then they're involved in whatever.
A lot of people said it was like like that story. Sorry,
are you gonna say more about the book a little
bit more? It was just gonna say a lot of
people compared it to like Rosemary's Baby, which I haven't
read or seen the movie, but I was thinking of them.
Yeah yeah. And then it also reminded me of hunting
a Alexandra I also came to mind. Yes, yeah, And
I think I rated this four out of five because
some parts felt like a little bit drawn out, But
I mean it's because she keeps experiencing the same thing
and then questioned her reality. So at the same time,
it wasn't too much like of an you know. And
then it was also witchy and cool tea so oh
oh cool, all right, I'm for sure adding that to
my TBR right now. And if you have StoryGraph and
you want to follow us, you can. We're on there, yes, yes,
And you know what also I loved about StoryGraph is
the personalized preview that it gives you. Oh yeah, yeah,
I love that. That's cool. Yeah. Although I just one
more thing to add, unless you it's note on my
recommendations anymore. But I made a TikTok about. I made
an Excel sheet. I saw a spreadsheet of all my
books because I didn't know that on StoryGraph you can
put that you own it. Yes you can. I didn't
know what to tell you, but that would mean I
to I would have to add like eighty something books
onto my StoryGraph and then mark that I own all
of them, which maybe would have been less work than
doing a spreadsheets sheet. I'm not sure anymore. But I
did a spreadsheet because I wanted to see how many
books I owned and how many I read from the
books that I actually owned, because I realized that I've
not been reading those for years. What's the ratio? I
think I read forty six out of eighty eight. That's
actually not bad. It's not bad. My friend told me
she hasn't read like sixty something of her books. Oh yeah, yeah,
So I was like, okay, not too bad, not too bad.
But then on the comment, somebody told me about Fable.
Have you heard of Fable? Yes, but not a lot.
I am part of a mom Facebook group and someone
mentioned Fable on there, but I didn't I forgot to
check it out. I checked that sort of graph instead,
because they posted pictures of like the story graph like
wrap up that that is what I love. I love
the little cassics yeah, and the wrap up, the monthly
wrap ups, and there's different graphics you could like generate
like yes, your ratings, a summary, your yearly Like I
love that. But then on Fable, I guess it's it's
like a more like a feed like Instagram. Let me
find what the person told me. It was like, yeah,
they said, it's like Instagram for books, and you can
read other people's reviews. And then there's different tabs and
you could do like your TVR currently reading and also
like the ones you own, to keep trenths of the
books that you own, and and it tends to keep
track of genres and authors and stuff like that. It
says something about it. You can have a super cute
bio gives you a super cute bio that changes every
time you enter a new book you've finished, and you
can also look up books that you're interested in. I
mean it sounds like story Graph, like similar, but I
want to download it just to see what it's like. Okay,
I just don't know if I want another app. I know,
but I like StoryGraph because of the graphics. Yeah, that's
what got me too. No, I was going to say,
what that book that reminded me of is this horrible
thing that I remember? No? I think MJ said it
to us on but a TikTok of a lawyer talking
about the seventeen Oh no, I haven't seen that. Wow,
you know what. I've been sick and ignoring all that,
so I'm very behind on everything. But no, this woman
that was being drugged by her husband and then trafficked.
Oh set you that? Sorry? Sorry? Sorry, No I didn't
send you that. I told you about it on his
Spooky tels like months ago, not long months ago? No, sorry,
it was it was when we talked about the woman
from Venezuela. Venezuela. Yes, that was a while ago. Yeah,
and the one she was like horribly abused and then
became like advocate and a lawyer herself. Right. Yeah, yes,
on that episode I told you about the French woman
who was drunk by her husband in France and like
fifty something men basically raped her while she was drugg
that night. Yeah, that's what me and then and then
m JA sent me to talk about itt us on
the group chat. Okay, that's what that book was around
me though that you mentioned. It's not that bad, not
that bad. That's good now, But there's no like you know,
like Sacion, real life is going to be worse. The
real horror is men from real life. Yeah, I'm sorry,
but that's I don't stay mad about it. I'm just kidding.
I'm just kidding. What is that thing that people say
when they say not all men, not all men? But
I guarantee you almost every woman you know has a
story of either being a salted her like in some
I harassed. I don't know any women that after the
age of twelve didn't experience some sort of harassments yeah,
or worse. But somehow, somehow, it's never you know a
man that you know in life or you know it's
not their friend. Like, okay, then who is a bitch? Right?
We know? We know, so get mad? Okay, stay mad,
I don't care. Are we at the end of the episode?
We are? We are sorry, I'm sorry. Okay, okay, you know,
a quick twirl around to show your wings. Yeah, hold on,
let me move my chair. Yeah. So for those that
are not on YouTube, Carmen is going to show us
her costume again. She's a mat and look at her
look at her fly. No, let's talk. Okay, okay, we're
at the end of the episode. Let me get settled.
Please get back in. Yeah, well, while you settle yourself,
if anyone wants to check us out over on Patreon,
I will for everyone to see, not behind a paywall.
We'll start putting those peaky recommendations from every episode moving forward.
I'm not going back and checking all those out. I
can't possibly do that. Maybe I'll compile a list for you,
maybe hard maybe, but those will be up on Patreon.
If you want to become a paid member of Patreon,
if you're at the one dollar tier, you get a
shout out that I have to record. I'm so sorry.
I'm behind on that. There's like two new members that
I have to include in the shout out that we
do that I am behind on. But also we just
produced an episode where we talked about we shared two
creepy Reddit stories I had to do with mimics, both
horrible under the bed stories just so scary. Oh yeah,
you forgot. At first I thought you met under the
bed metaphorically, and then I forguy was literally under the bed. Yes, yes,
that was creepy. And then we talked a little bit
about rug Lady. That's fun, the rug Lady saga on TikTok.
And that was the most recent bonus episode. We do
at least one a month. We want to do more.
Sometimes it just doesn't happen, but we do have to
talk about other things, and it's always we're always gonna
have like a scary story, urban religion type thing, but
also sometimes we're just gonna share like either true crime
things going on like on the World or paranormal use
is another thing we do on there one thing I
want to do that I just haven't done, but like
movie reviews. Oh, I was just going to tell you
the other day that we should do that. We should. Yeah,
it would be fun And I still don't know how
to do movie nights again. I don't want to do
it the way I was doing it before because I
may do that and I haven't done it since two
years ago. We're three now, I don't remember, probably three now,
but I want to figure out. I think I want
to say Discord is going to be the place to
do it, but I'm not sure yet. Oh so more
to come on that, but like, there's just so many
things I want to do. Is a little time, so
we'll see, yeah, yeah, yeah, But all right, I think
that's everything for this episode. Anything else to add. If
we hear Mom calling you from the closet and she's possessed,
it's not her. Yeah, don't open the closet door, don't
go hugging her, it's not her. All right, stay swooky.
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