Speaker 1: Hey, guys, welcome to episode sixteen of A Wickedly Weird
with Jerry and Amanda. I'm Jerry, I'm Amanda. Amanda. You
wanted an older story. Remember last week you said.
Speaker 2: You want me to dig back back to the seventeen
eighteen nineteen hundreds, Yes, sir, I do.
Speaker 1: How didn't go back that far? But I do have
an older one for you. This one goes back to
October twenty fourth, nineteen thirty six. Okay, but I am
working on I am working on some that are back
in the seventeenth eighteenth century. You're like, pick his head up.
Speaker 2: Oh him, he just made a mess on my floor.
He's being a real asshole this morning, well this evening.
And there he is a little air look. Oh sorry.
And if you hear heavy breathing, that's just him breathing
into the microphone.
Speaker 1: I thought maybe that was Matt.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, there he is. Yeah, he's all right, he's
all right, he's thirteen.
Speaker 1: Let's go back.
Speaker 2: Let's go back in my time machine. Oh my god,
pause pause, Pea Buddy and Sherman. You're your Peabody, right.
Speaker 1: I thought we Peabody was a dog, right, Yeah, So.
Speaker 2: We're going in the way back machine from my he
had the way back machine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I do remember when we're.
Speaker 2: Going to the way back. All right, let's go on
my little picklehead.
Speaker 1: All right. An old naked woman with no eyelashes and
a ragged cloth around her face wanders into the village
of Innery that's in Haiti in the entire town gets
worked up into a frenzy.
Speaker 2: She's a witch. No.
Speaker 1: The woman was old and feeble and obviously had been
suffering from some type of an eye disease, which is
why she had no eyelashes.
Speaker 2: Well, she could have alopecia halla alip alamis.
Speaker 1: That is why I don't let you make medical diagnosis
on the show.
Speaker 2: Why she could have had alopecia. Some people don't have
ybrows or eyelashes or hair with alopecia.
Speaker 1: I thought that was the animals that were like lamas, what.
Speaker 2: Lama's get alopecia?
Speaker 1: No, I thought the animal I thought alopecias were the animals, Like,
wait a minute, that's alpacas.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, okay, alpacas alopecia, that's fine.
Speaker 1: I think alopecia was what Jilly andrews saying, And what
was that Mary Poppins.
Speaker 2: She didn't sing alopecia. She's saying super califragiles Xbalidosia's not alopecia.
Speaker 1: I thought it was super alopecia, so that's not it anyways.
Speaker 2: Super alopecia, you're idiot.
Speaker 1: All right, we're losing focus. This woman, this old feeble woman,
wanders in a town with a rag over top of
her face and no eyelashes. She was said to be stupefied.
Her skin was pale and wrinkled, and it looked like
the scales on a fish.
Speaker 2: She had mermaid disease. Okay, let's go.
Speaker 1: She couldn't bear the sunlight. That's why she covered her
face up.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, that's a real thing, you know, like vampires.
Like it's like vampire syndrome. I'm serious, looking up well.
Speaker 1: Mass sisteria swept through the village. Crowds started gathering to
see this strange woman. People began to ask questions. Uh oh,
Now the biggest issue that most of the village knew
this woman. Uh oh, but that really couldn't be because
this woman had died years earlier.
Speaker 2: Oh is it one of those like situations where she
gets zombified?
Speaker 1: You're on the right path.
Speaker 2: I knew it kind of.
Speaker 1: So one of the families, one of the families living
near the area was the Mentors. That was her last name.
They noticed that she looked exactly like one of their
family members that from that day on, the villagers began
calling her Felicia Felix men tour that was the family
member that they had buried years.
Speaker 2: Oh, she's alive and kicking.
Speaker 1: So the Mentors took their took her to their family home.
They fed her, and they gave her a comfortable place
to relax, and she remained there for a few days
before being taken to a government hospital. Oh no, yeah,
that's never good.
Speaker 2: Oh no, you're a science experiment now, honey.
Speaker 1: Uh oh. A few weeks later, doctor Lewis P. Mars
was sent to investigate the situation, and doctor Mars worked
for the public Health department in Haiti hm HM. By
this time, though the story was all over.
Speaker 2: The island, they didn't surprised.
Speaker 1: Sorry Felix was not able to give the doctor any
information about her birthday, her name, her birthplace, or where
she had previously been. She was going, she knew not good.
She couldn't even answer how she got to the hospital,
she would have to have she would have these like
occasional outburst of laughter, but she showed no emotion while
doing so.
Speaker 2: Oh that's so creepy. So she was like but like
not breaking eye contact while she did it right, Oh
my god.
Speaker 1: All of her answers were unintelligible and irrelevant. So even
even if they could understand her, it had nothing to
do with what they were talking about.
Speaker 2: So was it like a case of dementia gone haywire.
Speaker 1: We'll get there. You know, I'm not going to answer
any of your questions.
Speaker 2: Can you just blink twice?
Speaker 1: We're not doing the blinking thing. What if I'd lost
my eyelashes and eyebrows.
Speaker 2: I'd be asking Tracy to draw some Anya.
Speaker 1: Hey, I saw this little tool that it's like a
little eyebrow pencil but has a roller and it draws
an eyebrow on you, but it looks like hairs.
Speaker 2: Can we do that for you? Can you please buy it?
And can we do it live or something?
Speaker 1: No, yes, it was it was on topic. I don't
even know where if I could find it again now,
but it was just something.
Speaker 2: I bet your team has it. I bet your team
who has it.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't know what to call it in the search.
Speaker 2: Bar, eyebrow, roller, honor exactly all right.
Speaker 1: So when she did speak about herself it was in
the third person. Oh she also had lost all sense
of time, so.
Speaker 2: Oh my god. She was a tie traveler.
Speaker 1: She was believed to have been turned into a zombie
by somebody called a bolkore. I knew it was a
Haitian magician.
Speaker 2: I knew it.
Speaker 1: She was five foot two and weighed ninety pounds. She
looked to be a sixty years old, but with some
treatment at the asylum, she was rejuvenated and looked more
like fifty after a couple of weeks of some medication
and food and water and all that stuff. In nineteen
oh seven, the family attended to Felicia's funeral. Remember this
was in the nineteen thirties.
Speaker 2: It is the two pictures back then of la dead.
Speaker 1: Is it too soon to say by Felicia? Did they
say that at the funeral?
Speaker 2: A little?
Speaker 1: But now she's back amongst the living as far as
they were concerned. And now it appears that she has
somehow risen from the dead. So there was a study
done of the woman, and I'll tell you the results
right after this quick sponsor break, Amanda. The family first
based their belief that this was Felicia because she was
lame in one of her legs. Okay, apparently Felicia had
a fracture. And besides the fact that this looked like Felicia,
she was also a lame in the exact same leg,
so it just made sense that it was her. The
physical appearance and the lameness, in addition to the deep
belief in Haiti that sometimes the dead do come back
to life, was all that the Mentors needed to believe
that this actually was their Felicia brought back from the dead. Now,
the doctor did an X ray of both legs, and
they discovered that there was no fracture. The lameless could
just be attributed to muscular weakness due to malnutrition that
she had had.
Speaker 2: Well. She was ninety pounds well.
Speaker 1: And the proof of that is after a normal diet
for two weeks, the lameness disappeared.
Speaker 2: Hmm.
Speaker 1: She also gained weight as.
Speaker 2: You can seeze. I wonder if I did that, if
my lameness would disappear too.
Speaker 1: I know you're pretty lame.
Speaker 2: Wow. Ouch.
Speaker 1: It was later determined that this was not felicia, felix
mentor no way. Yes, it was more of a case
of mass hysteria in a country with strong beliefs of
the dead coming back than it was anything.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, Well that's kind of devastating though to the thing.
Speaker 1: But does that mean that zombies don't exist? Not exactly.
In nineteen fifty nine, researchers outside of Haiti started to
take the topic pretty seriously. That's the year that anthropologist
Alfred matrou He released his landmark book called Voodoo in Haiti.
Now this was a very well respected man.
Speaker 2: I feel like I've heard about this book.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's actually where people started learning about zombies
outside of that country, when you're outside of African stuff
like it. So the western the western countries really didn't
know anything about it until his book came out. Now
keep in mind he was he was very well respected,
not only for his academic works, but he was a
big human rights Uh I guess what do you call him? Advocate?
Speaker 2: Advocate? Nadvocate.
Speaker 1: So it came as a shock when he claimed that
these magical practitioners on the island were capable of reanimating
human corpses.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: He wrote that people had died and then were buried.
The burials were witnessed, but then they were found years
later in a state emerging on idiocy, is what he said.
He even said that the sophisticated capital of Port of
Prince in Haiti, that there are are a few, even
amongst the uneducated, that who do not give some credence
to the macob stories.
Speaker 2: It's so creepy.
Speaker 1: Well check this story out that he told in his book.
He said, there was a young woman in a small town.
She passed away. Now, before this, she had gotten engaged.
This did not make the local voodoo priest very.
Speaker 2: Happy because she got engaged.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he also had a thing with her or so,
he was in love with her and she had rejected
his advances.
Speaker 2: So soon after the after the advances were sperned and
and he had, she ended up hooking up with the
other guy and getting engaged.
Speaker 1: She got sick, She spent time at the hospital and died.
Speaker 2: They killed her. Okay.
Speaker 1: Upon her death, her body was given back to the
family for burial. Well, unfortunately, the often that they had
acquired was a little bit too small, so she had
to be kind of bent a little bit.
Speaker 2: Whoa roath I thought they just cut your feet off
or something. And what they did to Abraham Lincoln, I.
Speaker 1: Don't know if that's what happened or not. That could
just be an old wives tale. I'm pretty sure they
wouldn't cut Abe's feet off.
Speaker 2: I don't know when they put on a museum for
display these Abe's feet.
Speaker 1: So Also, while they were at the funeral, one of
the UH people that were attending accidentally dropped a lit
cigarette into the coffin and it caused a burn on
one of her feet.
Speaker 2: What while you smoking a cigarette over someone's coffin?
Speaker 1: First of all, well, things are different in the thirties,
and it's probably way different in Haiti in the thirties
than it would have even been here. Three months after
the funeral, the family began to get reports that this
girl had been seen with the voodoo priest Uh. Obviously,
nobody believed her because she was buried. But three years later,
the young girl showed up on the family's doorstep.
Speaker 2: With a birdmark on her foot.
Speaker 1: Right, she exactly had a crooked neck and the scar
on her foot from the cigarette burn.
Speaker 2: She had a crooked neck.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because where they had their stuff or in the casket.
Speaker 2: Imagine that.
Speaker 1: Supposedly they went and dug up the casket, and the
casket was filled with rocks too. So this young lady
apparently lived on for a very long time and became
an old woman. But she was never the same. They
said she was a very dull and afar from being sane.
Was how they listed it.
Speaker 2: That's really kind of sad.
Speaker 1: So the question is why did she show back up. Well,
the government in Haiti didn't like the fact that there
were so many superstitious uh and supernatural beliefs on the island,
so they would actually run these campaigns against it. And uh,
I guess just like the that we do with the
click at or ticket people to whether it's.
Speaker 2: Seat belt voodoo in trouble.
Speaker 1: Yeah, theirs was probably like, don't bring back the dead,
adopt a dog and is dead or something. I don't know.
I don't know what it would have been.
Speaker 2: The dog instead, I don't do vudo, adopt the dog instead.
Speaker 1: Well, during one of these campaigns, the voodoo priest actually
felt guilty and he released the spell that he had
on all the people that he had enslaved over the years,
and that set this woman free, and then she was
able to go back to her parents house. So that's
how she's got mush brain. Well, I mean, I'm not
saying that that there wouldn't damage done. It's kind of
like Pet Cemetery.
Speaker 2: When you think about it, you don't want to go
down that road.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: You know, I always liked the original pet Cemetery when uh,
the little girl because she was a horrible actress. And
she she brought that she brought that picture to what
was his name, the old man's name, Judd.
Speaker 2: Or Jed or thought it was jud or something it was.
Speaker 1: But she brought that picture of she said, he said,
a picture of me gage and she's off fake crying.
It's me pushing him into wagon. And I remember he said,
like that, doesn't they that because that's.
Speaker 2: How we talked about. I don't want to go down
that road. Yeah, because I mean, like I was it
based out of me because they kind of talking about everything.
They kind of talk like that. Yeah, like they all
kind of talk like that, Like, oh my god, I
found this TikTok was on Instagram and it was this
lady who collected ship and she had a uh, she
made a fecal fecal people she made out of poop,
and she had a clock. Instead of it was like
the it was like instead of it being two thirty,
it was like two thirty the thirty clock or something.
But she's like, I get so excited when I see turns.
I get five dollars a pop for these. But she
had that like but she had that, she had that accent,
and I was like, could you imagine that's what your
life is now? It's like you just go around collecting
shit and like you're excited about it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I do it every day with Lily, But I'm
not excited about it. I'm not making any money off
of it.
Speaker 2: Hold on, you're ready, see if you can hear it clock.
Speaker 3: See this is the poople clock. And what we did
see is we took them turns and we crammed them
in between the number there. So this one thirty, two
thirty three turny. Now over here we make fecal people.
And depending upon the shape of the middle turns right
there we can do with big moves and got some
so long legs and short legs. Because there's two turns
on a river light. Do you ever see a turn
the two turns alike, no, get five bucks a turn
for these things. So I get jumping right up and down.
I get excited when I see it turn.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I get excited when I see a turch said
jumping up and down. Come on if that. I've watched
that video an unhealthy amount of times. I thought it
was fucking hysterical. I was dead. I'm like, why is
this so funny? Speaking of dying, I gotta tell you
what I did last night by accident. I had a
very stressful two days, and I was like, you know,
I'm gonna hunker down. I'm gonna just take some edibles
and just relax. I'm gonna unwhine. Well that went away
real fast, those edibles. I was like, I'm gonna try
thirty five milligrams when I normally do like twenty milligrams.
For twenty five milligrams, no, no, not me, thirty five
on the couch. I ended up living where I went
through all the emotions of death, dying, laughter, happiness, all
of it. And I said, Matt said, I told you
not to do that. I said, I know, that's neither
hair nor there. I just need snacks. And I literally
was like this. It was like I couldn't even keep
my eyes open, and like that snuck up on me
faster than I thought, because normally, like I'll drink a
cup of tea, I'll get all comfy, and I'm good
to go, like I'm looking to go to sleep. That
was not an option at the time. I'm alive today,
but barely. Like I can't even believe that happened. As
you can see, my microphone broke while I was talking
to you. So we're just we're just hold onto it.
We're hanging on to what what.
Speaker 1: Did it break from? Oh did it actually break or
did it just come off?
Speaker 2: Oh, it like snapped. It snapped somehow, I like adjusted
it and it fell off in my hand, which is fine.
I don't mind. I don't mind doing this at all.
It's fine.
Speaker 1: It sounds better like that.
Speaker 2: Does it. Hello, It's just me, Hello, smiled friend.
Speaker 3: To know.
Speaker 2: I'm just kidding. So that happened to me, and I'm
alive to tell the tell the tail. And I don't
fuck around and find out with edibles when you are
not comfortable with milligram dosages?
Speaker 1: What's your go to snack when you're hat.
Speaker 2: Why do you gotta ask me?
Speaker 3: This.
Speaker 2: It's like moderately embarrassing the stuff that I come up with.
So it's not like a go to, it's what can
I imagine it's gonna taste delicious? Okay? And let's say
I see a can of frosting in the in the
fridge and I'm like, oh, look at that, a can
of chocolate frosting. What are those chocolate chip cookies? And
I make frosting cookie sandwiches occasionally when I've.
Speaker 1: Got them frosty cooking cookie sandwiches.
Speaker 2: That's just exactly on a certain on.
Speaker 1: A certain level, I could see that being good because
they make they make frosted cookies.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you put it in the middle and it's
just like an eel fudge but with chocolate tip cookies.
And then also and like you can judge all you want,
but there are these gluten free cracker things and you
put cream cheese on it and you sprinkle everything like
bagel seasoning on it. Like you can't ask for a
better snack. It's so good I can see, ok Yeah,
And then like I'll also do like a mini chikuderie
board where it'll be like grapes and cheese and crackers
and salami maybe or maybe a ham sandwich. I don't know.
It really all depends on the level of where I'm at.
And then I just get the gigglies and I will
giggle for like twenty minutes straight, which then also will
get my husband to giggle as well, and it becomes
a giggle fest. And then I pass out and go
to bed, which is the goal, because I'll stay up
till two or three in the morning if I'm not like,
I can't take melatonin. So I've done the melatonin root
and it's not for me. I don't like it for
me personally, and so like when the pandemic, I was
like begging for a sleep. I just couldn't sleep. So
that's when we started doing the whole edible thing and
it was great. It's worked.
Speaker 1: I fall asleep.
Speaker 2: I'm not waking up in the middle of the night
and then staying up because that used to be a
big issue of mine is I would wake up to
pee around like two thirty. Then from two thirty to
five am in my alarm go off would go off.
I would be awake that whole time. You mean too thirty,
too thirty, that's right, and need to get my poo
poo clock.
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you this story, and I don't have
all the details in front of me. I'll just break
it down to you. But it's crazy. So this guy
and his girlfriend who apparently were on the rocks to
begin with. Yep, the guy inherits supposedly thirty million dollars
from a family member that he doesn't know. Okay, now
follow me on this.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 1: Apparently he has to meet the attorney that at the
airport the signs of paperwork, the guy that was executor
of the wheel. Okay, he agrees to go to the
airport meet the guy. The day that they're supposed to go,
the guy gets hospitalized and dies. What Yeah, this is
a true story. This happened like in September. Well, it
turns out that the girlfriend had fed him somehow an
a freeze. She killed him, wanting to get a portion
of that thirty million dollars. Now her hit. This guy's
brothers had already said, look, heep planning on leaving her.
He was getting this money. They felt like maybe it
was a scam or something like that, that they didn't
believe that it was real. And but the brother's like, now,
I'm going to give all you guys you know, X
amount of dollars and now I'm going to go start
my own auto shop and all this. The guy was like,
I think he was like fifty two years old or something. Jeez,
it was a scam. There was no deal, nobody, the
attorney never showed up at the airport. I think this
guy probably paid him X amount of dollars to you
know how they'll send you something and say, hey, we
can release this to you, but we got to have
two hundred dollars to be able to cover fees or
something like that. I think it was one of those scams.
So he literally was killed by his girlfriend thinking that
he was getting all this money and in reality was
too stupid to realize it was a scam.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what the fuck, that's so sad. That's awful. From Kentucky, No,
I don't.
Speaker 1: I can't remember where it was. It wouldn't from Kentucky.
It was in the US, though.
Speaker 2: Imagine that. It's kind of like that Alanis Morrisett song
Iran ironic.
Speaker 1: Nothing in the song is ironic. Yeah, no, she names
a lot of shit off that's like that that would suck,
but none of it was ironic.
Speaker 2: So I love her. She's coming to to I can't wait.
I want to go see her. I love her.
Speaker 1: She's a tracy, can't stand her, hate her with a passion.
I absolutely love her then, and it's not a chauvinistic thing.
But there's just not a lot of female singers that
I really like. You know, I like Joan jet, I
like I love Atlantis more set, there's there's a few
others out there.
Speaker 2: But because a lot of it's auto tune too, which
drives me. Now, Like I really like Kesha, I really
love her, but I love her like regular singing voice,
not when she's auto tuning, not when she's blowing up
the club.
Speaker 3: I like.
Speaker 2: She has a song called Rainbow and it's so pretty
and like it's not there's no auto tune in it
that I can that I can hear, and it's such
a good song. She's a good singer on her own
without the auto tune. I don't think she needs it.
Speaker 1: Well, most of it is. I'm just more of an
od's and a rocker kind of guy. So, you know,
I like share back in the day. I don't like
like the new news that she had had a share
back in the day. You know, there was, like I said,
Joan Jed, I really like Janis Jopplin. I liked I
like her. That's the kind of voices that I really like. Heart,
you know, I like, I like Anna Nancy Wilson, either one.
I can't remember which one sings. I think it's I
think Ann Wilson's the singer, but I can't remember. But yeah, so,
I mean I love those kind of voices. But you know,
and country is a different story. I mean I liked
a lot of the you know, like Dolly Parton and
lored Lynn and Patsy Klein all that.
Speaker 2: So, yeah, you like my Steppapa. He loves all those ladies.
Speaker 1: But for the most part, I don't. There's not If
you tell me named the top thirty best singers in
rock music, there's probably I'm not gonna list a woman
in any of the top thirty. It's nothing against him,
it's just.
Speaker 2: Not my preference about Pat Benatar. Is she considered rock
though No, I.
Speaker 1: Would consider her rock, and I like Pat Benatar, but
she's not one of my favorites.
Speaker 2: I don't I like her.
Speaker 1: But Elana's Morsett is somebody that I would actually go
back her albums and go see her in concerts. So
I love her and I've seen Joan Jett and I've
seen Heart matter of fact, in the same concert. They
were both at the same concert.
Speaker 2: But do you like the chick that does have in essence?
Do you know Amy Lee? Do you like her? I
like her, Yes, I like her to My husband actually
was on stage with her. He toured with her, and
she's little. He said, she's tiny, short and little.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think she's like five foot tall or something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I heard she's kind of difficult to work with.
But I mean, like aren't they all, But yeah, Lenda's
Morris it's really good, I really And I like that
other chick too, the Fast Car. I can't think of
her name off the top of my head right now.
Speaker 1: Tracy Chapman, I like her.
Speaker 2: I like her, but like see, I don't like country
music really, it's all the same ship branded a different way.
Like I just don't like it. It's like, literally, she's.
Speaker 1: Not Tracy Chapman is not country though she's not.
Speaker 2: But a country singer covered her over that and I
like I like that cover, yes, But a lot of
country music it's like electric swords through my is it burns.
I'm like, I can't listen to this.
Speaker 1: I can't stand newer country once they hit the nineties.
Other than Garth Brooks, I just some Rascal Flats a
little bit, but I.
Speaker 2: Don't like them at all. And Lady Antebellu, I'm like,
I don't really care, like I just don't. I can't
do it, So I'm with you.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm sure people have loved to hear us go
on about music.
Speaker 2: Welcome to the Music Podcast. You can hear us on
Patreon talk about more stuff.
Speaker 1: All right, all right, well I appreciate it. It was fun, Amanda,
So let's get out of here, all right.
Speaker 2: I'll talk to you later.
Speaker 1: That's not how we end it.
Speaker 2: Bye.