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We actually have one of our listeners, Jackie Getz, is
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we have to put out this week. We got our
Patreon show, the Regular Show, and spending some time with
Jackie this weekend, We've got a lot to do, so
we decided to have our Valentine's dinner today, which is Sunday.
Speaker 6: I had a shit ton of crabs.
Speaker 2: What's your mouth?
Speaker 6: I had a butt ton of crabs.
Speaker 2: That's not any better.
Speaker 6: I ate a bunch of crabs. I ate a lot
of crabs, a lot of shrimp, a lobster tail. Oh
my gosh, I hate so much today, and like I
tell me, he hurts now. But it was so delicious.
Thank you Honey for taking me out. That was very sweet.
Speaker 2: You're very welcome.
Speaker 4: We got a couple of stories we're going to do tonight,
one of which was a suggestion when we first opened
our new group up, which I'll remind everybody to go
join us on Facebook on our Hillbelly Horry Stories group.
Whatever the neigh of our show is, come come join
our group. And when we first did that, we asked
everybody for suggestions and we had a lot of good ones.
And we had one that from Haley McMahon that actually
came from Alabama, and it's kind of funny because she's
a big Alabama fan, which I try to forgive. Which
Alabama's in Tuscaloosa, That's where the universe value them is.
And our second story tonight, which she didn't suggest, is
actually coming from Tuscaloosa. So we've I wanted to do
the Sloss furnaces, which actually she suggested.
Speaker 6: The slot Sloss loss furniture.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not Mike Tyson Sloss, not sloth sloss.
Speaker 6: What is it?
Speaker 2: Furnaces?
Speaker 6: Oh, furnaces, that's furniture.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know. God, if there's any doubt that she
doesn't know these stories, that should give it away. I know.
Speaker 6: I'm sorry. That's really kind of hard to say, though, seriously,
I know it.
Speaker 4: So you think it's hard for you, Mike Tyson would
have a field it would be sloth. So then the
second story is actually from that that's in Birmingham, Alabama.
And the second story is actually going to be from
TuS SCHOOLUSA. Like I said, it's the Drish Houserish. Yeah.
I guess we're just a ton of hard things to
say it.
Speaker 6: Oh my gosh, the places.
Speaker 4: They lost furnaces and drish house real quick and furniture
and damn.
Speaker 6: Hey.
Speaker 4: But anyway, so we're going to talk about both of
those because they're probably listed. Is the number one and
number two most places in Alabama? Some people will say one.
Some people will say the other, so I thought we'd
do both of them.
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Speaker 4: I want to before we get into the stories tonight,
I actually saw something this morning that I thought was
kind of interesting. The very first American horror stories, the
Murder House episodes. The mansion that they used in that
apparently was sold for like three little over three million dollars,
and the people who bought it are upset because they
apparently were never told that that house was used in
American horror stories. So now they're getting all these people
that are constantly coming by the house because they want
to see the house, or they're saying know that, well
I don't know, and they're saying that people are trying
to break in, and people just you know, it's just
constant pain in the neck from you know, harassment from
people coming by, and that's not what they bargained for.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, I mean I can understand that. It's just
so weird that they wouldn't know, or even the real
estate people wouldn't say, hey, well that's.
Speaker 4: What they're That's what they're saying, is the real estate
I just never told them. And I mean, to be
honest with you, I don't know that I would have
known that was the house of somebody, because I mean,
I've seen it, but I don't know if I'm just
looking at a house, if they might not have seen
the show, so they wouldn't know unless some wady pointed
out to.
Speaker 6: Well that's true. Wow, what can they do?
Speaker 4: Well, they're suing to try to get they're not trying
to move or anything or trying to get them about
the house back, but they are suing to try to
get damages for what, I guess just for their pain
and suffering.
Speaker 2: I don't know, but.
Speaker 6: Pain and suffering an me a break.
Speaker 2: I don't know, but please.
Speaker 6: Spill some hot coffee on your genitals. Then you'll have
pain and suffering and then you can sue.
Speaker 4: I think the funniest part about this though, and this
wasn't actually mentioned in the lawsuit, but they said that
there's also two ghosts in the house that they.
Speaker 2: Weren't told about. And that's not even the funny part.
Speaker 4: The funny part is apparently it wasn't mentioned in the
lawsuit because there's some kind of California law against ghosts
or something that you can't I don't know what it was.
It didn't explain what it was, but that's why it
wasn't listed in the lawsuits.
Speaker 6: Oh my goodness. That almost seems ridiculous.
Speaker 4: So anyway, I thought that was kind of a Oh
my goodness. So are we ready to get into this?
Speaker 6: I'm ready, you know, I'm.
Speaker 4: Excited about this episode, but I'm also excited about the
Patreon episode we got coming up, because we're going.
Speaker 2: To get into some true crime.
Speaker 4: Good and for those of you who.
Speaker 6: Maybe you know how I'm about that true crime.
Speaker 2: Well, but this one, man, this one's kind of kind
of whack.
Speaker 4: This was actually about the the Texarcana murders, but if
you'd ever seen the movie, because we like to do
stuff that was the original stories behind movies.
Speaker 2: But there was a movie called.
Speaker 4: The Town the Dreaded Sundown that came out in the
seventies and it was all based on these and these
were really weird killings. I mean, there was like, I
think five of them, and then there was a couple
that that he tried to kill but didn't get away.
But this guy wore like a mask, it was like
a bag with the eyes cut out. And then all
the murders that he did were kind of like almost
like a sacrifice.
Speaker 2: It's just it's really kind of creepy.
Speaker 4: But yeah, these are these are gonna it's gonna be
a really cool story. And I've contemplated on whether doing
it on this show or doing it on the Patreon Show,
and then finally I just decided I was doing a
Patreon So if you're not a Patreon subscriber and you'd
like to hear that along with some paranormal stuff that
we'll do next.
Speaker 2: Week as well. Jump on in.
Speaker 4: So let's jump into Sloughs Furnaces. Slass Furnaces actually started
in eighteen eighty two in Birmingham, Alabama. It stayed in
business until nineteen seventy one, and it was known for
producing what they called pig iron. It was actually the
biggest manufacturer of pig iron in the world.
Speaker 2: At one point.
Speaker 6: What is pig iron?
Speaker 4: I know he was going to ask me that it's
a type of iron.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't know what big iron is. I'm not an
irons baist, I'm not a forger.
Speaker 2: Sorry.
Speaker 4: It was actually created by Colonel James Withers Sloss. Let see,
these words are just way too hard to say. Like
I said, it was the bigger one. It was actually
the longest continually running blast furnace in Birmingham history. So
that's pretty cool it was. It was so big and
so popular that it became Birmingham was actually became known
as the Magic City because that's where the magic happened.
It's now actually a National Historic Landmark in a museum.
Loss and its employees actually turned coal and ore iron
ore into steel, and that still actually helped jumpstart the
industrial Revolution.
Speaker 2: I mean it was used everywhere that.
Speaker 4: Still was actually used from New York City skyscrapers to
bridges in the South.
Speaker 2: You name it.
Speaker 4: If it used metal. Railroads, a lot of railroads were
actually so yeah, they were booming. It sounds like a
great place to work, and probably lots of company pride
with that kind.
Speaker 2: Of stuff going on, But no.
Speaker 4: Slass was actually known as a terrible, terrible place to work.
They didn't treat their employees well at all, and during
the summer months, temperatures in the plant would actually reach
more than one hundred and twenty degrees oh my gosh,
which is forty nine degrees celsius for our foreign listeners.
Speaker 2: Try. I took the time.
Speaker 4: There were no breaks, no holidays, so lack of sleep
and the heat low visibility that was in the place
actually made working in the furnace of living hell.
Speaker 6: Did they get lunch, No, they didn't even get lunch.
That's against the rules.
Speaker 4: It is now, it wasn't then. So the only people
working there were the very poorest people in town, people
who were desperate for employment, and immigrants. So pretty much,
if you wanted to feed your family, you had to
take that job or there was nothing else around. When
it was cold, Employees would actually say that the front
of their body that was facing the furnaces would be
burning up sweating burns from stuff splashing and stuff like that,
and then their backsides would actually be free.
Speaker 6: Oh my goodness, that's sad.
Speaker 4: This was an extremely dangerous place to work. You had
molten or splashing all around causing the burns. You had
narrow walkways above these huge furnaces that people could fall
into the heat and the smoke actually caused really bad visibility,
and the sweat would actually run down people's eyes and
get in their eyes and make their eyes burned. So,
I mean, it just made it even tougher with everything
else going on. On top of all that, they would
have blasts of carbon monoxide that would actually leave workers
disoriented and cause them to fall into the furnaces from
the high walkways.
Speaker 6: Jesus, I think I'd grow a big ass garden or something.
Speaker 2: Would that accomplished.
Speaker 6: Well, at least you could eat some nice veggies.
Speaker 4: I'll live off veggies, not for like three months. It
takes time to grow, well, you could.
Speaker 2: I'm moving on.
Speaker 4: As dangerous as the conditions were in general, there was
one supervisor up there, who actually was the he wins
the Biggest Jerk award. Oh, my gosh, well that with
the Madame La loo Ree and a couple of these
other people. His name was James Wormwood.
Speaker 6: Well see that's why he's in jerk. We got a
stupid name.
Speaker 4: But he goes by Slag. That was his name. I
don't know where Slag came from. He was the foreman
on the graveyard shift, appropriately called. He had one hundred
and fifty people on his shift that was under his control.
Slag Wormwood would literally work his employees to death. So
we discussed earlier that most of these employees had no
other options if they wanted to feed their families, so
they were forced to sleep and makeshift barracks that would
actually they would be awaken in the middle of the
night by Slag and made to go back to work.
Speaker 2: My gosh, there were no labor laws.
Speaker 4: Back then, so I mean that he could do what
he wanted, and he would often force immigrant workers to
perform danger duties just to impress his bosses and colleagues.
Speaker 6: This sounds like an episode on Little House on the
Prairie when they were doing the mines.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sure it's exactly what it was.
Speaker 6: No, I'm serious, Like they was making them go in
and blow up the mines, and they were making them
work till they were really tired.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, this was real life. That was the little
house on a prairie.
Speaker 6: Okay, okay.
Speaker 4: So these dangerous duties would actually be extremely risky, but
it would speed up the production, so he didn't care.
It also increased the risk of death, and slag was
completely okay with that.
Speaker 2: He didn't care.
Speaker 4: Forty seven people died under slagwormwood. Wow, that's ten times
more than any other shift in the history of the furnaces.
Speaker 6: So this guy just walked around and told everybody what
to do.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 4: Injuries were also pretty common, so it wouldn't just people
that died. There were too many of the even count
there were so many. Now, there was an explosion in
eighteen eighty eight that was documented in six workers were
burned blind just in that explosion that was under him. Also,
Oh my gosh. So they were denied breaks, so they
were often hungry, and they were always tired because they
never got to really sleep. This guy was the epitome
of what you would think of as a tyrant.
Speaker 6: I don't know, babe, they could just work at what
they want to do well.
Speaker 4: In October nineteen oh six, they kind of got that wish.
Speaker 2: Slag wormin.
Speaker 4: Fell from the top of the largest furnace known as
Big Alice. He fell into a giant pool of melting
ore and his body dissolved in seconds.
Speaker 6: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4: So the strange thing was the slag had never been
to the top of that furnace before all those years
he worked there, he'd never been to the top of
the furnace.
Speaker 2: I don't know. There's a couple of theories.
Speaker 4: One of them thinks that we talked about earlier, with
the methane gas and all that stuff, carbon monoxide and
all that stuff. Some people say that they think that
maybe he was up there walking and the gas got
to him, made him light headed and he slipped and fell.
Speaker 2: Then there's other.
Speaker 4: Theories that believe that many of the workers just got
tired of his crap and they picked him up, drug
him up there, and threw him off the top of
the thing. What is wrong with you?
Speaker 6: I think it's awesome. That's what it gets. A dirt
bag with a stupid name.
Speaker 2: Your image is really taken a hit tonight.
Speaker 6: Oh so you all agree with me, now, come on now.
Speaker 4: But no workers were ever charged in his death, so
you would think if the workers actually did that, that
there would have been somebody around that would have.
Speaker 6: Said, speak up. Nobody, go speak up.
Speaker 4: So not long after Slack's death, odd things started happening
at the Slough furnaces, which is going to start most
of our hauntings. Which is odd because all those people
that died underneath him, there was never really any situations.
Speaker 6: Look, I don't like that people die. Okay, don't take
me the wrong way. I don't. But he was a
jerk off and he needed to see what it was like.
You can't treat people like that. You just cannot.
Speaker 4: I do believe in karma, and it is. I'm not
saying anything is wrong with it. I'm just saying it's
typically unlike your normal self.
Speaker 6: So okay, then let me do this. Oh I'm sorry,
he died fish zich.
Speaker 4: Nobody uses fish. I don't know where you got that.
It's psych Nobody in the history of the world has
ever said fish back to Andy Griffith always So anyways,
so all these things started happening after he died. Accidents
actually became so common on the graveyard Shift, and so
many dangerous things started happening that they actually did away
with the graveyard Shift completely after so the legend of
Slag actually continues. It seems that his ghosts likes to
torment people even after he's dead, so they're still not.
Speaker 2: Rid of it.
Speaker 4: People have actually felt shoves by invisible hands. They hear
a man scream get back to work, oh my goodness,
when nobody else is even around. But the best story
is actually of a guy named Samuel Blumenthal. Samuel Bloomenthal
was the night watchman and back in nineteen seventy one,
it was the night before Saws was closing the doors.
Speaker 6: Oh, this's happened in seventy one, nineteen seventy one.
Speaker 2: The story that I'm going to tell you happened in
nineteen seven.
Speaker 4: Oh I'm sorry, yeah, because if you remember I just
said recently, in nineteen oh six, that's when he fell
and died. Yes, so there is a small gap of
sixty some years. So anyways, this was the night before
they were closing the doors, and a night watchman, Samuel Bloomenthal,
was actually walking around. He's kind of being nostalgic, you know,
He's like, I can't believe this place is going to
be closing. This is my last trip around. And as
he's doing that and walking around, he goes to a
set of steps that he's on and something pushes him
up the steps, and he turns around and looks, and
he said he found himself face to face with the
most frightening thing he had ever seen. He described it
as evil. He said it was half man and half demon.
He said the enity tried to keep pushing him up
the steps, and Blueminhal actually refused to go up the stairs,
and the monster started beating him with his fists. That's
not funny, what's wrong with you tonight? So he's beaten
him with his fists. So this doctor by the name
of Jack Bardow, he examines Blumenthal and he found that
he was covered with these intense burns all over his
body wherever he was being hit. And Bloomenthal never went
back to Slows and eventually died, not from the wounds.
Speaker 6: St So, I just I don't know this story is.
I don't know. I don't know what's tickling me.
Speaker 4: It is.
Speaker 6: It's terrible, It really is terrible.
Speaker 2: It sounds like it. So.
Speaker 4: Birmingham Police actually received hundreds of calls every year from
concerned citizens that have witnessed some kind of weird, unexplained
activities there. Other than what we've discussed. People have actually
heard somebody's voices say things like pick up the pace
and push some steel. Most of the occurrences actually happened
during what would have been Slag Shift, the third the
Great Right Shift. Yet so locals believe that Slag actually
still kind of reigns over the workers that died under
the time that he was there, and they also believe
that he would get rid of anybody that steps in
his way because he's a prick.
Speaker 6: So he is. So what happens if he's still haunting
and there were no.
Speaker 4: Workers, Well, I don't know. Well, the worker the dead
workers are still dead and they could still be underneath
of him if they're still in there.
Speaker 6: Can you imagine through thinking like son.
Speaker 4: Of a bucket, seriously death that they're thinking that because
that's not even a phrase.
Speaker 6: A phrase, I mean seriously, after all that, and he's
still haunting them. Just not fair.
Speaker 4: Well, anyways, that's our story on Sloss Furnaces. It's one
of the most haunted places in Alabama, and you made
it like it was a merry go round.
Speaker 6: No, I didn't. I just I just hate people that
do act like that.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, Haley. I wanted this story to be special
for you, and Tracy ruined it.
Speaker 6: Haley, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to run it.
Speaker 4: Maybe later we can recorder kicking some puppies.
Speaker 6: Well, I'm just saying, he's so mean. I don't understand
why you treat people like that. That's horrible.
Speaker 4: I know that's hilarious. I mean, I get it. It
makes it I hear horrible atrocities all the time, and
I just laugh and laugh.
Speaker 6: I was just laughing because he got his he got
what he deserved.
Speaker 4: So you heard at the beginning of the show, you
heard the promo for Graveyard Tales, and that is a
it's an awesome show.
Speaker 2: I like it.
Speaker 4: These guys are from Tennessee, and we're gonna have him
on the show where we're trying to get him on
this week, and there was some scheduling difficulties, so we're
gonna get him on next week probably hope. So so
we'll see what happens. But they're funny and and uh,
they're they're kind of in the vein of us or
where they're they're they're Southerners and they've got that southern
charm to them, and they got a little bit of
dry humor. But they're funny and they talk about a
little bit of everything.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 4: Their last episode just came out was on the Japanese
suicide Force. Oh really, gosh, but they've done one.
Speaker 6: That that story still haunts my mind, you know what
I'm saying. To know that people go there and do that,
it's just reallyished.
Speaker 2: Especially like the guy on YouTube that filmed the guy.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, that's not that's totally not cool.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, not at all, because he was kind of
I thought that he was. The clips I saw, he
was very disrespectful.
Speaker 6: Yeah, very very disrespectful.
Speaker 4: So yeah, but that's just me. So we were, like
I said, we were talking to Chad Limberg. He had
mentioned the South Pittsburgh Hospital in Tennessee, and I couldn't
remember hearing anything about it at that point. But right
after the show, I remembered these guys did an episode
on it, So I went back and listened to it again.
And then when I was talking to Adam from the show.
We were talking about how cool little place it was,
so when we have them on, we're actually going to
talk about the hospital exciting. Now, we mentioned that we
were going to be helping contribute to the contest for
Hibbilly Horror Show. So what we're going to do is
we're going to play you a clip. Here's how this
contest is going to work. We are going to play
a clip and the clip is going to ask you
a question and you just have to answer the question.
But I'm going to tell you after the clip where
to find the answer.
Speaker 2: So how cool would that be?
Speaker 6: That'd be great.
Speaker 4: So let's listen real quick to the guess from Hibbily
Horseshow boo?
Speaker 3: I done told you to fix that door at least
one hundred times.
Speaker 6: Now I won't even.
Speaker 4: Open little Darth.
Speaker 6: What is the number one rule of the trailer? Come on,
you know this.
Speaker 7: If it ain't brown, you ain't got to put the
toilets he down.
Speaker 3: That is rule number two.
Speaker 2: Come on, you can win and use toaster up.
Speaker 4: So the question is what is the number one rule
in the trailer? I could have played you the answer there,
but we're not going to. I'm gonna make you dig
a little bit for the answer. Now, remember what's at
stake here, not a toaster. As Bo said, You actually
win a voicemail greeting from Bowl, which is pretty cool.
Let's keep in mind that this is a pretty big
show and to be able to get somebody to do
a personal voicemail greeting, it's pretty cool. Yeah, so there's
gonna be a lot of people trying to win this.
Here's how you can find the answer. You can be
lazy and wait till next week and I'll play the
end answer and then you can answer, because this is
going to go on all week, but we will play
the answer next week. What I would advise you to
do is go to Voodoo. If you have Voodoo, that's
like the Walmart service and stuff. It's like Hulu, but
you see it every time you walk into Walmart.
Speaker 2: Is big.
Speaker 4: But they also have Amazon Prime. If you've got Amazon
Amazon Video, look them up on there. And this is
on volume four. Now we've discussed before on this, but
it's been a while, so we'll go back on this.
This is actually a really cool show. What you get
is there are a lot of independent short films, horror films,
and what they do is they do these little comedy
bits part of what you heard. It's Cephas and Bo
and Lulu and they do the comedy bits and they
have some fun with it. But then they put in
a video to watch, and the video is one of
these short horror movie videos. They're not funny, they're actually
horror movie videos and they're really good. So you get
several of those a show. And there's four volumes out now,
and so you got a lot of these. So it's
if you like horror movies, this is really cool and
you get a little comedy in between. So it gives
you an idea. So go to their Amazon channel. Are
their Amazon Just look them up on Amazon, or go
to on Voodoo and look up He'll Billy Horror Show.
And volume four specifically is where the answer to this is.
And when you get the answer, send it to me
on Twitter, send it to me on Facebook, wherever you
listen to the show, whatever you platform you prefer, but
send me the answer to the question what is the
number one rule of so? And we want to thank
them guys for they're constantly trying to promote us on
Twitter and then on our website and all that. So well,
big thank you to all you get. All right, are
we ready to get into our second story from the
great state of Alabama?
Speaker 6: Yes, we're ready.
Speaker 4: The Drish House, the house Ninja is extremely loud tonight.
So if you hear yeah, so if you hear him
in the back he refused to take his night quill,
it's on him.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: But so anyway, the Drish House is actually a historic
plantation house in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Speaker 6: You don't know, well, you like stumbled over five words there,
so I was trying to catch up.
Speaker 2: Well, I have a cold too.
Speaker 4: He was actually constructed in eighteen thirty seven right in
the center of a four hundred and fifty acre plantation
by doctor John Drish. Now doctor Drish was actually originally
from Virginia. He moved to Tuscaloos in eighteen twenty two
and he was one of the first settlers actually in Tuscaloosa,
so there wasn't a whole lot going on at this time.
He was a widower and he actually stayed unmarried for
several years, and in eighteen thirty five he met a
young lady that was also a widow, and she had
a lot of money and her name was Sarah Owen
McKinnie good. So they hooked up, probably had some premarital sex,
I'm guessing, and then it got married.
Speaker 2: At the time of.
Speaker 4: This wedding, he was already established as like a very
successful doctor near so he had that going for him.
He was also working as a building contractor and he
employed several slave artisans. These slaves actually were really good
at what they did, and they were responsible for a
lot of the early plaster work in Tuscaloosa by many
of the early seveners, So a lot of nice rettle
decorative work done by these guys. And doctor Drush was
kind of a reputation for being a big drinker and
a big gambler.
Speaker 2: And I know that's nearing due to your heart.
Speaker 6: It is actually he actually yeah.
Speaker 4: He actually died in eighteen sixty seven from falling down
a stairway while he was supposedly drunk. Now, his wife, Sarah,
she became overly obsessed with, say, with planning his funeral.
Kind of really creepy in the way that she did.
She turned it into this huge event, which if you're
not a president or something like that, that's kind of
not really what you would do. She actually kept the
candles that burned at his funeral and wake. She kept them,
and she said that she wanted these to actually be
used at her funeral, and most people thought, Okay, that's
kind of weird. I don't know why nobody was really
doing that. But she was really fanatic about this. So
she actually died in eighteen thirty four and her family
searched everywhere but couldn't find the candles. Oh kidding, right,
So they did everything they could to fulfill their last wish.
Speaker 6: And she should have just kept him at the funeral home.
Speaker 4: Well, I don't know that his funeral was at a
funeral home. Oh this was the eighteen hundreds, eighteen thirties. Okay,
go ahead, so she One story actually says that Sarah
caused a fire to break out in the third floor
and it was started by the camp Oh what should
But there was never actually been any kind of proof
that there was ever a fire that ever actually occurred there.
Speaker 2: But we're going to talk about that more in a second.
Speaker 4: The house was actually switched hands a bunch of times
since then, since the Dritius died in nineteen MIHL six,
Tuscaloosive Board of Education actually bought it and they opened
a school called the Gemison School, but it shut down
in nineteen twenty six.
Speaker 6: How come I don't know.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I didn't get into that many details about
the schools shut down because it wasn't relevant to the story.
Speaker 2: So the.
Speaker 4: It was then purchased by Charles Turner Wrecking Company, who
used it as a parts warehouse, which is kind of odd,
this big, beautiful mansion and now it's just a parts warehouse.
And I saw a picture of it during the time
that it was a part well. Yeah, but during the
time it was a parts warehouse, it was junk and
stuff sitting on the outside of it to run it
for So in a nineteen forty south Side Baptist Church
bought it and they renovated it to their needs. And
what I mean by that is they actually added to
sanctuary and Sunday School to it. In nineteen ninety four,
there was actually talk of demolishing the building. They were
just gonna tear it down because the church was supposedly
going to become defunct and I guess the place just
wasn't in as good as shape as it used to be.
But what happened was the Heritage Commission of Tuscaloosa County
actually jumped in and they saved it. Oh good, so
that's where it's at today.
Speaker 6: Oh that's all right, that's really great.
Speaker 4: Why is it haunted? That's a good question. I might
have left out a few details when we were telling
this story. Oh for example, doctor Drish actually married Sarah
right and they had two sons, and that's when he
started building the house. Now he actually was the name
of the house then was Monroe Place. Which why did
everybody have felt like they had to name their house
back then?
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I mean, every time you hear one of the sounds, it's.
Speaker 2: Got a name.
Speaker 4: Yeah, palace, Yeah, that's.
Speaker 2: What it is, you know.
Speaker 4: But I mean it's just I don't understand why everybody's
got you know, you name boats and stuff.
Speaker 2: You don't name.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, that's this kind of weird.
Speaker 4: If you're Elvis, you can name your place Graceland, but
I'm not sure everybody else gets a name or the
Kennedy Compound or whatever they're deal. But anyway, his daughter
Kathleen from his previous marriage, actually came to live with him,
and after a while, their relationship, I guess you could say,
became really strained, and it was mainly because of a
disagreement about who she should marry. See, daddy had picked
out a husband for her, and she had somebody else
in mind, and she would rather marry the other person.
Speaker 6: So he did he get to do that?
Speaker 2: Well, I don't know, but he did.
Speaker 4: What any respectful father would do, and he locked her
in her room and barely gave her enough food and
water to survive.
Speaker 6: Are you kidding me?
Speaker 4: She finally agreed to marry the man that he wanted
her to marry. My gosh, And so eventually, oddly enough,
the marriage didn't work out.
Speaker 6: He's making me angry.
Speaker 4: So the marriage didn't work out, and the daughter moved
back in with him, and at this time she's got
two sons. Well I'm guess she didn't have any place
else to go. I mean, this is the eighteen you know,
the eighteen hundreds, so there's not a whole lot of options.
Speaker 6: So wonder what happened to the guy that she wanted
to marry.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Didn't get into that either, he.
Speaker 6: Didn't find out no details.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this isn't the most detailed story out there. So
she moved back in with her two sons, and the
rumors started circulating that she had became insane after the
split up with her husband. Now, at the same time
all this was going on, Drisha's niece was murdered by
her husband, who actually was mentally ill. Oh my gosh.
So it's not exactly a picture perfect family because you
would initially think that's so surprising that he.
Speaker 6: Was like that.
Speaker 4: Well, he was also known for his violent outbursts. And
as far as the aspect of how he died, we
talked about, you know, how he just you know, some
people say he was drunk fout on the steps. Well,
there's actually a few different stories and speculator on what happened.
One of them says that he threw himself off the
balcony just in a suicide attempt.
Speaker 2: I guess.
Speaker 4: The second theory is that basically he was in a
drunken rage and fell down the steps, which is what
most people kind of put is the story. But the
third one was kind of interesting. It was that he
was trying to get off of alcohol and basically was
having dts oh, which he was having the shakes, He
was having this and that, Yeah, and then he somehow
lost his balance through that and fell down the steps.
So nobody really knows what happened. They just know they
end up at the bottom of the steps with no heartbeat.
Speaker 6: Wow, that's so crazy. And those candles, he didn't get
to gamble no more.
Speaker 4: No, well, he made one less gamble that he could
make it down those steps, and as usual, when you gamble,
you lose. So the candles that we talked about. Now,
keep in mind, she took these candles, and she begged
and pleaded her sons from the time that he died
till the time she died, constantly reminding them that she
wanted to have these candles with her. Now, wouldn't you
think if it was that important, that you would let
people know where the damn candles are. Yes, But apparently
they couldn't find it. And you know, we talked about
the fire. Now, there was a fire per se, but
it wasn't a real fire. There were people outside that
said they could see flames engulfing the third floor of
the first tower. Okay, but when the fire department got there,
there was no fire and there was no sign of
any fire what. So people saw the flames but there
were no actual flames in the world.
Speaker 6: Does that even happen.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: So we've had groups of paranormal investigators actually stay at
the house, a bunch of different ones actually, And here's
some of the things they've heard. They've heard sounds of
a toy piano being played. They have actually been reports
of a male ghost and a female ghost being seen.
Now a lot of people seem to think that the
female ghost is probably her, but the male ghost is
said to be a runaway slave. This guy apparently had
hid in the tower but was starved out, you know,
he just to the point to where he came out
because there's just no food, right, And after he was recaptured,
the slave owner had him burned to death while.
Speaker 6: He was Oh gosh, why.
Speaker 4: It's because people were pricks back then.
Speaker 6: That's just so sad.
Speaker 4: The Jewish House was also used as a prison during
the Civil War, so there's no tellings what happened there
from that. And today the Jewish House is actually used
for weddings, graduations.
Speaker 2: And other events. No way, so, you know, because it's where.
Speaker 4: You want to be.
Speaker 6: I wonder if all those people know about that.
Speaker 4: I'm sure they do. I mean it's listed as I'd
be like having something at Waverley. Yeah, everybody knows.
Speaker 6: Well, I mean, I know that's different, but I just
feel so bad for those guys back there. It's just
it breaks your heart that they had to go through
all that stuff. I mean, I just don't I just
don't understand the evil and people. I just don't get it.
Speaker 4: I don't either. I mean, but you know what I
don't get And we get a lot of these stories
that are that go back to the slave days, and.
Speaker 2: I can't fathom.
Speaker 4: In my mind not looking at a human being and
not seeing them as a person, not seeing the pain
that you would.
Speaker 2: Inflict on them.
Speaker 6: No, it's terrible.
Speaker 4: You know, we go back to La La Ree and
on the torture that she used to do. We talked
about some of the stuff with the plantation, the Rose
Hall plantation, and then you know, you talk about situations
like this, I mean, just the thought that that you
can look at somebody because they are a different race
or creed or whatever. I mean, you go to Holocaust,
I mean all those situations. How do you how do
you just treat somebody like they're like they're.
Speaker 6: You know, right, like there's just nothing. I don't understand it.
I just don't. I just I can never imagine treating
anybody like that. I just don't know why people have
no souls. I guess I saw I Saw Roots is
coming back on, and you know what, even I don't
even know how long it's been since that movie's came out.
Speaker 4: I was a kid, I want to say seventy six.
And I don't know why I'm thinking that, but it
was in the seventies, and you know.
Speaker 6: I watched that as a kid, and that traumatized me
so bad. I mean, that movie was so amazing. It
was an amazing movie, but just to see what you know,
people went through back then, it's just it's horrible.
Speaker 4: I thought they just redid that like in the last
couple of years. So maybe they're replaying the one that
they just did, but I know they just recently redid it, yeah,
because it was some controversy on whether they should have
done it or not.
Speaker 6: Well, it's getting ready to come back on. I kind
of almost like to watch it, but I don't know
if I want to watch it either.
Speaker 4: So it's disturbing to see. Like I said, it's just
the thought process that, yeah, that people can have that
mentality that you know, that's not a human. How you
can look at somebody that looks just like you, Yeah,
but maybe a different color or a different thought process
or a different religion, and just.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it makes me sad for this world that in animals.
I can't stand it animals. I know, I can't stand
it when people are mean to animals. I mean, how
in the heck are you going to do that to animals?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 6: Oh my gosh. I love all you guys.
Speaker 4: So it's a fantastic transition into our store. So if
you want to go in and buy some Hibili horse story,
No animals or people were harmed in the making of
our goods.
Speaker 6: No, not even a little bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, none at all.
Speaker 6: So well, I don't know. It just makes you really
just think about things and put it in perspective.
Speaker 2: I mean, no, you're one hundred percent right.
Speaker 4: I mean, you got people out there that buy stuff
from the store, and you got people who don't buy
stuff in the store. Yeah, so I would say, don't
be one of those people who don't buy stuff from
the store.
Speaker 6: Yeah. Everybody love one another, and just that's what we
all need to do.
Speaker 4: We all need that. In a shower curtain that's all
you need. And a mug well and a new Hipblo
Horseway phone case.
Speaker 6: I so want one of those.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna get it. I have to get one from
my phone out it's cracked on the back. And I
didn't realize that, auple face, you can make one from
my phone. Well they don't because you have a weird phone.
I know.
Speaker 6: Well, maybe I should get me a different phone.
Speaker 2: Maybe you shouldn't because I'm tired of that contract.
Speaker 6: Oh I am too, actually.
Speaker 4: But anyway, guys, we love you so much. We've got
a lot of stuff coming up in the next couple
of weeks.
Speaker 6: We are so busy this week that I don't even
know what to do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, my real job.
Speaker 4: He's really started to take a toll on the podcast
because I literally, like I said, I work seventy to
seventy five hours every week, a lot of drive time,
and it makes it tough. And it's six days a week.
And now I'm actually a regional manager for a company
that has four stores, and now two of the four
stores have no managers, and the assistants and everybody else
haven't been trained up to par so I'm physically practically
running both of those stores.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's really hard.
Speaker 2: In two different cities.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 4: So and some days it's an hour and a half apart.
Some days I'm actually in both of those stores in
the same day. Yeah, so it's it's killing me. But
that leaves a lot less time and a week like
to like this week where we've actually got two shows
coming out.
Speaker 2: It makes it tough, but we love you guys, and.
Speaker 6: We'll do it. It is. We look forward.
Speaker 4: It is what it is, but we'll put just as
much into it. So occasionally, like this week, the show
will be a little bit shorter, but it's only shorter
because we didn't have as a guest. While we're on
that subject, the twenty first, which is not this Wednesday,
but next Wednesday, we have an interview set up with
Grant Wilson that.
Speaker 6: Is so exciting. That is so exciting.
Speaker 4: We have Chip Coffee coming soon.
Speaker 6: It's Chip coming.
Speaker 4: We don't have Chip set up yet, but we're going
to get chipped nice. So a lot of fun stuff.
We got some live shows once again, and I'm gonna
really need your help on these because tickets are selling fast.
But we also need opinions because the show that we're
doing in Cincinnati, which is April fourteenth. It's at a
Roosters in the outer Cincinnati. It's suburb of Cincinnati, so
it's not right in the city. But we're going to
be up there with Justin Rimmel and.
Speaker 2: The guys from Brohio.
Speaker 4: So we got mysterious circumstances in Justin and then we've
got Nick and Rob from Brohio. They're going to be
there and it's already half of the tickets are already
sold yeah, and we're still two months away.
Speaker 6: I seriously cannot wait to meet those guys. They are crazy.
Speaker 4: We got the same shirt we both I know, Nick
and myself are both wearing our Stepbrother shirt.
Speaker 6: I know. I love those shows. They are like, it's
so funny. I'll saw Nick wearing his online. I'm like cool,
I said, Jerry got one and another. They're so dang cute.
I love them. And then let's see what else, Oh,
go ahead with the show stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so that one, Like I said that, we're half
sold out already.
Speaker 4: There's only like thirty tickets left, So if you want
to get tickets, you might want to snatch it up.
If you're anywhere in the Cincinnati area.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Now the other one that I want to talk about
because this is where I need your help with. Two
weeks later, on April twenty eighth, we're having the Big Show,
Live show with History Goes Bump and Pleasing Terror, So
Diana Denise to be here, Mike Brown would be here,
so excited about that. It's going to be awesome. And
we're right after that doing a tour of Waverley. Now,
the Waverley tour for that Saturday night is already sold out,
has been sold out, so there's no tickets available for that.
We do have about twenty twenty twenty five tickets left
for the live show. So if you're coming to Waverley
and you want to go to the live show a
little earlier that day and see all three shows and
the meet and greet all that, you need to get
your tickets for that because that's going to sell out.
And I don't want to see somebody come here and
want to do both and not be able to get
in because there's seating really is limited there.
Speaker 6: I am so excited to see all you guys you
don't even know.
Speaker 4: But here's the key. If we have enough support. Even
though Diane, Denise and Mike can't make it on the
Friday night before, there are still tickets available for Waverley,
And unlike Saturday night, where all of our people actually,
you know, all the people that's coming to the live
show from the three shows actually bought the tickets, there
will be a mixed group of people on that Friday night.
But if you guys want to come Friday night and
take a tour, Tracy and I can be there. But
we're only going to do that if we get enough
response to it. We've had a couple of people say maybe,
but to be honest with you, we're already going on
Saturday night and it's gonna cost us another fifty dollars
basically to go on Friday night. And we don't mind
spending the money and going hand out with you guys,
but we want to make sure if we're going to
do it back to back nights, that we've got a
good crowd there. Yeah, and we'd also prefer that if
you're going to come down for the Friday night thing
for the tour, that you know, hopefully you buy tickets
and come Saturday and see the meet and greeting all too.
Speaker 2: Because here's what people don't understand.
Speaker 4: At the Waverley Tour, there's not gonna be a whole
lot of time for talking and all that stuff. It's basically,
it's their tour, it's not ours. So we're just gonna
show up and be going through it like you guys.
So there's not gonna be a lot of talking and
stuff except for what the tour GUIDs are doing and
all that. So if you want a chance to be
able to meet the shows and talk to people and
buy merch and stuff like that, that'll all be at
the show that we do on Saturday at four o'clock.
Speaker 6: We got a busy month, yep, Oh my gosh. And
I think, what is it?
Speaker 3: Easter?
Speaker 6: And April fools Day is the same Dagon Day and
that isn't that crazy?
Speaker 4: That just means that the kids aren't gonna getting Eystra baskets.
And I'll just say April Fools see, I know, I'll.
Speaker 6: Think a lot of people are gonna have fun with that.
And I know this is nothing paranormal, but we had
a gender reveal party last night for my son, so
we're having a boy. So we were so excited. That
was so much fun doing that. So I'm gonna have
another little Josh running around and cann't be more excited
about that. So I just thought to tell y'all in
cashall wondered.
Speaker 2: Awesome.
Speaker 4: Okay, guys, thank you so much. We will see you
next week.
Speaker 6: Oh my gosh. We love you guys so much. We
hope you have a blessed week.
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