Speaker 1: Kalaroka Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with five
good news stories creepy one to start us off today.
Two urban explorers say the creepiest place they ever visited
was not an abandoned asylum, not a church, but a
remote Scottish bungalow packed floor to ceiling with teddy bears
and dolls. Mitch and Jake have spent years photographing abandoned
buildings around the world. They say this place in Scotland
left them more unsettled than anywhere else. Mitch said it
was the creepiest place I've ever been to. I couldn't
wait to get out. I even sacrificed some pictures because
I didn't want to be in there. The guy said
they had heard rumors about the bungalow belonging to a
woman who began hoarding teddy bears after her husband died.
When the woman herself passed away, the house and its
contents were left untouched. It took the explorer's four days
searching on Google Maps to figure out where this place was.
Then they drove six and a half hours to get there.
They had to go through an hour of dense woodland
to reach the property. Mitch said, it was literally a
fifty minute trek to the house. It was that remote.
We were going through all the pine forests and we
were hearing all sorts of noises, and branches were snapping everywhere.
It was the most bizarre place I'd ever been. They
entered through the missing panel on the back door and
they found rooms covered with soft toys, almost stacked to
the ceilings. All that was covered in dust and cobwebs.
Mitch said there was some real collectibles in there, some
rare dolls. There were like two hundred or three and
are cabbage batch dolls. Some of them are a grand each.
It was dusty as well. You could taste how damp
the place was. I don't know how she lived in
there was a little unnerving because they kept thinking at
any moment, someone's going to pop out. You can only
just walk into the bedroom. The rest of it was
just teddies. It's like six feet deep. It was probably
one of the most uncomfortable places I've ever been here because,
if I'm honest, I wasn't quite sure if there was
anyone in the teddies. It felt like anyone was going
to jump up at any opportunity. I felt like I
was being watched. Couldn't wait to get out of there.
I really couldn't. Alan owns the Trumpet Inn. He says
customers have switched to paying cash after he introduced a
five percent discount to offset credit card charges. Yeah, he said,
it was costing him five pounds for every fifty pounds spent.
A pint for six pounds is now five seventy when
paid for in cash. Same discount goes to food. He explained.
We started this couple weeks ago. We decided paying the
bank charges the credit charges. It was enough to pay
another member of the staff. The banks aren't doing anything
for the money. It's just pressing some buttons. We'll still
take the card, but we have discounts for cash. Before this,
we had ninety five percent of our transactions on the card.
Now it's fifty percent cash. I'm increasingly running this. I'll
be somewhere and someone will ask me a five money.
I never have money on me anymore. I switched to
a slim walllet after years of a Castanza wallet. When
I do hit the pub, one of the guys puts
the card down and we just venmo each other. There's
no money anymore anyway, five to seventy pints such a bet.
In Nebraska, a cow on the loose made its way
to a high school tennis court. That's just not a
sentence to say a lot, even if he host this show.
That's right, the cow on the loose made its way
to a high school tennis court. I just like the sentence.
Never got to say before, probably won't get to say
it again. Wanted to get it in twice, maybe a
third time. A cow on the loose in Nebraska made
its way to high school tennis court the school when
it's a lockdown. Imagine you're a parent. You get a
text and you're like, hey, the high school's in lockdown,
and you freak out, and then you find out it's
because a cow is on the loose and on the
high school tennis court. Well, the police explain this keeps
students and staff in the building and keeps the cow out.
Officers were able to herd the cow into the fairgrounds.
The owner was able to gain control of the cow
with the help of the rodeo team members and the
fairground staff. The cow then went back to the barn.
An artist is using cremation ashes in his paintings to
create unique landscapes that grieving families can personalize as a
way to remember loved ones. I kind of like this.
Gary started painting two years ago when he was inspired
by the loss of his cousin to experiment with blending
a small amount of ashes into his artwork. He explained,
I held an art therapy session with a patient. We
made so many paintings together. I was guiding her through
the process, and I realized I much I enjoyed it.
A month later, I picked up the brush and started
painting for myself. The piece was abstract sunflowers, and the
feedback I got was overwhelming. A year later, was painting
a sea scape and he was like, I could add
some ashes. He explains. They do a consultation with the
loved one, learning everything about the person, what they enjoyed. Visually,
the family can see where the ashes have gone, rather
than scattering them, he says. Some people scatter ashes and
then there's nothing left well the painting. When it's done,
the family can feel the painting texture with the ashes,
so they could still feel the person of the painting,
especially if it's a place they used to love. I
like that A lot. Speaking of paintings, paintings by the
late Bob Ross, you know, the Happy Little Trees guy.
Those paintings have raised more than one point two million
dollars for public television. There was an auction in January.
It generated one point twenty seven million dollars from the
sale of three original paintings by Ross. The top sellar,
Change of Seasons was painted in a nineteen ninety episode
of The Joy of Painting that sold for nearly seven
hundred and eighty eight thousand dollars, thirteen times over the
estimate nineteen ninety three is babbling Brook two hundred and
eighty grand, and Valley View in nineteen ninety sold for
more than two hundred grand. Bob Ross hosted The Joy
of Painting from nineteen eighty three to nineteen ninety four,
and if you were a young man who stayed home
from school because you were sick, I definitely saw that
show many times. Bob Ross passed away in at nineteen
ninety five at age fifty two. Wow from Lymphoma. What
a great show. His legacy lives on and it's still
like on the reruns and you can find it on YouTube.
There's a lot of stuff too. I think everybody enjoyed
his work. It's good that we're still talking about him.
And those are your five good news stories for today.