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Speaker 2: Welcome back to Oach? Was that a ghost? That was loud?
Speaker 2: Welcome back to Oach? Was that a ghost? We're going
Speaker 2: to be doing a fun one today. Well, I don't
Speaker 2: know if you'd call it fun. It's a short one. Today.
Speaker 2: We're going to be hugged today. We're going to be hugging.
Speaker 2: I think I just threw out the name. I'll just
Speaker 2: say it now, Hug and Molly. Some call Molly an entity,
Speaker 2: a cryptid spirit. But whatever Mollie is, her lore has
Speaker 2: frightened children in Abbeville. I don't know if it's Abbeville, Abby, Abbeville, Abville.
Speaker 2: I've heard it different ways and on different YouTube videos.
Speaker 2: I've heard Abbeville or Abville. So I feel like Abbeville
Speaker 2: sounds like it's better. Well, children in Alabama have been
Speaker 2: frightened for years. Tales of Hug and Mollie have become
Speaker 2: a significant part of Abbeville, Abbeville, Adville. But the great
Speaker 2: thing about it is it's spelt hu ggi n like
Speaker 2: huggin like. It has that little droll on it. So
Speaker 2: sightings of hug and Molly began in the early nineteen
Speaker 2: hundreds and per the norm, descriptions vary, but commonly she's
Speaker 2: described as over a seven foot tall humanoid that is
Speaker 2: as wide as a bale of cotton. What a strange
Speaker 2: unit of measurement. They're not very nice in her description.
Speaker 2: She's often described as haglike, having long, unkempt black hair
Speaker 2: which obscures most of her large, hideous face. Her body
Speaker 2: is described as having bumpy, greenish yellowish skin. For Mollie,
Speaker 2: her fingers are described as abnormally long, which I hate
Speaker 2: long thin fingers. It does something to me with fingernails
Speaker 2: that look more like claws. Maybe she's going for those
Speaker 2: really long nails. I don't know how women function with those.
Speaker 2: I can go a few inches long, but that's about it.
Speaker 2: I see these women that can make these like five
Speaker 2: inch long nails, you know, extending over, and I would
Speaker 2: poke my eye out. I don't know what I'd do.
Speaker 2: I'd probably wake up with scratches all over my face.
Speaker 2: I can't function with them. But kudos to those who
Speaker 2: can like Mollie. So Mollie, you have her description so far.
Speaker 2: She's said to wear an old, worn, tattered dress or cloak,
Speaker 2: and she's often described as having a wide brimmed hat
Speaker 2: or parasol with her hug and Mollie is usually only
Speaker 2: seen at night or in the early morning, avoiding sunlight,
Speaker 2: and she's usually only seen on town streets and in
Speaker 2: dark corners, but there are rare times where she has
Speaker 2: gone to people's homes. If her appearance did not make
Speaker 2: you notice Mollie, her odor will do the trick she
Speaker 2: said to emit the smell of rotten flesh. Parents and
Speaker 2: Abbeville worn our abvill warn their children not to stay
Speaker 2: out after dark as this enormous hug and Molly will
Speaker 2: sneak up on a person, particularly children like she doesn't
Speaker 2: really mess with adults, as more kids teenagers. She'll sneak
Speaker 2: up on the child or teenager and hug them, which
Speaker 2: I mean, apart from the lack of consent, that sounds
Speaker 2: nice until Mollie she'll lean into the huggy's ear and
Speaker 2: let out this ear splitting scream, sort of like a banshee.
Speaker 2: It just it will leave your ears ringing. She just
Speaker 2: hugs you and then she'll just scream in your ear.
Speaker 2: She doesn't ask consent, she just goes up and hugs.
Speaker 2: Consent should be acquired before the hug. But here we are.
Speaker 2: But there are sometimes when Mollie will appear crying and
Speaker 2: she will ask for a hug, and if she's denied
Speaker 2: the hug that she yearns, she'll burst into tears and
Speaker 2: she'll beg and plead for a hug. And if she's
Speaker 2: still denied, she'll get angry and she lets out this
Speaker 2: bone chilling scream and she'll chase the person to get
Speaker 2: a non consensual hug. And if she catches the person
Speaker 2: and gets that hug against their will, enormous Molly hugs
Speaker 2: them tight enough to cut off their air. And then
Speaker 2: she whispers the person's time of death and then disappears,
Speaker 2: which I'm not sure if that means they die right
Speaker 2: then and there, or she's gonna be like, you're gonna
Speaker 2: die next Thursday at five pm, Like I don't know
Speaker 2: what exactly that means. And if the person complies and
Speaker 2: gives hug and Molly that hu Mollie takes this as
Speaker 2: a go and she'll begin stalking the hugger, following them home,
Speaker 2: She'll break in. She'll take a permanent part in that
Speaker 2: person's life, whether a wife or a mother, And if
Speaker 2: the person doesn't play along, Molly may try to murder
Speaker 2: or devour the person's soul. So that took a quick turn.
Speaker 2: This is right from Hugginmolly dot com forward slash legend.
Speaker 2: I put the link below. So Jimmy Rain, an Abville
Speaker 2: native and lifelong resident, grew up hearing the legend of
Speaker 2: hugg and Molly. For him and his friends, she was
Speaker 2: as real as the trees that rustled in the wind
Speaker 2: at night. He said, quote, anyone who grew up in
Speaker 2: Abbeville grew up knows the legend of hugg and Molly.
Speaker 2: If your mother or dad didn't want you out after dark,
Speaker 2: they'd tell you hugg and Molly would get you, and
Speaker 2: you believed it too. So one night Jimmy and his
Speaker 2: good friend Tommy Murphy heard the story from Tommy's dad.
Speaker 2: He told them he knew hugg and Molly was real
Speaker 2: because she had sprung from the shadows and hugged him
Speaker 2: one night, and they were convinced it had to be true.
Speaker 2: To this day, hearts beat faster as the moon rises
Speaker 2: in the sky over Abbeville, and Hug and Molly, dressed
Speaker 2: all in black, could show up at any time. It's
Speaker 2: been said that if Mollie is given a nice enough
Speaker 2: gift like food or her favorite whiskey, she'll leave the
Speaker 2: gifter with a bottle of her own tears. And these
Speaker 2: tears are said to be able to cure any illness.
Speaker 2: And there is a cheat code for Hug and Molly.
Speaker 2: You're ready for it? If someone can go in on
Speaker 2: that green and yellow bumpy face and give her a
Speaker 2: kiss instead of a hug, she gets super embarrassed and
Speaker 2: shy and she'll just vanish. That's it. That's cheat code.
Speaker 2: Are you willing to go in for that smooch? Give
Speaker 2: her a peck? So Some theories are that Mollie is
Speaker 2: a grief stricken mother who lost her child, and she
Speaker 2: was searching for her baby until she died of heartbreak,
Speaker 2: and even after her death, she sorrowfully wanders looking for
Speaker 2: her child, hugging other children as a way to find comfort.
Speaker 2: Another theory being that Molly is a woman in black ghost,
Speaker 2: the seven foot tall looming figure is some sort of
Speaker 2: supernatural protector that's there to protect children through fear. Others
Speaker 2: theorize hugg and Molly is a hag or a cryptid
Speaker 2: due to her unnaturally long black hair, her claws, and
Speaker 2: her greenish yellow skin tone and that odor that she emits.
Speaker 2: I forgot to write one in here, but there was
Speaker 2: one about a professor at a college that he is
Speaker 2: thought to possibly be Molly because he was I guess,
Speaker 2: a professor that would dress up like hug and Molly
Speaker 2: to scare the kids not to stay out late, and
Speaker 2: that somehow that might be who hug and Molly is now.
Speaker 2: Or maybe hugg and Molly is just a community myth
Speaker 2: that started and evolved over time, just storytelling like Can't
Speaker 2: Fry a stories that just kept getting added too. But
Speaker 2: the main purpose of hugg and Molly does seem to
Speaker 2: be a cautionary tale to make sure kids get home
Speaker 2: at night, and the town seems to embrace the legend.
Speaker 2: This Hug and Molly restaurant where they serve molly fingers
Speaker 2: like not chicken fingers, Molly fingers, and hugg and Molly
Speaker 2: is in the game South of Midnight. I've never heard
Speaker 2: of this before. In the game, she's just this crazy
Speaker 2: boss lady that kidnaps children and does experiments on them.
Speaker 2: In twenty twenty four, there was a horror movie that
Speaker 2: was released titled Hugg and Molly, where Molly appears more
Speaker 2: witch like. I haven't seen that, but I definitely want
Speaker 2: to check that out now. And the best part about
Speaker 2: Mollie is that the sign to Abbeville, like the welcome sign,
Speaker 2: it says underneath it home of hugg and Molly, and
Speaker 2: under that there's a figure of a woman chasing a
Speaker 2: child who is like running for his life, flailing his arms.
Speaker 2: So the town seems to really embrace Molly. I mean,
Speaker 2: they have restaurants after her, and she's just like a
Speaker 2: local legend. I guess. So what would you do if
Speaker 2: you encountered miss Molly? You give her the consensual hug
Speaker 2: and then she'll just be your wife. I wonder what
Speaker 2: happens if you get her home and she becomes your
Speaker 2: wife and then you kiss her. Does she disappear then
Speaker 2: or now you guys are in a relationship. She's not
Speaker 2: as embarrassed. Like I said, this is a super short one,
Speaker 2: but I just thought it was fun. Someone requested it
Speaker 2: and I John did. Thank you. So much John for
Speaker 2: the request. I'm a jerk. I should have said that
Speaker 2: at the beginning, but I did not think that this
Speaker 2: was what Hug and Molly was. But I am really
Speaker 2: happy I went down this little, this little Molly rabbit hole. Well,
Speaker 2: thank you everybody so much for listening. Till next time.
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