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199: Spooky Theater Stories · Movie Meltdown

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Speaker 1: Happy Halloween and welcome to Movie Meltdown I'm Brian, and
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Speaker 1: this episode, we're bringing you something a little different. I
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Speaker 1: love in the middle of any episode when we just
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Speaker 1: happen upon an amazing moment or story that we didn't
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Speaker 1: really even plan on.
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Speaker 7: It just happens.
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Speaker 1: To me, it's when our conversational style is most impressive. Well,
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Speaker 1: this episode, we have just that. So when we were
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Speaker 1: recording our last episode on William Girdler, we sat down
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Speaker 1: at our favorite local movie theater here, And as I
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Speaker 1: mentioned it last time, I described it as a spooky
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Speaker 1: movie theater. As it turns out, I was more right
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Speaker 1: than even I realized. As Dave and Bo went on
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Speaker 1: to tell us not just one, but many spooky stories
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Speaker 1: centered around the very movie theater we're recording in. Involving
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Speaker 1: both questionable supernatural beings, as well as some pretty creepy individuals.
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Speaker 1: All of which seem like a fun way to round
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Speaker 1: out this year's trilogy of Halloween-themed episodes. So we'll take
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Speaker 1: a quick break here, and when we come back, we'll
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Speaker 1: be in the theater, and we'll head right back into
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Speaker 1: the stories. Again, the cast on hand for this session
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Speaker 1: is myself, Dave, Beau, Fred, Marlena, and Ben. So settle
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Speaker 1: in and join us for Movie Meltdown's Spooky Theater Stories.
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Speaker 5: Spooky Theater Stories.
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Speaker 10: Now gather round while I elucidate on what happens outside
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Speaker 10: when it gets late. Long about midnight the ghosts and
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Speaker 10: banshees get together.
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Speaker 11: For their nightly jamborees. There's ghosts with horns and saucer eyes,
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Speaker 11: and some with.
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Speaker 12: Fangs about this size.
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Speaker 10: Some short and fat, some tall and thin, and some
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Speaker 10: don't even bother to wear their skin. Oh, I'm telling you, brother,
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Speaker 10: it's a frightful sight to see what goes on in
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Speaker 10: the night.
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Speaker 12: When the spooks have a midnight jamboree, they break it
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Speaker 12: up with fiendish glee. Ghosts are bad, but the one
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Speaker 12: that's cursed is the headless horseman. He's the worst when
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Speaker 12: he goes a-jogging across the land. Holding a noggin in
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Speaker 12: his hand.
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Speaker 11: Demons take one look and groan.
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Speaker 12: And hit the road for parts unknown. And there's no
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Speaker 12: wreath like a soup to spurn.
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Speaker 11: There's a deserted theater down by the pier. And if
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Speaker 11: you value your life, you won't go there. For up
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Speaker 11: in the balcony and down every row, a killer with
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Speaker 11: a knife roams ready to strike in the Flesh and
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Speaker 11: Blood Show. They were young and beautiful actors and actresses,
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Speaker 11: but little did they know they would meet a deadly
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Speaker 11: fate in the Flesh and Blood show. Ah, those young
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Speaker 11: people of Shakespeare and love, they thought they knew all
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Speaker 11: there was to know, but behind the scenes a killer
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Speaker 11: awaited them in the Flesh and Blood show. So you
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Speaker 11: brave and bold moviegoers, listen to me when I tell
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Speaker 11: you what you ought to know, that the most chilling
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Speaker 11: experience of your life will occur when you see The
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Speaker 11: Flesh and Blood Show. The Flesh and Blood Show, brought
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Speaker 11: to you by EVI, in color, rated R.
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Speaker 13: We're a show that is ostensibly about horror. Booby bouncing
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Speaker 13: from the running.
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Speaker 6: That monkey was Benson. He had sex with Kim Cattrall.
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Speaker 3: Open your mouth so I can fill the void.
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Speaker 6: Rats are gross.
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Speaker 3: Far eastern yeti have smaller feet than.
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Speaker 6: So like what are we supposed to learn from that?
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Speaker 6: You're like, shit, this is the one with the really
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Speaker 6: fat guy.
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Speaker 14: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Damn it.
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Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 6: They gave each other a Dutch rudder.
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Speaker 13: It was fine.
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Speaker 12: Apparently you've never been to makeitandy.com.
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Speaker 6: Those are flaps, not doors. Woody.
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Speaker 13: Anyway.
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Speaker 6: Who's Woody? It's a wiker with a booty.
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Speaker 15: It looks like Mike's jerking it over there.
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Speaker 4: I'm going to class it up now.
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Speaker 15: After that smut.
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Speaker 6: Shows are most popular by the way they smell. You're
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Speaker 6: a real black hole right now.
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Speaker 11: He sure is.
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Speaker 4: It's spooky. It's eerie.
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Speaker 2: It's The Ghost and Mr. Chicken, starring three-time Emmy Award
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Speaker 2: winner Don Knotts as the world's bravest coward.
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Speaker 4: I have been called brave. Now let me clarify this.
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Speaker 9: As you see, I'm a lion with girls, a tiger
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Speaker 9: with men, and.
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Speaker 2: I'm just naturally at home in a haunted house. So
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Speaker 2: what's brave?
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Speaker 10: How should I know?
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Speaker 3: What chicken?
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Speaker 2: Mr.
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Speaker 4: Chicken to you.
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Speaker 2: In this motion picture, he starts as a roving reporter.
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Speaker 2: Now he's a raving reporter trying to solve a murder
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Speaker 2: mystery in a house of terror. And he'll scare you silly.
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Speaker 2: Don Knotts in The Ghost and Mr.
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Speaker 4: Chicken in Technicolor.
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Speaker 16: You know.
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Speaker 6: You haven't seen enough movies.
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Speaker 4: All of life's riddles are answered.
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Speaker 2: In the movies.
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Speaker 12: And now, on with the show.
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Speaker 5: Music music Well, you did say, this being the Halloween episode,
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Speaker 5: this also has a little bit of history.
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Speaker 4: Did we want to go into the building and some stories? Yeah,
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Speaker 4: we think the theater's haunted. We pretty much thought it
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Speaker 4: was haunted since we opened.
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Speaker 6: Since it is on the grounds of what used to
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Speaker 6: be an orphanage.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was the German Presbyterian orphanage.
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Speaker 6: That did actually burn down, did it not?
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Speaker 4: I think they tore it down.
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Speaker 6: It was torn down?
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Speaker 16: Okay.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, this property was sold sometime around 1959 or 60.
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Speaker 8: And uh they moved down the street actually brooklawn now
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Speaker 8: they're still a business and um it sat on this
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Speaker 8: property there was a the orphanage up closer to the
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Speaker 8: bartstown road section there was a park back here playground
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Speaker 8: it was very nice by all reports i looked up
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Speaker 8: the history it was a very good place we even
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Speaker 8: used to have a customer who came in here.
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Speaker 3: I remember the best years of his life an older
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Speaker 3: man had.
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Speaker 8: Lived here at the Archimedean and said it was a
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Speaker 8: great place so no negativity involved with it but there
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Speaker 8: seems to be some odd association with disturbances here that
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Speaker 8: two people well I think two people two girls have
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Speaker 8: seen a figure of a little boy I think it's
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Speaker 8: three did Bob see a figure had he seen a boy.
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Speaker 3: I don't think any male, that's the funny, to me,
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Speaker 3: I want to say the pattern is no male has
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Speaker 3: ever seen the little boy.
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Speaker 4: I heard that up at the old Winn-Dixie, which is
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Speaker 4: now the Value Mart. Well, that's true, yeah.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, one of the stockers.
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Speaker 8: Said he saw an identical figure in the back, like,
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Speaker 8: freezer area when they were actually doing some construction, kind
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Speaker 8: of disturbing the property.
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Speaker 4: My niece saw a figure in theater number.
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Speaker 8: Six at the end, back of the theater here, cleaning
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Speaker 8: up after a movie, she saw a little boy out
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Speaker 8: of the corner of her eye.
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Speaker 4: He was about six or so, had a sort of
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Speaker 4: a bowl haircut, blonde hair, and was wearing what she
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Speaker 4: thought were denim overalls.
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Speaker 8: She saw him in the row, and the credits were rolling,
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Speaker 8: and she was cleaning up. And she, out of the
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Speaker 8: corner of her eye, saw him, and then she looked directly,
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Speaker 8: and he wasn't there. And she actually was living with
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Speaker 8: us at the time as well, and she came up
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Speaker 8: and told me about this.
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Speaker 4: She wasn't really freaked out. She was like, it's just
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Speaker 4: kind of odd. She thought she saw someone, but there
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Speaker 4: wasn't anyone there. Then it was maybe two or three
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Speaker 4: years later.
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Speaker 17: Another girl who worked here was coming up the aisle
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Speaker 17: as I was coming into work and was asking the
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Speaker 17: ticket seller if he had sold a ticket to a
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Speaker 17: family or to a child to whatever was playing in
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Speaker 17: number six, which wasn't.
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Speaker 4: Really a kid's movie at all. And he checked the
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Speaker 4: and there was no ticket to families or kids.
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Speaker 8: She had gone in there, and the credits were rolling,
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Speaker 8: and she'd seen a little boy down in the front
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Speaker 8: of the theater near the screen running around kind of
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Speaker 8: playing while living in his own world. And she called
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Speaker 8: out to him from the aisle, and he did not respond.
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Speaker 8: And she called out again saying, where are your parents?
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Speaker 8: And he didn't respond. He was not paying attention to her.
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Speaker 8: So she walked out and started trying to find this
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Speaker 8: kid's parents and looked in other theaters, and she walked
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Speaker 8: back in.
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Speaker 4: He wasn't there.
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Speaker 9: That's a really terrible thing to ask a ghost orphan.
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Speaker 4: She's really insensitive.
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Speaker 8: So she told me about this, and I'm just starting
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Speaker 8: to smile, and she tells this tale, and I'm like, well,
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Speaker 8: I think you've seen the ghost. And I called my
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Speaker 8: niece up on the cell and said, here, tell Lucy
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Speaker 8: what you just saw.
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Speaker 4: It was the same description. I watched Lucy kind of
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Speaker 4: turn white and start to cry a little bit. There
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Speaker 4: was a third.
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Speaker 6: I want to say it was Maddie, I think, or
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Speaker 6: someone else to where it was after we were closed.
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Speaker 3: And it was a night that I was working with Bob.
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Speaker 3: And it's just back in the days when we would
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Speaker 3: have like two closing ushers or she might have a
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Speaker 3: concession or something. But basically, Bob and I were talking
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Speaker 3: and she was trying to get us. She called us
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Speaker 3: to help find this kid that she thought was lost
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Speaker 3: in the theater.
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Speaker 6: And it was down by, like, theater number six.
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Speaker 3: And Bob and I, of course, started tormenting her and
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Speaker 3: telling her the Lucy story and the Sarah story and
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Speaker 3: freaking her out.
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Speaker 6: But I think that was Maddie.
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Speaker 4: It could have been, yeah.
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Speaker 8: I think someone else maybe saw what they thought was
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Speaker 8: the figure of a kid in the window over here
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Speaker 8: that overlooks the auditorium.
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Speaker 4: They saw an outline. And I've never seen anything.
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Speaker 8: Here, but I have heard a lot of strange things.
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Speaker 4: Doors slamming. We're in the room with the door slamming
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Speaker 4: right now. I can do a dramatization. What did it
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Speaker 4: sound like?
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Speaker 8: Like two in the morning, like I'm having a conversation
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Speaker 8: with one of the ushers and a friend of mine,
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Speaker 8: and there's nobody in the building. Everybody's long gone. You know,
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Speaker 8: projectionists and everybody. We're in the office next door, and
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Speaker 8: we heard this very powerful door slam, which means the
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Speaker 8: door had to be open to begin with, and this
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Speaker 8: door's never open.
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Speaker 4: But then we just suddenly heard.
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Speaker 3: And.
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Speaker 8: I mean, it shook the pictures on the wall for like,
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Speaker 8: Someone in the room next door.
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Speaker 4: We got up and came in here. Nobody.
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Speaker 8: So I sent them back next door, and I said,
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Speaker 8: I'm going to slam this door. You tell me if
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Speaker 8: it's the same sound. It was the exact same noise.
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Speaker 4: And it was hard. It was a hard slam.
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Speaker 8: It was not like something that, you know, air conditioning
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Speaker 8: or the heat coming on could affect the room air.
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Speaker 4: This was a hard, intentional slam.
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Speaker 8: And I heard it again, oh, maybe a year and
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Speaker 8: a half later, up here doing paperwork one night.
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Speaker 4: And then they heard it downstairs. They could hear it.
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Speaker 4: The concession is directly under here. They could hear it
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Speaker 4: down there. It's loud and salient. I came out of
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Speaker 4: the office one early evening.
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Speaker 8: It was still daylight out, and the only light comes
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Speaker 8: in from that front window out there. I had the
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Speaker 8: cash drawers in my hands, and I walked around the corner,
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Speaker 8: and I felt like I was going to run into somebody.
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Speaker 8: It was like a proximity feeling. And it seemed like
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Speaker 8: someone short. Now, the lights are off, so it's like dark,
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Speaker 8: but it I could say it was like a shadow
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Speaker 8: or a silhouette in front of me.
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Speaker 4: It was somebody short. And I was like, whoa. And
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Speaker 4: then I stopped, and there was nobody there.
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Speaker 8: And I looked, and there was just reflections on the wall,
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Speaker 8: which I couldn't really pinpoint the source. They could have
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Speaker 8: been bouncing off the platter system out here or what.
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Speaker 4: But it was weird.
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Speaker 8: I literally felt like there was somebody in front of
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Speaker 8: me for a minute. And I thought it was that
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Speaker 8: we had a kid working here at the time. It
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Speaker 8: was a boy who was pretty short.
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Speaker 6: I remember that day when.
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Speaker 3: that happened you'd drawn like a picture of like just
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Speaker 3: the weird amorphous blob that you almost stumbled.
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Speaker 4: Into the spinning thing you.
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Speaker 3: Know and you were like have you seen this I
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Speaker 3: was like no you're making posters have you seen this blob.
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Speaker 8: But uh that was that was the only visual kind
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Speaker 8: of thing that happened I can't say what it was
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Speaker 8: the irony is that that kid is now deceased who
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Speaker 8: I thought I was about to run into he died
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Speaker 8: a few years later so it was a time slip
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Speaker 8: but uh Quite possibly.
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Speaker 4: A lot of odd things over the years, noises.
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Speaker 8: You know, Bo's had some very good experiences.
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Speaker 3: When I was student teaching, I was student teaching up
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Speaker 3: at Atherton, and so I would get off here at
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Speaker 3: like 1 in the morning, and that was when I
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Speaker 3: was still living at home, so instead of going home,
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Speaker 3: I would just sleep here.
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Speaker 6: And I would do that probably about three to four
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Speaker 6: nights a week.
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Speaker 3: It was pretty common for me just to sleep here
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Speaker 3: in a theater and take a whore's bath in the
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Speaker 3: break room sink in the morning. But anyway, no, for
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Speaker 3: actually where we're in right now is where I slept
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Speaker 3: a lot. I used to, in that room right there,
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Speaker 3: I used to keep an inflatable mattress and I would
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Speaker 3: just blow it up and sleep in here. Until we
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Speaker 3: got the couch that, we ended up having the couch
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Speaker 3: up here for a while. Yeah. But, no, there was
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Speaker 3: more than once where I would come in here and
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Speaker 3: it would be late at night and there was no
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Speaker 3: consistency to it. I never noticed it was a certain
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Speaker 3: day of the week or a certain time or anything
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Speaker 3: like that. But on more than one occasion, after I'd
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Speaker 3: shut the door and was getting ready to go to bed,
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Speaker 3: hearing a girl's voice singing. And the couple times I
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Speaker 3: heard it, I mean, for me it seemed weird to
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Speaker 3: have the door open and go to sleep.
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Speaker 6: The theater is kind of spooky when you're here alone.
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Speaker 3: And it sounded like it started way at the back
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Speaker 3: of the projection booth and was just making its way forward,
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Speaker 3: and I would listen to it.
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Speaker 6: Couldn't make out any kind of.
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Speaker 3: Particular lyrics or even set melody per se, but it
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Speaker 3: was like a young girl singing, and it would just
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Speaker 3: go right up to the other side of the door
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Speaker 3: and then just stop. And it's like more than once,
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Speaker 3: I was like, okay, well, just open it up. There's
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Speaker 3: nothing there, and I'll be fine. But it's like I
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Speaker 3: could never get the balls up to open the door.
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Speaker 3: Because they're just so weird, and it's not something to where,
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Speaker 3: like right now we're hearing background audio because I've got
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Speaker 3: one of the monitors on for the projector. It's like,
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Speaker 3: you know, projectors are off, music's off, TVs are off.
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Speaker 6: It's not any of that. It was just odd.
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Speaker 3: And the banging is common too because, I mean, there
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Speaker 3: have been several times with that, I can't think, but,
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Speaker 3: you know, you've got a distinctive one, the most distinctive
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Speaker 3: one to me.
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Speaker 6: I was in the office over.
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Speaker 3: There about the same time at night, about 2 in
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Speaker 3: the morning after closing at midnight, And there's just this
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Speaker 3: large bang on this wall that runs all.
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Speaker 4: The way up into the other office.
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Speaker 3: On the other side of this wall, there's, basically it's
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Speaker 3: about yay wide, and then the projectors for theaters one
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Speaker 3: and two are right over here.
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Speaker 6: And it almost sounded like, you know, somebody ran a
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Speaker 6: car into the other side of it.
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Speaker 3: I mean, it was a huge impact, and it knocked
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Speaker 3: a couple of the clipboards off the shelf when we
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Speaker 3: used to keep them there. And I jumped around, I
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Speaker 3: was like, it sounded like something, maybe I thought one
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Speaker 3: of the speaker towers or something had fallen over. So
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Speaker 3: I got up and went around to the other side
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Speaker 3: of the wall and I didn't see anything. It was
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Speaker 3: just the weirdest slam I'd ever heard. And it was
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Speaker 3: more than one occasion, too, to where back when I
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Speaker 3: was still sleeping here, and those were the nights where
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Speaker 3: if something creepy would happen, a lot of times I
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Speaker 3: would actually just leave and go home. But then I
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Speaker 3: would still come back the next night. So, like, I
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Speaker 3: would flip out the lights in the booth and I
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Speaker 3: would have to walk down about halfway into the booth
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Speaker 3: in complete dark because the light switch is really far
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Speaker 3: away from me.
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Speaker 6: Where the couch was.
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Speaker 3: And more than once, I flipped out the lights, and
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Speaker 3: I would swear it sounded like footsteps, not just like
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Speaker 3: slow footsteps, but almost sort of like a hustled walk,
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Speaker 3: just approaching from up here by projectors one or two
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Speaker 3: towards me, and I would go and turn on the light,
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Speaker 3: and they would stop, which really, really freaked me out.
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Speaker 16: But.
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Speaker 3: The last time I ever spent the night here was
20:12
Speaker 3: during that time. And so that would have been 2004.
20:16
Speaker 3: I haven't spent the night here since because I was
20:19
Speaker 3: just out on the couch.
20:22
Speaker 6: And on the verge of going to sleep. And I
20:26
Speaker 6: heard what could only.
20:26
Speaker 8: The.
20:29
Speaker 3: Best way to describe it is if you're ever in
20:30
Speaker 3: a completely quiet room like this and somebody's going to
20:33
Speaker 3: sneak up on you, you hear like the distortion of
20:36
Speaker 3: just the air in the room.
20:38
Speaker 6: Something kind of moved, almost like you could hear somebody
20:40
Speaker 6: trying not to make any sound as they walk up. Well,
20:43
Speaker 6: I was just laying out there, and I started hearing that.
20:47
Speaker 3: And at first I thought, that's just my imagination, but
20:50
Speaker 3: then I couldn't tune it out once I'd noticed it.
20:54
Speaker 3: And it almost sounded like somebody who'd just taken off
20:57
Speaker 3: their shoes and were just walking quietly in socks on
21:00
Speaker 3: that floor, just trying to be as quiet as they could,
21:02
Speaker 3: approaching me. And since I'm laying on the couch, basically
21:06
Speaker 3: approaching towards, like, where my head is. And at first
21:11
Speaker 3: I even thought maybe it was, like, a night terror
21:13
Speaker 3: or something, because I'd read the book The Terror That
21:14
Speaker 3: Comes in the Night, is that the name of it? So,
21:16
Speaker 3: I mean, I'd read about night terrors and all that,
21:18
Speaker 3: and I was, like, methodically checking. I was like, no,
21:20
Speaker 3: I can still move my hands and feet. There's no, like,
21:22
Speaker 3: paralysis associated or something. Not that, but I just laid down,
21:26
Speaker 3: so I couldn't have, like, gone to sleep and woken up,
21:28
Speaker 3: but it's possible.
21:30
Speaker 4: But.
21:31
Speaker 3: You know, I continued to like listen to this and
21:33
Speaker 3: this point as it gets closer, I just became gripped
21:35
Speaker 3: with like this completely irrational fear. You know, there was
21:39
Speaker 3: no way to describe, you know, what it's like to
21:44
Speaker 3: somebody who hasn't experienced it. But once you experience it,
21:46
Speaker 3: I mean, it is, it's just this completely irrational fear
21:48
Speaker 3: comes out of nowhere, very animalistic. And I remember just
21:52
Speaker 3: like that suddenly kicking in just like complete terror.
21:54
Speaker 6: And I didn't know why I'm like, I've just psyched
21:56
Speaker 6: myself out.
21:57
Speaker 4: Just relax.
21:57
Speaker 6: It's nothing.
21:59
Speaker 3: But at the same time, I'd gotten so worked up,
22:02
Speaker 3: and similar to not wanting to open the door, it's like,
22:04
Speaker 3: I know if I just open up my eyes, there'll
22:06
Speaker 3: be nothing there, and I'll be fine. But there was
22:07
Speaker 3: that fear, like, what if there is something there? At
22:10
Speaker 3: which point, I had heard the word, and essentially, it
22:14
Speaker 3: felt like I'm sitting here with my head on the couch,
22:16
Speaker 3: as if somebody's standing right here. Like, there's the distortion
22:20
Speaker 3: of the air and that blowing up there. It's like
22:21
Speaker 3: there's something blocking right here. And I continued to listen,
22:25
Speaker 3: and then it just continued. also sort of progressed where
22:28
Speaker 3: I felt like somebody just kind of leaned over and
22:30
Speaker 3: was just staring at me. And I could even feel
22:32
Speaker 3: like some sort of like weird warmth coming off of that.
22:37
Speaker 3: And I just remember just like being completely gripped with terror,
22:40
Speaker 3: feeling the sensation for the longest time.
22:42
Speaker 6: And then the next thing I knew it was morning.
22:45
Speaker 3: But I mean, I haven't spent the night here since then.
22:48
Speaker 3: I mean, it doesn't even sound like that spooky of
22:50
Speaker 3: a story. It almost sounds like a dream or something. But,
22:53
Speaker 3: you know, the way I looked at it is, I'm
22:55
Speaker 3: sort of skeptical towards all that stuff, but in theory,
22:58
Speaker 3: if there is something within the building, I feel like
23:02
Speaker 3: that would have been its way of telling me that
23:03
Speaker 3: I'm not welcome to stay here at night, if so.
23:06
Speaker 3: So that's why I haven't done so since. But pretty
23:10
Speaker 3: much everything, with the bangs on the wall, maybe that's
23:13
Speaker 3: the building settling, with the voices, that could be imagination,
23:16
Speaker 3: same with that out there.
23:17
Speaker 6: The only thing that I couldn't.
23:20
Speaker 3: Dismiss as imagination or anything else like that was I
23:23
Speaker 3: saw a chair, kind of like these, just completely rolling
23:25
Speaker 3: by itself. And that was one night where I was here.
23:28
Speaker 3: It was after we'd closed. It was probably about one
23:31
Speaker 3: in the morning.
23:31
Speaker 6: So all the projectors were off, and actually the lights
23:35
Speaker 6: were on to the booth. And as I was sitting there,
23:38
Speaker 6: I heard this sound. I was like, sounds like a
23:40
Speaker 6: chair rolling.
23:42
Speaker 3: And I scooted over to look out the office door,
23:44
Speaker 3: and then I just see the projectionist chair go rolling
23:48
Speaker 3: right past the office in that direction. And If you
23:53
Speaker 3: go out there, I mean, over there, it's a dead end.
23:56
Speaker 3: So there's nowhere for anybody to go if they push
23:59
Speaker 3: it past. And I assume somebody was actually trying to
24:01
Speaker 3: pull a prank on me. But if you push the chair,
24:04
Speaker 3: there's no way for you to run ahead of the
24:07
Speaker 3: chair without making noise to where I would hear.
24:09
Speaker 6: Your footsteps over the chair rolling. And it was, like,
24:11
Speaker 6: dead quiet anyway.
24:13
Speaker 3: And not only that, but, you know, once you've pushed
24:16
Speaker 3: it in that direction, the only way out is to
24:19
Speaker 3: go that direction. So for it to come that direction
24:23
Speaker 3: and then me look down there and not see anyone,
24:25
Speaker 3: it just, for lack of a better word, it just
24:27
Speaker 3: moved by itself about 50 feet-ish. So that's like out
24:34
Speaker 3: of all the stories, the only one that I can
24:35
Speaker 3: just dismiss.
24:37
Speaker 6: Like to that, there's no logical explanation to it.
24:41
Speaker 8: There's several people who have heard their name called here.
24:47
Speaker 4: Sometimes it'll sound like a child's voice or a girl's voice.
24:50
Speaker 4: Usually it's like a.
24:52
Speaker 8: Maybe 13, 14-year-old girl. And it'll be your name, but
24:57
Speaker 8: it'll be really close to your ear. And for me,
25:00
Speaker 8: it happened a couple times, and it was always downstairs
25:03
Speaker 8: on a busy night, like a Saturday or something. You
25:05
Speaker 8: can always say, well, somebody's just talking to somebody else
25:07
Speaker 8: who happens to have your name. I have a common name, Dave.
25:11
Speaker 8: But it would be weird. I'd be moving through the crowd,
25:13
Speaker 8: and then there would be this voice like right here going, Dave.
25:16
Speaker 8: I think Bo and several other people have heard that
25:22
Speaker 8: because we're the people who.
25:23
Speaker 4: Are always here the most, like late at night. We're
25:27
Speaker 4: doing the most talking and just hanging out here.
25:30
Speaker 3: We've always wondered if maybe this stuff happens during the day,
25:33
Speaker 3: but it's just there's so much noise with the movies
25:35
Speaker 3: going on and people going in and out and all
25:37
Speaker 3: that stuff to where we just don't notice, and it's
25:39
Speaker 3: only when the building's quiet that you actually can pick
25:41
Speaker 3: up on it.
25:42
Speaker 4: This place is quiet. Do you know the story about
25:45
Speaker 4: the mural downstairs?
25:48
Speaker 9: The painting of the silhouettes of the crowd?
25:51
Speaker 4: Mm-hmm. Mario Muller? Mario Muller, yeah.
25:55
Speaker 9: It's interesting that it used to be an orphanage because
25:58
Speaker 9: the story I've heard is that he didn't know who
26:00
Speaker 9: his parents were, and he's been obsessively painting these, like,
26:05
Speaker 9: silhouettes of crowds, people walking.
26:08
Speaker 4: Around the airport.
26:11
Speaker 8: Yeah, he's at the old walls at the Vogue, back
26:14
Speaker 8: when Marty first opened the Vogue.
26:15
Speaker 4: Mario did those pieces.
26:16
Speaker 9: Yeah, and down at the Kentucky Center, I think they've
26:20
Speaker 9: got one in that drive-thru.
26:21
Speaker 4: I used to joke before a lot of this.
26:25
Speaker 8: Came up, you know, when we started reading odd experiences,
26:28
Speaker 8: I would joke about the Mid-City Mall before we even knew.
26:32
Speaker 4: Much about it.
26:32
Speaker 8: I heard it was an orphanage and I used to say,
26:34
Speaker 8: I think this place is like a beacon. It's like
26:37
Speaker 8: people respond to it. It's why so many homeless guys
26:40
Speaker 8: were always up here. They're always drifting in, you know,
26:43
Speaker 8: and then people would just come here. And it was
26:47
Speaker 8: sort of a crazy magnet that remained so.
26:50
Speaker 9: And there used to be a couple of things along
26:53
Speaker 9: the street here that were like, I don't know where
26:56
Speaker 9: you could sell blood or or where you could get
26:59
Speaker 9: one of those IDs that homeless people have to have
27:02
Speaker 9: to get a bed and a shelter.
27:05
Speaker 4: Because I know.
27:08
Speaker 9: At the gallery, like an art gallery, when I worked there,
27:11
Speaker 9: it's just like a magnet for insane people. And some
27:16
Speaker 9: of them are, like, really nice, and I keep up
27:19
Speaker 9: with still. Like, Mark Anthony Mulligan is, like, a legendary
27:23
Speaker 9: homeless guy. I sold one of his paintings to.
27:28
Speaker 9: Ah, I'm forgetting his name now, uh, the guy who
27:31
Speaker 9: did Hot L Baltimore playwright, Lanford Wilson, when he was
27:35
Speaker 9: in town. Uh, and he does, he does these great
27:39
Speaker 9: invented Louisville, they're partly invented, but partly he actually just
27:44
Speaker 9: remembers Louisville in the 70s, and he knows where everything
27:48
Speaker 9: was because he rides the bus. Um, and I saw
27:52
Speaker 9: him like down the street the other day in the corner. Um, But, yeah,
27:58
Speaker 9: we used to get people who would come in and just,
28:03
Speaker 9: they were on that parade of craziness that was part
28:08
Speaker 9: of the community.
28:09
Speaker 3: I'm trying to think of some of the other regulars
28:12
Speaker 3: around here. Michael Dean Jagalow used to see for a while.
28:15
Speaker 6: Oh, yeah, I remember him.
28:16
Speaker 4: I haven't seen him in years.
28:17
Speaker 6: Sounds like a rock star's name, don't it? Yeah, it does.
28:20
Speaker 6: He was always up at.
28:21
Speaker 4: The pie kitchen. I haven't seen him in decades. Yeah,
28:25
Speaker 4: Barstow Road is kind of that way.
28:27
Speaker 8: This place in particular, I had been working here in
28:31
Speaker 8: one capacity or another in this general block since I
28:34
Speaker 8: was a teenager.
28:35
Speaker 4: I worked in the costume place.
28:38
Speaker 8: Act One was in the big building out here, out front,
28:41
Speaker 8: and then I worked at the video vault for years.
28:45
Speaker 4: Yeah, which is the opposite end of the... Yeah, so
28:48
Speaker 4: I've been, this place is an odd, you know, home
28:50
Speaker 4: away from home. I think that extends into other realms,
28:53
Speaker 4: you know, for people. Other dimensions.
28:56
Speaker 6: It's like there's a hell mouth underneath the building. Some
28:59
Speaker 6: very Lovecraftian hell mouth. You just find it, you're like, oh,
29:02
Speaker 6: that's why, there's the hell hole, okay.
29:05
Speaker 8: And because we run movies, you know, it's a bunch
29:08
Speaker 8: of alternate realities spinning.
29:09
Speaker 4: All the time, you know, I think that. That attracts people.
29:12
Speaker 7: And movies always attract crazy people. Movie theaters, the video stores.
29:17
Speaker 15: Like, it's always, like, it's such a weird grouping of
29:20
Speaker 15: people that are attracted to movies.
29:22
Speaker 16: Well, I think that's, I mean, it probably seems that
29:24
Speaker 16: way if you work in one of those places. You're like, God,
29:27
Speaker 16: a lot of crazy people come here. But I think
29:28
Speaker 16: that's anywhere you work.
29:30
Speaker 15: Some of it, but there's a very specific, like, that's
29:32
Speaker 15: the thing. You'll just get, like, because I've heard your
29:34
Speaker 15: stories from, like, work. And they're just, like, crazy people. But, like,
29:38
Speaker 15: the people that come into the movie places are... like,
29:40
Speaker 15: crazy in a, like, laser-accurate way. Like, yeah, they're, like,
29:44
Speaker 15: they have very specific things that they're into and weird, like,
29:51
Speaker 15: I don't know. It's just, like, weird little niche areas
29:53
Speaker 15: that they, like, fall into.
29:54
Speaker 13: Like, crazy people with a specific hobby.
29:56
Speaker 3: Well, no, basically, what if you took your crazy people
29:59
Speaker 3: and then, like, assembled a new crazy person out of
30:03
Speaker 3: those crazy people, like a Frankenstein crazy person.
30:06
Speaker 16: Let's just gather your crazy people and my crazy people
30:08
Speaker 16: and put them against each other.
30:10
Speaker 4: I mean, the ones that are homeless, nobody will miss.
30:12
Speaker 6: Have your crazy people call my crazy people.
30:15
Speaker 13: We could have a dodgeball match to the death.
30:17
Speaker 6: I think the crazy people that just come to the
30:20
Speaker 6: movie theater are aliens.
30:21
Speaker 4: They're not even people. Could be. Case could be made.
30:28
Speaker 9: I had what I think may be the quintessential Bardstown
30:31
Speaker 9: Road experience the other day when I tried to find
30:35
Speaker 9: a date movie for my son and his girlfriend make
30:39
Speaker 9: sure we had this movie and I thought we did
30:41
Speaker 9: but I couldn't find it and so I went and
30:43
Speaker 9: tried to rent it and it was out and I
30:45
Speaker 9: thought oh wait there's that used CD DVD store across
30:50
Speaker 9: the street I'll go over there and I go there
30:53
Speaker 9: And as I'm coming up to it, I see these
30:54
Speaker 9: signs that say going out of business, everything.
30:57
Speaker 6: And I'm like, wow, I might get a deal on it.
31:01
Speaker 9: And I get up to it, and it's like, oh, yeah,
31:03
Speaker 9: that place went out of business already.
31:05
Speaker 4: This is a new place going out of business. And that,
31:09
Speaker 4: to me, that's like, that's Bardstown Road. Yep.
31:12
Speaker 6: Especially these days.
31:14
Speaker 12: Yeah.
31:14
Speaker 9: And then I went home, and I'm like, no, I
31:17
Speaker 9: have that movie, and I found it. It was in
31:20
Speaker 9: a mausoleum my son had made as a school project
31:23
Speaker 9: for Maud Flanders. It was like a Spanish-language Day of
31:28
Speaker 9: the Dead. He's like, oh, yeah, Maud Flanders died. I'll
31:31
Speaker 9: make a little mausoleum.
31:32
Speaker 4: And put in all kinds of things. And that's where
31:35
Speaker 4: the movie was.
31:36
Speaker 10: Of course.
31:37
Speaker 7: Where everyone keeps their movies.
31:38
Speaker 12: Yeah.
31:41
Speaker 3: I would say there are spookier stories from the village
31:43
Speaker 3: than here, just from my time over there.
31:46
Speaker 6: Just the whole Crawlin' Joe stuff.
31:47
Speaker 4: Well, that's where the legend of Crawlin' Joe started. Yeah,
31:50
Speaker 4: I was at the village.
31:51
Speaker 6: I think it was me and Robert that came up
31:53
Speaker 6: with the nickname Crawlin.
31:54
Speaker 4: Joe to refer to it as. And then Crawlin' Joe
31:57
Speaker 4: eventually materialized over here.
32:00
Speaker 6: Well, and that's still... How would he have got from there?
32:06
Speaker 3: Well, there's a fellow that we refer to as the
32:08
Speaker 3: pantless poker, and we think that the pantless poker would
32:10
Speaker 3: crawl in Joe's.
32:11
Speaker 6: Some of the stories interlap, probably.
32:14
Speaker 8: Among other things.
32:15
Speaker 3: Yeah, because there was a fellow who would just lay
32:17
Speaker 3: down on the floor and take his pants off and
32:22
Speaker 3: touch women's legs like he would reach underneath the seat
32:24
Speaker 3: and grab their legs and or.
32:25
Speaker 6: Try to steal money out of their purse.
32:28
Speaker 4: I think it's and or.
32:31
Speaker 8: I watched that guy And he would reappear. He was
32:35
Speaker 8: a skinny little black guy. And his gimmick, and I
32:40
Speaker 8: think he was crawling Joe, at least some of the time.
32:46
Speaker 8: He'd take his jacket off and hang it over the
32:48
Speaker 8: back of his seat. And if you kept an eye
32:50
Speaker 8: on him, his head would slowly sink.
32:52
Speaker 4: Out of sight. Because he was so thin, he would
32:56
Speaker 4: slide down on the floor in the dark. And then
32:59
Speaker 4: he'd start sculpting around. on a, you know, a greasy
33:03
Speaker 4: theater floor.
33:05
Speaker 8: And generally, it was supposedly to steal, you know, from purses,
33:09
Speaker 8: but I think he had a fetish.
33:11
Speaker 4: Going on with grabbing legs and things. Because we had
33:14
Speaker 4: that one group come in and said, we just walked
33:16
Speaker 4: on a guy.
33:18
Speaker 8: And they said, we just walked on this guy.
33:23
Speaker 4: And they came running out to tell us.
33:25
Speaker 8: And then I watched, and I watched this head rise
33:28
Speaker 8: above this jacket slowly. And somebody went down to check
33:32
Speaker 8: with him, and he claimed he had gotten out of
33:34
Speaker 8: his seat and was looking for his wallet. And that
33:36
Speaker 8: was always his excuse, was you would look around, and
33:39
Speaker 8: if you were near him, you'd see a.
33:40
Speaker 4: Wallet on the ground. It was his. And that was
33:42
Speaker 4: his alibi. I was looking for a wallet.
33:48
Speaker 8: But, you know, you had more experience with the actual.
33:52
Speaker 4: Crime show stuff.
33:53
Speaker 3: Yeah, because, I mean, that was sort of like the
33:55
Speaker 3: common thing, is, you know, people would say that there was.
34:00
Speaker 3: A black man that was sitting in the front of
34:02
Speaker 3: the theater, and then suddenly he would just reappear at
34:05
Speaker 3: the back, and the woman usually would claim that they
34:09
Speaker 3: had not seen him get up. And it was usually women, too,
34:12
Speaker 3: with kids. It was also common with kids that they
34:16
Speaker 3: had not seen him. And this all started the first
34:18
Speaker 3: time I went over there, and somebody told me the
34:19
Speaker 3: story of where this woman said, well, he was up
34:23
Speaker 3: at the front of the theater, and the next thing
34:24
Speaker 3: I knew he was behind me, and I never saw
34:26
Speaker 3: him get up, so he had to have crawled. But
34:28
Speaker 3: I was sitting on the edge of the aisle, so
34:30
Speaker 3: we had to crawl underneath the seats. And I was like,
34:33
Speaker 3: you can't do that because they're like four inches off
34:35
Speaker 3: the ground.
34:37
Speaker 6: But there was that one X file.
34:38
Speaker 3: Oh, man.
34:40
Speaker 13: The man that married that 16-year-old girl? What is that
34:46
Speaker 13: man's name?
34:46
Speaker 4: Cherry Lee Lewis?
34:48
Speaker 12: No.
34:49
Speaker 6: Woody Allen?
34:50
Speaker 4: Woody Allen.
34:51
Speaker 13: Not those two.
34:52
Speaker 16: He was on Lost, and he was the creepy man
34:55
Speaker 16: who could, like, with the yellow eyes and X-Files, that could, like,
34:57
Speaker 16: slide through the small space.
34:58
Speaker 4: There were two episodes.
34:59
Speaker 5: Yeah.
35:00
Speaker 4: Because he came back.
35:01
Speaker 16: In real life, he married Courtney Stoddard or something, that
35:04
Speaker 16: really annoying 16-year-old girl who looks like a 40-year-old lady
35:08
Speaker 16: with a bunch of plastic surgery.
35:10
Speaker 13: This was, like, a year ago.
35:11
Speaker 3: Hmm.
35:11
Speaker 6: Which one of those?
35:12
Speaker 4: Who was he on? Really annoying.
35:14
Speaker 13: I'll have to show you.
35:16
Speaker 6: I haven't seen the X-Files episode in so long.
35:18
Speaker 16: I'll have to show you her music video, Don't Put
35:20
Speaker 16: It On Me, Girl. It's the worst thing you could
35:23
Speaker 16: even imagine.
35:23
Speaker 6: Don't Put It On Me, Girl.
35:24
Speaker 13: Don't Put It On Me, Girl. It's the worst thing.
35:27
Speaker 4: This sounds more terrifying than the show.
35:28
Speaker 16: But I'm very interested in this Carling Joe story.
35:34
Speaker 6: I went in and she had me go into the
35:37
Speaker 6: theater and look for this person.
35:39
Speaker 3: For whatever reason and he suddenly he was gone and
35:42
Speaker 3: i didn't think anything of it until like a few
35:44
Speaker 3: months later is the exact same thing and just over
35:48
Speaker 3: the course of the years there i mean it became
35:49
Speaker 3: like this common thing and other managers i'd talk to
35:51
Speaker 3: them they'd heard it too and some were just like
35:54
Speaker 3: that to work it almost be just explained just kind
35:56
Speaker 3: of sliding down and around they just didn't notice and
35:58
Speaker 3: then there were some odd ones because um there was
36:01
Speaker 3: this one where um this girl was like um She
36:07
Speaker 3: came out of the theater screaming hysterically, and this was, like,
36:09
Speaker 3: on a Saturday night. And, I mean, it was me
36:13
Speaker 3: and the police officer dealing with her. And her boyfriend
36:17
Speaker 3: came out, too, freaked out, because apparently she was watching
36:20
Speaker 3: a movie with her boyfriend sitting right next to her,
36:23
Speaker 3: and all of a sudden, like, she's just kind of
36:25
Speaker 3: looking up at the screen, and she just notices that
36:27
Speaker 3: this guy is sitting in front of her, like he
36:29
Speaker 3: hadn't been there the whole time, and just suddenly you
36:30
Speaker 3: become aware that this person is, like, in the seat
36:32
Speaker 3: in front of you, which is weird. And apparently she
36:35
Speaker 3: was staring at him, and just without him getting up
36:39
Speaker 3: or anything, he just, like, the whole torso turned around
36:43
Speaker 3: and was just looking straight at her. And she couldn't,
36:47
Speaker 3: somehow she couldn't describe what the face was.
36:50
Speaker 6: She was very freaked out.
36:52
Speaker 3: And then apparently it just, like, after it looked at
36:55
Speaker 3: her for a while, it just leaned over and it
36:56
Speaker 3: slid in between the back and the seat cushion of
37:00
Speaker 3: the seat next to her.
37:00
Speaker 6: And that's when she just went screaming out of the.
37:04
Speaker 6: Theater and the um boyfriend went out.
37:07
Speaker 3: After her because he hadn't seen anything wow and you
37:11
Speaker 3: know the police officer thought that she was on drugs
37:13
Speaker 3: or something but i mean you know it's he talked
37:15
Speaker 3: with her and i was just like.
37:17
Speaker 9: It's hard to get those drugs that you can't find
37:21
Speaker 9: those in town anymore.
37:23
Speaker 16: This is really interesting my friend kim uh like this
37:26
Speaker 16: was probably close to 10 years ago she told me
37:28
Speaker 16: this story um she and her sister had gone to
37:32
Speaker 16: a movie like here one night because she owns Kaleidoscope
37:35
Speaker 16: down the street, and they were sitting on top of
37:38
Speaker 16: her car, and it was, like, late. It was probably, like,
37:42
Speaker 16: midnight or 1, and everything was kind of closed. And
37:46
Speaker 16: a man tried to crawl under.
37:47
Speaker 13: The car and grab her sister's feet.
37:51
Speaker 16: And, you know, so they screamed and started running, and
37:54
Speaker 16: they don't know what happened to the guy, but, like,
37:55
Speaker 16: that's kind of interesting. You know, because, I mean, like,
37:57
Speaker 16: if you think about the creepiness of someone crawling under
38:00
Speaker 16: a car to get you, that's just really weird. Mm-hmm.
38:04
Speaker 16: I wonder if.
38:04
Speaker 3: It's... But yeah, there was the one I told you
38:08
Speaker 3: about when the first night that Robert came to work
38:10
Speaker 3: for me as an assistant manager, didn't I? Because I
38:13
Speaker 3: was telling him all these backstories. As I'm telling him
38:16
Speaker 3: these backstories, all of a sudden the adding calculator just
38:19
Speaker 3: sitting on the table just punched a couple, it was
38:22
Speaker 3: like somebody hit enter or something, just punched out a
38:24
Speaker 3: couple zeros on the tape. And Robert thought I was
38:28
Speaker 3: pranking him.
38:29
Speaker 4: He's like.
38:31
Speaker 6: He's like, oh, that's clever.
38:32
Speaker 4: I like that.
38:32
Speaker 6: I said, I didn't do that.
38:36
Speaker 4: He's like, no.
38:36
Speaker 6: I said, I'm backing away from it.
38:40
Speaker 4: He's like, all right. Mr.
38:44
Speaker 3: Ghost, let's see you do that again. At which point
38:46
Speaker 3: the thing started punching him out like crazy. And then
38:50
Speaker 3: we were both actually kind of like, whoa, this is
38:53
Speaker 3: a little weird. And then he found it funny. He
38:55
Speaker 3: still just tore it off and looked at it. And, um,
38:59
Speaker 3: He's like, you sure you aren't, like, doing this?
39:01
Speaker 6: I'm like, no, I swear I'm not. It's spelled out,
39:03
Speaker 6: get out. And he's like, 18 zeros, three sixes. And
39:09
Speaker 6: we were almost kind of, like, hamming it up and
39:10
Speaker 6: having fun with it.
39:11
Speaker 3: And then all of a sudden this employee comes opening
39:13
Speaker 3: the door to the office, which the office door, we
39:17
Speaker 3: couldn't even figure out how he did it because the door.
39:19
Speaker 6: Automatically for that office would lock when it shut.
39:23
Speaker 3: Like, I didn't even know how to get the key
39:24
Speaker 3: to turn it that way. And he opens up the door,
39:27
Speaker 3: and I was like, how did you just open that up?
39:28
Speaker 3: He's like, I don't know, I didn't even think about it.
39:31
Speaker 3: What did you all need? I was like, what do
39:33
Speaker 3: you mean? He goes, you just called me on the
39:34
Speaker 3: phone and said to come into the office right now.
39:35
Speaker 6: I was like, no, I didn't. He's like, no, it
39:39
Speaker 6: was you. No, it wasn't.
39:43
Speaker 3: And that's when Robert's like, you've done all these. He
39:45
Speaker 3: kept thinking I'd staged it all. I said, no, I
39:47
Speaker 3: have not staged any of this. That's still a souvenir
39:51
Speaker 3: I think I've got from the village. Somewhere at home
39:53
Speaker 3: I've got that section of adding tape. I just kept
39:55
Speaker 3: it for whatever reason.
39:56
Speaker 13: Maybe were there ones in it?
39:57
Speaker 16: Maybe it's like binary.
40:00
Speaker 3: It was just zero. It's like somebody just kept hitting
40:01
Speaker 3: enter when there was nothing on there. And it kept
40:05
Speaker 3: just punching, punching, punching, punching, and that was it.
40:08
Speaker 9: That would be really frustrating to be a ghost around
40:11
Speaker 9: somebody like you or me. Where everybody would just assume, oh,
40:16
Speaker 9: you're doing that.
40:17
Speaker 11: No, 666.
40:18
Speaker 6: What have I got to do? What do I have
40:21
Speaker 6: to do? It should be a comedy sketch.
40:23
Speaker 13: Come on.
40:23
Speaker 3: It's a bunch of skeptics who are in a blatantly
40:25
Speaker 3: haunted house.
40:27
Speaker 6: And there's one guy that everybody goes, oh, it's him.
40:30
Speaker 10: I don't know.
40:31
Speaker 14: And the sitcom The Ghost, right after that situation, he
40:35
Speaker 14: would just look into an imaginary can and just be like, really?
40:38
Speaker 8: And everyone would want to play.
40:40
Speaker 6: I suppose it is kind of the plot of Beetlejuice
40:42
Speaker 6: to an extent.
40:43
Speaker 4: What do I have to.
40:44
Speaker 7: Do to get rid of these humans?
40:46
Speaker 16: You know, whenever something weird happens in my house, my neighbor,
40:49
Speaker 16: we were standing in the hallway talking one night. And
40:51
Speaker 16: my house was built in 1868, and it's just creepy.
40:54
Speaker 16: If any house was ever haunted, it would be that one.
40:57
Speaker 16: But we're standing in the hallway talking and the, like,
41:00
Speaker 16: Victorian light fixture above our head.
41:02
Speaker 13: Just starts, like, swaying violently. Like, there's nothing that could
41:06
Speaker 13: have caused that. Even if it was, like, extremely windy,
41:08
Speaker 13: nothing could have caused that. And he just looks at
41:10
Speaker 13: it and he goes, huh. And then he goes, stop it. Like,
41:16
Speaker 13: he has control over.
41:17
Speaker 15: That's pretty bad when you get that used to ghosts
41:20
Speaker 15: hanging around.
41:20
Speaker 3: Yeah.
41:21
Speaker 4: It's like, eh.
41:22
Speaker 13: I mean, you know, like, I've.
41:24
Speaker 16: Had weird things happen, or you were talking about that earlier,
41:26
Speaker 16: but I've never felt scared or anything like that.
41:29
Speaker 9: Well, that's kind of the plot of Truly Madly Deeply,
41:32
Speaker 9: is that her husband dies, and then he comes back,
41:38
Speaker 9: and then he just hangs out with his friends and
41:40
Speaker 9: watches movies, and they're always cold, so they keep the
41:44
Speaker 9: thermostat way up, and they just get to be annoying,
41:48
Speaker 9: and eventually she just gets over it.
41:51
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's kind of like a blithe spirit, too. Yeah.
41:55
Speaker 3: That's such a weird movie, because the first time I
41:57
Speaker 3: watched it, I was like, so the ghost of the
42:01
Speaker 3: wife comes back, jealous of the new wife, and she
42:05
Speaker 3: wants to trick the husband into getting murdered so.
42:09
Speaker 6: That way she can spend time with him. That's kind
42:11
Speaker 6: of dark for 40s stuff. Isn't that, what's his name?
42:15
Speaker 4: The playwright?
42:16
Speaker 2: Ibsen?
42:17
Speaker 12: No.
42:17
Speaker 4: I don't know.
42:20
Speaker 9: No coward yeah by the spirit.
42:25
Speaker 4: He had a.
42:26
Speaker 9: Line i remember it was my favorite it's like quintessential
42:29
Speaker 9: little coward line was that lamp is so unrestrained it
42:34
Speaker 9: sets a bad example for the hell.
42:36
Speaker 8: Oh wow i think it's legitimately unexplained stuff i mean.
42:46
Speaker 3: I was going to say, we had that weird stuff
42:47
Speaker 3: the one night at the Ouija board, but any Ouija
42:49
Speaker 3: story just feels cliched.
42:51
Speaker 6: But that wasn't this room.
42:52
Speaker 8: We had a call in the dark Ouija board, and
42:54
Speaker 8: several people were involved, like six or eight people were involved.
42:58
Speaker 4: That's some weirdness. We'd have to energize it with a lamp,
43:00
Speaker 4: and the lamp became unplugged.
43:02
Speaker 6: Well, that's because we asked it to move.
43:04
Speaker 3: We asked the spirit to move something, and all of
43:06
Speaker 3: a sudden we hear this weird ping on the other
43:08
Speaker 3: side of the room.
43:08
Speaker 4: We're like, what was that?
43:09
Speaker 6: And they're like, well, let's turn on the light to
43:11
Speaker 6: see if we can go turn it on. Apparently the plug,
43:13
Speaker 6: which was way over here, and all of us were
43:14
Speaker 6: over there, just popped out and we'd also asked it
43:19
Speaker 6: to make the.
43:19
Speaker 3: Room brighter and it did which was really weird because
43:23
Speaker 3: you know we just had the booth lights on just
43:26
Speaker 3: the fluorescent lights on out there and we just had
43:29
Speaker 3: the door open a crack just enough to be able
43:30
Speaker 3: to see in here and what went from being just
43:33
Speaker 3: very very dim got to the point where it was
43:35
Speaker 3: illuminated almost to this brightness just by that crack of
43:40
Speaker 3: light coming in it's as if the lights all out
43:42
Speaker 3: there surged so brightly it cause that one little beam
43:46
Speaker 3: coming in here to.
43:46
Speaker 4: Just fill up the room with light. It was very strange.
43:50
Speaker 3: And it was also me skeptical, thinking, well, since you
43:52
Speaker 3: and Bob had suggested the idea, that maybe you could.
43:55
Speaker 4: Call it some stuff. Which we kind of used to do.
43:58
Speaker 6: We would do it with some, yeah.
44:00
Speaker 8: When we'd get a newbie in here, we'd say, well,
44:02
Speaker 8: you know, watch your radio at night, because you'll get
44:06
Speaker 8: some calls that are a little weird.
44:07
Speaker 4: You might hear children talking on the radio. Don't respond
44:11
Speaker 4: to that stuff. They don't get spoke, you know.
44:14
Speaker 3: Well, we used to keep, Ron got irritated that we
44:16
Speaker 3: kept the Ouija board here and threw it out because
44:19
Speaker 3: we used to keep the Ouija board here because every
44:21
Speaker 3: time there was power outage, like on a day like today,
44:23
Speaker 3: I'm surprised we didn't lose power because a good fart
44:25
Speaker 3: in the.
44:25
Speaker 4: Highlands and lose power.
44:28
Speaker 3: And anytime we would lose power, once we got all
44:30
Speaker 3: the patrons out, it was just completely dark.
44:33
Speaker 6: Then we would, if there was any new employees, if it.
44:36
Speaker 3: Was me and Bob and some of the old seasoned ones,
44:38
Speaker 3: we'd be like, well, you know, this is when the
44:41
Speaker 3: ghosts really like We would start telling all these stories
44:44
Speaker 3: like we've been telling you all, except then we would
44:46
Speaker 3: proceed to screw with them. We would take them back
44:50
Speaker 3: to Theater 6. Sometimes, one of them... God, this was
44:56
Speaker 3: a horrible thing to do. But we convinced... I can't
44:59
Speaker 3: remember who it was. It was one of the girls.
45:01
Speaker 3: We said, if you go and you sit in Theater
45:04
Speaker 3: 6 by yourself long enough, you will see something appear.
45:10
Speaker 6: And what I had done.
45:11
Speaker 3: Was Bob and them convinced her, and while they're out
45:14
Speaker 3: in the alcove convincing her, I'm in there, and I'm
45:16
Speaker 3: down on the floor in the front with the flashlight,
45:18
Speaker 3: charging up a glow-in-the-dark skeleton that we had for Halloween decorations,
45:23
Speaker 3: and then just waited. And then what I did was,
45:25
Speaker 3: when I heard her getting ready to come in, all
45:27
Speaker 3: I did was I just held it up to my
45:28
Speaker 3: body length, and I turned around to face the screen
45:30
Speaker 3: to where you wouldn't be able to see it because
45:31
Speaker 3: of my body blocking it, and I just waited for
45:33
Speaker 3: like a couple minutes until it was like, very very
45:37
Speaker 3: dim like it was almost had lost its charge and
45:39
Speaker 3: that's when i just started like quietly approaching her just
45:42
Speaker 3: like the fuck there.
45:45
Speaker 6: Was another one where um.
45:48
Speaker 3: There was another one where we're down in that theater
45:50
Speaker 3: and they were doing a ouija board and i was
45:51
Speaker 3: on the other side of the exit door and um
45:54
Speaker 3: i was just like whispering incoherent stuff at the door
45:58
Speaker 3: whenever they'd ask the ghost to say something, and eventually, like,
46:01
Speaker 3: Bob was leading the discussion.
46:02
Speaker 6: He got, basically, the ghost to say, come to the door,
46:05
Speaker 6: and the new employee came to the door, which freaked
46:09
Speaker 6: them out, too.
46:12
Speaker 4: Yeah, I had a night here. I can't remember. Jay
46:16
Speaker 4: was closing, Usher, I think.
46:18
Speaker 8: I can't remember who the little blonde girl was. He
46:20
Speaker 8: was putting the make on her, and they were sitting
46:25
Speaker 8: out here, Nicky, I think.
46:27
Speaker 4: Nicky, yeah. I think it was Nicky. And they were
46:30
Speaker 4: sitting outside in the alcove, outside of the alcove windows
46:33
Speaker 4: out there. And I said, well, I'm going. I had
46:36
Speaker 4: to go do the bank run.
46:37
Speaker 8: And I realized, well, they're out there by themselves, and
46:40
Speaker 8: he's going to keep her talking as long as he can.
46:42
Speaker 8: Did the bank run, came back, cruised by, and saw
46:47
Speaker 8: they were still out there. So I went up the
46:48
Speaker 8: alley real quick, parked next to the back door, opened
46:51
Speaker 8: the back door to the theaters, ran in here. I
46:53
Speaker 8: had a mummy-type mask.
46:54
Speaker 4: With a hood on.
46:55
Speaker 8: It just started skulking up through the theater really quick
46:57
Speaker 8: in the dark and just gradually settled in right behind
47:00
Speaker 8: them on the other side of the window.
47:01
Speaker 4: They're busy talking.
47:02
Speaker 8: I just got closer and closer to the window until
47:04
Speaker 8: finally she turned around. I was like, they both ended
47:07
Speaker 8: up like halfway across the parking lot.
47:09
Speaker 4: I just sat there looking at them. It was great fun.
47:12
Speaker 4: So yeah, it's one of the fun parts.
47:13
Speaker 6: There was another one of the blackouts to where it
47:17
Speaker 6: was me. I think Will might have been involved. I
47:21
Speaker 6: think Sean. But there was.
47:25
Speaker 3: Some new kid, I can't remember. I want to say
47:26
Speaker 3: it was Aaron. I think that's who it was. But
47:30
Speaker 3: it was during a blackout, and what we did was
47:33
Speaker 3: we just went into Theater 8, and each of us
47:35
Speaker 3: picked a corner in the theater, and we just went
47:38
Speaker 3: and put our faces in the corner. Because he'd gone
47:40
Speaker 3: out to smoke, and when he came back in, he
47:41
Speaker 3: was looking for us. And eventually he just found us
47:44
Speaker 3: in there, and he's just like, okay, that's funny, guys.
47:48
Speaker 6: It's really funny, guys. We just kept doing it, standing there.
47:50
Speaker 3: And what made it so perfect was, in that time
47:53
Speaker 3: when he was in there, and he just kept, like,
47:54
Speaker 3: standing there waiting for something to happen, the security lights, which,
47:58
Speaker 3: when the power goes.
47:59
Speaker 6: Out, they come on, they only got, like, 20 minutes.
48:00
Speaker 3: Like, the last one in there just went out while he.
48:02
Speaker 6: Was in there, and it just freaked him out.
48:05
Speaker 4: It's a very Blair Witch, which... We used to do that.
48:07
Speaker 4: I mean, Blair Witch, which was a huge... The poster
48:12
Speaker 4: was in here, wasn't it? It's behind you.
48:14
Speaker 6: It's behind you. Just employees, like when the movie was over,
48:18
Speaker 6: if the lights didn't come.
48:18
Speaker 3: Up right away, just for the ushers to stand with
48:20
Speaker 3: their faces in the corner at the back of the theater.
48:24
Speaker 8: This is the first indie movie like this that got
48:27
Speaker 8: a lot of guerrilla marketing online.
48:29
Speaker 4: I'd been watching it and saying, this looks cool. I
48:31
Speaker 4: told Larry about it.
48:32
Speaker 8: Even the booker was unaware of it. He said, get
48:34
Speaker 8: on this as quick as you can. We nabbed it
48:37
Speaker 8: before this Backwoods Showcase was open. Before they had a chance,
48:40
Speaker 8: they were so pissed off. Because we had this on
48:42
Speaker 8: two screens opening night.
48:44
Speaker 4: And everybody thought it was real.
48:46
Speaker 3: I was actually hired as part of the Blair Witch stocking.
48:50
Speaker 6: Because I was hired a couple.
48:51
Speaker 4: Weeks before it.
48:52
Speaker 8: It was selling out two shows in advance. I had
48:56
Speaker 8: guys trying to bribe me. for a ticket, I'll give
48:59
Speaker 8: you $ 50. I'm like, no, we don't have any seats.
49:03
Speaker 4: Fire laws, you know.
49:04
Speaker 8: But, you know, kids would come out, petrified, and we
49:07
Speaker 8: started skulking down into the alley next door, a bunch
49:11
Speaker 8: of trees out here, and all those little sticks were
49:13
Speaker 8: falling out of the trees, and we were making those
49:15
Speaker 8: little stick figures. People were parked out here with their
49:19
Speaker 8: windows down. So we'd just start laying stick figures in
49:21
Speaker 8: their cars. And then we'd just walk outside.
49:24
Speaker 4: And there'd be shrieks coming from the parking lot. It
49:28
Speaker 4: was great. That was a lot of fun.
49:32
Speaker 6: It's fun when we can do this. Were you here
49:33
Speaker 6: the night that we opened up Snakes on a Plane?
49:35
Speaker 3: No.
49:36
Speaker 6: I went down to... Because I.
49:38
Speaker 3: Watched it and knew where the scene was that the
49:40
Speaker 3: snakes dropped out of the oxygen containers. I just went down,
49:44
Speaker 3: and I got permission from Ryan. He let me go
49:46
Speaker 3: buy some money. I just bought a huge tub of
49:48
Speaker 3: fake snakes.
49:49
Speaker 6: From the Louisville Zoo.
49:50
Speaker 3: And so I was just up in the booth and
49:51
Speaker 3: just threw them out all over the people on that
49:54
Speaker 3: one particular moment.
49:56
Speaker 4: Spirit of Wind Castle.
49:58
Speaker 7: I think I was here that night.
49:59
Speaker 4: I don't remember snakes. It must have been a different show.
50:02
Speaker 4: I saw it opening night, though. Dork that I am.
50:05
Speaker 13: You were so excited about Snakes Are Playing. I know.
50:08
Speaker 4: Samuel L. Jackson called me.
50:10
Speaker 14: I don't think I've ever been more excited during a
50:15
Speaker 14: build-up for a movie than that. It couldn't have been
50:18
Speaker 14: that good. There's no way it could have met the hype.
50:20
Speaker 14: But the excitement.
50:21
Speaker 6: Me and my friends, we were just joking about it
50:23
Speaker 6: the whole time.
50:24
Speaker 3: Could not believe they had made a movie. See, I
50:26
Speaker 3: love animal attack films, but at the same time, I've
50:28
Speaker 3: never seen it. I like true animal attack where they
50:32
Speaker 3: put the animals... in the scene it's like all the
50:35
Speaker 3: CG stuff to me doesn't appeal to me.
50:38
Speaker 15: It's bad but that's the thing I haven't gone back
50:40
Speaker 15: to watch it since because that night was so much
50:43
Speaker 15: fun like the whole theater it was like a party
50:45
Speaker 15: like at the end of the.
50:46
Speaker 4: Night nobody left the theater when.
50:47
Speaker 15: Credits were rolling everybody walked up to the front and
50:50
Speaker 15: were hanging out up there I've never seen that happen
50:55
Speaker 15: before in the middle of a movie it wasn't like
50:57
Speaker 15: a specific private event it was just a showing but
51:00
Speaker 15: everybody went and hung out after that it was weird.
51:03
Speaker 16: I remember right as that movie was about to come out,
51:08
Speaker 16: my friend was somewhere, like at a lake with her kid,
51:13
Speaker 16: and a snake, she had her door open, and a
51:16
Speaker 16: snake got in her car.
51:17
Speaker 13: And I was like, it's happening!
51:19
Speaker 3: It's happening!
51:22
Speaker 9: Once my cat brought in a snake in her mouth.
51:25
Speaker 9: It was like a Salvador Dali mustache.
51:27
Speaker 6: It just came walking in.
51:29
Speaker 13: My cat did that the other day.
51:31
Speaker 16: There was a tiny little garden snake on my front step,
51:34
Speaker 16: and I was like, oh, you're going to be cat food.
51:36
Speaker 9: Of course, then there's snakes in a pool.
51:39
Speaker 8: That's a whole different thing, so I will say.
51:44
Speaker 9: I'm getting pretty tired of these motherfucking snakes in this pool.
51:48
Speaker 4: In this motherfucking pool?
51:49
Speaker 13: I really, I thought that.
51:50
Speaker 6: Is there somebody here?
51:52
Speaker 13: Who's here?
51:54
Speaker 6: You know I don't like games.
51:56
Speaker 13: Someone brought the smoke machine.
52:01
Speaker 6: Into the pool.
52:03
Speaker 15: So we've wrapped up our ghost and spooky stories and
52:06
Speaker 15: creepy people and snakes.
52:08
Speaker 6: We've covered all those now.
52:10
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, we could probably sit here and babble
52:11
Speaker 3: on with stories from here for a while, but we
52:13
Speaker 3: better cap it while we can.
52:14
Speaker 4: Well, I don't believe in goats. I've seen them. You've
52:19
Speaker 4: seen them?
52:19
Speaker 9: But I think there has to be a logical explanation.
52:23
Speaker 4: That having been said. I don't believe.
52:25
Speaker 3: I don't believe that Liam Neeson is real.
52:29
Speaker 6: Prove to me that Liam Neeson is real. He's a
52:31
Speaker 6: CGI effect.
52:32
Speaker 2: He is.
52:32
Speaker 6: Spielberg went back and, you know, put him in Schindler's List.
52:35
Speaker 4: You know, it's very.
52:37
Speaker 6: No, ghosts.
52:38
Speaker 3: We were just having this talk earlier. We were talking
52:40
Speaker 3: about orphans, too, and all this stuff. We came up
52:44
Speaker 3: with the idea that on Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
52:49
Speaker 7: He's dead.
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Speaker 3: It makes sense because he's dead. He got killed in
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Speaker 3: a knife fight. That's referred to in the opening credits.
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Speaker 3: and then he ends up in basically purgatory. He has
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Speaker 3: to do all these good deeds, and the uncle and
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Speaker 3: aunt are like the angels watching over him, and every
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Speaker 3: time his parents show up in the show, which.
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Speaker 6: Is very rarely, it's like when they're visiting his grave.
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Speaker 6: Think about it that way. It's very metaphysical.
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Speaker 16: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: I love it.
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Speaker 15: And an odd way to wrap up the special spooky
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Speaker 15: ghost stories edition.
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Speaker 6: We had an opportunity to cap it a minute ago.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, we'll wrap that up for now. Otherwise, that about
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Speaker 4: does it.
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Speaker 6: We will return next week.
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Speaker 4: Same geek time, same geek feed. Thanks for listening.
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Speaker 3: We're just going to sleep.
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Speaker 4: Here tonight, right?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, we have to now. We have to test the... Oh,
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Speaker 6: by the way, we're locked from the inside.
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Speaker 7: This episode is a production of Movie Meltdown. Produced and
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Speaker 7: edited by The Oddity Studios. with opening music performed by
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Speaker 9: Talk hard!