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The Terrifying Story of Ronald McDonald House. · INSPIRE STORY

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  Speaker 1: We'll come back to the fuck, We'll come back to
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  creep gust.
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  Speaker 2: Today we are going to be reading two beautiful stories,
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  the first one being which I thought this was a
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  pretty sweet title. Me and my friends are using a
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  wigi board for the first time. It keeps asking people
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  to leave the room. Last time I was around a
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  wigi board, it was actually in Tampa with Isaiah when
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  he refused to.
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  Speaker 1: Mess with it. You don't fuck with wigi boards, don't.
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  Speaker 3: I don't touch them. It's a bridge too close to me.
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  Speaker 4: I'm an. I feel you.
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  Speaker 2: I have met the amount of people that I have
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  met that do not fuck with wigi board. It's it's
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  a it's a large people. People do not People don't
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  like those things. People do not like wigi boards, I'm finding.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it's like, I understand, it's like a board
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  game that's made by like Mattel or Haspur or whatever.
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  Like I understand the thing itself is just a piece
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  of board, right, But it's more so I don't do
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  any like ritual thing that is in an attempt to
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  contact spirits, Like if someone was breaking up animal bones
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  or doing little sigils and stuff, whatd it messed with
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  that either, like anything that looks like I'm trying to
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  make a phone call not interested.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's fucking you know, what's your choice. I have
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  done wigi boards many times, never had anything happen. I uh,
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  except when I was younger. My mom did it, and
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  she tortured me with it. Uh for like I'm not
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  even joking. A whole weekend she did just put on
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  this whole elaborate rousee to scare me.
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  Speaker 4: And it was very rude. Uh So.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well what did uh? How did she torture you
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  with it?
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  Speaker 2: She kept fucking with the light, She'd go to the
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  breaker box, it kept like turned the breakers on and off,
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  all kinds of stuff, slamming doors, and like it's truly
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  like a child raising a child, is what it felt like.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: I was bullied, needless to say, oh right, I think
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  that's good for her to do that, and I think
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  she should have done No.
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  Speaker 4: I think we don't have to get into or anything.
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  Speaker 2: But I just know that, you know what, treat your
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  children with respect, don't intentionally scare them.
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  Speaker 4: You know that's just me.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, And I will say, Isaiah gave me the gift
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  that keeps on giving, which Isaiah sent me a video
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  of himself crashing his recycle.
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  Speaker 4: Go ahead and roll that now, No, no, we don't.
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  Speaker 2: The funniest part of this too, is we were talking
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  about it and he says, you know, I was only
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  going that slows because.
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  Speaker 1: The battery was dead.
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  Speaker 4: As if he's Travis Pastrana driving.
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  Speaker 2: Around in his house, a bunch of red Bull drones
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  flying around your property watching you hit your dirt bike.
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  Speaker 4: I assume this had to come up because I have
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  to explain why I'm wearing these.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, okay, the motorcycle battery which.
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  Speaker 2: Also for people who don't know who are listening on audio,
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  what is on your hands right now?
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  Speaker 4: Bandages, A bunch of gaus and tape and stuff like that.
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  Just what happened is I was trying to drive the motorcycle,
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  but the battery was dead, so you have to do
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  It's called a rolling start, where kick it into first
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  gear with the key turned over, and then as you're
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  once you pick up speed, you flip it into second
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  while the motor's still off, and then you gas it.
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  So you're trying to force the motor to turn over
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  without the starter. So what that means is you go
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  from idling, like messing with your gears and all that
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  to second gear all at once. And I'm sure I
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  didn't guess.
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  Speaker 2: I've said this before for me once again, there are
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  in audio that can't see the video that is just
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  definitely on repeat right now that I'm gonna have them.
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  Speaker 4: It looks like a va couldn't could not look like
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  more of like an eighty six year old man on
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  like a French mobpad going around a corner and then
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  just having a heart attack and toppling to the This
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  is what it looks like. And then what happens is
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  Isaiah sent me there's it's like a six minute long video.
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  The rest of that that's ten seconds. The rest of
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  these six minutes is spent with Isaiah just pace it
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  around to the point we're like where the like it's
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  it's what's like that important that he showed me him
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  being like, yeah, this is me really just kind of
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  like just kind of feeling it out. No, I clipped
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  the minute. I clipped the minute of the wreck. There
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  was only a snarty camera.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god, it felt like eternity.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I clipped the minute and I sent it to you,
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  saw Ree. I didn't edit it for you. You should have,
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  because as soon as I wrecked, I stood up and
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  I was bleeding from my hands and leg.
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  Speaker 3: So I paced for a while, like you're okay, you.
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  Speaker 4: Can feel your bones, You're okay, You're okay, like kind
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  of walking off. Yeah, like it's I you're still this.
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  I don't. I can flex my leg all the way.
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  I was doing that whole thing. Did I send you
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  the video of the injury. No, I haven't seen any
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  of the pure injury so far.
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  Speaker 2: I am curious to see your little Arby's roast beef
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  mits whatever.
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  Speaker 4: Hold on, I got a couple of picts of that.
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  We can't put it in the episode. Yeah, definitely. Two.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the fact that you need bandages, I'm very curious
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  to see what it what it looks like here. And
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  then also, by the way, we're reading Ronald McDonald house afterwards,
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  Uh that's the second story.
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  Speaker 4: Oh wowie, oh yow.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I cut myself in my hands and then that left
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  hand skipped and while I was bleeding, I was looking
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  down at it and I could see little striations under
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  the skin.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, those are muscles. That's awesome, that's great.
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  Speaker 2: I feel screat this is actually, uh, it's so funny.
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  Speaker 4: This is funny given the context of the video.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's very funny that this is actually a very
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  looks like fuck it for people that don't and it
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  looks like Freddy k Krueger's face is what is uh?
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  Is what his injuries look like. We'll put it up
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  on the Patreon, which also take you to the patrons.
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  Put it up on the pat got out on the
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  page rounds, So if you want to see some blood
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  and gore from Isaiah, feel free. But the thank you
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  to our patrons for supporting us and getting some extra
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  content on the side.
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  Speaker 4: And then also thank you to audio listeners who.
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  Speaker 2: Are listening this on Spotify, Apple Podcasting where you can
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  listen to podcasts and giving us a nice rating.
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  Speaker 4: We appreciate you. Isaiah just want to jump right in.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, did you even say what the second story we're reading?
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  Speaker 1: You know, I said Ron McDonald house, I said it.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, okay, I didn't hear you say that. Okay.
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  Speaker 4: I also want to say, to match the cast, I'm
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  wearing a five Nights at Freddy's T shirt that I
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  found at a gas station. Wow rural Appalachia. So wow,
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  it's really I got the whole fit going on, you know,
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  really is quite the wow drip check. Definitely our first
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  story me and my friends are used in a Ouiji
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  board for the first time, keeps asking people.
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  Speaker 3: To leave the room was written by world Away Tweety.
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  Speaker 4: World Away Tweety actually writes a ton of stories for
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  no sleep they write. It says on in their bio
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  that they write spooky stories and screenplays. So they've got
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  a ton of stuff, some of it written for nose,
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  leaves of it written for the screen They've been writing
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  for years, it looks like, and there's dozens of stories
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  on their page, so we'll have that linked in the description.
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  Be sure to check them out if you enjoy it.
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  And our other art author today will talk about but
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  it seems that the story we'll be reading for them
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  is the only story they've posted, and they haven't posted
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  in thirteen years. That's a great sign. We'll go ahead
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  and get into it with the Ouiji board story hunter.
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  Speaker 3: Are you ready?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I'm ready.
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  Speaker 3: Let's begin.
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  Speaker 2: Also, if anybody, if anybody has a Wigi board while
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  we read this, I would say put it out.
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  Speaker 4: I'd say don't do that, But you know what you're
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  an adult. You apathetically, so.
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  Speaker 1: You do what you gotta do. But I say, must
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  out that Wigi board.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, get that Ouiji board?
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  Speaker 4: Going okay, Me and my friends are using a Ouiji
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  board for the first time, keeps asking people to leave
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  the room. I'm using this post to chronicle the events
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  of this evening, as they've been truly fascinating.
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  Speaker 3: Some quick backstory.
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  Speaker 4: The small section of the city that me and my
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  friends live is generally known to be haunted, and even
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  if you're not a believer in the supernatural, it's at
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  least a bit eerie. Going to dogs myself by stating
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  the location, but let's just say that creepy sightings and
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  murders deaths due to unexplainable circumstances are our bread and butter.
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  For most people, this means you move away as soon
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  as they can. For folks like me and my friends,
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  who absolutely love all things spine hilling, it generally makes
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  for a pretty good time. Our Halloween parties are awesome.
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  Most of our drinking nights have some sort of spooky
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  game and are laced into them, And if you have
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  literally nothing to do on a Friday night with your friends,
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  you can always go on a tour of some of
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  our haunted locales, graveyards, abandoned buildings, creepy forests, you name it.
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  So with that background established, let's cut back to tonight.
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  Did you did you when you were in college and
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  stuff like that? Did you ever do all that? Because
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  like I would go to like abandoned buildings and like
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  there are a bunch of after parties on like spooky
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  in the woods and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 3: Did you do anything like that? Now?
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  Speaker 2: I was more like when I was in middle school,
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  middle school things, we didn't really have much to do.
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  So then you just wait for your like if you're
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  at your buddies for their parents to go sleep, and
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  you get like walk out into like the country or whatever,
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  you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, do that kind of thing.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, we're gonna go out to the river. It's gonna
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  be spooky. Yeah. Yeah, I told you, Kaylin I met
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  ghost hunting right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, dude. It's a magical, lovely tale. Very romantic with that,
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  very romantic.
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  Speaker 4: Uh. And I would love to hear it again.
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  Speaker 3: There was so much sarcasm, babe.
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  Speaker 4: No, man, I would love to actually have to sit
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  through that one more time. It would be great. You're
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  such sure. No, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever told it on this the podcast?
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  Speaker 4: Though?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't care anymore.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's it's actually like, it's a pretty phenomenal story.
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  You should just say it, stupid.
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  Speaker 4: Little I'm not I'm being honest. I'm not being facetious
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  at all. I'm saying that it's legitimately, like really really
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  good and you should.
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  Speaker 1: You should say it.
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  Speaker 4: I'm just gonna keep I can't step back. Kyle and
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  I met goes tunny. That's the whole story. It's all
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  you need to know. It's all to get out of
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  me right now. I can't do this right now. You
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  guys are mentioning out. It's a real tear drigger.
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna I'm gonna say the text that you sent
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  me earlier.
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  Speaker 4: You don't need to say that. That's a joke between friends,
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  is what that is? Uhh yeah, yeah, okay. Me and
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  my closest three pals decided to try our hand at
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  using a Ouiji board. Were we going to be normal
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  and try the Ouiji board in one of our family addicts?
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  Speaker 3: Nah? Too basic?
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  Speaker 4: We instead decided to track up together to what I
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  shit you not is an abandoned treehouse left in an
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  elevated section of our city, surrounded by forests.
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  Speaker 3: What could go wrong? Right?
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  Speaker 2: Don't like that I would do it, just stick to
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  my living room. I would be too much of a
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  pussy to go up and be like, you know what,
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  let's go to that abandoned tree house in the middle
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  of the forest.
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  Speaker 3: No, sir, No, no, no, it's in an elevated section
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  of the city.
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  Speaker 4: I guess it kind of means, like, you know how
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  like in La there's like, you know, the like wooded
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  hills and they.
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  Speaker 3: That's what mean.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I guess that's what it means. We climbed
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  up to the treehouse, set down a spooky themed rug,
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  lit some candles, and brought out the Wiji board. Despite
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  my pretty extensive resume, I off dealing with all things creepy.
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  I never actually tried a Wigi board before, so I
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  was really excited to see what would happen. We went
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  into this excited to break every role in the book.
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  We weren't going to do a seance. We were going
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  to ask whatever we want, and we didn't need to
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  worry about being respectful of the spirits, etc. We figured
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  if something interesting were to happen, it'd be more likely
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  if we went.
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  Speaker 3: In as care free as possible.
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  Speaker 4: We set in a circle around the Wiji board and
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  got started asking the simple question is there a spirit
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  with us? With all of our hands placed on the
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  plant shed no real response. We fluttered the plant shed
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  in a few different directions, but we could tell we
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  were kind of forcing it. We asked a few other questions.
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  Speaker 1: What's your name?
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  Speaker 4: When'd you die? But nothing really came of it. After
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  trying for the next half hour and not really getting
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  anything in the form of a response, we decided that
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  we probably didn't have any spooky luck tonight and opted
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  instead to share scary stories in the treehouse. We've left
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  the wigi board out just in case we get luckier.
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  Later in the night, amidst the breaking our storytelling, where
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  everyone was grabbing drinks and snacks from their bags, I
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  decided to give the wigi board another quick go place
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  my hand on the plant she had alone, and whispered
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  the following question.
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  Speaker 1: Will you please grace us with your presence tonight?
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  Speaker 4: That's what does it when you skip into like the
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  old English dialogue vernacular, that's when it happens.
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  Speaker 1: That's what you have to do.
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  Speaker 4: Will you put grace us with your prisons tonight?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? You just have to sound like an oil man
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  from the twenties.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I do? I try to put something
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  in the backpack and just like leave it open. Something
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  the ghost would have to kind of like peer what's
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  in there and have something a little tempting where then
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  it would be like, oh, okay, I'm gonna I want
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  to start messing with that. I want I want to
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  start interacting with these guys are pretty cool.
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  Speaker 4: What do you mean by tempting? I don't know, man,
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  what would you tempt a ghost with? Depends on the ghost,
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  I guess, just the way it just depends on the.
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  Speaker 1: Some kit Cats or some twinkies.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: You are laying into me this up.
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  Speaker 4: I think you know what I do. I would do
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  a couple of different things. What did I do that
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  made it so upset? No, don't don't deflights. What did
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  I do that made you so upset?
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  Speaker 1: You know what I do?
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  Speaker 2: I take a picture of my take a naughty picture
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  of myself, a little polaroid, and I'd put it in
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  the bag and I'd leave.
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  Speaker 4: It over I knew when you said something to tempt
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  the ghost, I knew it would be in that direction.
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  Speaker 1: Why did you go mister rogers with it?
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  Speaker 4: If that was a well, I don't know, it depends
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  who the.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, what what did I do?
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  Speaker 4: Why are you mad? What did I I'm not mad?
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  Just saying the way you said it was so flavorful.
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  It really is. It's like a goddamn between this and
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  me bringing up like that's how you kill it. So
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  you're like, wow, really like what it's got your goat?
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  Speaker 1: Right now?
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  Speaker 4: Nothing?
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  Speaker 1: Nothing?
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  Speaker 4: All right? I guess I guess if I guess I
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  would tempt a ghost with the chocolate bar.
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  Speaker 3: How's that?
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  Speaker 4: That's all? Something? Right?
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  Speaker 3: The ghost is like? Who chocolate? I like that? How's that?
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  Speaker 4: I mean?
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  Speaker 2: You're just I mean, you're setting yourself up for all
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  these I'm yep, Chocolate's good my hand.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, go ahead, go ahead.
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  Speaker 3: Where you say.
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  Speaker 1: I tipped goes with the chocolate bar?
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  Speaker 4: Is there? It is? Use that voice. You're the one
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  who's doing it. You're intentionally doing You're fucking with me.
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  Speaker 1: You're definitely fun.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: I I I attacked him because he was asking for it.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think it should do. What the do
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  you think a ghost wants with some chocolate if he's
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  sitting there night.
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  Speaker 2: Imagine it's your naked polic Imagine me on a jet
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  ski dude, speedo on and I'm spread open. I'm talking
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  like you can't even believe that a human could be
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  So I'm like a goddamn wishbone. You spread me over.
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  I mean, I'm flexible, been to me before I snap.
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  I'm saying that that you're telling me a ghost if
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  a ghost is on earth. First off, is the ghost
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  logic that we're using is that the ghost is in
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  like a purgatory? Do do ghost?
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  Speaker 1: Are they?
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  Speaker 2: Do they because they realize they don't know that they're dead? Right,
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  that's the kind of that's the idea.
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  Speaker 4: No one's established that, but sure, in general, in general,
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  if there's a ghost, what I'm just saying that ghost
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  is interacting with a Ouiji board.
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  Speaker 3: They know they're a ghost or spirit or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, well I didn't know that because sometimes a lot
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  of people say is that ghosts don't realize that they'd
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  sold on.
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  Speaker 4: Do you think a normal guy who doesn't know his
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  dead is going to come across a polaroid of view
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  and be hello hunter, I think a lot of people would. Yeah, dude,
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  I'm not saying that. Listen, I would say that as
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  a whole package, it's not impressive. But there's a couple
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  of hamhawks I think could turn some heads.
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  Speaker 3: Or more than would be more than would be interested
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  in chocolate.
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  Speaker 2: Honestly, self and I and I hate to be and
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  I'm not trying to peacock, but yes, I think that
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  I think I could. I think I could bust out.
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  I think I could like someone I would bust a
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  nut over myself over than like a Hershey.
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  Speaker 4: Aer a game or Delis. I guess what I'm saying,
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  like I would turn heads.
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  Speaker 3: All right, I can't. I have nothing to add to that.
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  Speaker 2: They called me that my nickname was a Chinese finger
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  trap for like two or three years.
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  Speaker 4: All right, we don't need to get into that nickname story.
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  I like to bear when your mom was turning the
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  lights off, that was better Chinese finger trap. You're just
• 16:23
  you're just constantly on you just it's it's like a
• 16:27
  little chatter teeth. It's just going around. Like it's true.
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: People like there's always get stuck able bit or something.
• 16:33
  Speaker 4: People get stuck in.
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: I'm like, you gotta squeeze and push if you want
• 16:37
  to get out of this. What was the dragon's name
• 16:45
  of Mulan? That's what they called me. They do I
• 16:49
  do an Eddie Murphy impression, but I can't anymore.
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: Just wasn't it wasn't it wasn't it moose so Mosho?
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: Damn? I forgot. Disney was holding back to like it's
• 17:07
  about a Chinese girl. You hah. The direct called Mousho.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: We're gonna call her sweet and sour, but we decided
• 17:11
  against it.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: God, damn, holy hell called the little dragon general Chow.
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: The chatter teeth bar bar gosh.
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: We should restart this paragraph because I'm lost.
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: Okay, Well, I ended the paragraph said please, you said,
• 17:33
  well you please graces with your presence tonight. So that's
• 17:35
  a new paragraph. Okay, all right, so okay, we're good. Surprisingly,
• 17:38
  the plan chat started moving. It's hard to explain, but
• 17:42
  you kind of know when something is moving on its
• 17:44
  own versus you sort of subtly and subconsciously moving it
• 17:47
  with your hand to force an answer. This felt real.
• 17:50
  Tangle went up my spine. It was cool as hell.
• 17:54
  My hand was moved to the following letters, y E
• 17:58
  s awesome. I look over to the group and told
• 18:01
  him that the Ouiji board was working again. Excidedly, we
• 18:04
  all huddled around and placed our hands on the plant chat.
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: I followed up with another question.
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: Where are you from? We sat there excitedly waiting for something. Instead,
• 18:13
  nothing plan Chat was still. The lack of any sort
• 18:16
  of external force with us was very, very obvious disappointing,
• 18:21
  But I had an idea I wanted to follow up with.
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: I turned to my friend Kevin and asked him.
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: You want to try doing a solo? It worked for me.
• 18:29
  Kevin was confused, but he decided to give it a try.
• 18:31
  We all backed up to give him some space with
• 18:33
  the Wuiji board. He placed his hand on the plant
• 18:35
  shet and repeated my question, where are you from? His
• 18:38
  expression changed to shock as his hands started moving with
• 18:41
  the plant chat.
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: He turned to all of us and mouthed, I'm not
• 18:45
  doing this, to.
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: Which I excitedly mouthed back. I pulled out a notepad
• 18:49
  and recorded the answer. As a plan Chat went from
• 18:51
  letter to letter, it recorded the following not important, love
• 18:56
  it a spirit with some sass. I asked Kevin about Yeah,
• 18:59
  I'll also say this a lot of times we get
• 19:02
  annoyed by like casual language and stuff like that in
• 19:04
  the story because it comes out of nowhere, or is
• 19:06
  it or it isn't fitting. This is like a group
• 19:07
  of friends in high school or whatever going out with
• 19:10
  the Wiji boards, So like the vernacular fills fitting.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: They're also idiots. Yeah, yeah, it's just being dumb and like, oh,
• 19:17
  play with the Wiji boards.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: So like it's also the idea that this thing is
• 19:21
  actually moving. Okay, this thing's actually moving, and it's just like, okay,
• 19:25
  a ghost.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: With some sass.
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: God, this is this is a guy that is like
• 19:29
  he's gonna be flying around the room later with like
• 19:32
  a noose around. It's like a perfect juxtaposition. Oh my god,
• 19:38
  this guy has some sass. Later his death corpse is
• 19:42
  gonna be flying exactly. He shouldn't have offered him chocolate
• 19:55
  drop the jungle board'll bring the spirits power. While the
• 20:01
  spirits showing them like every death and every murder just
• 20:05
  blood pouring from its eyes, screaming, the chocolate bark, the
• 20:10
  god juggle war, scariest ghost just there's like hell fire
• 20:18
  like animal sacrifice, and they're treated it like the goonies, like, yeah,
• 20:24
  ever die, what will you have no grasp about serious situation.
• 20:33
  It's like, you get a hold of yourself. You have
• 20:35
  no idea what you're up against. The lord you're speaking
• 20:39
  to the Lord of the flies. You gotta get it together,
• 20:43
  because even if there's been times when I was a
• 20:45
  kid where it's like, even if somebody's faking it.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: I loose my mind.
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: And every time when I was a kid, I was like,
• 20:52
  oh my god, I was freaking out.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: So just having this happen several times, I would be like, Okay, cool,
• 20:58
  we're done.
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: And we're going home.
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: I'm done.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: Also, he has sass? Is he like a fucking is
• 21:04
  he a character like a Tyler Perry movie. I'm like,
• 21:06
  this is a fucking ethereal being.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: Was boots scooting? Let's get the fuck out of here?
• 21:13
  Good lord?
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: We uh we In college went time.
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: We were playing with a wigi board around campus and
• 21:18
  there was uh one building that burnt down years ago,
• 21:23
  and there was a legend on campus that you'd see
• 21:25
  a woman in the dress, like a like Civil War
• 21:28
  era dress walking around in the in the building that
• 21:31
  was built in the remnants of the old one. And
• 21:34
  I remember I remember we went up there in the
• 21:36
  hill and we were like who are you? And two
• 21:39
  people were playing and it spelled out like uh uh,
• 21:44
  it's like girl and we're like, oh, the girl in
• 21:46
  the dress. And then one guy is playing by himself.
• 21:48
  He's like what happened? And then it spelled out fire
• 21:51
  and I just left.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: But I don't blame you though.
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: That one guy message just left. Yeah, I would be
• 22:01
  I'm a giant boss.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: I'd be like, no, thank you, even if it says
• 22:05
  something like nice love. Actually that's even more threatening love.
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: I'd be like, okay, well I thought that was your
• 22:12
  whole strategy with the polaroid. Now I'm you know, I
• 22:15
  like to tempt. I don't like to act.
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: Oh okay, you like to be a little teased.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: I like to be a little teased to the paranoma.
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: Bit.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: I see little window shopping form. That's about it.
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: I see I got you the other side of the glass. Yeah, exactly.
• 22:28
  Every kiss, Every kiss begins with k is. When I
• 22:30
  say looking in love, it a spirit with some sass.
• 22:34
  I asked keV to back up for a seconds. I
• 22:36
  approached the Ouiji board for one final solo question.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: I asked why are you only responding when it's one
• 22:43
  of us using the board?
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: Yet again, the plan she had moved effortlessly within my hand.
• 22:48
  It was faster this time, so I said the letters
• 22:50
  out loud and had another one of my friends, Eleonora,
• 22:53
  transcribe onto my notepad. The answer was one at a time,
• 22:58
  fair enough, I think thee My hand's still on the
• 23:01
  plant chat. I appreciate your ANSWER's friend. To my surprise
• 23:04
  and a strange synergy between me and the spirit, I
• 23:08
  felt compelled to move the plan set again. It was
• 23:10
  the fastest it had ever been this time, as it
• 23:12
  covered the following letters. Tell everyone else to leave. Huh,
• 23:23
  that's a little weird. That's a little quirky. First off,
• 23:27
  I shall say ten want us to leave. I mean,
• 23:30
  I would be shitting bricks right now. Huh.
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: He's gonna be like he's gonna be like the.
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: Guy at the end of The Hereditary where he's in
• 23:39
  the treehouse, just like getting possessed and there's headless bodies everywhere.
• 23:46
  He looks around. Everyone's head less and naked, like bowing
• 23:51
  that trumpet music. That's a little julier, don't you think, Eleanora,
• 24:02
  She's just like she's skindle high, it's crucified on the wall.
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: That's a little weird.
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: Don't you say what you doing up there on me?
• 24:17
  His buddy. He looks to his buddy, who's like his
• 24:20
  mouth's and a scream in his head spinning, and he
• 24:23
  was like, that's a coold trick, the ghost teaching that.
• 24:26
  I love the idea too. This happened to you. You
• 24:28
  went outside and getting your mocycle immediately crash, just like,
• 24:36
  just like all of it is from one camera angle
• 24:38
  of being slowly going down the ladder, getting on the bike,
• 24:42
  can't start it, tries to roll it, crash.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: It was so slow because I had to do a
• 24:47
  rolling star.
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah start, start because the battery does it. Yeah, I
• 24:53
  just explained the whole process. Oh, approach should change that better.
• 25:02
  I like the idea of someone being confronted with like
• 25:05
  actual like scary demons, spirits, whatever, but it's like a
• 25:09
  Scooby Doo movie.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: Like, yeah, cheaper. I don't want to say so far.
• 25:14
  I did like that little turn that was kind of
• 25:16
  that that kind of fucked me up a little bit.
• 25:17
  Tell everyone else to leave. Fuck that, dude.
• 25:20
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• 25:23
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• 25:25
  the literal line.
• 25:26
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• 25:31
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• 25:33
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  now back to the episode. My friend looked at me
• 29:00
  skeptically as I said the letters at a time. Are
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  you sure you didn't force that on purpose, asked Eleanora.
• 29:06
  I assured her, I definitely didn't. That was definitely from
• 29:09
  the spirit, which that's one of the I think I'm
• 29:11
  a sure earlier. That's one of the big deals with
• 29:13
  like Ouiji boards, you can't play it by yourself because
• 29:16
  the whole point's like connected energies or whatever around the
• 29:19
  plan chet. So if you're playing it by yourself, it's
• 29:21
  a one way between you and the spirit, so the
• 29:23
  spirit wins every time. Oh I see. At this point,
• 29:26
  this had been the most clearly supernatural phenomena I'd ever
• 29:29
  experienced in my life, and I was excited to keep
• 29:31
  it going. My friends, usually unflinching and made of ice,
• 29:35
  were a little bit thrown. Eleanora and Martin looked ever
• 29:39
  so slightly spooked, but keV was willing to go with it.
• 29:42
  I might as well see where this goes, keV said,
• 29:45
  as he started climbing down from the treehouse with a
• 29:47
  slight bit of hesitation. Eleanora and Martin followed suit. Sweet
• 29:52
  an actually creepy night. I embraced the quiet amidst the
• 29:55
  lighting of the candles and the power of the Ouiji board.
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: I geared up for my next question. I wasn't gonna
• 30:00
  hold back spirit.
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: How will I die? Brother's just dying, No hesitation, no surrender.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: Literal goodies. Fucking Slock shows up.
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: And rips when app because it's not like it's not
• 30:22
  like he's like, oh I don't believe this, Like he
• 30:24
  thinks he's talking to something beyond the veil, not something
• 30:28
  we cannot be on the veil. But it was more
• 30:30
  fucked up is that he does not care what is
• 30:32
  beyond the veil. He doesn't given I would give your
• 30:35
  God or the devil holl the come on, man, just
• 30:42
  immediately diving into like a thing that you should never have.
• 30:47
  Speaker 5: Ever?
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: What what kind of sick?
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: Okay?
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: Great?
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: The hell I die.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: I'm glad.
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: I'm glad. I know that now. Thanks man, you know,
• 30:56
  I mean, what do you do? Theluichi boards like car
• 30:58
  and you're like, great, to be scared forever, you know, ship.
• 31:05
  I took in a deep breath, waiting for some movement
• 31:08
  slowly depends. Interesting answer. This is literally Fred from Scooby
• 31:18
  Doo like a game. If not a bit underwhelming, I
• 31:24
  geared up for my follow up, Oh.
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: Come on, spirit, what about something a bit more specifics.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: I've never wanted people to die so bad.
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: Honestly, it's about to get ripped out of that tree.
• 31:37
  It's gonna be so satisfying. It's gonna look like have
• 31:43
  you ever seen a skyhook the way they used to
• 31:45
  pick up people in the military, where they put a
• 31:47
  balloon in the air in the plane hits the balloon
• 31:50
  and just off the crowd, it's gonna look like that
• 31:54
  straight down the wall, it's gonna look like that little
• 31:57
  kid fucking around face pit being dragged around that goddamn
• 32:00
  it's gonna look like you know what you do, what
• 32:05
  you do? You're like, oh, something more specific, and it's
• 32:07
  like gorilla, and you're like, oh God. Then turned around.
• 32:12
  There's a gorilla the jungle that's in the distance getting louder.
• 32:31
  That means, so.
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: You're your friend outside, like, is that a gorilla?
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: Just the thundering pounds of gorilla's fucking fist into the earth.
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: Sounds like a horse galloping towards you. Oh, you asked
• 32:48
  the gorilla question, you said, imagine word. My hand moved
• 32:54
  with the plan chat to the following letters. I try
• 32:56
  hard to focus and connect the letters. Since I didn't
• 32:58
  have anyone to transcribe with to me, what is your name?
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: Weird completely dodged.
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: My question.
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: Completely to my question, completely dodged my question and asked
• 33:13
  me my name. Okay, all knowing spirit, I assumed you'd
• 33:17
  already know that. I decided to try tricking it. My
• 33:20
  name's Belle. Movement from the plant shed on Theluigi Board
• 33:23
  took me to the letters do not lie, my God,
• 33:28
  well played spirit. It takes them back to the previous question.
• 33:37
  It says too gorilla. Every time he's too quirky, it
• 33:49
  just adds a gorilla. I gave the spirit my actual name, Jennifer,
• 33:57
  and continue to see the follow up response, what is
• 34:00
  your favorite food? Honoring the Spirit's rules, I opted to
• 34:04
  tell the truth instead of following up with another lie.
• 34:07
  Your girl loved the writing. I like it. It's charming.
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: It's charming with what's going on.
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: But man, your girl loves don air and the spirit deserves.
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: To know that.
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: What is don air? I don't know. Don Air we
• 34:19
  see sounds like an airline.
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: Donair is a popular Canadian food, Oh God. Originating in Nova, Scotia.
• 34:26
  It's a variation of donor kebab featuring spice ground beef
• 34:30
  sliced from a rotating cone, served in opinion, peeda bread
• 34:34
  with tomatoes, onions and unique sweet.
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: It's just like a It's like a taco. Yeah, it's
• 34:39
  a gentrified taco.
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: Got it? Theluigi Board's response correct.
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: Before I could take in the affirmation from the spirit,
• 34:47
  Who's asking who questions here? Spirit followed up with yet
• 34:50
  another question, what is your biggest fear? Do not lie?
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: God?
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: Dude, how do you not take this of? Like, Okay,
• 35:01
  I'm definitely going to die this way. What's your favorite food?
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: I don't know, just like a kabab? All right.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: What's the worst possible way you'd want to die?
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: Maybe three gorillas?
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know, getting attacked by a colony of gorillas.
• 35:24
  Speaker 4: The tree just starts shaking. It's like, oh, what's that?
• 35:28
  This question took me back a bit. I wasn't really
• 35:30
  afraid of anything, or so I thought, so I struggled
• 35:33
  with it. It took me a few moments. I really
• 35:37
  really thought of it. I kind of cringed at the answer.
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: But it was my truth.
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: Something horrible happening to my little brother. I'm is gonna
• 35:50
  be fine.
• 35:53
  Speaker 5: That lite girl girl to sit her brother to the
• 35:56
  chadow kid, I never come back, Exodia, fuck.
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: That thing off. Evangelion's gonna shove up the giant triangle
• 36:16
  with the laser or that or two gorillas. No movement
• 36:25
  from the Ouiji board. Seconds turn into minutes as I
• 36:28
  kept my hand. Yeah, the time it was taken these
• 36:31
  minutes to kill your little brother. Seconds turn into minutes
• 36:34
  as I kept my hand awkwardly placed on the plant chet.
• 36:36
  Then finally, thank you send Eleanora. Well, I oblige. I
• 36:45
  thank the spirit for its time and decided to climb
• 36:47
  down from the treehouse where my friend's waiting. Passed on
• 36:51
  the spirit's message and told Eleanora it was her turn.
• 36:54
  I do like this idea of having to kind of
• 36:55
  like take turns going up this is like, this ritual
• 36:59
  of having to climb back of the treehouse is like
• 37:01
  pretty fucking unnerving.
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: And then just being up there obviously with like some
• 37:05
  kind of other entity is creepy.
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, I said Hereditary earlier as a joke. But
• 37:10
  in the early scenes of Hereditary, how the sister would
• 37:12
  sleep in that treehouse? Yeah, yeah, up the ladder and
• 37:16
  there was like a there was an uncanniness to how
• 37:19
  different it was in the space around it.
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: It's what it makes me think of.
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: It's also funny imagine Eleanor gets there. It's like, what's
• 37:24
  your biggest fear? And Eleanor is like, uh, probably something
• 37:27
  happened to Jennifer's little brother. They're just stacking the Kurtses
• 37:32
  on this kid, Martin, Kevin I spent what must have
• 37:35
  been fifteen minutes standing outside the treehouse while Eleanora was
• 37:37
  up there. We'd pull drinks out of our bags, and
• 37:40
  we're discussing my experience with Luigi board so far. Both
• 37:43
  were incredibly surprised when I told them that the spirit
• 37:46
  was asking me questions. What kinds of questions, generic stuff
• 37:50
  like my name, favorite food, you know, weird. Both Kevin
• 37:54
  Martin seemed to be thrown off by it, but I
• 37:56
  was excited. We looked up at the treehouse as we
• 37:58
  heard the sounds of someone climbing down. Eleanora had finished
• 38:01
  her session. She looked traumatized.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: Was it weird?
• 38:06
  Speaker 4: All it did was ask me questions, questions like my name,
• 38:11
  my favorite hobby, my biggest fear. That one took a
• 38:15
  while for me to answer. keV turned to me, that's
• 38:18
  a little bit eerie.
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: I agreed.
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: Didn't look like Eleanora was loving it either, but still
• 38:23
  spirit asking us questions. This has been one of the coolest,
• 38:26
  if not the coolest, paranormal experiences I've ever experienced in
• 38:30
  my life.
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: Eleonora turned to Martin.
• 38:31
  Speaker 4: I said that you were up next.
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: It's funny the casualness, the approaching.
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: Well see also it's uh, I like that.
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: It kind of is a big goof at the beginning,
• 38:40
  but there is there is a turn happening like that's yeah, yeah,
• 38:43
  there's a realization, albeit slow, very slow.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: But it's a fun revelation nonetheless.
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like it starts with like, well, haha, funny
• 38:55
  to mean, but now it's like they're all like, oh,
• 38:57
  this is kind of a little weird. Yeah, it's also
• 39:01
  funny that they're not more freaked out by it, where
• 39:04
  it not only knows all their names, but it's asking
• 39:06
  them the same questions and they're not really attributing a
• 39:09
  way to that yet, like they probably should be. I'm
• 39:14
  sure that will bode well for them in the future.
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: It'll be fine.
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they'll be okay. Martin Sessions seem longer than the others.
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: We stood outside drinking, talking about the happening so far
• 39:25
  and pulling out the occasional snack. That was a little
• 39:28
  bit traumatizing, said Eleanora. Kevin pointed to her and then
• 39:32
  up to the treehouse.
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: Agreed, this is kind of messed up. Yeah, but that's
• 39:37
  the point. We seek out spooky happenings all the time
• 39:39
  and we never get lucky. This is an actual, legit,
• 39:43
  supernatural experience. I feel like we have to take advantage
• 39:46
  of it, even if it's asking us personal stuff.
• 39:49
  Speaker 4: What does it want that for?
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: Followed up Eleanora.
• 39:52
  Speaker 4: I shrugged, Well, the biggest fear question was pretty weird.
• 39:56
  I didn't feel too worried that a spirit knew what
• 39:58
  my favorite food was or what my name was. Our
• 40:00
  conversation was interrupted by the sound of someone climbing down
• 40:03
  from the treehouse. Martin had finished up his session. It
• 40:06
  felt like it had been thirty minutes, which topped the
• 40:09
  rest of our sessions. We bombarded Martin with questions as
• 40:12
  he reached the ground. It looked more shell shocked than
• 40:14
  Eleonora did.
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: That was pretty fucked up. What did it ask you
• 40:18
  my biggest sphere? It's weird, but it felt like it
• 40:21
  didn't like my answer to that one. It almost seemed annoyed.
• 40:28
  So was it just silent for a while after that? No,
• 40:31
  it asked me way more things after. What was the
• 40:33
  happiest moment of my life was who I was most
• 40:36
  jealous of? Who my biggest life dream was.
• 40:39
  Speaker 4: All that stuff, there's a lot of questions then finally
• 40:43
  I just wrapped up with thank you and that was it.
• 40:48
  He said his biggest fear was like spiders or something,
• 40:53
  so it did a psychevall on him to find out
• 40:55
  who rule It would hurt the most for him to lose. God,
• 40:59
  just it's gonna say in them to the stratosphere. It's
• 41:02
  also funny to be like, yeah, I made that ghost
• 41:05
  pretty mad anyway.
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: Kevin, Sorry, here up, buddy.
• 41:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah. When I left, everything in the room started floating
• 41:13
  and the drumming was getting louder.
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: But I'm sure you'll be fine. Martin turned to Kevin.
• 41:20
  Speaker 4: You're up next. Kevin turned all of us. Here goes nothing.
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: It does feel like there's a giant asteroid adding towards Earth.
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: I know, I know.
• 41:34
  Speaker 4: It's like I keep thinking about that idea of like
• 41:38
  Kevin getting shot out of a cannon ball out of
• 41:41
  the side of the tree. It's like it's like they're
• 41:46
  playing hot potato with it, not hop pop goes the weasel,
• 41:50
  Like they're each like candily like huh, would this be funny?
• 41:52
  Would this will be funny? And then the last guy
• 41:54
  up is gonna get obliterated heat side and started climbing
• 41:59
  up to the treehouse. We watched him make his way
• 42:02
  to the top for the first time in the evening.
• 42:04
  I had to nod in my stomach. Yeah, you're right
• 42:07
  about there's a shift all of a sudden where it's
• 42:09
  like getting more serious. Only five minutes had passed since
• 42:11
  Kevin first went up, but he was already climbing down.
• 42:14
  He was shaking his head as he made his way
• 42:16
  down the ladder into our group.
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: Fuck that what happened, we asked him. He just shook
• 42:22
  his head. That shit's dangerous. We didn't get the fuck
• 42:25
  out of here asap.
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: I ever seen Kevin like this. He was uncharacteristically shook.
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: You have to tell us more.
• 42:31
  Speaker 4: What did it ask you? I mean, what did it say?
• 42:33
  Kevin ignored all our questions started packing up his bag.
• 42:36
  You guys can play with fire if you want, but
• 42:38
  I'm out of here. I suggest you guys come too.
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: I watched I s Martin and Eleanor started packing up
• 42:42
  as well.
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: I had bad feelings about this whole thing. I think
• 42:45
  we should leave.
• 42:46
  Speaker 4: Guys.
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: What the hell, Just because it's unselling doesn't mean we
• 42:49
  have to pack up. We could just hang out up
• 42:51
  there and do something else. This doesn't feel right.
• 42:55
  Speaker 4: Said Eleanora. I watched him as they took a few
• 42:57
  steps away from the treehouse towards the forest. You coming,
• 43:01
  asked Kevin. I stood my ground. Kevin just shook his
• 43:04
  head and started heading out on his way.
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: Suit yourself.
• 43:07
  Speaker 4: I had no idea what could have possibly happened up
• 43:09
  there that would have shooken him this much. He had
• 43:12
  already started walking as Martin and Eleanora pleaded with me
• 43:14
  to come with him. I said no, grudgingly. They all left.
• 43:18
  You're probably wondering, wasn't I scared, especially now that I
• 43:22
  was alone? The answer was yes.
• 43:24
  Speaker 3: But something in my soul told me that I was
• 43:27
  up next.
• 43:28
  Speaker 4: I spent my whole life waiting for something that was
• 43:31
  truly supernatural to happen, and now it was in front
• 43:35
  of me. My fingers jittering, climbed up to the treehouse
• 43:39
  as my friends departed. Something told me out Something in
• 43:42
  my soul told me I was up next. Yeah, the demon.
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no shit, it's your soul.
• 43:47
  Speaker 4: Now. It's kind of fun of like almost like it's
• 43:48
  planting a little seed in her mind. Yeah.
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, something something tells me I should go back up there.
• 43:56
  Speaker 4: There's like a forty foot tall goat behind you. Yeah, okay,
• 44:02
  if you tato demon. It took me a moment to
• 44:04
  pull together the bravery to put my hand on the
• 44:06
  plant shed. The candles are still lit, the setting was
• 44:10
  just right. Finally I spoke to the spirit.
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: Again, why are you asking us all these questions?
• 44:16
  Speaker 4: Nothing for a few minutes. Then my hand moved with
• 44:19
  the plan sheet slower than usual. The answer to confirm
• 44:25
  my suspicions. To confirm your suspicions of.
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: What movement from the plan sheet on the Luigi board.
• 44:31
  One of you is not who you say you are.
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: Like, what are you talking about?
• 44:36
  Speaker 4: I heard blood curdling shrieks coming from the forest outside
• 44:40
  the treehouse, like nothing I'd ever heard before. What the
• 44:44
  The plant sheet was moving on its own now I
• 44:46
  watched it go from letter to lever.
• 44:48
  Speaker 3: That is not Kevin. He is coming back for you.
• 44:52
  Speaker 4: Run and so I did. The small section of the
• 44:57
  city I live in is generally known to be haunted.
• 45:00
  I know why it's time for me to leave. Ah.
• 45:02
  What a fun man. That was great, What a little
• 45:06
  pepper at the end. I love that.
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: This is definitely one of the stories where you wish
• 45:10
  he had more. But at the same time, what a
• 45:12
  fun little you know, I do wish that there was
• 45:14
  just a little more to see. But this causes the
• 45:17
  nice fun question of let me ask you this, Isaiah,
• 45:19
  do you think the ghost is telling the truth? Can
• 45:22
  you trust this ghost? So so, what I think happened
• 45:24
  at that ending.
• 45:27
  Speaker 4: Is it mentioned at the beginning and then there again
• 45:30
  at the end that the whole city like has a
• 45:33
  history of ghosts and spirits and stuff like that, and
• 45:38
  it's almost like this ghost is interrogating them to make
• 45:42
  sure they're all normal humans. Right. That's why with Martin,
• 45:46
  when he answered the question about fear wrong, it had
• 45:48
  a lot of follow up questions, Like Eleanora and Jennifer
• 45:52
  gave questions that made sense.
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: It's like, oh, well, my biggest here is this. I
• 45:55
  like this, and spirits like yep, I'll check this out.
• 45:57
  Speaker 4: You're good. But then when Martin gave a weird question,
• 46:00
  it became like, okay, what about this, what's your fear desire?
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: And then he checked out.
• 46:04
  Speaker 4: But then we don't know what it said to Kevin,
• 46:06
  but we can assume that because of this, Kevin was
• 46:08
  possessed prior or had some spirit inside of him, So
• 46:12
  he's only up there for five minutes. The demon or
• 46:14
  the ghost figures it out and sends them on their way.
• 46:18
  So then Jennifer goes back and it's like, you need
• 46:21
  to get out of here because that's not Kevin, Like
• 46:23
  Kevin's been possessed and now the mask has been revealed.
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: It does a great job too, It's very cool. It
• 46:28
  does a great job in the story too. By isolating
• 46:31
  the people so you don't know who's saying what. There's
• 46:33
  a level of deception that happens almost immediately to where
• 46:37
  now you've been trusting these people coming down and saying, well,
• 46:39
  what are the things that they're saying? Right, you've had
• 46:42
  this level of acceptance of that. Now you're like, wow,
• 46:46
  has anybody has the things that people have been telling us?
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: Even that true? I don't know.
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: Uh, really really fun, really fun way to set up that, See,
• 46:53
  this is the kind of thing to you, or it'd
• 46:55
  be fun to explore more of these characters.
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: I like the kind of with that. I like the
• 47:00
  how goofy it kind of was.
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: It was a little cheesy, but at the same time,
• 47:04
  I think it did that intentionally because my guard was
• 47:06
  lowered almost immediately like I mean, I was just kind
• 47:08
  of we were just having fun with it. It's so
• 47:10
  obviously something horrifying, but then to switch it at the
• 47:13
  end where oh shit, it's maybe someone.
• 47:15
  Speaker 4: In the group. That makes a lot of fun. Yeah.
• 47:17
  Also someone I'm reading the replies right now, someone said,
• 47:20
  perhaps the ghost is the real Kevin who's died and
• 47:23
  now was in the afterlife and this thing's just assuming
• 47:26
  his identity, which I feel like it would know right
• 47:28
  away then when need to ask the rest of them questions.
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: But I mean, there's so many fun theories, like just
• 47:33
  let your mind run with it. I really liked that.
• 47:35
  Speaker 4: That was That's a fun little that's a very fun
• 47:39
  bite size story. There's a nice little piece of like
• 47:42
  mini horror that had like it was a fun payoff,
• 47:45
  like kind of goofy.
• 47:46
  Speaker 3: We were joking with it, but at the end there
• 47:48
  was bite.
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: It was good.
• 47:49
  Speaker 4: I liked it a lot. Sometimes it's nice just having
• 47:51
  that sting, you know, it's just nice to have that
• 47:53
  little just a little flash of lightning right at the end.
• 47:57
  It's fun. Yeah. Yeah, Like I said, worldwid tweeting on Reddit,
• 48:02
  they have a ton of stories. Most of them seem
• 48:04
  like these little bite sized horror. We'll certainly come back
• 48:06
  and check them out at some point. Can I see
• 48:09
  what they're Top voted of all time? Was that one
• 48:16
  has seven CODs? Top voted of all time? Is a
• 48:18
  story called a message appeared on everyone's screen in the
• 48:21
  world Hide. That's cool, it's like the same length sneak.
• 48:25
  Did we read that one? Uh?
• 48:28
  Speaker 3: No, we didn't.
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: Isn't that the one where isn't that the one where
• 48:32
  all the people they're in the apartment and like they
• 48:34
  hide in the they have to go play. They like
• 48:36
  everyone's hiding in their own spot. Remember in the apartment,
• 48:39
  all the friends over there hanging out.
• 48:42
  Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure we read that, man, what are you
• 48:44
  talking about?
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: This is it's that story where it's like all the
• 48:47
  buddies are hanging out at this apartment and then the
• 48:49
  thing flashes on the screen. It says hide, and they're
• 48:52
  like what and they hear the other people in the
• 48:54
  apartment and they have to like somebody hides under the bed,
• 48:57
  somebody hides in the closet.
• 48:59
  Speaker 3: Do you remember I have no memory of the story.
• 49:02
  Maybe I read that you without me.
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: Maybe that was one of the Patreon stories that did
• 49:06
  I just remember it was really good. It's it's really fun.
• 49:08
  But yeah, trying to I mean me, trying to recollect
• 49:10
  us a story. Good God, but I feel like I'm
• 49:12
  almost positive we read that on Patreon. Editor put it
• 49:15
  up here.
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: Did we do that?
• 49:16
  Speaker 4: There you go.
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: The next story we're reading is called Ronald McDonald House.
• 49:20
  And what I want to say here this is on
• 49:21
  the Creepy Pasta Wiki.
• 49:23
  Speaker 4: I love that.
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: First off, I just want to say it says in
• 49:26
  isn't that the categories It says mental illness, places, and weird,
• 49:32
  So you gotta love that. Which also, if you don't know,
• 49:35
  Ronal McDonald House is also a charity, so hopefully they
• 49:38
  hopefully they address that, don't sue us, and they don't
• 49:41
  and they don't know because yeah, this is actually a
• 49:44
  charity that they do.
• 49:45
  Speaker 4: So I'm curious the first line they literally say it. Okay,
• 49:49
  it's like last week, right when we did the three stories,
• 49:52
  we didn't say what the connection was, but there was
• 49:54
  like a hidden connection where it's like, oh, these are
• 49:56
  all about rituals or like spells and stuff like that.
• 49:59
  So there's like a hitting connectivity. Uh, you don't have
• 50:01
  to say it, but is there you pick these stories.
• 50:04
  Is there a connectivity between the last story and this one?
• 50:07
  The that I don't know.
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: We have like a little spreadsheet of stuff that's organized
• 50:12
  it was under And I might be wrong here, but
• 50:14
  I believe this is under the categories of trapped or.
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: Something like that.
• 50:19
  Speaker 4: I don't know. I'd have to see again.
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: But these are just some of the ones that were recommended,
• 50:23
  and I just thought that they sounded like. I really
• 50:25
  liked the title of the Ouiji ward one, and then
• 50:26
  I thought the ron McDonald house one was just kind
• 50:29
  of funny.
• 50:29
  Speaker 3: So no, it's just stuff for grab bags, Okay, all right?
• 50:32
  Speaker 4: Because I was because sudden, You're like, what does the
• 50:34
  Ronald McDonald house have to do with the Ouiji board?
• 50:38
  Speaker 3: Okay, but that makes more sense.
• 50:40
  Speaker 4: All right. So this story Ronald McDonald house was written
• 50:43
  by a user named Dee Kingsbury who looking at at
• 50:48
  least they're creepypasta wiki account. They posted this in twenty thirteen,
• 50:53
  so thirteen years ago and never did anything else.
• 50:56
  Speaker 3: Love that they have twelve edits, which I.
• 50:59
  Speaker 4: Think they're all edits to the one story I'm pretty sure,
• 51:03
  which I think I did this earlier, but I don't
• 51:06
  think they have any other. Yeah, they don't seem to
• 51:10
  have any other social media presence, at least none that
• 51:14
  I can see right away.
• 51:15
  Speaker 3: So yeah, this is their one and done. We'll leave
• 51:19
  a link to their creepypasta wiki and the description.
• 51:21
  Speaker 4: To the original story, and then if they ever do
• 51:24
  post in the future, you can check it out or
• 51:25
  know about it there. But I think this is the
• 51:28
  only thing they've ever posted, so that could be really
• 51:30
  good or really bad. Well, there's been a couple of
• 51:31
  times we found like one off stories that have been awesome.
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I mean, I don't be wrong just
• 51:37
  calling something wrong with Donald House. If this turns out
• 51:39
  to be a banger, I'm going to be so excited.
• 51:41
  It happens very rarely, you know that. The I still
• 51:44
  love my Little Pony story that we did, loved it,
• 51:47
  so who knows, but God forbid, we'll see.
• 51:50
  Speaker 3: The oh cupcakes. Yeah, yep, yeah, well you love that.
• 51:54
  Speaker 4: First.
• 51:55
  Speaker 3: It's brutal.
• 51:56
  Speaker 4: It was brutal. You have to admit what it was.
• 51:58
  Speaker 3: But that was probably we loved it for probably what was.
• 52:01
  Speaker 4: Not the author. That's fine though, I still loved it.
• 52:04
  I think it's fine. I mean, hey, I'm on this podcast.
• 52:07
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• 52:11
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  Seems pretty innocent, right, Well, there's another side of the charity.
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  There's another type of Ronald McDonald's house, one that not
• 54:00
  many people know about. There's one of most big cities.
• 54:03
  You won't find it by looking for it. It doesn't
• 54:06
  have an address, doesn't have a sign above the door,
• 54:09
  doesn't even have windows. No, the only way you'll see
• 54:12
  it is if you're taken there. That's how I found it. Oh,
• 54:15
  the way it was described initially, I thought it was
• 54:18
  like I thought it was supposed to be like a
• 54:21
  battered woman's shelter, where it's like, no, the addresses kept
• 54:25
  hidden for a reason so people can't find it.
• 54:27
  Speaker 3: But no, it's like it's a kidnapp thing. We're like,
• 54:30
  we're like.
• 54:30
  Speaker 4: Ronald, or Ronald is definitely stealing people. Yeah. I remember
• 54:34
  when I was in a high school, I was a
• 54:35
  part of this group where we did a bunch of
• 54:38
  charity work for the county, and there was this one
• 54:43
  organization where their whole thing is they have like houses
• 54:49
  set up and if there's ever a call from like
• 54:53
  a woman or a family who's like being beaten or
• 54:56
  abused or whatever, there's this group of people who will
• 54:58
  take them to one of these like safe houses effectively
• 55:01
  and keep them until the trial's done and stuff like that.
• 55:03
  Speaker 3: It's a pretty cool service. But I remember we really
• 55:05
  wanted to get like play stuff for the kids.
• 55:11
  Speaker 5: Uh.
• 55:11
  Speaker 4: We were like, oh, we'll put a little like playground
• 55:13
  in the backyards. You know, the kids don't have to
• 55:15
  be miserable or bored while they're there. And I remember
• 55:18
  it became this huge argument because everyone was like, no,
• 55:21
  if we put if we put playground stuff in the backyard,
• 55:24
  you know, the abuse, the abusive partners are going to
• 55:27
  recognize that immediately. Jesus, They're going to see and it's like,
• 55:30
  why an't these in houses like on the other side
• 55:32
  of the county.
• 55:33
  Speaker 3: And they're like yeah, but they'll be looking. They'll be looking.
• 55:36
  Speaker 4: It's like, well they if they won't be the only
• 55:38
  house in the county that adds like slide in the backyard,
• 55:43
  like it'll be okay. And I remember that.
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: They intentionally don't want them to have fun.
• 55:49
  Speaker 4: I remember like they kept being like, well, can't we
• 55:51
  give them some coloring books. It's like we can do
• 55:53
  that too, but it's like they're not going to find
• 55:55
  them because of a swing. And at one point someone
• 55:59
  was like, well, I would understand if you know the
• 56:03
  house didn't have a fence, and like, maybe your fear
• 56:05
  is that you know the the abusive person in question
• 56:08
  sees the kid from the road. And then the person
• 56:10
  who was arguing correcting was like, no, all these houses
• 56:12
  have like tall fences.
• 56:13
  Speaker 3: We're like, oh, well then what what what are we
• 56:16
  doing here?
• 56:17
  Speaker 4: What's the problem? Which we did eventually, I think, if
• 56:20
  I remember correctly, we did eventually win the argument and
• 56:24
  get like playground supplies to them. But I just that
• 56:29
  reminded me of that whole argument, like, no, if a
• 56:32
  house has a slide in it, immediately abusive partner's going
• 56:36
  to recognize that he's going to smell that from them
• 56:37
  all away. So Jesus Christ.
• 56:40
  Speaker 3: Anyway, after that fun anecdote, I've never met my real parents.
• 56:43
  Speaker 4: I've been in and out of foster families and group
• 56:45
  homes here in Detroit since I was a kid. I'm
• 56:47
  fifteen now, and I'm what you refer to as a
• 56:50
  bad kid, always causing trouble, always getting thrown out in
• 56:54
  place with another unsuspecting do gooder who thinks they can
• 56:57
  help me, and I always prove them wrong. Pace workers
• 57:00
  set across the black metal table, looking weary and frazzled.
• 57:04
  On the table between us was a thick, letter sized
• 57:06
  brown envelope, my case file.
• 57:09
  Speaker 6: Well, your reputation has preceded you, and now you only
• 57:15
  have two options. Military school in Lancing, well the Ronal
• 57:19
  McDonald House, which has miraculously cleared you for acceptance.
• 57:24
  Speaker 4: I did up the patients for drill sergeants and five
• 57:27
  am reveal And how bad could a halfway house named
• 57:30
  after a fast food clown possibly be Ronald McDonald's house.
• 57:34
  It was dark clouds loomed above me the day I
• 57:36
  climbed into the back of my caseworkers town car. My
• 57:40
  few belongings in a backpack and the clothes on my back.
• 57:43
  That was all I could take. One of those few
• 57:45
  belongings was a photo album filled with pictures of all
• 57:48
  the foster families I'd been with. It was nice to
• 57:51
  remember some of them, even though I had royally screwed
• 57:54
  it up each time. I've had a few cases who
• 57:56
  went through Ronald McDonald.
• 57:57
  Speaker 3: House, caseworkers said from the front seat.
• 58:00
  Speaker 2: Things went so well for those kids. I never had
• 58:02
  to transfer them anywhere else. In fact, the house took
• 58:05
  over the case files and everything.
• 58:08
  Speaker 3: Can they do that?
• 58:10
  Speaker 4: No?
• 58:10
  Speaker 3: I don't No, I don't think it works that way.
• 58:12
  Speaker 4: Now the kids would die, and I never seen. The
• 58:17
  kids are dead and not my problem. Most importantly, we
• 58:20
  drove into downtown Detroit, past all the familiar landmarks. I'd
• 58:25
  been thrown out of one foster home just outside town
• 58:27
  because I snuck into downtown Detroit with some neighbor kids
• 58:30
  to sink into a dive bar. Good times. Yep, here
• 58:34
  we are.
• 58:34
  Speaker 3: A car came to a stop.
• 58:36
  Speaker 4: We had parked in front of a tall, gray, windowless building,
• 58:40
  sandwich between two other industrial buildings on a narrow city street.
• 58:44
  Speaker 3: I don't think that's what the Ronald McDonald's does look like.
• 58:47
  Speaker 4: I don't think they look like brutalist architecture the middle
• 58:50
  of downtown. I noticed there's an address on the building
• 58:53
  to my left and one on the right, but not
• 58:55
  on this particular building, not even a sign. Are you sure,
• 59:01
  I asked, hesitating, as I opened the car door and
• 59:03
  climbed out of the back seat. I slung my backpack
• 59:06
  over my shoulder, clinging tightly to the strap, and followed
• 59:09
  the case worker up to the windowless metal doors. She
• 59:12
  pressed a buzzer spoke to someone inside, and the doors
• 59:15
  clicked to unlock. We walked in. As soon as the
• 59:18
  metal doors closed behind us, I noticed the pin drop silence.
• 59:21
  It was that sort of silence that's so oppressive and
• 59:24
  empty and almost deafened you. Across the dimly lit lobby
• 59:29
  there was a glass window with someone inside, a secretary.
• 59:33
  She was turned away, typing something intently. We walked over
• 59:37
  to the window. The case worker rang a bell on
• 59:39
  the counter, and the secretary spun around in her chair.
• 59:42
  Her face was painted like a clown, like Ronald McDonald.
• 59:46
  Speaker 3: In fact, get me out of.
• 59:53
  Speaker 5: Solitary.
• 59:59
  Speaker 3: You want me two?
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 4: That is this one? You know, I always I always
• 1:00:04
  wanted to support my country. Actually, I always felt like
• 1:00:07
  that was important. So she even had the short, curly
• 1:00:13
  red hair. Otherwise she wore a typical white nurses dress.
• 1:00:18
  Oh my god, what you got there, Billy. I wanted
• 1:00:22
  to laugh at how bizarre it was, but I couldn't.
• 1:00:25
  A chill swept down my spine. Something was not right.
• 1:00:29
  I watched as the nurse and my caseworker interacted. Paperwork
• 1:00:32
  was passed through the window. The case slid, my case
• 1:00:35
  fall under the glasses. The nurse slid her some papers
• 1:00:37
  to sign. As my caseworker signed the papers, the nurse
• 1:00:40
  looked at me. Her smile should have been warm and welcoming,
• 1:00:44
  and all I saw in her eyes was hunger.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 3: Excuse me, excuse me.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 4: I can't stay here. Take me to the military school
• 1:00:53
  and lancing place.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 3: What's the matter, the nurse asked, her voice muffled slightly
• 1:00:58
  by the glass.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 4: You clown, Yes, yes, motherfucker, I am that case worker, like,
• 1:01:08
  please just shoot me in the head, Please just kill
• 1:01:10
  me right here. I looked into her hungry eyes. I
• 1:01:14
  don't like how the eyes keep being described as hungry.
• 1:01:17
  Now there was a malicious glint as she laughed. A
• 1:01:19
  caseworker laughed too obliviously and said, no.
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: No, don't overreact.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 4: You'd hate the military school. Besides, this would be good
• 1:01:27
  for you. Yeah, this would be good for you.
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 3: Before I could object, I heard a slam behind me.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 4: It's went around to see an open door in the
• 1:01:36
  far corner of the lobby, to the left of the
• 1:01:38
  front desk window.
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 3: There was no one there, just some light that flooded in.
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 4: Then creeping shadows, shrill, echoing laughter, and growing shadows along
• 1:01:48
  the wall inside the door.
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: No here comes the welcome committee.
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 4: As I stared in horror, clutching the strap of my backpack,
• 1:01:57
  my caseworker patted.
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: Me on the shoulder for the last last time.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 4: Don't worry, honey, it'll be different this time. You'll feel
• 1:02:05
  right at home here, I promise. She turned to go.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 3: I felt bile churning in my stomach.
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: No, you can't leave me here.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 4: Oh no, I've gotta get going.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: I never did like clown me and either bitch, God help,
• 1:02:20
  That's what I was saying.
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 4: Getting She's getting into the car, and he's pressed up
• 1:02:28
  against the glass like please, God help, and you see
• 1:02:31
  like a bunch of Ronalds pulling him off the window.
• 1:02:35
  And with that she left me there. The metal doors
• 1:02:37
  slam behind her, and I was alone. I faced the
• 1:02:40
  open doorway by the front desk again. The shadows had
• 1:02:42
  almost entered the room, and the piercing laughter was filling
• 1:02:45
  the lobby with sound. I ran for the front doors.
• 1:02:48
  I pounded and yanked and pushed and screamed, screamed for help,
• 1:02:52
  screamed for my caseworker, screamed for he please God. I
• 1:02:56
  turned to see the nurse behind the glass smiling at
• 1:02:58
  me again. Then when they entered a whole group of
• 1:03:02
  laughing nurses with clown faces and red hair. Some were male,
• 1:03:06
  some female that all had the same terrifying Ronald McDonald's makeup,
• 1:03:11
  and in the dim light of the lobby, I could
• 1:03:12
  see the glint of metal tools in their hands. Bringing
• 1:03:15
  up the rear was a pair of clown nurses rolling
• 1:03:17
  the metal table, complete with restraints. Get the fuck away
• 1:03:21
  from me, I screamed. I pounded at the metal doors again.
• 1:03:25
  Here they surrounded me, grabbed me as I thrashed and
• 1:03:29
  screamed and tried to tear myself away, laughed as I
• 1:03:32
  kicked and squirmed. They slammed me onto the rolling table
• 1:03:35
  and strapped me down. Looked around wildly. I was surrounded.
• 1:03:39
  Let me go, I screamed, twisting and turning and pulling
• 1:03:42
  out the restraints. They rolled me through the open doorway
• 1:03:45
  and down a seemingly endless white hallway.
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 3: They laughed and laughed and laughed.
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 4: They waved their shiny scalpels and razors and needles mere
• 1:03:54
  inches from my face just to make me flinch and scream.
• 1:03:57
  It made them laugh even harder. Last thing I remember
• 1:04:00
  before one of them finally injected me was the hands.
• 1:04:04
  Glove fingers prodded inside my mouth and pulled up my lips,
• 1:04:07
  distorting my screams and forcing an unnatural grin onto my
• 1:04:11
  tears streaked, sweaty face. Hot rancid breath was in my face,
• 1:04:16
  and a whispered, perverted voice spoke the.
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 3: Words, we love to see you smile.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 4: Then this, the maniacal laughter, seemed to warp and wind
• 1:04:25
  down like a dying record player. Everything faded to black.
• 1:04:30
  I feel I feel like, so this is someone venting
• 1:04:35
  a lot about like a deep fear of clowns. I guess, well,
• 1:04:40
  I just.
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 2: I mean, it goes from here's the thing. It's ridiculous.
• 1:04:43
  It goes from a zero to one hundred and zero
• 1:04:44
  to a million so quickly. At the same time, though,
• 1:04:48
  it's at least it's going for it. I mean, yeah, boring,
• 1:04:52
  no exactly. I'm just saying from the happy happy shit,
• 1:04:54
  It's just like, at least it's like it's just being like,
• 1:04:57
  I mean, we're fucking here, we're in Ron McDonald's fucking
• 1:05:00
  murder factory whatever.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 4: I mean, it's we're at least we're here and going,
• 1:05:04
  you know, yeah, we're doing something with our time. I
• 1:05:06
  suppose it. It is insane how quickly it goes from
• 1:05:12
  Oh well, I uh, you know, I was a bad kid.
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 3: I got moved from house to house anyway.
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 4: A posse of Ronald McDonald clowns strapped me to a
• 1:05:20
  table and injected me.
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: Oh absolutely, but yeah, no, I mean absolutely it is.
• 1:05:24
  It's a zero to one hundred yeah for sure.
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 4: Absolutely out in my eyes and was blinded by bright
• 1:05:29
  lights above, shielding my groggy gaze from the fluorescent bulbs.
• 1:05:33
  I turned on my side and looked around a cell, tall,
• 1:05:36
  white walls covered in scratch marks and stains. There's a
• 1:05:40
  small drain in the corner of the floor, my toilet,
• 1:05:43
  perhaps a door with no windows, and on the floor
• 1:05:46
  by the door, I backpack. I tried to sit up.
• 1:05:49
  My body ached, and the moment I was upright, my
• 1:05:51
  vision started spinning. I wondered what they drugged me with.
• 1:05:55
  I realized I was shivering. I looked down. I was
• 1:05:59
  wearing my own clothes and he more. I was wearing
• 1:06:01
  a dirty, ripped hospital gown, bright yellow with the pattern
• 1:06:04
  of Ronald McDonald's heads all over nothing underneath. I heard faint,
• 1:06:09
  muffled sounds from somewhere in the building sounded like screams.
• 1:06:13
  I tried to stand, but couldn't keep my balance. My
• 1:06:17
  vision was beginning to stabilize, but my body still felt
• 1:06:19
  like rubber. I sank to my knees and crawled over
• 1:06:22
  to my backpack. Before I got there, I tried to
• 1:06:25
  open the door. As expected, it was locked. I slumped
• 1:06:28
  onto the floor beside my backpack and then zipped it.
• 1:06:31
  All that remained inside was the photo album, taken my
• 1:06:34
  notebooks and pins, and my cell phone. Of course they
• 1:06:37
  had I really opened the photo album. Instead of the
• 1:06:40
  photos that had been in there, ones of myself with
• 1:06:42
  my previous foster families, photos were I'd attempted to look
• 1:06:45
  happy and hopefully.
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 3: Even though I knew I wouldn't be there for long.
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 4: Instead of those photos, they were crime scene photos, and
• 1:06:52
  in each one I recognized one of my former foster
• 1:06:54
  families brutally murdered and covered in blood.
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, But though we didn't say that, this story
• 1:07:01
  was written back during the kind of the peak, So
• 1:07:03
  I'm glad that it was almost a hyper realistic blood
• 1:07:05
  it means I.
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 3: Love it is an actual crime scene.
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 4: So I guess the clowns murder everyone you've known all
• 1:07:13
  the foster families. You've known.
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 3: That's their strategy.
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 4: I guess. My heart raced and my stomach churned. I
• 1:07:19
  began to turn the pages quicker. Each page, a new photo,
• 1:07:22
  a new family, new carnage. I recognized their faces and
• 1:07:26
  the inside of their homes. I lived with these people,
• 1:07:29
  and now they were all dead. I came to the
• 1:07:32
  last few pages. There was a photo of a house
• 1:07:34
  at night, then a window of that house, then inside
• 1:07:37
  the house, a dark hallway with light coming from one doorway.
• 1:07:41
  Then a photo of my caseworker rushing her teeth in
• 1:07:44
  the bathroom mirror. Then a photo of her looking at
• 1:07:47
  the camera and horror. Then a photo of her naked,
• 1:07:50
  covered in her own blood, contorted into an unnatural position
• 1:07:54
  in her bathtub. I turned to the last page. Written
• 1:07:57
  inside the back cover of the photo album were three
• 1:08:00
  words you never existed.
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 2: They fucking just a naked woman covered in blood and
• 1:08:11
  like a goddamn origami pose in some bath zeb and
• 1:08:15
  Ra McDonald's.
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 4: Just like you never enised.
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 3: This was the thing with a lot of the old ones,
• 1:08:23
  where it's like.
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 4: It's a story with just the most brutal over, like
• 1:08:33
  the idea of a naked woman brutally murdered, like that's
• 1:08:36
  that's heavy, right, But the brutality is delivered by a
• 1:08:40
  fourteen year old who treats it with the same gravity
• 1:08:44
  as he does clown makeup. That just doesn't matter. It's
• 1:08:50
  the equivalent of kids that were like, yeah, like I
• 1:08:53
  set bugs on fire and I think it's and I
• 1:08:55
  hate my mom. I wish you was dead. It's like
• 1:08:57
  that kind of urbage. But in a story, I felt
• 1:09:03
  bile rising in my stomach. I threw the book to
• 1:09:05
  the ground, crawled over to the hole in the floor,
• 1:09:08
  and vomited. They were right. There was also a lot
• 1:09:10
  of vomiting in these old stories too. Oh yes, they
• 1:09:14
  were right. Having killed everyone who ever knew me, it
• 1:09:17
  was as though I never existed. I heard more faint
• 1:09:21
  screaming in the distance and knew I had to get out.
• 1:09:24
  I wiped the vomit off my face with my hospital
• 1:09:26
  gown and crawled back over to my backpack. Hopefully they
• 1:09:29
  hadn't found my secret weapon.
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 3: It was a glock.
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 4: Like what I had zipped the front pocket and reached
• 1:09:37
  down to the very bottom, my fingers scraping the fabric.
• 1:09:40
  Sure enough, there they were flushed with seams in the
• 1:09:44
  back nearly undetectable depends I used for picking lucks.
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 3: I told you I'm a bad kid. Oh yeah, let's go.
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 4: Let's go. That that gets the ncis like, yeah, exactly, Yeah,
• 1:10:02
  I told you I'm a bad kid. I laied against
• 1:10:06
  the door and listened. I could hear footsteps approaching, but
• 1:10:09
  just as soon as they arrived, they faded in the
• 1:10:11
  other direction.
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 3: I knew I had to so awesome.
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 4: Also again, this was Rent thirteen years ago, a highlight
• 1:10:19
  of Creepypasta days. This is definitely written by a kid,
• 1:10:23
  and you can tell because they use a lot of
• 1:10:26
  like set pieces from cartoons, like listening to the door,
• 1:10:30
  hearing the footsteps get closed and then go away.
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 3: Pretty sure that's in the Incredibles, you know, stuff like that.
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 4: And then like the thing earlier about like oh, all
• 1:10:40
  the clowns come, and then like you fade to black
• 1:10:42
  as it sounds like the voices are getting more distant.
• 1:10:44
  These are all cartoon motifs that they're using. I knew
• 1:10:47
  I had to work fast. I jiggled the handle with
• 1:10:50
  one hand and picked the lock with the other. It
• 1:10:52
  was surprisingly simple holding the handle, I slowly pulled myself
• 1:10:55
  to my feet. I could maintain my balance now. I
• 1:10:58
  pulled the door open just a crack. A clown nurse
• 1:11:01
  started past. My heart almost stopped, but his footsteps didn't slower,
• 1:11:06
  change and soon faded. He didn't notice me. I poked
• 1:11:10
  my head out the door. There were seemingly endless white
• 1:11:12
  hallways in either direction. The distant screams were louder now,
• 1:11:16
  coming from all around. Taking a deep breath, I stepped
• 1:11:19
  into the hallway and closed the door behind me. I
• 1:11:22
  decided to go to the right, passing doors identical to
• 1:11:25
  the one I had been in behind I heard screams
• 1:11:28
  and sobbing. I stopped for a moment at one door
• 1:11:31
  and heard the crying of a child inside. I juggled
• 1:11:33
  the handle to see if I could let him out.
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 3: Walked.
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 4: I kept moving, looking behind me every few seconds to
• 1:11:39
  make sure no nurses had come into the hallway. Then
• 1:11:42
  I passed a set of white double doors. I stopped again.
• 1:11:46
  The word play place was written in tall, thin letters
• 1:11:49
  across the width of both doors. I heard more screaming
• 1:11:53
  coming from within, the screams of multiple people and laughter,
• 1:11:57
  The insane shrill laughter of the clownner.
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 3: I shuddered.
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 4: I was afraid to find out what sort of torture
• 1:12:04
  was happening inside, and I knew I had to keep moving.
• 1:12:07
  I saw a door ahead with a stairway symbol and
• 1:12:10
  headed for it. As I opened the door, I glanced
• 1:12:12
  behind me and saw two clown nurses emerging from the
• 1:12:15
  play place room. Their white nurse outfits were covered in
• 1:12:18
  streaks of blood. I quickly shut myself into the stairwell,
• 1:12:21
  hoping they hadn't noticed me. The stairwell was dimly lit,
• 1:12:24
  cement walls and rusty railings. I looked at the door
• 1:12:28
  I just closed. There was a red number five on it.
• 1:12:30
  I must have been on the fifth floor. I decided
• 1:12:33
  I had to get to the ground level. Each footstep
• 1:12:35
  echoed as I began to descend the stairs. I couldn't
• 1:12:38
  hear the screaming anymore, just a low, deep humming sound
• 1:12:42
  like pipes in the walls. It was a welcome respite.
• 1:12:46
  It was a welcome respite. It's such an out of
• 1:12:48
  play sentence in this story, feels like it came out
• 1:12:53
  of wet field. To hear that word get thrown in
• 1:12:57
  with the bloody Ronald McDonald cost.
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: I finally came to the door numbered one.
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  Speaker 4: The staircase seemed to descend a few floors lower, but
• 1:13:09
  I stopped here and slowly peeked through the door. More
• 1:13:12
  white hallways, no clown nurses to be seen. So far,
• 1:13:16
  so good. I stepped through the door and walked into
• 1:13:19
  the hallway. I noticed I couldn't hear any screaming on
• 1:13:22
  this floor, just the buzz of the fluorescent tube lights above.
• 1:13:26
  I not to derail off of this, but I knew
• 1:13:29
  the respite thing reminded me of something. Do you remember
• 1:13:32
  the story about the Slips that we called polyamorous hell?
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, okay. In that story, I think the word crestfallen
• 1:13:40
  showed up three.
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 4: In the midst of like the crush fallen dude. Yeah,
• 1:13:47
  in the midst of the Reddit fan fiction. It uses
• 1:13:49
  a word from like the seventeen hundreds out of nowhere.
• 1:13:53
  It's a damn good word. That's what that reminded me of.
• 1:13:57
  For a spite and the Ronald McDonald killer clown the
• 1:14:00
  Silar store. It came to the end of the hallway
• 1:14:05
  and another set of double doors. A large red cross,
• 1:14:08
  the kind you'd see on a lifeguard stand or first
• 1:14:11
  aid kit was painted across the width of them.
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 3: I pressed my ear to one door.
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 4: All I heard was a slow, rhythmic pulse, like a
• 1:14:19
  machine at work, faintly a beeping sound like you'd hear
• 1:14:23
  in a hospital room. Please, please be the original Ronald McDonald,
• 1:14:29
  Please be the first one tied up to a chair,
• 1:14:31
  kept alive by machines, like house from a fallout New Vegas.
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 3: Please.
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 4: I knew I shouldn't have opened the door. I knew
• 1:14:39
  this wasn't the exit, that I should keep looking, but
• 1:14:42
  I had to see. I turned the handle. It wasn't locked.
• 1:14:47
  I peeked inside. It was a cavernous white room. Fluorescent
• 1:14:52
  lights flickered and buzzed. I saw wires hanging all around
• 1:14:58
  and hanging from the ceiling in rows. Kids not dang it.
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 3: I want, I want. I want to be Ronald.
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 4: Kids in hospital gowns like mine, attached to white wooden
• 1:15:10
  crosses affixed. Jesus God, damn, it's a funny children. Good Lord.
• 1:15:24
  Do you see what I mean by the like I
• 1:15:25
  set bugs on fire like kind of ideas? He's a
• 1:15:30
  bad kid. I'm a bad kid. I read about other
• 1:15:33
  kids getting crucified on the ceilings of the Ronald McDonald House,
• 1:15:40
  which I was like, when we start the story, it's
• 1:15:42
  gonna make a comment about, like, do you think it's
• 1:15:43
  kind of bad to like take an actual charity and tie.
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 3: Them to this, But this is so like it's whatever
• 1:15:49
  you want, dude.
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 4: Oh, call it the Wounded Warriors Project for all I
• 1:15:54
  care kids in hospital gowns like mine, attached to white
• 1:15:57
  wooden crosses a fixed to the ceiling, literally crucified. They
• 1:16:02
  were silent, their heads drooping forward, their eyes either closed
• 1:16:06
  or staring at nothing. Some seemed to twitch a bit,
• 1:16:09
  but most were still. Their crosses swung back and forth
• 1:16:13
  very slightly. And the hanging wires they weren't wires. They
• 1:16:18
  were intravenous tubes attached to the kid's wrists, tubes sucking
• 1:16:24
  out their blood. I almost vomited again right then and there,
• 1:16:28
  there we go, vomit in the very center of the room,
• 1:16:31
  amidst the rows of hanging crosses. I could see where
• 1:16:34
  the rhythmic pulsing sound came from, a huge steel cylinder
• 1:16:38
  which seemed to be collecting the blood from all the
• 1:16:41
  tangled tubes that dangled from the kid's wrists. I gets
• 1:16:43
  still be right about the Ronald thing. I could silly
• 1:16:46
  right about the Ronald thing.
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 3: It could be it.
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 4: I opened my mouth to scream, to cry out in anger.
• 1:16:52
  All I could say was what the fuck? And my
• 1:16:56
  mom can't stop me from typing that here because she
• 1:16:58
  doesn't know about creepypasta. She saw my Instagram account and
• 1:17:02
  made me stop there, but she doesn't know about this website.
• 1:17:07
  That was when the alarms began to sound, loud and piercing,
• 1:17:10
  like the police sirens of Hell. They must have realized
• 1:17:13
  I was missing. I shut the doors and frantically glanced.
• 1:17:16
  I shut the doors and frantically glanced around the hallway
• 1:17:19
  to see if anyone was coming. No signs yet. I
• 1:17:22
  ran for the stairwell. As soon as I entered it,
• 1:17:24
  I heard laughter from above, echoing and reverberating. The clown
• 1:17:28
  nurses were coming. I stumbled down the stairs as fast
• 1:17:32
  as I could. I must have gone another three stories
• 1:17:34
  before I reached the basement. I found myself running through
• 1:17:38
  a dark, sewer light hallway with small light bulbs overhead
• 1:17:41
  every ten yards or so. The smell of decay and
• 1:17:44
  rotting flesh grew more and more pungent as I ran.
• 1:17:48
  The laughter continued behind me. I managed to glance over
• 1:17:51
  my shoulder and see a group of them running after me.
• 1:17:53
  I saw them come into the light, then become silhouettes again,
• 1:17:57
  their smiling faces, gleaming knives and knee Pushing my adrenalin
• 1:18:01
  into the max, I ran past alcoves full of stacked,
• 1:18:04
  rotting corpses. But I couldn't stop. I couldn't think of
• 1:18:08
  anything but escape again, the flippidness that just children's bodies
• 1:18:12
  are inserted into the story, just literally piled up in
• 1:18:16
  the sewer. It's a classic, it's a classic trope. Oh.
• 1:18:19
  Then I turned a corner and found myself facing the
• 1:18:22
  metal rungs of a ladder in the wall. I climbed
• 1:18:24
  till my head smacked the ceiling below me. The shadows
• 1:18:28
  and laughter grew closer, their footsteps slowed. They were close,
• 1:18:31
  and they knew it. I pushed at the ceiling above me,
• 1:18:34
  heaving upward and panting and screaming. The clowns were below me,
• 1:18:38
  laughing and waving their scalpels. Something cut my leg. I
• 1:18:42
  screamed to push one last time. The ceiling gave way
• 1:18:45
  as the manhole cover slammed onto an asphalt above circular opening.
• 1:18:50
  I climbed out of frantically pushed the cover back over
• 1:18:52
  the hole, blocking out the laughter of the clown nurses below.
• 1:18:56
  I lay there on top of the manhole cover for
• 1:18:58
  a few minutes. As I caught my breath, rain fell
• 1:19:00
  into my skin. The turbulent night sky above was a
• 1:19:03
  welcoming sight. I looked around, abandoned buildings, broken glass, no lights,
• 1:19:10
  no cars, no signs of any life at all. A
• 1:19:12
  police siren somewhere in the distance. In silence. I climbed
• 1:19:16
  to my feet. Pain shot through my leg. I looked
• 1:19:19
  down and saw the cut of my ankle where clownners
• 1:19:22
  it slashed me. Bastards living the best I could. I
• 1:19:27
  started to walk, Hello, I called out. The only answer
• 1:19:30
  was a distant roll of thunder. Somebody help me please.
• 1:19:35
  My foot fell on something soft and mushy. I looked
• 1:19:38
  down a newspaper. I peeled it off the wet asphalt.
• 1:19:43
  Most of the ink faded, but I was able to
• 1:19:45
  make out the date, July thirteenth, nineteen ninety two. What
• 1:19:56
  the time travel thing? I don't know? What have Oh wait,
• 1:20:01
  why did he travel? Don't know yet? Why did that?
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 3: Okay? Um, all right?
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 4: I dropped it an icy dread feeling my stomach. I
• 1:20:18
  kept walking.
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 1: Can anyone hear me?
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 4: Please? Anyone? Please? My words faded into delirious sobs. I
• 1:20:28
  stood still for a moment. The rain had soaked through
• 1:20:30
  my thin hospital gown. I shivered as the wind blew.
• 1:20:35
  Then I saw a light in the distance. It was
• 1:20:38
  a big yellow M in the sky. I McDonald's, of course.
• 1:20:44
  I leaped toward it. When I got to the place,
• 1:20:47
  I saw that, apart from the M, the rest of
• 1:20:49
  the building was completely dark. I walked cautiously toward the
• 1:20:53
  broken windows and looked inside darkness. I turned and surveyed
• 1:20:58
  the play place. Outdoor playground ten foot tall structures of
• 1:21:01
  colored tubes for kids to crawl through. Sitting at one
• 1:21:05
  of the benches was a familiar figure of Ronald McDonald's statue.
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 3: You know the one, You know, the one.
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 4: Where you can sit beside him and it looks like
• 1:21:15
  he's got his arms around your shoulders. Every kid's seen it.
• 1:21:19
  I shuddered at the sight. The doors were unlocked. I
• 1:21:24
  walked in out of the rain, silence, darkness. I noticed
• 1:21:29
  that the decor wasn't like the modern McDonald's. U see
• 1:21:32
  it was the same as it was in the eighties,
• 1:21:34
  with white plastic booths and red and yellow tiles. The
• 1:21:38
  wind seemed to whisper through the broken windows. I noticed
• 1:21:41
  something on the front counter, a black rectangle. I got closer.
• 1:21:46
  A laptop, a nearly new laptop. I let out a soft,
• 1:21:51
  delirious laugh. I knew what I was supposed to do.
• 1:21:55
  I took the laptop outside and set beside the Ronald statue.
• 1:21:59
  I opened it and began to type the story. The
• 1:22:03
  rain is falling on the keys, but I don't care.
• 1:22:06
  There's nothing left to do now but wait, because I've
• 1:22:09
  been noticing out of the corner of my eye Ronald
• 1:22:14
  is trying to look over my shoulder.
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 3: He's laughing. Now all I can do is join him.
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 4: Dun, dun, dumb.
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 2: You know what, for a classic creepypasta story doesn't make
• 1:22:27
  any fuck.
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 1: I mean, like, it's so it's so random. Yeah, but
• 1:22:31
  there's just that charm.
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 4: Man.
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 2: I always love when we kind of come across these
• 1:22:34
  old classics from over a decade ago and it still
• 1:22:37
  just has like a little bit of charm. The children
• 1:22:39
  crucified on the ceiling is the true charriot.
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 4: That's so good and I choose to believe that the thing,
• 1:22:45
  and I was right, and the thing inside of the
• 1:22:47
  cylinder was the original Ronald McDonald.
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, like he's like a little embryo kind of Yeah,
• 1:22:52
  some kind of weird thing, you know what. All and
• 1:22:55
  all pretty fun. Also fun to have if you have
• 1:22:57
  the exact same Ronald McDonald bitch I do. I had
• 1:23:01
  a nineteen eighty five Ronald McDonald's statue and it's I'm
• 1:23:04
  looking at it right now.
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 1: He's beautiful.
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and the bench and the bench, so you could go,
• 1:23:09
  you you could be the kid and you can join Ronald.
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 2: I will I will make my own Rob McDonald house,
• 1:23:15
  and before too long, I will crucify.
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 4: Children and put them up on my ceiling. That's just
• 1:23:19
  has to do. These are just so interesting to me
• 1:23:21
  because it's like, what was the train of thought that
• 1:23:24
  led to it.
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 3: It's like this kid's let's see an image of.
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 4: Like an eighties McDonald's with like the old boosts and stuff,
• 1:23:31
  and he got kind of like the liminal feeling that's
• 1:23:33
  been you know, super you know, played out now. But
• 1:23:37
  I think kids just write things from what they know,
• 1:23:40
  you know. I mean, like it's just this idea it's
• 1:23:41
  the same thing of why.
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 2: There's a squidward suicide and it's just these things of
• 1:23:46
  they just know about it, they know other kids know
• 1:23:48
  about it, and it's just there's just the level of innocence.
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 4: It's so funny too.
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 2: It's just like, what's the most what's the weirdest, most
• 1:23:55
  fucked up thing I can think of too and put
• 1:23:57
  into a story. And I love that the story doesn't
• 1:24:00
  really have like any real purpose besides being like what
• 1:24:04
  if what if there's a place where ron the people
• 1:24:06
  dressed up like clowns and they tried killing you? But
• 1:24:09
  there's no real explanation anything. It's just like these little
• 1:24:11
  vignettes of like crazy thoughts and there's like a really
• 1:24:14
  there's like an interesting charm to that.
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 1: It's just from a different time, you know. I just
• 1:24:18
  that's that's why I like it.
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 4: It's fun. Yeah, yeah, I like the uh. I like
• 1:24:24
  the how it goes from like, oh, I was a
• 1:24:28
  bad kid, so anyway, here's the crazy nurses and it's
• 1:24:30
  the giant building and the kids are crucified. Anyway, I'm
• 1:24:33
  time traveled now for some reason to July thirteenth, nineteen
• 1:24:37
  ninety two. It's as far as I can find, does
• 1:24:38
  not mean anything like that date has no significance. And
• 1:24:42
  I'm in an old I can't tell, and I'm now
• 1:24:44
  part of the McDonald's collective, something that's not been brought
• 1:24:46
  up or mentioned at any point.
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 2: I can't tell if if that's supposed to be an
• 1:24:50
  extension of.
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 4: The Ron McDonald house is what I'm thinking it's maybe
• 1:24:54
  is either that or time travel? We just don't know.
• 1:24:57
  I don't know. Regardless, it was fun, so you know,
• 1:25:00
  it's a close it's a close one between the two.
• 1:25:02
  But I kinda say, I think I like that first
• 1:25:04
  story a touch better.
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Luigi Bordron was fund out. That's our episode today, guys.
• 1:25:09
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• 1:25:11
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• 1:25:23
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• 1:25:30
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• 1:25:31
  Speaker 3: Stay creeped.
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 4: Appreciate you guys, and the motorcycle wreck was very cool
• 1:25:37
  and scary and brave of me in the time. The
• 1:25:40
  video just didn't do it justice and Hunter's wrong for
• 1:25:43
  making fun of me for it. So just remember that
• 1:25:46
  I'm I'm special.
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 3: Bye.