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- 0:20Everybody in serial killer country.
- 0:22My name is Brittany. Ransom, and my name is Brian jr.
- 0:25And this is when Killers get caught a podcast devoted to deep
- 0:27dives, into the lives. And psyches of the Eller's, we
- 0:30love to learn about each week. Brian, I find a True Crime Story
- 0:33that resonated with us and I will discuss one well-known or
- 0:36lesser known killer go deep into their childhood lies
- 0:38methodology, and most importantly how they got caught,
- 0:42and then we get a little spooky and we'll learn something about
- 0:44Cryptids or the supernatural with Brian.
- 0:47Ye never know what to say. That's me.
- 0:54Yes, that's me. But yeah, so I guess it's just
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- 2:02Exactly. Lady.
- 2:03Hey, but either way, this weekend, true cry, I happened to
- 2:09come across a video of the New York Post about a woman who, how
- 2:16do I explain this? So she got arrested first, we'll
- 2:19explain that part. First, she got arrested for
- 2:21like, oh, here we go. So her name is Jessica Boomer
- 2:27shine and this happen In Ohio and she was arrested for
- 2:32breaking into an 85 year old home and assaulting him at
- 2:35gunpoint. And so she's in Dayton Ohio and
- 2:40like, the booking area. And so there's a video.
- 2:44The video is Hershey while she's waiting for booking.
- 2:47I don't know why she thought this would work, but she stands
- 2:50up on her chair and tries to climb into the ceiling and her
- 2:55video camera. Yes, there is a, this video
- 2:58footage. Okay.
- 2:59So you guys CTU. So going on.
- 3:01Okay? And she, like, wriggles through
- 3:03the ceiling, but like, is I always say this to people all
- 3:08the time. It's not like the movies.
- 3:09Those drop ceilings cannot, hold people wait.
- 3:12Oh no. And so, she immediately falls
- 3:14back down. As soon as she gets up, like,
- 3:16they can barely. I bet they couldn't even hold my
- 3:18weight. And so on top of facing, you
- 3:22know, armed robbery charges and assaulting an 85 year old man.
- 3:27She's now facing charges for For trying to escape prison that she
- 3:32hadn't even gotten into yet, my God and destruction of property
- 3:36for ruining their ceiling. In central booking girl, you
- 3:40just you should just sit in your seat.
- 3:42She's looking, she's a little bruised in the face when I saw
- 3:44her like, well, you know, from the filigree, I think she was
- 3:49like a lot falls down and then she's like, dangling, so yeah,
- 3:53you can look it up. Online.
- 3:54Her name is Jessica Boomer shine and poor Jessica, no more.
- 3:58Jessica other fault. People are Not the smartest
- 4:01things don't work out the way movie.
- 4:02No, no, no. But that was the one that I saw
- 4:05and I just chuckled for entirely too long time.
- 4:08Hilarious. Hey, Mission possible.
- 4:12Yeah, Mission Impossible. That's true impossible.
- 4:14You going to get out of prison? Bam.
- 4:17Like what? Like and and like it's not even
- 4:19like because when I first saw like, you know, apparent
- 4:22jailbreak comes crashing down. I thought maybe she was in
- 4:26prison and she had orchestrated some sort of a Prison Break.
- 4:29Break. She was barely in.
- 4:32She had just gotten arrested in the booking section.
- 4:36Oh my goodness. Well, yeah.
- 4:38And then she like a foul on like a trashcan.
- 4:40It was just totally like you. You comedy?
- 4:43You poor stupid idiot. That's really what you got to
- 4:46say you poor idiot. Oh goodness, okay.
- 4:50Well hey guess what what? I got a story from PA.
- 4:55Oh good, I love this. One comes from Lackawanna
- 5:00County. I couldn't point that out on a
- 5:03map. I think it's East Northeast from
- 5:07I think Northeast from I think it's like Eastern.
- 5:11So like heading towards New York, I think it's heading
- 5:14towards like Like want to, like, I want to come on.
- 5:19I know where that's at. I think I've driven by their
- 5:21sounds familiar but I couldn't pull a map.
- 5:24I think it's around. The area has to be running are
- 5:26anyway. Headline reads, police break up
- 5:30exorcism at p8 Hometown about 10 times across all of my
- 5:35Pennsylvanian groups even in my local community like
- 5:39neighborhood group. This was posted, I found this
- 5:41was, this is actually opposed to in pain live.
- 5:43So it's been everywhere. All weekend.
- 5:47End. I I've been holding on to this.
- 5:49I was like, I saw it. It was like, saving you for
- 5:52Monday. I'm trying to like look at the
- 5:55map right now. Where are you?
- 5:57But it happened in Lackawanna. I didn't see where it happened.
- 5:59So it says, police and Lackawanna County broke up an
- 6:02exorcism in the lumber aisle of a home improvement store Monday.
- 6:05It was a Home Depot. So this was last Monday of the
- 6:0824th. Yeah, it was a Home Depot.
- 6:12So it says, right I guess. So it's not far from Scranton.
- 6:15Yes. Like I said, Northeastern
- 6:17Everybody knows screen. Yeah, the life of City.
- 6:22Yes, the whole office Electric City Electric City.
- 6:26They know is the electric city. Nothing.
- 6:29Going on his grain. Oh my God, I'm sorry, I'm such a
- 6:32filly snob, I'm so sorry terrible.
- 6:35I only love Philadelphia and I'm sad.
- 6:37I'm not there now. He gotta get some respect this
- 6:41great and just a little bit. I want to go back.
- 6:43Look for substrate and I know no to Philly.
- 6:53It says details of scares. What was actually going on
- 6:57inside the Home Depot for what? Okay.
- 7:00Did they say why they were doing the exorcism?
- 7:04It says for bed. It said it.
- 7:05Well, it says they were the police came.
- 7:07They scored people out for bad behavior.
- 7:11It was because of the trees. Yes, yes, yes, it's trying to
- 7:15exorcism Spirits out. The exorcism was held for the
- 7:20trees. I had to turn into Lumber.
- 7:22Yep. Beautiful, yeah.
- 7:24That's what I think of when I think of Pennsylvania that sort
- 7:27of weirdness. I don't even know how that would
- 7:29work. I've seen exorcisms before.
- 7:31Well, you know, you know, movies.
- 7:33Move Emily Rose. And well, I was thinking like,
- 7:36what? Rosewood level of Rosewood Emily
- 7:40Rose? Would you go?
- 7:41Oh my God, but I just don't know how to work out.
- 7:46You drove a holy water onto the lumber.
- 7:49Yep, it's been everywhere. Like, that's crazy.
- 7:52Um, yeah. So this easy but it definitely,
- 7:56I'd like, I definitely did see an article from Philadelphia
- 7:58that said it was Home Depot. Definitely Home Depot is what it
- 8:02says, it says, 3. 06 comers Boulevard at 3:26 p.m. comers
- 8:07move. Our at Home Depot.
- 8:09Yeah. Well you know, 3 p.m. is the
- 8:10witching hour, according to the spook it's 3:30 a.m. they had to
- 8:16be 3:30 a.m. It could have been 3:30 p.m. oh
- 8:19my goodness, listen 333, that's when the demons come out 12
- 8:23afternoon and in the morning. But we're the trees haunting
- 8:27Lindsey Graham's, you kids get off of school because that is
- 8:29what the demons get out. This is true.
- 8:31Now that makes a lot of sense now.
- 8:35Anyway, we're that. It doesn't say if the trees if
- 8:39they thought the trees were haunting the Home Depot or what
- 8:42is that mean? I could assume one would think,
- 8:44if you think that everything has a spirit.
- 8:46Maybe everything is haunting everything.
- 8:48Yeah, I guess, maybe he wanted to release his spirits.
- 8:50The tree Spirit I'm even is haunting me.
- 8:56Oh my God! The walls are made of wood
- 8:59aren't they? Inside my drawer?
- 9:02Listen. This building is not me that
- 9:05there's gotta be something in here.
- 9:07You think it's boring? Yeah, but that's about it.
- 9:09But send the wall show enough are not concrete because I can
- 9:12hear everything that's true. Somebody's upstairs.
- 9:16They're made out of paper. I can hear that hammer.
- 9:19So it wasn't made out of paper. So there you go.
- 9:23I don't complain because I feel like if you live in an apartment
- 9:25you just got to live with that stuff.
- 9:27That's true. It's true.
- 9:28You do you have not earned the right of privacy?
- 9:30Um, two more things it says closed. 200 comments on the post
- 9:35LG have begged for more details. They're not give me more details
- 9:39and then it says there's no indication incident had anything
- 9:43to do with the price of lumber. So wow.
- 9:47And it says, according to reports, no charges have been
- 9:49filed at this time. So I just want to know what that
- 9:53looked like, same. I just want to like, who was
- 9:56there working at Home Depot and they like, turn the aisle taken
- 10:00like, well, Paula and James who are redoing their R bathroom
- 10:05into the hole and there's just a bunch of people in capes.
- 10:08I just want to see someone posted ticks talk about because
- 10:11I know there's one out there has to be a video of it out there.
- 10:14Home Depot employees, come on. Help me out.
- 10:17I want to watch some videos. Well, the did you see the
- 10:19original Facebook post? Because what it was, it was a
- 10:22list of all of the criminal activity that happened on June
- 10:2521st. So it was like, you know, 12
- 10:28a.m. we were looking for a juvenile who was out when they
- 10:30weren't supposed to be and to 15 assault.
- 10:34Out to 58. Looking for the same people who
- 10:37saw the people earlier. God, 8:13 a.m. debris in the
- 10:41roadway 823 suspicious person on this blog, 836 Dollar, Tree lot
- 10:46for a dog waste complaint also is Lackawanna that free from
- 10:51crime that you call. When you see poop, it's great
- 10:56and we know it's great and it's up in Reading area, I'm not sure
- 10:59but yeah there was a traffic stop traffic stop welfare check
- 11:02on a person. And then, all of a sudden, it
- 11:04gets 2326 disorderly. People having an exorcism in the
- 11:10lumber aisle for dead tree, they were escorted out of the
- 11:13building. And what happened was somebody
- 11:15circled that and it got posted in my had to be Pennsylvania,
- 11:19group, and people were like, I don't even care about the rest
- 11:22of the day kids. Someone please give us more
- 11:24details about this. That's all I do.
- 11:26What I want more details about this exorcism.
- 11:28I need to know what the hell. Yeah.
- 11:33You know what, those someone that I says, why would someone
- 11:35call the police for dog poop in a parking lot?
- 11:38So once it's probably because somebody stepped in when they
- 11:40were getting out of her car, it was right next to where they go,
- 11:43like are But who knows they have II?
- 11:48That's been the talk of Pennsylvania which is let you
- 11:51know what's going on, Pennsylvania?
- 11:52Not much happening saying. This is where we are.
- 11:54Y'all pennsatucky is still pennsatucky.
- 11:59There you go. That's that's what I got for
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- 13:26Brittany that I sent you. But for the killer, I'm talking
- 13:39about this week, I have been generally trying to avoid what I
- 13:44call like the big time in serial killers in our, like, first year
- 13:48of doing this podcast, that's, you know, Bundy Ramirez Dahmer,
- 13:53Raider Ridgeway gay seek a Berkowitz, Manson game, and it's
- 13:58not just because I find them to be overdone, but there's
- 14:01actually like such a sheer volume.
- 14:05Of sources to sift through and so many different opinions that
- 14:11I find it very overwhelming and I would also like to be able to
- 14:15hire a researcher help me with the work for those kind of big
- 14:19ones. but, That said I've been kind of fixated on one of the
- 14:28big time. Okay who doesn't have that many
- 14:30murders under his belt and it's a hotly debated topic of that
- 14:35whether he's a serial killer or not because of the number of
- 14:38kills Who do you think I'm talking about?
- 14:43I don't know, thinking racking my brain over here.
- 14:49I don't know, Tommy, well, I'll give you a hint.
- 14:52He his like story is the backstory for some very iconic
- 15:00horror movies. Psycho Texas, Chainsaw Silence
- 15:05of the Lambs. So anybody else who's listening
- 15:08and like, probably banging your head on your car stealing, I
- 15:11will shut up again and so to a piece of our fans who keep
- 15:18wanting to know what my opinion, on some of the Big Ten are and
- 15:23also to satisfy my brains need to like mull over him for the
- 15:26last couple of weeks. I decided that we were going to
- 15:29talk about. Again, like I said, he inspired
- 15:33psycho because of the inappropriate relationship.
- 15:35He had with his mother, Texas Chainsaw Massacre because of the
- 15:38whole wearing people skin and so on The limbs because also, the
- 15:43wearing people skin. Yeah, I'm sure many of you
- 15:47listening, know a lot about him, but I do hope you learned
- 15:50something new because this is going to be more at.
- 15:52This is heavier into the people who raised him and his family
- 15:58long before he became the, the body snatcher that we know of
- 16:02where the the Butcher of Plainfield But yeah, a lot of
- 16:07this, what we're more, what started me on the rabbit hole
- 16:09here is a book called deviant the Shocking, True Story of Ed
- 16:13Gein. The original Psycho by Harold,
- 16:15Schechter, and that's where a lot.
- 16:18I found a lot of the history of his family.
- 16:21Hmm. Okay.
- 16:22So before we talk about Edward Theodore game or game game, I
- 16:27don't know. It's a German name.
- 16:29Let's talk a little bit about the family.
- 16:30He was born into and how I would say it almost seemed like his
- 16:34family started in tragedy. So we're checking 1879.
- 16:39George Keen is a little boy. He's only 3 years old.
- 16:46His family has a farm on Coon Valley Wisconsin, which is about
- 16:5015 miles outside of La Crosse. Wisconsin, George's mother,
- 16:55father, and older sister get into their horse-drawn carriage.
- 16:58They set out to go to town and they all died.
- 17:02Well, sounds like Jojo, the family got caught in a flash
- 17:06flood JoJo, borrows from a lot of history, but the family got
- 17:09caught in a flash flood while they were trying to cross the
- 17:11Mississippi River, which I didn't realize extends across
- 17:14all of America and George was orphaned at 3 years old.
- 17:21He was taken in by his maternal, grandparents, who lived in an
- 17:23ear at a nearby Farm. There aren't a whole lot of
- 17:26details about his life here, especially since it was 1800s.
- 17:30Midwest, orphans are actually really common in history back
- 17:34then because of how hard life was.
- 17:36Yeah, okay. Outside of his family dying when
- 17:39he was a child, he lived a very mundane and kind of normal early
- 17:44life. He went to elementary school.
- 17:45He began an apprenticeship at a local blacksmith.
- 17:49He did that in his twenties. Until he decided that Country
- 17:52Life wasn't really for him and he moved to the nearest like
- 17:55bigger city. Another common aspect of both
- 17:59adolescents than and now we all turn, you know, 18 and want to
- 18:03like run away very true. That's not what I did.
- 18:06I left here when lived in Philadelphia from a decade but
- 18:09George got. As far as La Crosse, he was a
- 18:12Drifter who couldn't really keep a job.
- 18:14He sold insurance, he tried to Apprentice as a carpenter, he
- 18:16worked at a Tannery, he worked at the city power plan.
- 18:19He got a job working on. Chicago, Milwaukee, and st.
- 18:22Paul, Railway back, when there were just like a couple of
- 18:26routes, both of my sources mentioned that.
- 18:30During this time, he picked up a mighty, big drinking habit, like
- 18:35not just, but like, all of the sources reference, the fact that
- 18:39while when he moved it across, he picked up the bottle, he
- 18:42liked to drink, he liked the sauce.
- 18:44Hayes, General Schedule was go to work.
- 18:47Make his day right? Hit the saloon.
- 18:50End it all. I mean.
- 18:54He didn't have any other responsibilities, he's that he's
- 18:58go home and feel kind of bad about himself, which I got to
- 19:01tell you. There's a song of prompted by my
- 19:03Tick-Tock that was just like, why do I feel bad?
- 19:06You only sleep four hours a week know that.
- 19:09Is it gonna sleep four hours a night?
- 19:10I was like, why is this person? Yeah, that's me on the internet.
- 19:13Yeah, that'd be me. It was like she was like, I feel
- 19:16terrible. You eat terribly and I was just
- 19:18like, buddy, no. I'll call me out.
- 19:22Why is it so loud? but, I didn't, it probably
- 19:29wasn't helping his mental health and feelings.
- 19:33Yeah, no, I mean, alcoholism somehow during this time, he
- 19:38manages to find a woman, the woman that he would marry.
- 19:42And her name was Augusta. She's from a large family, whose
- 19:46patriarch had emigrated here in 1970 from Germany.
- 19:49They settled in La Crosse immediately and then George
- 19:54Augustus met in 1899, Georgia, 24.
- 19:58And Augusta was 19 and Augusta was described in so many
- 20:04different things. As a thick-set, buxom woman with
- 20:08a face permanently fixed, in a look of fierce determination and
- 20:12self-assurance. So she was a boss.
- 20:16She had a boss looking. She was a thick thick lady with
- 20:20a boss attitude. Yeah.
- 20:21Apparently and apparently George thought that was quite lovely.
- 20:25I mean, who doesn't mean? She's also very religiously
- 20:29though extremely so never mind like she really thought the
- 20:33modern world was very immoral. She is raised um what her family
- 20:37called like Old World values and she did not like the looseness
- 20:40of the youth. And she was exactly like her dad
- 20:45who was a very strict disciplinarian, who thought that
- 20:48their way beliefs were the only way that one could be.
- 20:51Now I haven't really described what George look like but he's
- 20:54described as being a strong Simple Man.
- 20:56Reserved dignified he and Augusta were both Lutheran and
- 21:01he absolutely hit his alcoholism from her of course I mean
- 21:04because that goes Super against being religious.
- 21:09But George found her personality be quite impressive.
- 21:12She always handled things she had the family that he wished
- 21:14he'd always had and Augusta and never really been sought after
- 21:18by men. So I think she was very
- 21:19flattered by the attention and she felt that they shared the
- 21:22same values because they were Christian.
- 21:24He they got married a few months later on, December, 4th 1899.
- 21:31And that's kind of the beginning of the end of that fairy tale.
- 21:35That's it. Nothing.
- 21:36Well, it gets bad. The good part ends.
- 21:39At that part, that's just the way they were both or tending to
- 21:41be the best versions of themselves.
- 21:43That's a good part of my God. Okay, well, Augusta realizes
- 21:47very quickly that she's connected to a man who is
- 21:50unreliable financially and she isn't too happy with the drink.
- 21:53Hmm, to try and keep the household running, she kind of
- 21:56leaned into her worst traits becoming more, like hard and
- 22:00more rigid and more intolerant. Because for her, she was like
- 22:04stuck with kind of like a worthless schmuck who couldn't
- 22:06keep a job and had no ambition. It responded to her behavior
- 22:11with withdrawing into himself and refusing to speak at all
- 22:15when he was home. Oh, sometimes he'd come back
- 22:19from the bar, they get into a fight, he'd hit her.
- 22:25Okay, I'm not sure why they thought a child would fix their
- 22:28relationship. A lot of people do, but they
- 22:31decided they were going to do it and so they had a baby boy.
- 22:35January 17th 1902, his name is Henry.
- 22:39And Henry didn't have, well, I'll say this early on Henry,
- 22:44didn't have a great life and he died very, very young.
- 22:47No. But there were a lot of weird
- 22:49deaths around this family and I'll get into those little bit
- 22:52later. Augusta didn't feel all that
- 22:55close to her first child and she figured it was because he was a
- 22:59boy So she decided she was like, I guess I'll just put up with
- 23:03sex with my husband until she gets pregnant a second time.
- 23:07Oh my God. That's giving birth to Edward
- 23:09Theodore game. Another boys though, August 27th
- 23:131906 and I was gonna be the last one because she wasn't gonna do
- 23:18this no more. What are you just gonna treat
- 23:21your kids just poorly? Well, you're one came out to be
- 23:25a mad dad, this episode sir, I hate this.
- 23:31Okay, so I guess was pretty upset.
- 23:32She didn't have a girl, but she decided if I'm going to have two
- 23:35boys, I'm going to raise them to be better than their father and
- 23:39better than most men. There you go.
- 23:41That's what you supposed to do. But I guess it gets worse.
- 23:45It's bad. Well, George is struggling to
- 23:48find work after the boys. Both boys are born.
- 23:51And Augusta is like, listen, both of my brothers are
- 23:54Merchants, you could just become an entrepreneur and like I think
- 23:59as you and I both know not, everyone is cut out for that
- 24:01life. See see?
- 24:06So she thought though, that there was no way that he could
- 24:08ruin this because like it's he's working for himself, he makes
- 24:11money, he keeps the money but he just didn't have the motivation
- 24:15for anything and you can tell in the records because there's a
- 24:20lacrosse city directory. And in 1909 he is listed as the
- 24:24owner of a small grocery store and 914 Caledonia Street.
- 24:30And two years later, the owner is listed as Augusta Gein.
- 24:35And George has been demoted to clerk.
- 24:37What the hell? It's in the record.
- 24:39How do you go from owning your own grocery store to being just
- 24:42a freaking clerk? Yep.
- 24:45And your wife just took your business from you.
- 24:46She's like Fuck. You think this saying you're not
- 24:48going to be the work. What he did do was he worked as
- 24:50a clerk. Be also like did a lot of
- 24:51Butchery. Hmm.
- 24:53He like when they got animals in it was like a shed out behind
- 24:55the grow, the grocery store. And the boys were told never to
- 24:59go there, but it does have a memory of when he was fairly
- 25:02young sneaking out back. Back and being kind of shocked
- 25:07as hell to see sissy like, like a carcass hanging from the
- 25:11ceiling. Right?
- 25:12Right. Yeah.
- 25:12Okay. Probably not a good idea.
- 25:14Yeah, not for kids. Damn man, you got damn.
- 25:19Okay. The first couple years of Eddie
- 25:22and Howard's life, it's okay. They're babies so you can't
- 25:25really do too much with like their little true.
- 25:28But Augusta was very much, a serious disciplinarian and then
- 25:32around the time that Ed is 7. By the time he turns seven,
- 25:37she's completely the head of the household 1913.
- 25:39She decides that the gain family weren't going to be emergency
- 25:42more, and she sells that business so that they can become
- 25:45Farmers. Because in her head she was
- 25:47like, well, if we're landowners, that's some kind of wealth.
- 25:51And she wanted to remove her children from the very Wicked
- 25:54Ways of the city. So they moved to a small dairy
- 25:58farm in the lowlands near Camp Douglas which is about 40 miles
- 26:02east of La Crosse. But they only stay there for a
- 26:04year because Augusta who still trying to seek out wealth.
- 26:08Finds a larger piece of land that she could afford and they
- 26:12moved there in 1914. 195, Acre Farm in Plainfield known to the
- 26:17locals as the old John Greenfield Place.
- 26:20Yeah, this deed was 100% in her name.
- 26:24Unlike most families where the lamb was in the husband's name
- 26:28and Augusta was, you know, living the best life.
- 26:30She didn't get him as cosine or nothing like that.
- 26:32No little, like tiny pieces. It's also like massive at this
- 26:36point. Like, you got an eight-year-old
- 26:38tagging or old a man who's not doing a whole lot and a woman
- 26:43who's a couple of like, is he like a farmhand at least he
- 26:47helped around originally and, It was his massive for a
- 26:58four-person family, right? She didn't have to like chase
- 27:03after the boys. The tell him to stop trying to
- 27:04watch the animals get butchered. But there were other, like, I
- 27:11would say issues with having such a big property and also
- 27:16having small children doing the work there, but I'll get into
- 27:18that. I mean, yeah, they probably got
- 27:19lost somewhere. Yeah, she decorated the house.
- 27:22Very chaste in terms of Furnishing furnishings and like
- 27:26the nicest things went to their parlor for and here's where like
- 27:31the issues come from. They were very isolated on this
- 27:34Farm. Like the closest like neighbors
- 27:36were like a good like Mile away from there, like main house.
- 27:45But for our children, this was awful.
- 27:48Like she found the locals to be morally, reprehensible and she
- 27:51said about continuing to teach our children.
- 27:53The whole, you know, God fire Brimstone.
- 27:57And she had a real like kind of haughty attitude about her farm
- 28:00and how she kept it really beautiful.
- 28:02And like, she thought people were jealous of her and the
- 28:06locals were particularly fond of her, but she didn't care, like,
- 28:09it's for her, sons were the only friends that she needed.
- 28:12Oh, Now, Augusta love the idea of keeping her kids isolated,
- 28:16but she couldn't keep them 100% of way from the ills of the
- 28:19world, because they had to go to school.
- 28:21And so, ever started attending the Rocha Creek grade school,
- 28:24which is a small school house that had one room in 12 kids.
- 28:28And then later, that's cool merged with a larger school
- 28:30called the white school and he was there from 8 years old to
- 28:3316. And at that time your formal
- 28:35education was pretty much over unless you want to go to college
- 28:39as a student. Ed was, he's capable but kind of
- 28:42lackluster, kind of like it. Dad years later after he was
- 28:45caught and his crimes. In public, they put him under
- 28:48just a boatload of psychological tests and IQ test and learned
- 28:53that he had an average IQ for people of the time.
- 28:55Hmm. Ed was a really good reader
- 28:58though, and like a lot of really quiet kids.
- 29:01He filled his time with books of All Sorts, including some that
- 29:04were weird and we'll talk about that later.
- 29:07Like I said, he was a really quiet kid.
- 29:08He didn't have a lot of friends. He spent his full-time of the
- 29:11only he could relate to his Smooth made to were all friends
- 29:15and he wanted to be accepted so he tried to imitate them but it
- 29:18didn't really work every. So often he would like almost
- 29:22get there and like almost make a friends would be like look
- 29:24socialization. And he come home and he'd tell
- 29:28his mom like, oh, I met this kid and his mom would immediately
- 29:31squash it. She tell him that that kids
- 29:33family and a bad reputation or that the mom was a woman of
- 29:37questionable. Moral fiber from before she got
- 29:39married. Santa kid are rumors about that
- 29:42boy's father. Other and because as like adored
- 29:45her, he was like, okay. And he would go back to school
- 29:50and he wouldn't talk to that kid anymore.
- 29:51Yeah. Yeah.
- 29:54So I will say this while the other kids saw that he was
- 29:57weird. There were none of the big
- 29:59three, you know, serial killer ticks that we learned about in
- 30:03the modern era. He never went to bed, he never
- 30:06set fires, he never harmed animals and he's a child.
- 30:08Any head injuries. Hmm, no, huh?
- 30:13There's absolutely nothing in his childhood that would show
- 30:16that he would suffer from such severe psychosis. 40 years
- 30:21later. Hmm.
- 30:22Interesting. Okay.
- 30:24Maybe with the amount of understanding we have about
- 30:27these things. Now, like a gifted psychiatrist
- 30:30might have seen it, but he was just like, a weird kid with a
- 30:34goofy grin and like, a little lazy eye.
- 30:37It not talk to people, and he laughed at weird jokes that he
- 30:39made himself, who doesn't? He also stared at the girls in
- 30:42his classroom, but he never touched anybody.
- 30:44Or try to do anything inappropriate?
- 30:46Okay, I mean, we hold on a sec. So bear wedding is like, a big
- 30:50Yeah, that's one of the three things that they've determined
- 30:53is a sign of. It's not just bedwetting, but
- 30:56it's bedwetting well into the teenage years.
- 30:58Okay. Not like your kids like just
- 31:00potty training and having issues like not like you are 21 and you
- 31:05drank too much and you forgot to get out of bed.
- 31:09No this is like it's consistent. Bedwetting.
- 31:11Well into your teenager. Okay.
- 31:13Okay, thank you for clarifying hoes like I'm not worried which
- 31:17please explain more. I've died.
- 31:22I'm not where I was I were you worried about yourself, right?
- 31:25This isn't guy. What?
- 31:26Yes, exactly. Little toomai 30s is still
- 31:29wetting the bed. Watch out for me people.
- 31:32That's the age of serial killers.
- 31:34One of the issues he had. It's cool that he was considered
- 31:37to be a bit effeminate and his mannerisms.
- 31:39He cried a lot and like he couldn't take a joke like any
- 31:43sort of teasing he couldn't handle it.
- 31:45Like one story that was referenced in Harold.
- 31:47Schechter's book. Was that somebody like mentioned
- 31:50that He had a bag on his life because he had this like skin
- 31:53tag that his mom never got cut off.
- 31:55And so, like, he just mentioned it and like it was no, like, you
- 31:59know, like sometimes kids like someone says something.
- 32:02So somebody says something back to them, he didn't have that in
- 32:04him at all. Yeah, he just started sobbing
- 32:07and they were just like, oh my God, like what?
- 32:09I was wrong with him. And so for him this like, even a
- 32:12little bit of teasing that would happen.
- 32:14He was just like, oh, my mom's right?
- 32:16These people are horrible. So that's kind of like like how
- 32:21he grew up and during the years that end Henry were in
- 32:24elementary school, the family was financially struggling,
- 32:30Augustus purchase of this, massive plot of land.
- 32:33Proved to be more difficult than she imagined.
- 32:36They were always worried if they had enough food to feed
- 32:38themselves by the time that Ed was a teenager, his father had
- 32:43stopped working on the farm. At all.
- 32:47And he just spent his time laying out drinking abusing both
- 32:50of his wife and children, whenever we were little, he
- 32:54would physically hit them. But by the time they were
- 32:57teenagers even though they were smaller than your average.
- 32:59Teen at the time, they were far too big to be hit.
- 33:02He wasn't trying to, you know, get that smoke.
- 33:04Okay, how I just wanted to mention, I just want to say, how
- 33:09are you, man? Just laying around.
- 33:13Do nothing. He needs the prize here, abusing
- 33:17your family. How do you do that?
- 33:19Entire groups of men who specifically seek out women like
- 33:23myself, who are a little on the bigger side so that they can
- 33:26live off of them because they're like, oh well, you know, she
- 33:29can't get anybody, so fuck that, shit stupid, and then try and
- 33:34like live off of you. And then yeah, when they were
- 33:38teenagers, I bet he didn't want that smoke.
- 33:40No, he didn't want that smoke. Once they got bigger, of course,
- 33:42but what he would do is he would like rant and Rave and like
- 33:45scream at them and insult. That was such a cool, dude.
- 33:50Yeah. Apparently, there was an
- 33:55argument that ad remember, very vividly when he was being
- 33:59interviewed where his father like accused Augusta of cheating
- 34:02on him, which is so out of like her morale.
- 34:06Like guideline and besides that she didn't have any time and she
- 34:11on anybody because she was working on the farm or cleaning
- 34:13the fucking hell working her asshole.
- 34:15Yeah. Um but I guess it took the
- 34:19beatings and the physical and verbal abuse woman.
- 34:24She will because God said divorce is wrong and her
- 34:27thinking was if the Lord had saddled her with this man, then
- 34:29it was Herbert. Okay, but he God never say you
- 34:31can't fight back now. Ah, that's the Bible I'll say so
- 34:35you couldn't take it like a two-by-four guess his head, you
- 34:37know, at didn't really handle his parents fighting like that
- 34:42and he became more reclusive and more separate from his family.
- 34:46And I would feel like this, Is kind of like one of the early
- 34:48places where there might have been a separation of reality for
- 34:52him, which is, we know, now, in hindsight, it's PTSD thing that
- 34:57sometimes people who are struggling are suffering from
- 34:59PTSD, begin to lean into their fantasy world as a means to
- 35:06cope. Hmm, especially like children
- 35:09who are abused victims. Like you find a happy place to
- 35:12go to when the bad thing is happening.
- 35:17And for him, it was these books that he was reading.
- 35:19And I unfortunately I remember being a quiet smart kid who only
- 35:24read books all the time because of trauma, interesting Sal
- 35:30hahaha But time passed, Adam Henry, become young man, George
- 35:37sinks deeper into his depression.
- 35:40Augusta takes to nagging the boys about everything which is
- 35:45specially the evils of the Modern Woman.
- 35:49Of course specifically that Plainfield women were the worst
- 35:54and she knew based on magazines and newspapers that these girls
- 35:59were horrible because they were short skirts.
- 36:01And powdered their faces and there's lipstick.
- 36:04And she told her son's that all women were tainted.
- 36:07Always knew women were tainted and Fallen.
- 36:10Let you know that this is like the 1930s.
- 36:13So everything that any previous generation says about the next
- 36:17generation is always the same thing.
- 36:20It's never different. Every previous generation is
- 36:23like, oh, these children, they're gonna bring down the
- 36:25downfalls civilization. Look at them in their
- 36:27inappropriate clothing. And I'm like, that is what they
- 36:30say nowadays. And All the time.
- 36:34Did you? Interesting fact?
- 36:36Well, I'm pretty sure you're a nudist.
- 36:37Did you know that? The human brain has not evolved
- 36:40since like in thousands of years make sense.
- 36:42So we still have the same brain as our ancestors did like
- 36:45thousands of years ago, but like Australopithecus or like human
- 36:50like you know Homo sapiens. I think not the pre pre people
- 36:54but like the people like the heel Homo sapiens Homo sapiens.
- 36:57Okay. I mean so at least we've evolved
- 36:58from you know, Cro-Magnon. Yeah, sort of, I'm just like,
- 37:04because I'm thinking like so how people think they're smart?
- 37:08Now, people were, people were saying like same not
- 37:11intelligence back then and then people still do the same shit.
- 37:15They did back then today, of course.
- 37:17Absolutely. Well, that's like, okay, so I
- 37:20love this because I love the older black folks, who are
- 37:24always talking about how young but you know look at them being
- 37:26all sexy shaking their booties and all that whatever.
- 37:30But But I remember, okay my this is literally in my father's
- 37:35study right now and it's a very famous painting.
- 37:38That's easily like 80 years old and is a bunch of black folks in
- 37:43like a cage as type club and they are all just swiveling and
- 37:48a-shakin and booties are popped out and I was like, how dare you
- 37:52tell me that people worked working eight years ago?
- 37:55But it's always been twerking just had a different name.
- 37:57Then they, we really have been twerking.
- 38:00Thanks. Since we were in high school
- 38:02where it's working there, too. That's what I'm saying about
- 38:04talking about. How do you kids are up on new
- 38:06stuff? Oh my God.
- 38:08Nothing new. It's got different and it does.
- 38:10I know it's not like old people. My God anyway though that is
- 38:14what Augusta really harped on. And so what like this is
- 38:19actually another really awful story from the schachter book
- 38:21but like so say like they were working on the farm and like it
- 38:24rained and they couldn't keep working, they would come inside.
- 38:28And a gust would be sitting in the parlor on her favorite chair
- 38:31and she would make them sit with her while she read revelation.
- 38:37The end of days and the loose women in the Bible or not at
- 38:44fault. I believe the, the exact quote
- 38:48is harlots and Abominations and she would also just sit and read
- 38:57the Psalms to them. The songs are at least a little
- 38:59nicer. I guess Revelation is just pure,
- 39:02the world is ending and you all suck and you're all going to
- 39:04die. Well, you know.
- 39:06So what but we all know this, I mean, but it's always
- 39:10interesting because this is kind of a space where Henry and Ed
- 39:13begin to divide on the feelings about their mother one day,
- 39:18they're, you know, I guess they're just talking and Henry's
- 39:22just like Well, for this way. Henry originally tries to kind
- 39:30of push back against his mother. Mmm.
- 39:33He's a notice, of course, he's trying to, you know, flirt with
- 39:36girls, he's trying to do something but it's his mother is
- 39:38like, I'm trying to do my own thing.
- 39:40Now, his mother's a force to be reckoned with and Henry decides.
- 39:44He's just never gonna get married, which was fine for
- 39:46Augusta because several of her, brother's never got married
- 39:49either. In fact, both Henry and add
- 39:52never had relationships with women and their entire lives.
- 39:56Okay. Now for Henry, the shorter life
- 40:01is relatively young. Yeah.
- 40:03In fact, Ed's entire family dies within like five year period.
- 40:07Oh damn. Mmm.
- 40:09It starts with George. After a lifetime of abusing his
- 40:11liver and marriage that had been pretty terrible for his mental
- 40:15health. He was pretty much like a shell
- 40:18of a person with little will to live 1937.
- 40:22He gets really sick. He's completely dependent on his
- 40:25family for Lutely, all care. We didn't have a name for it.
- 40:29Then from what it sounded like though is that he was probably
- 40:32suffering from liver failure and and liver failure is a pretty
- 40:35awful and he died. 66 years old April 1st 1948 and for his
- 40:41family his death wasn't a major loss Ed and Henry were like whoo
- 40:45thank goodness. We don't have to take care of
- 40:47them all the time. It was just more chores on top
- 40:49of their other chores, they had to do to keep that farm running,
- 40:52right? Yeah.
- 40:54Feel the farm, it's still not succeeding.
- 40:58And in fact, in the entire time, mind you, the family started,
- 41:02they moved there in 1914, it's not a 1940, it still has no
- 41:06electricity, no indoor plumbing. So while it might have been like
- 41:10a hot commodity in 1914. Augusta hadn't been able to keep
- 41:14it up. They had been able to save any
- 41:15money to improve the house. What were they doing?
- 41:18What were they doing? Just barely surviving.
- 41:22Wow. And the outside had fallen
- 41:24apart, too. So it was not the the house that
- 41:28it was when she started. What year was this 1940?
- 41:31Thank you for tea. Was it around like the Great
- 41:33Depression type of? Well, oh, a lots about to
- 41:36happen. One of the worst wars in the
- 41:40world is happening. Simultaneously Henry's too old
- 41:44for military service but Ed is not and so he goes to Milwaukee
- 41:50to You're looking confused. No, no, I'm scratching my beard
- 41:55so. Okay.
- 41:56I was like, you know, that world the world war is happiness,
- 41:59okay? As with this a I'm just drunk.
- 42:02I'm not drunk, my beard and I'm not confused.
- 42:06Look, is my look okay that everybody knows this.
- 42:10I was looking for used but yeah he goes to Milwaukee to get a
- 42:14health assessment to see if he can be drafted.
- 42:17And they determined that that like I growth that had never
- 42:24been removed, had caused one of his eyes to sagging, it like
- 42:27partially impaired his vision. So they determined that he is
- 42:30not able to join the war in 1942.
- 42:35He's 36 years old at that point and that trip to Milwaukee is
- 42:39the farthest. He would ever travel from his
- 42:41home and his entire life really. Yeah, wow.
- 42:44Oh, you know what? I was confused for a second
- 42:47because of the ages, I didn't I forgot that the years had jumped
- 42:51Don't anybody was still like ATL's?
- 42:54Like what it? What are you talking about?
- 42:55He's not older. He's old too old to be a listed.
- 43:00Well, yeah, that would have made in 1942 that would have made his
- 43:04brother 38. Yeah, that reminds.
- 43:07That was the cutoff is 30. Finally I thought that I mean
- 43:10but I was 36 and they still were like come on down.
- 43:14Maybe it's not the cutoff anymore.
- 43:16Well it may be the cutoff. Damn.
- 43:17Yeah, I think it's 35 now, but okay.
- 43:19Anyway. But either way, after his dad
- 43:21died, they both of them. Took odd jobs.
- 43:23Honestly, it was a handyman for a while.
- 43:26He was also a very well-respected babysitter in the
- 43:28town. Kids loved him.
- 43:31He'd roughhouse with the Boise drechsel, he do magic tricks or
- 43:34tell scary stories. The little girls in the winter,
- 43:37he joined the kids, in the snowball fights.
- 43:40He was still very self-conscious around adults, but with kids, he
- 43:42feel like they didn't touch him and funny enough like in town,
- 43:46the parents didn't judge him either.
- 43:48No adults. Did they saw him as a good
- 43:50neighbor? Who was way better than his mom?
- 43:53Who is the epitome of holier-than-thou?
- 43:56And they were like, well, it's not like that stuck-up bitch.
- 44:00So you can talk to you and say something mom for us please.
- 44:05I'm Henry was working this like really good job as a
- 44:07construction foreman and the two shared chores.
- 44:11They hunted on the family property together and really
- 44:13admired his brother but it came up again that Henry thought that
- 44:19Ed was too close to Augusta. He was like I think it's a
- 44:23little weird that she's like lashed on you like this.
- 44:27Ed thought Augusta was in. Fallible.
- 44:31Of course, that's your mama and then May 16th 1944.
- 44:36There's a fire on some Marshland near their home and Henry dies
- 44:40under some suspicious circumstances.
- 44:42No, he's only 43 years old. There are reports that own
- 44:46newspapers about how the fire started and there's multiple
- 44:49ideas. There's reports that it was just
- 44:51an accident that it was a fire. That was like to burn off, like
- 44:54the grass and the Marshland. But regardless and reported to
- 44:58everybody that like while they were out there, there was a
- 45:01really strong wrong win and it blew and the fire got out of
- 45:03control. They decided they were going to
- 45:06try and like stop it from two sides and then Ed loses track of
- 45:12Henry. As he you know it's taking the
- 45:16fire out when he can't find his brother.
- 45:18He goes to town gathers, a search party, they all go back
- 45:21into the woods and look for him and there, they find Henry face
- 45:25down in the dirt. Very, very, very dead.
- 45:29The Searchers are confused though, because even though the
- 45:31ground around him is scorched, Henry's body is not.
- 45:35He's covered in soot but no part of him is burned.
- 45:40None of his clothes are burned off nothing.
- 45:43They also found bruising on his head also and had led the search
- 45:49party almost directly to the spot where Henry's body was even
- 45:53though he had said, he had been able to find him.
- 45:56See, look, I was thinking of ways to give him the benefit of
- 45:59the doubt. Maybe he died from like smoke
- 46:01in, that's why he didn't have any Burns.
- 46:04No nevermind. Okay yeah.
- 46:05Yep, you're absolutely correct. But it looks like his brother
- 46:12kind of murdered him. He marked him well so they
- 46:17immediately call the district attorney Earl Killeen and the
- 46:20County coroner George blader and a doctor from town named dr.
- 46:24Ingersoll. They're all called to the scene
- 46:26on the Medical District staff. Determine he died from
- 46:28asphyxiation and there's no foul play.
- 46:30Hmm. At the time.
- 46:33No one would have even suspected that Ed was the kind of Sin to
- 46:36kill anybody and though the case was closed and they let it go,
- 46:39okay? I mean but you did it but it's
- 46:42okay. Shortly after Henry's death,
- 46:45Augusta reports that she doesn't feel good.
- 46:47He puts her in the truck and drive to to the wall, Rose
- 46:50Hospital. By the time they get there.
- 46:52She's so weak that she needs a wheelchair to even get in the
- 46:54building. Augusta had a stroke as you need
- 46:58to be hospitalized and then when he brought her home ed was like,
- 47:01her primary care person like he stayed with her.
- 47:05Every day when she was at the hospital visiting hours went
- 47:08home. He waited on her every need
- 47:10reading her from the Bible, to make her happy.
- 47:12They actually got really close and it was almost like he was
- 47:15like getting the attention from her that he always wanted.
- 47:18Then you are getting attention from her though.
- 47:20No. Because the attention got from
- 47:22before was you're going to hell and you're stupid.
- 47:25How could I raise such a stupid child, really?
- 47:28Yeah, like she really loved him but like it was a I'm gonna I'm
- 47:33gonna love. I'm gonna be You into submission
- 47:36kind of love. And like I'm going to make you a
- 47:39good man through aggressive. Okay, that's not good.
- 47:43So here she's being like soft because she's weak and she needs
- 47:46help doing things. This is so great that it takes
- 47:49until about night midd like middle of 1945, almost like a
- 47:52year later for his mother to get enough strength to try and walk.
- 47:55And like as soon as she could like move around on her own she
- 47:59like foot back to being normal like when she first tried to get
- 48:02out of like the bed like he Like here, let me help you and she's
- 48:06like, I know how to walk like that kind of response and he was
- 48:09like damn it back to business. Yep.
- 48:14And then the winter of 1945 something.
- 48:16Pretty awful happens, they still had animals on their farms and
- 48:21uh draw to feed them. So they drive to a neighbor to
- 48:24make the purchase and as they're driving down the road, they come
- 48:27across their neighbors who are a couple Trigger warning, animal
- 48:32abuse. Just saying the man whose their
- 48:37neighbor is like, beating their dog in the middle of the street
- 48:42and the woman's, they're screaming at him to stop.
- 48:45And the man literally kills. Oh my God.
- 48:48The the puppy in the Middle of the Road.
- 48:50God, and here's the worst. The weirdest part of this story
- 48:55Augusta gets like super upset like super worked up about it
- 48:58but not about the Abuse. Why she's upset about the woman
- 49:03who's in the street? Sobbing Because the two of them
- 49:09are living in sin. Brittany, I kid you not.
- 49:13She works herself up into a fit and has a second stroke a week
- 49:18later. Oh, my fucking god.
- 49:20This time, he rushed her to the hospital.
- 49:22She dies. December 29th, 1945.
- 49:25Like she literally like Works herself into another brain
- 49:28because you got mad. She's mad.
- 49:31Because what down the road? Come on, I know.
- 49:40Some of her siblings attend this funeral and my favorite part
- 49:44about this is that her obituary was three, sentences long.
- 49:48George got at least, like, a couple of paragraphs, like, I
- 49:51could find it for you. If I pulled up the book out with
- 49:54archive.org, but like there was one part of like George Gibbs,
- 49:57where was like, George suffered incredibly long for the three
- 50:00years before his death. Here's what her says, mrs.
- 50:04Augusta Gein Drew died. At the Wild, Rose Hospital on
- 50:07December 29th of Cerebro brain hemorrhage.
- 50:10The body was brought to the gulf funeral home where Services were
- 50:13held December 30th. Reverend CH Weiss officiating.
- 50:17She is survived by one son. Edward who lives on the home
- 50:20Farm Southwest to here is like they got back at her.
- 50:27They were like listen, we not giving you any more lines than
- 50:30necessary. Sorry, where's your funeral?
- 50:33You died and you got one kid, who lives around here somewhere?
- 50:37That's all you need to know. Bye.
- 50:41Oh, Ed was inconsolable, of course, and this was definitely
- 50:46kind of the beginning beginning of his spiral, but no one could
- 50:49really tell it first. He was still a very much
- 50:51soft-spoken kind awkward, not very social, but always polite.
- 50:56If anybody need help, he would lend a hand but some things were
- 50:59starting to break for him. He stopped shaving.
- 51:03He also stopped bathing what little that was being done to
- 51:08the farm. Augusta was alive, stopped front
- 51:12yard stayed overgrown with weeds for years and sold off all the
- 51:16livestock to pay for his mother's funeral.
- 51:18And all of the Old Farm Equipment was just left to rust
- 51:21in the bar and I'm like, you couldn't have sold that to Pam,
- 51:23like, goodness wasteful. Yeah, he to make money.
- 51:27He least a couple of Acres on the property to neighbors
- 51:31adjacent Farms, who wanted more farmland.
- 51:34And he'd work around like town as a handyman.
- 51:37He didn't have a whole lot of like, Fences.
- 51:39So he didn't you a whole lot of money, right?
- 51:41Yeah he was also getting a state subsidy for his lamb through
- 51:45this like Stateville, come conservation, program almost
- 51:49almost that conversation and I spelled it right my notes but
- 51:51almost that conversation his neighbors were pretty
- 51:56understanding that he was grieving a lot of things fall to
- 51:58the Wayside when you're grieving but some people definitely
- 52:01thought he was kind of gross. Because, you know, here's this.
- 52:05Portland shaving as well. Say, stinky man, Greg Lee yakin
- 52:09smelly dude walking down the street.
- 52:12Most people weren't too bothered by it.
- 52:14The women around town, I went to, they found him Charming.
- 52:17But disarming, I would say disarming, like she wasn't
- 52:20really bothered. Like they, they were late there,
- 52:22maybe they took pity on him, okay?
- 52:24He ain't cursed at all, he never behaved violently.
- 52:28The the men, their husbands were kind of like, what kind of guy
- 52:33is this? Because apparently, they people
- 52:37found out that he was afraid of blood.
- 52:40So which they found odd because his father had been a butcher in
- 52:44the grocery store and he grew up on a farm and he'd been hunting
- 52:47with his brother, but apparently Henry must have done all of the
- 52:50skinning of the LIE of the animal part.
- 52:52Okay? There's nothing, there's nothing
- 52:53wrong with being afraid of blood.
- 52:54Okay. You just did, that's his only
- 52:56looking at it. Are you afraid of blood sir?
- 52:58I don't like looking at, who is terrible.
- 53:00It makes you really hate it when he looked a lot of things.
- 53:03Okay, that's fake blood. Oh, okay.
- 53:05So just real blood. Yeah.
- 53:07Only had one experience like that when I worked in a Hospital
- 53:10taking pictures of babies during college.
- 53:13I, you know, sometimes bad things happen during pregnancy
- 53:18or after pregnancy and says, in one room, like, hitting out,
- 53:22like flyers to people a little booklets and stuff.
- 53:24And then in that moment, as I was pushing the cart out of the
- 53:29room, a hemorrhage happened. And I didn't know what that was,
- 53:34but I sure remember the sheer volume of blood and the like
- 53:39team of two. 1T people who came tearing down the hall to help
- 53:45her. She survived bus goes, good, but
- 53:47it was scary but that's the first time I've had ever seen
- 53:50blood and it like made me nauseous.
- 53:53It was so much. Yeah, scary.
- 53:57I want a my favorite content creators his, that happened to
- 54:01his wife after their first time. And like he said, he knew that
- 54:06something serious had happened because the doctor sent all of
- 54:11the interns away. Oh, she was like, I need you to
- 54:13leave. Yeah.
- 54:15And like, he was just like, she was just, that's a bad sign.
- 54:18Yep. And like, and her face changed,
- 54:21and he was just like, oh, no. And he has to be in the room and
- 54:25still like pretend that she's okay.
- 54:28Her mom's the, what the moms on the baby.
- 54:29Like, what's up? We good, we're having a good
- 54:31time and the pathway down the doctors at a whole different
- 54:34Mission. Like that's like one of the
- 54:36scary things that can happen, but yeah, as I didn't know, you
- 54:39had that issue. You see, yeah, that's known each
- 54:41other for so long and I don't know, you weirded out by your a
- 54:45blood person though. It's your job.
- 54:48Is it okay with its in a little bag?
- 54:50It's okay, when is in the bags. So what is this?
- 54:52Is it like a wound situation? Um, that?
- 54:55Yeah, like, owe me. I'm fine.
- 54:57Was it? Like, I got my, like, my tip of
- 54:59my finger got cut off. Well, the oh, wow.
- 55:02Go that's gross. And like it.
- 55:03Grew back wrong but I want to see when we're done.
- 55:06Yeah. Okay.
- 55:06It grew back wrong. Um, I never noticed and Like,
- 55:10when I cut myself, I cut myself and when his blink is fucking
- 55:15lot of blood, I'm just looking at like, oh, okay.
- 55:20What is this specific way that you don't like blood.
- 55:22So it's anybody else's blood. Okay?
- 55:25Like my kids, I'm fine with anybody else, like adult and I
- 55:28can see they're like just their blood coming out is like and
- 55:31then what the with my job there are.
- 55:35Sometimes if you are accidents with blood, you know, with a
- 55:40blood bag, breaks a bag breaks or you know, and then you just
- 55:45just see all the blood everywhere he's like.
- 55:49I need to go. I need to go right now.
- 55:52I'm gonna throw up. Well, you sympathize with Ed
- 55:56being afraid of blood then. Yeah.
- 55:57Absolutely. Because that's just how I feel
- 56:01an equi Kinder. You we get from that.
- 56:04Well, you're flying. Keep going.
- 56:06Don't. Nobody could tell by the 1950s
- 56:09and had retreated from society and he was living in his head in
- 56:15a really dark way. He spent our a spent all of the
- 56:18ow, As in his Farmhouse that like when he wasn't going to
- 56:22work just reading weird books, his house was covered in just
- 56:28filth and he would spend like hours studying like Nazi
- 56:32Germany, atrocities, he read stories of exclamations.
- 56:37Resurrection men Body. Snatchers stories of 19th
- 56:41century. English grave.
- 56:42Robbers selling corpses did medical schools.
- 56:44I'm sure he probably read about HH Holmes, that was happening.
- 56:47Oh yeah. Another story of like this Rich,
- 56:50these rich, young British Aristocrats digging up,
- 56:52beautiful women doing horrible things to them.
- 56:55He read about cannibalism, sexual mutilation, he's huge
- 56:59when we couldn't find those things to read, he would read
- 57:02the local paper, but not like to know what was going on to read
- 57:05about people getting killed car. Crashes, suicides.
- 57:08It's appearances. No, boy, he like I told you
- 57:12retreating into that fantasy space.
- 57:14He's entirely in it now, hmm. And he always always tore out
- 57:20and saved the obituaries of course.
- 57:24So now we're going to get into kind of like What I would say.
- 57:27The stuff, this is the general information that most people
- 57:29know about a game, which is that between 1947 and 1950 to, he
- 57:33began visiting graveyard at night, just first, just to look,
- 57:37he would tell the police later on and he visited three local
- 57:40cemeteries over 40 times on 10 of those time times.
- 57:44He dug up women who had recently been buried, who he thought
- 57:48looked like his dead mother, taking them home.
- 57:52Me laying there remains turning them into trophies that he likes
- 57:54to display around his house. This was how Ed dealt with his
- 57:59feelings of lust for women. He swore the police that he
- 58:03never had sex with any of them because they smell bad.
- 58:07You don't say but he did get a sexual satisfaction from
- 58:11peeling, the skin from their bodies and wearing it, that's
- 58:16not okay. During this time, he also became
- 58:19obsessed with a story. He read about a trans woman from
- 58:22Europe and so he like created a skin suit.
- 58:26To see what it was like to. Like feel like to have breasts
- 58:31and he also cut off the genitals of several of the bodies that he
- 58:35pulled to see what a vagina looks like, sir, like some of
- 58:42this stuff could be solved by getting a girlfriend.
- 58:48He was too weird. A point.
- 58:50I have a girlfriend. Yeah, I know he's too far gone.
- 58:52We have a girl. I mean, you can find another get
- 58:54a mortician girlfriend. What I do know, somebody get a
- 59:03grave a grave digger. Girlfriend.
- 59:04Okay. So the making both rubs bodies
- 59:07together. She look you can get the hook up
- 59:09their shit, it's still illegal and defiling corpses.
- 59:14Oh my God I'm trying to help him out.
- 59:17Sir. So during that time that like
- 59:201947 to like 1952 time period, there was an uptick in missing
- 59:25persons in Wisconsin for like a couple of them are about five,
- 59:28the police just couldn't figure out for different situations.
- 59:31The first was an eight-year-old girl named Georgia, Wexler, who
- 59:34disappeared on her way home from school, May first 1947 hundreds
- 59:38of people, search for her. They searched the entirety of
- 59:41Jefferson Wisconsin but she was never seen or heard from again.
- 59:45There were no Suspects. The tire marks found where she
- 59:48was last seen. They were the tire tread of a
- 59:51Ford. Hmm, six years later and La
- 59:54Crosse. Wisconsin, 15 year old Evelyn.
- 59:56Hartley is babysitting when she disappears her father, tried to
- 1:00:00call her at the house that she was working at and she and pick
- 1:00:03up the phone. So he showed up and when he
- 1:00:05looked through the window, he saw one of his daughters shoes
- 1:00:07and her glasses on the floor. So he checked around the house
- 1:00:11and he found that they back basement window was open and
- 1:00:14there was blood, he entered the house.
- 1:00:17Signs of a struggle and called the police from the property.
- 1:00:20Police found blood in the grass, leading away from the house and
- 1:00:23there was a bloody handprint on a neighbor's house.
- 1:00:25They did a regional search and they couldn't find anything
- 1:00:28other than her, bloody clothes near a highway that was leaving
- 1:00:31La Crosse. They assumed that she was
- 1:00:34murdered November of 1952, two men stopped for drinks at a bar
- 1:00:39in Plainfield Wisconsin. Before going deer hunting, they
- 1:00:42were Victor Travis and raber guests and they were never seen
- 1:00:45again and then in the Tour of 1954, a Plainfield bar owner
- 1:00:49named Mary Hogan went missing, police found Blood on the tavern
- 1:00:53floor that led to the parking lot and an empty bullet
- 1:00:56cartridge. The only common ties between all
- 1:00:59these cases that they all happened in or around Plainfield
- 1:01:03Wisconsin. And I got to tell ya.
- 1:01:08Mary was German and tall and stocky and Buxom.
- 1:01:13The she have like the boss. Yep.
- 1:01:17She was a Tavern owner. So she was of course, she had
- 1:01:19the balls, the balls used to be like, I mean, but she's very
- 1:01:22different from his mother in a sense that like, she was like a
- 1:01:25swearing, you know, she's our owner lady.
- 1:01:28Yeah. So this one is the direct.
- 1:01:33Looks like his mom acts like his mom.
- 1:01:37When you got two guys, you said right?
- 1:01:39There were two guys at a different bar.
- 1:01:41Okay? And what we'll see about, this
- 1:01:43Ester is changing his ho. We'll see.
- 1:01:45Okay, okay. Okay, hey, so shortly after the
- 1:01:49police kind of gave up on the Mary Hogan case, a rumor pops up
- 1:01:53in Planes Field, playing field a couple of teenage boys are like
- 1:01:58Ed has shrunken heads in his house and like The thing is,
- 1:02:04like, some of those teenagers, he had helped write, you know,
- 1:02:06he'd been babysitting. So he let them come to his
- 1:02:08house. Even though it was like a total
- 1:02:09mass, it was like, full of like, rodent droppings and food on the
- 1:02:13floor, and gross Nest. He still at them, come over and
- 1:02:16they would like play cards, I guess there was a clean-ish
- 1:02:18room. And just like that, Ed's has
- 1:02:26like no one could come back to the house now.
- 1:02:28Hmm, after the rumors start popping up at one point though,
- 1:02:32I've only say like 56, he offered to swap houses with
- 1:02:38somebody like for a smaller home and like the lady was like,
- 1:02:43well, it's 185 Acres that would be great.
- 1:02:45So she went to the house and like, looked around and it like,
- 1:02:48I guess it had been semi cleaned up at that point and At one
- 1:02:53point, she like he was like, she was like, oh, what's in that
- 1:02:55room? And he's like, that's just a
- 1:02:57storage area. Like it's a bunch of junk in
- 1:02:59there. You don't have to look at that.
- 1:03:01And so she was like, oh, is that where you keep your shrunken
- 1:03:04heads? And he was like, no, they're in
- 1:03:06the other room. Oh, he was being serious though.
- 1:03:09But like nobody really. They were like, ha, you're so
- 1:03:11funny and she ended up not like, buying his house for her house,
- 1:03:16but that was another one of those weird situations where
- 1:03:18there were lots of situations like that that happen around
- 1:03:20town were like people would ask him questions.
- 1:03:23And like they thought he was just joking but you know, I'm
- 1:03:24sorry Syria and telling the truth.
- 1:03:26No, I got heads, you want to see him November 16th 1957.
- 1:03:32Local people discovered that Bernice Worden is missing.
- 1:03:34She owned a hardware store in town and residents said that the
- 1:03:38hardware store truck had been driven from the rear of the
- 1:03:40building at about 9:30 a.m. her son, was the deputy sheriff, and
- 1:03:46he visited the story at 5 and saw that the cash register was
- 1:03:49open and there was blood on the floor and the last like this.
- 1:03:53The time period where people had to write receipts and that was
- 1:03:55those two layers. Yeah.
- 1:03:57So the print, the last receipt that had been written was for a
- 1:04:00gene for, for antifreeze that. He was supposed to come, pick up
- 1:04:06the next morning. Oh, you write your names and
- 1:04:08everything on it? Yeah, right.
- 1:04:09Like, oh again, picking up antifreeze, you know, morning
- 1:04:12whatever. Okay, so the following morning,
- 1:04:17the police don't wait and they go to The Farmhouse to talk to
- 1:04:21add about the missing Hardware. Store owner, and I guess he's
- 1:04:25somewhere on the property, but like not immediate.
- 1:04:28So they just like, kind of walk in the house because they're
- 1:04:29like, it's the 1950s, we don't have rules.
- 1:04:34You should have had rules. Well, there's Farmhouse.
- 1:04:37Why say it was bad. John Crichton garbage all over
- 1:04:40on the floors. They said the smell of
- 1:04:42decomposition and decomposition in filth is all over the
- 1:04:45property, a local sheriff named Arthur Shelly inspected the
- 1:04:49kitchen, and he bumped into now. Okay, multiple, some people say
- 1:04:54this was like a shed and some people say this was the kitchen.
- 1:04:57So there are multiple sources that say but regardless he was
- 1:05:00looking around with his light and he bumped into a carcass
- 1:05:07hanging from the beams in the beams, okay?
- 1:05:11It had been decapitated slit open, got it and at first, like
- 1:05:15his brain was like, oh yeah, whatever, dear.
- 1:05:17And then he was like, no, no, that's not a deer.
- 1:05:21That's the body of a person. It was the body of Bernice
- 1:05:25Worden the mother of his coworker, Frank Then more police
- 1:05:30came. They took a down to a police
- 1:05:32station to talk to him and took inventory of the items on the
- 1:05:35farm and I have read this list once before on Tick-Tock.
- 1:05:38Yes I've truncated it's somewhat.
- 1:05:43So while looking through his house they find four noses whole
- 1:05:47human bones fragments 9 masks made of human skin bowls made
- 1:05:51from human skulls, ten, female heads with the top part of the
- 1:05:55skull. Shaved off.
- 1:05:56Human skin covering several cheese.
- 1:05:59These chairs. Mary Hogan's head in a paper
- 1:06:02bag. Bernice worden's head in a
- 1:06:04burlap. Sack 9 vulvas in a shoebox.
- 1:06:08Skulls on his bed post organs in the refrigerator, a pair of lips
- 1:06:14on a drawstring. For the window, shade in his
- 1:06:17room, a belt made from Human nipples, a lampshade made from
- 1:06:22the skin of a human face. And of course the one that
- 1:06:24everybody knows the most the corset made out of breasts and
- 1:06:31he had a skin suit. It was a whole people suit.
- 1:06:35Yes. And he had put together over
- 1:06:36time, all these items were I've cataloged and then reburied you
- 1:06:40are welcome to look for them. I this is one of the few things
- 1:06:42that I found repulsive like the shoes.
- 1:06:45Yeah, I've seen pictures. They were like, it's just I
- 1:06:49could when I made that video, you were like, look at these.
- 1:06:53I did too. And as a know what?
- 1:06:54I should have looked like, I don't know, there were a pair of
- 1:06:56shoes and they just looked so bad, they're a pair of heels.
- 1:07:00Yeah, he must have stolen them from my cold dead body and like
- 1:07:03covered them in flesh. It was awful.
- 1:07:05That's exactly what he did. But the bigger Question was to
- 1:07:09find out like, how did you get these?
- 1:07:13The police began his major excavation of the property.
- 1:07:16To make sure there weren't any bodies buried on top of what
- 1:07:18they found. The house, he's being
- 1:07:20interviewed at what Toma County jail house by investigators.
- 1:07:23He doesn't talk for the first day and then, after a whole day
- 1:07:26of Silence, he tells he's like, okay, I killed mrs.
- 1:07:28Wharton. And then he says, I felt the
- 1:07:30rest of the bodies at the local Cemetery.
- 1:07:34Well, the problem with that is Mary Hogan's head, is in a paper
- 1:07:37bag, and you definitely didn't find her in the cemetery.
- 1:07:40No, you did not. So they're like, so they there's
- 1:07:45more interrogation there. And so finally, he says he
- 1:07:48killed Mary Hogan to, he said he didn't remember doing it, but he
- 1:07:52accidentally shocked like shot her and that sometimes he would
- 1:07:57just like, leave his house in the middle of the night and he
- 1:07:59was in like a trance. He would just go to the
- 1:08:00cemetery. Hmm.
- 1:08:03Throughout the entire investigation, though.
- 1:08:04He showed almost no sign of remorse or any emotion actually.
- 1:08:08Like everything was always factual and to the point
- 1:08:11Sometimes he even like smiled, when he was telling people all
- 1:08:14the stuff he did. He had no real understanding of
- 1:08:17how these crimes are affecting his community, or the entire
- 1:08:20country for that matter. As, for prepping for trial, the
- 1:08:25courts immediately submitted him to a lot of doctors for tests
- 1:08:30psychologist and psychiatrist. Immediately said that he was a
- 1:08:33sexual psychopath due to his extremely unhealthy
- 1:08:36relationship, between him and his mother, and his very
- 1:08:38confusing feelings about sex and sexuality that His mother kind
- 1:08:42of beat into him through that, he had learned to sort of love
- 1:08:46and hate women, and this was his way of dealing with that, after
- 1:08:52a really big Court battle actually, because the police
- 1:08:54were like, there's no way for us to tell that these came from
- 1:08:58the, the places where he said, unless we exhume the, the
- 1:09:02cemetery spots that he told us to write, so, there was a fight
- 1:09:05over whether they should even do that.
- 1:09:09And so, they eventually did manage to get that.
- 1:09:11That exhumation order. And when they opened the dug up,
- 1:09:15the graves, the coffins did show signs of tampering, and a lot of
- 1:09:19the coffins showed sections of bodies removed.
- 1:09:24Okay, as for the city of Plainfield.
- 1:09:28The town is besieged by fans people trying to get a glimpse
- 1:09:32of the game property. Reporters trying to get a story
- 1:09:35psychiatrists and psychologists trying to talk to Ed showing up
- 1:09:39at the precinct. Thousands of people are showing
- 1:09:42up and the company that was handling the sale of the state
- 1:09:50like talked about how they were going to charge 50 cents for
- 1:09:52people to see the house and the townspeople were like, no, your
- 1:09:55mind. Didn't happen but it didn't
- 1:09:59matter anyway because on March 28th 1958 the Plainfield.
- 1:10:03Volunteer fire department got a phone call that the gene house
- 1:10:06is on fire. There you go.
- 1:10:08It very quickly. Burned to the ground before
- 1:10:10anyone could get there police assumed arson, because the house
- 1:10:13had no electricity and despite they try to do a very like
- 1:10:18thorough investigation, nobody was ever charged because there
- 1:10:21was nothing. Did they know?
- 1:10:24You know, I found nothing to say that of the You know, different
- 1:10:28of the sort. Uh-huh.
- 1:10:30The Gein farm equipment though was auctioned off and so was the
- 1:10:33car that sold for seven hundred sixty dollars which is about
- 1:10:38seven thousand dollars in. Today's money it was put on the
- 1:10:41county fair circuit as the Google car.
- 1:10:43Oh God because at how to use it to haul the dead bodies.
- 1:10:48As for Ed's fate, after he spent 10 years in a mental health
- 1:10:51facility, the court decided he was cognizant enough to stand
- 1:10:55trial and the proceedings for that started January 22nd 1968
- 1:11:00but the full trial didn't start until November 7th. 1968, the
- 1:11:04main like, testimony was from like lab technicians and the
- 1:11:11sheriff and the deputy sheriff and he was found guilty but the
- 1:11:15problem was he was deemed that he was saying when the I'm
- 1:11:18happened. So ultimately, they send him
- 1:11:21back to the facility where he spent the rest of his life, he
- 1:11:25was a model patient and actually like every single doctor
- 1:11:28interviewed post, who dealt with him said that he was almost
- 1:11:31docile. It was white.
- 1:11:33Like they were like, we don't understand how this person did
- 1:11:36this stuff shows like no signs of anything.
- 1:11:39He liked is just the. Yeah.
- 1:11:41But I'm also assuming it was probably heavily medicated at
- 1:11:43that point to. Hmm, he died of respiratory
- 1:11:47failure. I'm 77 years old on July 26
- 1:11:501984, and he was buried with a gravestone, but because True
- 1:11:55Crime folks are awful. Of course, they begun breaking
- 1:11:59pieces off of it. And like, if you look at the I
- 1:12:00found a picture of it like it had chunks like missing and then
- 1:12:04finally somebody stole the grave marker in 2000.
- 1:12:08So now he's buried in an unmarked grave between his
- 1:12:11parents and his brother. So you'd have to look up like
- 1:12:13County records right to find out where his parents and his
- 1:12:17brother are. Read to be able to find out
- 1:12:19where he's been buried. Damn, that's fucked up.
- 1:12:21Yeah. And you talk about him being
- 1:12:24grave-robber, you guys are robbing so from his grave,
- 1:12:26right? I know that, you know, what's
- 1:12:29that word pot calling the kettle black, maybe Paco.
- 1:12:33Ironic. That's a, that's like his irony
- 1:12:35that ironic. This is iris is really ironic.
- 1:12:38This is kind of ironic or is it a traffic jam?
- 1:12:41We're already late. That's the end for me.
- 1:12:46Yeah, I actually, I always do what Ed Gein did but I didn't
- 1:12:51know the full scope of the the family.
- 1:12:52Familial relationship, which is what I've been thinking about
- 1:12:55and reading about. I didn't know any of that back
- 1:12:58story at all. So, there we go.
- 1:13:01I just knew about the body part here, the body parts in size a
- 1:13:05little lamb stuff, and I was like, oh, that's disgusting.
- 1:13:09Yeah, I wonder, I sometimes wonder if he ever knew that
- 1:13:12there were all these movies that were made based on like his
- 1:13:15debauchery. Maybe he's in hell, just looking
- 1:13:17up and saying, huh, interesting and you guys are all fucked up.
- 1:13:37All right, so I have been trying to honor some requests.
- 1:13:42I've been getting, we just got an email.
- 1:13:47He's got an email last week about from somebody, you know it
- 1:13:51pays. Yeah, it pays off to wine is
- 1:13:56what I gotta say. It pays off.
- 1:13:58I think you're being salty. I think his caddy yells.
- 1:14:02Akt our caddies. Yeah, a type-0 Katie but But
- 1:14:08she's the first person who used our official websites email
- 1:14:13email option, like send us a message.
- 1:14:15Yeah, oops. I do appreciate your email and I
- 1:14:20will cover one of the one of those two stories that you sent
- 1:14:22me in at a later date. Cookie stories about Georgia.
- 1:14:26Yeah, but yeah, thanks for having us.
- 1:14:30Yes, I do appreciate it. Um, the reason why I'm not
- 1:14:34covering any of those other two Georgia stories is because as
- 1:14:37I'm off, I was already covering a Georgia story that I really
- 1:14:41almost picked a Georgian serial killer to be on brand.
- 1:14:45But I don't know. Wisconsin was just in my mind.
- 1:14:48Let me ask me. Yeah, these past couple weeks.
- 1:14:50I like never mind when who has cancer?
- 1:14:54No. Bad back your hands or oh my
- 1:15:00goodness. Anyway, I got a so before like
- 1:15:07when we first started the podcast, I was telling one of my
- 1:15:10co-workers about it. Bringing those who I'm talking
- 1:15:12about, it's one guy who works on the weekends, he probably never
- 1:15:16listens to the podcast. You know, who I'm talking about
- 1:15:18that. Look on your face.
- 1:15:19Yeah. That one, the Brittany does not
- 1:15:21like alcohol when it comes to work.
- 1:15:25You just need people to be there and do their jobs, okay?
- 1:15:28If you do it you are there and you were do your job, I like
- 1:15:31you. But If you're not there, you
- 1:15:34don't show up or you call out randomly and then a certain
- 1:15:38someone sitting across from me at the podcast table has to you
- 1:15:42know, handle that. And work 14-hour shift.
- 1:15:48Then I'm not your biggest fan. She's not your biggest fan, I
- 1:15:51don't think you. Look, he listens to the podcast,
- 1:15:53but I don't fucking care. Does you're going to have an
- 1:15:54awkward day? One day is probably like one
- 1:16:00Friday, he's probably going to come into work and I should be
- 1:16:01in the building and be like I heard your podcast last week
- 1:16:05like you know podcast from several months ago you don't
- 1:16:09like me. Oh no, dude.
- 1:16:11Like you're okay. Like you're a cool dude.
- 1:16:13But work is exit. Ask him to call me.
- 1:16:17I'll Thank you and I'll tell you anyway.
- 1:16:23He did suggest me to cover this interesting story.
- 1:16:27Oh well, look at that in Georgia.
- 1:16:30The time about three guilty folks.
- 1:16:32I'm here. What is it?
- 1:16:35So like I said today will be heading to Georgia where the
- 1:16:38peach Emoji lives. This is a fun.
- 1:16:49This is a fun time today. This is why I pick things that
- 1:16:55frustrate you. This is why I pick things that
- 1:16:57annoy you, okay? Then isolate think that I knew
- 1:17:00you was Payback. Now, I don't know much about,
- 1:17:04you know, the state Georgia, my grandma was from there, you
- 1:17:08know, I never lived in Georgia, I visitor, I hear macon's
- 1:17:12terrible though. Alright mom, PLS are terrible.
- 1:17:15Actually yeah. Doesn't everybody feel that way
- 1:17:18about their Hometown, those true?
- 1:17:19I've never been so many was like, wow, I just really love
- 1:17:22where I grew up. Everybody's always like super
- 1:17:25mad. Like, how dare I grew up here?
- 1:17:30But yeah, it's not a bad place to visit.
- 1:17:32Sometimes I'll write you drew you drove down there.
- 1:17:35When yeah, I drive through there, sometimes to go to
- 1:17:38Florida dreadknight that. I think the last time I took me
- 1:17:41about 17 hours ago, a heart. So, anyway, that sounds awful,
- 1:17:47have you heard of like linear It's drawing a blank right now.
- 1:17:54You have not was surprising. Currently has been all over
- 1:17:57Tick-Tock and I'll explain that later.
- 1:18:01I'll explain that later. Yeah, but like linear.
- 1:18:04I'm sure most people who are listening or some people
- 1:18:07listening who know about spooky stuff, no Lake Lanier.
- 1:18:12You know, it's pretty cool place to visit.
- 1:18:16But you know it always he wasn't a like you know like most likes
- 1:18:19it was actually a man-made lake. Okay.
- 1:18:24So I'm give you some backstory of Lake, okay?
- 1:18:27So like when the air is Georges largest lake and its it was made
- 1:18:34after the construction of the Buford.
- 1:18:37Damn. So this is one of two bodies of
- 1:18:41water that are named after Georgia Georgia, born poet.
- 1:18:48His name is Sidney Lanier. Okay, sit in the mirror.
- 1:18:52He was born in 1842. He wasn't only a poet.
- 1:18:56He was a musician and author and he served for the Confederate in
- 1:19:02the Army. Okay, the savour, you know, you
- 1:19:05know what? I'm excited for so you know how,
- 1:19:08you know, you know, you know, help people who are not fans of
- 1:19:11the Confederacy here. We're really not sorry.
- 1:19:15Um, but apparently, he was even a lawyer.
- 1:19:18So, you know, apparently this guy was the shit.
- 1:19:21Okay. That in his time.
- 1:19:25And this time is it now? And no, not not alone, in his
- 1:19:29time in the area. Oh my God, I'm sorry.
- 1:19:40Okay. So anyway, so how did it come to
- 1:19:42be well? Like I mentioned before it was a
- 1:19:46man-made lake made as a result of a dam being built.
- 1:19:52Now, the lake was built, was finished in 1956, but it was
- 1:20:01before it was set to be made before that Anakin 1940, like
- 1:20:041946, 1946. So that 10 years earlier, the
- 1:20:09government had commissioned, The the US Army Corp of Engineers
- 1:20:19deconstructed. Damn.
- 1:20:21Now what was the reason for this damn?
- 1:20:23Well it was for controlling flooding help provide a water
- 1:20:30source for Atlanta and around that area surrounding area and
- 1:20:36it was help, it was used to help the power homes as well so they
- 1:20:40use hydroelectricity cool. Yeah.
- 1:20:42Yeah, that's very awesome. I like just like, you know.
- 1:20:47Yeah, yeah. So yeah, could you talk about
- 1:20:51how like, how many people died during the creation of the
- 1:20:54Hoover Dam? Oh my God, a lot.
- 1:20:58We're going to be talking about people dying.
- 1:20:59All right? Oh, So yeah, the US like I said,
- 1:21:04use government, they test US Army Corp of Engineers with
- 1:21:08building Lake Lanier and conjunction to what the Buford.
- 1:21:15Damn, this is really throwing me for a loop.
- 1:21:17Why don't I know anything about what you're talking about?
- 1:21:19I don't know. I think I just heard about it
- 1:21:21this year, too. So, there you go.
- 1:21:25So this is this was almost a 45 million dollar.
- 1:21:31It had a 45 million dollar budget for this British creation
- 1:21:35of damn other than when and what time period was this 19 as well.
- 1:21:401950s. That's a lot of money.
- 1:21:42Yeah, it is. I don't even want to know how
- 1:21:45much it is now. I don't want to know.
- 1:21:50So, why do they meet as much money to make a lake and a damn?
- 1:21:55How? Well, it is.
- 1:21:56It, it's pretty big. I didn't like download the
- 1:21:59specifics, I'm terrible research and it's going to say that Brian
- 1:22:04cares. More about the, The Spook in the
- 1:22:06story aspects and the background research, I'm not the best part
- 1:22:10about that. Is that you asking me things
- 1:22:11that I don't think to look up. You're like, well, how big is
- 1:22:15this force in Australia? And I'm like, I did ask you
- 1:22:18this. It's like a huge man.
- 1:22:21A big. This lake is the biggest in
- 1:22:23Georgia. That's all.
- 1:22:24I'm gonna. That's all I know about it.
- 1:22:26Okay. So, they needed this much money
- 1:22:30because they had to buy land. Oh, right?
- 1:22:35What we call that again, Americans, just take people's
- 1:22:38land. What is that called?
- 1:22:41What is like, I actually do the indigenous people, what's it
- 1:22:45called again, appropriate? Nope, nope, nope.
- 1:22:50It'll come to me randomly. Yeah, yeah, I'm drunk goodness
- 1:22:54gracious. What is that called?
- 1:22:57Something Destiny, something. Oh, management Manifest.
- 1:23:02This is like one step above Manifest Destiny because he get
- 1:23:05the, you getting money from. Hey, but they still like treat
- 1:23:08you like garbage. Basically, we'll get into that
- 1:23:11later as well. That shit was help people too.
- 1:23:18So, like I said, headed by land, but the problem was that there
- 1:23:22were already towns, and people living here, their whole lives,
- 1:23:25whole towns towns. There's your little daughter
- 1:23:29towns in this. There's like a whole area that
- 1:23:32they had to buy. It's got a pretty big then.
- 1:23:35I do have how many 56,000 acres of land, that's how much they
- 1:23:43had to buy. Massive.
- 1:23:46That's not a lake. That's like a little baby ocean.
- 1:23:51That's pretty 6,000 acres of land.
- 1:23:54Oh my gosh that this they had to buy.
- 1:23:58So not only did they have like you know, people farms and they
- 1:24:03had businesses there, they had churches there, they had a
- 1:24:06cemetery there and people had their own personal family,
- 1:24:09cemeteries there to freeze. What do you do about that?
- 1:24:13I mean, I mean, okay, there have been situations locally around
- 1:24:16here. My understand about cemeteries
- 1:24:19that were okay. So what they were supposed to do
- 1:24:23was move people, they happen in Philadelphia outside of
- 1:24:25Philadelphia, but instead, what they ended up doing which is
- 1:24:28building on top of it and then like decades later, finding out
- 1:24:31that there were still like dozens of graves underneath the
- 1:24:36houses in town, this sounds like Portuguese.
- 1:24:39I think this is kind of where that was because it was really
- 1:24:44common. Yeah.
- 1:24:46Like so much work to move all these gravestones.
- 1:24:49What if we just move some of these Graves?
- 1:24:51What if we just move the gravestones and nobody will
- 1:24:55know, that's definitely Poltergeist my God.
- 1:24:57Yeah, no, I didn't realize that and I'm the white ever be that
- 1:25:00reference. But like, I definitely remember
- 1:25:01hearing about that about a cemetery that was like on the
- 1:25:06outskirts of Philadelphia and then as Philadelphia got bigger,
- 1:25:10they needed to move it and they just didn't.
- 1:25:13And then like we're talking years and years later, they
- 1:25:15found Old stuff from back then. And then also, when I was living
- 1:25:20there, they found underneath like Center City.
- 1:25:25The old like foundations Old Philadelphia, she's slave
- 1:25:30houses. Do not were owned by Good Old
- 1:25:35Ben Franklin. Fucking course been frankly you
- 1:25:37douchebag anyway and they actually what they did was they
- 1:25:40like didn't move them or anything.
- 1:25:42They just put like a nice plexiglass, spot above it and
- 1:25:46like a No place for people could look in, I don't know if it's
- 1:25:48still there. It was there years ago, but
- 1:25:50like, they didn't want to move it.
- 1:25:51They were like, this is historical Philadelphia.
- 1:25:53Like, you know why? I think he's a douche bag.
- 1:25:55Why Daylight Savings Time daylight, saving time.
- 1:25:58Why do we do that? We still do it.
- 1:26:01It's weird. No reason.
- 1:26:02No reason for us to keep doing that, like back then.
- 1:26:04Okay, cool nowadays? Fuck?
- 1:26:06No. You don't need that.
- 1:26:08I guess it's not dishes. No, I get the sun that's still
- 1:26:12up at like, what time is it now, 8:30, it's a Ladies, let's do
- 1:26:17it. I like the Sun up at 8:30, don't
- 1:26:20know? Okay, this is cool when it flips
- 1:26:22and that's that's that's we're talking about, I'm talking about
- 1:26:24the flipping market like five. Yes.
- 1:26:27Then I like leave in the morning is dark and I come home and it's
- 1:26:30dark. Yeah.
- 1:26:30And I'm just a person of the dark.
- 1:26:32That's what I don't like is when it flips.
- 1:26:34Now this time it's also I think summer time for that because the
- 1:26:37sun still up but any other time. Yeah.
- 1:26:39Well that's interesting. Finding like so.
- 1:26:41Did they do they do it the right way.
- 1:26:43So Ryan did they do it the right way?
- 1:26:45So they Paid to have these bodies moved.
- 1:26:49Okay, I'm not sure about all of the personal family Graves.
- 1:26:55Look into that later. Oh, sounds bad.
- 1:27:00So now the buying started, you know, buying a lamb started with
- 1:27:05an 81-year old. His name was Henry Chadbourne
- 1:27:09yeah. Be nice to Henry.
- 1:27:10Yeah he sold his land for four thousand one hundred dollars.
- 1:27:14That's good mind before you $100.
- 1:27:16Yeah. That's not bad by another house
- 1:27:17for that. Yeah, exactly.
- 1:27:19Now, do you think o of the buying of land?
- 1:27:22You know what this movie of listener?
- 1:27:24No, of course not. Fuck course not a lot of people
- 1:27:27were like, fuck this like my great great.
- 1:27:30Great grandpa left me this land and I'll be damned if I'm going
- 1:27:33to sell it. I'm gonna be honest though, like
- 1:27:36my my dad, my parents have a house here and like if somebody
- 1:27:39was like, listen, we're just going to raise that entire area
- 1:27:42and make a giant Park here. The river I'd be like, how what
- 1:27:48you what you selling for ya? Like millions of dollars.
- 1:27:51I just buy more land somewhere else.
- 1:27:53Exactly. I'm not fighting with the
- 1:27:56government because then what they do is they Manifest Destiny
- 1:27:58and you get nothing. Exactly.
- 1:28:00They go like, listen everybody in your community is sold except
- 1:28:03for you, that's like going to take it.
- 1:28:05Now, what is it? It's a it's like from up in
- 1:28:08your. Yeah, you're you're you're
- 1:28:10stopping like Community Development or growth or
- 1:28:13whatever solar building around your small a tiny house.
- 1:28:17Oh my God. Yeah, so I would just do it.
- 1:28:20So I feel, I understand it, but I understand people wanting to
- 1:28:23fight for their ancestral homes and lands, but I'll have it in
- 1:28:26me to fight the US government. Sorry, I'm not a freedom
- 1:28:30fighter. I think I wrote that in here,
- 1:28:31somewhere. That like you, like if someone
- 1:28:34offered me enough, then I'd fucking take it.
- 1:28:37Like, I'm sorry, my ancestors are going to be proud of me for
- 1:28:39making that much money. That's why I'm saying I can just
- 1:28:41listen, we got to have a new ancestral.
- 1:28:43My God, hell yeah. Future Generations.
- 1:28:46They be like You had that little like half acre and now you got
- 1:28:4920. Hmm, upgrade you.
- 1:28:52There you go. Thank you.
- 1:28:53Thank you. Thank you for your great grandpa
- 1:28:55for leaving me this land so I can sell it and then upgrade my
- 1:28:57land. Thank you.
- 1:28:58So actually, I understand. Yeah, so some refused to leave
- 1:29:03their homes, of course, and some even filed civil action suits
- 1:29:08against the government as happens.
- 1:29:11So I wrote this as a side note, they had to move it was 50s
- 1:29:17families that needed to be relocated and we honed okay?
- 1:29:23I forget how many businesses are like 17 businesses.
- 1:29:25I think about that around the whole town.
- 1:29:28That's a whole freaking Town. Yeah.
- 1:29:31Um so some people were even removed from their land by
- 1:29:37force. I knew it and their lands
- 1:29:39seized. Dang it.
- 1:29:41No, for the people who said their land whoo-hoo Soldier
- 1:29:45land, Sing that kind of money before so there is like, yeah,
- 1:29:50do it. I can buy better land for less
- 1:29:52money somewhere, right? Oh, that's where I wrote my
- 1:29:55grandparents. My ancestors would be proud of
- 1:29:58me. That's right, agree.
- 1:29:59Absolutely, either way, the cleared, all the land of people
- 1:30:04in started filling the area with water.
- 1:30:06Now, of course any building that was made out of wood, of course,
- 1:30:12since it was since it would Float.
- 1:30:13By the way, what they just saw. Filling it, they don't know.
- 1:30:38So there's still like, buildings down there that were made out of
- 1:30:40concrete and, you know, Stone and shit.
- 1:30:43There's a heaven, Atlantis. At the bottom of the year.
- 1:30:45It's an underwater town, weird or area City or whatever you
- 1:30:51want to call it. That's weird.
- 1:30:53Yeah. Where's that?
- 1:30:57Okay, March 1st 1950, they began the construction of the dam and
- 1:31:03it took six years from the complete the dam.
- 1:31:06And after that, 1956 is when the is the year that they started
- 1:31:09filling up the area with water, they fill the valleys and it
- 1:31:14took about three to five years, okay?
- 1:31:16From the film. So after, you know, after that,
- 1:31:20it's Phil, you gotta like now ye right where no one can is living
- 1:31:24around it. Can I build some land around the
- 1:31:26lake or a probably not? I don't think so.
- 1:31:30Okay, like it wasn't made for people to live around is just
- 1:31:33made for like that's really exactly.
- 1:31:36So, it's not even a pretty place.
- 1:31:37Like, I'd be like, okay, you baby this money for my land?
- 1:31:40Can I have like a beachfront property?
- 1:31:42Actually, a lot of people visit her, like, every year, a lot of
- 1:31:45people visitor, but it's not like a, it's not supposed to
- 1:31:48happen as soon as you leave. I'm going to Google and see if
- 1:31:52people have done deep sea diving and like her near.
- 1:31:54Yeah. To look at these property, like
- 1:31:57these stuff underground. Yeah, they really, that looks
- 1:32:00that sounds super interesting. The picture I'm terrified of
- 1:32:03deep-sea diving myself because the idea of seeing corpse body,
- 1:32:06Uh, yeah. But underwater pictures like
- 1:32:09that. Like the old building stuff.
- 1:32:11Yeah. Like it's pretty cool looking.
- 1:32:13He lets me to put on another one of those breathing apparatus
- 1:32:16has. I'm not going to do that once.
- 1:32:18Never again. So we're going to get into the
- 1:32:22spooky section of the case of the this is a lot of interesting
- 1:32:25history honestly. Yeah so this is the the curse.
- 1:32:29Okay of Lake Lanier turn it up for week 23.
- 1:32:34Yeah. So from goodness 1998, 29 32
- 1:32:432018 there were 57 boating. Fatalities that took place and
- 1:32:50100 people were supposed to go there to like goof off.
- 1:32:52I told you they like the government says, it's not a
- 1:32:56tourist place, you're not supposed to go there, but people
- 1:32:59just visit. Okay.
- 1:33:00They just like to have a whole. You see pictures like Lake
- 1:33:03Michigan bad, I'm not sure. Cause, like, like, was it like
- 1:33:06Superior Lake superior's? The one that's like so cold.
- 1:33:09That if you dispose a body of it, there it won't float to the
- 1:33:12surface because it will never grow the bacteria.
- 1:33:14Need to float. No, it's not like that.
- 1:33:16Not that bad. Okay.
- 1:33:17It's not like because it's in Georgia.
- 1:33:19So yeah. True.
- 1:33:20George is a little warmer than up north.
- 1:33:22It's yeah, it's the State of Florida so he is always going to
- 1:33:24be fucking warm. Didn't know what snow is?
- 1:33:27Yeah. Like never that way neither is
- 1:33:28still in Atlanta and there's like this much snow and people
- 1:33:30abandon their cars on the road. It was like 2 inches of snow,
- 1:33:34I'm sorry. Georgia people, we don't laugh a
- 1:33:36terrified. We don't laugh at you because
- 1:33:39you don't like those kind of laughs in us getting like three
- 1:33:41feet in one day this year. And I got to go to school and
- 1:33:44work. Oh my God.
- 1:33:45But basically pick me up in his firefighter.
- 1:33:49Yeah, that's how bad the snow was, but like places, like, in
- 1:33:53Georgia or Texas like Texas this year, they had that snowstorm
- 1:33:57like, that was terrible. Yeah.
- 1:33:59Everything was freezing and people were dying.
- 1:34:01Yeah. It fucking terrible and like,
- 1:34:03places, like that didn't have, like, the stuff set up like us
- 1:34:07up north, you know, we're like, snow looks like we probably
- 1:34:10don't have a lot of well, when the power went out that one time
- 1:34:14ever, we were kids. Yeah.
- 1:34:15Yeah, and like, it's that Eastern Seaboard.
- 1:34:19I thought we were children. When that happened.
- 1:34:22How old was I? When I don't know.
- 1:34:23I'm not glad we're children. There you go.
- 1:34:33Oh goodness, okay so oh, wonderful, 25.
- 1:34:37People drowned between that. Okay.
- 1:34:40And the last like 50 years, okay?
- 1:34:42I think it's probably worth the beach but then again, you a
- 1:34:44supposed to be here. Hold on.
- 1:34:46I didn't get to the big numbers yet 2015, to 2018.
- 1:34:53There were 43 Lake related, deaths, and 1228 boating
- 1:34:59accidents, not fatalities, which accident accident.
- 1:35:02These people didn't die. So there are an unusually high
- 1:35:08amount of deaths from the lake. There are an estimated amount of
- 1:35:14675 deaths per year. No, since the like was
- 1:35:19completed. So since nineteen that's
- 1:35:21unusually high, I think, I think I assumed wherever there was
- 1:35:25water. People were doing stupid stuff
- 1:35:26and dying. Yeah, but not probably not as
- 1:35:29much as this, okay? So is this like haunted or
- 1:35:33cursed? So, there have been reports of
- 1:35:37people just Just um standing and they could be staining like at
- 1:35:45the shore and then they can take a step and then they just
- 1:35:48fucking like it. That's how dangerous this lake
- 1:35:51is. Oh, oh, I've been in stuff.
- 1:35:54Like I find that very unsettling.
- 1:35:56Yeah, like is I've been to Coastal beaches even on the East
- 1:35:59Coast where you can see where the drop off is from the the
- 1:36:05beach, like you can see there's like a couple feet of like
- 1:36:08safety and then all of a sudden just draw and it's not even like
- 1:36:10it's dropping down. Fee.
- 1:36:12No, but it's enough for me to be very to feel very yes.
- 1:36:16Yeah. Like, I need to be able to touch
- 1:36:19down with ease. Yeah.
- 1:36:20This like this is a man-made lake.
- 1:36:22It wasn't. Well, that makes sense too.
- 1:36:23Because like I'm sure it's probably like the erosion.
- 1:36:27Yeah, time, I don't know. So, I'm just freaks me out
- 1:36:31because I think about is, like how there was Pangaea and how
- 1:36:34the all the stuff fit together at one point and that there's
- 1:36:38little lines of like out where they just drops off.
- 1:36:41Off into like hundreds of feet. Yeah and I just frightens the
- 1:36:45crap out of me. Oh you're telling so since it's
- 1:36:50built over like the lake is built over or above whatever.
- 1:36:54It's built their churches underneath of it.
- 1:36:58I don't need to Lake and there's like I said, cemeteries were
- 1:37:00always Stone. You're right forgot.
- 1:37:03All about that churches cemeteries like some a cemetery
- 1:37:08and interpersonal cemeteries and like I said before, They
- 1:37:12actually removed all those body, just the personal ones.
- 1:37:14We don't know if all those bodies were removed, I don't
- 1:37:17even know if the main Cemetery, all those bodies were removed
- 1:37:20either. So people were just swimming in
- 1:37:22is Lake full of dead fucking bodies.
- 1:37:26I mean, and what we've talked about that and yeah, this is
- 1:37:28true, old bodies of water are not pools, are places where
- 1:37:33there are dead bodies, but this is a lake.
- 1:37:35The like, have you been in the Atlantic Ocean?
- 1:37:37Of course, that's what the Titanic song, Final, a dead
- 1:37:40body. He's everywhere.
- 1:37:42I'm just saying like, is it like a smaller about a smaller body
- 1:37:47of water, 50,000 Acres, or whatever?
- 1:37:50You said, earlier, I 46 be. There we go.
- 1:37:52I was close. That's a lot of Acres of water.
- 1:37:55Yeah, I would love to know how many gallons of water and I'm
- 1:37:58gonna google that later. But you know what happens when
- 1:38:01you go to over, or you desecrate some barrier around.
- 1:38:04Oh I sure. Do know.
- 1:38:05That's my favorite part of watching.
- 1:38:06Those shows. Boom, haunted.
- 1:38:08When somebody's like, yeah, I've been seeing this weird like
- 1:38:11Two-story figure just walking around outside my house.
- 1:38:15It's really creepy and the ladies like dude, that's
- 1:38:17definitely like an ancient being that is stalking this land.
- 1:38:23And it was, it was brought here to protect the land from the
- 1:38:27white people. Yes.
- 1:38:28During the time periods, when the indigenous folks were
- 1:38:30fighting against the white people, you should probably just
- 1:38:33leave. Yeah.
- 1:38:34Because you are white people. So go you go listen.
- 1:38:37If anybody like actual, like medium, I respect.
- 1:38:40It was like, you should just Go. Yeah, I'm like.
- 1:38:43Alright then. Alright.
- 1:38:43Alright, yes. So, Kardashian now, is not the
- 1:38:53time to buy a house, folks, so apparently is a bridge over the
- 1:38:57lake, our by the lake. Um, so cars mysteriously fall
- 1:39:01into the lake house, Walter brydges, silly.
- 1:39:06I have no idea. There are mysteriously.
- 1:39:10Like, I said, drownings, like, people can Be saving a knee-high
- 1:39:12water and then just drop the fuck off and to nothingness.
- 1:39:21And yeah I just want to see the bridge.
- 1:39:23That's what I'm looking for the picture right now.
- 1:39:25So I'm going to tell you this story.
- 1:39:27Is it lay near? Yeah.
- 1:39:29Well I've been here in Rainier linear.
- 1:39:32Linear my bad. I spelled it wrong to and Google
- 1:39:35and everything. It's like three start.
- 1:39:39Okay cute my God. Yeah or Islands.
- 1:39:43Yeah. How house way?
- 1:39:47Oh no. You got to look at it.
- 1:39:49You got to look at. Like I had some maps pulled up,
- 1:39:51like, of the whole area. No way.
- 1:39:54It's pretty crazy. I'm literally looking at a
- 1:39:56picture of gravestones underwater.
- 1:40:00Pretty fun crazy. That's so disrespectful.
- 1:40:02So, I'm gonna tell you the story, okay?
- 1:40:05Every case of a car going off of the the bridge, I'm looking at
- 1:40:10the bridges right now actually, Okay, and 1958 the lake is
- 1:40:15almost done. Like I said it took three years
- 1:40:17from 1956. Also doesn't make any logical
- 1:40:21sense. Its mass its not.
- 1:40:24Yeah well I think of a lake I think of like a big circular
- 1:40:27entity. Yeah this is weird and has
- 1:40:30branching paths. It's a yes man.
- 1:40:35Well I think of a man-made lake. I don't you don't think it you
- 1:40:37think of it being like uniform type of thing?
- 1:40:39Yeah, this this actually looks very natural.
- 1:40:42I Yeah, it was real, you're probably changed over two years
- 1:40:45Trail, you're right over the last 50 years nature, takes
- 1:40:49itself back when it wants to this is true.
- 1:40:51You write less what happened to the car that just fell in the
- 1:40:53water. Okay, 1958 the lake is almost
- 1:40:55done, I'm being filled two, young women.
- 1:40:59It's a Delia May Parker Young and Susie Roberts.
- 1:41:04They were crossing over Lumiere bridge when some for some odd
- 1:41:10reason, they lose control of the car.
- 1:41:12And end up in the lake. Okay.
- 1:41:15Did they survive? No I didn't know that.
- 1:41:17So search teams failed to find remains from either of these
- 1:41:23women and they filled a refined the vehicle there Joe, okay?
- 1:41:30The only indication of and is happening was skid marks From
- 1:41:36the car. And then somebody was like, yo,
- 1:41:38Susie, where you at? We've been waiting for you.
- 1:41:40Yeah, they make it home that night, Artie Lange.
- 1:41:44So 1959, a year later, fisherman finds a body floating in the
- 1:41:51lake but no one could have done. If I this person that's because
- 1:41:55of bloat and decomposition but they had noted that there's a
- 1:42:01body had no hands and was missing some toes.
- 1:42:07Are there animals in this Lake? I'm not sure.
- 1:42:09Probably probably. They also sometimes when we
- 1:42:11build our own year we build our own ecosystems.
- 1:42:14We will do that will be a year where to take a year for that to
- 1:42:17happen. Like you were animal that your
- 1:42:19hands off like easier than weeks, really?
- 1:42:23Yeah, like I said, nature claims our bodies rather fast.
- 1:42:27I mean, depending on how cold the water is too, okay?
- 1:42:32So 1990 about almost 30 years later.
- 1:42:36The lake is dredged up in preparation for New, Pair
- 1:42:39lawyers, for the bridge, where they found where they find a
- 1:42:46rusty car, nice. The same one Delia and Susie
- 1:42:52were driving. Don't want medially enthusiasts
- 1:42:55just very interesting. So sorry, I'm so interested on
- 1:42:59closer inspection. They find the remains of Susie
- 1:43:01Roberts and who, you know, her bones were in a car before, she
- 1:43:08drowned. Right.
- 1:43:11So leading officials to believe that the no-handed body was of
- 1:43:15Delia my issue with that is It's one, all of the body.
- 1:43:21Should have been bitten Nam Don. Mmm, only no hands.
- 1:43:27Only no hands and some toes were missing.
- 1:43:30No Hands. Feels like a mob hit.
- 1:43:32All right. This will have no teeth.
- 1:43:36This is as soon as I saw that, the body had no hand and no
- 1:43:39fingers or toes, I was like this.
- 1:43:42Where was that? Georgia.
- 1:43:44Hmm. This could just be like a racial
- 1:43:47thing. Maybe.
- 1:43:48Oh, no, that's what I was thinking.
- 1:43:50We're saying like oh, but if they were by then it was.
- 1:43:55Yeah, that's true. Maybe I don't know.
- 1:43:59Here we go. so after that, there have been Apparition sightings
- 1:44:09of a woman wearing a Blue Dress walking up and down the bridge.
- 1:44:16She's been singing having no hands, ah, at all.
- 1:44:23And apparently, Susie can be seen Susie's at Apparition that
- 1:44:27can be seen wandering. The back roads of Route 53,
- 1:44:31which heads across the bridge? Yep, oh, Susie poor girl.
- 1:44:36So, you know, this means I'm going to have to go through like
- 1:44:39Every season of Ghost Hunters to see if they went down they
- 1:44:42probably do. You know?
- 1:44:42They fucking did and Ghost Adventures all of them.
- 1:44:45I got to go see who's been down there.
- 1:44:46Exactly have I already watched this and I didn't remember.
- 1:44:49Probably I've so many ghost shows in my brain that I clearly
- 1:44:54may have forgotten. The like the seems to
- 1:44:56interesting for me to have never heard of it before.
- 1:44:58So I'm going to step away from the the ghost did a paranormal
- 1:45:02stuff for a second. Okay.
- 1:45:04And give you a little bit of different history.
- 1:45:07So I'd finish my research, right?
- 1:45:11I was talking to Terror today about it, and I was telling her,
- 1:45:14you know, well, it's covering and she's like, oh, I've heard
- 1:45:16about that. And I'm like, okay, cool.
- 1:45:19And she's like, yeah, it's been over Tick Tock.
- 1:45:21And I'm like, what the fuck you're talking about?
- 1:45:23And the irony, that the one thing you search suddenly went
- 1:45:27viral and Technology. Yeah, I know.
- 1:45:30Yeah, she's like yeah, a lot of people talking about it and how
- 1:45:34there was a racial cleansing that happened and that's why
- 1:45:40it's haunted. Was this A Sundown town?
- 1:45:44This was a Sundown County. Yep.
- 1:45:47Okay. That's why some folks didn't get
- 1:45:51no money. So me being me.
- 1:45:53I got, you know, I got look into it so I just before I came over
- 1:45:58here. No, it's all there.
- 1:45:59Yeah, I mean, The majority of Sundown towns were actually in
- 1:46:02the north, but there were definitely enough in the South.
- 1:46:04Yeah, that's the thing. I like to remind people in
- 1:46:07there, like, the north was against slavery and blah, blah
- 1:46:10blah. Like the North had towns, that
- 1:46:13would murder people if you didn't get out before dust.
- 1:46:16Okay, someday, but for now like, yeah, if you want her way out
- 1:46:20and outdated, that's why the, the the blue book in the green
- 1:46:23book were even created. Yeah, as an almanac for
- 1:46:27specifically black travelers to know where it was.
- 1:46:30Was safe for you to stay when you were traveling across
- 1:46:35America because of Sundown towns.
- 1:46:36So, I love it and I love whenever it pops up in a pop
- 1:46:40culture. Yeah, happened with that HBO
- 1:46:43show. Lovecraft country.
- 1:46:44Yeah, and it looks like it's popping up.
- 1:46:46Again, this is good. This is a part of history that
- 1:46:48we have conveniently forgotten and fun fact for anybody
- 1:46:50listening if you want to know where he Sundown town is look
- 1:46:54into your cities. If you want to know that you're
- 1:46:56living somewhere that used to be a Sundown Town.
- 1:46:58Look into your city census. Go back, 100 years.
- 1:47:03If all of a sudden, there are no black people in your town, it
- 1:47:07was a Sundown town. You have to go back to like I
- 1:47:10would say after slavery but before the Civil Rights Movement
- 1:47:14and look to see if there were black people who live there and
- 1:47:17suddenly none. Yep.
- 1:47:19High odds, that you were living in a Sundown town or County.
- 1:47:22Yeah. Yeah, this is a whole fucking
- 1:47:24County. Wow.
- 1:47:27So one town, that was absorbed, by the way.
- 1:47:30Lake was named Oscar Ville. Now you can still find Oscar
- 1:47:34bill on a map. Old Oscar.
- 1:47:38Bill you cannot because it's on need to fucking like I want to I
- 1:47:42know there's got to be a YouTube video that's like an hour-long
- 1:47:45of people just underwater looking at this town and it's
- 1:47:49going. I'm going to do tonight.
- 1:47:50First, I got to record a tick tock and then I'm going to do
- 1:47:53this. This is how I'm going to go to
- 1:47:55sleep tonight. So Oscar Ville is located in
- 1:48:02Forsyth County. I have heard a Forsyth County
- 1:48:07though. Yeah.
- 1:48:08It's a place where I guess Oprah has gone and it was like an
- 1:48:13interview that she did in all the people in there were like,
- 1:48:15yeah, we don't like black people.
- 1:48:16Living here are in our community and stuff like that.
- 1:48:19This is I forget when she did his interview, but I remember
- 1:48:22watching it. I do I know Forsyth County.
- 1:48:25It's a fo R Sy. Th so yeah, this is Oscar Ville
- 1:48:34was apparently reported as being an agricultural Miracle because
- 1:48:39the farmers had beat back boll, weevils from their infant
- 1:48:44station back in the day and for the Farmland, I guess surviving
- 1:48:49the Great Depression as well. Mmm.
- 1:48:55So, Oscar bills supposed to have been.
- 1:48:59I know I did my brain. Why?
- 1:49:01Because there's a news article the other day, about police
- 1:49:04shooting a man who called 911 asking for help down in Forsyth.
- 1:49:08Oh, I was like, I know I just hit my head recently, you know?
- 1:49:12I think, yeah. They called my mom for help and
- 1:49:14they got shot. I think this is the area.
- 1:49:16Remember that one story. I don't know if I did the story,
- 1:49:20but it's like a one of our this weekend True Crime.
- 1:49:24Well, Brought up the woman who had died at her friend's
- 1:49:28birthday party or some shit like that in Georgia.
- 1:49:31I think that's around this area too.
- 1:49:33Okay, just happened. That that happened but Oscar
- 1:49:38bill is supposed to have been an entire black community that was
- 1:49:43basically just first out. Yeah.
- 1:49:45Force out of the area but you didn't boll weevils came back.
- 1:49:49Didn't they know? It was those, those hooded?
- 1:49:53Weevils, if you don't talk About.
- 1:49:58Um, Newport damn development kept in touch with the court
- 1:50:01system, to make sure that the state could take the land from
- 1:50:07these residents because they'd ask every resident to give up
- 1:50:13their land like to leave their land without really paying and
- 1:50:17stuff except for five residents. That's it.
- 1:50:21Everybody else there like you gotta leave.
- 1:50:23You gotta get out of here. Now, there's this book,
- 1:50:28including Oscar Ville, that's titled blood at the root.
- 1:50:32A racial cleansing in America, where all Sir Patrick Phillips
- 1:50:38talks about the 1912 lynchings and the riots that followed the
- 1:50:44sexual assault and murder of a young white woman named sleepy.
- 1:50:49Make fro that she was 18 years old.
- 1:50:52The accused a black teen of committing the crime.
- 1:50:55I'm but it's it's officially an unsolved crime.
- 1:51:02So, as a, as a result of this around 11:00, black residents
- 1:51:09with Oscar Ville and for sense County out of fear of, you know,
- 1:51:14for the lives. So some of the ghosts there that
- 1:51:20may or may not haunt the lake. Of course, maybe some black
- 1:51:25residents that my favorite haunting is I love.
- 1:51:31Slaves. Haunt people.
- 1:51:32Oh yeah. And also lovely indigenous
- 1:51:34people hunt, folks. This is I like yes.
- 1:51:38And I want people to move on to the afterlife.
- 1:51:40Sure. If you gotta stay, you might as
- 1:51:42well make folks lives miserable. I mean yeah but also as want to
- 1:51:47add this is like as dangerous as fuck knows what.
- 1:51:50Yeah. Like, I've seen a picture of it,
- 1:51:53when it was a drought when there's a drought in Georgia and
- 1:51:56they're like, little are a little trees and Forest
- 1:51:59underneath the fucking water. Like they're dead trees and the
- 1:52:02water. So be careful if you're going
- 1:52:05like, if you, if you visit there then, you know, scariest videos
- 1:52:08ever saw? Was it what happened down in
- 1:52:10like Louisiana? And someone was just watching
- 1:52:12and like, my thing is, when, you know that the ground can do
- 1:52:15this. It's so like, their the cameras,
- 1:52:18like watching this, like swampy area and then all of a sudden,
- 1:52:21you just hear a snap and trees and land across from where this
- 1:52:27person is like, videotaping, just sing.
- 1:52:31Into the water in front of them. And I'm like, why are you still
- 1:52:33there? Hey, that is deaf.
- 1:52:37Yeah, apparently it was an area where there used to be a salt
- 1:52:39mine and that salt, mine got flooded, and it's still very
- 1:52:43like unstable and the ground, just sinks into the mine every
- 1:52:46once in a while. Some people go down there to
- 1:52:48watch it and I'm like, this is frightening.
- 1:52:51This heart is like centrally. Oh yeah.
- 1:52:53Almost like kind of well and he really was a coal mine.
- 1:52:57Yeah. But we got to steam coming up
- 1:52:58out of the ground. Ground is it like sinking into
- 1:53:00Central? You know, it's just fire.
- 1:53:02There is a massive sinkhole in a Mexican farm land right now that
- 1:53:05is currently swallowed two houses.
- 1:53:07Oh yeah, it was in the news the other day was look at this
- 1:53:10sinkholes frightened me. Yeah.
- 1:53:12They're can talk about things that we find scary.
- 1:53:14Sinkholes are kind of, you know, Riptides.
- 1:53:18Yeah, just I have like a real fear.
- 1:53:20Like it's almost like an unreasonable fear of Riptides,
- 1:53:23huh? I used to be afraid of quicksand
- 1:53:25until I realized it was slow sand in a quicksand is just
- 1:53:29don't don't fight it. Buddy pull you out.
- 1:53:31Yeah basically just stand there and wait.
- 1:53:33We used to be afraid of quicksand his kids.
- 1:53:35That's what black holes. I used to have an irrational
- 1:53:38fear of black holes just a little bit.
- 1:53:41Yeah, it's unpredictable but there is one thing that I wanted
- 1:53:44to mention to anybody who still listening because it's the end
- 1:53:47of our show. It is one.
- 1:53:50Thanks for listening. Like we did say, there's going
- 1:53:52to be patreon and one of our tears is going to be an extra
- 1:53:56like we're going to call its own little podcast, 30 minutes.
- 1:53:59What did you call it? Conspiracy Crips conspiracy
- 1:54:04crept. Yes, Brian named it, the
- 1:54:06conspiracy crap. I'm sorry.
- 1:54:07Just a little bit on the Fly. That's what is going to be
- 1:54:09called. What's is going to be a
- 1:54:1030-minute additional extra podcast of us, discussing that
- 1:54:15sort of stuff and I'm not entirely opposed to the
- 1:54:18discussion of conspiracies, just some of them.
- 1:54:21I find. Just they make my like angry.
- 1:54:25They make me angry, but some of them, I actually do have some
- 1:54:30really good ones like, one of my campers the other day came to me
- 1:54:33and was just like You know, the guy who landed on the moon.
- 1:54:40Oh, you told me about this? Yeah, and I was just like, yeah.
- 1:54:44And he goes his name backwards is alien.
- 1:54:48He's like we put an alien on the moon.
- 1:54:50That's like, that's really cool. That's really cute.
- 1:54:53He was very proud of him. Probably he discovered the, the
- 1:54:59conspiracy than your Armstrong is actually nailing a little kid
- 1:55:01sometimes, so cute. Oh goodness.
- 1:55:06But yeah. Well whoever patreon up and then
- 1:55:08we have multiple tiers one. Just for folks who just want to
- 1:55:13help get a little bit of. Yeah, give us a little push and
- 1:55:17we'll have mercury people who want that.
- 1:55:20Yeah, they will have gaming nights, right?
- 1:55:23That's one of the tiers patreon is that once a month, we'll have
- 1:55:26a gaming night and you get to be on stream with us and
- 1:55:29participate. Yeah, it'll be fun and so, we'll
- 1:55:33probably have to Max that It out at like, we'll have to cap.
- 1:55:36Yeah. But like five people baby.
- 1:55:38Yeah. With with garlic phone you can
- 1:55:41technically have a Lobby. That's like 15 plus people.
- 1:55:44All right. Go.
- 1:55:44Maybe we could do like 10 and we'll see, we'll see, we'll see,
- 1:55:47we'll see what happens. We'll see you, Steven,
- 1:55:48interested honest. Yeah, I don't have.
- 1:55:50You know what? I got Champagne Dreams.
- 1:55:54Just gonna we're gonna manage your expectations and if anybody
- 1:56:01wants to support us, I'll be shocked.
- 1:56:03Yeah, there you go. We'll say to if anybody puts
- 1:56:05money, I appreciate you are like 1,500 people who are listening
- 1:56:10on it like weekly basis. Thank you so much.
- 1:56:13This has been a really awesome experience doing this.
- 1:56:15Yes, for you all and it's totally worthwhile even though I
- 1:56:19have resigned myself to write a 10-page research paper every
- 1:56:22week for the rest of my life. Crazy or until we run out of
- 1:56:27people to talk about kill people.
- 1:56:29But Stop. I'm like, I'm not going to stop
- 1:56:34finding anything creepy to talk about and you're probably not
- 1:56:36going to run out people killing people.
- 1:56:38That's true. So as long as you want us, we're
- 1:56:40here basically. Oh goodness.
- 1:56:44And as always you can find Brittany on takes AA.
- 1:56:47Cat caught podcast. That's true always almost every
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- 1:56:55at Fox you trainer. I'm not gonna change.
- 1:56:57The name is just going to stay foxy trainer whatever just find
- 1:56:59me on Twitch. I didn't stream last week.
- 1:57:02And because I was out of town but this weekend I will be
- 1:57:05playing Doki-Doki Leisure Club. All the new one came out and it
- 1:57:09was it's out on Wednesday. Oh nice.
- 1:57:12So I'll be playing that. This one's the pay one though,
- 1:57:15the first one was free. So we'll see what happened.
- 1:57:18Considering at the end of the first game, there was just
- 1:57:22Monaco serious game breaking stuff that had to be done to
- 1:57:25save you from a character in the game, you know?
- 1:57:29Yeah. Also, are we going to have to
- 1:57:31kind of put that under like a trigger warning of us stream
- 1:57:35because this one had some serious jerk.
- 1:57:37I'm pretty sure it's gonna be like the same amount of stuff.
- 1:57:39So, it's probably trigger warning.
- 1:57:43What else? You could always email us.
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- 1:58:18I added my About Me section to the website and Brian will do
- 1:58:21that. He was just gone so he couldn't.
- 1:58:23Yeah, I'm sorry I just love to do you were on the little kid
- 1:58:28vacation that's it was There you go.
- 1:58:33But, yeah, that's all we got for this week.
- 1:58:35Yeah, thanks for listening. Yeah, thanks.
- 1:58:37Have a good night.