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On today's throwback episode, we discuss an unexpected obstruction in a boy's intestines, a surprising autopsy finding tied to a fatal fall down the stairs, a woman trapped on a toilet for years, a man's groundbreaking genital reconstruction, a bizarre fishing accident, and a horrifying discovery in a community garden.

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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Mother Knows Dad, starring Nicole and Jemmy and Maria qk.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Hi.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
Everyone.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
Welcome to this week's six Shocking Stories. Let's get into
our first story. Okay, so the seven year old boy
started having abdominal pain. He was having constipation, and he
was puking for about four days. I feel like that's
kind of a long time to be having symptoms like that.
But anyway, after a couple of days, his doctor gave
him some constipation beds, but the pain kept getting worse,

(00:41):
so finally his parents took him to the emergency room. Yeah,
I think this story is a little bit irresponsible. I
don't know where this person was treated, but for especially
for a child that has constipation and is just not
pooping and also is vomiting, that's a clear hell signed
that something is terribly wrong. And I don't know why

(01:03):
what doctor would ever give constipation medicine in that situation.
But what happened was they did imaging and stuff, and
they discovered that he had something stuck inside of his bows,
and they said that they monitored him even longer to
see I don't I absolutely don't know why, but whatever

(01:24):
the case is, they finally decided to open them up
to look inside to see what was in his intestines,
and they found that there was this really hard kind
of mass. Definitely, it was some kind of foreign body
within his intestines. And Maria, you want to tell them
what it was? A doll head, Yes, like like a
Barbie doll head actually in his in his little intestines.

(01:48):
So what is he just swallow it and then the
whole and then it just makes its way all the
way down and gets stuck. Yeah, so somehow he swallowed
it whole. It didn't look like it. It looked like.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
Like crazy Barbie or what's that one called weird Barbie.

Speaker 3 (02:02):
Yeah, the hair is cut off, you know. So yeah,
but this is the telltale sign for any parent that's listening,
or physicians, anything like this. And it's especially you could
even say it about animals too, right, or just like
a younger person or even a person that just can't
communicate properly what happened. Anytime things aren't coming out of

(02:24):
the butt and they're coming out of the mouth, it
means that something stuck. So every time this boy was eating,
it would come right back up because it had nowhere
to go, and he wasn't pooping because it wasn't getting
past the barbie doll head. So once he was done
his final meals, you know, before he got that thing stuck,
it's not that's why nothing's coming out. So it's not

(02:46):
really that he's constipated. It's just that there's no more
poop left because it's all not going through his gi track.
I mean, so this could have been really bad, right, yeah,
oh yeah, this could have been really bad. And when
you look at the photos, so what was this one
called in the grocery room. This one's called headstuck. Okay,
so it's called headstuck. So when you look at the
photos in the grocery room, this small intestine is the

(03:08):
lining of it looks so thinned out and stretched out
over this barbie doll head that you could actually see
the barbie doll head kind of through the bow. It's
it's crazy. So think about that that, Like, it's so
it's so see throw and so thin that if that ruptured,
I mean, he could have died from that. And that's
why it's just weird to me to think that any

(03:30):
single doctor would have heard a child was vomiting for
days and wasn't pooping and didn't think this was an
emergency situation at first. Yeah, that is really weird, but like,
luckily he survived in this case. So all right, this
next word is called big dead. So this forty two
year old woman was found dead at the bottom of
her staircase. It appeared to be an accident, but of
course you have to look into it. I mean, this

(03:51):
immediately just reminded me of the infamous true crime case,
the Staircase, and how they you know, they couldn't determine
how the woman Kathleen Peterson had really They were like,
did she fall? Did somebody push her? There was even
this theory floating around that an owl grabbed her head
and ripped these giants. That was the most outrageous one.
There's a bunch of al theorists out there, but I

(04:12):
don't think anybody could have thought of this one.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
We actually didn't.

Speaker 3 (04:16):
We do like a two part death dissection on that
case and went through every plausible scenario. I don't I
don't even remember it because I didn't watch the documentary
like you did, and we wrote about that's like a
year or two ago. But I remember that I went
through every single one and was like, this is why
it couldn't have happened, this is what probably happened, and
things like that. Oh yeah, so no, So for this case,

(04:39):
they're you know, they have to look into what happened
and what did they see at her autopsy. So they
do the autopsy, and the first thing that anybody assumes
is like, okay, a woman's found dead at the bottom
of the steps, so that that's what we're kind of
thinking happened here, right, the story makes sense everything, And
she does have a gash on her head. She has
like a laceration on her head with some bruising, and

(05:00):
they open her up and she has a mild a
brain bleed, but it kind of wasn't enough that it
would have killed her probably, so they're just kind of
looking around, like okay, So on the external exam when
they were looking at her, they noticed that she had
these pinpoint particul hemorrhages inside of her eyes, which are
very specific to asphyxial deaths.

Speaker 2 (05:23):
So if you get.

Speaker 3 (05:25):
Choked or smothered or something like that and it but
you don't have to see them in those deaths, but
they're unusual and you might have had them sometimes, especially
if you've ever thrown up or vomited. You ever see
you get those little red dots on your face, like
broken blood vessel things. Yeah, So there are particular hemorrhages,
and they happen because it's really when somebody is having

(05:48):
a hard time breathing but they're still trying to make
breaths and the pressure that goes on causes the little
tiny capillaries at the end of the veins to kind
of break open and like break a.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
Blood vessel basically. But they're you.

Speaker 3 (06:03):
You probably wouldn't see something like that if she just
fell and hit her head. So it just alarmed the
person that was doing the autopsy. And so they're doing
the autopsy, they take out all her organ stuff and
they open up her her throat where it's just her larynx, right,
and that's kind of your Adam's apple area, your voice box,
all of that, and they open it up and they

(06:24):
were shocked what they found lodged inside of there because
there shouldn't be anything in there. What did they find
in there? A giant wad of gum, Yeah, a giant
wad of chewing gum. So they they determined that her
cause of death, her manner of death, was accidental, but
her cause of death was from asphyxia, not from the fall.
And they think that what happened was she was walking

(06:44):
down the steps and she fell, and so the fall
made her knock over, but she was grasping for breath
and that the chewing gum got lodged in her throat
like as she fell, Oh my god, like talk about
a freak accident, and how like how often are you
just like walking around just chewing gum like the I mean.

Speaker 2 (07:04):
All the time.

Speaker 3 (07:04):
Our family or really our whole family's super into chewing
gum all the time, and I certainly will just keep
layering it together.

Speaker 2 (07:12):
And now I'm like, how dangerous is this?

Speaker 3 (07:14):
You know what I just was thinking about post I
don't remember what it is that I wrote in the
Gross Room fairly recently as well, with a similar situation
that there was a car accident and when they did
the autopsy, the person had a giant wat of gum
lodged in their throat as well, and they were wondering
if there's all these different scenarios like was he choking
on the gum and then he crashed the car? Did

(07:36):
he crash the car and it got stuck while he crashed,
Like what caused the thing to cause the crash?

Speaker 1 (07:42):
You know what I mean. So I don't remember what
that one was called, but it happens. You hear about
it sometimes.

Speaker 3 (07:48):
Yeah, it's just really disturbing. I mean we're talking about
this all the time, Like how at the Midor Museum,
the used to have a drawer full of stuff, like
especially women and me in particular. I was putting my
embroidery needle in my mouth a lot while I was relooping,
and then I was like.

Speaker 2 (08:02):
This is really dangerous. I has to stop doing I
was just doing it this weekend.

Speaker 3 (08:07):
I was hanging up basket like hooks out on my
porch so I could do the hanging baskets. And I'm
standing on the ladder and it's like I have a
drill in one hand and my hand's holding the ladder
in the other hand, and I have a screw in
my mouth, and the whole time I just kept thinking like,
oh my god, I'm gonna fall off this ladder and
like this this screw is going to go down my
throat right now. Yeah, And you can't end up being

(08:28):
one of our own stories.

Speaker 2 (08:30):
I know it is.

Speaker 3 (08:31):
It is my biggest fear to be embarrassed by something
like that. Yeah, all right, so let's get onto this next.
One years ago, this thirty five year old woman from
Kansas was at her boyfriend's house and went into the bathroom.

Speaker 2 (08:43):
He noticed that she was in.

Speaker 3 (08:45):
There for a little while, but eventually she came out,
so we didn't think too much in it. And then
over time he noticed every time the girlfriend went in
the bathroom, she would stay in there a little longer
each time. Eventually she got to the point where she
wouldn't leave the bathroom at all, but.

Speaker 2 (08:58):
More specifically the toilet.

Speaker 3 (09:00):
Yeah, so it's it's this is such a crazy story.
So I guess that she had this history of sexual
abuse as a child, and she felt that that was
like her safe space, so she wanted to stay in
there all the time. And he thought, I mean, at first,
he said, he thought it was a little unusual, but
she always felt more comfortable to be in there. And
then he just said, over the months and years, it

(09:20):
just it became normal to him too, that she wanted
to be in there all the time. Yeah, And they
said basically like life resumed as normal, Like he would
go in there and they would have their normal conversations.
He would bring her food in there. She at some
point was bathing and changing her clothes, but I think
that just seemed to stop as well. And then you know,

(09:41):
it just went on so long and got so severe
that eventually he had to call the police. And what
did they find when they got there?

Speaker 2 (09:48):
Oh my god.

Speaker 3 (09:49):
So the paramedics showed up and she was her She
was sitting on the toilet and her legs appeared atrophy.
And that's what happens if you don't use your muscles,
they just become smaller and weaker. You could tell when
people haven't been walking for quite some time. And they
were literally not able to get her off of the
toilet seat. She was stuck to the toilet seat because

(10:12):
her skin and soft tissue started growing around the seat.
I don't even like when we first read this story,
it just seemed so made up to me, like, how.

Speaker 2 (10:24):
Does that even happen?

Speaker 3 (10:25):
Well, if you think about this, there's a lot of cases,
especially where you have people that are wearing wedding rings
that are too tight for an extended period of time
twenty years and stuff, and then their skin grows over
the entire wedding ring because.

Speaker 2 (10:40):
I've heard of this. That's not insane, No, it is.

Speaker 3 (10:43):
I actually, I just there's a ton of pictures of it,
and I just thought like, I never even posted any
of this in the grocer room, so I'll do that
this week too. But it just looks really crazy. It
looks like sometimes it looks like someone glued a rhinestone
on someone's hand because the rest of it is embedded
in their skin underneath, because it's from the chronic irritation.

(11:05):
And when you're sitting on the toilet, you're putting pressure
on your skin and your bones of your pelvis, and
you can create pressure sorees just like you would get
if you were bed ridden, right, And that's why it's
so important, especially when people are in eldercare, or people
that just are handicapped and not able to move and

(11:25):
they're bed ridden, or they are mostly bed ridden and
they already can't get up by themselves, it's important that
they always have somebody to make sure they're getting up
because you could get really bad ulcerations and those can
become infectious. I mean, just think about like if you
have a really bloody scab and you put a bandage
or on or something like it sticks to it, right, Yeah,

(11:47):
So it's just a combination of of all that, like
the chronic irritation from having that foreign thing stuck to
your skin for such a long time. And I guess
if she was sitting there and just had some bringing
her meals and she could go to the bathroom right there, like,
I guess it's possible. It just seems so outrageous. So

(12:07):
the paramedics had to cut the toilet seat off and
bring her to the hospital with the toilet seat still
attached to her. I don't know the extent of what
it really was that was sticking. Did she just have
a sore that had a lot of scabs that was
like dried up, bloody crust stuck to it, or was
it that her skin was actually starting to grow around
the farign object. I'm not sure. It's just really sad,

(12:29):
you know that she mentally is even going through this,
and to the point where her significant other also thinks
this turns into normal behavior, you know. So, I mean,
in the articles I've read, it seems like a lot
of people were like kind of blaming the boyfriend for
this happening. But I don't know, what do you think
about it. I don't know, because like I read something

(12:52):
that there was questions of whether he should have criminal
charges or not. And I don't necessarily agree with that.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
I just I don't know.

Speaker 3 (13:00):
And he made the statement that she was a grown
adult and she chose to do that.

Speaker 2 (13:05):
I guess they.

Speaker 3 (13:05):
I definitely think that they should look into it, because
this is a very weird situation. Yeah, I mean, and
he said that he would try to talk her every
day into leaving and she would say maybe tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (13:15):
And I think, I mean.

Speaker 3 (13:17):
Two years is a really long time for this to
go on. But I think there's this fear of you know,
this is happening in your house and you're trying to
address it within your own family and not let it
get out, and then it just starts getting worse and
worse and worse and you don't know what to do.
And then maybe he was scared that she would be
admitted to like some type of facility or something like.

(13:38):
You just don't know what's going through people's heads when
they don't take care of stuff. Do you imagine if
you found out that that was like your next door
neighbor and there was a person that was sitting glued
to their toilet, like no, I mean, I really go outageous.
It's so crazy how people live. Sometimes you just think
that like this is this went on in a person's life,
but can you can you only blame him though, because

(14:00):
nobody else in her life was like where is she?

Speaker 2 (14:05):
Other people?

Speaker 3 (14:06):
I mean maybe she maybe she just if she didn't
go to work and stuff didn't. Someone of her neighbors
were interviewed and said, like they knew her when she
was a child, but they haven't seen her in years.
Like it's just like everybody's checked out. Like if you
just I mean think about this. I was thinking about this,
this guy that lives behind us, right, Yeah, he used
to I used to see him all the time. He

(14:27):
had a dog and he was walking his dog around, right,
And I said, Hi, what's up whatever, I haven't seen
that dude in years. Like I just assumed, Oh, I
guess he died. I don't know, he's older, right, But
then like one of my neighbors was like, no, I
think like his dog died and he's just old and
he doesn't walk around anymore. And I'm like, oh, I
don't know, Like I don't, I don't cause they live
like behind us. I don't talk to people back there.

(14:47):
I just used to stay hi if he was walking by,
you know. But like that's the thing, like people like,
I'm worried about my own life over here, I'm not
like trying to monitor all of the people in my
neighborhood and what they're doing and shit. You know know, like,
well there's quite a bit of neighborhood busybodies where I live.
So I'm sure if something weird was going on, they
would tell everybody about it, because you know, everybody's business.

(15:09):
My immediate block is like that, Like it's just kind
of like one of your is one of your is
one of your light bulbs, sad or something. But you
know that that's that's all good because I like that actually,
But as you know, all these peripheral people, you're just
kind of like you can't pay attention to what people
are doing.

Speaker 2 (15:26):
So this also.

Speaker 3 (15:27):
Proves my point that pedophiles should go to jail or
have the same charges as murderers, because think about this,
even though this action happened to her when she was
a little kid, she clearly has lifelong damage from it.

Speaker 2 (15:42):
Oh yeah, yeah, And I don't think a lot of people.

Speaker 3 (15:44):
Look at the psychological effects long term of people that
go through things like that.

Speaker 2 (15:49):
Yeah, it's it's terribly sad. The whole story is terribly sad. No,
it really is.

Speaker 3 (15:55):
Okay, this next one is definitely worth looking in the
gross room at the pictures because it's prett unbelievable. It's
called permanent boner. I don't think you're gonna see where
this one's going. All right, So do you want why
don't you get started with this guy's history? All right?
So he's a fifty two year old male. He had
penile cancer and that required an amputation of the head

(16:15):
of his penis. So after removing the cancer, the next
phase of the treatment was having penile reconstruction. So can
you explain how that typically works? So he's went once
he got the head of his penis amputated, he actually
got a little bit more than the head amputated. There
was only three centimeters left, or about one inch, so
he just had a little stump there. But with that stump,

(16:37):
he has his urethra is still there, so he's still
able to go to the bathroom normally. Right, So what
they have to do is create a penis and sometimes
they'll take tissue from either the leg or the arm
and they'll make they'll make a penis out of that,
and then they'll reattach it to his penile stump, and
they have to let that heel for about a year

(17:00):
before they put in a penile implant, which would give
him the ability to have erections and have sex again.
And obviously, like you've already been through a lot of trauma,
you had diagnosed with cancers, terrible, having to get your
penis cut off as terrible. You know, sometimes you were
in a relationship with somebody, so it's terrible for them too.

(17:20):
So just to have to wait all that time in
between surgeries, it can be a lot for a person.
So they decided that they were going to take an
extreme measure to try to shorten the time of this procedure.

Speaker 2 (17:33):
So tell them what they did.

Speaker 3 (17:35):
So they decided they were going to amputate his middle
finger and use that to create a new penis for him. Yeah,
So this guy seriously got his middle finger amputated off
his hand, on his non dominant hand, by the way,
and they were able to take skin from that finger
and make a fake urethra, and then they were able

(17:55):
to take skin from his arm, which is called a
radial flap. It's like right from your forearm there. So
they took the bone from his finger, the fake urethra
they made with the skin, and then they wrapped it
up with his skin from his forearm and created a penis.
They attached it to his penile stump, and you will
not believe. Within twelve days he was urinating out of

(18:18):
this stump, and within a month he was having sex
with it.

Speaker 2 (18:23):
I mean, that's absolutely crazy.

Speaker 3 (18:25):
I mean, I think this is really innovative, right, I mean,
could this work for everybody? Or no?

Speaker 2 (18:31):
Or you have to be willing to lose a finger.

Speaker 3 (18:33):
I don't know, because I was thinking, God, I've never
heard this, And then I saw that they followed him
for ten years and he had no complications. And it's
really crazy because they did an X ray and he
has a bone in his penis, multiple bones from his finger.
It looks like there's a finger in his penis, which
a normal human doesn't have bones in their penis. So

(18:56):
it seemed I mean, listen, like cutting off your finger
is pretty extreme.

Speaker 2 (19:01):
Yeah, you know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (19:02):
But I'm just saying it's like maybe it's just frowned
upon like that. I don't know that, you know what
I mean, Like that would be a hard decision for
someone to make, especially because I mean, in theory, he's
got this stump of a penis, so he may have
some sensation to it, but I don't even think so,
because of having the surgery from the cancer and everything

(19:22):
like that whole entire thing is is more than likely
done for his partner just to be able to physically
up sex because he's not getting anything out of that
as far as that stimulation's concerned. I mean, I guess
you could do like anal stimulation at the same time
and everything, but like it's just not the same for
him as it was, is what I'm trying to say.

(19:44):
So I have a question for you. So how are
they How are they determining the middle finger is the
best one to go? Is that theoretically I guess one, Well,
that's what I was gonna ask. Is it like a
length thing or is it theoretically just the best finger
to lose if you were gonna choose, because it's the
least debility. I think it probably is because when you
look at his hand after the surgery, you're kind of

(20:05):
like it's almost like you got to do a double
take and be like, wait, is there one missing? Let
me count all these It's just like not as obvious
and it probably you know when you want to grip
things and stuff you would need like you're pinky and
your and your thumb. Like, it's just it's probably like
the least noticed one and bonus, it's the longest, so like,
why not get a long one if you're gonna get
a new one?

Speaker 2 (20:25):
Right?

Speaker 3 (20:25):
Can I also say a side note, the word flap
is so disgusting. Yeah, it really is disgusting, but it's
it's this thing is just it's really I think it's
kind of cool. The only thing is is that that
now that he has a bone in his penis, he
has a permanent boner, you know, like it's yeah, it

(20:46):
that's why that's why I made the title that, like,
and that could be uncomfortable because that would look big
under his pants and things like that. Like that's just
something to consider. But it looks it looks great. They
show the pictures of what it looks like after it's healed,
and a lot of it because he already had with
the stump and he was able to urinate like that.

(21:07):
It's just more like how a woman would urinate, you know. Yeah,
And it's a lot of this is just for self
esteem purposes, because that's like a lot for a guy
to lose his penis. Sometimes it's everything to them, you know,
I mean medically. I think it's a really cool achievement
that the doctors were able to do that.

Speaker 2 (21:23):
It is.

Speaker 3 (21:23):
It is an unusual story for sure. Yeah, all right,
This next one is called a fish out of water.
So another outrage is this one's so nuts. When when
I read this to Ricky last night, he said, never
going fishing again. So I guess you guys can see
if you're gonna make that choice too. A middle aged
man was out fishing one day, totally normal activity for

(21:46):
most middle aged man, I'd say. So as he starts
relling in this fishy cot, it jumped off the hook
and went right in his mouth. He started freaking out
so bad trying to get it out. But somehow the
fish made its way down his throat. Yeah, the fish
was trying to swim away as fast as it can
down his throat, and it was pretty successful. And I mean,
think of think about this, like he was freaking out

(22:08):
and trying to pull it out of his mouth. But
a fish is like slimy and wiggly and that like
the fish don't want to be there either. You know,
it's not like this is a mutual agreement. The fish
doesn't want to be there. The guy doesn't want the
fish there. Fish are hard to grab with your bears, Yeah,
and he couldn't. He couldn't get it, and the thing
just try was trying to get further away from him

(22:29):
and just kept like squeezing itself down the hole which
is known to be his esophagus. Because when he's crazy,
it's so crazy because when he got to the hospital,
the doctors said they heard like flapping when the guy
opened his mouth, they heard they heard the fish like
moving inside of his throat, but when they looked in
his mouth and his throat, they couldn't see the fish

(22:52):
at all. So it was that far down that they
couldn't see it, just doing a normal like ah, stick
out your tongue and look like that's insane, right, Yeah,
So then they're going down his throat trying to grab
this fish out by its tail, but then pieces of
it start breaking off, Like how horrible is so the
fish is still alive this whole time, and they put
a scope down there to get further down and they

(23:14):
got fourceps and we're trying to pull it out, but
the fish was like lodged in there, and they yes,
they were pulling pieces of its towel out while the
thing was still alive and like flowling all over the place.

Speaker 2 (23:24):
Right. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (23:25):
So then obviously because they're like ripping parts of its
body off, it eventually dies in his throat. This is
like absolute nightmarage situation. Yeah, so they they so when
they were like, we can't get it out, they did
an x ray. I don't even know why they just
didn't X ray and they show, oh, here's the fish's

(23:46):
vertubral column in the picture, and you're like, yeah, I
think we're all we all know the fish is there, right,
this is not shocked. But they said that they noticed
that there was air surrounding the esophagus, which means that
there's possibly like a whole, which is which is a
huge problem. They they said they couldn't really handle that
situation at that hospital, so they transferred them and when

(24:08):
they went, they transferred them to another hospital and the
same exact thing happened. They were like trying to pull
it out and they couldn't get it out. So finally
they were like, Okay, we need to do surgery and
take this thing out. And when when they examined them
and they found this thing that was lodged in his
larynx and his esophagus, it was the lining was all
torn up because of the sharp like the sharpness of

(24:29):
the fins of the fish, like it wedged itself in there,
and the fins like cut itself along the way, and
it was like kind of stuck and embedded in the
lining of his esophagus and larynx. Yeah, and this thing
wasn't like a small little minnow or anything. It was
eleven centimeters long climbing perch. Yes, it was, you know,

(24:49):
relatively it's a smaller fish obviously when larger ones exist.
But that's like four inches. That's a huge fish. Yeah,
I mean, yeah fish. And he's probably just like pissed
off too, because like a fisherman that catches an eleven
centimeter fish is kind of like that's one they would
just throw back in, right, Like, it's not it's not

(25:12):
anything you could do anything with, right, it's it's it's
so nuts. The whole story is so nuts. So they
show a picture of what this fish looked like when
they took it out, and you're looking at it, like,
what the hell did these doctors do? They like, they
almost stripped all of the meat off of the bone
of this fish trying to get it out. They show
it in comparison to an intact fish that like what

(25:34):
they just were like, Oh, this is what this fish
normally looks like it and and listen, the guy was
pretty fine, Like he had a little tear in his esophagus.
They stayed in the hospital for a week and it
healed and he was released and physically he was fine.

Speaker 2 (25:48):
How was he breathing like during this sole thing, Well.

Speaker 3 (25:51):
He wasn't, And that's why they were trying to They
were really trying to get it out because they heard
at first that he was seemed like he was breathing
kind of okay, but further down the thing was getting
it was like they were getting concerned that he was
going to die. But it was in his esophagus, not
in his trachea, right, Yeah, So the larynx kind of

(26:11):
is this central thing in your neck that splits, so
you know, when you eat, the food goes down the
esophagus and the air goes down the trachia. So it
was stuck up and there. But it was mostly going
into the esophagus because if it was going the other way,
he would have been dead. Yeah, but it luckily it
went into his food pipe instead.

Speaker 2 (26:29):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (26:30):
But it got stuck because it was too big. It
was too big to fit through, you know what I mean?
Even though kids could swallow Barbie doll heads, apparently a
whole I don't know this guy.

Speaker 2 (26:39):
How don he even swallow the doll head hole? I
cannot understand this?

Speaker 3 (26:43):
Was it a bar It was a Barbie doll head,
like it wasn't a pollypocket that was like a small
head or something. To me, no, because I could see
it inside the intestines, and I know what sides the
intestines are, and a child of that age it's a
Barbie head. I don't know if it's exactly Barbie brand,
but it's a head of a doll like a Barbie.
Children aren't even supposed to eat whole grapes, Like, how
are they getting down hold dollards? I don't know, would

(27:07):
you even be mad at your kid? I'd be like, Yo,
I'm kind of impressed that you did that. I don't
want to kids. Seven's kind of old to do that.
Oh my god, can you imagine you're like, okay, seven,
can you imagine the doll hair feeling in your throat
now that? Oh my god, that whole thing sounds horrible
to me. I mean this, this fishing story is pure

(27:28):
freak accident.

Speaker 2 (27:29):
Oh my god.

Speaker 3 (27:29):
I wonder if he goes fishing anymore after this, dude,
that would just be like there was a time period
of probably I would say at least like an hour,
if not more, that this thing was. Which this is
a whole other side note, like how does an animal
that has gills lived for so long? If you took

(27:51):
a cold fish out of the tank, that thing would
die pretty fast.

Speaker 2 (27:54):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (27:55):
Do you think the moisture his body was like, I don't.

Speaker 2 (27:59):
Know, it's so weird.

Speaker 3 (28:00):
Well, do you know the story of Pop your grandfather Pop,
not your dad Pop? When he was fishing once on
a boat a bluefish. He caught a bluefish and I
got off the hook and it like took a chunk
out of his leg. Oh yeah, I did remember that,
But that that makes sense because it's like a bigger fish,
not the bluefish that you said fell out of the
sky to a car.

Speaker 2 (28:22):
That happened. That's what are you talking about.

Speaker 3 (28:26):
It really happened, all right, Kick up, all right, Well
let's get on to someone was driving.

Speaker 2 (28:31):
And a bluefish fell in the car. Where did they
come from?

Speaker 3 (28:35):
It probably came from like a bird of prey that
was carrying it out of the water or something.

Speaker 1 (28:39):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (28:40):
All right, let's get into our last talking star of
the week in Wales in twenty fifteen, this older woman
died of brain cancer. So she was known around town
as kind of this odd ball, and most people thought
that she was a liar or just made up stories.
I mean, I think we all know older women that just,
you know, kind of sit there and just totally make
shit up and you're like, all right, granny like. So

(29:05):
one really weird thing to note was she was always
talking about this medical skeleton that she had wrapped in
plastics stored under the potting table in the community garden.
So that doesn't seem weird at all, right, this is
what I'm saying. Like, when I was reading this, I'm
just like, how does everybody around you like, I maybe

(29:25):
I shouldn't even say this out loud because I'm literally
sitting right next to a medical skeleton about two feet
away from me at your desk right now. But like,
it's not hidden in bags like underneath of a table
at a community garden. It just makes sense for my
purposes to be here, Like, why is everybody just like, oh, yeah,
she just carries around a medical skeleton, like and we

(29:46):
just store it in this garden. Well, they already thought
she was like this kooky old lady, and they apparently,
like the friends were making jokes with her about it,
and then she was like, you never know, it could
be a real person, and they were just like okay,
blah blah. So about a month after she died, one
of her neighbors thought it would be funny to play
a prank on one of the other neighbors and put

(30:09):
the skeleton on their porch. So two of the two
of the neighbors go and get the skeleton and start
cutting through what is forty one layers of plastic bags,
and as they're cutting through it, this thick liquid starts
seeping out and they realize, oh shit, this is a

(30:29):
real person.

Speaker 2 (30:30):
It's so gross. It probably smelled so much. I was thinking,
so disgusting.

Speaker 1 (30:36):
And how long did they figure out, like how long
that body was wrapped.

Speaker 2 (30:41):
Up like that?

Speaker 3 (30:42):
I mean approximately twenty years, so they were saying. So
they were saying that because of the obviously they had
to call the cops and everything. And then when the
cops got there, they were saying, the way it was
wrapped and the bags like kind of like mummified the
body and made it decompose really weird. So they weren't
ex exactly able to figure out when this person had died,

(31:03):
but they could tell they died from blunt force trauma,
which later came out to be from an ornamental frog,
which I don't know that that's amazing because one of
my best friend's moms like collects those stupid things, those frogs.

Speaker 2 (31:19):
It's like, okay, it's a thing with older people.

Speaker 3 (31:22):
Okay, Because when we were in Douchhore and we went
to that yard sale at that house, is that what
it was like earth?

Speaker 2 (31:28):
It was a state sale.

Speaker 3 (31:30):
When we went there, did you notice that there was
a whole entire room with like little figurines of frogs,
like thousands of them.

Speaker 2 (31:36):
No, I see them a lot at estate sales.

Speaker 3 (31:38):
I think they were a really big thing in like
the seventies or early eighties. Yes, so our friend's mom
is obsessed with them like that, and I took a
video and sent them and then we just saw them
at a house yesterday too, right like oh yeah, I
did this point one outsid and that was before we do.

Speaker 2 (31:55):
We were gonna talk about this. What is it with that?

Speaker 3 (31:58):
Like I don't know, but apparently or apparently this lady
killed her husband with this ornamental frog, and they they
think he died around nineteen ninety seven because that's like
the last time anyone saw him. And when people had
asked her where he was, she said he left her
for another woman. Yeah, which is kind of amazing that
you could just say, like, oh, some people in the

(32:20):
neighborhood be like, where's cape been?

Speaker 2 (32:21):
I haven't say, oh, he left me for another woman.

Speaker 1 (32:23):
Me, Molly's like in my basement for years, like just
nobody asked any questions.

Speaker 3 (32:27):
Wasn't even at her basement though he was literally was
in the garden in the garden. Wait, it gets worse.
This is not this is not it. She had an
even darker pass than we know about. So the two
of them had five children together that they abandoned in
the late sixties and then assumed new identities. So this
all went down in Australia and then fifteen years later

(32:48):
they reunited with the kids and the kids were trying
to give it a shot, but we're obviously like, I
don't think I could forgive you for this because the
kids weren't between I think two years old and eleven
years old when they abandoned them, so like older that
they met them with, they like left them at an
adoption or a nursery or something.

Speaker 2 (33:05):
They were like see it, so yeses late.

Speaker 3 (33:09):
Like listen, when you see a picture of this lady,
you would believe it. She just looks like she's a
little rough around the edges.

Speaker 2 (33:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (33:14):
So after that they then left and then went to Wales,
and the kids have said she is a total conniving
bitch and they could totally see that she killed their
dad and he was just so in love with her
that he went along with anything.

Speaker 2 (33:27):
She said.

Speaker 1 (33:29):
I'm impressed that he was able she was able to
kill him with the frog.

Speaker 2 (33:33):
Yeah, I mean me too.

Speaker 3 (33:35):
Apparently when they started looking into this murder, I mean,
she obviously was dead after they figured all of this out,
but she apparently had admitted to killing him when it
happened to her friend, and her friend just didn't believe her.
It's interesting because the way that the body was preserved,
and I'm not sure that she like I'm not sure
what she was doing, if she was intentionally trying to

(33:57):
make him skeletonized or whatever. Like, it's just interesting because
because it was so wrapped up, there was no way
for there to be any kind of insect activity and
and like yeah, eventually all the tissues would mammify if
it was all sealed up and there was no air
around and stuff. It's just kind of like really interesting.

Speaker 2 (34:16):
See.

Speaker 3 (34:16):
I can't really let go of this lady just having
a medical skeleton, even if it was a Halloween skeleton
in the garden. Nobody's like what the fuck is up
with this thing? They're just like, oh, that's so and
so that'ston.

Speaker 2 (34:30):
Yeah, yeah, that's it.

Speaker 3 (34:32):
That's what's weird, Like why would she have that and
why would it be there?

Speaker 2 (34:35):
It's just so bizarre.

Speaker 3 (34:37):
It is so weird. But I don't know that this
story was truly weird. You have a shocking story, don't you.
You said something happened to you on Friday.

Speaker 2 (34:46):
Oh my god, yeah, this is so great.

Speaker 3 (34:49):
So something happened to me and I did I told
I said to Maria, she said what happened? And I said, oh,
I'll have to wait to tell you on the show
because it's good. So Gabe and I I went to
Gave and I went to pick up the kids from
school and he has he has a black pickup truck
and I got out and then I got lucea and

(35:11):
then I was walking towards the car and another mom
stopped me and I was talking and I was like
bent over for like five minutes, like looking in her car.
And then I got up and then went to the
car that was parked right next to her car, which
was a black pickup truck. And I opened the door
and there was like a dog sitting on the front seat.

Speaker 1 (35:30):
Like a Yorky and I was like, what the fuck?
And then I was like, oh my god, I got
in the rock car again.

Speaker 2 (35:38):
I gave it right in front.

Speaker 1 (35:40):
He was just looking at me like what the fuck
are you doing right now? I was like, it's just
say again, same as a truck.

Speaker 2 (35:47):
This is not my fault. This is it is your yea. Listen,
you're gotten in the rock.

Speaker 3 (35:55):
Like we're going to some firefighter award ceremony thing in
a couple of weeks, right, And every time we go
to things like that, we pull up and there's like
twenty five black pickup trucks.

Speaker 1 (36:05):
In the parking lot. Right, everybody is the same as
that car.

Speaker 2 (36:09):
You didn't even notice before you open the door there
is a dog your husband.

Speaker 1 (36:14):
No, no, because it was tanted out and his windows
are black too, And it was the same as a
brand and color of my husband's truck with the drive
it's not the same.

Speaker 3 (36:23):
No.

Speaker 1 (36:24):
But then I was like, oh my god, what if
the dog jumped out?

Speaker 2 (36:32):
It was so good.

Speaker 1 (36:32):
And he's like staring at me in the rear room
mirror the whole time, like not even trying to stop me.
I again, and then he's he keeps trying to tell
me like so of course that car goes to our school.
So now every single day he's like, oh, you don't
want to get in that.

Speaker 3 (36:44):
Car, Like whatever, the person didn't see you open their
car door, like nothing, I don't know, nothing happened.

Speaker 1 (36:51):
I just like played it cool. I was just like,
oh wrong, cop.

Speaker 2 (36:57):
I would feed five minutes.

Speaker 1 (37:00):
Seriously, thank god the dog was there, because I I
don't know that right away I would have noticed. I mean,
I feel like it's like a newer model of his car.
So I opened it and I was like, wait, why
is this look so luxurious? Why is there dog here?

Speaker 3 (37:13):
The first sign wasn't why is there dog? It was
wice is the interior? Heire nicer?

Speaker 1 (37:20):
Yeah, it's like, oh this is nice.

Speaker 2 (37:28):
This only happens to you, all right.

Speaker 3 (37:31):
Well, if you guys have a shock, you guys have
shocking story.

Speaker 2 (37:38):
Stop you're gonna mess up my mess era.

Speaker 3 (37:40):
Please submit to stories at motherdose Deep dot h.

Speaker 2 (37:45):
Get your shit together, dude.

Speaker 3 (37:49):
If you have a shocking story, please submit to stories
at motherdose death dot com.

Speaker 2 (37:54):
We would love to read your submissions on air. If
you've got in the wrong car please twice in one year.
Oh my god, stop you're making me cry.

Speaker 3 (38:07):
If you got in their reg card twice in one year,
please used to my makeups, all right?

Speaker 2 (38:16):
See you.

Speaker 1 (38:18):
Also, if you guys have any if you guys can
so some of these stories that we share today, like
the woman on the toilet seat was one that I
came across that I thought would be really interesting, but
sometimes people send us stories to I think one of
the other stories someone sent to us, So we appreciate
if you just recall any stories that you had that

(38:39):
you heard of like years ago, that you think that
everybody would be really interested in hearing, please share it
with us.

Speaker 3 (38:49):
Thank you for listening to Mother Knows Death. As a reminder,
my training is as a pathologist assistant. I have a
master's level education and specialize in anatomy and pathology education.
I am not a doctor and I have not diagnosed
or treated anyone dead or alive without the assistance of
a licensed medical doctor. This show, my website, and social

(39:14):
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on my experience working in pathology, so they can make
healthier decisions regarding their life and well being. Always remember
that science is changing every day and the opinions expressed
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