Hollar Halloween

This story centers on my Brother in Law Pete Hollar.  Pete has always had an immense and wicked sense of humor....you will see this in my story that follows...Boo!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's old chili back at you. And I've been thinking
about doing a Halloween episode and I had it all
in my mind, well not complete, and I was in
the dentist's chair this last week. Jennifer was working on
me beautifully and the whole thing just kind of came

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together through the grinding and the lights and the flashing
and the motor is running. But anyway, we're gonna call
this when I holler h O L L A R Halloween.
I hope you enjoy it. Now, my brother in law,

(00:46):
Gregory Allen Holler, who's also known as Pete. He's married
to my wife, Jane's sister, Peggy Sue, Peggy Sue and
Janie lou Boy I tell you what that is, melodic
as it can be. But anyway, Pete Pete Holler is
the most unusual fellow. And I'll just give you a

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little bit of backstory about him before we start the
start the story going. Pete Pete Holler is one of
the most gifted people that I know. He can do anything.
He's an artist, high quality artist. He's a cabinet maker,

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a woodworker, a professional bass fisherman, a professional barbecue contestant.
He just does. He does so many things. He just
he was mayor of pilot Point, Texas, where they live.

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He was on the school board. I think he was
president of the school board, and he was also on
the city council. Pete can do a lot of stuff.
And one of the favorite things that I've done with
him was a creation around a Halloween theme that he
dreamed up and I had the privilege of being a

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part of. And here it goes, guys, and Pete called me, Drewster, Hey, Drewster,
I want you guys to come over on Halloween. We're
gonna put on a show. I said, okay, Pete, I'll
be over there. So Halloween came, and Jane and Amy
and Andrew, the kids and I went over to pilot Point,

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which was a short drive from Solina where we lived. Anyway,
I got there and Pete said, come on, I always
show you something. We went out to his front porch
and on that front porch where curtains set up with
white beds sheets back. There was a background of them,

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and then there was a curtain of them, and between
the two curtains there was a piece of plywood. He said,
now here's what we're gonna do. I've draped a sheet
over this sheet of plywood, and I cut a hole
in it. And I cut a hole in the sheet,

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and Gay Marshall is going to be lying down there
on her back with her leg stuck through this hole here,
so only her knee, her knee on up is visible.
The rest for her leg is hidden.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
And I have some I have some old hemhock bones,
and I'm gonna put down there with some flat fake
blood so it looks like she has had her leg severed.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
Oh joy, I thought, this is gonna be great fun,
he said, Drewster. Here's what I need for you to do.
I want you the when the kids start coming, I
want you to take this little jewelry box that I've
cut a hole in the bottom of it, stick your
index finger through it, and we're gonna put some fake
blood on it so it looks like your finger's been

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cut off when you take the top off the box,
and you're gonna show those kids that little of that
little treasure. I said, well, I'm all in there. I said,
what are you going to do, Pete? He said, well,
I'll tell you about it, he said, I'm just gonna
be standing behind the curtain and then when the kids
come up close, I'm gonna come out and I'll say

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boo to them, and I'm not gonna scare them too bad. Well, anyway,
here came the sun, the sun was setting, and the
little goblins and started accumulating on the front lawn to
pick up their their candy of the stuff, and I

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would walk. I walked up to him, and I took
the top off the little box and I said, look
look what I found in the grass out here. Somebody's
in finger got cut off by something. And i'd hold
it up in front of him and take the top
off the box, and there was old bloody finger there.
And I said, oh my god, but I've got something

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else to show you kids. Come on over here. And
I walked up to the front of the front porch
with all these kids behind me, and I pulled the
curtain back, and there was Gay Marshall ing up there
and like her leg had been cut off. I mean
it was. It was really horrid. The kids went, oh

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my gosh. And then all of a sudden, here came
Pete from behind the curtain. He had a Google mask on,
he had a plaid shirt, blue jeans and work boots.
But the crowning touch of it was a chain was
a change was a chainsaw without the chain in it,

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and it was gasoline fired and he just cranked that
thing up and he just made it whirl and just
came after those kids with that chainsaw up to the
edge of the porch. I mean, you talk about raising
Cain and I'm scaring some kids. I mean I was
even horrified. And the kids just threw their candy up

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in the air and halled ass. I mean, it was,
it was, it was amazing. Well this went on for
about forty five minutes. We had all these these kid
new kids, new new victims come up and we ran
that show by them. Uh. It was almost over for
me because one of the fathers wanted to whip my

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ass and for scaring his kid. So I said, I'm sorry, sir,
it's it was just it was just hopefully done in fun.
And I got Janie Lou and the kids and we
got in the car and we went back to Salina
and Gay's husband, Tommy Marshall, finished up the Little Finger

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in the Box thing. So anyway, I talked to Pete
the next day and he said, Dreister, we found kids, coats, shoes, hats, masks,
and probably about forty pounds of candy that had been
spilled while they were running away. We had to rake
it up with a with a leaf rake. But anyway,

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I anybody who was a part of this operation or
anybody who witnessed it, I'm sure this was done in
nineteen eighty eight, and I'm sure today they still remember
that Halloween at the Hollerhouse in Pilot Point, Texas well. Peace,

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chill out, watch the intersections, and boom