November 28, 2023 • 20 mins
Mike Dean takes us deep into the Texas swamp for the story of a haunted studio and the "Sunday Witch" who made all the gangsters tremble. Then Sky Katz relays the spooky tale of a horrific fire at her summer camp and the mysterious ways it manifested all summer long.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
There's a place beyond this place, a middle ground between
the light and the darkness, the Nati and the zenith.
For some, it's a bridge between the living and the dead.
Yet for others, it's something else entirely, it's the place
where our nightmares dwell. Each one of us has touched
(00:25):
the other side and felt the presence of something beyond
this World's.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Faces in the house I don't recognize looking in emeracyment
devil's eyes mixing too much.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
I mean, I get crazy now, I'm bagalone on my
Patrick Swayzey ghost gave it everything and only took up.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
Oh, I guess the paarriscite is looking for ho did
you so the mined mind? It does?
Speaker 6 (01:06):
You sew the sign and sign it.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
You ain't never met an lifey.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Next on Hip Hop Horror Stories, we have Mike Dean
with the story from a haunted studio deep in the
Texas by You on Sundays. It transformed into a spiritually
charged vortex that would spook the most hardened gangsters.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
What's up? This is Mike Dean and you're tuned into
something way beyond the usual playlist. So light it up,
settle in, and let's drift through the echoes of the
sound line where the spirits drop beats here on hip
hop horror stories. As I spend these stories, imagine the
(01:56):
studio shrouded in the mystery of a Texas bio, Spanish
moss hanging from the ancient oaks like specters in the night,
and fog laying over the waters like a ghostly blanket.
This place ain't just made of bricks and mortars. It's
crafted from the stories of souls that permeates every inch
(02:19):
of this sacred ground. This was like nineteen eighty three,
nineteen eighty four, maybe in nineteen eighty two, it might
have been like still in high school. Now this studio
is steeped in much more than just music history. It's
soaked in spirits. And on a Sunday, nobody ever wanted
(02:42):
to book the place. I mean, everybody just talked about
the ghost on Sunday and nobody ever worked there. And
they's always skipped Sundays because it's booked by Ethereal Congregation.
Our headliner was this woman in white. I would be
churchgoer whose journey got cut short right on the Bayou Road.
(03:02):
This is where you know how many of its Texas.
You know, there's like a lot of shit happened there.
Civil war, fucking killing all the Native Americans, you know,
crazy shit. Her spirit didn't find the light. Instead, it
found the studio, becoming a part of its very essence.
(03:25):
It's on these hauntingly beautiful nights that Dennis and Buddy,
the owners of the Sunning Sanctuary, decided to bring in
a specialists, a witch with eyes that have seen worlds
beyond ours. She walks in the air, thick with the
earthly scent of sage, and something shifts in the atmosphere,
(03:45):
the equipment homes and a different frequency, as if anticipating
the story is about to unfold. With the voice that
seen centuries, the witch weave the tale of our Lady
in the white, her spirit eternally caught in the little
boat the studios of glass, But her narrative doesn't end there.
It's interlaced with the sorrow of some Native Americans that
(04:08):
were spotted on the land years ago. It was like homemade,
like pine wood slats, you know, had like a little
grand piano in it, like little booths speak guitars, had
like a drum machine, a couple of keyboards and they
had like a reeled a real sixteen track, like a
(04:31):
task cam and like a little sixteen channel board. That's
what we did everything. I worked with a couple of
rap groups there, one of them the Power Lords, an
intrepid rap duo, unshakable gangsters.
Speaker 7 (04:45):
You know.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
They would jump with the slightest sound on Sundays with
their eyes just going all over the room. So I
used to go out, like in the back of the
place to smoke a joint and like beat on the wall,
and they've run out front. They've run all the way
to the road. It's like three hundred feet and they
would just laugh at him, fuck with him. But the
studio sessions transformed on Sundays. It's no longer about laying
(05:08):
down tracks. It was like an experience, like a journey
through time accompanied by beats. And there's this one unforgivable
night right. The bio was alive with nocturnal symphonies. The
studio charged with the energy of the spirits. As the
beat drops, the room resonates with an energy that's ancient.
(05:29):
He had alive the chorus in the past, joining harmony
with a living It's pretty deep. One of my artists
Schrems spoke had some ever cleared there one night and
he was like fifteen. He's my stepson, my son, you know,
and he got so drunk. He got possessed by a
(05:52):
Japanese spirit, I swear to God, and he started going
kill me the Japanese way, and we all had to
sit on him for like thirty minute, and it's till
it went away from him. I think it was just
really drunk. But that place was crazy. You knew it
was going to happen on Sundays every Sunday, you know.
I got around a certain time. I don't remember what
time at night, like send something or something. So remember this.
(06:17):
As he grew to the music coming out of the
sound lab, you're vibing to a legacy. A woman in white,
the Native spirits, they're all here, nodding in rhythm to
the swaying beads. We're part of a timeless ensemble, a
testament to the endearing power of story and song. This
is Mike Dean and that was my hip hop horror story,
(06:42):
reminding you to respect, to fill every presence around you,
and never dismiss the profound energy of the place where
the past is always present until next time, keep your
mind open and your headphones on. Tie the spirits are
listening and the music it never really is. Stay haunted,
(07:05):
stay curious, and listen for the whispers of the eternal
bio in every beat.
Speaker 7 (07:11):
I may.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Mike Dean, this is my bondhead.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
The haunted energy that emanated from this Texas studio was
part of a spiritual continuum. For some, like the owners,
it was a frightening encounter with the other side. For
Mike Dean, it was an ethereal encounter with an unknown
energy where he could touch the fabric of something maybe ancient,
(07:49):
but definitely powerful. But why it happened on Sundays is
another matter altogether. Who is a lady in white and
why did her soul become so restless every Sunday? This
question we might never know. I'm your host, Belly, and
(08:10):
this is hip Hop Horror Stories. Next on Hip Hop
Horror Stories, we have Skycats with a story about the
origins of a mysterious fire at her childhood summer camp
and the sixth sense that one young woman possessed that
may have saved all their lives.
Speaker 8 (08:42):
I started acting around eleven, twelve years old, and in
the same year I decided to start acting was when
I booked like the biggest show for me at the time.
It was this Disney show, Ravens Home. I was on
it from twelve to sixteen, and I'm so so grateful
for all the opportunities that helped open up to start off.
(09:03):
For context, I grew up on Long Island and growing up,
it was a super common thing for kids to go
to Sleepway Camp in Upstate New York over the summer.
Speaker 7 (09:10):
The majority of them are Upstate New York.
Speaker 8 (09:13):
Some are deeper upstate than others, but a majority are
Upstate New York. When I went to film in Australia,
a lot of the kids, a lot of my castmates,
it was a foreign concept to them and I didn't
know that.
Speaker 7 (09:32):
I think I like, since a lot of the people.
Speaker 8 (09:35):
In the area I grew up and also went to
Sleepway Camp, I think I was in a bit of
a bubble when it comes to this stuff, and I
didn't know it wasn't as common as it was in
my area and other areas.
Speaker 7 (09:46):
And they only knew about it in Australia because a lot.
Speaker 8 (09:49):
Of the councilors will come from overseas as an experience
to be in the States as they call it, and
there were fun activities like sports and it's like water
skiing and.
Speaker 7 (10:01):
It's it's definitely it's a great experience.
Speaker 8 (10:03):
Every summer, each bunk gets to go into like the
woods forest the area beside where the main grounds were
and where all the bunks were. So you'd hike and
you'd walk somewhere for about ten fifteen minutes, and it
was it was like relatively far from ever since everything
was so central and close on campus.
Speaker 7 (10:26):
It was it was fairly far so that it was
a little eerie.
Speaker 8 (10:30):
Since it was in the woods and far from everything
and everyone, and we would sleep there.
Speaker 7 (10:35):
We would sleep there. Each bunk got to sleep there
for a night.
Speaker 8 (10:38):
And whenever you'd hear like noises, you'd think there was
there was.
Speaker 7 (10:42):
Bears around you.
Speaker 8 (10:43):
And that was what was creepy for me that summer.
But no story could compare to what happened to my friend.
But it definitely was super creepy sleeping in the woods.
It was pitch black and we just heard like random
noises around us. The storm gonna tell actually happened to
my friend, but it's infamous in the world of summer camps.
Speaker 7 (11:00):
And I love telling the story. This is like my
tenth time. This happened a few.
Speaker 8 (11:04):
Years ago when I was a little younger, like nine
ten or something, but I'll never forget it.
Speaker 7 (11:09):
So as sleep why Camp.
Speaker 8 (11:10):
In addition to playing sports, which I was very good at,
one of the best in the camp, and other activities,
the staff would create these events to entertain the campers
throughout the summer, like magic shows, dance competitions. They're super creative.
A few weeks in my Friends camp hosted a musical
and it was a really big deal. It was like
the first huge event of the summer when everyone was
(11:31):
all together in the auditorium.
Speaker 7 (11:33):
You know, the girls in Boys Cyber are separate, so
it was.
Speaker 8 (11:35):
One of the first events when they were all finally
together and people could be with their crushes. The musical
was called We Didn't Start the Fire. It's an important detail.
It was called We Didn't Start the Fire, and it
was all themed around fire. Flash forward to a few
weeks later after this musical, this thing called Color War happens.
Speaker 7 (11:52):
It's like the highlight of everybody summer.
Speaker 8 (11:55):
It's when the whole camp is divided into two teams
and each team.
Speaker 7 (11:58):
Gets to sign a different color.
Speaker 8 (12:00):
The colors compete in games, all different competitions like sports,
all that fun stuff. The theme of this summer's Color
War was red fire versus White force, so basically red
firefighters versus white police officers. And every summer color were
breaks or is introduced in a way that puts on
a whole show. This year, the camp orchestrated a fake
fire in the camp dining hall.
Speaker 7 (12:21):
I mean the campers rush out and have to evacuate.
Speaker 8 (12:23):
Everyone was super scared for a second, and then they
picked up when what was going on As campers were
leaving this fake fire. There's smoke everywhere, and actors dressed
as firefighters with fire trucks and police officers pretend.
Speaker 7 (12:35):
To show up and like stop the fire, and.
Speaker 8 (12:37):
The fire is finally put out, and Coloor War was
introduced throughout Coloor War, fire was everywhere.
Speaker 7 (12:42):
It was an ongoing theme. Everyone dressed up with fire
on their.
Speaker 8 (12:45):
Clothes, painted themselves red, came up with cheers about the fire,
anything you can think of.
Speaker 7 (12:51):
So it's the last night of Color War. It's a
really big deal.
Speaker 8 (12:55):
It's tonight where there's this huge singing competition where both
sides create a song, and the camp judges this who
wins and gets the most points that.
Speaker 7 (13:02):
Will help them a lot like win in the end.
Speaker 8 (13:05):
So the Red team used Billy Joel's We Didn't Start
the Fire as their songs a chant. Later that night,
I believe all the campers went back to their bunks
to go back to sleep. Mind you, and most of
these camps there's no air conditioning at all, so fans
are really essential. This one girl's sleeping and in her
sleep she notices that the fan randomly stopped blowing, so
she wakes up to turn it on, and then she
(13:25):
looks at the ceiling and the bunk is totally covered
in flames. By the way, everyone around her is still
passed out, like she just woke up and realized this
fan turned off. So she freaks the fuck out, screams,
and wakes up all like twenty to twenty.
Speaker 7 (13:38):
Five girls in her bunk.
Speaker 8 (13:40):
They all sprint outside, leading their belongings, and as the
last girl leaves, the roof caves in and the full
bunk goes up in flames. The girls all lost everything close, family, belongings.
It sucked and it's awful because this fan randomly stopped working.
And the girl woke up with seconds left to them,
(14:00):
leaving just enough time to get out of the bunk.
They didn't even notice. Like still to this day, they
don't know what caused the fire. I think there were
rumors about like I left on flat iron, but no
concrete evidence at all. Hearing the story for the first
time chills down my spine, and it still does on
like the tenth go around. It's still being spoken about
and it's still weird people out. And I'm sure it
(14:21):
has given so many parents trust issues. I didn't explain,
but these kids go to camp for like seven weeks,
so parents have to put a lot of trust in
the camp, in the camp surroundings.
Speaker 7 (14:33):
And like like bunks and whatever.
Speaker 8 (14:37):
So I'm sure after hearing the story, so many parents
were hesitant or at least anxious to send their kids
off to a place where something like this could happen.
The camp is still around, I mean they have had
their Redemption era. Kids still go and listen like this
weird story. Aside, my best friend's parents met at Sleepway Camp.
(15:01):
Like Sleepway Camp is an amazing place and lovers are
made there. People find themselves there, lifelong best friends. Like
outside of this one instance, and probably a few others.
Speaker 7 (15:13):
That I don't know about it.
Speaker 8 (15:14):
It's a great place that it's very beneficial to a
kid's development, I think in life. Like I said, I
went for a few years, all my siblings went, a
lot of my friends from home went, and everyone has
nothing but good things to say about it. It was
an act of God, some of the girls say, like
something told her to wake up, and this incident somehow
manifested the entire summer.
Speaker 7 (15:35):
I mean the girls were literally singing.
Speaker 8 (15:37):
We didn't start the fire a few hours earlier, So
it is so strange that this rare occurrence took place
that summer after that prominent theme. It's just it's so
weird and no one can connect any dots or make
it make sense. Whenever I hear the lyricat song, it
reminds me of the story and the lack of transparency
or shortness or like on what even happened or made
(15:59):
the girl wake up.
Speaker 7 (16:00):
I'm a big believer.
Speaker 8 (16:01):
In the universe, trusting the universe, and yeah, some of
the girls did call it an act of God, and
I just think it is the universe saying get the
fuck up.
Speaker 7 (16:10):
None of you girls should.
Speaker 8 (16:12):
Die right now, So I'm gonna put it in the
hands of this one person will wake you all up.
I do bet that that girl, somehow like maybe got
bullied that summer and ended up saving everyone's lives and
they were all nice to her.
Speaker 7 (16:23):
Things like that do happen.
Speaker 8 (16:25):
I was gonna say small coincidences, but this would be
a huge one. There is weird shit that happens sometimes
that can't be answered. But I do think when things
can't get answered, and humans being like having such control issues,
we want to make it make sense and figure it out.
But I think some things should be left unanswered and unknown,
(16:46):
and maybe some supernatural activity is one of those things.
Speaker 7 (16:50):
I'm unsure. I'm open.
Speaker 8 (16:52):
It's so so weird, it's some like paranormal activity, And
that is the story I wanted to tell today.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Sometimes evil lingers in our lives and can manifest without warning.
This fire could have incinerated twenty five young lives. Was
it an accident or something darker and energy summoned in
the woods that beckon the flames forward.
Speaker 7 (17:26):
What stopped us.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
From becoming a tragedy really was the sixth sense of
one young woman who woke up just seconds before the
flames engulfed them all. This too is a mystery. Perhaps
with evil there's also good and they're locked in a
constant battle. It's up to chance who wins and ultimately
(17:52):
who dies. And that is the true horror. I'm your host, belly,
and this is hip hop horror stories.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Faces in the house. I don't recognize looking in the
mares in the devil's side.
Speaker 9 (18:08):
Mixing too much, I mean, I get crazy now.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
I don't make a low nor my goat your swazey
ghost gave it everything and only took her.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
Oh, I guess the parricide is looking for Hoh, bitch,
you sew the minding finally, cause you sew the sids high.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
That you ain't never met again.
Speaker 6 (18:27):
I mean, keep on calling and got you looking real
of serves. Shit that you persas got you looking for serves.
Do too much now you set a lift for less
doing demon time.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
But I love it.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
I can fast boy through it.
Speaker 9 (18:43):
Can never getting the rest.
Speaker 6 (18:46):
I can't remember when I slept.
Speaker 9 (18:49):
Don't let you goest me like the rest, bitch. I'm
a thing he learn the flesh hard. Do it can
never get in a real game.
Speaker 7 (19:00):
Do it can never get a well.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Do it.
Speaker 9 (19:03):
Can never get a war.
Speaker 6 (19:06):
Do he can never get a real small infam If
you throw it, I'm gonna catch it like a mister
Nino part. I got that magic that can lift your
feet up.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
I mean I got that bats it probably for your
week about keep a call and got you looking.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
Really serve so that you serves, got you looking rebble.
Serve to the two much Now you set a live
for love you won't even time, but I love it.
I can first.
Speaker 8 (19:37):
Do it.
Speaker 9 (19:38):
Can never can a rear.
Speaker 7 (19:41):
I can't remember when I slept.
Speaker 9 (19:44):
Won't let you goes me like the rest you tell
I'm a demon in the flash hall. Do it can
never get a well do he can never get away?
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Do it, can never get a war.
Speaker 9 (20:01):
I could never came around.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Good evening, good morning, and good afternoon.
Speaker 6 (20:10):
Welcome to hip hop horror story
Speaker 7 (20:27):
Story to club
Mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
There's a place beyond this place, a middle ground between
the light and the darkness, the Nati and the zenith.
For some, it's a bridge between the living and the dead.
Yet for others, it's something else entirely, it's the place
where our nightmares dwell. Each one of us has touched
(00:25):
the other side and felt the presence of something beyond
this World's.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Faces in the house I don't recognize looking in emeracyment
devil's eyes mixing too much.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
I mean, I get crazy now, I'm bagalone on my
Patrick Swayzey ghost gave it everything and only took up.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
Oh, I guess the paarriscite is looking for ho did
you so the mined mind? It does?
Speaker 6 (01:06):
You sew the sign and sign it.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
You ain't never met an lifey.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Next on Hip Hop Horror Stories, we have Mike Dean
with the story from a haunted studio deep in the
Texas by You on Sundays. It transformed into a spiritually
charged vortex that would spook the most hardened gangsters.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
What's up? This is Mike Dean and you're tuned into
something way beyond the usual playlist. So light it up,
settle in, and let's drift through the echoes of the
sound line where the spirits drop beats here on hip
hop horror stories. As I spend these stories, imagine the
(01:56):
studio shrouded in the mystery of a Texas bio, Spanish
moss hanging from the ancient oaks like specters in the night,
and fog laying over the waters like a ghostly blanket.
This place ain't just made of bricks and mortars. It's
crafted from the stories of souls that permeates every inch
(02:19):
of this sacred ground. This was like nineteen eighty three,
nineteen eighty four, maybe in nineteen eighty two, it might
have been like still in high school. Now this studio
is steeped in much more than just music history. It's
soaked in spirits. And on a Sunday, nobody ever wanted
(02:42):
to book the place. I mean, everybody just talked about
the ghost on Sunday and nobody ever worked there. And
they's always skipped Sundays because it's booked by Ethereal Congregation.
Our headliner was this woman in white. I would be
churchgoer whose journey got cut short right on the Bayou Road.
(03:02):
This is where you know how many of its Texas.
You know, there's like a lot of shit happened there.
Civil war, fucking killing all the Native Americans, you know,
crazy shit. Her spirit didn't find the light. Instead, it
found the studio, becoming a part of its very essence.
(03:25):
It's on these hauntingly beautiful nights that Dennis and Buddy,
the owners of the Sunning Sanctuary, decided to bring in
a specialists, a witch with eyes that have seen worlds
beyond ours. She walks in the air, thick with the
earthly scent of sage, and something shifts in the atmosphere,
(03:45):
the equipment homes and a different frequency, as if anticipating
the story is about to unfold. With the voice that
seen centuries, the witch weave the tale of our Lady
in the white, her spirit eternally caught in the little
boat the studios of glass, But her narrative doesn't end there.
It's interlaced with the sorrow of some Native Americans that
(04:08):
were spotted on the land years ago. It was like homemade,
like pine wood slats, you know, had like a little
grand piano in it, like little booths speak guitars, had
like a drum machine, a couple of keyboards and they
had like a reeled a real sixteen track, like a
(04:31):
task cam and like a little sixteen channel board. That's
what we did everything. I worked with a couple of
rap groups there, one of them the Power Lords, an
intrepid rap duo, unshakable gangsters.
Speaker 7 (04:45):
You know.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
They would jump with the slightest sound on Sundays with
their eyes just going all over the room. So I
used to go out, like in the back of the
place to smoke a joint and like beat on the wall,
and they've run out front. They've run all the way
to the road. It's like three hundred feet and they
would just laugh at him, fuck with him. But the
studio sessions transformed on Sundays. It's no longer about laying
(05:08):
down tracks. It was like an experience, like a journey
through time accompanied by beats. And there's this one unforgivable
night right. The bio was alive with nocturnal symphonies. The
studio charged with the energy of the spirits. As the
beat drops, the room resonates with an energy that's ancient.
(05:29):
He had alive the chorus in the past, joining harmony
with a living It's pretty deep. One of my artists
Schrems spoke had some ever cleared there one night and
he was like fifteen. He's my stepson, my son, you know,
and he got so drunk. He got possessed by a
(05:52):
Japanese spirit, I swear to God, and he started going
kill me the Japanese way, and we all had to
sit on him for like thirty minute, and it's till
it went away from him. I think it was just
really drunk. But that place was crazy. You knew it
was going to happen on Sundays every Sunday, you know.
I got around a certain time. I don't remember what
time at night, like send something or something. So remember this.
(06:17):
As he grew to the music coming out of the
sound lab, you're vibing to a legacy. A woman in white,
the Native spirits, they're all here, nodding in rhythm to
the swaying beads. We're part of a timeless ensemble, a
testament to the endearing power of story and song. This
is Mike Dean and that was my hip hop horror story,
(06:42):
reminding you to respect, to fill every presence around you,
and never dismiss the profound energy of the place where
the past is always present until next time, keep your
mind open and your headphones on. Tie the spirits are
listening and the music it never really is. Stay haunted,
(07:05):
stay curious, and listen for the whispers of the eternal
bio in every beat.
Speaker 7 (07:11):
I may.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Mike Dean, this is my bondhead.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
The haunted energy that emanated from this Texas studio was
part of a spiritual continuum. For some, like the owners,
it was a frightening encounter with the other side. For
Mike Dean, it was an ethereal encounter with an unknown
energy where he could touch the fabric of something maybe ancient,
(07:49):
but definitely powerful. But why it happened on Sundays is
another matter altogether. Who is a lady in white and
why did her soul become so restless every Sunday? This
question we might never know. I'm your host, Belly, and
(08:10):
this is hip Hop Horror Stories. Next on Hip Hop
Horror Stories, we have Skycats with a story about the
origins of a mysterious fire at her childhood summer camp
and the sixth sense that one young woman possessed that
may have saved all their lives.
Speaker 8 (08:42):
I started acting around eleven, twelve years old, and in
the same year I decided to start acting was when
I booked like the biggest show for me at the time.
It was this Disney show, Ravens Home. I was on
it from twelve to sixteen, and I'm so so grateful
for all the opportunities that helped open up to start off.
(09:03):
For context, I grew up on Long Island and growing up,
it was a super common thing for kids to go
to Sleepway Camp in Upstate New York over the summer.
Speaker 7 (09:10):
The majority of them are Upstate New York.
Speaker 8 (09:13):
Some are deeper upstate than others, but a majority are
Upstate New York. When I went to film in Australia,
a lot of the kids, a lot of my castmates,
it was a foreign concept to them and I didn't
know that.
Speaker 7 (09:32):
I think I like, since a lot of the people.
Speaker 8 (09:35):
In the area I grew up and also went to
Sleepway Camp, I think I was in a bit of
a bubble when it comes to this stuff, and I
didn't know it wasn't as common as it was in
my area and other areas.
Speaker 7 (09:46):
And they only knew about it in Australia because a lot.
Speaker 8 (09:49):
Of the councilors will come from overseas as an experience
to be in the States as they call it, and
there were fun activities like sports and it's like water
skiing and.
Speaker 7 (10:01):
It's it's definitely it's a great experience.
Speaker 8 (10:03):
Every summer, each bunk gets to go into like the
woods forest the area beside where the main grounds were
and where all the bunks were. So you'd hike and
you'd walk somewhere for about ten fifteen minutes, and it
was it was like relatively far from ever since everything
was so central and close on campus.
Speaker 7 (10:26):
It was it was fairly far so that it was
a little eerie.
Speaker 8 (10:30):
Since it was in the woods and far from everything
and everyone, and we would sleep there.
Speaker 7 (10:35):
We would sleep there. Each bunk got to sleep there
for a night.
Speaker 8 (10:38):
And whenever you'd hear like noises, you'd think there was
there was.
Speaker 7 (10:42):
Bears around you.
Speaker 8 (10:43):
And that was what was creepy for me that summer.
But no story could compare to what happened to my friend.
But it definitely was super creepy sleeping in the woods.
It was pitch black and we just heard like random
noises around us. The storm gonna tell actually happened to
my friend, but it's infamous in the world of summer camps.
Speaker 7 (11:00):
And I love telling the story. This is like my
tenth time. This happened a few.
Speaker 8 (11:04):
Years ago when I was a little younger, like nine
ten or something, but I'll never forget it.
Speaker 7 (11:09):
So as sleep why Camp.
Speaker 8 (11:10):
In addition to playing sports, which I was very good at,
one of the best in the camp, and other activities,
the staff would create these events to entertain the campers
throughout the summer, like magic shows, dance competitions. They're super creative.
A few weeks in my Friends camp hosted a musical
and it was a really big deal. It was like
the first huge event of the summer when everyone was
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all together in the auditorium.
Speaker 7 (11:33):
You know, the girls in Boys Cyber are separate, so
it was.
Speaker 8 (11:35):
One of the first events when they were all finally
together and people could be with their crushes. The musical
was called We Didn't Start the Fire. It's an important detail.
It was called We Didn't Start the Fire, and it
was all themed around fire. Flash forward to a few
weeks later after this musical, this thing called Color War happens.
Speaker 7 (11:52):
It's like the highlight of everybody summer.
Speaker 8 (11:55):
It's when the whole camp is divided into two teams
and each team.
Speaker 7 (11:58):
Gets to sign a different color.
Speaker 8 (12:00):
The colors compete in games, all different competitions like sports,
all that fun stuff. The theme of this summer's Color
War was red fire versus White force, so basically red
firefighters versus white police officers. And every summer color were
breaks or is introduced in a way that puts on
a whole show. This year, the camp orchestrated a fake
fire in the camp dining hall.
Speaker 7 (12:21):
I mean the campers rush out and have to evacuate.
Speaker 8 (12:23):
Everyone was super scared for a second, and then they
picked up when what was going on As campers were
leaving this fake fire. There's smoke everywhere, and actors dressed
as firefighters with fire trucks and police officers pretend.
Speaker 7 (12:35):
To show up and like stop the fire, and.
Speaker 8 (12:37):
The fire is finally put out, and Coloor War was
introduced throughout Coloor War, fire was everywhere.
Speaker 7 (12:42):
It was an ongoing theme. Everyone dressed up with fire
on their.
Speaker 8 (12:45):
Clothes, painted themselves red, came up with cheers about the fire,
anything you can think of.
Speaker 7 (12:51):
So it's the last night of Color War. It's a
really big deal.
Speaker 8 (12:55):
It's tonight where there's this huge singing competition where both
sides create a song, and the camp judges this who
wins and gets the most points that.
Speaker 7 (13:02):
Will help them a lot like win in the end.
Speaker 8 (13:05):
So the Red team used Billy Joel's We Didn't Start
the Fire as their songs a chant. Later that night,
I believe all the campers went back to their bunks
to go back to sleep. Mind you, and most of
these camps there's no air conditioning at all, so fans
are really essential. This one girl's sleeping and in her
sleep she notices that the fan randomly stopped blowing, so
she wakes up to turn it on, and then she
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looks at the ceiling and the bunk is totally covered
in flames. By the way, everyone around her is still
passed out, like she just woke up and realized this
fan turned off. So she freaks the fuck out, screams,
and wakes up all like twenty to twenty.
Speaker 7 (13:38):
Five girls in her bunk.
Speaker 8 (13:40):
They all sprint outside, leading their belongings, and as the
last girl leaves, the roof caves in and the full
bunk goes up in flames. The girls all lost everything close, family, belongings.
It sucked and it's awful because this fan randomly stopped working.
And the girl woke up with seconds left to them,
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leaving just enough time to get out of the bunk.
They didn't even notice. Like still to this day, they
don't know what caused the fire. I think there were
rumors about like I left on flat iron, but no
concrete evidence at all. Hearing the story for the first
time chills down my spine, and it still does on
like the tenth go around. It's still being spoken about
and it's still weird people out. And I'm sure it
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has given so many parents trust issues. I didn't explain,
but these kids go to camp for like seven weeks,
so parents have to put a lot of trust in
the camp, in the camp surroundings.
Speaker 7 (14:33):
And like like bunks and whatever.
Speaker 8 (14:37):
So I'm sure after hearing the story, so many parents
were hesitant or at least anxious to send their kids
off to a place where something like this could happen.
The camp is still around, I mean they have had
their Redemption era. Kids still go and listen like this
weird story. Aside, my best friend's parents met at Sleepway Camp.
(15:01):
Like Sleepway Camp is an amazing place and lovers are
made there. People find themselves there, lifelong best friends. Like
outside of this one instance, and probably a few others.
Speaker 7 (15:13):
That I don't know about it.
Speaker 8 (15:14):
It's a great place that it's very beneficial to a
kid's development, I think in life. Like I said, I
went for a few years, all my siblings went, a
lot of my friends from home went, and everyone has
nothing but good things to say about it. It was
an act of God, some of the girls say, like
something told her to wake up, and this incident somehow
manifested the entire summer.
Speaker 7 (15:35):
I mean the girls were literally singing.
Speaker 8 (15:37):
We didn't start the fire a few hours earlier, So
it is so strange that this rare occurrence took place
that summer after that prominent theme. It's just it's so
weird and no one can connect any dots or make
it make sense. Whenever I hear the lyricat song, it
reminds me of the story and the lack of transparency
or shortness or like on what even happened or made
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the girl wake up.
Speaker 7 (16:00):
I'm a big believer.
Speaker 8 (16:01):
In the universe, trusting the universe, and yeah, some of
the girls did call it an act of God, and
I just think it is the universe saying get the
fuck up.
Speaker 7 (16:10):
None of you girls should.
Speaker 8 (16:12):
Die right now, So I'm gonna put it in the
hands of this one person will wake you all up.
I do bet that that girl, somehow like maybe got
bullied that summer and ended up saving everyone's lives and
they were all nice to her.
Speaker 7 (16:23):
Things like that do happen.
Speaker 8 (16:25):
I was gonna say small coincidences, but this would be
a huge one. There is weird shit that happens sometimes
that can't be answered. But I do think when things
can't get answered, and humans being like having such control issues,
we want to make it make sense and figure it out.
But I think some things should be left unanswered and unknown,
(16:46):
and maybe some supernatural activity is one of those things.
Speaker 7 (16:50):
I'm unsure. I'm open.
Speaker 8 (16:52):
It's so so weird, it's some like paranormal activity, And
that is the story I wanted to tell today.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Sometimes evil lingers in our lives and can manifest without warning.
This fire could have incinerated twenty five young lives. Was
it an accident or something darker and energy summoned in
the woods that beckon the flames forward.
Speaker 7 (17:26):
What stopped us.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
From becoming a tragedy really was the sixth sense of
one young woman who woke up just seconds before the
flames engulfed them all. This too is a mystery. Perhaps
with evil there's also good and they're locked in a
constant battle. It's up to chance who wins and ultimately
(17:52):
who dies. And that is the true horror. I'm your host, belly,
and this is hip hop horror stories.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Faces in the house. I don't recognize looking in the
mares in the devil's side.
Speaker 9 (18:08):
Mixing too much, I mean, I get crazy now.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
I don't make a low nor my goat your swazey
ghost gave it everything and only took her.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
Oh, I guess the parricide is looking for Hoh, bitch,
you sew the minding finally, cause you sew the sids high.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
That you ain't never met again.
Speaker 6 (18:27):
I mean, keep on calling and got you looking real
of serves. Shit that you persas got you looking for serves.
Do too much now you set a lift for less
doing demon time.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
But I love it.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
I can fast boy through it.
Speaker 9 (18:43):
Can never getting the rest.
Speaker 6 (18:46):
I can't remember when I slept.
Speaker 9 (18:49):
Don't let you goest me like the rest, bitch. I'm
a thing he learn the flesh hard. Do it can
never get in a real game.
Speaker 7 (19:00):
Do it can never get a well.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Do it.
Speaker 9 (19:03):
Can never get a war.
Speaker 6 (19:06):
Do he can never get a real small infam If
you throw it, I'm gonna catch it like a mister
Nino part. I got that magic that can lift your
feet up.
Speaker 5 (19:18):
I mean I got that bats it probably for your
week about keep a call and got you looking.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
Really serve so that you serves, got you looking rebble.
Serve to the two much Now you set a live
for love you won't even time, but I love it.
I can first.
Speaker 8 (19:37):
Do it.
Speaker 9 (19:38):
Can never can a rear.
Speaker 7 (19:41):
I can't remember when I slept.
Speaker 9 (19:44):
Won't let you goes me like the rest you tell
I'm a demon in the flash hall. Do it can
never get a well do he can never get away?
Speaker 1 (19:58):
Do it, can never get a war.
Speaker 9 (20:01):
I could never came around.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Good evening, good morning, and good afternoon.
Speaker 6 (20:10):
Welcome to hip hop horror story
Speaker 7 (20:27):
Story to club
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