June 23, 2025 • 27 mins
This week’s hometowns include a hot dog day gone wrong and anxiety-inducing parents.
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Speaker 1 (00:16):
Hello Ella, and welcome to my favorite murder the minuesode.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Here it is.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Look at it, at this, Look at it this, look
at it.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Now.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
You can't there's no video on this p sture.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
You don't touch it with your eyes.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
It's your ears, eyres.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
You want to go first. No, you have it.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
You've got it, newscaster style right in your hands.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
You're excited because this is a spooky hometown ghost story. Okay,
Hi Diddley home murdering nose it starts. Is that the
first time that's happened?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
I think, so, aside from when Ned Flanders did it originally.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
That's classic in nineteen seventy nine, it just gets into it.
My family moved to the coastal mountains of Oregon into
a fairly new single wide trailer on a wooded He's
a property with a creek running through it at nearly
the end of a nine mile dirt road.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Nine miles is too long, as someone from the country.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Driving ten minutes just to get to your front door
from the street.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
What kind of weed are you growing back there?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
They lived in that single wide while my dad built
the house I would eventually grow up in. I never
lived in the trailer, but all my siblings did. I'm
the youngest of four. My two sisters shared a room,
and then my two year old brother slept on a
little bed on the floor in my parents' room. For
several nights, my brother would wake up complaining that someone
was walking on him. Finally, my dad grew tired of
(01:37):
this ridiculous complaint and took a turn sleeping on the
floor to prove my brother was just being an irrational toddler.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Uh oh.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
The next morning he said he had a terrible night's
sleep because someone had been stepping on him.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
The dad. Yeah, and they're nine miles away, just from
the road to get to town.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Run and get help. It's going to be two hours. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
If you're a nine year old and you need to
run and get a well, yeah see, you better put
your Adidas on. You're screwed.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Not but a few nights later, Oh, I love it,
that's ritten. Not but a few nights later. My mom
awoke suddenly and there standing in front of her was
a little boy about eight years old, holding a medium
sized red rubber ball and staring at her. What haunted trailer?
I mean, that's scary? What?
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Yeah, just say it's a neighbor boy, please.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
It's not. My mom does not get spooked easily, so
she just calmly stared at him, and he simply stared back.
When she blinked, he was gone. It's a fucking ghost story, O.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Roz, get the ROS hotline. We have a ghosted story
for you.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
My whole family somehow shrug this off. I feel like,
when you're living there and you can't do anything about it,
you just have to explain it away in your head
so you can just get through the day and night.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Yes, I'd love to also talk to that mom about
what her childhood was like that She's like, I think
I'm just gonna go ahead and stare this ghost down.
Have you ever heard that as an option of somebody
that's like, I think there's a ghost at the end
of my bed.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
That means a living people were scarier than the idea
of a ghost.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
That's right, right, badass mom times twenty five right.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
So then a few months later, the previous owners arrived
at their door eighties dropped by style like that is
so real. That is so real.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Do you know what happened last night? No, I'm laying
down after we recorded food voice. Yeah, it's very Ti
Ti and about to go to sleep and someone knocked
on my door. Why right, So I of course freeze,
the dogs go insane, and no one's there. Also then
I have weight and I'm like, what am I gonna do?
And finally I go look out the people. No one's there.
(03:34):
I open it ice cream?
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Is it ice cream?
Speaker 1 (03:38):
It's secret ice cream delivery.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
You forgot the ordered ice cream.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
I've stopped doing. Okay, that I had to curb because
it costs so much money. Yeah. No, I had been
out of town, so I forgot to tell my house
sitter to take stuff out of the mailbox. So it
was mail with a little post it note that said,
please clean out your mailbox. The mailman had the door
deliver the mail because the mailbox was absolutely full.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
I hate when they ring your doorbell though, like when
you get a package delivered. It's like, I know, yeah,
just throw it there, I see it, Okay, I'll be
out there.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
But also there's something about the It's like an eighties knock.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
But it was a thing where you're like, hey, I
grew up here. Can I come in and see the house? Yes, totally,
that's now at ploy don't ever believe it, of course not,
but it totally used to be a thing completely okay.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Or also just like friends and acquaintances, being like, hey,
I was in the neighborhood. What's up right?
Speaker 2 (04:25):
So the old people, the previous owners, arrive at the
door eighties drop by style to see how they were
getting along in their new house. Completely unprompted, they asked
if any of them had seen the ghost of the
little boy.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Oh shit.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
It was then that my mom was finally shook. The
story goes there was a town at the turn of
the century up Langlois Mountain called Oakie Town, which was
a lumber milling town, so spooky already. The old incinerator
is just up the road from my parents' house. There
lived a boy named Raymond West who was playing with
his ball when it rolled into the creek. He went
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after it and drowned. Horrible to be clear. And the summer,
this creek is safe as could be and really more
than calf deep, but in the winter and spring it
will easily sweep you away. My parents were able to
find old news articles of the story in the library
and it all checked out. So he ran after the
ball that they later saw him with.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
And now he's like, hey, hey, you guys.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Finally, when we were all living in the house my
dad built, my sister was poking around at random books
on our massive bookshelf when she found a small, old,
tattered book. She didn't recognize. It was an old elementary
school primer, Dick and Jane style, and when she opened it,
the name Raymond West was written in cursive several times throughout.
Oh my god, thanks for chrudging through that lengthy read.
(05:41):
The local paper eventually did a story about it, and
it's been a tale we tell in my family since
I can remember. The trailer is still there and it's
still scary as hell to be alone.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
In hell No nine miles up the road.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Lovey ladies and your whole crew, stay sexy and don't
play near the creek in winter. Mira Bell, Wow, what
a story ghost story for summer? Summer ghost story? Yeah,
summer ghost story. Can you guys send us more summer
ghost stories?
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Yeah? You do not have to wait for fall. Here's
a summer not ghost story, okay, and it's timely to
our main episode from Thursday, and the subject line is
hot Dog Day Gone Wrong at the health department and
then it says three minute read and it just starts, Okay,
I've been listening to you since twenty seventeen, and I
(06:26):
love you both. I work for a department of public
health in a large metro area. Our department is a
shit show, and we've made local news multiple times in
the past year, ranging from a nepotism scandal and false
timekeeping to toxic mismanagement out The situation below is just
one of the many somewhat unbelievable things that have happened
here and now the rest of this is totally unbelievable.
(06:50):
Not to accuse anybody of lying at all, but it is.
As I was reading it, I was like, you've got
to be fucking kidding me. Okay, So it was hot
dog Day, and then in parentheses it says, why are
health department had a hot dog days? Beyond me the
opposite of health, It starts insane. Yeah, not many people
were grabbing hot dogs. So one of my coworkers, feeling
bad for the people who organized the event, got a
(07:12):
vegetarian hot dog. She came to regret that decision because
by that evening she developed food poisoning. Oh no, back
in our office. A new employee had just started and
was setting up her cubicle. I guess our division director
at the time thought he would show off by tossing
a bottle of barbecue sauce in the air well. He
hadn't noticed that the cap on the bottle was loose,
(07:33):
so it flew off and barbecue sauce went everywhere. Oh god,
a lot of it landed on the new employee's desk,
getting on her new laptop and ruining some of her paperwork.
A big glob landed on our carpeted office floor. Around
the corner came my coworker who doesn't like to wear shoes.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Oh no, that's a policy in an office. You must
wear shoes at the Health depart Health department.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
It's absolutely required at the health department.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
As a non naked foot person, I am this is
the worst. This is my worst name at work.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Sure enough, she slipped in the barbecue sauce with her
bare feet. And then that noise you made is the
emoji where it looks like, yeah, like kind of bar
feet yeah, And then it says, let me remind you
that the food poisoning, barbecue sauce and barefoot incidents all
took place at a health department. Honestly, kind of embarrassing
and kind of the thing that should only happen on TV.
(08:30):
But in all seriousness, most of the people I work
with are smart, hardworking people who are passionate about improving
health outcomes in our community. The attacks on public health
at the federal level are scary and disheartening. Some ways
to support your local health department are interacting positively with
their social media accounts and reporting misinformation in comment sections,
(08:50):
talking with your friends and family about current health issues,
and utilizing their services, and wearing fucking shoes. How about
that number one. Let's put that at the top of
the shoes required. We're back in the email. A lot
of health departments providing immunizations, safer sex supplies, narcan, primary
and dental care, and more, all of which are available
(09:13):
to the public. I didn't know any of that.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
That's incredible.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Yeah, And then it says anyway, stay sexy and don't
trust talk.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Dog Day, hot Dog.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
And then this is unsigned, and our producer Molly says,
this is unsigned. I'm assuming because it doesn't make the
company look great.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Right.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
It sounds like an episode of Parks and wrack, though,
Could we be honest completely?
Speaker 1 (09:32):
You can cast that so quickly? Can I just tell
you very quickly that along the lines of the guy
with the barbecue sauce. When I used to work on
the daily talk show that I used to work on,
my friend Vicky, who was a producer. She and I
would meet before work and walk around my neighborhood for
an hour to get some exercise in together. We'd both
get ready at my house and we'd go to work,
(09:53):
which is like three minutes from my house. And one
morning we did that and we were in my car
ready to go to work, and I I had one
of my drinkable yogurts that I love, and we were
talking and I started shaking it up, but the cap
was off, so I literally in the Honda fit just
shook a drinkable yogurt all over us and we both
just just best. It was both of you that like,
(10:15):
I just went everywhere in the car because you know,
when you're like going to shake someeathing, it's kind of thick.
You're like, oh, I have to kind of really shake.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
You don't hold back. Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
It was like I was doing like a champagne spray.
In the car with drinkable yogurt. And then we're sitting
in the morning morning and we just both like look
at each other, dripping and yogurt and just get back
out of the car, go back inside. We have to
get ready.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
All over again. Smell so oh my god, insane. That's amazing.
This is called how my parents helped give me anxiety.
We all have one.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Let's all read our emails.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Do your Karen Georgia and the exactly right family. I
started listening to MFM at episode sixteen Blood Murder, sixteen
Magic Okay. And while that episode freaked me out because
you talked about Shondra Levy and I was a new
graduate living alone in DC, I knew I had stumbled
across something special. I have relied on hearing your voices
to get me through a lot, from simply looking for
(11:15):
a laugh or needing a savior from boredom at my
desk job, to calming my ever present anxiety. I have
listened to the entire catalog four times, and it will
soon be five with the rewind episodes.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Girl. Thank you for the numbers, I mean you are
putting in serious numbers for us. Thank you for my home.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
You're the street team.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Thank you for the house I live in.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Then it says thank you for more than I can express,
So yeah, great, back at you. Speaking of that ever
present anxiety, I have a story about nineties parents that
may indicate why I am now heavily medicated. Ditto. I
don't want to call them trash parents because they are
still my best friends. But when I heard a recent
minnesot I finally decided to send this in.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Cannot wait for a trash parents start also parents plural, like,
it's not just trashed out.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Yeah, there's nobody looking out for you. For context, my
name is Katie and my sister's name is Jenny. This
is important for the story. When I was a child,
my dad chose to get us to behave in an
interesting way. The house I grew up in backed into
a wooded area. When we would misbehave or complain, my
dad would say, sh do you hear that? That's Sadie.
(12:21):
She's your sister, but she misbehaved and now she lives
in the woods. No, you cannot threaten your child with
the fake fate of another child who's banished. Banish obviously
a terrifying thing to say to your small child. I
wasn't sure if I believed it, but why risk it? Right?
(12:43):
At a young age, I knew I wanted to stay
out of the forest. When my little sister got a
little older, he would say the same thing. Do you
hear that? That's Penny. She's your sister, but she misbehaved
and now she lives in the woods. Luckily, little sisters
usually have the ability to do what older sisters can't,
which is pushback on authority. Figures that's right.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Hey.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
She simply told him it wasn't true, and it became
a long lasting family joke. Over the years. If I
got frustrated with my parents, I would joke that I
was going to join Sadie in the woods. Or if
we heard her weird noise, we'd say, oh, that's Sadie,
or oh that's Penny. Years later, I had to write
a scary story for one of my French college classes,
and I based mine on this sweet quote childhood memory. Yes,
(13:22):
that's actually okay, a great story.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
It's great. It's kind of pet cemetery.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Yeah yeah, but with the sisters. Let's just say the
professor looked very concerned when she returned my paper. Needless
to say, you got a base in reality, base fiction reality,
and it's believable, right what you know? Needless to say
in my adult ears, I have had lots of therapy
and I am happily medicated. Stay sexy, and maybe find
a different way to get kids to behave without giving
them trauma. Katie, ps, I made my mom a murderino.
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Sorry for spilling the beans. Mom, love you.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
What if her mom's name was Sadie.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Oh yeah, you sent her mom to the woods.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Oh my god, that's so good. I have already told
the story of Adrian saying to her kids be careful
to man is watching, which is like if you have
more than one child.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
It sounds like religion, though honestly it is that literally.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Is it's Catholicism in a nutshell. But also like when
you're in public and then there's three individuals who haven't
been here for very long. You got to get them
to like snap to totally for their own safety, and
everybody else is like sanity.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
You've got to threaten those kids.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
You got to make them insane, all right. This email
subject line is listen to that little voice. It says, Hi,
Karen and Georgia, thanks for keeping me entertained on all
my long runs. I'm one of those crazy people who
runs marathons for fun. High me how and then it
just says, but let's get into my story. A few
years ago, I went to a coworker's wedding in Columbia,
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South Carolina. After the ceremony, the plan was to hit
the college bars, since it's a big college town. But
first we were supposed to meet the bridal party at
the bar in their hotel. The group was staying at
a more budget friendly spot, so we grabbed an uber over.
When we got there, we couldn't get in touch with
anyone from the bridal party, and the front desk informed
us that the hotel bar was closed, so we decided
(15:11):
to hit out on our own and explore the local
college bars. Would you go to a college bar now?
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Definitely?
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Absolutely yes, good times.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Maybe yeah I would, Yeah, maybe I'm thinking of a
dive bar though, like a sports bar that's really loud
and sticky. Yeah, it actually doesn't sound great, actually, you know, yeah,
you know why because they always have quiz night. Every
night is quiz night, and you walk in and it's
so loud. Yes, okay, The answers no, it' said. No.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Yeah, there was a bar. Boys I went to high
school with went to Columbia. This was like in the
late eighties, and there was a dive bar that they
used to go to that beers were twenty five cents
until the first person peede, I've told you the story.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
No, yes, oh, that would be so hard for me.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
So if you were the person that ruined it, like
everyone in a whole bar hated you. But then people
got so drunk they were like people like beyond shit face.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
You know someone had diaper on for sure too, right right,
somebody's got to New Year's in Times Square. Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Okay, okay. We ended up in a place packed with
twenty one year old babies when we noticed two people,
a man and a woman who looked closer to our age,
standing at the backbar. Naturally, we started chatting. They told
us they were siblings. She worked at the college and
he was visiting from the military. They suggested we drink
at his hotel bar, which sounded sketchy, but we were
trying to be polite. This, don't be polite, don't. While
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we were still chatting, I happen to spot a guy
wearing a brewery t shirt from my hometown in Maryland.
I got excited and started talking to him. That's when
things got weird. The woman suddenly stormed up to me,
got inches from my face, and started yelling at me
for quote ignoring her brother. I was stunned. Even worse,
the way she positioned herself between me and my drink
(16:51):
set off alarm bells. She got so close that I
could no longer see my glass. Something in my gut
told me that this wasn't just weird, it was danger oh.
I quickly grabbed my friend Lindsay, left my drink on
the bar, and walked out. But as we got to
the front door, that little voice in my head spoke up.
Turn around I did, and saw the guy was following me.
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His quote unquote sister was nowhere in sight. Outside, I
spotted a group of guys standing on the sidewalk. I
walked straight into their circle and said, I'm with you.
Pretend you know me. Without missing a beat, they played along,
and the guy walked right past without saying a word.
To this day, I don't know for sure what their
intentions were, but I'm convinced they tried to drug me
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and had something sinister plan. Absolutely, I mean it's so weird,
so creepy. Also when you meet people and they're like
we're brother and sister, but you're like you're not.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Though I wouldn't go to a fucking bar with my brother.
What would we do? We wouldn't do that.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Yeah, what are you doing? No, the kicker the hotel
they were trying to take us to, the one with
the bar. Yeah, it was the same hotel that actually
had no bar. Oh, like the original bar that they
plan to go to. And then they were like, oh
my god, I hadn't put the red flags together in
the moment, but thankfully I listened to my gut. Yeah,
and then it just says Danielle.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
That's incredible. I also do love and think everyone should
utilize no matter what the pretend. I'm with you, yes
to groups of people if you're alone and you're scared,
like they will follow through with it. Don't worry about
being weird or embarrassing, Like get people gathered around you
to help you.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Yes, and like more than one so that people have
a chance. Also, it's like whether a man or a woman,
someone maybe a little larger in statu.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Yeah, or like if your two people who are alone
get together. Yeah, I just I'm a really big I'm
really big advocate of that.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
And I think that people these days, especially because of
social media, are just getting hipper and hipper. So like
if somebody came up to you and said that, you
would be all over it.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Absolutely. Yeah. All right, here's my last one, and it's
kind of how I want my life to be one day. Okay,
Beachcombing Treasure. Hi ladies, first time writer here. My sister
told me about your podcast back in twenty sixteen, and
I started a few episodes in and have been along
for the ride ever since. Wow. Georgia was talking about
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mudlarking on many So for twenty six and explained how
our brains can pick out unnatural, man made shapes in
a beach slash rocky setting. That made me think of
my favorite beachcombing fine, and I had to write it.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Ooh, I'm so excited. Whatever this is, I'm gonna love it.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
It's Victorian, is it really? We have been spending summers
in Prince Edward Island since buying our little seaside cottage
in Graham Head, Pei in twenty twenty. Okay, let me
have that fucking life.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Please give it over.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
I need that. And then I go beachcombing every day.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Yeah exactly.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Our three kids have loved every second spent by the
water and playing on the beach. One of our favorite
things to do is hunt for sea glass and random
little treasures. And she wrote treasures that wash up. We
have collected dozens of mason jars of SeaGlass and other
strange fines buttons, lego pieces, marbles, cow teeth, seal bone, sorry,
et cetera.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Hold on, she went off a cliff there. Cow teeth
are horrifying on a beach, unless I'm just thinking of
horse teeth.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Yeah, horse teether terrifying. I mean either way, why would
cow teeth be on the beach?
Speaker 1 (20:13):
What are they doing to those cows?
Speaker 3 (20:14):
I jumped overboard on the and then there's you know
that bridge in England where dogs jump. Well, oh, I
don't want to talk about that, but what if there's
like when Prince said rud Island, there was like, don't
go over there, that's where the cows jump.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Oh geez, cow jumping?
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Sorry wait? And seal bones.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Yeah. Dark. Over the years and this past summer I
found the coolest thing.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
A big dead seal carcass.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
It was a whole cow. It was so cool.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
It was a cow hugging a seal.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
I knew you'd love it. My husband and the kids
were up ahead getting a head started finding the good
stuff while I dawdled behind. You always got to be
the doddler having best shit. Just as we were about
to head back to the cottage, I spotted a little
white fleck that resembled a teeny person up ahead and
the sand and rocks. I immediately went up to it
to check it out, and it was this little white
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ceramic lady. I picked her up and couldn't believe what
a random thing it was to find. It was like
a little it sounds like a porcelain doll, almost figurine.
Unsure of what this was, I posted her on my
Instagram and a follower commented that she was a very
rare find and gave me the name of what it was.
It turns out this little beauty was a rare ceramic
doll made in the Victorian era, made between eighteen fifty
(21:25):
and nineteen twenty, according to Wikipedia, called a frozen Charlotte.
Oh have you heard of that? No, there's too much
info about them to include it all in this email.
But the gist is that they were made after a
poem called a Corpse Going to a Ball by Seba Smith.
It was published in eighteen forty three in the newspaper,
and it was about a young girl freezing to death
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in New York in eighteen forty while on her way
to a New York's eve ball. She didn't listen to
her mother when she told her to bundle up, and
she froze on the sled next to her date Charlie
Jesus cautionary tale, Please please.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Bundle up on your slide or you're gonna die.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
The dolls were made as a reminder for children to
listen to their parents and be obedient. Oh just it
goes back farther than the nineties.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
So much further. Yeah, we thought we had a bad.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
They were very inexpensive to buy and were tiny enough
to fit into a jewelry box, making them super popular
with children at the time. I guess some people would
also bake them into cakes, kind of like morbid moneycakes.
According to the Internet, you could also get little caskets
for them as well.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
What are we talking about?
Speaker 2 (22:29):
I mean, Victorians were fucking goth as shit.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
They so were, But I just feel like I would
have heard about this book. I know, I'm so jealous.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
No AnyWho, she may be a little terrifying, it quite
possibly a lot haunted, but we have her displayed on
a shelf at the cottage with all of our other
weird and wonderful beach fines and we love her. Thanks
for reading this. You got me through some dark times
after losing my dad in twenty eighteen, I picked up
a hobby of embroidery and now have been selling it
for almost six years. Hell yes doing that And listen
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to you both and your humor has been such a
great distraction from everything I was going through. Can't thank
you enough. Love you ladies. Stay sexy and check those
beaches for creepy little Victorian dolls. Meg Peterborough, Ontario, Canada,
and she's at Embroidery by Meg Elliott. And also she
sent us a photo of the doll. Oh my god,
so we'll include it on the Instagram. Yeah, we'll post
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that up and we'll tag you man.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Oh my god, I'm so excited. Maybe she should make
an embroidery of a frozen Charlotte that we can put
on our shelves behind us. It says, trasure, trasure, and
then but it's like just a dead girl and order.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
We play a special order?
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Can we place the special order that you use ship
to a stat meg That's so cool. Yeah, what a
feeling where you're like, oh, that's just another little piece
of white shell. Yeah, and it's like no, it's a
whole fucking staff.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
She's an entire email to my favorite murder.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Amazing. Okay, this email subject line is Johnny, get the gun,
and it just starts. I've grown up in an Irish
Catholic family where my grandma had sixteen first cousins, most
of whom were badass women who taught me how to
fuck politeness from a young age. I had twenty seven cousins,
so go to hell, just ken, I've like twelish, I've
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been a good percentage of your cousins, I feel.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
My great grandma Franny, Aunt Dottie, and Aunt Jenny were
sisters who decided to live together in their seventies when
their husbands had either passed or left, and then birth theses.
It says for the better. It says they lived in Downey, California,
near a big open park, and one night, Franny woke
up to someone trying to break into the house through
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the window above her head. She woke her sisters, and
once they realized what was going on, Dottie screamed, Johnny,
get the gun, thankfully scaring off the intruders.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Ellyah.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
What the men didn't know was that none of these
brilliant ladies had ever owned or shot a gun in
their life.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Is so smart.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Dottie's quick thinking likely saved their lives because when they
tried to call the police, they realized the phone lines.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Had been cut.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
That's so sinister, which is honestly always the scariest part.
What were these people planning?
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Well?
Speaker 1 (25:08):
And also I'm sorry but to track it and I
don't know what the timing on this is, but it
makes me think that's something the nightstalker did totally and
it's in Downy down Yep. Okay, you're right, Okay, anyway,
the phone lines have been cut. Once the police finally
arrived after using the neighbor's phone, they said the men
likely watched their house for days or weeks from the
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nearby park, choosing a house with three older women who
might have money and planned to end their lives or
worse suck for sure. Thank you for creating a community.
So we're just out of that story. Now, that's it.
These sisters outsmarted these pieces of shit.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Johnny getting go.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Suddenly everyone's from the South for some reason.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
It's a cartoon in a Southerner.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
And then it just says, thank you for creating a
community for current and future badass women to come together.
I know Franny, Dottie and Johnny would absolutely love this
fuckword Murder podcast. Stay sexy and get yourself an imaginary gun, Amanda.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
That's so goodoo.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
This one's to Franny, Dotty and Johnny.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Thanks guys, Do you have stories like that or anything else?
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Anything? Operating phone link?
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Have you ever been a phone line operator? Or like
a were you a nine to one to one operator?
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Tell us everything? Good lord can legally please tell us
and send it to my favorite murder at Gmail.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
And stay sexy and don't get murdered.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Good night, Elvis, do you want a cookie?
Speaker 1 (26:41):
This has been an exactly right production.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Our senior producers are Alle Hundra Keck and Molly Smith.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Our editor is ARISTOTLEL.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
S Veda. This episode was mixed by Leoni Spolacci.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Email your hometowns to My Favorite Murder at gmail dot com.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
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Speaker 1 (26:55):
Listen to My Favorite Murder on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,
or wherever you get your podcast.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
And now you can watch us on Exactly Wright's YouTube page.
And while you're there, please like and subscribe. Ye bye
bye MHM.
Hello Ella, and welcome to my favorite murder the minuesode.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Here it is.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Look at it, at this, Look at it this, look
at it.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Now.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
You can't there's no video on this p sture.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
You don't touch it with your eyes.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
It's your ears, eyres.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
You want to go first. No, you have it.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
You've got it, newscaster style right in your hands.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
You're excited because this is a spooky hometown ghost story. Okay,
Hi Diddley home murdering nose it starts. Is that the
first time that's happened?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
I think, so, aside from when Ned Flanders did it originally.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
That's classic in nineteen seventy nine, it just gets into it.
My family moved to the coastal mountains of Oregon into
a fairly new single wide trailer on a wooded He's
a property with a creek running through it at nearly
the end of a nine mile dirt road.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Nine miles is too long, as someone from the country.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Driving ten minutes just to get to your front door
from the street.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
What kind of weed are you growing back there?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
They lived in that single wide while my dad built
the house I would eventually grow up in. I never
lived in the trailer, but all my siblings did. I'm
the youngest of four. My two sisters shared a room,
and then my two year old brother slept on a
little bed on the floor in my parents' room. For
several nights, my brother would wake up complaining that someone
was walking on him. Finally, my dad grew tired of
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this ridiculous complaint and took a turn sleeping on the
floor to prove my brother was just being an irrational toddler.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Uh oh.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
The next morning he said he had a terrible night's
sleep because someone had been stepping on him.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
The dad. Yeah, and they're nine miles away, just from
the road to get to town.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Run and get help. It's going to be two hours. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
If you're a nine year old and you need to
run and get a well, yeah see, you better put
your Adidas on. You're screwed.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Not but a few nights later, Oh, I love it,
that's ritten. Not but a few nights later. My mom
awoke suddenly and there standing in front of her was
a little boy about eight years old, holding a medium
sized red rubber ball and staring at her. What haunted trailer?
I mean, that's scary? What?
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Yeah, just say it's a neighbor boy, please.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
It's not. My mom does not get spooked easily, so
she just calmly stared at him, and he simply stared back.
When she blinked, he was gone. It's a fucking ghost story, O.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Roz, get the ROS hotline. We have a ghosted story
for you.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
My whole family somehow shrug this off. I feel like,
when you're living there and you can't do anything about it,
you just have to explain it away in your head
so you can just get through the day and night.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Yes, I'd love to also talk to that mom about
what her childhood was like that She's like, I think
I'm just gonna go ahead and stare this ghost down.
Have you ever heard that as an option of somebody
that's like, I think there's a ghost at the end
of my bed.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
That means a living people were scarier than the idea
of a ghost.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
That's right, right, badass mom times twenty five right.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
So then a few months later, the previous owners arrived
at their door eighties dropped by style like that is
so real. That is so real.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Do you know what happened last night? No, I'm laying
down after we recorded food voice. Yeah, it's very Ti
Ti and about to go to sleep and someone knocked
on my door. Why right, So I of course freeze,
the dogs go insane, and no one's there. Also then
I have weight and I'm like, what am I gonna do?
And finally I go look out the people. No one's there.
(03:34):
I open it ice cream?
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Is it ice cream?
Speaker 1 (03:38):
It's secret ice cream delivery.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
You forgot the ordered ice cream.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
I've stopped doing. Okay, that I had to curb because
it costs so much money. Yeah. No, I had been
out of town, so I forgot to tell my house
sitter to take stuff out of the mailbox. So it
was mail with a little post it note that said,
please clean out your mailbox. The mailman had the door
deliver the mail because the mailbox was absolutely full.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
I hate when they ring your doorbell though, like when
you get a package delivered. It's like, I know, yeah,
just throw it there, I see it, Okay, I'll be
out there.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
But also there's something about the It's like an eighties knock.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
But it was a thing where you're like, hey, I
grew up here. Can I come in and see the house? Yes, totally,
that's now at ploy don't ever believe it, of course not,
but it totally used to be a thing completely okay.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Or also just like friends and acquaintances, being like, hey,
I was in the neighborhood. What's up right?
Speaker 2 (04:25):
So the old people, the previous owners, arrive at the
door eighties drop by style to see how they were
getting along in their new house. Completely unprompted, they asked
if any of them had seen the ghost of the
little boy.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Oh shit.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
It was then that my mom was finally shook. The
story goes there was a town at the turn of
the century up Langlois Mountain called Oakie Town, which was
a lumber milling town, so spooky already. The old incinerator
is just up the road from my parents' house. There
lived a boy named Raymond West who was playing with
his ball when it rolled into the creek. He went
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after it and drowned. Horrible to be clear. And the summer,
this creek is safe as could be and really more
than calf deep, but in the winter and spring it
will easily sweep you away. My parents were able to
find old news articles of the story in the library
and it all checked out. So he ran after the
ball that they later saw him with.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
And now he's like, hey, hey, you guys.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Finally, when we were all living in the house my
dad built, my sister was poking around at random books
on our massive bookshelf when she found a small, old,
tattered book. She didn't recognize. It was an old elementary
school primer, Dick and Jane style, and when she opened it,
the name Raymond West was written in cursive several times throughout.
Oh my god, thanks for chrudging through that lengthy read.
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The local paper eventually did a story about it, and
it's been a tale we tell in my family since
I can remember. The trailer is still there and it's
still scary as hell to be alone.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
In hell No nine miles up the road.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Lovey ladies and your whole crew, stay sexy and don't
play near the creek in winter. Mira Bell, Wow, what
a story ghost story for summer? Summer ghost story? Yeah,
summer ghost story. Can you guys send us more summer
ghost stories?
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Yeah? You do not have to wait for fall. Here's
a summer not ghost story, okay, and it's timely to
our main episode from Thursday, and the subject line is
hot Dog Day Gone Wrong at the health department and
then it says three minute read and it just starts, Okay,
I've been listening to you since twenty seventeen, and I
(06:26):
love you both. I work for a department of public
health in a large metro area. Our department is a
shit show, and we've made local news multiple times in
the past year, ranging from a nepotism scandal and false
timekeeping to toxic mismanagement out The situation below is just
one of the many somewhat unbelievable things that have happened
here and now the rest of this is totally unbelievable.
(06:50):
Not to accuse anybody of lying at all, but it is.
As I was reading it, I was like, you've got
to be fucking kidding me. Okay, So it was hot
dog Day, and then in parentheses it says, why are
health department had a hot dog days? Beyond me the
opposite of health, It starts insane. Yeah, not many people
were grabbing hot dogs. So one of my coworkers, feeling
bad for the people who organized the event, got a
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vegetarian hot dog. She came to regret that decision because
by that evening she developed food poisoning. Oh no, back
in our office. A new employee had just started and
was setting up her cubicle. I guess our division director
at the time thought he would show off by tossing
a bottle of barbecue sauce in the air well. He
hadn't noticed that the cap on the bottle was loose,
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so it flew off and barbecue sauce went everywhere. Oh god,
a lot of it landed on the new employee's desk,
getting on her new laptop and ruining some of her paperwork.
A big glob landed on our carpeted office floor. Around
the corner came my coworker who doesn't like to wear shoes.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Oh no, that's a policy in an office. You must
wear shoes at the Health depart Health department.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
It's absolutely required at the health department.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
As a non naked foot person, I am this is
the worst. This is my worst name at work.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Sure enough, she slipped in the barbecue sauce with her
bare feet. And then that noise you made is the
emoji where it looks like, yeah, like kind of bar
feet yeah, And then it says, let me remind you
that the food poisoning, barbecue sauce and barefoot incidents all
took place at a health department. Honestly, kind of embarrassing
and kind of the thing that should only happen on TV.
(08:30):
But in all seriousness, most of the people I work
with are smart, hardworking people who are passionate about improving
health outcomes in our community. The attacks on public health
at the federal level are scary and disheartening. Some ways
to support your local health department are interacting positively with
their social media accounts and reporting misinformation in comment sections,
(08:50):
talking with your friends and family about current health issues,
and utilizing their services, and wearing fucking shoes. How about
that number one. Let's put that at the top of
the shoes required. We're back in the email. A lot
of health departments providing immunizations, safer sex supplies, narcan, primary
and dental care, and more, all of which are available
(09:13):
to the public. I didn't know any of that.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
That's incredible.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Yeah, And then it says anyway, stay sexy and don't
trust talk.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Dog Day, hot Dog.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
And then this is unsigned, and our producer Molly says,
this is unsigned. I'm assuming because it doesn't make the
company look great.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Right.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
It sounds like an episode of Parks and wrack, though,
Could we be honest completely?
Speaker 1 (09:32):
You can cast that so quickly? Can I just tell
you very quickly that along the lines of the guy
with the barbecue sauce. When I used to work on
the daily talk show that I used to work on,
my friend Vicky, who was a producer. She and I
would meet before work and walk around my neighborhood for
an hour to get some exercise in together. We'd both
get ready at my house and we'd go to work,
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which is like three minutes from my house. And one
morning we did that and we were in my car
ready to go to work, and I I had one
of my drinkable yogurts that I love, and we were
talking and I started shaking it up, but the cap
was off, so I literally in the Honda fit just
shook a drinkable yogurt all over us and we both
just just best. It was both of you that like,
(10:15):
I just went everywhere in the car because you know,
when you're like going to shake someeathing, it's kind of thick.
You're like, oh, I have to kind of really shake.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
You don't hold back. Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
It was like I was doing like a champagne spray.
In the car with drinkable yogurt. And then we're sitting
in the morning morning and we just both like look
at each other, dripping and yogurt and just get back
out of the car, go back inside. We have to
get ready.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
All over again. Smell so oh my god, insane. That's amazing.
This is called how my parents helped give me anxiety.
We all have one.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Let's all read our emails.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Do your Karen Georgia and the exactly right family. I
started listening to MFM at episode sixteen Blood Murder, sixteen
Magic Okay. And while that episode freaked me out because
you talked about Shondra Levy and I was a new
graduate living alone in DC, I knew I had stumbled
across something special. I have relied on hearing your voices
to get me through a lot, from simply looking for
(11:15):
a laugh or needing a savior from boredom at my
desk job, to calming my ever present anxiety. I have
listened to the entire catalog four times, and it will
soon be five with the rewind episodes.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Girl. Thank you for the numbers, I mean you are
putting in serious numbers for us. Thank you for my home.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
You're the street team.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Thank you for the house I live in.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Then it says thank you for more than I can express,
So yeah, great, back at you. Speaking of that ever
present anxiety, I have a story about nineties parents that
may indicate why I am now heavily medicated. Ditto. I
don't want to call them trash parents because they are
still my best friends. But when I heard a recent
minnesot I finally decided to send this in.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Cannot wait for a trash parents start also parents plural, like,
it's not just trashed out.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Yeah, there's nobody looking out for you. For context, my
name is Katie and my sister's name is Jenny. This
is important for the story. When I was a child,
my dad chose to get us to behave in an
interesting way. The house I grew up in backed into
a wooded area. When we would misbehave or complain, my
dad would say, sh do you hear that? That's Sadie.
(12:21):
She's your sister, but she misbehaved and now she lives
in the woods. No, you cannot threaten your child with
the fake fate of another child who's banished. Banish obviously
a terrifying thing to say to your small child. I
wasn't sure if I believed it, but why risk it? Right?
(12:43):
At a young age, I knew I wanted to stay
out of the forest. When my little sister got a
little older, he would say the same thing. Do you
hear that? That's Penny. She's your sister, but she misbehaved
and now she lives in the woods. Luckily, little sisters
usually have the ability to do what older sisters can't,
which is pushback on authority. Figures that's right.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Hey.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
She simply told him it wasn't true, and it became
a long lasting family joke. Over the years. If I
got frustrated with my parents, I would joke that I
was going to join Sadie in the woods. Or if
we heard her weird noise, we'd say, oh, that's Sadie,
or oh that's Penny. Years later, I had to write
a scary story for one of my French college classes,
and I based mine on this sweet quote childhood memory. Yes,
(13:22):
that's actually okay, a great story.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
It's great. It's kind of pet cemetery.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Yeah yeah, but with the sisters. Let's just say the
professor looked very concerned when she returned my paper. Needless
to say, you got a base in reality, base fiction reality,
and it's believable, right what you know? Needless to say
in my adult ears, I have had lots of therapy
and I am happily medicated. Stay sexy, and maybe find
a different way to get kids to behave without giving
them trauma. Katie, ps, I made my mom a murderino.
(13:50):
Sorry for spilling the beans. Mom, love you.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
What if her mom's name was Sadie.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Oh yeah, you sent her mom to the woods.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Oh my god, that's so good. I have already told
the story of Adrian saying to her kids be careful
to man is watching, which is like if you have
more than one child.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
It sounds like religion, though honestly it is that literally.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Is it's Catholicism in a nutshell. But also like when
you're in public and then there's three individuals who haven't
been here for very long. You got to get them
to like snap to totally for their own safety, and
everybody else is like sanity.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
You've got to threaten those kids.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
You got to make them insane, all right. This email
subject line is listen to that little voice. It says, Hi,
Karen and Georgia, thanks for keeping me entertained on all
my long runs. I'm one of those crazy people who
runs marathons for fun. High me how and then it
just says, but let's get into my story. A few
years ago, I went to a coworker's wedding in Columbia,
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South Carolina. After the ceremony, the plan was to hit
the college bars, since it's a big college town. But
first we were supposed to meet the bridal party at
the bar in their hotel. The group was staying at
a more budget friendly spot, so we grabbed an uber over.
When we got there, we couldn't get in touch with
anyone from the bridal party, and the front desk informed
us that the hotel bar was closed, so we decided
(15:11):
to hit out on our own and explore the local
college bars. Would you go to a college bar now?
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Definitely?
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Absolutely yes, good times.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Maybe yeah I would, Yeah, maybe I'm thinking of a
dive bar though, like a sports bar that's really loud
and sticky. Yeah, it actually doesn't sound great, actually, you know, yeah,
you know why because they always have quiz night. Every
night is quiz night, and you walk in and it's
so loud. Yes, okay, The answers no, it' said. No.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Yeah, there was a bar. Boys I went to high
school with went to Columbia. This was like in the
late eighties, and there was a dive bar that they
used to go to that beers were twenty five cents
until the first person peede, I've told you the story.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
No, yes, oh, that would be so hard for me.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
So if you were the person that ruined it, like
everyone in a whole bar hated you. But then people
got so drunk they were like people like beyond shit face.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
You know someone had diaper on for sure too, right right,
somebody's got to New Year's in Times Square. Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Okay, okay. We ended up in a place packed with
twenty one year old babies when we noticed two people,
a man and a woman who looked closer to our age,
standing at the backbar. Naturally, we started chatting. They told
us they were siblings. She worked at the college and
he was visiting from the military. They suggested we drink
at his hotel bar, which sounded sketchy, but we were
trying to be polite. This, don't be polite, don't. While
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we were still chatting, I happen to spot a guy
wearing a brewery t shirt from my hometown in Maryland.
I got excited and started talking to him. That's when
things got weird. The woman suddenly stormed up to me,
got inches from my face, and started yelling at me
for quote ignoring her brother. I was stunned. Even worse,
the way she positioned herself between me and my drink
(16:51):
set off alarm bells. She got so close that I
could no longer see my glass. Something in my gut
told me that this wasn't just weird, it was danger oh.
I quickly grabbed my friend Lindsay, left my drink on
the bar, and walked out. But as we got to
the front door, that little voice in my head spoke up.
Turn around I did, and saw the guy was following me.
(17:13):
His quote unquote sister was nowhere in sight. Outside, I
spotted a group of guys standing on the sidewalk. I
walked straight into their circle and said, I'm with you.
Pretend you know me. Without missing a beat, they played along,
and the guy walked right past without saying a word.
To this day, I don't know for sure what their
intentions were, but I'm convinced they tried to drug me
(17:34):
and had something sinister plan. Absolutely, I mean it's so weird,
so creepy. Also when you meet people and they're like
we're brother and sister, but you're like you're not.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Though I wouldn't go to a fucking bar with my brother.
What would we do? We wouldn't do that.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Yeah, what are you doing? No, the kicker the hotel
they were trying to take us to, the one with
the bar. Yeah, it was the same hotel that actually
had no bar. Oh, like the original bar that they
plan to go to. And then they were like, oh
my god, I hadn't put the red flags together in
the moment, but thankfully I listened to my gut. Yeah,
and then it just says Danielle.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
That's incredible. I also do love and think everyone should
utilize no matter what the pretend. I'm with you, yes
to groups of people if you're alone and you're scared,
like they will follow through with it. Don't worry about
being weird or embarrassing, Like get people gathered around you
to help you.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Yes, and like more than one so that people have
a chance. Also, it's like whether a man or a woman,
someone maybe a little larger in statu.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Yeah, or like if your two people who are alone
get together. Yeah, I just I'm a really big I'm
really big advocate of that.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
And I think that people these days, especially because of
social media, are just getting hipper and hipper. So like
if somebody came up to you and said that, you
would be all over it.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Absolutely. Yeah. All right, here's my last one, and it's
kind of how I want my life to be one day. Okay,
Beachcombing Treasure. Hi ladies, first time writer here. My sister
told me about your podcast back in twenty sixteen, and
I started a few episodes in and have been along
for the ride ever since. Wow. Georgia was talking about
(19:10):
mudlarking on many So for twenty six and explained how
our brains can pick out unnatural, man made shapes in
a beach slash rocky setting. That made me think of
my favorite beachcombing fine, and I had to write it.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Ooh, I'm so excited. Whatever this is, I'm gonna love it.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
It's Victorian, is it really? We have been spending summers
in Prince Edward Island since buying our little seaside cottage
in Graham Head, Pei in twenty twenty. Okay, let me
have that fucking life.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Please give it over.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
I need that. And then I go beachcombing every day.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Yeah exactly.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Our three kids have loved every second spent by the
water and playing on the beach. One of our favorite
things to do is hunt for sea glass and random
little treasures. And she wrote treasures that wash up. We
have collected dozens of mason jars of SeaGlass and other
strange fines buttons, lego pieces, marbles, cow teeth, seal bone, sorry,
et cetera.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Hold on, she went off a cliff there. Cow teeth
are horrifying on a beach, unless I'm just thinking of
horse teeth.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Yeah, horse teether terrifying. I mean either way, why would
cow teeth be on the beach?
Speaker 1 (20:13):
What are they doing to those cows?
Speaker 3 (20:14):
I jumped overboard on the and then there's you know
that bridge in England where dogs jump. Well, oh, I
don't want to talk about that, but what if there's
like when Prince said rud Island, there was like, don't
go over there, that's where the cows jump.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Oh geez, cow jumping?
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Sorry wait? And seal bones.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Yeah. Dark. Over the years and this past summer I
found the coolest thing.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
A big dead seal carcass.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
It was a whole cow. It was so cool.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
It was a cow hugging a seal.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
I knew you'd love it. My husband and the kids
were up ahead getting a head started finding the good
stuff while I dawdled behind. You always got to be
the doddler having best shit. Just as we were about
to head back to the cottage, I spotted a little
white fleck that resembled a teeny person up ahead and
the sand and rocks. I immediately went up to it
to check it out, and it was this little white
(21:02):
ceramic lady. I picked her up and couldn't believe what
a random thing it was to find. It was like
a little it sounds like a porcelain doll, almost figurine.
Unsure of what this was, I posted her on my
Instagram and a follower commented that she was a very
rare find and gave me the name of what it was.
It turns out this little beauty was a rare ceramic
doll made in the Victorian era, made between eighteen fifty
(21:25):
and nineteen twenty, according to Wikipedia, called a frozen Charlotte.
Oh have you heard of that? No, there's too much
info about them to include it all in this email.
But the gist is that they were made after a
poem called a Corpse Going to a Ball by Seba Smith.
It was published in eighteen forty three in the newspaper,
and it was about a young girl freezing to death
(21:45):
in New York in eighteen forty while on her way
to a New York's eve ball. She didn't listen to
her mother when she told her to bundle up, and
she froze on the sled next to her date Charlie
Jesus cautionary tale, Please please.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Bundle up on your slide or you're gonna die.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
The dolls were made as a reminder for children to
listen to their parents and be obedient. Oh just it
goes back farther than the nineties.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
So much further. Yeah, we thought we had a bad.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
They were very inexpensive to buy and were tiny enough
to fit into a jewelry box, making them super popular
with children at the time. I guess some people would
also bake them into cakes, kind of like morbid moneycakes.
According to the Internet, you could also get little caskets
for them as well.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
What are we talking about?
Speaker 2 (22:29):
I mean, Victorians were fucking goth as shit.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
They so were, But I just feel like I would
have heard about this book. I know, I'm so jealous.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
No AnyWho, she may be a little terrifying, it quite
possibly a lot haunted, but we have her displayed on
a shelf at the cottage with all of our other
weird and wonderful beach fines and we love her. Thanks
for reading this. You got me through some dark times
after losing my dad in twenty eighteen, I picked up
a hobby of embroidery and now have been selling it
for almost six years. Hell yes doing that And listen
(23:00):
to you both and your humor has been such a
great distraction from everything I was going through. Can't thank
you enough. Love you ladies. Stay sexy and check those
beaches for creepy little Victorian dolls. Meg Peterborough, Ontario, Canada,
and she's at Embroidery by Meg Elliott. And also she
sent us a photo of the doll. Oh my god,
so we'll include it on the Instagram. Yeah, we'll post
(23:21):
that up and we'll tag you man.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Oh my god, I'm so excited. Maybe she should make
an embroidery of a frozen Charlotte that we can put
on our shelves behind us. It says, trasure, trasure, and
then but it's like just a dead girl and order.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
We play a special order?
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Can we place the special order that you use ship
to a stat meg That's so cool. Yeah, what a
feeling where you're like, oh, that's just another little piece
of white shell. Yeah, and it's like no, it's a
whole fucking staff.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
She's an entire email to my favorite murder.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Amazing. Okay, this email subject line is Johnny, get the gun,
and it just starts. I've grown up in an Irish
Catholic family where my grandma had sixteen first cousins, most
of whom were badass women who taught me how to
fuck politeness from a young age. I had twenty seven cousins,
so go to hell, just ken, I've like twelish, I've
(24:12):
been a good percentage of your cousins, I feel.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
My great grandma Franny, Aunt Dottie, and Aunt Jenny were
sisters who decided to live together in their seventies when
their husbands had either passed or left, and then birth theses.
It says for the better. It says they lived in Downey, California,
near a big open park, and one night, Franny woke
up to someone trying to break into the house through
(24:36):
the window above her head. She woke her sisters, and
once they realized what was going on, Dottie screamed, Johnny,
get the gun, thankfully scaring off the intruders.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Ellyah.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
What the men didn't know was that none of these
brilliant ladies had ever owned or shot a gun in
their life.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Is so smart.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Dottie's quick thinking likely saved their lives because when they
tried to call the police, they realized the phone lines.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Had been cut.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
That's so sinister, which is honestly always the scariest part.
What were these people planning?
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Well?
Speaker 1 (25:08):
And also I'm sorry but to track it and I
don't know what the timing on this is, but it
makes me think that's something the nightstalker did totally and
it's in Downy down Yep. Okay, you're right, Okay, anyway,
the phone lines have been cut. Once the police finally
arrived after using the neighbor's phone, they said the men
likely watched their house for days or weeks from the
(25:29):
nearby park, choosing a house with three older women who
might have money and planned to end their lives or
worse suck for sure. Thank you for creating a community.
So we're just out of that story. Now, that's it.
These sisters outsmarted these pieces of shit.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Johnny getting go.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Suddenly everyone's from the South for some reason.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
It's a cartoon in a Southerner.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
And then it just says, thank you for creating a
community for current and future badass women to come together.
I know Franny, Dottie and Johnny would absolutely love this
fuckword Murder podcast. Stay sexy and get yourself an imaginary gun, Amanda.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
That's so goodoo.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
This one's to Franny, Dotty and Johnny.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Thanks guys, Do you have stories like that or anything else?
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Anything? Operating phone link?
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Have you ever been a phone line operator? Or like
a were you a nine to one to one operator?
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (26:23):
Tell us everything? Good lord can legally please tell us
and send it to my favorite murder at Gmail.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
And stay sexy and don't get murdered.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Good night, Elvis, do you want a cookie?
Speaker 1 (26:41):
This has been an exactly right production.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Our senior producers are Alle Hundra Keck and Molly Smith.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Our editor is ARISTOTLEL.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
S Veda. This episode was mixed by Leoni Spolacci.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Email your hometowns to My Favorite Murder at gmail dot com.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
And follow the show on Instagram at my Favorite Murder.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Listen to My Favorite Murder on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,
or wherever you get your podcast.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
And now you can watch us on Exactly Wright's YouTube page.
And while you're there, please like and subscribe. Ye bye
bye MHM.
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Georgia Hardstark
Karen Kilgariff
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