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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 3 (00:16):
I live below a cult leader and I fear I've
angered her.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
That's definitely a scary situation.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
I female, twenty eight, have lived in the same apartment
for four years. My neighbors in the unit above me
are a couple in their thirties who have lived there
for about three years with no issues between us. By
the way, this comes from well this is Weird twenty
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Speaker 2 (00:40):
I'm Sophia, I'm Dakota, and I'm Keon.

Speaker 3 (00:44):
And Op says. During the past six months, I've noticed
some changes in their behaviors. At first, it was just
a few days per week, I'd hear music with heavy
bass accompanied by rhythmic jumping. I assume they bought an
exercise bike or something. But some times the jumping gets
so intense that it shakes my overhead like fixtures. The

(01:06):
jumping routine has been escalating to the point that it
takes place every day, normally between eight am and ten am.
Maybe they just have a really intense workout routine.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yeah, it's it's their jump centric workout routine.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
Maybe it's all about the jumps, and you just didn't
realize how much you really need to focus on your
ability to jump as you grow older, because you lose
that mobility.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
Yeah, apparently jumping is actually healthy for you, I heard.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
I also noticed that they called one eight hundred junk
and got rid of a lot of nice possessions. However,
I figured none of this was my business, so I
kept my observations to myself. About three weeks ago, everything
escalated multiple times per week on weekdays and during working hours.
It sounded like they were hosting a mini Burning Man
event in their apartment. The music was so loud and

(01:53):
clear that it sounded as if I was at the
concert while sitting in my living room. There's clearly a
lot of people involved because the jump stomping shakes multiple
light fixtures and cabinets. The music is a mix of
New Age spiritual vibe, dance beats, and a male voiceover
giving weird instructions like rebrand yourself, surrender yourself, stomp stomp

(02:15):
in response, oh, they're just toasting a zoomba class. I've
taken audio recordings on my phone and one video from
the hallway during these events. I still didn't complain to
the building, but I wanted evidence in case it became
a regular thing. This week, I've encountered a big problem.
The couple above me has a private patio which is

(02:36):
directly above my bedroom. I came home from a three
day trip out of town yesterday and my ceiling is
legitimately collapsing. In one corner. Big chunks of plaster had
fallen to the ground, and I saw a little water.
Uh oh, and now we got to get the landlord.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
In jumping so hard they are breaking the building.

Speaker 3 (02:55):
I immediately called my superintendent, since I didn't want to
be very alive by a ceiling rubble if it gives out.
When he came to check it out, he was shocked
and pissed. He said that the woman in the couple
appears to be working with some people doing workshops or something.
He can see their patio from his apartment window and

(03:16):
has watched the group do these dancing, jumping, dirt rituals
out there on a weekly basis.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
Dirt ritual.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
What's a dirt ritual? You peak Dakota's interest?

Speaker 2 (03:28):
Dirt ritual?

Speaker 3 (03:29):
What does that mean?

Speaker 2 (03:30):
Are they eating all your dirt, Sophia, my dirt? Are
they making mud pies?

Speaker 4 (03:35):
Like?

Speaker 3 (03:35):
Who's to say? He said, they all dance and jump
to the music and then spread dirt along with something else.
He doesn't know what it is. He's like, I don't know.
It just looks like red and it's kind of dark
and it smells like iron. But I don't know what
it could be. I'm sure it's nothing, and he was

(03:58):
never heard from again. Across the patio on a weekly basis.
He believes that the dirt and unknown substance combo is
getting through the wooden cracks, absorbing water and weighing down
my ceiling. This is scary.

Speaker 5 (04:11):
They are the cult of the worm, cult of the work,
cult of the worm.

Speaker 3 (04:15):
In order to fix the problem, I super said he
had to go talk to the woman, check out their patio,
and ultimately hire a contractor to pull up the wood
to scrape out whatever the heck is causing my ceiling
to fall. I could hear them talking from my room,
and the woman sounded distraught and defensive.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
Not my dirt.

Speaker 3 (04:35):
You can't take my dirt, my rituals. I won't be
able to form them.

Speaker 2 (04:40):
My bad dirt, my bags, it's of great importance.

Speaker 3 (04:44):
She's just like casting spells of this guy. She's like,
you're rue the day when you tried to take my
dirt rituals. Jah And he's like, oh, you just got
dirt over my nice shirt.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
Lightning Bolt dirt cultist, the most dangerous of all.

Speaker 3 (04:59):
Never messed with a dirt couldest.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
Oh, he who controls the dirt, controls all.

Speaker 3 (05:03):
From dust to dust, from dirt to dirt. When my
super left, he called me and warned me that she
might try to come down to my apartment and demand
to see the damage, but don't let her in. This
was a little concerning to me. Is she a threat?
The damage is real. I wouldn't mind showing her. She
started playing her music again, relatively loud, kind of like

(05:24):
a warning shot. And if you're new here, there are
multiple parts to the story, so make sure to follow
us on the iHeartRadio app or Apple podcasts. Okay, let's
get back into the story I mentioned the music, jumping
to the super and said I had audio recordings. He
started begging me to send the evidence to the front office.
It sounds like he wants them evicted. I said, okay, sure.

(05:48):
I hate to be a rat, but if I have
to choose sides, I'll side with the building that dictates
my annual rent price. He called me twice more that
afternoon to confirm that I shared my evidence, and I said, yes, oh,
pe so chill. She's like, I don't want to be
a snitch. Yeah, my ceilings collapsing, But like, who am
I to judge?

Speaker 2 (06:07):
They got weird dirt beliefs. Hey, who am I?

Speaker 3 (06:10):
We all got weird things.

Speaker 2 (06:12):
We are all part of the dirt. Oh no, I'm
joining the cult.

Speaker 3 (06:16):
Shoot Dakota.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
I didn't mean to. It's it's dirt coda, now dirt coda.

Speaker 3 (06:22):
Shortly after everything went down, I left my apartment to
run an errand then the woman was outside, just standing
on the sidewalk and stared at me the whole time
as I walked by.

Speaker 2 (06:33):
She's like her eyes were fixed upon me.

Speaker 3 (06:36):
I ignored her. This isn't my fault.

Speaker 2 (06:38):
No one thought it was.

Speaker 3 (06:39):
OK.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
No, they do they do you're part of the cult.
Now you're part of the cult. Watch out and the
dirty non dirt believers beneath us. We'll brew the.

Speaker 3 (06:48):
Day you clean, people will rue the day you missed
with the dirty dirt cultus.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
What is their dirt cult goal? I wonder do they
like want like compost.

Speaker 5 (06:59):
They're all like this second level of this building, so
it's like, wh are they trying to like make it
so that like dirt rises, all of the dirt in
the world rises.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
Up to where they are. Okay, nailed it, she knows
it now.

Speaker 3 (07:09):
Today I went to run another quick errand in the neighborhood.
When I returned, the couple was again standing on the sidewalk,
both of them this time, this is getting a little scary.
Followed me into the building and then waited until I
was opening my apartment door to confront me. They were
both wearing creepy fake smiles. The woman had horse girl
hair down to her waist and started interrogating me.

Speaker 2 (07:32):
Is I'm sorry, it's just a long hair of long hair,
long horse girl hair?

Speaker 4 (07:38):
They asked, is your ceiling really collapsing? When did it start?
Do you think it was related to the recent rainfall?
Because our patio is just fine.

Speaker 3 (07:49):
I was a little uncomfortable. Were they waiting for me outside?
How did they know I even left the building? Why
were they both standing there? I've literally never seen them
enter together in their three years of living here. But
I have nothing to hide, so I confirm the damage
is pretty bad. I just don't want it to fall
during the winter. I'm sorry for the inconvenience, but hopefully

(08:10):
the work will be done quickly for everyone's sake. They
seem satisfied enough, so I said, have a good day
and shut my door. I'm getting the sense that they're
nervous about what the contractors will find when they tear
open their patio. What the f is up with dirt rituals?
Who are these people she's working with. I don't know
what they look like or why they're available to stomp

(08:31):
around on weekdays. The repair work is started on both sides,
but the contractors will come on Wednesday for the grand
reveal of what's under the patio that's making my ceiling collapse.

Speaker 2 (08:42):
Oh what do they got under there? Dude?

Speaker 3 (08:44):
They got some skeletons in the patio.

Speaker 5 (08:47):
They got like the what do they got buried under
the floorboards at ground Postyle.

Speaker 3 (08:51):
Yeah, he's like, I've been noticing a lot of mushrooms
growing on my ceiling.

Speaker 2 (08:56):
Yeah, and I'm hearing it.

Speaker 3 (08:59):
And I also feel really guilty about something.

Speaker 2 (09:01):
Yes.

Speaker 3 (09:02):
In the meantime, I feel like I need to be
alert and keep my eyes out for these people as
well as the couple. It's unusual for me to see
them in general, especially twice in two days. They seem
scared and in denial of the problem. They also literally
ambushed me. Hopefully it's over soon. Audio recordings. We have

(09:22):
audio recordings, what guys, We have audio recordings, and Keon's
gonna find those. But I'm gonna read the comments. Comment one.
I have long, straight, dark hair, being half Indigenous and
half white, and I hope people don't associate me with
creepy horse girls like this. I wish people would stop
with the long hair equals weird thing when it's a cultural, spiritual,
and genetic thing for us. If specific comment, well, no,

(09:45):
I do want to say, like long hair is like
very much a very important thing in a lot of
different cultures. I don't think that's what OPI was going for, though.

Speaker 2 (09:53):
I think Opie was going.

Speaker 3 (09:54):
For, like cultest. I'm describing what she looks like.

Speaker 5 (09:56):
If your hair is too long, you're not trusted. I
don't think it's a general rule.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
What are you hiding?

Speaker 3 (10:02):
What's in all that hair?

Speaker 2 (10:04):
What do you keep in that hair? Long? Hair?

Speaker 5 (10:06):
Is it has to be so long? Don't listen to hers. No,
it's not cut your hair, cut all your hair off,
hair off, Send it to me in a bag. Because
I'm a hair.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
Coultist, I think, don't do that. Please, don't actually do that.
Please video.

Speaker 3 (10:24):
Okay, So it's like peeling a heart. That's what it
looks like.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
That's there's a there's a hold on. I don't know
if we can hear it. What did they bury in
the very? Is it just more dirt? I think that's
I can hear it.

Speaker 3 (10:35):
Jack, can you hear it?

Speaker 1 (10:36):
Let me let me hear it.

Speaker 2 (10:37):
I can maybe change that.

Speaker 3 (10:39):
It's like a thumping.

Speaker 2 (10:40):
That's the thumping of the heart.

Speaker 3 (10:42):
That's terrible.

Speaker 2 (10:43):
The person buried in their ceiling.

Speaker 3 (10:46):
It literally sounds like a heart beating.

Speaker 2 (10:48):
Yeah, it's it's This is literally the telltale heart egg
groud Poe.

Speaker 3 (10:52):
I'm scared.

Speaker 2 (10:53):
What do they build? Are they building amuncular? Okay, we're
getting a full video here. There's plaster on the floor.
Hear it?

Speaker 5 (10:59):
Okay, yeah for alled and cracked.

Speaker 3 (11:03):
And there's plaster on the floor and we're watching this video.
Uh oh, and there's more a peeling on the ceiling
in what seems to maybe be a bathroom. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (11:17):
I just yeah, that's what I would have said. When
they confronted me.

Speaker 5 (11:20):
They were like, do you think your ceiling's really caving in?
Like our patio is fine, Like, what do you it's from.
I'm like, I don't know if it's from the dirt
or from everyone jumping up and down and thumping all
the time. Uh help, I'd be like a problem with you,
said the plaster, But the landlord has a problem with you.

Speaker 2 (11:38):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (11:39):
Just I report to the lord of my land unfortunately,
but we have an update. I just want to see
there's anying.

Speaker 3 (11:47):
I'm gonna keep going through this video. Oh yikes. There's
a lot of like mold kind of stuff.

Speaker 2 (11:53):
They're just like spraying like water and dirt and goose.

Speaker 3 (11:56):
Oh yeah, the ceiling is not looking good for podcast listeners.
You guys, If you guys are quiet for a second,
I think they can sort of here here.

Speaker 2 (12:06):
I mean, it just sounds like an old like kutchunk.

Speaker 5 (12:12):
Like there.

Speaker 3 (12:19):
It's yeah, it's just a good yeah. But we're gonna
get into the update figures out what.

Speaker 2 (12:25):
Does it does? Sound a bit like a wash It
sounds like a washing machine with a brick in it.

Speaker 3 (12:29):
Yeah, but we got an update. The contractors came today
and reported that there was in fact dirt and sludge
no visible below the neighbor's patty.

Speaker 2 (12:40):
That's the next step of the dirt cult.

Speaker 4 (12:42):
Is they the people down sludge the sludge, bathe with
the sludge.

Speaker 3 (12:49):
However, thanks to the help of my internet sleuthing friend,
I've gained a lot more insight into the realm that
dwells above me. Spooky, as one redditor suggested, nice work.
My neighbor is a affiliated with multiple ecstatic dance communities,
both international and locals.

Speaker 2 (13:05):
It's just people who are like does that mean jazzed about?

Speaker 3 (13:08):
Like I love dance.

Speaker 5 (13:09):
I'm just ecstatic for dance and they're just doing like the.

Speaker 3 (13:15):
Like I love dance.

Speaker 2 (13:16):
Suppose that you show me your jazz hands.

Speaker 3 (13:18):
Go what those are?

Speaker 2 (13:21):
Jazz fingers?

Speaker 3 (13:22):
I don't stop, get your jazz fingers out and cult now,
oh no, the jazz cult man. The international group has
planned events during which all cells of the organization host
dance sessions simultaneously. They're like, and what, everyone start dancing
right now all across the world.

Speaker 5 (13:42):
It's like, if everyone in the world like jumped at
the same time, we could change the axis that the
world sits upon exactly.

Speaker 2 (13:51):
They're trying to. They're trying to that's shift the poles.

Speaker 3 (13:54):
That's their evil plan.

Speaker 2 (13:56):
Yeah, shift the pole. They're trying to flip the poles
from north to south.

Speaker 1 (14:00):
Hey's sean here, We're gonna get back to this episode,
but a quick three minute break with aswer more sponsors.

Speaker 3 (14:05):
It also has a YouTube channel that streams sy trance
music twenty four seven. I listened to a portion of it,
and a female voiceover declared, you are becoming the game master.
What we're playing D and D?

Speaker 2 (14:17):
Now? Is this? What?

Speaker 3 (14:19):
This is a giant all along, it's been a giant
D and D group. What. Meanwhile, the local group seem
to be more exclusive and more radical in their mindset.
One of the local groups, hosted by my neighbor's good friend,
conducts three day events that cost upwards of four hundred
dollars for admission. Participation in all three days is mandatory.
I get the impression they all sleep in the studio space,

(14:42):
and the event description mentions that it begins with a ritual,
a dirt ritual.

Speaker 2 (14:48):
Ooh.

Speaker 3 (14:49):
The last and darkest affiliation that I've confirmed via social
media footprints is that my neighbor and a few members
of the local communities are also involved with some compassionate
PAS groups. There's no way for me to verify at
this time if the affiliations overlap in a meaningful way.
So I will simply state the facts that I have
evidence to prove. What is So, what do you think

(15:10):
because it's not passing, it's d word compassionate.

Speaker 5 (15:14):
Yes, compassionate shuffling off of the mortal coil. What exactly
is that, I don't know, but I'm getting the feeling
that this dirt has something to do with it.

Speaker 3 (15:23):
Yeah, yeah, again, It's like the like dirt used during funerals,
putting over the coffin wear, something like that.

Speaker 5 (15:32):
If they're like, if this dirt's got human remains in it,
I swear on my mama.

Speaker 2 (15:40):
That's gross.

Speaker 3 (15:41):
It's probably at least got animals. I swear. I don't
like it at all.

Speaker 2 (15:45):
They like spray the It's like, uh h, I don't know.
I'm getting now, it's it's getting spooky now.

Speaker 3 (15:52):
Red B compassionate. This is when you are being told
by a doctor that you can pass on your own terms,
which honestly is not like that. That honestly is not
that bad.

Speaker 5 (16:03):
That's like, yeah, but if your own terms are, I
want you to turn me into go and spread me
in your apartment.

Speaker 2 (16:09):
That's not on the floor. That's not good. I don't know.

Speaker 5 (16:12):
And I want everyone to jump on my dirt. That's
not that's you can't do that.

Speaker 3 (16:16):
Can't do that.

Speaker 2 (16:17):
Oh, please tell me that's not what you're doing.

Speaker 3 (16:18):
Hope not.

Speaker 2 (16:19):
It's the game master.

Speaker 3 (16:21):
What does that mean? My super asked me about the
jumping again when I saw him today. He remains eager
to act. He agreed with my new game plan to
wait for another large event to happen and then call
him to check on my dishwasher so you can intervene, right, yeah,
quote unquote dishwasher. So for now, the ways in which
the puzzle pieces of Ecstatic Dance compassionate passing, patio dirt, rituals,

(16:46):
and ceiling collapse connects will remain a mystery. Okay again,
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Speaker 5 (17:07):
Yeah, and I hope that the juice we're squeezing isn't
made out of people.

Speaker 2 (17:13):
Soilent, green juice.

Speaker 3 (17:15):
Spoilers, it's not people juice. Probably we don't want it
to be. No, No, I hope not
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