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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The theft of a golden throne, spirits that have two
words for you, invisible UFOs and good natured. April Fool's
Day pranks not meant to hurt anyone going horribly wrong.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Get comfortable, turn off the lights.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
It's Monthly Spooky. Hello, my spooks, and welcome back, because yes, indeed,
it is that time of the month and it's time
for Monthly Spooky. I'm, of course your host Enrique Kuto,

(00:40):
here with my good buddy and co host, the ever
ever imitable Michelle. Michelle, how are you?

Speaker 2 (00:50):
Oh no, oh.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
No, sorry, I didn't mean to start with the strong
questions I meant to start. I should have started easier
and then work my way up.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
Yeah, ask me about like I don't know sewer pipes
and stuff, not about how I'm doing.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
I mean, you know a lot about sewer pipes.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
I know some stuff about sewer pipes.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
Okay, I mean like when it comes to inspecting homes,
how much sewer inspection do you have to do?

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Well, it depends on what they want done, because I
mean I'm in a general normal inspection. I'm looking at
the exterior of the waistline for like cracks and things
like that, but then they can also get a sewer
scope and then I can look at all of the
inside parts of it. Yay, hooray, yay.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
Well I still like you. So for those who this
may somehow be your first time. Monthly Spooky is a
little kind of wrap up of the month talk show
where we look at some spooky news stories and we
talk about a topic that's you, usually in some way
related either to the past month or to the month

(02:04):
that's coming. And this month's topic is going to talk
a little bit about April Fools because I love a
good prank. I don't know about you. Do you like
a good prank?

Speaker 2 (02:15):
Not really?

Speaker 1 (02:16):
No, no, no, not even a little bit, not really
have you? Have you? Do you have any fond memories
of pranking or being pranked.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
My mom pranked me once, but I don't exactly remember why.
We were gonna she was gonna take me to the doctor.
But she was like, we're going to the doctor and
I was like why, I don't remember.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
That was the prank.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
It was something like that. I don't remember. It was
probably like six I don't remember, but it left an
elasting impact on my brain.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
Apparently my mom too had had this mindset that like
getting you to believe something that is in true counts
as a prank. Yeah, so just like lying to you.
But but the problem was she would she would do it,

(03:10):
and if you were skeptical, she would just explain away
the skepticism and then the moment you went, oh, well,
I guess that, I guess that could be true that
she's like, ah, I was, I didn't believe you, like
the entire time until the end.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
Well, well that's the point. It's got to go and
gas like you enough until you believe it.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
That's I mean, you know when you put it that way,
pretty solid. Yeah, well played. My mom and I used
to play pranks on each other all the time, so
but not April Fools related. We would just like like
one time I bit a Dracula like blood capsule that
I'd save from Halloween and said I fell off my
bike and I didn't I guess I didn't realize how

(03:55):
horrific it looked, because my mom like screamed bloody murder,
and then I felt really bad, and then she was
very angry because I guess, I guess I looked like
I had been really really really hurt. Yeah, so yeah,
we we kinda we over time, we kind of agreed

(04:16):
we had to scale that back. Our current agreement is
that we can play pranks on each other, but they
cannot be what was We agreed that they couldn't be premeditated,
Like we're not allowed to make because we because they
kept getting so they kept getting so involved and so whatever.
You know, So like if we're like having lunch and

(04:38):
I think of something funny, that's not considered breaking the
day taught. But you know, if a week earlier, I'm like,
you know, I'm going to order this thing on Amazon,
It's gonna fooler good, that would be breaking our our
agreement because we were getting we were getting just a
bit too too far. When I tell you my eighteenth birthday,
she told me I was adopted and yeah, and that

(05:02):
she would she would be happy to get me any
information she could find about my birth parents, which I
didn't believe because I look so much like my father.
I just didn't believe that one at all. But you know, mom,
Mom thought it was pretty funny. And then I struck
back with my girlfriends pregnant, and then that's when we

(05:22):
decided to that we had to ease off pranking each other. Yeah,
so that's you know, it's funny because when people meet
my mother, you've met my mother. When people meet my mother,
they're just like Often their statement is like she's so normal. Yeah,

(05:45):
spend an hour around her, and you'll be like, that's
his mom, that is his mom. It's without a doubt.
So my mom is awesome, but she's also hilarious and frustrating.

Speaker 2 (05:59):
That makes sense, I guess I don't know.

Speaker 1 (06:01):
Oh like me right, Yeah, there you go. You're like, yeah,
the part of it. Oh well, So, because April Fools
is coming up really fast, because this month's monthly spooky
is on the thirty first, so literally tomorrow is April
Fool's Day, I thought we would talk about twelve April

(06:23):
Fools pranks that went horribly wrong. Okay, so that'll be
our topic a little bit later, but we have a
whole lot of spooky news stories to get to first. Plus,
Michelle promised to tell us really interesting things. That was
all she said. She wasn't very specific, which made it
more exciting. I've also gotten the chance to see to

(06:47):
watch some kind of new horror movies. I've after months
and months of like toiling away pretty hard at work.
I've finally found some time to watch some movies and stuff,
so I have some of the that stuff to talk about.
It should be a pretty fun show as long as
Michelle doesn't, you know, let us down.

Speaker 2 (07:07):
I'm sorry, I've already let you down.

Speaker 1 (07:10):
That's always what you hope. Did I do it yet?
But we're gonna take a quick break and then we'll
be back talking all about the Spooky News right after
this and we are back Cell. Do you want to

(07:37):
do the honors?

Speaker 2 (07:41):
I don't remember.

Speaker 1 (07:43):
Oh, you don't remember? If you want to, ye, It's
time for the Spooky News, the Spooky News, And this
first story, of course, is from Cell. Do you want
to take this one?

Speaker 2 (08:03):
I don't know. I mean it's from the maritime going
on in UK.

Speaker 1 (08:07):
Indeed, and we actually had a write in over on
Patreon at Weeklyspooky dot com slash join, where folks support
the program and get two bonus shows every month. We
actually had a new patron who is from the United Kingdom,
and he said that he really got a kick out
of us picking on Mirror dot Code at UK, so

(08:28):
which I was happy to hear because actually I feel
like I'm a little too harsh on the Brits on
this show sometimes, But in my defense, I'm harsh on everybody.
It's just you guys speak English, so I'm getting exposed
to you the most compared to like France. I would
pick on France way more if their news sites were
in English, just saying I.

Speaker 2 (08:50):
Mean, you could just translate them.

Speaker 1 (08:51):
So they're in English, it's not nearly as funny.

Speaker 2 (08:55):
Fine.

Speaker 1 (08:56):
Plus then they could be like, well that was lost
in translation as to where with British if I'm like, nah, dog,
I can.

Speaker 2 (09:01):
Read this, yeah, but they use different phrases and things.

Speaker 1 (09:07):
Maybe uh maybe. But this article, the headline is the
evil ghosts in our haunted home have stopped us from
having children.

Speaker 2 (09:22):
That was so close to what I thought you were
gonna say.

Speaker 1 (09:25):
Yeah, what did you think it was gonna say?

Speaker 2 (09:29):
Having sex?

Speaker 1 (09:30):
So? Oh yeah, what is with? Why are you? Why
is your brain in the gutter shell? What I was right?

Speaker 2 (09:39):
Basically, except I don't know if there's having sex or not,
but they're not having kids.

Speaker 1 (09:44):
No, you I feel like Banana Fish has changed you. No,
I feel like I feel like that anime has has
changed you. No, You're not quite the person I used
to know. Oh no, but uh the the headline also
said it's worse when I'm alone. Oh okay, sure boy,

(10:08):
you don't like this the seo gobbledegook that is that title?

Speaker 2 (10:13):
Yeah, because now I'm confused.

Speaker 1 (10:16):
I think they are too.

Speaker 2 (10:17):
Because like if if they have kids, they'll be alone less.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
Man. That's been such a solid argument for so many
bad marriages. All right. So Natasha and Ross were like
any other new homeowner and excited to move into their property,
a four bed terraced house in Obon, Scotland, with plans

(10:50):
to make the nineteen eighties property their new family home
and a place to raise children. They could never have
imagined what would happen next nineteen eight property. I I
just always assume everything's much older, uh huh, in like
Scotland in the UK, you know, Scotland, England. I always
assume it's like it's like it's like, uh oh, that's

(11:11):
the corner store. I really like to use the bathroom
hat it was built in fifteen twenty six, you know.
Like that's the way I feel. I mean that's kind
how I feel in New England too, Like because in Ohio,
we don't have a ton of stuff that's more than
like seventy years old. Yeah, for the most part. So yeah,
it'll be like it'll be like, oh, yeah, you should
go get a water ice over there. It's been there
since the frigging Pilgrims, you know. Yeah, yeah what this,

(11:35):
Yeah we built that in seventeen oh four.

Speaker 2 (11:37):
I'm like, what, Yeah, we didn't have refrigeration back then,
but we figured it out.

Speaker 1 (11:42):
We figured it out.

Speaker 2 (11:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (11:43):
So but uh yeah, so I'm just kind of surprised
that not only is this a haunted property, but it
was built in the nineteen eighties, so kind of interesting.
It's like, ooh, I am the ghost of the Cold War.
Scary Yeah, well, I mean I would call the ghost

(12:05):
of the Cold War Vladimir Putin at this point, so
he's as scary as he is funny. I love those
photoshops of him without a shirt on, like riding a
bear and stuff. Yeah, that's good stuff. I like any
photoshop that I know is illegal somewhere that makes it great. Like, okay,
like all the comparisons of Jijingping to Winnie the Pooh

(12:27):
h have you heard about that?

Speaker 2 (12:29):
I've heard about it.

Speaker 1 (12:31):
I guess that straight up people call the president of
China Winnie the Pooh, So they like ban Winnie the
Pooh media in China because people will like promote it
as a form of protest, like subversive protest.

Speaker 2 (12:46):
Hmm, that's interesting, it is.

Speaker 1 (12:50):
And honestly they're so like I get it. If he
was being compared to Eyore, that's when I'd be mad.

Speaker 2 (12:58):
I would be okay with being compared to eat.

Speaker 1 (13:00):
Or we know, but thank goodness, you're not the leader
of the largest communist nation in the world. Yeah, oh, buddy,
I'm sorry. Maybe someday.

Speaker 2 (13:14):
No, it's okay. I know it's not gonna happen.

Speaker 1 (13:16):
Oh now I feel like a real heel uh. Back
to the story. Experiencing constant thuds, waking up with random bruises,
and smoke alarms going off unprompted. The couple's home has
become inhabited by evil spirits who haunt and torment them regularly.

Speaker 2 (13:41):
They know they can get new smoke alarms when their
smoke alarms go bad. Right, you're supposed to them every
ten years.

Speaker 1 (13:47):
Oh gosh, oh man, my smoke alarm's way older than
ten years old.

Speaker 2 (13:51):
Change it. What were you going to say, though, Oh?

Speaker 1 (13:54):
I was gonna say, maybe you have to pay a
license to have a new smoke alarm, so they're like,
we can't afford new smoke alarms or they won't allow
us to. What if the smoke alarms are deemed historically
and culturally relevant so they can't replace.

Speaker 2 (14:07):
Them, It's possible they should get new ones too, and
then just disconnect those.

Speaker 1 (14:15):
The worst part is I'm picking on them, but I
don't even know if they do the historically and culturally
relevant crap as bad as we do it here. Yeah,
but I love that it'll be like we've deemed this
place historically and culturally relevant. It's like it was built
nineteen seventy four.

Speaker 2 (14:27):
Yeah, that was a while ago.

Speaker 1 (14:29):
It wasn't hot minute ago. I don't want to talk
about my own I don't want to talk about mortality
right now. Yeah. Quote, my independence is completely gone. I
can't even be alone in my own home. A dejected
Natasha said, I just feel like it wants everyone to
leave me on my own because it's more active when
I am alone, and I feel like it's just trying

(14:52):
to get to me mentally. Oh that's sad. Yeah, that
has really said. Ross hasn't escaped the clutches of evil,
either suffering in his sleep and seeing physical signs on
his body. Quote. I worry that there is something evil here.
In recent days, I've been having violent dreams, disturbing visions

(15:17):
of fire. It's getting invasive. Now I found unexplained bruises
on myself. Now I'm starting to think it is about
the smoke alarms. Do you think the ghosts are trying
to tell them to get a new smoke alarm?

Speaker 2 (15:28):
Yeah, they're like, guys, guys, you get it die, you
need to update these.

Speaker 1 (15:34):
I wonder if I do. I do you know if
it's different. If your smoke detector is like what mine
was installed by my security company.

Speaker 2 (15:43):
It might be different.

Speaker 1 (15:44):
So it's like wired. It has a battery backup, but
it's wired as well.

Speaker 2 (15:49):
I don't know about hardwired ones. I just heard that
you're supposed to You're supposed to replace them every ten years.

Speaker 1 (15:55):
Hmm. I'm gonna have to look into that. I know
it works because I I no joke, I'll have six
people smoking cigars in my living room, no smoke alarm,
brown one chicken breast, and yeah, I do have I
do have filtration, for the record, like I have, I

(16:16):
have air filters throughout the house that to keep the
smoke down, so that probably has something to do with it.
But I also want to show you this couple. They
don't even look insane. They look pretty normal.

Speaker 2 (16:28):
I mean, I guess I don't know what insane people
look like. They look stad is what they are.

Speaker 1 (16:34):
Yeah, they do. And the husband is slightly out of focus.

Speaker 2 (16:38):
Yes, because the ghosts are over him. But I did
want to say though, that everything he said is just
not a big deal, Like, wow, I'm sorry. I have
really scary violent dreams. Sometimes I have bruises that I
don't know where they came from. There's probably another thing,
but I can't remember what it was.

Speaker 1 (17:01):
Yeah, but we all, myself and all the listeners of
the show already are pretty certain that you're haunted and
know it. Because of the whole thing where you freaked
out about the idea of a recorder near where you sleep.
We were all like, oh, yeah, she knows, we'll find something.
She knows. No, there's no doubt there. Well, we're going

(17:23):
to take a quick break and then we'll find out
more about why these ghosts are keeping these two from
making the beast with two backs and a baby. Right,
and we are back trying to find out why these

(17:46):
ghosts won't allow this uh married couple to start a family. Hmmm.
The torment has so unsettled the couple that they have
even paused their plans to start a family. Quote. We
had all these hopes of building a family here and
having lots of little children running around, said Natasha. I

(18:10):
can't imagine them running up and down the stairs. Or
I can imagine them running up and down the stairs.
But a house like this as it stands, that's not safety,
that's not comfort. I can't put a child there, ross.

Speaker 2 (18:22):
Feared to be fair. Kids running up and down the
stairs just isn't safety anywhere.

Speaker 1 (18:30):
Well, the trick is you hand them a pair of
scissors so they understand that the stakes are high.

Speaker 2 (18:35):
Yeah, they gotta be careful exactly scissors.

Speaker 1 (18:38):
Yeah yeah, yeah, they're like, oh, I better be careful.
I don't want to get shishka bobbed.

Speaker 2 (18:42):
Yeah, gotta run up and down the stairs. Well, I'm
making sure to hold the banister.

Speaker 1 (18:48):
Quote. Giving up the home or not having children is heartbreaking.
The team is our last hope, a desperate Natasha pleaded.
The team in question is a set of paranormal investigators
Guy Ian Lawman and Jane Harris from the brand new
series Help My House is Haunted. Scottish couple Natasha and

(19:09):
Ross desperately need the ghostbusting trio to cleanse their home
so that they can move forward with their lives and
begin to raise a family.

Speaker 2 (19:16):
I think I know that show.

Speaker 1 (19:18):
It's a commercial, a lot of these turnaments. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (19:23):
Thanks.

Speaker 1 (19:24):
I I do have to say though, like I I think, Shellie,
maybe you have insight because you're a little bit more
sentimental about houses than I am. Granted I have only
ever owned one, so it's not like I'm just flagrantly,
you know, disregarding homes or whatever. I do love my house.

(19:44):
It's just, you know, if I could easily afford a
bigger place, I would, but it's not worth the effort
it would take to get a bigger place for me.

Speaker 2 (19:52):
Yeah, you don't have like dreams about that. You move
and then you think that that's the worst decision you've
ever made. Apparently.

Speaker 1 (19:58):
Hmmm, No, No, I don't.

Speaker 2 (20:01):
They're rough. They're really rough.

Speaker 1 (20:03):
I would kill to have your space. I would love
to have your your house, your size. Just the ceilings,
the tall ceilings alone are so nice. You have really
nice tall ceilings.

Speaker 2 (20:14):
I mean I have pretty standard ceilings for out here. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (20:18):
How tall are your ceilings?

Speaker 2 (20:20):
I think they're eight feet man?

Speaker 1 (20:22):
Yeah, mine are like seven. Maybe it's probably a little
bit more than seven. But I can like jump and
touch my ceiling just barely. And I'm five foot eight,
so I'm not like super tall. I just if I
had if I had a if my ceilings were a
foot taller, I'd be so happy.

Speaker 2 (20:38):
Okay, we could do that.

Speaker 1 (20:41):
I've looked into it. It's not actually.

Speaker 2 (20:43):
Easy to do. I mean it's possible. You just have
to move everything up. Everything everything, Yeah, including the roof,
maybe because of where the joys are.

Speaker 1 (20:54):
But I guess if you only if you if you
only expanded it up once the roof was slant allowed it,
then you wouldn't have to affect the roof like you'd
have to, like it would just be in the middle
of toward the middle. It would just be higher. Or
you could do it at a slant. That'd be cool.

Speaker 2 (21:09):
You could do like a cathedral ceiling. There you go.

Speaker 1 (21:11):
Yeah, see problem problem not even vaguely solved. I just
need twenty eight thousand dollars to do it. Probably more.

Speaker 2 (21:19):
Yeah, because you have to redo every Yeah the big deal.

Speaker 1 (21:22):
Yeah yeah, yeah, But I just uh the quote where
they said where they said giving up the home or
not having children is heartbreaking. I if having a family
was important to me, I feel like I would not
be like, oh, it's heartbreaking to give up the home.

(21:43):
I'd be like, no, I want to have children. I
will find another home.

Speaker 2 (21:47):
Well, I mean the home is making them totally upsets
all the time. It is not a happy, safe space
for them. So I don't understand why they'd be upset
not to have it, Like it's a house they could
probably afford to, say, and buy another house. It's probably
what they should do.

Speaker 1 (22:04):
I am of the belief often when I read these
kinds of stories that there's an ulterior motive, like they're
trying to get out of People are often trying to
get out of leases or loans that they can't afford.

Speaker 2 (22:18):
I don't think that. I don't think ghosts are going
to work like that. I don't think you can.

Speaker 1 (22:22):
I think I didn't say it was a good idea.
If anything, I was saying it's the stupidest idea. It's
like it's like an act of total desperation. I mean,
that's kind of what caused The Amityville Horror to be written,
was they couldn't really afford the house.

Speaker 2 (22:37):
So they were like, let's write a book.

Speaker 1 (22:40):
Well no, they they they concocted a ghost story thing
to try to get out of living in the house, right,
and then a book was written based on it, and
they made tons and tons of money.

Speaker 2 (22:53):
I feel really bad for that house, like really bad. Oh,
somebody lives there, yeah, but it's just it's I'm so
misunderstood and villainized, and I just feel bad for it.

Speaker 1 (23:05):
I mean not really, I mean nope, it didn't sit
empty for long at all. Just saying, Okay, like the
family who lived there briefly in nineteen seventy five, Uh,
they're the ones the book was written about. It's the
address is one oh eight Ocean Avenue in Amityville, New York,

(23:31):
and it's been sold multiple times. In twenty seventeen, it
was sold for six hundred and five thousand dollars.

Speaker 2 (23:38):
That's so cheap. Uh that in twenty seventeen, I feel
like it is for like a famous house.

Speaker 1 (23:48):
Well it's famous for being haunted, So I don't think
that helps now, you got me wondering. Thanks, So I
don't know. Well, we're going to take a quick break
and then and then we'll So now I'm thinking about
Amityville real estate, which is just why of course I would.

Speaker 2 (24:12):
Yeah, yeah, don't you need to know?

Speaker 1 (24:15):
I mean I kind of want to know.

Speaker 2 (24:17):
I mean, maybe six hundred thousand is fair.

Speaker 1 (24:19):
I don't know, Well, in twenty seven or in twenty seventeen,
I'm sure it's worth million now at least Amityville house
sales history. Yeah, it just sold in twenty twenty three
for one point four to six million.

Speaker 2 (24:34):
Okay, all right, then I'll give them that.

Speaker 1 (24:36):
Oh, which was two hundred and forty thousand dollars less
than asking. The I feel like once houses are over
a million, the whole like asking thing is ridiculous. I mean,
like the way, like it just doesn't make sense, the
way it like, you know, it's like, yeah, we took
two hundred thousand off. It's like yeah, but it was
still one point four million dollars.

Speaker 2 (24:56):
You know, think about how many thousands that is. But
you could buy a whole other house with that bunny
that I.

Speaker 1 (25:03):
Mean, in another place. Yeah. Oh yeah, So here here's
a somewhat detailed breakdown. The house was foreclosed on in
nineteen seventy seven after the let's is left. It was
then it then sold to a guy named James Cromarty
who lived there for ten years. Then in nineteen ninety

(25:25):
seven it was sold for three hundred and ten thousand dollars.
Twenty ten, it was sold for one point one five million.
Twenty sixteen it was sold. It was put on the
market for eight fifty and sold for six oh five.

Speaker 2 (25:40):
That's really interesting though, because wait, when did you say
it sold for one point.

Speaker 1 (25:46):
Five in twenty twenty three? Very recently?

Speaker 2 (25:50):
Oh no, no, like before that. The one before the.

Speaker 1 (25:54):
Oh to twenty ten was when it sold or was
listed at one point one five, But it sold for eight.

Speaker 2 (25:59):
Fifty, so it's still really in.

Speaker 1 (26:02):
Yeah, yeah, sorry. It's really interesting.

Speaker 2 (26:04):
That the price went down that much in twenty seventeen
because there wasn't really anything going on in the market
over there. Twenty ten was right after the collapse of everything,
so that should have been the low one. So I
do think six hundred thousand was low.

Speaker 1 (26:18):
Yeah, that does sound a bit low, but it also
sat for a really long time and we don't know
anything about Amityville, New York.

Speaker 2 (26:25):
It's really nice, I believe.

Speaker 1 (26:27):
I'm sure it's very nice. I'm just saying, like, for
all we know, like you know, houses were overvalued there
for a long time or something possible. Well, great, now
we went down a rabbit hole. We're going to take
a quick break, and when we get back, we're going
to talk about the story. Right after this, we have returned,

(26:55):
continuing our spooky news story. And apparently the Scottish cup
who are struggling to have or to with the desire
to have children in their newly haunted house, are going
to rely on a team from some new television show.
Yeah that Michelle might be watching actively.

Speaker 2 (27:13):
I'm not right now because but in fast maybe hmmm.

Speaker 1 (27:17):
Well it says brand new series Help my House is Haunted.

Speaker 2 (27:20):
Mmm. I feel like I've seen it though, but I
don't know because normally when it comes on, I fall asleep.

Speaker 1 (27:26):
So ouch, there we go, because this article is from
like three days ago.

Speaker 2 (27:31):
Oh okay, well maybe it's so, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (27:36):
In shocking footage captured by Help my House's Haunted team,
whilst they attempted to connect with the menacing spirit, Bari
gets stabbed with three drawing pins in the back of
his leg. What what is a drawing pin?

Speaker 2 (27:53):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (27:55):
Do they mean drawing pen?

Speaker 2 (27:57):
No? I think they mean pin?

Speaker 1 (28:01):
I oh no, I wasn't ready for this. What is
a drawing pin? Oh? It's like a pushpin?

Speaker 2 (28:09):
Oh? How does does he sit on them? Or was
did they just it?

Speaker 1 (28:15):
Says, back of his leg?

Speaker 2 (28:17):
So could be could be sat down on them?

Speaker 1 (28:21):
Well, this is where it gets worse. Barry gets or
Bari gets stabbed with three drawing pins in the back
of his leg, which he declares as quote the weirdest
thing that's ever happened to me. Well that he has
a very easy life really. After the team arrived at
the property and began to carry out their investigations, they
turned to their alice box in an attempt to communicate

(28:43):
with any lurking presence. To the team's surprise, the entity
immediately fires a warning shot to them by setting off
the smoke alarm in the house. Mmmmm, there's a lot
of reference to fire. Hm hmmm, I think quote, I
think this is a warning. We need to be careful,

(29:03):
says a weary Ian. A wary Ian, alerting the others.
Jane makes an interesting symbolic connection between Natasha and setting
off the smoke alarm quote, do you know what's weird though,
this kind of connection between the dreams you've been having
about fire. It's almost as if the smoke alarm going off,
it's trying to trigger your worst fears. It's trying to

(29:26):
intimidate you. She explains, that is the worst interpretation.

Speaker 2 (29:31):
I mean, my interpretation is smoke alarm goes off a lot,
thinking about all the lot have dreams about fire.

Speaker 1 (29:37):
But I think she's claiming that she had dreams about
fire first, which maybe maybe My point is, if I
was going to put on my creative Charlatan hat on this,
m h, I wouldn't assume that it's trying to make
you upset, because, like, first of all, that means that
the thing is knowing what you're dreaming.

Speaker 2 (29:57):
Mm hmmm.

Speaker 1 (29:58):
If it's gonna know what you're dreaming, why not go
all the way and say it's giving you fire dreams
right right? Because to me, my first thought was, oh,
it sounds like the narrative is going to be that
whatever is haunting this place died through fire.

Speaker 2 (30:15):
Yeah, and it's trying to communicate.

Speaker 1 (30:17):
It yeah, which I've always liked the idea of like
that the dead are just like man. I just wish
they're like us. They just wish someone would listen. Yeah,
I just want to tell you what happened, man, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (30:27):
It was really bad. I just want to talk about it.

Speaker 1 (30:30):
Except I do want to talk about it like all
the time. Actually, it's all I ever talked about. I
have no friends all the all the of old age
ghosts are just like, dude, come on, just all you do.

Speaker 2 (30:45):
It's hard.

Speaker 1 (30:47):
Oh. Natasha agreed that she quote dreams about house fires
all the time. M do you dream? Have you ever
dreamt about a house fire?

Speaker 2 (30:57):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (30:58):
Yikes, that must have been scary.

Speaker 2 (31:00):
Yeah, I mean I don't really, I know I have,
like I can't exactly remember offhand.

Speaker 1 (31:05):
But sure I might have once. I don't know. I
don't have recurring dreams. Really, I barely remember my dreams.

Speaker 2 (31:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (31:14):
So Natasha has been the most affected by the paranormal
activity in the house, so the team decides the best
way to confront any entity is via an ESTs experiment,
which involves Natasha wearing noise canceling headphones to hear and
verbally repeat the responses of the spirit. Despite being unable
to hear the questions that Jane is posing. Who are you?

(31:40):
Jane calls out, which is met with a response of
laughter from Natasha on behalf of the entity.

Speaker 2 (31:45):
Wait, what it's supposed to be talking through her? But
technically she shouldn't be able to hear what the questions are,
but the entity should be able to hear what the
questions are because the ntiity isn't her, but it is
talking through her, so this it can answer.

Speaker 1 (32:02):
This is stupid, But what if it works? I mean,
what if it works? It's just I like, does Natasha
not find it weird that she's answering questioned? Like I
didn't feel like she had mentioned she was possessed before
and now it sounds like she's possessed.

Speaker 2 (32:21):
Well, it seems like andites could just do this, Like
that's just what they do, not like totally possessed, but
like give suggestions to the person so they know what
to say.

Speaker 1 (32:32):
See, because for my my thought process would be like
the only reason even bring in the headphones to cancel
out her ability to hear would be to prove to
disprove that it's fake, and no one's saying it's fake,
Like we haven't even gotten to the part where somebody
says like, oh, she's just pretending.

Speaker 2 (32:48):
See what I've seen other ghost hunters do is use
kind of a similar method, but with a spirit box.
So you know, it's scanning the radio freaking sies and
things are coming through. So you have one person listening
to that just that with noise canceling headphones, so they
can't hear what the questions are, and so someone else
asking the questions and they can only hear what the

(33:08):
spirit box is saying, so they're interpreting it. And then
you have them saying things, but they don't know what
they're answering to, so whatever they say isn't being influenced.

Speaker 1 (33:17):
Oh so they're hearing something like actively and repeating it.

Speaker 2 (33:23):
Yeah, well, in that specific method, right, and I'm talking
about in this one, it sounds like they're just putting
headphones on, like noise canceling headphones. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (33:31):
Well, it says wearing noise canceling headphones to hear and
verbally repeat the responses of the spirit So I think
they're doing the same thing. It's just not described very well.

Speaker 2 (33:38):
It could be, but I've also seen people do it
without the spirit box. And I never really understood what
that was supposed to. Yeah, yeah, fair enough.

Speaker 1 (33:49):
Uh quote do you think this is amusing? She asks?
Shush it responds it's growling. Natasha tells Jane, why do
you growl? Are you trying to scare yes. Jane continues
to ask further questions, getting immediate intelligent responses despite Natasha
not being able to hear. Jane quote, oh my god,

(34:09):
this is amazing, guys, this is absolutely incredible. There's no
way on earth Natasha can hear my questions and the
responses are bang on. This thing is speaking and amazed,
Jane says on the radio to the team, get out.
Natasha worryingly communicates for the entity, followed by the word evil.

(34:31):
I they should do that experiment with me. I'd have
a great time. Get out, evil missionary sex what what
just answer? The weirdest things? That estes experiment was mind blowing,
But it has confirmed that we are dealing with something
very dark, Bari said, concerned later that evening, Natasha and

(34:54):
Ross leave the team to continue investigating through the night.
Whilst they're calling out to the spirits. One of the
most shocked moments and help my house's haunted history occurs.
Maybe this was a new episode and not a new show. Yeah,
they need a copy editor so bad. As the team
are trying to decipher what the entity is communicating to them,

(35:16):
Bari is stabbed with three sharp drawing pins into the
back of his leg. What the fuck is that? Something
just stabbed me? Something just stabbed me in the back
of my leg. Am I bleeding? How the hell where
did they come from? Sorry, I'm just freaked out. That's
the weirdest thing that's ever happened to me, said Bari,
horrified and confused. I got horrified and confused from that reading.

(35:36):
I do love startled people being transcribed. Yeah, it's pretty good.
The antics continue as the team move into the bedroom,
as Jane feels something beneath the bed grab at her
foot and try to pull her under. Quote. That's totally
just freaked me out. Something's just reached from my ankle
and I'm not even joking, A disturbed Jane relays, does

(35:57):
she usually joke?

Speaker 2 (35:58):
That's what I was wondering? Sometimes sometimes she's lying? Basically so.

Speaker 1 (36:05):
Will The team succeed in ridding Natasha and Ross's property
of the malevolent forces, allowing them to feel comfortable enough
to start a family in their home. So that's it ended. Apparently,
you know, nah, I'll give them, I'll let them have
the plug. Apparently this this show is exclusively on Discovery Plus.

Speaker 2 (36:26):
Well that's why I know, because I saw it on
the Travel Channel sometimes.

Speaker 1 (36:30):
Ah it says March six is when it comes out.
So and this article is on the twenty fifth of March.

Speaker 2 (36:35):
Okay, I mean I assume just the earlier seasons were
on the Travel Channel.

Speaker 1 (36:39):
Yeah, probably probably so, but we'll have to decide. We'll
have to figure out that mystery and several others after
this short break and we're back. Michelle, I have a
question for you. When was the last time you went

(37:02):
to the library?

Speaker 2 (37:08):
Uh? Which month is it? February twenty second?

Speaker 1 (37:14):
Oh? Was that that library in New York? Yeah, when
you were touring banana fish locations from the anime, You're like, wow,
this place was drawn in the anime too, and this
place was drawn, but you didn't go in because you
were because you made the mistake of saying you were
you were there to to tour it.

Speaker 2 (37:34):
No, we went in and I didn't say tour. They said,
what are you doing? Are you visiting? And we said yes,
and that was enough, and we did go in because
they had a tour at three o'clock and it was
two forty five, so we just waited and then we
went in and we stared at it.

Speaker 1 (37:51):
It was really weird. So so you count touring a
library as the same as going to a library, if.

Speaker 2 (37:57):
By going you mean going in a line library, Yes,
I do.

Speaker 1 (38:03):
Okay, geez, okay, Well I do not even remember the
last time I went to a library. I like much better.
Nothing against libraries, I just don't. I don't go. When
I was a kid, we used to rent movies pretty
much exclusively from the library because it was free. I
remember renting VHS tapes like crazy. But have you ever

(38:25):
had a like embarrassingly overdue book?

Speaker 2 (38:31):
I don't know. I don't think so. Sorry never, I
don't remember.

Speaker 1 (38:38):
Look at you. Well, somebody in Detroit has made has
gotten very lucky because on this Huffington Post article, the
headline is Detroit Area Library, let's man keep baseball book
fifty years overdue?

Speaker 2 (38:55):
Wow, fifty years. I would assume after that, after like
a couple years, they've just goneah, we're never getting back,
and they'd get rid of it. In the system.

Speaker 1 (39:08):
But yeah, you'd think. I mean, my first though would
be is that book worth anything now? Because it's fifty
years old? So U Fifty years later, a man who
grew up in suburban Detroit tried to return a very
overdue baseball book to his boyhood library. The answer, you

(39:29):
can keep it and no fine. A. Chuck Hildebrandt, sixty three,
of Chicago, said he visited the public library in Warren
while in town for Thanksgiving, carrying a book titled Baseball's
Zaniest Stars. He had borrowed it in nineteen seventy four

(39:51):
as a thirteen year old baseball nut, but never returned it.

Speaker 2 (39:55):
Wow, he stole quote what he stole?

Speaker 1 (40:00):
He stole it?

Speaker 2 (40:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (40:02):
Quote. When you're moving with a bunch of books, you're
not examining every book. You throw them in a box
and go, said Hildebrandt, who has lived in many cities,
avoiding many libraries. Perhaps I don't know, maybe that's why
he has this transient lifestyle. Yeah, the libraries are like
they sent him a letter and says like, we know

(40:22):
what you're doing. And he's like, well, gotta move to Detroit,
got to move to gotta move to eerie. Quote. But
five or six years ago, I was going through the
bookshelf and there was a Dewey decimal library number on
the book. What is this? Inside the book was a
slip of paper indicating that it was due back at
the Warren Library on December fourth, nineteen seventy four. Hildebrandt

(40:45):
told the Associated Press that he decided to keep the
book until twenty twenty four, the fiftieth anniversus, and then
try to return it. He figured the library might want
to publicize the law long overdue exchange. Wow, so he
thought it would be good. I guess he thought it'd

(41:06):
be good publicity from the library. Well, all this is
doing is promoting him. Yeah, I'm that guy who is
not worth trusting.

Speaker 2 (41:16):
What yeah? I mean I was gonna say I thought
he was promoting himself.

Speaker 1 (41:20):
Yeah, yeah, thieving bastard. He said he recently met library
director Oxana Urban, who listened to his pitch. Hildebrandt said
he hasn't heard anything since then, though, Urban told the
Detroit Free Press that all is forgiven. Quote. Some people

(41:40):
never come back to face the music, she said of
patrons with overdue books. But there was really no music
to face because he and the book were erased from
our system.

Speaker 2 (41:50):
Yeah yeah, Now it.

Speaker 1 (41:52):
Sounds like they're not playing along at all. It sounds
like they're just annoyed that he contacted them.

Speaker 2 (41:58):
Yeah. Yeah, fifty years on the anniversary. Common they have
any other.

Speaker 1 (42:03):
Things to do at least He was like, how about
we make this fun? Mmm, I'm just saying for him,
Well sure, I'm just saying. Her response of like, you know,
there was no music to face this, not on our system.
Who cares. It's like you could have said, like something
funny about like we appreciate his desire to make it right,

(42:23):
you know, or something. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (42:26):
It's it's not on that librarian to make the story.

Speaker 1 (42:33):
Well, now you're gonna feel bad because he did something
maybe nice. So Baseball's Zanious Stars is back on Hildebrandt's shelf.
In return, he's now trying to raise four thousand, five
hundred and sixty four dollars for Reading is Fundamental, a
nonprofit literacy group. The amount roughly represents a fifty year
overdue library fine.

Speaker 2 (42:57):
So he's making other people fun his his his overdue
library book fund.

Speaker 1 (43:05):
Hildebrandt is seating the effort with four hundred and fifty
seven dollars, that was the next sentence. So he put
in four hundred and fifty seven dollars.

Speaker 2 (43:12):
Wow, four hundred and fifty seven dollars.

Speaker 1 (43:15):
I think he thought they were going to charge him,
and he was willing to pay it as like a
good deed, like paying a library.

Speaker 2 (43:25):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (43:26):
But now in the library is like, we don't care,
go away.

Speaker 2 (43:29):
Yeah, and he was like, okay, I'll get other people
to pay it.

Speaker 1 (43:32):
Then, I mean, does it still not help?

Speaker 2 (43:36):
I mean.

Speaker 1 (43:39):
Yes, as of this recording, he's raised five three hundred
and forty five dollars okay for charity.

Speaker 2 (43:47):
Well that's nice.

Speaker 1 (43:50):
So I'm sorry that you hate that he wanted to help. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (43:55):
Yeah, it made this all about him.

Speaker 1 (43:58):
I mean it sounds like he was trying not to
make it about him, and that the response the library
gave him made him just go, okay, I guess I'll
just make this a news story to raise money instead
of being a news story to help the library. Perhaps,
I mean, maybe what do you have against this guy?
Did you work at a library and he borrowed a

(44:18):
book from you?

Speaker 2 (44:20):
You could tell me no, but I did know. But
I did have a librarian that told me like the
saddest story about this guy, and she got fired and
I just don't I just don't like him. You don't
wait fifty years to return something.

Speaker 1 (44:37):
No, wow, fair enough.

Speaker 2 (44:41):
And I don't even know what happened to that librarian.
I don't know if she's.

Speaker 1 (44:44):
Okay, probably long dead.

Speaker 2 (44:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (44:49):
Well, on that dark note, we're gonna take break and
be back with more spooky news right after this, we
are back with another story from Mirror dot co dot UK.

(45:11):
The headline reads, ghost hunters startled as spirit confronts them
with rude two word phrase.

Speaker 2 (45:19):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (45:23):
Do you do you know what it is?

Speaker 2 (45:26):
I mean I would just assume like it's like fuck
you or wow?

Speaker 1 (45:32):
What what were they? What were your guesses?

Speaker 2 (45:35):
They both for fuck and then another word.

Speaker 1 (45:40):
Okay, I can accept that that it's just fuck and
another word of your choosing, you know, yeah, I hm
hm uh uh, holy shit.

Speaker 2 (45:59):
Now that's not rude.

Speaker 1 (46:01):
No, it's not. Well, we'll find out at least you
put your guests in. Well, you took the best guesses
because fuck you and fuck off you got both.

Speaker 2 (46:13):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (46:15):
So I'm trying to think of like a rude to
word phrase.

Speaker 2 (46:21):
What about shut up shut Oh.

Speaker 1 (46:23):
That is rude. I was I've been watching a lot
of documentaries about nineties wrestling, so I was like, what
about suck it?

Speaker 2 (46:30):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (46:31):
The catchphrase? If ever, there was a perfect example of
like late nineties, early two thousands. It was like, yeah,
the number one show on TV, one of the main
characters had a catchphrase and it was suck it. That
is that is like in a nutshell the world we
grew up in. Yeah, I remember a classmate, uh did

(46:53):
a the degeneration X crotch chop from WWF and said
suck it to a teacher and he got suspended. Oh
simpler times. Yeah. A pair of ghost hunters were horrified
after visiting an abandoned graveyard recently and claimed a spirit

(47:15):
issued a rude two word phrase to them. So, I mean,
I guess a graveyard could be abandoned because we've went
to one.

Speaker 2 (47:23):
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 1 (47:26):
It just feels weird to call a graveyard abandoned when
mostly it's dead people that live there. But there is
a lot of maintenance at a graveyard.

Speaker 2 (47:32):
Yeah, people own it.

Speaker 1 (47:34):
So Paul, cow madow, cow medow, cow meadow. It literally
is cow meadow. Is how it's spelled huh. Paul cow
Medow Meadow Meadow Medow forty eight and Ed Francis fifty
one own own Gloucester Paranormal Investigation Services or GPIS, and

(47:55):
are well known for their spooky adventures across the United Kingdom.
The duo, who bonded over their love of all things paranormal,
decided seven years ago to start planning investigations. Now they
spent their time. They spend their time exploring old farmhouses,
abandoned buildings, graveyards, railways and churches. On one occasion, they

(48:18):
visited Horton Road Cemetery in their home county of Gloucester, Gloucester, Gloucestershire.

Speaker 2 (48:24):
There we go, I wonder if it's Gloucestershire.

Speaker 1 (48:27):
It's probably Gloucestershire. It's worcestershar sauce.

Speaker 2 (48:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (48:32):
I make Rachel enraged because she can't say Worster shehar sauce.
Can you say Worcester shehar.

Speaker 2 (48:40):
Sauce, Worcester sauce.

Speaker 1 (48:42):
Yeah, yeah, I don't find it difficult No, and have
shared their disturbing encounter. The duo claim, while carrying out
their investigation at ten pm ah Man that a spirit
told them to quote drum roll, eat shit.

Speaker 2 (49:04):
Oh man, why didn't we get that?

Speaker 1 (49:06):
I know, I'm so disappointed. I really I figured you
nailed it. That's why I was like, I don't know, like,
eat shit, that's perfect. Yeah, what a rude ghost.

Speaker 2 (49:20):
And then you have to say no, I don't like to.

Speaker 1 (49:23):
I'd prefer not, Paul said quote. The graveyard is said
to be part of the now abandoned Horton Road Mental Hospital,
and patients from the asylum are believed to be buried there.
It has since been left to overgrow and hidden away.
Even though the public walk by it every day, nobody

(49:44):
really sees it. The cemetery is also well known for
being haunted. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, probably, yeah, I don't know. Yeah,
did I tell you. There's this YouTube channel I've been
following called Dime Store Adventures. Maybe they're a smaller I mean,

(50:08):
they're not like a tiny channel, but they're not like
a giant channel. He has like ninety thousand subscribers, and
it's this guy who lives in New England and he
just investigates New England weirdness and there's so much Oh okay,
I just want to throw that out there. It's called
Dime Store Adventures. It's really fun. And the reason I

(50:29):
thought of it was he went to a cemetery at
a former mental hospital where none of the graves are labeled,
like they all have numbers, no names, and he found
the document with the names and causes of death on it. Wow,
And he went around on video, you know, just like
standing in front of graves with the most interesting deaths,

(50:54):
you know, or the most interesting backstories. And that's another
thing he does a lot, is like finds interesting grave
markers and things like that. He did a exploration of
all the stone walls that are randomly all over New England.

Speaker 2 (51:08):
That's what you told me about.

Speaker 1 (51:09):
Yeah, yeah, it's really interesting. So I just want to
mention that because that made me think of it because
of a mental hospital cemetery. So as if that's not
as if a cemetery isn't creepy enough, and a mental
hospital isn't creepy enough, the cemetery.

Speaker 2 (51:20):
Of one, I just think it's sad.

Speaker 1 (51:23):
I mean it's sad too. That's what makes it scary.
I mean, I see, that's why it's creepy out. It
creeps me out, is because it's sad. Speaking about what
it was like the ghost hunter added quote, as we
entered the graveyard, the atmosphere completely changed. It became carbon monoxide.
Now no, even though there's a road in a public

(51:46):
path on the other side of the wall, it felt
almost like we were somewhere else. The overgrown look of
the place certainly made it look and feel creepy. There
was certainly an eerie feeling in the air, and the
pair felt like they were not alone. Paul explained, quote,
we felt like we weren't alone, like we were phenomenal

(52:09):
phenomenal journalism, like we were being watched, which is what
we managed to confirm during our investigations there with the
responses that we received through our equipment. I just want
to mention that reminds me of those those movie trailers
where it's like he he, he lived by his own rules.
I live by my own rules, you know. Quote. While

(52:30):
moving around the graveyard, a spirit asked a question through
the Spirit Talker app, asking am I dead? I love
that it's an app spirits can do you can deal
with apps?

Speaker 2 (52:41):
Yeah, yeah, because they can manipulate the electro things in
the app. They're like, you know how to do algorithms.
The app algorithms.

Speaker 1 (52:51):
Yeah, we responded by telling them, yes you are, and
the spirit generated two more words for us. Shit. That's
the response to, am I dead? Yes you are? Sorry,
eat shit? Man, I want to hang out with that ghost.
That ghost sounds so cool. He's probably wearing like a

(53:11):
spike bracelet and sunglasses. Yeah, but more, Oh sorry please?

Speaker 2 (53:17):
Oh. I was just gonna say, I think when someone
asked you if you're dead and you're not sure who
they are supposed to say, I mean, I don't really.

Speaker 1 (53:23):
Know, probably, but I don't know.

Speaker 2 (53:26):
Man, do you think you're dead?

Speaker 1 (53:29):
But it's also a little harsh to say, eat shit back,
but kind of awesome. Yeah, but more does happen with
the encounter and we'll find out about it right after this.
We're back and our intrepid ghost hunters have just been

(53:49):
told to consume feces by a spirit via an app.
It's pretty good, pretty good. The pair said that they
came to the conclusion that it must be a spirit.
Be a spirit? Is must be a spirit? Is that is? Man?
Get a copy editor mirrat dot coda UK. Quote in

(54:12):
denial and quote doesn't want to believe they are actually dead.
They said, well, then why is it going around asking strangers, Hey,
am I dead?

Speaker 2 (54:21):
Yeah? I mean obviously it's concerned that it could be dead,
because I don't usually ask people if Okay, I ask
people if I'm dead all the time. But oh yeah,
am I dead?

Speaker 1 (54:32):
Uh? I don't know. Thank God, at least she didn't
tell me to eat shit. Oh oh my god. The
also claim They also claim god get a copy editor,
guys that the Spirits ask, quote, what's the box? Explain

(54:56):
that device?

Speaker 2 (54:58):
Hmm, what's in the box?

Speaker 1 (55:01):
In one video they shared online, a ball they had
taken with them moved off of a grave with the
name Thomas on it. Paul said quote. The Spirits also
produced the word abandoned, which made us think about how
the graveyard is abandoned and nobody takes care of the
graves anymore, causing them to become overgrown and almost invisible

(55:22):
in places.

Speaker 2 (55:23):
Mm hmm, yeah, it's rough.

Speaker 1 (55:26):
At one point, Ed started removing some of the ivy
and leaves away from a nearby grave, making it more visible,
and the Spirits produced the words thank you so much, oh,
and also said that it was nice to see us.
I mean, it is nicer than each shit.

Speaker 2 (55:46):
I mean, I thought each shit was kind of playful,
but okay.

Speaker 1 (55:51):
Paul added, quote, this is one of those locations that
will definitely be ongoing for us. The spirits that reside
there enjoyed our company, and we're glad that we returned
to communicate with them. And we hope that the spirit
that is in denial about being dead isn't too offended.

Speaker 2 (56:10):
Yeah yeah, aw aw well, at least it ended somewhat nice,
I guess.

Speaker 1 (56:19):
Yeah, so, Michelle, our next story. Have you ever heard
the term crime doesn't pay? No man, your parents or
something else.

Speaker 2 (56:34):
Yeah, they told me that crime absolutely does pay, which
is why I shouldn't do it, because I shouldn't be successful.

Speaker 1 (56:42):
That doesn't sound like your parents at all. I know. Well,
this NPR story, the headline is United Kingdom court finds
men who stole six million dollar gold toilet guilty. Oh no,
six million dollar gold toilet.

Speaker 2 (57:06):
Well, I mean, I guess it's like solid gold.

Speaker 1 (57:09):
It looks like it. I'm showing you a picture.

Speaker 2 (57:12):
I know, but I don't I like it.

Speaker 1 (57:13):
It's not even in a fancy bathroom.

Speaker 2 (57:16):
It's this is where it belongs.

Speaker 1 (57:19):
It's just there. What the hell I don't I don't
know it turns out that a porcelain throne can also
be made of gold. Great writing in pr At least
that was the vision behind Italian artist. Ah, it was
an art installation, thing, is it?

Speaker 2 (57:40):
I bet? I bet it's not even really made of gold?
Then it's just spray painted gold.

Speaker 1 (57:45):
Well, hold on.

Speaker 2 (57:46):
I don't believe it.

Speaker 1 (57:48):
Let's see this was That was the vision behind Italian
artist Maurizio Catalans Catalans artwork titled America, created in twenty sixteen. Honestly,
that's a great title.

Speaker 2 (58:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (58:03):
Yeah. The installation featured a fully functional toilet cast in
eighteen carrot gold.

Speaker 2 (58:09):
Oh wow, okay, geez.

Speaker 1 (58:13):
The funny thing is if we titled it, we would
call it Italy or Europe because we'd be like, why
would you actually, to prove a point make an actual
eighteen carrot gold toilet? We'd be like, why wouldn't you
just gold plate it since it's art?

Speaker 2 (58:27):
Yeah, or spray painted gold would look the same.

Speaker 1 (58:30):
I wonder how much it would cost. I mean, I
know what they're saying it's valued at, but I wonder
how much it would literally cost to create it.

Speaker 2 (58:37):
I mean, it wouldn't be cheap, maybe.

Speaker 1 (58:39):
No, I mean, eighteen carrot gold's on the cheaper side
of gold, but it's still gold.

Speaker 2 (58:44):
Well, a fourteen carrot is generally accepted as like, that's
kind of like the jewelry standard, right, so eighteen is
more than that. It's also softer.

Speaker 1 (58:53):
Then, Oh, does I might have it backwards?

Speaker 2 (58:56):
Yeah, the carrots go up, they get more good that way.

Speaker 1 (59:03):
Yeah, you're totally right. I had it backwards. Sorry, Oh
that's okay. Damn than that? Yeah, yeah, because.

Speaker 2 (59:09):
He could have done like ten carrot gold, he could
have done.

Speaker 1 (59:12):
Gold eight cac yeah, which well, and lower carrot gold
would have made more sense because it would be more durable,
assuming people are going to use this toilet.

Speaker 2 (59:22):
But I guess that's not the point.

Speaker 1 (59:26):
Well, then all of it is ruined. If no one's
going to use it, then what's the point at all.

Speaker 2 (59:32):
I don't know what it's saying about America.

Speaker 1 (59:35):
I mean to me, it's saying that we want riches
that don't make sense, like we want riches for the
sake of riches.

Speaker 2 (59:41):
Well, then why wouldn't it be make more sense to
have an eighteen carrot toilet, because it makes even less
sense than a ten carrot toilet or.

Speaker 1 (59:50):
Okay, yeah, I could see that. I could see that.

Speaker 2 (59:54):
Might as well really do it up.

Speaker 1 (59:56):
It was initially displayed at the Solomon R. Guggenheim us
Zeum in New York City and later at the Blenheim
Palace in the United Kingdom, where it was stolen in
twenty nineteen. It's been stolen for a long time.

Speaker 2 (01:00:10):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (01:00:13):
This week, two of the people involved in the theft
were convicted in a United Kingdom court. Three things to Know.
The original heist took place on September fourteenth, twenty nineteen,
when a group of thieves used sledgehammers and crowbars to
remove the toilet from the floor of the Oxfordshire historic
Blenheim Palace. It reportedly took them under five minutes to

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escape with the luxurious latrine. That's a good turn of
phras er. I think luxurious latrine.

Speaker 2 (01:00:41):
Yeah, it's pretty okay.

Speaker 1 (01:00:43):
On Tuesday, Michael Jones, thirty nine, was found guilty of
burglary in a British court for his role in the theft,
while Fred Doe, thirty six, was found guilty of conspiracy
to transfer criminal property. They joined forty year old James Sheen,
who was credited with coordinating the plan, and it has
already pleaded to charges of burglary, conspiracy and transferring criminal property.

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The toilet, which was ensured for a value of six
million dollars, has yet to be recovered.

Speaker 2 (01:01:11):
Oh no, they still don't know where it is.

Speaker 1 (01:01:13):
Nope. Prosecutors say that it was dismantled and sold in parts. No,
that would make sense if it's made out of pure gold.

Speaker 2 (01:01:24):
Yeah, I guess so.

Speaker 1 (01:01:26):
Well. The big problem with making art out of pure
gold is that it's like it's like a jewelry made
out of pure silver and stuff. It's like just melted
down and then no one ever knows where it came
from ever. Yeah, So even like because you can steal
go bully on and just melt it so that the
stamps on it are gone and then it's just gold.

Speaker 2 (01:01:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:01:46):
Jones was even questioned about having used the toilet the
day before the heist. He described the experience as quote splendid.
Oh I guess you were allowed to use it as
part of the art installation, is what it sounds like.

Speaker 2 (01:02:03):
That's pretty cool.

Speaker 1 (01:02:04):
Actually, Yeah, when this piece was installed at the Guggenheim,
oh my god, it says this, It says it at
the Guggenheim visitors were encouraged to interact with it fully.
As NPR's Merrick Kennedy wrote back in twenty sixteen, its creator, Catalan,
has been described as a provocateur, prankster, and tragic poet

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of our times. One of his famous works, Le Nona
Ara the Ninth Hour, depicts Pope John Paul the Second
lying on the floor after being struck by a meteor. Okay.
When it was on display, the Golden Toilet was often
compared to the French artist Marcel du Champ's porcelain Urinal

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called Fountain, a defining piece of twentieth century art, which
highlighted the absurdity of the art world. M Well, you know,
most modern art in America was based invented by the CIA. Yeah,
did you not know that?

Speaker 2 (01:03:05):
I don't think so.

Speaker 1 (01:03:06):
The CIA dumped tons and tons of money into buying
modern art and inflating the prices to make America more influential.
I'll fact check that during this break. Okay, Dough will
be sentenced in May. Jones and Sheen are still waiting
their sentence dates, So we're going to take a quick
break and we'll be back with a little bit more

(01:03:27):
spooky news before we get to our topic of April
Fool's Day pranks gone wrong. After this, all right, we
are back with just a little bit more spooky news.
And this one I I don't know how to talk,

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how to explain this, other than to read it. This
is from Huffington Post and the headline is Oregon bat
named Horry Potter whin bizarre beauty contest okay in Ashland, Oregon.
A winged creature from Oregon was crowned this year's winner

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Thursday in an annual bat beauty contest put on by
the Bureau of Land Management on Halloween, which was also
the last day of International Bat Week, A hory bat
with a feisty personality named Horry Potter defeated Lestat, the
western small footed bat from Idaho, in the final round
of the contest. It also bestowed a Townshend, a Townshend's

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big eared bat named Sir Flaps a lot from Utah,
among others. The victory marks the third year in a
row that a bat from Oregon has taken first place
in the contest. Geez, I don't think bats when I
think or I don't think yeah bats when I think
Oregon why not. I'm not saying that I'm right. I'm

(01:04:59):
just saying I don't. Hmm, well it's possible. I'm just ignorant.

Speaker 2 (01:05:03):
I mean, I guess so if they keep winning.

Speaker 1 (01:05:06):
I mean, do you think bats when you think Oregon?

Speaker 2 (01:05:09):
I mean, I just think bats are everywhere all the time,
giving me rabies.

Speaker 1 (01:05:14):
It's gonna say that sounds a little scary. They're everywhere,
every minute, all the time, everywhere waiting. Last year, William
shakes ear ear capitalized, a female Townsend's big eared bat
from southern Oregon, took the title. In twenty twenty two,
a canyon bat named Barbara, also from southern Oregon, was

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declared the winner. The federal agency has held the competition
since twenty nineteen to raise awareness about the animal's ecological importance.
The bats are part of wild populations living on public
lands and are photographed by agency staff. BLM posted the
photos on its Facebook and Instagram accounts and asked people
to vote for the cutest one. Thank goodness, they didn't

(01:06:02):
ask them to name them. Batty mcbatface. That's batty mcbatface.
Hory bats are known for swift flight and wrapping themselves
in their own tails. To mimic leaves and to hide
from predators. The agency said because of this attribute, it's
estimated Hory Potter would be quote the perfect candidate for

(01:06:23):
seeker on this year's quidditch team. Oh Harry Potter reference oh,
it even says, referring to the game in Harry Potter
that has played on flying brooms. Emma Busk, the Bureau
of Land Management wildlife technician who photographed Horry Potter, said
bats play a key role in the environment by eating
insects and pollinating flowers and fruits, but they're increasingly facing

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threats of habitat loss, disease, and light pollution, and are
often misunderstood as scary disease carriers, she said, which you
helped to propagate that theory.

Speaker 2 (01:07:00):
But they have rabies. But I like them, and I
don't think they're scary. I just think they have rabies.

Speaker 1 (01:07:06):
Well, Emma Busk from the Bureau of Land Management said,
right at the next line is literally quote less than
one percent of all bat populations actually carry rabies, and
the bat to human disease transmission is actually really low.
She's fine, although by saying really low she makes me

(01:07:27):
wonder because that's not scientific really low.

Speaker 2 (01:07:29):
Yeah, yeah, it's.

Speaker 1 (01:07:31):
Really low compared to one hundred percent. It's very low
at sea. Yeah, Busk said she hopes the event inspires
more love for the only flying mammal.

Speaker 2 (01:07:44):
Did it have pictures of the bat?

Speaker 1 (01:07:46):
That one?

Speaker 2 (01:07:46):
Because I believe hory bats are really really really cute.

Speaker 1 (01:07:50):
Uh, I mean, do you find bats in general to
be very cute?

Speaker 2 (01:07:54):
Yeah, but especially those ones.

Speaker 1 (01:07:57):
I'm finding you a picture right now. The article had
a picture, but you couldn't see it very clearly. Oh,
there we go. Okay, so here's Horry Potter. Oh, let
me get rid of this. Yeah, I just want to
it's trying to get me to enter an email to
read this article. I just wanted to look at the
photo from Yeah, can you see that photo that my

(01:08:22):
mouse is over?

Speaker 2 (01:08:23):
No? No, no, I can't see anything. Oh here we go.
Yeah that's what it looks like. Yeah, they're so cute.
Look at them.

Speaker 1 (01:08:34):
No, he is cute. They have a big furry like head,
but their face is not furry.

Speaker 2 (01:08:39):
Yeah, and they have multiple different color hairs, like they're different.
They're like different colors with different parts in the hair.

Speaker 1 (01:08:46):
Yeah, different shades of Yeah. Oh, they're very cute. Actually,
I don't really have a problem with bats, and I
definitely don't go around saying they spread disease in order
to make people hate them like some people i've met. Apparently, Yeah, yeah,
you you did. That's what you did. You literally said

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the thing. It's great too, because the article was like
refuting you without even knowing you were saying stuff. You know,
the article was just was just ready for your for
your scurrilous, hate filled rantings.

Speaker 2 (01:09:19):
Then how come when the place that that rescue kind
of close to me? Ish if you want to work there,
you have to get a raby shot first.

Speaker 1 (01:09:29):
I mean it's probably smart to get a raby shot anyway.
In fact, with how much you talk about rabies, have
you had a rabies shot? No?

Speaker 2 (01:09:34):
But I really want to get one.

Speaker 1 (01:09:37):
I feel like you could, I know, I mean, aren't
you allowed to get a raby shot by just like
going to the doctor and being like a.

Speaker 2 (01:09:46):
Just go to your your pharmacy and get a raby shot.

Speaker 1 (01:09:50):
I know what we're doing for your birthday. Yay, You're like,
finally a gift I want. Yay. Well, the goodness, I'm
happy to know that likely you'll never be rabid.

Speaker 2 (01:10:04):
I'm scared, dude.

Speaker 1 (01:10:06):
I've read the stories about humans who get rabies and
it's different. Yeah, it's like mortifying. Yeah, so no, I
do find it scary. I just don't feel the need
to spread prejudice because I'm afraid of rabies. That's all.
That's just the difference.

Speaker 2 (01:10:21):
I guess, you know, I know.

Speaker 1 (01:10:23):
It's fine. No, it's fine, it's fine, it's fine. You
you know what you're doing. You're you're a very you're
an adult. You're fine, it's fine.

Speaker 2 (01:10:32):
I'm sorry, Bats, I didn't mean it like that.

Speaker 1 (01:10:37):
Well, we're gonna get off the topic of bats because
I really don't want Michelle to spread any more hateful,
harmful and misinformation. So we're gonna take a quick break
and we're gonna be back with our topic. Since tomorrow
is April Fool's Day, we're going to talk about prank's
gone wrong on April Fool's Day. So it's perfect. I

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was shocked. I was able to find a list, and
it's a recent one too, so we're going to dive
into that right after this. Well, Michelle, yeah, I know
that you and pranks apparently are not that cool. Yeah

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were you? Were you the kind of kid that like,
if somebody played a prank on you, you just cry.

Speaker 2 (01:11:26):
No, nobody played pranks on me because I wasn't liked.

Speaker 1 (01:11:30):
Oh, people played pranks on me because they hated me.

Speaker 2 (01:11:33):
Oh they didn't do that to me.

Speaker 1 (01:11:35):
Oh yeah, I'm sure people hated you. I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (01:11:39):
Oh no, they did, They just didn't show their hate
that way.

Speaker 1 (01:11:45):
Those lousy Jersey kids are just so lazy.

Speaker 2 (01:11:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:11:50):
Well, I found a really great article on Reader's Digest
twelve April Fool's Pranks that went horribly wrong, and it's
from this month, so it's relatively updated. Yeah, so I thought,
could we could talk about this and hopefully get a
few laughs, or maybe it'll just be all said yeah,

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which would be what you hope.

Speaker 2 (01:12:13):
Yeah, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 1 (01:12:16):
April first is April fools Day, so we hope you've
prepared a list of all your favorite pranks, jokes, and
prank ease to commemorate the occasion. But hold your horses.
No matter how popular the day has become, April Fool's
Fun comes with a cautionary tale. Whether you're thinking of
pulling pranks based on your zodiac sign or plotting a

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prank on your parents, spouse, or kiddo's mishaps can happen.
In fact, there are plenty of pranks gone wrong on
April Fool's Day, and we're sharing some below. Yeah, I
guess I like when they try to get clever. As
you dive into these pranks gone wrong, let them serve
as a reminder to prank wisely, stick to people who

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can take a joke, and always think twice before pulling
a stunt. So as you brainstorm the ultimate gag for
your crew, keep this list of some of the worst
April Fool's Day pranks in mind. It's all fun and
games until someone has a whoopee cushion catastrophe. All right,
that's that's what they went with.

Speaker 2 (01:13:19):
Yeah, apparently fair enough.

Speaker 1 (01:13:22):
The very first April Fool's Day, that's number one. There
are many theory or is that is that in the numbers? Yeah,
it is. I think they don't make it clear. They're like,
we just want you to click. We just want to click.
There are many theories as to the origins of April
Fool's Day, but some historians believe the day originated in
fifteen eighty two, when France switched over to the Gregorian calendar.

(01:13:47):
Oh see That's the thing. Everything always leads back to
that damn Gregorian calendar. I know, I don't know why
I even try to, like think I'm going to learn
something new when it all goes back to the damn
Gregorian calendars.

Speaker 2 (01:14:04):
It sucks and we should have never changed.

Speaker 1 (01:14:07):
Yeah really yeah, which changed New Year's Day from April
first to January first. Back in those days, the news
took a little longer to reach everyone, and those who
were a bit slow on the uptake celebrating New Year's
Day on April first, for example, became the butt of pranks,

(01:14:30):
including having paper fish glued onto their backs because fish
are easy to catch. Okay, to this day, people still
refer to those who are easily fooled as fish. They
would call them gullible. Except hem, that word isn't in

(01:14:51):
the dictionary. Ha ha. If you check, it's because you are.

Speaker 2 (01:14:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:14:58):
So they would tape a fish to you, suggesting you
were gullible.

Speaker 2 (01:15:03):
Yeah, and they just had them and tape with them too.

Speaker 1 (01:15:07):
Look, I'm not here to defend resistance of the Gregorian calendar,
but how am I? How is that person the gullible
one for not hearing about something new that's my problem.

Speaker 2 (01:15:20):
I don't understand at all, Like I could see if
it was the other way, because they're like, oh, people
were like, oh, we change it, and they're like, that's
the stupidest thing I ever heard. So then those people
were gullible, they thought, but then they weren't. But still,
you know.

Speaker 1 (01:15:34):
Yeah, So here's one. On April first, nineteen ninety two,
a man claiming to be Richard Nixon told NPR he
would be running for president, then added I never did
anything wrong and I won't do it again. Despite the date,

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thousands believed it was actually Richard Nixon announcing another bid
for the presidency.

Speaker 2 (01:16:04):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (01:16:05):
Of course it wasn't actually Nixon speaking, but that didn't
stop the outrage, and many began gearing up to protest.

Speaker 2 (01:16:14):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (01:16:18):
Oh, welling back to NPR, where tonight we uh were
taking calls Richard Nixon, you're on the air. That's how
it went. That's why people believed that. They were like, well,
their dulcet tones have made me nappish. It must be real.
It's so mean to NPR. Yeah, do you know what
NPR stands for?

Speaker 2 (01:16:38):
Na? I don't know what do you think it stands for?

Speaker 1 (01:16:41):
No pulse? Required, yeah, I know, oh man, do you
you might remember this one? I remember this prank. Okay,
turns out your favorite fast food chains have a history
of pranks. On April first, nineteen ninety eight, Burger Came
announced it would now offer a version of the Whopper

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that had been carefully designed for left handed folks.

Speaker 2 (01:17:07):
I did not hear about that.

Speaker 1 (01:17:09):
I remember that the joke was on Burger King, however,
when stores across the country were flooded with orders for
the left handed Whopper, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:17:20):
You don't know what it's like, like, fine, we get
some justice.

Speaker 1 (01:17:28):
I justly picking up a hamburger, going to take a bite,
and it just falls apart out of your head. You're like,
oh man, yeah, why right, So you've just given away
that you are sinister. Uh huh left handed? I know.
What is the worst part about being left handed?

Speaker 2 (01:17:48):
Scissors? Because they don't work, and the left handed scissors
also don't work. How does it really work?

Speaker 1 (01:17:57):
How does scissors not work in your left hand?

Speaker 2 (01:18:01):
It's got there, there's like a blade sign and where
your some goes, and they'd be upside down if I
used right hand scissors and the left handed scissors. No, no,
you're wrong. The left hand scissors are bad, so I
have to use child scissors. Those are the only ones
that work.

Speaker 1 (01:18:20):
I have a pair of scissors in my hand right now.
I feel like I could use these left handed.

Speaker 2 (01:18:23):
I think, yeah, that's that's that's adorable. I'm telling you
right now you can't.

Speaker 1 (01:18:29):
I'm not for I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm saying
I'm I'm confused, like I don't. It doesn't click with me.
That doesn't mean you're wrong.

Speaker 2 (01:18:38):
I think you should. You have scissors, you should try
to cut some stuff. Maybe not now so you don't
want to prove that I'm wrong, but maybe in the future.
I don't afford back, or forget about.

Speaker 1 (01:18:51):
It, or forget Okay, here's another one, and April Fool's Cliffhanger.
In two thousand and one, a DJ in the United
Kingdom decided to prank his listeners on April first by
broadcasting that a ship that looked suspiciously like the Titanic
could be seen from the cliffs at Beachy Head in

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East Sussex. Hundreds of listeners believed him trekking to the
cliffs to catch a glimpse. Unfortunately, all the foot traffic
caused a large crack in the cliff face, and a
few days later it fell into the sea.

Speaker 2 (01:19:29):
But everyone was okay, Yeah, it.

Speaker 1 (01:19:31):
Was days later, so it was. But the damage of
them all standing there, I guess had caused it to
eventually collapse.

Speaker 2 (01:19:37):
Sounds like it was a really poorly designed cliff.

Speaker 1 (01:19:41):
I guess, so poorly designed. Nice job, mother Nature, you yeah, crack.
That one's pretty pretty good. But we have even more
we're going to get to right after this. We're back

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with some more legendary pranks gone wrong. And this one
I remember, and I didn't fall for it. No, this, oh,
this is far from being a good April Fool's joke.
On April first, two thousand and two, a couple of
Kansas City DJs announced the local water supply had been

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found to contain high levels of die hydrogen monoxide, or DHMO,
whose side effects included sweating, urination, and skin pruning. Hundreds
of citizens flooded the water department and the police with
distressed phone calls. Too bad. Dihydrogen monoxide is actually H

(01:20:49):
two O, the chemical name for water.

Speaker 2 (01:20:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:20:54):
The DJs were widely criticized, and one government official even
accused them of terrorism.

Speaker 2 (01:21:01):
Oh my god.

Speaker 1 (01:21:03):
In twenty thirteen, to Florida DJs pulled the same prank.
Result the resulting clamor got the DJs yanked off the
air and nearly saddled with felony charges.

Speaker 2 (01:21:15):
I just feel like everyone is dumb, the whole it's
all dumb.

Speaker 1 (01:21:21):
Well, the reason I didn't fall for it was that
my science teacher in middle school taught us the die
hydrogen monoxide joke. M M yeah, yeah, Like she taught
us that. She said, like, I want to introduce to
do a new chemical compound and she told us like
it causes excessive sweating urination and everyone who comes in
contact with it dies And we were like, and she

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was like, you can even find it in when you're
drinking a cup of water. It's in the cup. And
we were like. And then this year was like, anyway,
see you guys later, and she just left. No, uh,
she just left the milita. No h oh man, this
one's in Ohio. Armed robbery is hilarious or not? Oh
For April Fools in two thousand and three, a clothing

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store employee in Columbus, Ohio, decided to call her boss
and tell him that someone was robbing the store at gunpoint.
Oh geez.

Speaker 2 (01:22:15):
No.

Speaker 1 (01:22:18):
Before she had time to call him back and confess
to the prank, her boss had called the police.

Speaker 2 (01:22:24):
No, you don't. You don't have to. You don't call back.
You have to say it on the same call otherwise.

Speaker 1 (01:22:29):
Yeah, it's supposed to call April fools. Yeah, April fools, which,
by the way, is way better to do not in April.
Like prank somebody April fools, and it's like August, I'll
ever see it coming.

Speaker 2 (01:22:42):
It's true. It's true.

Speaker 1 (01:22:47):
Four patrol cars rolled up to the store and the
employee was arrested for inducing panic. Wow. Yeah that sucks. Well, well,
good news is we're about to leave the United States,
so it's not just us who are income poops of

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the highest order in magnitude. On April first, twenty ten,
a newspaper in Jordan ran an article claiming a UFO
had landed near the town of joffer It's no wonder
this was a prank gone wrong, as the mayor of
Joffers responded by issuing an order to evacuate thirteen thousand people.

Speaker 2 (01:23:29):
Oh no.

Speaker 1 (01:23:31):
Facing a potential lawsuit, the newspaper staff apologized publicly saying
that they meant to entertain, not scare people. I like that.
The mayor I would have been like, look, we were
just trying to point out that the mayor has no
brain in his head. He didn't like look into anything

(01:23:53):
or check anything. He just believed the newspaper first in
his own town. I mean, I think, like, look out
the window first, Well, just.

Speaker 2 (01:24:03):
Because you can't see the UFO doesn't mean it's not
there somewhere. Like I'm so so tired.

Speaker 1 (01:24:09):
Of having this argument with you. I'm so tired of
having this with you.

Speaker 2 (01:24:13):
I know, But just because you can't see the UFO
doesn't mean it's not there.

Speaker 1 (01:24:18):
I know, tell, I know you don't understand.

Speaker 2 (01:24:21):
Just because it's not when you look outside the UFO
isn't there in your front yard doesn't mean it's there.
And you're like it could be there. Still it's still there.

Speaker 1 (01:24:33):
You win, Michelle, You're right, you're right up side.

Speaker 2 (01:24:37):
Oh I saw it.

Speaker 1 (01:24:41):
I'm turning red. In twenty and thirteen, Susan Tammy Hudson
of Kingsport, Tennessee, called her sister on April first and said,
I shot my husband. I'm cleaning up the mess. Let's
go bury him in Blackwater. Oh god, this was a
prank gone wrong, because though Hudson may have thought she

(01:25:04):
was being funny, no one else did. Soon the police
showed up. Okay that how bad of a sister have
you been that your sister would Okay, I'm not saying.
I'm not saying that you should help. Like if your
sister called you tell and said I just shot somebody

(01:25:25):
and I need to hide the body. Well, how would
you react?

Speaker 2 (01:25:29):
I don't know. I would probably say, okay, well, here
are some places that you can hide a body because
I can't help you. Also, then I would hang up
and call the police.

Speaker 1 (01:25:39):
You would call the police.

Speaker 2 (01:25:41):
I might call the police. No, I probably wouldn't. I
probably call my mom, and then my mom would be like, what.

Speaker 1 (01:25:49):
See. I'm not saying that you should, without question help
your sister or whoever bury a dead body, but you
don't call the police.

Speaker 2 (01:26:00):
I kind of want to know more information about what
happened so that I could record it. Oh my god,
I have reported because I'm in I'm not in a
I'm in a two party consent state in Pennsylvania to
New Jersey.

Speaker 1 (01:26:15):
Uh that's so ridiculous. Uh. But her sister calls the police.
M No charges were pressed after Hudson's husband arrived home alive.

Speaker 2 (01:26:26):
And well, how come she didn't get arrested?

Speaker 1 (01:26:30):
I don't know, probably because it does sound like a prank,
Like it's not like she said it in a public
area to like cause a budget of chaos. I do
think that the woman who got charged with inciting panic
for only pranking her boss was not really fair. It
was because the police incited panic by showing up in
mass you know, But I don't know. That's that's a

(01:26:53):
that's a murky space. Ooh, here's one. A text prank
is less than this one. In seventeen o eight, Gulliver's
Travels author Jonathan Swift set up an epic April Fool's
Day prank by pretending to be an astrologer named Isaac Bickerstaff.
He published a set of predictions, the most notable of

(01:27:15):
which was that a celebrity astrologer of the time, John Partridge,
would die on March twenty ninth. On March thirtieth, Swift
circulated an anonymous account of Partridge's death of fever. On
April first, someone knocked on Partridge's door to set up
funeral arrangements. Wow, Partridge, of course was alive and well,

(01:27:40):
but the rest of his life he had to insist
he was not dead. The prediction finally came true seven
years later, without Partridge ever finding out the real identity
of Isaac Bickerstaff. Hmm, that's freaking legendary. That's like the
stuff of legends. That's so good. I can't overstate how

(01:28:02):
good that is. Come on like two like like somewhat
like famous rich guys in the seventeen hundreds pulling craft
like that's pretty solid. You know. It's not like he
pulled it on some guy that worked at like a
pubby didn't like he did it to like a famous astrologer.
We're gonna take a break, and then we'll wrap up
all these April fools Day pranks gone wrong right after this.

(01:28:25):
I just don't know that there's a UFO. If I'm
not seeing it, I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (01:28:29):
I don't understand what the problem is. Like just because
you can't see it doesn't mean it's not there.

Speaker 1 (01:28:43):
Now we're back with some more April Fool's Day pranks
gone wrong. This one, this may not be the best
prank to pull on your boyfriend for April fools Day
twenty thirteen, eighteen year old Tory Wheeler of Tulsa, Oklahoma,
pranked her boyfriend Derek by pretending she was pregnant.

Speaker 2 (01:29:03):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (01:29:04):
Wheeler, upset that Bauer didn't find her prank as funny
as she'd hoped, ended up pulling a knife on him,
and the police were called in to settle the matter.

Speaker 2 (01:29:13):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:29:17):
Predictably, Wheeler later said the knife was yet another prank.
Don't prank with knives, kids, what what?

Speaker 2 (01:29:30):
What? Well, it was prank.

Speaker 1 (01:29:33):
It was prank.

Speaker 2 (01:29:35):
Yeah, it was prank.

Speaker 1 (01:29:36):
It was prank. Yeah, it was prank. It's could laugh.

Speaker 2 (01:29:42):
Lah, it's fine because it was a prank.

Speaker 1 (01:29:44):
It was prank pulling a knife on someone because they
didn't think your story, your joke was funny, relatable content.

Speaker 2 (01:29:55):
Yeah. Yeah, Sometimes you just want people to think you're funny,
pull a knife on them so they'll laugh. Well, finally laugh.

Speaker 1 (01:30:06):
Who's laughing? Now? It better be you? I the idea.
She pulled a knife and police showed up. Uh wait, yeah,
because yeah, police were called to settle the matter. If
you pulled the knife, that doesn't make it sound like
a prank to me.

Speaker 2 (01:30:21):
No, No, Well she took it too far. You know.

Speaker 1 (01:30:24):
Yeah, it was a goof.

Speaker 2 (01:30:26):
It was a goof. Gosh, it was a goof to
tell him, geez.

Speaker 1 (01:30:32):
Our goofing is goofing illegal? Now? What is this? Nazi Germany?
It was a goof. Here's another April Fool's prank gone wrong.
In twenty sixteen, Google, as an April Fool's Day prank,
added a mic drop button to its email program. When clicked,
it sent a gift to the recipients of the outgoing email.
And here's the kicker. Literally disabled replies, in effect shutting

(01:31:01):
down the conversation as mike drops do. But the big
problem was that the mic drop button was right next
to the send button, leading a number of hapless and
later horrified people to mic drop their bosses, clients, spouses, children,
friends and family.

Speaker 2 (01:31:19):
That's on them.

Speaker 1 (01:31:22):
You're cold on that one.

Speaker 2 (01:31:24):
Look as you press them.

Speaker 1 (01:31:27):
Although Google disabled the button, the damage was done. It
was far from being a good office prank, since at
least one individual reported getting canned thanks to Google's jest.
Oh no, I mean that it's a harsh It's a
harsh mic drop. Yeah, it's do to your bo I'm

(01:31:48):
assuming that it tells them like you have been you
are no longer able to contact this person?

Speaker 2 (01:31:52):
Maybe yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:31:54):
Uh, I I mean I got I don't even know
what to say on that one, dude, I would be
pretty mad. Well, and they might have like they might
have literally said something that was like really important to
respond to because they didn't know that you wouldn't be
able to reply.

Speaker 2 (01:32:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:32:12):
Yeah, so I don't know. That's a mic drop. I
kind of wish I had that button now though.

Speaker 2 (01:32:22):
You could just get a microphone, could you have them?
And you could just drop it?

Speaker 1 (01:32:26):
And I don't want to drop my microphones. My microphones
are my friends.

Speaker 2 (01:32:31):
On something soft, like get a pillow, drop it the
microphone on it.

Speaker 1 (01:32:37):
See that. There's so many parts, all right? Our last
one for April Fool's Day. In nineteen eighty, Boston TV
news producer Homer silly. It actually rhymes with silly. I
just said silly. Produce the television. I know how to
pronounce C I L E Y, Thanks readers. Digest produced

(01:33:01):
a television broadcast about a hill in Milton, Massachusetts that
had begun oozing lava and spewing flames. He included fake
warnings from then President Jimmy Carter and real footage from
Mount Saint Helen's eruption that implied the Massachusetts volcano had
fully erupted. Wow, April fool read the card at the

(01:33:24):
end of the segment, but hundreds of panicked citizens flooded
law enforcement phone lines. Anyway, Silly was prompted promptly fired
for failing to exercise good news judgment and breaching FCC regulations.

Speaker 2 (01:33:39):
Aw.

Speaker 1 (01:33:43):
I mean, I feel like you don't. There's not a
lot of excuse to know to not to believe people
won't panic from something like that because of the War
of the World. Yeah, have you ever listened to the
full War of the World's broadcast?

Speaker 2 (01:34:00):
I mean, I guess not.

Speaker 1 (01:34:02):
It's good. It's it's really it's really good. It's not
super long. I really highly recommend listening to it. I
don't know if I don't think the recording's public domain,
because I should play it like for Halloween or something
on the podcast. That'd be a cool, cool, like bonus show.
But when I listened to it, I was shocked to

(01:34:23):
realize that every break they mention that it's not real. Yeah,
and it's still caused all that panic in Jersey. Yeah,
your ancestral homeland was just as concerned about UFOs as
you are. Now I get where it comes from.

Speaker 2 (01:34:40):
It's not my ancestral homeland. But that's okay.

Speaker 1 (01:34:44):
I mean, I guess it's just your homeland. Yeah, of sorts. Yeah, fine, No, No,
you're from the Bronx. Dub Bronx, you're from the Bronx.
It's right, You're right.

Speaker 2 (01:35:00):
It's making me feel bad.

Speaker 1 (01:35:03):
Uh oh wait, I don't feel like that's an accomplishment.
I feel like you now, you're trying to put it
on me that made you feel bad? Yeah, would it
help if I said April fools? It was all a prank.
It was all a.

Speaker 2 (01:35:17):
Goof no because I don't believe it.

Speaker 1 (01:35:20):
Oh, okay, fine, you win.

Speaker 2 (01:35:25):
Thanks.

Speaker 1 (01:35:27):
There is a UFO outside my house. I believe you.
You're right.

Speaker 2 (01:35:31):
I mean, it's definitely there. I don't know why you
can't see it.

Speaker 1 (01:35:38):
Well, we're going to take a quick break, and then
we're going to talk a little bit about some horror
movies I watched this month, a little bit of Reddit creepiness,
and wrap things up for the month and head into
April Fools. So that'll be right after this. All right,

(01:35:59):
we're up this month's monthly spooky, and I wanted to
mention some horror media I checked out. I did see
a horror movie in the theater. It was called The Monkey,
based on the Stephen King story. Oh okay, directed by
Osgood Perkins, who did who got very quickly very popular

(01:36:20):
for doing Long Legs, which I guess is h is
now streaming on Hulu, and was a pretty good horror movie.
I really I liked Long Legs. The Monkey nothing like
Long Legs whatsoever. I was very curious how people were
going to feel about that. It's It's one of the first,
like truly dark comedy horror movies I've seen in a while.

(01:36:43):
Like there are lots of horror comedies, and there are
a decent amount of dark comedies, but this was both,
in my opinion, both a dark comedy and a horror
comedy at the same time. So it had horrific elements
but an immense amount of gallows humor that was like
darker than normal, and I actually thought it worked pretty well.
I don't usually like horror comedies very much, but I
really liked this one. I thought it was funny, and

(01:37:06):
I actually thought it was surprisingly heartfelt. It had some
it had some moments about like how to deal with
loved ones that are dead, that like hit me hard.
I thought were really insightful and sweet, so I do
recommend The Monkey. I don't think it's in theaters anymore unfortunately,
so at least not around here, but I did like it.

(01:37:28):
Another film I watched was The Killing of Blood Castle,
which is not a new movie. I only saw one
horror movie in the theater. Everything else I've watched has
been older stuff, and this was on the Donza Macabre
Volume two set. It's an old Spanish Italian co production
horror movie that I really enjoyed that mostly rips off Frankenstein.

(01:37:50):
It's this woman comes to a castle. At first it
feels like it's Dracula, but then it feels more like
it's Frankenstein. But then it becomes kind of a werewolf
movie where people are in the village that this count
who is a scientist, is actually a werewolf, and that
he turns into a beast at night on the full
moon and kill because people keep turning up dead in
the village. And I really liked it. Had a great twist.

(01:38:15):
One of the twists is that his dead brother is
not actually dead. He's horribly disfigured. We discovered that pretty
early on. He's horribly disfigured, and all of the experiments
they're doing are actually trying to give him a face again.

Speaker 2 (01:38:27):
Oh man.

Speaker 1 (01:38:28):
But it's kept kind of secret, but of course, because
it's an old school kind of gothic horror movie. Actually
not kind of, it's a very gothic horror movie. He's
gone mad from being hideous, so he's like completely insane
and willing to kill anybody to get what he wants.
A really cool movie, and then it made me think

(01:38:50):
about Frankenstein. So I watched Lady Frankenstein, which posits the
concept what if doctor Frankenstein built a monster but then
the monster accidentally killed him? But thank goodness, his daughter
is around, who is also a doctor and scientist, and
she takes over his work and turns out to be

(01:39:11):
far more insane than he is. Yay, So it was
actually really fun. That was another Italian Spanish co production,
and I really just had a great time watching it.
It was silly and weird and creepy and I liked
it a lot. So and then the last thing I watched,

(01:39:31):
for something totally different is I watched the ninth the
late nineties film Campfire Tales, which was a movie I
used to rent on VHS when I was a teenager,
when I was like thirteen, fourteen years old, and it's
straight up like an urban legend movie. It's a movie
about urban legends, as in they're telling each other campfire

(01:39:54):
stories hence Campfire Tales, and like one of them is
the humans can lick two story, one of the is
based on the hook, one of them is based on
the locket the woman with the ribbon around her neck.
It's really fun creepy, but it's also nineties as hell,
which for me, it adds a lot of charming nostalgias.

(01:40:16):
So I had a great time watching that. That one's
on Amazon Prime now that's why I watched it. I
was like, wait, there's an HD copy of that movie
as to rent on VHS. I would like to watch that.
So anyway, those were the movies I watched. What is
going on with U? Chell? Did you find anything creepy?
On Reddit of note?

Speaker 2 (01:40:35):
So it was hard because I found a lot of
things and I was like, yeah, that's pretty dumb. But
I did find one that I thought was really interesting.
So there's a woman I assume, and she sees a
charge on her credit card. I'm gonna switch your You're
still gonna see me, but I'm not going to see
you so that I can see this, okay. So she

(01:40:57):
sees a charge on a credit card for the Redwood
Motel for nineteen sixty and she's like, what, I never
went to this motel. It's like two hours away, Like
what's going on? And so let me go back so
I can actually see you again. So she she she

(01:41:18):
calls her credit card company and says like, I think
this is fraud basically, and gets her card canceled and stuff.
And then while she's like waiting for her new card
to come or whatever, she's looking through her purse and
she finds a receipt for the Redwood Motel for nineteen
sixty one, and she's like, what the fuck? It's two
hours away in Des Moines, Iowa. I have the address
of the hotel now in case you want it, but

(01:41:41):
like she's like, I never been there. Why do I have?

Speaker 1 (01:41:45):
What is this?

Speaker 2 (01:41:46):
And she like called the hotel and she's like what
could I have possibly bought for nineteen sixty one? And
they were like, I don't know, man, so.

Speaker 1 (01:41:52):
It's a odd number for a recent motel stay.

Speaker 2 (01:41:55):
Yeah. Yeah, and it has like a tax and then
like it has like the tip to So she's like,
what is this. It's like seventeen something plus like two
dollars something tip. So she's just like, what the fuck? So, yeah,
that's that's weird.

Speaker 1 (01:42:12):
That's okay. No, the receipt that's really weird. And yeah,
what would you buy at a hotel or a motel
or whatever that cheap?

Speaker 2 (01:42:20):
Yeah, I don't know, because it.

Speaker 1 (01:42:22):
Couldn't be a stay and what would you tip on?
I guess they could have had a bar or restaurant.
I guess, but.

Speaker 2 (01:42:28):
I we you know, she she linked the motel and everything.
It does not have a bar or restaurant. It's it
has like the worst ratings of anything I've ever seen, and.

Speaker 1 (01:42:37):
Lots of people commenting that they found weird charges and
then paper receipts in their purses.

Speaker 2 (01:42:42):
They're like, it's a scam. I don't know how they're
doing this, but.

Speaker 1 (01:42:46):
It's a really good scam.

Speaker 2 (01:42:48):
Yeah, but yeah, I mean weird. The only thing that
people could think of, which is probably I mean, what
it is unless this is some sort of weird paranormal,
supernatural thing, especially because she does, you know, live with
her husband, but he doesn't have access to that credit
card and it like has a timestamp on it, and
neither of them were out that night. But someone suggested

(01:43:11):
that maybe the person who owns that hotel also has
like a convenience store or something, and they have just
the same receipt paper thing for both of them, So
maybe it wasn't actually like a hotel. Maybe it was
like a cafe, just something stupid, and like they were
using some other resceppts.

Speaker 1 (01:43:31):
Let's see what you mean. Like they were using the
same uh yeah account basically.

Speaker 2 (01:43:36):
Yeah, like the same thing on the roll. Yeah, And
but she was like, but it says five PM, and
we were definitely not out of five. And then it's like, well,
maybe the timestamp is wrong, but it's it is a lot.

Speaker 1 (01:43:49):
Of stuff though it's super weird. I mean, yeah, I
will say now that you mentioned it, I mean credit
card processes and stuff are not quite I mean they're
a little bit more. They're very different now. They used
to be very set in stone and very stodgy, but
now it's very like flexible. You know, lots of people
have credit card chargers and they're charging ability and stuff.

(01:44:13):
So but the receipt, the paper receipt, Yeah weird.

Speaker 2 (01:44:16):
It's really weird.

Speaker 1 (01:44:17):
And the time stamp being wrong would be weird too
because that opens up like a lot of fraud liability
if of time stamp is wrong. So I don't know.
That's super weird.

Speaker 2 (01:44:27):
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:44:29):
Do they have carbon monoxide detectors in their house?

Speaker 2 (01:44:33):
I hope so, but it you'd have to drive pretty
far though.

Speaker 1 (01:44:39):
That's fair. Do they have carbon monoxide detectors in their car?
Carpin monoxide detectors.

Speaker 2 (01:44:46):
Yeah, I doubt it, but they should. One should have
a carbon monoxide detector in their car a car.

Speaker 1 (01:44:53):
That's so funny. Those you're going to be rich, fabulously wealthy. Okay,
So is that that's all you got?

Speaker 2 (01:45:03):
That's the best one. The other one are called that's
a good one.

Speaker 1 (01:45:06):
Yeah, now that's a good one. I just I was
just asking before I start the thing where I say
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more spooky news and topics. But for now we're gonna
get out of here. So Michelle, you have the final word,

(01:45:48):
and I assume it will be about UFOs.

Speaker 2 (01:45:51):
I mean, there really is one in your premiere or

Speaker 1 (01:45:58):
Hell

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