Episode 32: Cryptids - Holes and Hollows - Death Coven

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pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (00:18):
How are you guys doing today?
You can lie.
You can lie.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_1 (00:22):
I'm doing all right.
That's my answer.
didn't sleep much last night'cause I was thinking about
spooky creatures too much.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_10 (00:30):
Honestly, same.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-202 (00:32):
living alone and then scaring yourself
and then going, ha ha, I have togo to bed now.
Very scary.
Very frightening.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-20 (00:40):
That's what squishies are for.
That's what cuddly toys andstuffed animals are for.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_10 (00:45):
My comfort items and my nightlight.
Yeah,

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (00:47):
If you have sick brains like us,
and you think that the more thatyou think about something, the
more

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_10 (00:54):
It comes

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (00:54):
It is to happen.
Yeah.
And you're like,

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025_10 (00:56):
I am afraid that I'm going to
manifest the crypted that I'llbe talking about.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (01:01):
I really hope not keep that to

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025_1 (01:03):
It would be very, easy to do so,
and that's all.
I'll

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025 (01:07):
Yeah.
No, mine is a, mine's a realslippery slope

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025 (01:10):
Mine too.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_ (01:11):
once you're in it, you're like, ah,
fuck.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (01:14):
that being said, we are talking about
Cryptids today.
This is our second cryptedepisode.
Welcome.
if you wanna listen to our firstencrypted episode, that will be
episode 17.
Go back, give it a little, giveit your ear, give it a little
looky.
but this is Death Coven.
This is a Witchcraft podcast.

(01:34):
I'm glad that you found us.
I'm glad that you're here.
my name is.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025_10 (01:38):
I am Sky.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_1 (01:39):
And I'm river

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (01:41):
And we're a death coven.
And today we're talking aboutcryptids.
So

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-202 (01:45):
again.
Can't get enough of those

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (01:48):
there are so many.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2 (01:49):
Mm-hmm.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (01:50):
There are so many.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_10 (01:52):
we could do one like every month.
Oh, hold on.
The cats are

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (01:56):
Oh, whoa.
I was like, is that a, is that acrypted scream in the
background?

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_10 (02:02):
It very well could be

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025 (02:05):
Also up top.
I think it is good to remindpeople that we post every other
Thursday.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (02:10):
Yes.
Every other Thursday,

skye-guest163_1_07-13- (02:13):
regular, but it's not every single week.
So it's a little bit confusing Ithink.
But that's just what works forus.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025 (02:21):
Also, excuse me one moment.
Garnet made a little bit of amess and I have to clean it up
real quick.
Whenever I'm recording they'relike, what if I did the worst
thing ever?
And I'm like, I What if you

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025_10 (02:30):
I was talking to my mom today and
she was like, it's so quietwithout mal there.
And I was like, yeah, dude.
So I don't have to worry aboutany interruptions today.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (02:43):
and also at the beginning of our
episodes, I should probably saywe play a fun little
hypothetical game, You know, Iintroduced some kind of topic
and then the three of us figureout what the heck we would do in
that situation.
And today I came fuckingprepared, unlike last time,
unlike the last crypted episodewhere I stupidly didn't plan a

(03:06):
fuck Mary kill.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_10 (03:07):
Be nice to my friend.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (03:10):
So today, we're doing the
hypothetical, but I also workedin little pallet cleansers
between each topic.
So I have three fuck berry killsfor us.
We'll do one now, we'll do onebetween

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_ (03:23):
This is a

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (03:25):
Yeah.
Just, well, well no, I mean it'sdifferent.
Fuck Mary kills.
But yeah.
And then at the end of course wewill do a fuck Mary kill with
our three

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_ (03:35):
It's like a bracket.
I

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (03:36):
a bracket.
Kind of break it up a little bitand, um.
Calm us down from the horrible

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_1 (03:43):
The horrors.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (03:44):
we're about to experience.
Actually, we don't know.
I have no idea what you guys aretalking about.
As per usual, hopefully wedidn't come with the same
crypted, because that would beI,

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_1 (03:54):
How funny would that fucking be,
dude?

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (03:56):
yeah.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_1 (03:57):
One of these days it'll happen.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (03:59):
one of these days.
But hypothetical today, startingoff hot and fresh, these three
you've probably never heard of,these are not cryptids.
All of the fuck Mary kills we'redoing today are mascots of some
kind.
So I would argue that they'remore TPA than encrypted

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025 (04:23):
Okay,

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_1009 (04:23):
because they exist in the, global
psyche, or at least the Americanpsyche.
So these ones you've probablynever heard of.
And for the first one up top, Iwant you to go off name alone,
just off the name, and then youcan look and see who you've
chosen to fuck, marry, and kill.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_1 (04:42):
Oh, okay.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025_10 (04:43):
A blind

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (04:44):
Okay, so these are all, fast food
mascots from the eighties andnineties.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_10 (04:50):
Is one of them.
Grimace.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_10091 (04:52):
you've heard of Grimace.
You know Grimace.
First one, sponge Monkey fromQuiznos.
Number two is bad Andy fromDomino's.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_100 (05:03):
I am vibing with bad

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (05:05):
And number three is Whiplash.
The Cowboy Monkey for TacoJohn's.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_ (05:11):
I've never even heard of Taco John's
before.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025_ (05:13):
off the bat.
it's kill Fuck Mary for me.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (05:18):
Kill Sponge Monkey.
Fuck that.
Andy.
Mary Whiplash The cowboy monkey.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025 (05:22):
Yep.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_10 (05:23):
Honestly,

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_100 (05:24):
I might, I might have to agree.
Yeah, just on name alone,

skye-guest163_1_07-13-202 (05:30):
Okay.
Now let's see.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-202 (05:32):
sponge Monkey.
Sounds

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (05:33):
look up Sponge Monkey, look up at
Andy, look up Whiplash.
And I will tell you Whiplash wasan actual monkey, circa 1987.
He's a white face Capuchin andhe's known for riding a border
collie at rodeos across theUnited

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_100 (05:50):
I just looked up a picture of
Sponge Monkey and I'm glad Ikilled this

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (05:53):
Yeah.
He's not cute I think there'slike

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_1 (05:57):
No, he's kind of horrifying.
Non-binary.
They them Sponge Monkey.
I

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (06:02):
Okay.
And bad.
Andy.
Look up

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025 (06:03):
He's so cute.
He is like a little

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (06:05):
He's kind of cute.
Yeah.
a couple

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_1 (06:09):
why is he so bad?

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (06:10):
I don't know.
He's just like a, in onecommercial, he's like in an
ambulance.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025_ (06:15):
Oh,

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_10 (06:16):
Listeners go check it out.
whiplash the cowboy monkey, whowas a real monkey known for
riding border Collies at rodeos.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_1 (06:25):
Oh, that fucking rocks, dude.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025_1 (06:26):
Oh my gosh.
Yeah, we made the, he's wearinga little cowboy hat.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (06:31):
Yeah.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_1 (06:32):
Oh, that's my husband.
Oh, he's so cute.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-202 (06:36):
Yeah.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_1 (06:36):
Oh, and he's Rich

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (06:39):
Oh yeah.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025 (06:40):
Okay.
Okay.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (06:42):
Yeah.
But if you're gonna go supporthim, you have to go to a rodeo.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_1 (06:45):
And I would, for my two foot tall
husband, I would,

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_10 (06:48):
whiplash.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-202 (06:49):
Yeah.
I think we made the right

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_ (06:51):
he's wearing clothes.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (06:53):
And we've got, I've, I've prepared
two more for between our

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_10 (06:56):
He looks so focused.
I'm, I'll get off.
Whiplash.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025 (07:00):
He's so good at his

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_ (07:02):
This the determination in his eyes.
I was like, he takes this shitserious.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (07:06):
It's his job.
It's his livelihood.
Okay.
River, you're up.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_1 (07:11):
Oh, that was it.
I thought

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (07:13):
No, they're between, they're between
the topics as pallet

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_100 (07:16):
I see, I see.
Okay.
All right.
It's game time.
It's showtime.
So I guess I need to start withthe disclaimer that I don't know
if this is a crypted per se inthe traditional sense.
It's not really like a beastthat like lives in the woods or

(07:39):
whatever, but it could, you canfind them all around the place.
but I, in preparation for this,I was trying to find some like
niche shit, some unpopular shit.
So I was going to blog sites andforum sites that I will not be

(07:59):
linking to because I immediatelyran like a virus scanner after I

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_1009 (08:04):
They're like from

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025 (08:05):
cause they, it was like some GeoCities
ass shit.
And I was like, I am like, I'llrisk it for me, but like, I'm
not trying to subject this toanybody else.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (08:17):
I did the exact same thing.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-202 (08:19):
Trying to find some weird shit.
You gotta go to some weirdplaces,

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (08:21):
Yeah.
Log into the dark web.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_100 (08:24):
I wouldn't go that far.
I love this podcast.
I would not go that far for itthough.
So I'm on, I'm on these weirdparanormal, supernatural esque
blogs and I'm just like, whatare people talking about?
What's some new shit I haven'theard of yet?
And I came across.

(08:45):
like a good number.
A couple handfuls of posts fromdifferent people from like at
least like seven or eight years.
And they were primarily aboutwhat their friends had
experienced.
It was like a secondhandretelling of it.
I did find one firsthandretelling of it that I'll talk

(09:05):
about a little bit later, but itstarts out, you know, their
friends are very normal,everything's going fine, and
then suddenly one day theirbehavior starts to shift in like
a dramatic and obvious kind ofway.
That, and we'll get into that ina little bit.
'cause some of the, like thesymptoms for lack of a better

(09:28):
term, and like characteristics,you're like, that could be
something else, but we'll getthere.
And so they're talking abouttheir friends, like suddenly
isolating themselves and actlike, not erratically, but
they're not behaving likethemselves.
they're just spending a lot oftime alone.
They're not really reaching out,they're like avoiding people.

(09:50):
And they go on to sometimes havephysical symptoms insomnia,
fatigue, like progressivelyit'll get too like catatonic,
like states And I didn'tstructure my notes very well, so
I'm picking and choosing from mybrain.
So apologies listeners.
I also didn't sleep much.
Thank you so much for that.

(10:11):
there was never really like aninciting incident for it.
A lot of the friends would justseem normal someday going about
their lives.
And then suddenly there's justlike a big personality change.
And it was in like, both reallyurban settings and really rural
settings.
a lot of people were describingsimilar things they would talk

(10:34):
to their friends about it andtheir friends would either be
like, oh, I'm feeling kind ofdown.
Or they would be like, yeah, I Idon't know.
I just feel like heavy just likeyou feel kind of off, you feel
kind of weird.
and it's like this, at firstyou're like, oh, this person is
like maybe just mentally ill,like maybe a lot of these things
sound just, and like, Hey, raiseyour hand if you're depressed.

(10:56):
Everybody raise their hand.
But then it starts to get alittle bit weirder and more of
like the updated posts they haveto like check on their friends.
Their friends aren't reachingout to them.
So they'd go to check on themand sometimes they would see
like a weird, splotchy esque,rash sort of.

(11:19):
the only locations that werementioned were like on the hands
and wrists, almost likesomething like a bruise almost.
And one poster took a candidpicture of their friend.
And in the background was like ablurry humanoid esque figure.

(11:39):
I know you're making a face.
And that's exactly how I felt.
And they linked the picture andI was like, that's really nasty.
I don't wanna see that

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (11:45):
I when they're like, and here's a
picture and you really don'twanna look at

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_100 (11:48):
I

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (11:49):
but you have to look

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_1 (11:50):
But you click it'cause you're like,
how bad can it possibly be?
And you're like, oh, that's

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (11:54):
Oh.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_ (11:54):
bad.
So going through some of theearlier posts, there's like not
a whole lot of information otherthan like, oh, there's like this
weird shit going on with myfriend.
And then the more posts and themore attention it was getting,
the more people were like, Hey,that's happened to my friend
too.
Or that's currently going onwith my friend.

(12:15):
And from what I was able togather it sort of much like an
energy vampire esque entity.
Where it seems, and I don't knowexactly what it is, I couldn't
find like a lot of scientificdata about it'cause it's just a
weird fucking thing going on.

(12:36):
But it seems much like an energyvampire type situation where it
will like latch to a host itjust is happening largely out of
nowhere.
There's no like location they'regoing to, and there's no,
they're not going to a, anancient site and like doing a
weird ritual or anything.

(12:57):
Sometimes you just get like somehangers on, you know, like some
spiritual

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (13:01):
Maybe it's contagious.
They just like pass someone onthe street.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_100 (13:07):
I haven't seen, it being like
directly passed yet, thankfully.
But it does, like, it needs ahost I don't know if it, has an
affinity for, or a target onpeople that are like sort of
lone wolves already.
Or if it can just like, happento anybody, not to scare you

(13:29):
that it can be like, oh, itcould happen to you.
Watch out, show.
But I do think sometimes peoplethat are more prone to
isolating, such as myself, canbe like more susceptible to ick
getting on them, which was scaryfor me to deep dive into.
'cause I was like, oh damn.
Oh, yuck.
and there was one post I foundof someone who was experiencing

(13:51):
it firsthand, and that was crazybecause all the other posts were
like secondhand retellings,like, oh, my friend's being kind
of weird.
But this is like, okay,something weird happened.
I'm feeling off, I'm feelinglike down, I'm not feeling like
myself.
And then it gets a little bitspookier because then the post,

(14:14):
and this was, I wanna say likefive years ago, if I remember
correctly,

skye-guest163_1_07-13- (14:19):
pandemic no less.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_ (14:22):
when isolation and loneliness were so
high.
It's crazy stuff, dude.
And so they're posting about, atfirst they just started feeling
really heavy.
And then they started likeseeing a distorted figure out of
the corner of their eye, andthey're spending a lot of time
at home.
You can't really go anywhere.

(14:44):
Being inside for days at a timealready makes you feel kind of
crazy.
So they're like, probably

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025_ (14:49):
you would gaslight yourself during
the pandemic with that sort ofthing.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_1 (14:53):
Oh, absolutely.
I was doing it all the time.
It was so easy with my CVSSangria Jug, and then it started
getting progressively, I thinkover the span of like four or
five months.
They started hearing distortedvoices.

(15:13):
They couldn't really make outwhat it was.
It sounded like, like a garbledtelephone a little bit.
they start, they did see, theyhad like Aloy rash on their
wrist and they just kept likereiterating, like they just felt
hollow.
They just felt like somethingwas sucking essentially their

(15:34):
life force and like their willto live out of them.
And that went on, I think intotal from like the first post
to last post.
It was like nine or 10 months.
And the last post was verycryptic.
It was very, not upsetting toread, but like it left a very

(15:56):
unsettling feeling in mystomach.
'cause they essentially werejust like, and I don't wanna
like, I don't wanna, I can'tmince words about it, but I'm
trying to soften it a littlebit.
But they were essentially like.
I don't see the reason, I don'tsee like the point, this is just
such like an oppressiveheaviness.
I do feel like something's beentaken away from me and then that

(16:20):
was their last post.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025_10 (16:22):
I was gonna ask if this has killed
anyone, so I would assumeprobably.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_10 (16:27):
It seems left untreated.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_1009 (16:31):
Mm-hmm.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_10 (16:32):
It seems fatal for lack of a better
term.
And I don't even know how youwould combat this thing or like
treat the symptoms.
'cause it seems like once it'sgot ya,

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (16:43):
Oh, I would be cleansing so hard.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13 (16:46):
especially like with the overlapping
symptoms of like, oh, just likegeneral depression, mental
illness.
People aren't thinking like, ohthere is like a thing.
Attached to me trying to likeeat my spirit out of me because
none of them were likeparticularly religious or
spiritual or anything.
They were just like some weirdshit's going on with my secular

(17:07):
scientific minded friend.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025 (17:10):
Does it have a name?
Did they call it anything?

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_ (17:13):
they did just for like ease of like
explaining what it is, likeshorthand.
I did see it referred to, Iguess them referred to.
'cause I feel like there'smultiple, I saw them referred to
as hollows just because of likehow it makes you feel

skye-guest163_1_07-13-202 (17:32):
Yeah, because otherwise it's just the
thing.
It's just that thing,

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (17:36):
It.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2 (17:37):
whatever this thing

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (17:39):
Just thing.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_10 (17:39):
my soul.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025 (17:41):
Real dementor ass bitch.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_ (17:43):
Have yet to see a post that's like,
oh yeah, my friend got sucked,my friend got,

skye-guest163_1_07-13-20 (17:50):
straw.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-202 (17:51):
friend got latched on to a mosquito.
I have yet to see one that'slike, Hey, I know exactly what
to do.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_1009 (17:59):
Mm-hmm.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025_ (18:01):
Get a medium, get a priest.
I don't know.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_10 (18:03):
if you do come across, I mean, I
wouldn't even know how you wouldcome across this thing.
There are some warning signsthat people were like listing
out, or it was, if feel like anintense, deep, prolonged
experience of like dread,creeping into you, that could be

(18:24):
a symptom for like no reasonwhatsoever.
Just out of the blue.
Some posts were also saying.
some sort of like mimicry orauditory effects with like the,
the garbled voices, like througha phone call seeing the weird
blurry, distorted humanoidfigures.

(18:45):
And they come like in varyingshapes and sizes, much like
humans do.
So some of them are like

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025 (18:49):
What if it's an alien,

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_10 (18:50):
em are really short.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025_ (18:52):
you

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_10 (18:52):
be

skye-guest163_1_07-13-202 (18:53):
maybe they're being held down by the
wrist or

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-202 (18:56):
beast.
The, the physical contact andthe physical signs, that's what
freaks me out the most.
'cause I'm like, it's one thingif you're gonna attack me
spiritually, if you're alsogonna attack me physically,
that's where I draw the fuckingline.
Not

skye-guest163_1_07-13-202 (19:09):
Yeah, it, it infers that like in the
middle of the night orsomething, like something's
happening to your physical bodyor whether whatever's happening
internally is like affecting theexternal or

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025 (19:19):
yeah.
Ugh.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-20 (19:21):
yucky.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_10 (19:22):
So that's, that's what I got for
the hollows for, that's what Icould dig up on these strange
and unnerving website forums.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-202 (19:31):
Yeah.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (19:32):
Oh, I did.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025_10 (19:32):
I don't wanna fuck that

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (19:34):
If you're experiencing any of these
symptoms, please see yourdoctor.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-202 (19:38):
Please see a professional healthcare,
provider

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (19:42):
you feel

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_ (19:43):
it's not always a ghost or a goal.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-202 (19:46):
Yeah.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (19:46):
If you feel hollow for an extended
period of time, dread if you,especially if you start seeing
and hearing things, go see your

pulse--2001-_1_07-13- (19:54):
Insomnia.
Anything like that.
Get that checked out first andthen start.
Yeah.
Mundane and then magical.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (20:03):
Yeah.
You can smoke, cleanse, and takean antipsychotic.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_100 (20:06):
I think we all should.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (20:08):
We all should take antipsychotics.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_1 (20:11):
get your anti-psychotics

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025_1 (20:13):
We all just start rattling our pill
cake like bottles.
Woo.

pyppo_1_07-13-202 (20:16):
Interestingly though, there are some
medications like antipsychoticsthat do give you a rash on your
hands and wrists that like comesup your arms.
Yeah, I think it's called, um,'cause it was a warning when I
started taking my medication.
It's called like Steven JohnsonSyndrome, I think.
Let me, let me make sure that'sright.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_100 (20:38):
I will say there was no previous
indication on any of these poststhat their friends or the poster
who was posting, like theirfirsthand experience had any
sort of like mental health ormental illness history.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025 (20:52):
Like they probably weren't on
medication.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2 (20:54):
probably not, Gave no indication of any
previous episodes or anything.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_1009 (20:59):
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
But Steven Johnson syndrome is alife-threatening condition.
Your organs start shutting down,so

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025_10 (21:07):
I don't

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (21:08):
you know, I mean, I'm sure your
doctor probably told you if youtake medications that can cause
it, but

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025 (21:13):
Yeah.
Anytime they put me on amedication, they're like, Hey,
if you get a rash, stop takingthat shit immediately.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_1009 (21:19):
mm-hmm.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-202 (21:20):
Well,

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (21:20):
Okay.
You guys ready to play anotherFuck Mary Kill?

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025 (21:23):
Yeah.
I wanna get away.
'cause I, the more I was readingabout this, the more

skye-guest163_1_07-13-202 (21:27):
yeah.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_ (21:28):
just by nature.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025_1 (21:29):
I, thank God you got these pallet
cleansers because

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (21:32):
I know.
I was

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_1 (21:33):
God for that.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (21:34):
I need to build something in here.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_100 (21:36):
I need to liven it up a little
bit.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (21:38):
FMK number two.
We've got Mr.
Peanut, Chucky cheese, and

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_1 (21:45):
Oh,

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_1009 (21:45):
Cheeto.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2 (21:47):
fucking Chester marrying Mr.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (21:49):
I feel like he's so sleazy though.
I feel like he's kind of like asex

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025_ (21:53):
but it's a no strings attached type

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_10 (21:55):
He gi, he gives the vibe.
Yeah.
It's just like a one night justfor fun and then it's

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (22:01):
Yeah.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_ (22:02):
what a story.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025 (22:03):
Like he smokes a cigarette after, you
know what I mean?

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025 (22:05):
Yeah.
I do feel like I would wake upthe next day with Cheeto dust on
me though.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (22:10):
Oh in you?

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025 (22:11):
Yeah, I would get a yeast infection
after that.
As long as it's not flame andhot, I'd be okay.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (22:16):
Oh, so you guys are fucking Chester.
Marrying Mr.
Peanut.
Killing Chuck E.
Cheese.
Okay.
I was gonna say, I'm gonna killChester.
I'm gonna, fuck Mr.
Peanut and marry Chuck E.
Cheese that,

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_1 (22:31):
are you marrying chuckle cheese?

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2 (22:33):
Charles Entertainment, cheese.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_1009 (22:36):
because I want access to the arcade.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_10 (22:39):
He does have an empire.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (22:41):
have an empire, you know, he's, he's
rolling in, in the Cheddar.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_ (22:45):
Yep.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (22:46):
Um, they've got those like Tube
jungle gym things that I lovecrawling around.
And I feel like whenever youmarry these guys, it can just
kind of be like a, you don'thave to spend a ton of time

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025 (22:59):
just like trophy

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (22:59):
know, it can be like a, mm-hmm.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025 (23:02):
will remind River that they are
allergic to peanuts, so maybebeing married to Mr.
Peanut would not be a good idea.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_100 (23:10):
I have to kill Mr.
Peanut.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (23:12):
damn.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025 (23:13):
Fuck.
I forgot.
I forgot my damn own allergy.
Well, this changes things.
I think I might have to be withPoppy on this one.
Then in terms of marrying Chuckycheese,

skye-guest163_1_07-13-202 (23:25):
Yeah.
'cause I'm marrying Mr.
Peanut for that old money, youknow what I'm saying?

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_ (23:29):
he's got old money and then you get
to hang out with Baby Nut.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-202 (23:33):
Yeah.
That's my, that's my stepson.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_10091 (23:35):
That's your stepson?
Okay.
Are we ready?

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_ (23:40):
What sick fuck have you found for us?

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (23:43):
Okay, so this one is weird and kind of
like river.
I had never heard of it beforeresearching this episode.
It's kind of obscure and I hadto dig around a lot to find
mentions of it.
But The first mention I saw ofit, I'll talk about in a little
bit.
and I was like, what the fuck?

(24:05):
And I was hooked from there.
this one is mostly based inAppalachia.
It is found all over NorthAmerica.
But mostly in Appalachia.
And you guys know that I love anAppalachian creature.
So here's a little reminder ofthe rules for when you are
hiking in Appalachia.
We said this back in episode 17as well, but just a refresher

(24:26):
for you.
One, never leave the trail.
You may not find your way back.
Two, don't walk the woods fromdusk till dawn.
Three.
Don't sing and especially don'twhistle.
Four.
Never look too hard at thetrees.
And five, if you hear someonecall your name, even if the
voice is familiar, especially ifthe voice is familiar.

(24:49):
No, you didn't.
Okay, so I've got a, I've gottapicture this.
I've gotten imagine to.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_100 (24:56):
I hate it when you do this,

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (24:57):
Yeah.
And this one.
It's kind of long, but there area lot of parts.
There are a lot of components tothis one that I need to get
across to you.
So if you're not driving orchopping onions, you can close
your eyes.
You're hiking with your buddy ona backwoods trail.
This is the deepest you've everbeen into the backwoods, in

(25:18):
fact, but you are completely atease.
It's peaceful out here, You'veseen no other human beings since
you stopped for gas thismorning.
You haven't spoken a word toyour buddy in a minute.
Both of you preoccupied in yourown minds.
You're thinking about how faryou are from the campsite you
reserved, how you still havemiles to go, and then a scream

(25:40):
pierces the air coming from yourleft, maybe half a mile away.
It sounds almost humid in tone,but it goes on for way too long,
too long to be produced from asingle breath.
As it finally tapers out, itfades into a low guttural moan.
You realize you're holding yourbreath.
Your friend looks to you andnervously says, it must be a

(26:02):
mountain lion.
You know, it wasn't a mountainlion.
You know?
They know it wasn't a mountainlion.
You don't think mountain lionseven live in this part of the
country.
We should keep moving.
You say then, from your rightoff the opposite side of the
trail, you hear a voice, afriendly human voice.
Help me.
He asks your eyes, search theforest, and you don't see anyone

(26:24):
until, is that It is.
There's a man standing partiallybehind a tree in the distance.
His upper body's mostly visible,sticking out at a 45 degree
angle.
His next slack head drooping tothe side arm hanging down, limp
from his shoulder.
Then he wrenches himself backbehind the tree, disappearing

(26:45):
from view.
You take a step forward.
What the fuck are you doing?
Your friend says You don'tanswer.
You watch as the puppet.
No, No, As the man appears,again, upper body smoothly,
sliding out from behind a treefarther away from the trail, you
feel a tug like there's a threadknit into your rib cage and it's

(27:05):
pulling you forward hard.
You can't help but step off thetrail.
Stop.
Your friend says, trying to holdyou back, but you jerk your arm
out of their grasp and quicklywalk deeper into the trees.
You can't stop quietly.
So quietly you almost can't feelit.
An alarm blares in the back ofyour mind fighting against the

(27:26):
mysterious fog that's filledyour skull, but it loses the
fight.
So forward you go.
You grind your teeth as youreyes scan the trees, and each
time you get a little closer tothe man, he disappears and pops
out from behind another tree alittle farther away.
It stopped asking for help,though it doesn't need to
anymore.

(27:47):
Finally, the puppet disappearsand doesn't reappear Your heart
quickens.
Your throat constricts, and youbreak into a run toward the last
place you saw it.
Desperate, frantic.
You reach the tree and quicklylook behind it, and you see a
stump, a large tree stump with asizable hollow, and sticking out
of that hollow is the lower bodyof a man wearing jeans and

(28:10):
sneakers.
And as soon as you register whatyou're seeing, the legs scramble
forward and down into thehollow.
You don't hesitate.
You fall to your hands and kneesand begin to crawl into the
Stump Hollow.
The earth is damp, but itdoesn't smell like detritus.
It smells like rotting flesh.
You can't see anything, but youneed to know where those legs

(28:31):
went.
Are you close?
You bring your arms over yourhead and inch forward on your
belly searching in front of youfor something that might feel
like shoes.
The hole is getting more narrow.
you.
Exhale, depress all the air fromyour lungs, shrinking your rib
cage as much as you can so youcan get just a little deeper
into the passage.

(28:52):
You have to keep going.
You don't know why, but you feellike moving forward is the most
important thing in the world.
The only thing in the world, youwould die for it, you know you
will die for it.
You wedge yourself forward untilyou are really and truly stuck
at this downturned angle.
Blood rushes to your head, yourchest burns and you try to

(29:12):
inhale, but the walls of thetunnel hold you too tightly.
You can't breathe, and that'swhen you panic.
Whatever abomination grippedyour mind before the one that
lured you here has retreatedcompletely.
Now you're alone in your head.
You can't breathe.
You thra your limbs.
You can't breathe.

(29:32):
Fingers start to go numb.
You can't breathe hands blindly,grasp at nothing.
Wait.
You're able to brush somethingwith your fingertips, roots,
maybe desperately.
You try to grab onto themthinking maybe you can pull
yourself forward at least.
Then the roots grab back, notroots, hands, sweaty, boneless,
hands wrap around your wristsand begin to tug.

(29:54):
You immediately regret reachingforward.
You try to scream, but there'sno air in your lungs to carry
the sound.
More hands now, this time aroundyour ankles, they pull too and
they pull hard.
Fighting against the force,dragging you deeper down your
head burns you.
Feel yourself fading black,creeping around your your
vision.
You're going to loseconsciousness.

(30:15):
Then the fleshy things, graspingyour wrists, the things
pretending to be hands let go.
The ones around your anklesdon't, and you're pulled upwards
and outwards.
You fight and kick, but you'repulled out anyway.
Finely tasting air and daylightagain.
The hands release you and youroll over to see your hiking
buddy.
Red faced and mad.

(30:36):
They cross their arms over theirchest.
We have to go.
They say now and march away fromyou, back toward the trail.
You get up, brush yourself offand follow them.
Something from the deep and darkcalls to you wanting you to look
back over your shoulder beggingyou, but you don't.
You leave.
You are no longer completely atease in the backwoods, and you

(30:58):
still haven't seen another humansince you stopped for guests
this morning.
So that's the Stump Hollow man.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025 (31:06):
What the fuck?

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025 (31:08):
dude?

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (31:09):
I know,

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_ (31:10):
What the fuck?

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (31:12):
I know.
Again, so this one kind of likereverse it.
It's not really a, I mean it'skind of crypted.
It's, so there literally areonly like 10, 10 or 12 different
posts on the internet aboutthis.
but it's not really encrypted asmuch as an entity.
I feel like.

(31:33):
I don't know.
we'll get into it.
Okay.
So the Stu Hollow man,

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_1 (31:38):
and I do hope you answer all of
them.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (31:40):
we will get there hopefully.
stump Hollow man, like I said,north America, mostly
Appalachia, but there arestories all around the country.
Yeah, a lot of stumps.
A lot of hollows.
Mostly on the east coast.
Kind of like following themountain range.
And mostly in the backwoods.

(32:00):
So you won't find this one inhistoric log books or old
colonial diaries, anything likethat.
I also don't know if there areany indigenous legends that kind
of mirror this or not.
I didn't see any.
but the first mention of theStump Hollow man, and they
didn't call it that yet, but thefirst mention appeared in 2003

(32:22):
on an internet forum calledForest Alert, specifically for
park rangers.
park rangers that work in likenational parks, state parks,
national forests and whatnot.
mostly for stuff like there wasa cougar spotted in this area,
like tips and tricks.
Yeah.
Other general web form stuff.

(32:42):
It's like back then there was aweb form for everything.
but Forest Alert didn't haveanything scary on it.
It was all business, you know,just park Rangers sharing, their
work stuff essentially.
Then Bear Guy four comes

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025_ (33:00):
Hey guys, uh, just in the forum

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_1 (33:03):
um, something really fucking weird
just happened.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (33:07):
bar Guide four basically tells the
story that I just shared, askingif anyone had experienced
something similar.
He was a ranger, so he was aranger, but he wasn't working at
this time.
He was just hiking with thefriends in the backwoods of West
Virginia.
In this case though, the friendwas the one that saw it and
chased it.

(33:28):
And then he chased the friend,like, what the fuck are you
doing?
He found the friend on his handsand knees peering into a stump
Hollow.
And afterward the frienddescribed seeing the lower body
of a man scramble into the hole,like as he

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025 (33:44):
Yeah.
What the fuck is that all about?

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (33:47):
I don't know, but I don't like it.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_100 (33:48):
I don't like that.
It's, it's got two puppets.
It's operating.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (33:53):
the top half and the bottom half,
the comments on that post mostlyare like, you're trolling and
they're chastising him forbasically like putting a
creative writing thing up onthis forum that's supposed to be
for sharing cougar sightings andwhatnot.
But one comment said, yeah,something similar happened to me
and my friend, only in thatcase, they were the one that

(34:14):
chased and their friend,followed them.
That comment described feelingcompelled, like they couldn't
help but follow the thing intothe forest.
They didn't see the legs, butthey did see a Stump Hollow.
They had an overwhelming urge tocrawl into it, but the friends
stopped them before theyentered.
Thank God.

(34:34):
After that, the next post, was2010 on the r slash ask Reddit
subreddit on a post asking for Iknow Crazy Park Ranger stories.
And it had a ton of responses.
but there was one that wasbasically telling this story.
it would be so funny if it wasthe same guy, but I don't think

(34:55):
it was Bear Guy.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_ (34:56):
It's so hard to tell unless he's also
r slash user bear guy four.
Um,

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (35:02):
slash bear guy four.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_10 (35:03):
my apologies.
I'm not a redditer

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (35:05):
since then, similar stories have been
posted mostly on Reddit.
Um, ask Reddit r slash askReddit r slash park ranger r
slash backwoods.
Creepy to name a few.
if you wanna try to find them,check'em out there.
All of the accounts are slightlydifferent.
Most take place in thebackwoods.
Some of them do take place inparks, national parks, state

(35:28):
parks, or national forests.
They all follow a generalsequence of events.
Though there are always twopeople, they always describe
hearing a sound like a gutturalscream.
Some people say it sounds like amountain lion.
but it's in areas where thereare no mountain lions, like West
Virginia.

(35:48):
Some say it sounds like a human,it's like a feminine or a
masculine voice.
And in one case they said itsounded like an air raid siren.
So it didn't sound like a voice.
It sounded like an air raidsiren sounding right before,
which to me is worse than ascream.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_1 (36:04):
Oh, that's way more horrifying.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (36:06):
It makes me think of like a
government experiment orsomething.
Like there's a, that humanelement is added in there.
Like what forest entity is gonnaknow what an air raid siren
sounds like.
and it's like, why the soundbefore?
What does that have to do withanything?
It's like, is it a distraction?
Is it something else?
Trying to warn them, maybe

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_10 (36:27):
Is it, I don't know, like a hunting
call, like some animals will

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (36:31):
like.
a trumpet.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_100 (36:32):
I don't know.
Yeah.
It's like, I got you.
I you.
I sniffed you out.
Get in my stump.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (36:39):
I'm getting my stump.
Then after they hear the sound,they hear from a completely
different direction.
Some kind of human voice saysomething.
Usually it's asking for help.
but sometimes it's just sayinglike, hello, or Come here and I
don't know what's worse, comehere or help.
I feel like help is probablyworse.
I don't know.

(37:00):
then they describe seeing aquote human like figure in the
distance, but they never see thewhole body at once.
It's just the upper body.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2 (37:10):
dangling like limp.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (37:12):
kind of limp like or peaking.
It described as like peekingaround the trees or around like
large boulders or whatever.
some of them did say it waslimp, like it looked like a
finger puppet.
You know, just kind of like,this isn't a

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025 (37:27):
Which like if I'm in the woods asking
for help, I like, I'm steppingin broad daylight, like
extending and waving my armsbeing like, Hey, I'm a person in

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (37:38):
yeah.
Or you're blowing your whistlethat you should have.
Yeah.
so they see that, they feel thatsomething's off and they don't
wanna follow it, but they'recompelled to their's something
that latches onto their mindthat makes them go forward.
and it seems like it's not thatthey lose control of their body
necessarily, they're stillaware.

(37:58):
they're just like overcome withthis desire that they can't
deny.
If you follow it, eventually youcome upon a stump hollow.
and it looks, or it seems likein this case, it's never a
natural tree fall.
it's not like this tree gotreally old and rotted and then
fell and there's a stump left.
It's like this tree was choppeddown and usually it's a big

(38:20):
tree.
And so this is weird in thebackwoods because the backwoods
aren't maintained.
They're remote.
not a lot of people there.
So to see just a random big assObviously cut down stump with a
hole in it.
Like that's

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_ (38:35):
Ugh,

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_10091 (38:35):
weird.
The stump has a hollow in it.
Some of them say that the spaceinside of the hollow looks
bigger than it should be basedon the size of the trunk.
And again, they feel, anoverwhelming urge to look
inside, either to like peerinside, stick their head inside,
or some of them were like, Iwanted to crawl into the stump.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_ (38:56):
this hole was made for

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (38:58):
Yeah.
Oh yeah.
Gross.
and then the worst part is thelegs sticking out for me.
Not all of them said that therewere legs, but multiple of them
did.
They're like, you see thesehumanoid?
Yeah.
Like you're following someoneelse into the hole and they're,
it's just like legs, likescrambling erratically to crawl

(39:21):
into the hole.
One of them was like, it lookedlike how a child would draw
pants and a foot, you know, likestraight down and maybe just
like a line demarcating acrosswhere the pants are separate
from the shoes.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-20 (39:36):
That's so cartoonish.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (39:38):
I know it's like, I know, but
gross at the same time.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025 (39:44):
legs running.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (39:45):
And then the worst one for me was
dirty jeans.
Like the lower body was wearingdirty jeans and no shoes.
Just barefoot.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_ (39:54):
just dogs

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (39:55):
Yeah.
I hate the barefoot part.
I don't know why that's so

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_1 (39:58):
Oh, no.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025 (39:59):
Just big hobbit feet.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13 (40:00):
Especially in the woods.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_1009 (40:03):
walking around in the woods, running in
the woods,

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025 (40:06):
Yeah.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (40:07):
you wanna crawl into that hole so
badly, but everybody that wrotea story was able to overcome the
compulsion so they didn't end upgoing in like they did in my
imagine.
maybe it just wants you tofollow it to the stump

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025_ (40:22):
The stump just wants to be known.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_1 (40:24):
But there's something in the stone.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (40:27):
about to get to that.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2 (40:28):
Alright, I'll see.
I'll

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (40:30):
Some of them say if you do look
inside, like if you do peerinside, get down on your hands
and knees, or if you stick yourhead inside, you see quote hand
like structures.
One post said quote, like how afishing lure is floppy and not a
great imitation of a bug or alittle fish or whatever it

(40:50):
wanted them to look like.
Hands.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025_1 (40:52):
So the inside of the stump has
flesh.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (40:56):
Seems kind of like those, deep sea
lantern fish.
You know what I'm talking about?
Like with the light that draws

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_ (41:02):
were

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_1009 (41:03):
mm-hmm.
Where some fish have like, theyopen their mouths and their
tongue looks like a bug.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-20 (41:09):
mm-hmm.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_10091 (41:10):
about?

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_10 (41:11):
To get their prey in there.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (41:12):
so yeah, only seen by people in
pairs, which makes me think thatif you're not with another
person, maybe you do go into thehole.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2 (41:24):
Nobody's there to pull you out.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (41:25):
there to pull you out.
Or like, maybe the compulsion islike diluted with more than one
person or something.
And if you're alone, you justcan't, you can't fight it.
Like there's nobody there toprevent it.
So what, what is it?
What the fuck?

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_ (41:42):
What is that thing?

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (41:43):
I like some kind of fa creature.
It want, is it, does it want it,is it hungry?
Like, is it like a

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_10 (41:49):
A, I thought your visual journey
was gonna take a, like anothersinister turn on top of all the
other sinister turns it had, andI thought the person was gonna
start being digested in thestump.
Like you go, like it's a, like adigestive track.
You just keep going and it getslike smaller and

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025_ (42:11):
The stump just the mouth.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (42:14):
I feel like the hands are there to
pull you in deeper,

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025_10 (42:17):
a part of the esophagal tube
network of what's underneath,whatever's underground.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_1 (42:23):
How deep does that shit go?

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (42:26):
it's like, I don't know, maybe it's
not malevolent.
Maybe it just wants you to comeand see the stump for some
reason.
Because

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_ (42:34):
It's

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_10 (42:35):
accounts,

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_10 (42:36):
in there.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (42:37):
if, you accept that really only
people in pairs see it andnobody actually gets engulfed
or, or whatever, maybe it justwants you to come and look at
the stump for whatever

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025_1 (42:49):
it just wants to be known.
Truly.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (42:50):
Yeah.
But it does want you to crawlinside of it.
Like that is a part of it.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025_ (42:55):
no, it's giving vore.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_ (42:57):
it's giving forward.
It's giving consuming.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_1009 (43:00):
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
So that's the Stump Hollow man.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_100 (43:04):
I don't like it.

skye-guest163_1_07-13- (43:05):
There's, it's not a man though.
Like, I guess the little puppetthing luring you is like kind of
a

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_10091 (43:12):
That's what they call it.
They call it the Stump Hollow

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025_ (43:14):
I'm just imagining sort of an
amorphous, fleshy thingunderground and much Like a
mushroom, it's got like atendril that goes up into a
stump Hollow.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (43:27):
the legs?

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025 (43:28):
just a blob underneath, I think.
I don't know.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_100 (43:31):
I mean, it might like one tendril
might have the upper body andthen another tendril.
If it's two halves of a body,it's like, I got you at the top
half and I'm gonna seal the dealWith the legs

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025 (43:43):
It's giving mycelium, you know, like
it's, it's like a network sortof thing.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (43:49):
It's definitely bigger than just the
puppet.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025_1 (43:52):
Oh

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_10 (43:52):
If it's all across Northern
America.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025 (43:55):
It's all the same thing.
It's just the one entity

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025 (43:58):
Yeah.
Ew.
I just thought of that.
That's yucky.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (44:01):
Yeah.
cause I mean, fungi can be hugeLike that.
Like their, their

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025 (44:06):
wide.
Right.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (44:07):
yeah.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_ (44:08):
That was really gross.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (44:10):
Yeah.
I

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_100 (44:11):
I also, like at a point during
the, the guided journey, I waslike, I feel like I'm in the
nutty putty cave and I gotta getoutta here.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (44:18):
is that?

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_1 (44:19):
You haven't heard about the nutty
putty cave incident?

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (44:23):
No.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-20 (44:24):
There's um, there's like a YouTube,
there's several YouTube videosabout it at this point.
But a, a guy goes cave divingand he thinks he's going down a
certain cave tunnel and systemhe's familiar with, but it's
actually a much more narrow cavesystem.
And he's going headfirst and itstarts like a steep

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (44:43):
a real story that happened.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025 (44:45):
Yeah.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (44:46):
I've, I've seen

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-202 (44:47):
story.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (44:49):
or not the

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025 (44:49):
Yeah.
And he gets stuck

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_1009 (44:53):
Mm-hmm.
I think he also has his handsover his head like

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_10 (44:56):
He does.
Yeah.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (44:58):
Yeah.
That's, this is,

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_1 (45:00):
So,

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (45:00):
a good position to be

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_1 (45:01):
no, if I was.
in a tube constricting my airlike this, I would die of
fright.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (45:07):
Like if your arms are down by your
sides, at least I feel like youhave more,

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025_1 (45:11):
Or like this, like with your arms
to the side.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025 (45:13):
Yeah.
You would at least like be ableto be like, oh, this is getting
a little

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025_ (45:18):
You might be able to push.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-202 (45:20):
scooch on back.
Also, like how in the, in yourguided meditation, at the very
least, like

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_10091 (45:27):
guided meditation.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_ (45:28):
into the horrifying guided meditation
that you did, the person waslike crawling into the stump for
quite a distance.
So how did their friend like

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (45:39):
I don't think they were really
that

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_1 (45:41):
out of there?

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (45:42):
I don't know.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-20 (45:43):
seemed, yeah,

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (45:44):
them.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-202 (45:45):
maybe.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025 (45:46):
they were only able to get ankles, so
I mean, depending on how tallthis person was, they might have
been, you know, four and a half,five feet deep.
And are they vertically, like ata 90 degree because

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (45:57):
it's like a downward slope.
That's because I was like, it,when you look into it, it looks
like it's bigger on the inside,so I'm like, it must go

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_10 (46:07):
It must I,

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_10091 (46:09):
Right.
I mean, it's like a hole in theground.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-202 (46:11):
Yuck.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_ (46:12):
that was really yucky.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025_10 (46:13):
I don't wanna fuck that thing
either.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_100 (46:15):
I don't wanna fuck that thing.
Well,

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025_1 (46:18):
I,

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (46:18):
Well,

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_100 (46:19):
I don't know.
I haven't, I haven't heard

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025_ (46:20):
you just lay on top of the stump and
hump at it.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_100 (46:23):
I just wait for the hands to come
up.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_10 (46:25):
tendrils.
okay.
You guys ready?
We've got the Cocoa Puffs bird.
We've got the Raisin brand Sunand all three of the Rice Krispy
Elves.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_1 (46:38):
Let me google what the cocoa puff
bird looks like.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (46:40):
He's cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025 (46:42):
Okay.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100 (46:43):
yelling.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025_ (46:43):
I'm fucking him.
I'm killing the elves andmarrying the son.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_1009 (46:47):
Really?
Okay.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-202 (46:49):
gonna fuck the elves, aren't you?
Yeah,

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025 (46:54):
Yeah.
The sun, he just looks so kindand so jovial,

skye-guest163_1_07-13-202 (46:59):
looks like a provider.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_1 (47:01):
and I love raisins.
I used to love Raisin brand.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (47:05):
Oh, I love Raisin brand.
Raisin Brandand Crunch.
Are you kidding me?

skye-guest163_1_07-13-202 (47:08):
good.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_ (47:09):
It's so fucking good.
And I could have that shit everyday with him as my husband.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_1009 (47:14):
scoops.
He's got the

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2 (47:15):
Mm-hmm.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100 (47:16):
raisins.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025 (47:17):
Yeah.
I wanna kill the elves.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (47:19):
okay.
Okay.
You guys are fucking the bird.
Marrying the sun.
Killing the elves.
I think I'm gonna actually fuckthe bird.
Marry the elves.
Kill the sun.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025_ (47:30):
Oh,

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025 (47:30):
Okay.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025_10 (47:31):
I try to kill the sun

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_ (47:33):
Polygamist.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_ (47:35):
your best.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (47:36):
Well, I don't know if it's like the
real son or if he's just kind offloating around, like,

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025_10 (47:40):
I don't know.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (47:40):
the son that cooks the raisins?

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_ (47:42):
he's just like, 10% of the sun come
down still a lot.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_1 (47:48):
Apparently there's a Mandela effect thing
with him wearing sunglasses.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025_10 (47:51):
I was imagining him wearing
sunglasses, but I think that'sjust'cause we all drew
sunglasses on our suns in thetop left corner of our drawings
as a

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (47:59):
why,

skye-guest163_1_07-13-202 (48:00):
cause it's

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (48:01):
why?
Why do we do that?

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-20 (48:02):
bright.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_1009 (48:04):
Because he's cool.
There must be like, there mustbe some kind of reason.
I don't know.
do we need another break?
Are we ready to, to hop in

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_1 (48:11):
I'm ready to roll into it if you
guys

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025_1 (48:13):
so we can roll in.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_100 (48:15):
I am tired of these fucking beasts
and creatures.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025 (48:19):
both both of yours were very sort of
amorphous, just like, what isthat?

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_ (48:26):
just more of like a thing that'll get

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025 (48:28):
It's hardly even a thing.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_1 (48:30):
get

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025_10 (48:31):
a concept, you know what I mean?
Like a a

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (48:34):
I feel like mine was definitely
like a physical, tangible thingthat lives in the

skye-guest163_1_07-13-202 (48:39):
yeah.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-20 (48:40):
Outside of the physical marks on mine,
there was no like, oh, I gotgrabbed or I got shoved or
anything.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-202 (48:48):
Okay.
Mine is sort of similar flavorsto River's, topic of the hollow.
However, it's a different sortof, I'll get into it.
It's,

pulse--2001-_1_07-13- (48:59):
Iteration of

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025_10 (49:01):
I feel like they'd be friends.
They have the same missionstatement.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13 (49:06):
maximizing their joint.
Slay.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025 (49:08):
Yes.
Uh, they're, they're networkingtogether perhaps.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (49:12):
doing a collab.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_1 (49:13):
it.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-202 (49:13):
Yeah.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-20 (49:14):
they're doing IG posts together to sell
multivitamins.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025_ (49:20):
uh, they're selling sugar bear hair
or whatever that shit wascalled.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (49:23):
Oh man.
You know, people are gettinglike poisoned from those,
they're like overdosing

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025 (49:30):
don't know.
I just know there was that likea big.
Drama, get in and like makeup,YouTube with like James Charles
and Shane Dawson and JeffreyStar.
It was a fucking mess.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2 (49:42):
Anyway, my little creature, mine is a
critter, a physical thing.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_ (49:48):
Ooh.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025_ (49:49):
got multiple names.
it's generally located sort ofin like the southern,
southwestern United States andsort of northern Mexico region.
the name I like the best is ElGuano del,

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_1 (50:05):
And what does that

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025 (50:06):
that translates to?
the worm of fear.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (50:09):
Oh,

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025 (50:10):
it's not per se, a worm, but it is
also called the nightmarenipper, night Creepers or night
crawlers, or the Dream Ear wig.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (50:21):
Hmm.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_1 (50:22):
Get out of my ear.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_1 (50:23):
parasitic.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-202 (50:24):
Yeah.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_ (50:25):
it's an infestation.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025_1 (50:27):
So a little, just a brief little
intro for this little guy.
I found something that says ElGuano Rio is a rumored,
centipede like creature, oftendescribed as being several
inches long with a bright bluebody and red head, and pincers
known for stealthily enteringhuman ears to feed on dreams and

(50:49):
induce terrifying nightmares.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_1 (50:52):
Ew.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (50:52):
I hate a bug in the ear.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_ (50:54):
Hate that.
Hope it never happens to me.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (50:57):
Have you watched videos of like
mocked removals from people'sears?

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_ (51:02):
it's pretty horrifying.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025_1 (51:03):
So all the posts about this thing
are, they just kind of post apicture of like a bug.
Like they just post like a reel,just a random centipede.
They're just like, I.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (51:16):
He found

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_ (51:17):
it's just an earthworm.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-202 (51:19):
Yeah, so I took it upon myself to draw
this thing and I'm gonna send itto the group chat real quick so
you can see what I've done.
And I'll post it on Instagramtoo.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13 (51:32):
encrypted.
One P and G.
Let's see.
Oh,

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (51:36):
Oh, in the ear.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-202 (51:38):
gross.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_10 (51:39):
Horrible.
Love it though.
He's actually kind of cute.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-202 (51:42):
yeah.
I made him kind of cute, but Ifeel like IRLI.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_10 (51:46):
If it didn't crawl in my ear and
feast on my nightmares

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (51:49):
It looks like he's crying.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025 (51:51):
He's just got like eye shine

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_ (51:54):
With his big wet eyes.
Can I please go in your earplease?
I'm so hungry.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025_1 (52:00):
I,

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (52:01):
that his little scorpion tail?

skye-guest163_1_07-13-202 (52:03):
yeah, he is got like a little.
Tail pincher thing.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2 (52:07):
Multiple latch points.
I don't

skye-guest163_1_07-13-202 (52:09):
Yeah.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_1 (52:10):
Oh, I just imagined it

skye-guest163_1_07-13-202 (52:11):
Yeah.
What's his deal?
What's he got going on?
Why is he doing this?
So he feeds on fear andnightmares.
the theory is, is that in themiddle of the night, one of
these centipedes will crawl intoyour ear latch onto your eardrum
with its pincers, and it ha it'svenom has like a numbing effect

(52:35):
or something like it, so youcan't feel it.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_1 (52:37):
it.
has venom.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-202 (52:40):
This, this is all theoretical, the
whole,'cause the whole thingwith this crypted, this
centipede earwig worm thing isthat you as the host don't know
it's there.
The only way to know for sure ifyou've got one of these things
is if someone else sees it goingin or coming out of your ear.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_1 (53:01):
Oh,

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (53:02):
So it's small enough that it can
like get all the way in thereand be concealed.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-202 (53:06):
Well, not exactly.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_ (53:09):
it's several

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025 (53:10):
Some of them are reported to be
between like four and eightinches long.
some people say, depending onhow strong it is, so if it's
been feasting for a while, likethey can get pretty big I assume
probably just however much, likejust the head needs to be
attached to the eardrum and therest of it might just be

(53:31):
dangling out of your head.
Um, so yeah, so once it's inthere, I.
I don't really know how itoperates, but it will induce
nightmares.
So it latches on to your eardrumand it induces nightmares and
then it sucks and feeds off ofyour, your fear.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025 (53:53):
Okay,

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025_1 (53:54):
if you have preexisting history of
nightmares, it might attract,you might attract it to you
because it might be like, Ooh,dinner's ready.
You know what I mean?

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025 (54:05):
Leave me alone.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025_1 (54:07):
of perpetuates this cycle of If you
are like a fucked up littlefreak who's got like scary
nightmares, it'll come and feedon you and like make it worse
and worse and worse and worse.
And then if someone, yeah, andthen if someone comes in and
sees it, it's gonna be like, Ew,that's gonna scare whoever sees
it, your.
Sibling, your partner, yourparent, whoever.

(54:29):
And then

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025 (54:29):
Yeah.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025 (54:30):
were gonna get nightmares from that.
And then they're gonna likereproduce or like go

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025 (54:34):
gonna crawl out your ear.
Go into their

skye-guest163_1_07-13-202 (54:37):
Yeah.
They, they might tell theirother little friends to like
come or they might reproduce and

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (54:43):
Oh, eggs.

skye-guest163_1_07 (54:44):
perpetuating cycle of

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_10 (54:45):
If you lay eggs in my ear, I'm
gonna do something drastic.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025 (54:50):
Some people say it whispers into the
ear and that's how it causes thenightmares.
Others say the venom may have aneffect that induces the fear.
Something about pumpingadrenaline or something.
others say it's simplytelepathic, but because it needs
to be close range to the brainto like transmute its little

(55:10):
telepathic fear nightmare orwhatever.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_10 (55:14):
Bluetooth don't go that far.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-202 (55:16):
Yeah.
Bluetooth don't go that far.
It needs to connect

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_1 (55:19):
Oh,

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025 (55:20):
some signs or some symptoms if you
have one of these things similarto the hollow, really equal to
just kind of having, uh, youknow, a mental health issue,
frequent nightmares thatpersistently get worse.
Worsening mental health,paranoia, ringing in the ears.
Tinnitus is a common symptomwith this, potentially gradual

(55:43):
loss of hearing or even scartissue on the eardrum, which
obviously you wouldn't be ableto tell unless you went to an
ENT and you had like, physicaldamage to the eardrum.
but I did some digging and I waslike, why the hell would this
crypted exist?
Right?
Because typically cryptids comelike folklore as legend based

(56:05):
on.

(56:27):
there is a real centipede calledLop Pendra Harris, AKA, the
giant redheaded centipede.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_1 (56:37):
Let me look that up real quick.
Hold on.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025_ (56:39):
and this, uh, I saw something that
said, on average it's six and ahalf inches long.
They're nasty.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_1 (56:45):
Oh, Oh, I've drawn one of these
before.
They are nasty.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_10091 (56:50):
you've done what to one of those
before?

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_100 (56:52):
I have drawn one of them before
for like an art reference.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (56:56):
my God.
They're, they're so thick.
Like their legs

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025 (56:59):
Yeah.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100 (56:59):
they're, do you see the picture of it
next to a hand?

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025 (57:02):
big,

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-20 (57:03):
They're juicy, dude.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (57:05):
Oh man.
It's got curly little antenna.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025 (57:08):
Yeah, it's pretty cute.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-202 (57:09):
Yeah, so it's, it's got a lot in
common with our cryptic here, soit's in the same area.
Like I said, it's nocturnal, soit only comes out at night.
this creature does have venom tosubdue their prey.
It causes paralysis.
I think, uh, like when it, byit, that particular, like the

(57:30):
big giant centipede, the realcentipede, it can like paralyze
like a mouse or something likeit's.
Dangerous it when it biteshumans, it's not gonna kill you
probably, but like it's a very,very painful bite.
So that's one thing that'sdifferent is that you can feel
the bite from that centipede,whereas this crypted, it doesn't

(57:51):
want you to feel it.
So that that is a difference.
yeah, like I was saying before,like most cryptics, I feel like
it's just local legendstorytelling, scaring kids into
behaving using regional truthsand examples from the
environment.
So I suspect that people in thisarea see this centipede and it's

(58:13):
just a scary bug.
And then are trying to usesomething that kids are already
scared of.
It's sort of like if you don'tbrush your teeth Yeah.
Like the boogey

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_ (58:24):
it's gonna crawl in your ear and give
you nightmares and

skye-guest163_1_07-13-20 (58:26):
Right.
Like I, I assume that that'sprobably where this crypted came
from.
and you know how centipedes justbe getting in your house.
you probably sometimes see themin your house, or people might
use it as a, like a, oh well youhave centipedes'cause you've
been bad.
Like obviously it's here becauseyou did something bad.
I don't know.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-20 (58:46):
Because you've got evil in you.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-202 (58:49):
Yeah.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (58:49):
So this one, the real one doesn't
actually crawl in people's ears.
Right.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_1 (58:54):
God for that.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (58:54):
Okay.
Okay, good.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025_1 (58:56):
to

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_100 (58:56):
I

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025_ (58:57):
eat a bug or something.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (58:58):
I could see like a baby getting in
there though,

skye-guest163_1_07-13-20 (59:01):
Maybe.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (59:02):
and wanting to and growing.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_1 (59:04):
Oh, get out.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025_1 (59:05):
So Uhoh, what do you do if you're
afraid of aip?
You're crawling into your ear.
There's two things you can do.
You can keep a nightlight onbecause apparently the crypted,
like, it really doesn't likelight, like it disappears in the
morning time, so it'll run away.
But apparently that's not aguarantee because some of the
stronger or more determined oneswill just scamper past a

(59:29):
nightlight.
so ultimately plugging your earsat night is really the only
thing that you can do to ensurethat it won't get in your ear.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (59:39):
I plug

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_1 (59:39):
uh,

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (59:40):
every night.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-202 (59:40):
Yeah.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_1 (59:41):
the only one that's truly safe.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_1009 (59:43):
Mm-hmm.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025 (59:43):
Well I sometimes wear loops or I have
a sleep headband that plays, Imean, they could theoretically
crawl up underneath

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_100 (59:53):
I was about to say, you don't
think

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (59:54):
Lift

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_ (59:55):
just slurp right in there?

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (59:57):
up, pops the ear, the earplug outta
my ear with his little

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025 (01:00:00):
Pulls the loop out goes peti

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025_1 (01:00:03):
he whispers.
You got any games on your phone?

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (01:00:06):
Oh my God.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_1 (01:00:07):
and Espanol.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-202 (01:00:09):
Yeah.
Yeah.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_100 (01:00:10):
I don't know if they speak
Spanish, but just regionally itseems like they'd be at least
bilingual lingual,

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (01:00:15):
of your dreams are just in Spanish
for some reason.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-202 (01:00:17):
that's how I would immediately know
something is a'cause.
I don't speak

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (01:00:21):
Yeah.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025_ (01:00:22):
All of your nightmares are now
telenovelas.
so it counts to this.
A lot of it is like local legendgrandparents mourning their
grandchildren about the quoteunquote night creepers.
like I said before, lots ofscaring before bed to get them
to behave, get them to plugtheir ears at night maybe so
that way they don't overhearwhatever the adults are talking

(01:00:43):
about or so that way adults canhave privacy for whatever
reason.
I do have one firsthand account,though a lot of them are
secondhand being like, Ooh, saw,saw Centipede crawling outta my
sister's ear, blah, blah.
But I do have one firsthandaccount, which I will read to
you now.
They say it was years ago, maybewhen I was around 10.

(01:01:06):
I'd always had nightmares, butthese were different.
Not just scary, but invasive.
Like something was activelyconstructing them, not just my
own brain going wild.
Every morning I'd wake up withthis faint ringing in my ears,
like a distant bell and a raw,exhausted feeling.
But then one night I woke up, ormaybe I thought I woke up, the

(01:01:30):
room was dark, but I could makeout the shapes of my dresser and
chair.
I couldn't move.
It was that classic sleepparalysis, but it wasn't just a
weight on my chest.
There was a sound too.
A low constant whisper, like athousand tiny voices murmuring
just at the edge of my hearing.
And then I felt it, not apressure, but a tickle, a light

(01:01:52):
crawling sensation just insidemy right ear.
It lasted only a few seconds,then faded.
As soon as it was gone, I couldmove again.
Heart pounding.
I didn't see anything, never sawanything.
But for weeks after, I still hadthe ringing.
And those whispers wouldsometimes echo when I was trying
to fall asleep.
My nightmares got even worse fora while.

(01:02:12):
Just vivid beyond anything I'dexperienced before.
I never told anyone about thecrawling, who would believe
that, but I still check my earssometimes before bed, even now.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (01:02:22):
I would believe that.
So I was like, I got a bug in my

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_1 (01:02:26):
let me take this flashlight in your
ear real quick.
Ew.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-202 (01:02:31):
Yeah, so that's, I.
Del

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (01:02:36):
And it was what kind of

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025_ (01:02:37):
the worm of fear.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_1 (01:02:39):
The nightmare

skye-guest163_1_07-13-202 (01:02:40):
yeah, the nightmare nipper, night
creepers, night crawlers, dreamearwig.
But if you just saw it from adistance and you just saw like a
fucking body, you'd be like,Ooh.
Kind of yucky.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_100 (01:02:52):
I am immediately putting that
thing under a cup and I'm takingit

skye-guest163_1_07-13-202 (01:02:55):
You'd need a big cup.
You'd need like a bucket for thegiant redheaded,

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025 (01:02:59):
yeah.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (01:03:01):
gulp.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_1 (01:03:01):
Oh, the weight on that thing of it,
like hitting the sides, tryingto crawl out.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025 (01:03:06):
yak.
yak, yak.
So don't wanna fuck that thingeither.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_1 (01:03:10):
No, I don't wanna fuck.
I wanna kill that thing, and I

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (01:03:12):
it would crawl in your pee hole,

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_ (01:03:15):
just like the fish.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (01:03:16):
fish.
I think I'm killing the worm offear.
I am fucking the Stump Hollowman and marrying the hollow.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025 (01:03:27):
Okay.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (01:03:28):
And I think I can change the hollow.
I think I can

skye-guest163_1_07-13-202 (01:03:31):
Girl, this is what's

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-202 (01:03:32):
That's when I was, when I was thinking
of it, I was like, oh, maybeit's just lonely.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (01:03:39):
to Disneyland,

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025 (01:03:41):
Yeah.
Maybe it just needs a friend

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025_1 (01:03:44):
Or do you think that maybe if you
just took proper medication andhad a therapist that you could
just like tolerate

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (01:03:53):
I kind of like

skye-guest163_1_07-13-202 (01:03:54):
like, nah, I'm raw dog in that guy.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (01:03:56):
I like that.
He's a bad boy though.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_1 (01:03:58):
No, I want the sorrows, I want the
despair.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (01:04:02):
Yeah.
I'm crawling into that stump.
But first,

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_100 (01:04:05):
I gotta see what's in there.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (01:04:06):
Yeah.
Compulsion.
kind of

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_100 (01:04:09):
I can't not.
Fuck it.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (01:04:11):
Yeah.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025_10 (01:04:12):
I think I'm marrying the stump.
'cause he is got property.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_ (01:04:15):
He's got land.
Will you fuck the bug or willyou fuck the hollows?

skye-guest163_1_07-13- (01:04:21):
Probably the hollows.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (01:04:23):
I think you gotta fuck the
hollows.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_ (01:04:25):
It's the only like humanoid ES esque,
fully not using like humanshapes, as puppets entity.
We have,

skye-guest163_1_07-13-202 (01:04:33):
Yeah.
'cause he's got sort of like abonded situation going on.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (01:04:37):
Yeah.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_ (01:04:37):
will say I'm very claustrophobic.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_10091 (01:04:40):
You're gonna be itchy with that rash.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025_1 (01:04:44):
We will work something out.
We'll get some, uh, milk andmagnesia or calamine lotion.
Milk and magnesia is for tummy,right?

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (01:04:52):
I think it's a laxative or the
opposite of a laxative.
I don't know which one.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_100 (01:04:58):
I don't know.

skye-guest163_1_07-13- (01:04:58):
calamine lotion as a lube.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (01:05:01):
It's a loop.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-202 (01:05:02):
Yeah.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_100 (01:05:03):
I have nothing to say to you.
You're sick and you're beyondhelp.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_10091 (01:05:05):
river, what's, what's your final
answer?

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_1 (01:05:08):
Ah.
It's much like you.
I'm killing the bug.
Fucking the Stump Hollow man.
And I am gonna, I process ofelimination.
I have to marry the hollow'causemaybe it's just lonely.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (01:05:20):
It's interesting that we had two with
hollow in the name

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_100 (01:05:24):
I did find that interesting.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (01:05:26):
two with holes, like holes in
hollows were

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025 (01:05:31):
Halls and Hollow, that's the title of
this

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (01:05:33):
Holes in Hollows.
cryptids, parentheses, holes inHollows.
I

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2 (01:05:38):
Cryptids Show Hole.
You wander into a forest, youfeel compelled to go deeper in,
and you go, wow, this hole's forme.
You shouldn't have,

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (01:05:48):
It's free real estate.
Okay, any final thoughts?

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_ (01:05:53):
That was gross, and I hated all of
them.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (01:05:56):
It was fun though.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_100 (01:05:57):
I would just hate mine.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (01:05:59):
The deep, inter, like historical
internet searches were reallyfun though.
I went to

pulse--2001-_1_07-13- (01:06:05):
Sometimes you find the best shit on there.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_10091 (01:06:08):
you're just like going pages and pages
deep into Google search.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_ (01:06:12):
Yep.
You're

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (01:06:13):
15.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-20 (01:06:15):
digits.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025_ (01:06:16):
not willing to go there and like you
two freaks mine.
It's just a bug.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (01:06:19):
I was reading all sorts of stuff.
I reading about cougar sightingsand whatnot.
I found the, Reddit post first,I think, and then backtracked,
but Hope I never meet any ofthem.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-202 (01:06:31):
Sleep

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_100 (01:06:32):
I don't wanna experience any of
these things.
Oh,

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025 (01:06:36):
Plug your ears.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_1 (01:06:37):
and I'm buying earplugs immediately.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (01:06:39):
can choose not to go into the woods.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-202 (01:06:41):
Yeah,

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (01:06:42):
they just kind of

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025_ (01:06:43):
And make

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_1 (01:06:43):
no, they just kind of show up.

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025_1 (01:06:46):
or bring multiple friends, maybe.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_ (01:06:47):
Dog.
I'm never going to Appalachiaall the shit you tell me about
Appalachia.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (01:06:52):
well if you have ever seen the Stump
Hollow Man or the Hollows or theWorm of Fear, tell us about it.
Or if you just have a, adifferent weird obscure crypted
that you'd like us to talk abouton the podcast, you can send
those to Death Covenpod@gmail.com.

(01:07:14):
We also have an Instagram whereSky is going to post her
picture, her Art of Her Crypted.
Super cool.
Go check that out at Death CovenPod.
Uh, anything else?

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_100 (01:07:29):
I feel like I need to take a
shower.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (01:07:31):
I definitely, I'm a little stinky.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_1 (01:07:33):
one

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (01:07:35):
okay.
Well buy the power of three

skye-guest163_1_07-13-2025_ (01:07:37):
And so it is.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_1 (01:07:39):
and so it is.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (01:07:40):
and so it is.
I was just gonna say, I took awalk this morning trying to get
out before it got super hotoutside and I was

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-20 (01:07:48):
Mm-hmm.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_10091 (01:07:49):
soaked in sweat by the time I got back.
It was so hot.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025_ (01:07:52):
It's July baby.

pyppo_1_07-13-2025_100914 (01:07:54):
Yeah.
Happy October listeners.

pulse--2001-_1_07-13-2025 (01:07:56):
Happy October.
Everybody Can't wait to see youthere.

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