October 25, 2025 • 27 mins
Ever feel most at home when the world tilts a little? That’s the spark for our Halloween special—an honest love letter to spooky rituals, the offbeat comfort of Treehouse of Horror, and the strange relief of embracing what doesn’t quite fit. I talk about why the uncanny feels welcoming when you’ve always felt slightly out of place and why October gives permission to be odd.
We travel back to Camp Dagget for a ghost story that refuses to behave. Picture a classic summer camp: sailing by day, an initiation in the woods, a rec hall that doubles as a rumor mill. A counselor who calls himself a ghost hunter hints at a legend—the 1950s rec director, a slap, a fall, and a restless spirit above the rafters. After a night of stargazing and debating aliens, two of us choose curiosity over comfort and step into the rec hall with glow sticks and nerves. An electrical box pops, then the room answers: ball pit balls tumble from the ceiling opening, curtains begin to part on the small stage, and instinct takes over. We run, and by morning, denial replaces explanation.
Was it a prank with perfect timing or a moment when the ordinary world cracked? I walk through the logistics, the doubt, and the ache of not knowing, and why that ambiguity still haunts me in the best way. The episode threads together Halloween nostalgia, the psychology of feeling out of place, and the kind of campfire tale that leans you forward. If you’re drawn to eerie stories, folklore, and the feeling that the edges of reality might be frayed, you’ll find a home here.
Listen, share with a friend who loves a good scare, and tell me: prank or paranormal? If the story grabs you, subscribe, leave a review, and spread the word so more curious minds can join us.
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SPEAKER_00 (00:01):
Hello and welcome to the show.
This is the first ever Halloweenepisode of the Blake Cunningham
Delirium.
This episode is a Halloweenepisode.
(00:23):
So that means that we'll havemany spooky tales and we'll have
ghoulish ghouls and we'll havecandy and jack lanterns and
everything appropriate for theseason.
(00:45):
So I bet you're wondering.
What does this episode entail?
Well, to start this off, Iwatched the um you know, I've
been a long time fan of theSimpsons Treehouse of Horror
(01:08):
episodes.
The like Halloween episodes thatuh occur once a year.
There were like Halloweenepisodes.
And I watched them.
I've I've I basically watchedthem my whole life since like
sixth grade.
I got kind of hooked.
Like every Halloween, there'slike always a Halloween episode
(01:31):
on Halloween, and you kind ofare you're you're almost invited
to watch it.
Like you're almost you you youdo dare to watch it, but and
it's at your own peril.
But so I I kind of fell in lovewith the idea of like I love
personally, I love likeHalloween episodes, okay.
(01:54):
Like I love the idea of likesomething spooky or like it it's
more or less more just likesomething out of the ordinary
really is like my ideal kind oflike I I I just love like
something out of the ordinary.
Like any I like I I'm such anidiot for I'm like I'm I'm like
(02:20):
I for like stuff that's like outof the ordinary and stuff that's
like I I love like crossoverepisodes.
Like I I at my core, I'm reallyjust like this terrible, like I
have a terrible ineptitude forlike consumerism and th things
(02:40):
of that nature, but likeHalloween episodes really just
like grab me.
Like they're the thing that getme the most because I just First
of all I love Halloween.
Second of all, I like Halloweenepisodes.
I like spooky, I like dark, Ilike dreary, I like something
(03:04):
that almost feels wrong, I likelike most Let me just be a real
Let me just be real honest withyou guys.
I just like something that feelsout of place because newsflash I
(03:26):
feel out of place Have youfigured that out Have you
figured that one out yet?
I feel like it speaks tosomething in my in my psyche
where I like I feel out of placeand I like the out of placeness
(03:46):
of a Halloween episode.
It makes me feel at home.
And maybe maybe I'm not the onlyone in this vast deep complex
world that feels like there'ssomething out of place whether
(04:10):
it's it it's them individuallyor maybe it's just the whole the
construct of the whole thingthat we call a universe but
there's something I like about aHalloween episode, and this is a
(04:31):
Halloween episode.
So where do we start?
Do we have any ghost stories?
I mean, I have a ghost story.
I have eleven percent.
If this isn't the scariest thingof this whole episode, is I have
(04:51):
eleven percent on my MacBook andI'm too lazy to get up and plug
it in.
So if this episode endsprematurely, it's because the
MacBook has failed to uh executeits duties as a MacBook and do
(05:21):
the one thing that I ask it todo, which is stay alive.
Maybe I can turn the brightnessdown.
That would kinda mitigate thethe battery life thing.
So I I mean I can think of I Ican think of many times not too
(05:44):
many, but I can think of morethan one time in my life that I
felt out of place or maybe Ifelt some kind of uncanny
feeling, but I will give you andI I might have told this before,
but I will give you my mostspookiest story.
(06:10):
My spookiest story is the storyof when I went to summer camp.
Oh, well, it didn't peak, butthat was probably pretty loud.
Of when I went to summer campand I had a paranormal
experience with the supernaturalrealm.
(06:35):
Now, my first this was truly andthis this might not be the best
reimagining of the story, but myfirst encounter with the
supernatural was at the summercamp, and I so I mean I can
(06:58):
really I can preface I can prefalet me just take a drink here,
guys.
How about we just take a momentand I take a drink and I can
preface this off because if Itell the story right, it'll
actually make it a lot betterthan if if I tell this story
wrong.
(07:20):
So I'm not sure the exact age.
I'd have to guess somewherebetween ten and thirteen.
Maybe even nine.
No.
Ten and thirteen, that's that'sthe exact age range.
Okay?
Now this camp, I'll I'll giveyou the name of the camp because
(07:40):
I don't give a fuck.
And if they try to fucking sueme, I'll fucking sue them back
for every fucking penny thatthey're fucking worth because I
don't give a fuck.
Cause this fucking summer campis built on fucking Indian
(08:06):
burial grounds.
And if that isn't scary enoughfor ya, well then this scary
story might be, okay?
So the camp in question iscalled Camp Dagget.
Camp Dagget.
(08:27):
Like dagger.
Like literally like dagger.
So Camp Dagget is a camp whereyou send your like it's honestly
it's like a camp.
Honestly, I'm not gonna lie.
(08:47):
It's for middle to upper classpeople, and I did not.
There's not a single bone in mybody that belonged at the summer
camp, okay?
Like, if I'm being totallyhonest, there's not a single
fucking part of me that belongedat this camp.
(09:12):
But I was there, okay.
I was there and I was I washonestly, I I might have been 10
or 13, but I was like, I waslooking good.
Like I was good, I was likeacting like totally gangster.
Like I had like the whole vibe.
(09:34):
Like everybody else was justkind of there, but I I I I liter
I like I literally had like avibe about me, like maybe even a
little mysterious or different,but I I I didn't give I didn't
give a I didn't give a ratplatoon about my appearance
(09:55):
because I was just kind of doingmy own thing and everybody else
was on kind of like this likethey were on like a f they were
like followers and I was sort oflike the leader.
Alright.
Like I'm not like not directly,like I wasn't like giving
orders, but like just in termsof like social ineptitude, like
(10:16):
I was kind of calling the shots.
I'm not gonna lie.
I was kinda calling the shotsbecause like for I'm I'm not
even joking, like for a weekstraight, like I went commando
and nobody knows.
Like I did not like almost thewhole there's two things while
while I was at summer camp.
(10:39):
There's two things I didn't do.
I did not wear underwear and Idid not take a shit the entire
time I was at summer camp.
So I was kind of just like onboss level mode, like the entire
time, like I kind of just wasdoing my own thing.
Like you you cannot you cannotassociate with somebody who has
(11:03):
not taken a shit in nearly onework week and also is not
wearing underwear, like thattakes a level.
That takes a level of likedetermination and like
dedication that like these otherkids they're just not gonna
(11:26):
latch on to it like on theirfirst day.
They're not gonna latch on tothat shit on our first day.
So I I actually I don't thinkthis was even I I went to that
camp like three or four times.
I don't even think this was thesame time.
But so we had a camp counselor.
(11:49):
Let me turn the mic towards me.
We had a camp counselor.
His name was his name wassomething like Mac Matt?
No, let me think, Zach.
It will come to me.
(12:10):
Let's just say his name was Mac.
I know that his name was notMac, but it was something like
that.
So Mac, my camp my campcounselor, was like a ghost
hunter, okay?
Like, take with that what youwill, of course.
(12:31):
But he was a ghost hunter thatwas like not his profession, but
more of like a hobby that heclaimed to be involved in.
So Mac I will remember his name.
I'm trying to remember, I can'tremember.
(12:53):
He was a ghost hunter, it and heclaimed to have been ghost
hunting for quite a while,honestly.
Now, Mac, he he was a cool guy.
We talked about like Super SmashBrothers for all for all my
(13:14):
gamers out there.
Can we get a can we get a hellyeah from all the gamers out
there?
I just I honestly this is like amusic thing, but I want to
relate to all the gamers outthere because all of the gamers
the gamers make the world goround.
(13:35):
Okay.
The gamers make the world goround, and you wanna know how I
know that?
It's because I'm a gamer too.
unknown (13:46):
Okay.
I'm a gamer too.
SPEAKER_00 (13:53):
So Mac the camp counselor, there's just it's
just a placeholder of a name.
I don't actually know his name.
Mac sort of um he alluded to thewhole ghost hunter thing, he
(14:16):
kind of told us about it,whatever.
So normally during this wholecampdag experience, you would
kind of I you would play somegames and you'd do the rec haul.
The recall was like gym.
You could literally just call itgym.
(14:37):
It was recreation, it was likegym.
And um there was sailing and youwould get away with you wouldn't
get away, but you'd kind of gosailing, and there's a nature
portion where you kind of walkthrough the woods and examine
specimens of all differentshapes and sizes in the realm of
(15:01):
nature, and you you'd kind ofhave your free time to do what
you'd want, and you'd do someswimming activities, of course.
It would it was your run ofmills, it was your
run-of-the-mill summer camp, andyou would kind of do all sorts
of activities, but there was oneuh activity, it wasn't entirely
(15:25):
an activity, it was more of aritual, honestly, if you ask me,
where there was the ritual ofthe inauguration, uh not
inauguration, but initiation.
It was called initiation, whereif you were a new camper, they
(15:50):
would blindfold you and theywould take you into the woods.
Okay.
Sound they would they'd do it toeveryone, not just like on an
individual basis.
They would blindfold you andthey would take you into the
woods, and they would I thissounds like the most bullshit
(16:11):
ever.
Like this this was let me behonest, this was before the
whole woke thing.
Like this was back wheneverything was like good.
This was like back when likethings functioned and like
everybody wasn't like a crazypiece of shit.
Like this was back this is theolden golden days, like this was
(16:32):
the end of the 2010s, this waslike when things were simpler,
this was before cell phones andTwitter and woke culture.
This was like this was the timeto be alive, and the fact that I
was at a summer camp instead ofin front of a computer, let me
(16:55):
tell you what that did to mypsyche.
I am such like a morewell-balanced person because of
this.
Like, I don't think I would haveany I don't think I would have
any well-being withoutexperiencing this really.
(17:15):
Because like I I wasn't likefully engrossed in technology at
this time, but I I mean I had myleg in the door as as I'm sure
the rest of us did.
But let me cut to the chase,because this is a Halloween
episode, and I know you want toget to your Halloween shit.
(17:37):
Okay, I know you want to getback to your trigger treating
and all that.
So let me cut to the chase.
So we had uh we had theinauguration ritual, and we
(17:57):
completed it.
You basically just walkedblindflo no you walk blindfolded
through the woods, and you thethey say the the the spirit of
Camp Daggett has uh done somestuff and they they bought Camp
(18:20):
Daggett for ten dollars onehundred years ago because
inflation and somebody shoots aflaming tiki torch into the lake
in in uh Native American faceand you kinda go in your merry
(18:42):
way, so of course our you knowwe're like hey this is it was
the last night of camp.
So to our ghost hunting, to ourghost hunting camp counselor,
we're like, hey, can you maybetake us ghost hunting?
(19:04):
That seems like prettyappropriate because you kind of
like cheesed at it honestlythroughout the week.
And he's like, you know, sure,yeah, we can go ghost hunting
later.
And we're all like, what, okay,we'll go later, I guess.
So I am the worst storytellerever.
(19:30):
So earlier in the week, we hadtalked to the sailing
instructor, a female, and shehad told us about kind of like
these weird paranormalexperiences that she had had in
the wreck hall.
I mentioned the I mentioned therec hall earlier, kind of like a
(19:51):
gym.
Just picture it like gym inmiddle or high school, just kind
of like a place she playeddodgeball, soccer, like floor
hockey, that kind of thing.
And she had mentioned some weirdparanormal experiences, and she
she literally like she startedcrying and left, and we're like,
(20:12):
okay, that's weird.
So now flash forward uh afterthe initiation and the um the
conversation about if we can goghost hunting, we're kind of
just looking at the stars withour hand counter, sort of like,
whoa, like and we're having likethis sort of philosophical
(20:35):
conversation about like uh aboutuh aliens and the existence of
that, and we basically cameignore the micronoise.
We came to like a sort of a anunanimous decision that yeah,
(20:57):
alien uh alien life probablyexists, and you know the drill,
and I don't know if you don'tthink that I don't know why
you're listening to this.
And after that we we w Oh bygolly, we made it to the ghost
hunting portion of the night,and the camp counselor said,
(21:22):
Okay, anybody that's not coolwith this ghost hunting thing,
well you can go back to thecabin.
So like a number literally likemy fri basically all my friends
went back to the cabin, and meand an equ I call him
acquaintance acquaintance, he'sreally a friend now, especially
(21:43):
after the experience, but atthis time we weren't super
close.
Me and him chose to take theplunge and go ghost hunting.
So we make our way into thewreck hall, and we get into the
wreck hall, and the campcounselor is telling us well,
(22:04):
about this story about the therec the previous like the 1950s
rec director.
The rec director is sort of theperson like who would organize,
like if we were gonna play sawuh soccer, that would be the rec
director's decision.
(22:26):
It was like um, you know, he waslike basically like the gym
teacher, but he was a recdirector.
I mean it was summer camp, soyou can't say gym teacher, but
you get the picture.
Um so the rec director was likehe was like pretty abusive to
(22:49):
the campers, and basicallythere's these rafters.
Rafters, and in the rafters, thekids were like playing in the
rafters, and there's this onekid who just had a mouth on him.
He had a pretty bad mouth onhim, and the rec director chose
(23:09):
to This was in the 1950s, heslapped him in the face, he fell
off the rafters and died.
So basically the legend goesthis this this kid was this kid
was uh haunting the rec placebecause he died because of the
abusive rec director.
(23:32):
So we're in this rec directoryor in the rec building that the
rec director resided at andwe're doing a seance of tour
with glow sticks, we're crackingglow sticks, we're saying the
ghost hunter guy's saying likeif anybody if there's any
(23:56):
spirits here make yourself knownor whatever.
And there's like an electricalOh, sorry.
There's like an electrical boxthat like made a noise and we're
like, whoa, that's weird.
And we're kind of sitting there,we're just kind of saying, like,
(24:16):
if there's any noise This iswhere it starts to sound fake,
but I'm really not making thisup and I wish I uh honestly I
wish I was, because it's likeone of the scariest things.
This is basically the scariestthing that ever happened to me.
He's like if there's anybodyknown.
(24:40):
If there's anybody here, makeyourself known.
And there's like a hole in theceiling where the rafters are,
and a bunch I'm not even joking.
A bunch of ball pit balls fallthrough the ceiling.
Yes, I I I know it soundsinsane.
And then there's like sort ofthis stage up up above where we
(25:03):
are, and there's curtains, andthey start to open.
And my consort goes, Run, runback to the cabin.
We all run back to the cabin.
We knock on the door, we forceourselves in, all the other
campers in my cabin, like, whatwent on?
We explained the story.
Then the next day, like rightbefore our parents pick us up,
(25:27):
we're like Will this sounds likean episode of Goosebumps.
I know this literally soundslike an episode of Goosebumps.
We ask our our counselor, like,what happened?
And he's like, Oh, I don't evenwhat are you talking about?
And then we just went home.
(25:48):
And that's my most paranormalstor that's my most paranormal
story, and I don't know what tothink about it because it could
be some kind of elaborate prank,and I do believe that maybe
that's true, but just too manyvariables were right, and just
uh it was just too odd.
(26:08):
Like So there was somebody abovethe rafters and somebody pulling
the curtains and like thosewould have to be camp counselors
and what were where were alltheir where were all their uh
campers?
Like I don't know, there's toomany variables.
I I just have to believe thatsomething supernatural went on.
(26:31):
Honestly.
And that's why this is the firstever podcast of horror.
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(26:57):
E C U N N I N G H A M.
Thank you, and good night.
Hello and welcome to the show.
This is the first ever Halloweenepisode of the Blake Cunningham
Delirium.
This episode is a Halloweenepisode.
(00:23):
So that means that we'll havemany spooky tales and we'll have
ghoulish ghouls and we'll havecandy and jack lanterns and
everything appropriate for theseason.
(00:45):
So I bet you're wondering.
What does this episode entail?
Well, to start this off, Iwatched the um you know, I've
been a long time fan of theSimpsons Treehouse of Horror
(01:08):
episodes.
The like Halloween episodes thatuh occur once a year.
There were like Halloweenepisodes.
And I watched them.
I've I've I basically watchedthem my whole life since like
sixth grade.
I got kind of hooked.
Like every Halloween, there'slike always a Halloween episode
(01:31):
on Halloween, and you kind ofare you're you're almost invited
to watch it.
Like you're almost you you youdo dare to watch it, but and
it's at your own peril.
But so I I kind of fell in lovewith the idea of like I love
personally, I love likeHalloween episodes, okay.
(01:54):
Like I love the idea of likesomething spooky or like it it's
more or less more just likesomething out of the ordinary
really is like my ideal kind oflike I I I just love like
something out of the ordinary.
Like any I like I I'm such anidiot for I'm like I'm I'm like
(02:20):
I for like stuff that's like outof the ordinary and stuff that's
like I I love like crossoverepisodes.
Like I I at my core, I'm reallyjust like this terrible, like I
have a terrible ineptitude forlike consumerism and th things
(02:40):
of that nature, but likeHalloween episodes really just
like grab me.
Like they're the thing that getme the most because I just First
of all I love Halloween.
Second of all, I like Halloweenepisodes.
I like spooky, I like dark, Ilike dreary, I like something
(03:04):
that almost feels wrong, I likelike most Let me just be a real
Let me just be real honest withyou guys.
I just like something that feelsout of place because newsflash I
(03:26):
feel out of place Have youfigured that out Have you
figured that one out yet?
I feel like it speaks tosomething in my in my psyche
where I like I feel out of placeand I like the out of placeness
(03:46):
of a Halloween episode.
It makes me feel at home.
And maybe maybe I'm not the onlyone in this vast deep complex
world that feels like there'ssomething out of place whether
(04:10):
it's it it's them individuallyor maybe it's just the whole the
construct of the whole thingthat we call a universe but
there's something I like about aHalloween episode, and this is a
(04:31):
Halloween episode.
So where do we start?
Do we have any ghost stories?
I mean, I have a ghost story.
I have eleven percent.
If this isn't the scariest thingof this whole episode, is I have
(04:51):
eleven percent on my MacBook andI'm too lazy to get up and plug
it in.
So if this episode endsprematurely, it's because the
MacBook has failed to uh executeits duties as a MacBook and do
(05:21):
the one thing that I ask it todo, which is stay alive.
Maybe I can turn the brightnessdown.
That would kinda mitigate thethe battery life thing.
So I I mean I can think of I Ican think of many times not too
(05:44):
many, but I can think of morethan one time in my life that I
felt out of place or maybe Ifelt some kind of uncanny
feeling, but I will give you andI I might have told this before,
but I will give you my mostspookiest story.
(06:10):
My spookiest story is the storyof when I went to summer camp.
Oh, well, it didn't peak, butthat was probably pretty loud.
Of when I went to summer campand I had a paranormal
experience with the supernaturalrealm.
(06:35):
Now, my first this was truly andthis this might not be the best
reimagining of the story, but myfirst encounter with the
supernatural was at the summercamp, and I so I mean I can
(06:58):
really I can preface I can prefalet me just take a drink here,
guys.
How about we just take a momentand I take a drink and I can
preface this off because if Itell the story right, it'll
actually make it a lot betterthan if if I tell this story
wrong.
(07:20):
So I'm not sure the exact age.
I'd have to guess somewherebetween ten and thirteen.
Maybe even nine.
No.
Ten and thirteen, that's that'sthe exact age range.
Okay?
Now this camp, I'll I'll giveyou the name of the camp because
(07:40):
I don't give a fuck.
And if they try to fucking sueme, I'll fucking sue them back
for every fucking penny thatthey're fucking worth because I
don't give a fuck.
Cause this fucking summer campis built on fucking Indian
(08:06):
burial grounds.
And if that isn't scary enoughfor ya, well then this scary
story might be, okay?
So the camp in question iscalled Camp Dagget.
Camp Dagget.
(08:27):
Like dagger.
Like literally like dagger.
So Camp Dagget is a camp whereyou send your like it's honestly
it's like a camp.
Honestly, I'm not gonna lie.
(08:47):
It's for middle to upper classpeople, and I did not.
There's not a single bone in mybody that belonged at the summer
camp, okay?
Like, if I'm being totallyhonest, there's not a single
fucking part of me that belongedat this camp.
(09:12):
But I was there, okay.
I was there and I was I washonestly, I I might have been 10
or 13, but I was like, I waslooking good.
Like I was good, I was likeacting like totally gangster.
Like I had like the whole vibe.
(09:34):
Like everybody else was justkind of there, but I I I I liter
I like I literally had like avibe about me, like maybe even a
little mysterious or different,but I I I didn't give I didn't
give a I didn't give a ratplatoon about my appearance
(09:55):
because I was just kind of doingmy own thing and everybody else
was on kind of like this likethey were on like a f they were
like followers and I was sort oflike the leader.
Alright.
Like I'm not like not directly,like I wasn't like giving
orders, but like just in termsof like social ineptitude, like
(10:16):
I was kind of calling the shots.
I'm not gonna lie.
I was kinda calling the shotsbecause like for I'm I'm not
even joking, like for a weekstraight, like I went commando
and nobody knows.
Like I did not like almost thewhole there's two things while
while I was at summer camp.
(10:39):
There's two things I didn't do.
I did not wear underwear and Idid not take a shit the entire
time I was at summer camp.
So I was kind of just like onboss level mode, like the entire
time, like I kind of just wasdoing my own thing.
Like you you cannot you cannotassociate with somebody who has
(11:03):
not taken a shit in nearly onework week and also is not
wearing underwear, like thattakes a level.
That takes a level of likedetermination and like
dedication that like these otherkids they're just not gonna
(11:26):
latch on to it like on theirfirst day.
They're not gonna latch on tothat shit on our first day.
So I I actually I don't thinkthis was even I I went to that
camp like three or four times.
I don't even think this was thesame time.
But so we had a camp counselor.
(11:49):
Let me turn the mic towards me.
We had a camp counselor.
His name was his name wassomething like Mac Matt?
No, let me think, Zach.
It will come to me.
(12:10):
Let's just say his name was Mac.
I know that his name was notMac, but it was something like
that.
So Mac, my camp my campcounselor, was like a ghost
hunter, okay?
Like, take with that what youwill, of course.
(12:31):
But he was a ghost hunter thatwas like not his profession, but
more of like a hobby that heclaimed to be involved in.
So Mac I will remember his name.
I'm trying to remember, I can'tremember.
(12:53):
He was a ghost hunter, it and heclaimed to have been ghost
hunting for quite a while,honestly.
Now, Mac, he he was a cool guy.
We talked about like Super SmashBrothers for all for all my
(13:14):
gamers out there.
Can we get a can we get a hellyeah from all the gamers out
there?
I just I honestly this is like amusic thing, but I want to
relate to all the gamers outthere because all of the gamers
the gamers make the world goround.
(13:35):
Okay.
The gamers make the world goround, and you wanna know how I
know that?
It's because I'm a gamer too.
unknown (13:46):
Okay.
I'm a gamer too.
SPEAKER_00 (13:53):
So Mac the camp counselor, there's just it's
just a placeholder of a name.
I don't actually know his name.
Mac sort of um he alluded to thewhole ghost hunter thing, he
(14:16):
kind of told us about it,whatever.
So normally during this wholecampdag experience, you would
kind of I you would play somegames and you'd do the rec haul.
The recall was like gym.
You could literally just call itgym.
(14:37):
It was recreation, it was likegym.
And um there was sailing and youwould get away with you wouldn't
get away, but you'd kind of gosailing, and there's a nature
portion where you kind of walkthrough the woods and examine
specimens of all differentshapes and sizes in the realm of
(15:01):
nature, and you you'd kind ofhave your free time to do what
you'd want, and you'd do someswimming activities, of course.
It would it was your run ofmills, it was your
run-of-the-mill summer camp, andyou would kind of do all sorts
of activities, but there was oneuh activity, it wasn't entirely
(15:25):
an activity, it was more of aritual, honestly, if you ask me,
where there was the ritual ofthe inauguration, uh not
inauguration, but initiation.
It was called initiation, whereif you were a new camper, they
(15:50):
would blindfold you and theywould take you into the woods.
Okay.
Sound they would they'd do it toeveryone, not just like on an
individual basis.
They would blindfold you andthey would take you into the
woods, and they would I thissounds like the most bullshit
(16:11):
ever.
Like this this was let me behonest, this was before the
whole woke thing.
Like this was back wheneverything was like good.
This was like back when likethings functioned and like
everybody wasn't like a crazypiece of shit.
Like this was back this is theolden golden days, like this was
(16:32):
the end of the 2010s, this waslike when things were simpler,
this was before cell phones andTwitter and woke culture.
This was like this was the timeto be alive, and the fact that I
was at a summer camp instead ofin front of a computer, let me
(16:55):
tell you what that did to mypsyche.
I am such like a morewell-balanced person because of
this.
Like, I don't think I would haveany I don't think I would have
any well-being withoutexperiencing this really.
(17:15):
Because like I I wasn't likefully engrossed in technology at
this time, but I I mean I had myleg in the door as as I'm sure
the rest of us did.
But let me cut to the chase,because this is a Halloween
episode, and I know you want toget to your Halloween shit.
(17:37):
Okay, I know you want to getback to your trigger treating
and all that.
So let me cut to the chase.
So we had uh we had theinauguration ritual, and we
(17:57):
completed it.
You basically just walkedblindflo no you walk blindfolded
through the woods, and you thethey say the the the spirit of
Camp Daggett has uh done somestuff and they they bought Camp
(18:20):
Daggett for ten dollars onehundred years ago because
inflation and somebody shoots aflaming tiki torch into the lake
in in uh Native American faceand you kinda go in your merry
(18:42):
way, so of course our you knowwe're like hey this is it was
the last night of camp.
So to our ghost hunting, to ourghost hunting camp counselor,
we're like, hey, can you maybetake us ghost hunting?
(19:04):
That seems like prettyappropriate because you kind of
like cheesed at it honestlythroughout the week.
And he's like, you know, sure,yeah, we can go ghost hunting
later.
And we're all like, what, okay,we'll go later, I guess.
So I am the worst storytellerever.
(19:30):
So earlier in the week, we hadtalked to the sailing
instructor, a female, and shehad told us about kind of like
these weird paranormalexperiences that she had had in
the wreck hall.
I mentioned the I mentioned therec hall earlier, kind of like a
(19:51):
gym.
Just picture it like gym inmiddle or high school, just kind
of like a place she playeddodgeball, soccer, like floor
hockey, that kind of thing.
And she had mentioned some weirdparanormal experiences, and she
she literally like she startedcrying and left, and we're like,
(20:12):
okay, that's weird.
So now flash forward uh afterthe initiation and the um the
conversation about if we can goghost hunting, we're kind of
just looking at the stars withour hand counter, sort of like,
whoa, like and we're having likethis sort of philosophical
(20:35):
conversation about like uh aboutuh aliens and the existence of
that, and we basically cameignore the micronoise.
We came to like a sort of a anunanimous decision that yeah,
(20:57):
alien uh alien life probablyexists, and you know the drill,
and I don't know if you don'tthink that I don't know why
you're listening to this.
And after that we we w Oh bygolly, we made it to the ghost
hunting portion of the night,and the camp counselor said,
(21:22):
Okay, anybody that's not coolwith this ghost hunting thing,
well you can go back to thecabin.
So like a number literally likemy fri basically all my friends
went back to the cabin, and meand an equ I call him
acquaintance acquaintance, he'sreally a friend now, especially
(21:43):
after the experience, but atthis time we weren't super
close.
Me and him chose to take theplunge and go ghost hunting.
So we make our way into thewreck hall, and we get into the
wreck hall, and the campcounselor is telling us well,
(22:04):
about this story about the therec the previous like the 1950s
rec director.
The rec director is sort of theperson like who would organize,
like if we were gonna play sawuh soccer, that would be the rec
director's decision.
(22:26):
It was like um, you know, he waslike basically like the gym
teacher, but he was a recdirector.
I mean it was summer camp, soyou can't say gym teacher, but
you get the picture.
Um so the rec director was likehe was like pretty abusive to
(22:49):
the campers, and basicallythere's these rafters.
Rafters, and in the rafters, thekids were like playing in the
rafters, and there's this onekid who just had a mouth on him.
He had a pretty bad mouth onhim, and the rec director chose
(23:09):
to This was in the 1950s, heslapped him in the face, he fell
off the rafters and died.
So basically the legend goesthis this this kid was this kid
was uh haunting the rec placebecause he died because of the
abusive rec director.
(23:32):
So we're in this rec directoryor in the rec building that the
rec director resided at andwe're doing a seance of tour
with glow sticks, we're crackingglow sticks, we're saying the
ghost hunter guy's saying likeif anybody if there's any
(23:56):
spirits here make yourself knownor whatever.
And there's like an electricalOh, sorry.
There's like an electrical boxthat like made a noise and we're
like, whoa, that's weird.
And we're kind of sitting there,we're just kind of saying, like,
(24:16):
if there's any noise This iswhere it starts to sound fake,
but I'm really not making thisup and I wish I uh honestly I
wish I was, because it's likeone of the scariest things.
This is basically the scariestthing that ever happened to me.
He's like if there's anybodyknown.
(24:40):
If there's anybody here, makeyourself known.
And there's like a hole in theceiling where the rafters are,
and a bunch I'm not even joking.
A bunch of ball pit balls fallthrough the ceiling.
Yes, I I I know it soundsinsane.
And then there's like sort ofthis stage up up above where we
(25:03):
are, and there's curtains, andthey start to open.
And my consort goes, Run, runback to the cabin.
We all run back to the cabin.
We knock on the door, we forceourselves in, all the other
campers in my cabin, like, whatwent on?
We explained the story.
Then the next day, like rightbefore our parents pick us up,
(25:27):
we're like Will this sounds likean episode of Goosebumps.
I know this literally soundslike an episode of Goosebumps.
We ask our our counselor, like,what happened?
And he's like, Oh, I don't evenwhat are you talking about?
And then we just went home.
(25:48):
And that's my most paranormalstor that's my most paranormal
story, and I don't know what tothink about it because it could
be some kind of elaborate prank,and I do believe that maybe
that's true, but just too manyvariables were right, and just
uh it was just too odd.
(26:08):
Like So there was somebody abovethe rafters and somebody pulling
the curtains and like thosewould have to be camp counselors
and what were where were alltheir where were all their uh
campers?
Like I don't know, there's toomany variables.
I I just have to believe thatsomething supernatural went on.
(26:31):
Honestly.
And that's why this is the firstever podcast of horror.
Check out my music, people likeCunningham, on Spotify, B L A K
(26:57):
E C U N N I N G H A M.
Thank you, and good night.
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