December 28, 2020 • 29 mins
This week’s hometowns include scary sounds and the United States’ first recorded murder.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
One, two, three, See we nailed it.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Hello, and welcome to my favorite murder.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
This is the minisode Welcome to it. You wrote to us, yep,
you told us stories. Yea, here they are, and now
we retell them to you, right back at you in
your face. It's the same every time on this one,
the same every time, sap, do you want to go first?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Cool? Okay, where's the one that says one on it?
No idea?
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Who could tell? Lots of twos and three s?
Speaker 3 (00:50):
What the fuck?
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Okay, I know what I did. Okay, I won't read
you the subject line. I'm still catching up on episodes
currently on episode just starts that way. There's no greeting,
no nothing. We're right into the business. Please never say
hello to us. Never. Just it is truly whether you're
on the street in the future, at a party, just
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walk up and start talking. No one needs the bullshit
greetings stuff that's from the Victorian era. I am still
catching up on episodes currently on episode one ninety. I
laughed out loud when you said quote farmers don't complain. Yes,
I know you don't remember saying that, so I figured
i'd send you a short first responder story. As a
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traveling emergency physician assistant, I was in the er in
a very rural town in Arizona, being in and out
of all kinds of ers and urgent care clinics. I
never bat an eye at the people screaming and making
a big fuss. They're always fine. What is truly worrying
is a farmer sitting quietly in the waiting room in
the middle of the day. I was finishing up with
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the whiniest patient with an infected toe when the nurse
let me know that a farmer was here with an
ankle injury. He walked into the room with an injured
ankle wrapped in a bandana in a boot. I examined
the patient, who never flinched, and ordered an X ray.
He said he jumped off a fence on the farm
first thing that morning and had been working on it
ever since. He never once complained. I was absolutely shocked
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to find that his foot, ankle, and lower leg were
broken in eight places, my God, and completely unstable, like
shards everywhere. I have no idea how he would have
put any weight on this, never mind walked in on it.
Since I was in a remote, little native town, I
had to life flight the patient several hours away to
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a real hospital. I more recently had a farmer in
an er in Pennsylvania with a fucking hammer embedded in
his face. He didn't even want the light a cane
for me to suture his other wounds. I didn't end
up other ones. I didn't end up touching this one.
He went to the r Two farmers are scary ass motherfuckers,
and so is my father. One time he nailed three
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of his fingers together with a nail gun and with dirty,
old teennessy wirecutters. He made me cut his fingers apart
so he could drive himself to the hospital.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Oh, I can't even open my eyeballs right now.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
So I was nine. I was.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
I was no My god.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
We forgot to call my mom when we left for
the hospital, who came home to a very bloody scene,
bloody handprints on the front door, big splatters of blood
all over the floor, and a potential murder weapons slash
wirecutters on the counter, and was not phased in the
slightest as this was our normal. She just calmly called
the hospital, asked which one of us was the patient,
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and then made dinner and that was the beginning of
my professional career where I am still pulling things out
of people with wirecutters and other fun stuff. Stay sexy
and do let your children perform minor surgery on.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
You, Jay, Jay, congratulations on the most interesting life I
have ever heard.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
I mean I could have first of all, the compactness
of the way Jay presented those stories to us. Thank you,
great stories. Just one that was an anthology, Jay's Jay
put together an anthology for us. Thank you kindly and
thank you for doing this good work.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
I would assume that if you see a farmer anywhere
in the middle of the day with the farm, something's wrong.
So you know, I mean like they don't they're not
going to take half a day off because they feel
like it.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
No, No, that's not allowed unless they're at the bank.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Oh sure, yeah on Friday.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Absolutely they got a deposit their millions exactly.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
That was great anthology. It's greatly welcome. Or like, how
did you how did you get into your weird career
because as a childhood you had to sew someone up.
He wouldn't realize you were eight and that was going
to be traumatizing.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Yeah, recap your childhood trauma. That brought you to your
your that made you find your future exactly, made you
know your path.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Yeah, you figure it out and then tell us. Then
Dell's on it. Write it up, all right, this just starts.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Hello, all, I'm trying to write this while listening to
the snake story from last week and I can't finish
my breakfast.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Thanks for that.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
I grew up in the same relatively wealthy suburb of Rochester,
New York, aforementioned in your last Hometown episode which was
a while back.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Right, Yeah, fun fact.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Rochester has a large deaf population because of the deaf
college there. A couple months ago, my mother, who was
profoundly deaf, was home alone sleeping in my childhood home.
She woke up at three am to the floor shaking,
which she thought was thunder. She was trying to fall
back to sleep when she saw her door open and
a flashlight sweeping her bedroom. Behind the flashlight was a tall,
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shadowy figure. Instead of screaming or moving like anyone else
would do, she pretended to be asleep. When the man
closed the door, She went to her master bathroom and
quietly texted my father, who was out of town, as
she knew there was no efficient way to dial nine
to one one. Then she used the video Relay nine
to one one service an ASL interpreter through video chat.
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It took two tries for her to reach an interpreter.
Research shows that can take sometimes eight to nine minutes.
Oh no, huh. While she waited for the cops. She
was so common intelligent that when my dad told her
to turn on the light in the bathroom where she
was hiding, she told him she couldn't because the fan
would make noise, even though she herself couldn't hear it. Oh,
so she fucking knew there was a fan that would
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make noise that would alert everyone, even though.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
She was thinking of all things, and the people who
weren't even in the house being threatened were not exactly incredible.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
After a while, not being able to hear what was
going on in the house, my mom felt running on
the ground and a crash coming from the other bathroom,
which shared a wall with hers. We later found out
that it was a burglar diving headfirst through a window,
a window which unbeknownst to him.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Was over a small hill on the side of the house.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
He fell far In ten minutes, the cops came in
three burglars, including the now badly injured window jumper, were
caught on the scene.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
A few days after the burglary.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
After talking about his trauma from that night, my dad
excitedly shared with me through zoom that he had saved, labeled,
and dated some items the burglars accidentally left behind and
remembrance of this night, instead of turning them in or
throwing them out.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
I now know why I am the way I am.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Anyways, I was so angry when I heard the news
because I figured they had noticed my mom in the
days before and knew she was deaf and tried to
take advantage of her. This was validated when we realized
that the burglar with the flashlight probably saw her because
he closed her bedroom door, then rummaged through mine, in
my brother's old rooms as well as the rest of
the house, leaving her room alone. Well fuck them, because
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my deaf mom is the reason they didn't get away
with it. Last week, a few months after the incident,
they finally caught the fourth burglar.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
A quick PSA, if you visit.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Nad dot org, you will see the percentage of access
to text nine to one one emergency services per state
only six point six percent of New York State has
this service. This is not okay. We need to make
texting nine one one accessible to every deaf and hard
of hearing individual. Stay sexy and do not fuck with
deaf people. N that's ridiculous. I had no idea, right
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so the and also the person who must have jumped
out the window, I'm assuming was trying to get away
from the cops.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
But they don't through glass.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Drugs.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Drugs, drugs.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
It's drugs.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Yeah, yeah, isn't that.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
I mean, can you imagine having to wait eight or
nine minutes to get a hold of them because they
don't have the correct services for yours.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
It's ridiculous and it's I think it's a very comp
from what I The little I understand is the that
kind of the awareness and the services for people hearing
impaired and deaf people are very it's very underserved and
under under paid attention to lacking.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Yeah, yeah, that's it's good.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
That's it's ludicrous, like everyone, everyone should have access to
nine one one. That that should have gone into the
program when they.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Started it totally.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
That has to change. That's important, and it's it may
it makes me feel stressed right now, because that's some
that's you need to know that someone understands that you
need help when you have nine one one, and.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Then you know, in a lot of ways you're way
more vulnerable, so you should have you know, better access
than people who aren't deaf, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Yeah, yes, Okay, the story is creepy sounds went home alone.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Hi.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Friends. I don't know how many episodes ago this was,
but after that creepy fucking bells sounded in Karen's house,
y'all asked for some scary sounds we've experienced.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Did I don't remember that?
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Just write it in tells about scary sounds.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
We were like, hey, that's.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Why we got we got those emails that said lightning screaming. Okay,
this could have been last week or ten weeks ago,
and I wouldn't know, because, like Karen said, time is
becoming a serious problem. Anyway. Although I am not the
person who experienced this, it still is one of my
favorite family stories. When I was a teenager and my
stepsister was a little kid, my older cousin lived with
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us for a few months. He was in his mid twenties,
so he generally kept to himself. One day, my parents
and I left the house and let him know that
he would be home alone. This seemed peculiar to him,
and it stuck in his head, especially with what happened next.
A few minutes later, my cousin heard a loud crash,
followed by a moment of silence and then a child's voice.
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It said, Now I lay me down to sleep. I
pray the Lord my soul to keep. If I should
dive before I awake, I pray the Lord my soul
to take. Supposedly, my cousin was hauling us out of
the house and my parents very suburban neighborhood, thinking that
a portal to demonic children hell had just opened. I
don't know about y'all, but children monoton lesslie reciting religious
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things is one of the most cultish activities I can imagine.
In reality, my mom's shutting the front door had barely
dislodged a shelf in my stepsister's room. Minutes later, it
fell and struck the foot of a stuffed animal that
recited that prayer.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
What are the fucking chances that there have to be
someone there to hear it?
Speaker 3 (11:15):
And lustrange Christian Rube Goldberg machine to fuck with this
twenty year old okay, right, because the shelf was still
on it, the prayer was still playing when we finally
returned and inspected it from my cousin, who was still
too scared to return to the house.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Yes, we all tease him now.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
But fully admit that we probably would have shit ourselves
had we been home alone like him. Thank you all
for what you do. You have helped me stay ground
at the last few months. As I am currently writing this,
during finals week of my first semester of law school,
in the middle of the pandemic, Georgia said that your
twenties are for finding yourself, your thirties are for achieving that,
and your forties are for living it. I'm approaching thirty
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and returning to school and have lived by these words
I've heard since i've heard them. Thank you both for
being such an inspiration to so many. Your work is
truly important. Best m ah, that's so nice. Nice.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
I'd also like to say that like a random shelf
randomly falling from a door closing and landing on a
fucking children children's prayer sounds pretty haunted to me.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
That's not a It either sounds haunted or that's the
lord working in that twenty year old young man's life
where he clearly was supposed to join the seminary. Ah
and uh, but I'm a jew. Okay Jewish representation.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
In these stories.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Please, karens, can we please assume that they're your people?
Speaker 3 (12:44):
I assume Chris gihannady.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Okay, let's see here. All right, this is called classic
Dad revealed hometown. Hey, y'all love you to death. Let's
get to it. Recently, I got to see my dad
for the first time since last Christmas, with three negative
COVID tests between us. It's the first time it's been
safe quote enough, and it meant the entire world to me,
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sitting over a pine of guinness with breakfast nice. Then
it said, because the world is ending, so fuck it.
He inquired about you too. He introduced me to the
podcast over two years ago on a road trip after
one of his colleagues told him about you, and while
I kept listening after the trip, he prefers to wait
until we're together. Oh, after my usual gushing and telling
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him I wrote in about my new town's murder at
the serpentarianm Serpentarium Serpentarium, Is that a snake? House sounds
like it. We're a cool bar, that's right. He asked
if I'd ever written about Pearl Brian. I asked him
what the fuck he was talking about, and I realized
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I was.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Having my moment.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
Finally, Yes, yes, So here goes Pearl Brian born in
my hometown of Greencastle, Indiana in eighteen seventy two, was
a sweet and loving twenty year old. And then it says,
quote socialite when she was murdered by her asshole dentist boyfriend.
Then it says, I don't really know how you can
be a socialite in the middle of the cornfields I
grew up in, But there you go. So the story
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goes that when Scott Jackson swept through town that she
immediately fell in love. After she got pregnant, she begged
him to stay and marry her so they could start
a family. Jackson, however, was an aspiring dentist and didn't
want a family to get in the way.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
You know how, aer Yeah, because you need to.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Be free as a dentist. You need to just stay
up late at.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Night, right, cannot without baggage of a wife who loves
you and a child who looks up to you.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Yeah, No, God, that's not the dentist's way.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
No, that's not ever.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
They're lone wolves.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
Before there were rockstars, they were dentists rolling stones. So
we left town, leaving instructions and writing continued letters to
Pearl instructing her on how to terminate the pregnancy. After
months of refusing, he lured her to his dental college
in Cincinnati, Ohio, and the false pretense of a wedding.
She was last seen at a restaurant with Jackson and
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his roommate, threatening to go back home and tell her
family about the pregnancy. Her headless body was found a
few days later by a farm hand in Fort Thomas, Kentucky.
The details from then on became a mess of cross
jurisdictional legality and shoddy eighteen hundreds journalism. Suffice to say
the two men were hung for her murder in eighteen
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ninety seven, and they never revealed the location of the head.
There are a million tiny, amazing details about this case,
like the fact that her shoe was used to track
down her hometown and provide identification when no one could
identify the body, or that her story helped fuel the
satanic panic because of rumors that her head was used
for devil worship at Bobby McKee's in Kentucky. But this
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is already incredibly long. We finished the meal with my
dad adding, oh, and there was that love triangle murder
that shut down the only two good restaurants in town,
like a month before we moved there too.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
That's a whole.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Nother story for a whole nother email. Love forever, stay
sexy and never date, a quote aspiring dentist Mads.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Wow, great advice, Mats. You know what, Mats, here's what
I would like you to do. Tell your dads to
write in that email of the second story. I want
to hear the love trial, love triangle murders.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
I want to hear about the restaurants to restaurant.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Yeah, we definitely want to know what the appetizers at
those restaurants were, chants were better, what the charcuterary board
looked like, and then of course go on to the horror,
the horror of the murder. That's right, Okay, I'm going
to have to read you this title, but I'm mad
that I have to say these words. I was today
years old when I learned that I worked at the
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site of America's first recorded murder. Are you mad they
made me say? I was today years old? A thing
that needs to stop being said, Karen, Yes, yes.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
I can't believe you said that.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Are you on ready now?
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Redditing? Right now?
Speaker 3 (17:01):
This is my new thing. This is my new personality,
being young and saying what everybody else says on Twitter.
Now now that I've been mean about this person's title, Okay,
here we go, and this is how it starts. You're
my favorites. Okay, let's start it. Not anymore in the
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middle of in the middle early aughts, I was in
my late early twenties, oh and recently moved to New
York City to work at a makeup store on Spring
Street in Soho. The retail space was impressive in and
of itself, but what was not visible to shoppers but
accessible to employees was a labyrinth of rooms throughout the
lower level below. Okay, let me just say this. I
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shout on you for your subject line, which was I
was today years old. That was one of the best
opening paragraphs I've read so far. It's beautifully put together, solid,
really nice, really nice stuff going on. My full apologies
and my humblest sincere some rooms were finished to be
a break room, there was an office for higher ups
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and a storage space for corporate But there were other
unfinished rooms, clearly from yesteryear, that gave me the downright creeps.
One room with an ash floor contained a huge iron
furnace that looked straight out of Nightmare on Elm Street.
They weren't just hilarious because I just watched Nightmare on
Elm Street Part two last night, nineteen eighty five, baby,
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but the room that gave me the chills literally, we
unanimously referred to as the cold Room.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Oh No.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Most of us working in the store did not need
to access the cold room, as it was out of
the way, mostly used for storage, and was a mess
of old display units and makeup supplies. I, however, as
one of the key holders to the store Ooh, would
more than occasionally go to the cold room to get
something or lock up at night. I never saw anything,
but there was always a strange and palpable energy in
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the room, and you guessed it. The room was allays freezing.
It could be the hottest. Why did I even shower?
A miserable day of New York summer and this room
would be icy goose bump, ghostly cold cool. I had
heard stories of how Spring Street was built on or
near an actual spring, but never thought to research it
until now. As it turns out, if we press rewind,
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going back to our nation's infancy.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Always send us her turn paper.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
I mean, the apology I owe this person is giganto.
As it turns out, if we press we wind, going
back to our nation's infancy before Soho was the land
of trendy love spaces and commercial extravaganza. Where I worked
was once a marshy place called Lispensard's Meadows. There's no
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way no Lispenard's lisp Benard's Meadows and the location of
the first recorded murder in the United States. We're going
to fall back. We're going to go back to our
old ways. Right now, the interwebs tell us that Aaron
has a love hate relationship with this letter. No, no,
it's ninety nine point eight percent. Look, here's the thing
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that I will tell this letter writer. You don't need
to do things like interwebs. And I was today years old.
When you're so genius with everything else you're doing in here,
shun the trends of language of today. It will only
sink you totes and an hour back. The interwebs tell
us that approaching Christmas seventeen ninety nine, the lifeless body
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of Elma Sands was recovered from a well located on
list Spynard's Meadows near the current day intersection of Spring
and Green Streets. Levi Weeks, a young carpenter who was
reportedly courting Miss Sands at the time, was accused of
the murder, which went to trial the following year. Through
his family connections, Weeks retained none other than Alexander Hamilton
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and air and Burr as his defense attorney.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Let's had a lot drama TV show where they were.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Wait a Second. This email was written by Lynn Manuel Miranda. Famously,
Weeks was acquitted after only five minutes of jury deliberation.
The case became known as the Manhattan Well murder, and
it is on the books as the first murder in
our country containing a recorded transcript. Over the years, there
have been reports of your occurrences in the area. Some
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say the ghost of Elma appears in wet clothing. O me.
I'm haranguing that I finally have something to write to
you find folks about and that the energy of the
cold room did not live in my loan imagination. So
that's all I got for now. I'd like to thank
you for bringing laughter, storytelling, and the beautiful honesty of
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your work into my home during this doozy of a year.
Remember to trust yourself and that your body knows things.
That your mind is uncorgeous.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Oh no, you'll last care and you're.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Just like no, no, I'm back entirely. This is That
was a beautiful sentence. Remember this is what is truer.
Remember to trust yourself and that your body knows things
your mind is unconscious of. Stay safe, and maybe don't
accept a job to unknowingly work on a historic murder site. Fondly,
Scott ps. The well still exists and you can visit it.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Creepy.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Okay, Scott, please don't stop being my friend. I was
mean about the about the trendy language, but that was
a beautifully written hometown.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Got that job.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
I was very worried about how long it was, and
that thing clipped right along because you're a great writer.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
I left that about New York where like the city
where like when you are you're in like a fancy
new restaurant and then you go to the USA restrooms,
which like because everything's so old, it's like down these
tiny stairs and suddenly you're in the eighteen hundreds.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Yeah, does no matter how.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
Nice the restaurant is, they have like terrible access to
bathrooms at every fucking location you're at. And it's creepy
and celery and celery. It's like a cellar.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
It's cellar filled with celery smells of celery. Also like
the room he described the night my are own Elm
Street room where it's like the floor is ash and
there's a gigantic old furnace because like, yeah, of course
they're not going to just like go in and crane
lift a huge.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Price out of there.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
They just leave everything where it is, and then things
are built on top of it.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
I bet there's so many like basements and addicts to
go through and oh for real, I mean, damn it.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
The Treasure of New York. Perhaps Scott would write a
book called The Treasure of New York Truly, The Treasure
of New York, Truly Trasure New York style.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
Okay, my last one, it's called black Mold Story speaking
of rooms that are too cold. Okay, Hi, best friends
who don't actually know me hy. I heard Georgia mentioned
black mold on a Minnesota and wanted to send in
my family story. The first house I ever lived in
was in Hancock Park, about three blocks from Larchmont Village
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in LA.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
What's up, Rich?
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Yeah, so that's like, must be nice everyone.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
There's a like gorgeous old Victorian mid century Ish mansions.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
It's there is You're dud?
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Did he direct?
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Friends?
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Just tell us? Well, check this out. I wrote in
about how haunted that house was as well. Well, we
didn't see it when I was too I started to
get extremely sick. I started to cough uncontrollably all the time.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
I was weak.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
I looked like I had cancer, and no doctor could
figure out what was wrong with me. I wasn't the
only one to experience issues. My mom would get bronchitis
all the time. She was head of casting at Paramount
at the time. There you go, so so missing work
was not an option. My sister kept getting nosebleeds, and
my dad started having memory issues. We only found out
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about the mold when the bathroom ceiling collapsed and black
water started poor bring out. Yeah, that's bad, says Casual.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
I Knowsual.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
Turns out our house was completely infested with black mold.
I was and am extremely allergic, which is why I
got the worst of it. We ended up having to
literally burn all of our possessions. But really, but before that,
our insurance company, who knew about the mold the whole time,
tried to tell us that the house was safe to
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move back into after the bathroom was fixed. What had
the contractor not called my dad and told him in
Hebrew not to come back. I might not be around today.
Why in Hebrews they probably were both Israeli or he
and SO was like, hey, brother, like what's up?
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Oh, oh, don't listen.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Yeah, I'm going to level with you in our native town.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
Yeah, because we're brothers, So I need to tell you
what is don't listen to the insurance safe to say,
insurance companies are as holes. After the whole fiasco and
three rental homes later, we moved into a wonderful home
in Los Felis, right down the street from the Lobyanca house. Ooh,
thank you for being my comfort. During zoom law school,
I'm hoping to be a public defender because this legal
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system only benefits the fortunate few. Stay sexy and don't
trust insurance companies. Katrina, Katrina had to burn all their
possessions because black bole gets on every.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
It's it it's and it's terrible. It's terrible from human beings.
Tucks very bad. Ugh, I just winds crazy.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
I want to see the fucking ceiling collapse of blackwater
pouring out.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Do you know that that that happened at my aunt
Jean's house where we spent much of our time. It
was there were these there in I think it was
like nineteen seventy eight, there were these really bad floods
and pedluma that it never stopped raining. It was like
novemberish and it was the final episode of Mash. So
we were all at my inn, the living room of
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my Auntieen's house, in the TV room and the like
the living room, let's call it that. That was the
living room, the front room. No one ever went out
there unless there was like a party and all the
adults would go there, but like the TV room is
where everybody actually hung out. So every both families were
in the TV room watching Mash and it like the
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reception got worse and worse because it was storming so
bad outside and we lived out in the country, so
everything was on an antenna and we're like, as we're
watching this thing, all of a sudden we hear this
cracking sound and then the ceiling in the living room
just collapses in like like probably a six or seven
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foot like circumference hole with water like because there was
like holes my I guess my aunt's roof was leaking stuff.
But it was like totally soaked insulation. It was the
craziest it was. Yeah, it was amazing, but I don't
I think it was like more like green mold.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
Yeah, but when yeah, but when you when you have
a lot of you live in somewhere with a lot
of floods, that's when the mold happens.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
So check you guys.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
If you move into a new place and you start
getting acne or some weird symptoms, knock down your dry
wall and see what's in there.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Get your first of all, get your contractor's license. Yeah
then yeah, yeah, I get a bit one of those
laser compass things, right, a laser ballot.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
Those those are very Send us all your fucked up
disaster house stories or whatever else you feel like at my.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
Yeah we want to and whatever you want, do it.
Send it, We want to hear about it. I will
definitely insult you at least one point, at one point.
That's part of it. That's right, that's part of being
in it. Yeah. Thanks, but we love you.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Yeah, thanks for sticking around despite that. We love you.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
And because of it. Some people come because of it.
Not everybody doesn't like it, that's true. Stay sexy and
don't get murdered.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Go bye, Elvis. Do you want a cookie raw?
One, two, three, See we nailed it.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Hello, and welcome to my favorite murder.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
This is the minisode Welcome to it. You wrote to us, yep,
you told us stories. Yea, here they are, and now
we retell them to you, right back at you in
your face. It's the same every time on this one,
the same every time, sap, do you want to go first?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Cool? Okay, where's the one that says one on it?
No idea?
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Who could tell? Lots of twos and three s?
Speaker 3 (00:50):
What the fuck?
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Okay, I know what I did. Okay, I won't read
you the subject line. I'm still catching up on episodes
currently on episode just starts that way. There's no greeting,
no nothing. We're right into the business. Please never say
hello to us. Never. Just it is truly whether you're
on the street in the future, at a party, just
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walk up and start talking. No one needs the bullshit
greetings stuff that's from the Victorian era. I am still
catching up on episodes currently on episode one ninety. I
laughed out loud when you said quote farmers don't complain. Yes,
I know you don't remember saying that, so I figured
i'd send you a short first responder story. As a
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traveling emergency physician assistant, I was in the er in
a very rural town in Arizona, being in and out
of all kinds of ers and urgent care clinics. I
never bat an eye at the people screaming and making
a big fuss. They're always fine. What is truly worrying
is a farmer sitting quietly in the waiting room in
the middle of the day. I was finishing up with
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the whiniest patient with an infected toe when the nurse
let me know that a farmer was here with an
ankle injury. He walked into the room with an injured
ankle wrapped in a bandana in a boot. I examined
the patient, who never flinched, and ordered an X ray.
He said he jumped off a fence on the farm
first thing that morning and had been working on it
ever since. He never once complained. I was absolutely shocked
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to find that his foot, ankle, and lower leg were
broken in eight places, my God, and completely unstable, like
shards everywhere. I have no idea how he would have
put any weight on this, never mind walked in on it.
Since I was in a remote, little native town, I
had to life flight the patient several hours away to
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a real hospital. I more recently had a farmer in
an er in Pennsylvania with a fucking hammer embedded in
his face. He didn't even want the light a cane
for me to suture his other wounds. I didn't end
up other ones. I didn't end up touching this one.
He went to the r Two farmers are scary ass motherfuckers,
and so is my father. One time he nailed three
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of his fingers together with a nail gun and with dirty,
old teennessy wirecutters. He made me cut his fingers apart
so he could drive himself to the hospital.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Oh, I can't even open my eyeballs right now.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
So I was nine. I was.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
I was no My god.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
We forgot to call my mom when we left for
the hospital, who came home to a very bloody scene,
bloody handprints on the front door, big splatters of blood
all over the floor, and a potential murder weapons slash
wirecutters on the counter, and was not phased in the
slightest as this was our normal. She just calmly called
the hospital, asked which one of us was the patient,
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and then made dinner and that was the beginning of
my professional career where I am still pulling things out
of people with wirecutters and other fun stuff. Stay sexy
and do let your children perform minor surgery on.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
You, Jay, Jay, congratulations on the most interesting life I
have ever heard.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
I mean I could have first of all, the compactness
of the way Jay presented those stories to us. Thank you,
great stories. Just one that was an anthology, Jay's Jay
put together an anthology for us. Thank you kindly and
thank you for doing this good work.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
I would assume that if you see a farmer anywhere
in the middle of the day with the farm, something's wrong.
So you know, I mean like they don't they're not
going to take half a day off because they feel
like it.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
No, No, that's not allowed unless they're at the bank.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Oh sure, yeah on Friday.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Absolutely they got a deposit their millions exactly.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
That was great anthology. It's greatly welcome. Or like, how
did you how did you get into your weird career
because as a childhood you had to sew someone up.
He wouldn't realize you were eight and that was going
to be traumatizing.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Yeah, recap your childhood trauma. That brought you to your
your that made you find your future exactly, made you
know your path.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Yeah, you figure it out and then tell us. Then
Dell's on it. Write it up, all right, this just starts.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Hello, all, I'm trying to write this while listening to
the snake story from last week and I can't finish
my breakfast.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Thanks for that.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
I grew up in the same relatively wealthy suburb of Rochester,
New York, aforementioned in your last Hometown episode which was
a while back.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Right, Yeah, fun fact.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Rochester has a large deaf population because of the deaf
college there. A couple months ago, my mother, who was
profoundly deaf, was home alone sleeping in my childhood home.
She woke up at three am to the floor shaking,
which she thought was thunder. She was trying to fall
back to sleep when she saw her door open and
a flashlight sweeping her bedroom. Behind the flashlight was a tall,
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shadowy figure. Instead of screaming or moving like anyone else
would do, she pretended to be asleep. When the man
closed the door, She went to her master bathroom and
quietly texted my father, who was out of town, as
she knew there was no efficient way to dial nine
to one one. Then she used the video Relay nine
to one one service an ASL interpreter through video chat.
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It took two tries for her to reach an interpreter.
Research shows that can take sometimes eight to nine minutes.
Oh no, huh. While she waited for the cops. She
was so common intelligent that when my dad told her
to turn on the light in the bathroom where she
was hiding, she told him she couldn't because the fan
would make noise, even though she herself couldn't hear it. Oh,
so she fucking knew there was a fan that would
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make noise that would alert everyone, even though.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
She was thinking of all things, and the people who
weren't even in the house being threatened were not exactly incredible.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
After a while, not being able to hear what was
going on in the house, my mom felt running on
the ground and a crash coming from the other bathroom,
which shared a wall with hers. We later found out
that it was a burglar diving headfirst through a window,
a window which unbeknownst to him.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Was over a small hill on the side of the house.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
He fell far In ten minutes, the cops came in
three burglars, including the now badly injured window jumper, were
caught on the scene.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
A few days after the burglary.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
After talking about his trauma from that night, my dad
excitedly shared with me through zoom that he had saved, labeled,
and dated some items the burglars accidentally left behind and
remembrance of this night, instead of turning them in or
throwing them out.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
I now know why I am the way I am.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Anyways, I was so angry when I heard the news
because I figured they had noticed my mom in the
days before and knew she was deaf and tried to
take advantage of her. This was validated when we realized
that the burglar with the flashlight probably saw her because
he closed her bedroom door, then rummaged through mine, in
my brother's old rooms as well as the rest of
the house, leaving her room alone. Well fuck them, because
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my deaf mom is the reason they didn't get away
with it. Last week, a few months after the incident,
they finally caught the fourth burglar.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
A quick PSA, if you visit.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Nad dot org, you will see the percentage of access
to text nine to one one emergency services per state
only six point six percent of New York State has
this service. This is not okay. We need to make
texting nine one one accessible to every deaf and hard
of hearing individual. Stay sexy and do not fuck with
deaf people. N that's ridiculous. I had no idea, right
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so the and also the person who must have jumped
out the window, I'm assuming was trying to get away
from the cops.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
But they don't through glass.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Drugs.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Drugs, drugs.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
It's drugs.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Yeah, yeah, isn't that.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
I mean, can you imagine having to wait eight or
nine minutes to get a hold of them because they
don't have the correct services for yours.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
It's ridiculous and it's I think it's a very comp
from what I The little I understand is the that
kind of the awareness and the services for people hearing
impaired and deaf people are very it's very underserved and
under under paid attention to lacking.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Yeah, yeah, that's it's good.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
That's it's ludicrous, like everyone, everyone should have access to
nine one one. That that should have gone into the
program when they.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Started it totally.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
That has to change. That's important, and it's it may
it makes me feel stressed right now, because that's some
that's you need to know that someone understands that you
need help when you have nine one one, and.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Then you know, in a lot of ways you're way
more vulnerable, so you should have you know, better access
than people who aren't deaf, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Yeah, yes, Okay, the story is creepy sounds went home alone.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Hi.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Friends. I don't know how many episodes ago this was,
but after that creepy fucking bells sounded in Karen's house,
y'all asked for some scary sounds we've experienced.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Did I don't remember that?
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Just write it in tells about scary sounds.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
We were like, hey, that's.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Why we got we got those emails that said lightning screaming. Okay,
this could have been last week or ten weeks ago,
and I wouldn't know, because, like Karen said, time is
becoming a serious problem. Anyway. Although I am not the
person who experienced this, it still is one of my
favorite family stories. When I was a teenager and my
stepsister was a little kid, my older cousin lived with
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us for a few months. He was in his mid twenties,
so he generally kept to himself. One day, my parents
and I left the house and let him know that
he would be home alone. This seemed peculiar to him,
and it stuck in his head, especially with what happened next.
A few minutes later, my cousin heard a loud crash,
followed by a moment of silence and then a child's voice.
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It said, Now I lay me down to sleep. I
pray the Lord my soul to keep. If I should
dive before I awake, I pray the Lord my soul
to take. Supposedly, my cousin was hauling us out of
the house and my parents very suburban neighborhood, thinking that
a portal to demonic children hell had just opened. I
don't know about y'all, but children monoton lesslie reciting religious
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things is one of the most cultish activities I can imagine.
In reality, my mom's shutting the front door had barely
dislodged a shelf in my stepsister's room. Minutes later, it
fell and struck the foot of a stuffed animal that
recited that prayer.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
What are the fucking chances that there have to be
someone there to hear it?
Speaker 3 (11:15):
And lustrange Christian Rube Goldberg machine to fuck with this
twenty year old okay, right, because the shelf was still
on it, the prayer was still playing when we finally
returned and inspected it from my cousin, who was still
too scared to return to the house.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Yes, we all tease him now.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
But fully admit that we probably would have shit ourselves
had we been home alone like him. Thank you all
for what you do. You have helped me stay ground
at the last few months. As I am currently writing this,
during finals week of my first semester of law school,
in the middle of the pandemic, Georgia said that your
twenties are for finding yourself, your thirties are for achieving that,
and your forties are for living it. I'm approaching thirty
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and returning to school and have lived by these words
I've heard since i've heard them. Thank you both for
being such an inspiration to so many. Your work is
truly important. Best m ah, that's so nice. Nice.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
I'd also like to say that like a random shelf
randomly falling from a door closing and landing on a
fucking children children's prayer sounds pretty haunted to me.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
That's not a It either sounds haunted or that's the
lord working in that twenty year old young man's life
where he clearly was supposed to join the seminary. Ah
and uh, but I'm a jew. Okay Jewish representation.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
In these stories.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Please, karens, can we please assume that they're your people?
Speaker 3 (12:44):
I assume Chris gihannady.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Okay, let's see here. All right, this is called classic
Dad revealed hometown. Hey, y'all love you to death. Let's
get to it. Recently, I got to see my dad
for the first time since last Christmas, with three negative
COVID tests between us. It's the first time it's been
safe quote enough, and it meant the entire world to me,
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sitting over a pine of guinness with breakfast nice. Then
it said, because the world is ending, so fuck it.
He inquired about you too. He introduced me to the
podcast over two years ago on a road trip after
one of his colleagues told him about you, and while
I kept listening after the trip, he prefers to wait
until we're together. Oh, after my usual gushing and telling
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him I wrote in about my new town's murder at
the serpentarianm Serpentarium Serpentarium, Is that a snake? House sounds
like it. We're a cool bar, that's right. He asked
if I'd ever written about Pearl Brian. I asked him
what the fuck he was talking about, and I realized
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I was.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Having my moment.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
Finally, Yes, yes, So here goes Pearl Brian born in
my hometown of Greencastle, Indiana in eighteen seventy two, was
a sweet and loving twenty year old. And then it says,
quote socialite when she was murdered by her asshole dentist boyfriend.
Then it says, I don't really know how you can
be a socialite in the middle of the cornfields I
grew up in, But there you go. So the story
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goes that when Scott Jackson swept through town that she
immediately fell in love. After she got pregnant, she begged
him to stay and marry her so they could start
a family. Jackson, however, was an aspiring dentist and didn't
want a family to get in the way.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
You know how, aer Yeah, because you need to.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Be free as a dentist. You need to just stay
up late at.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Night, right, cannot without baggage of a wife who loves
you and a child who looks up to you.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Yeah, No, God, that's not the dentist's way.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
No, that's not ever.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
They're lone wolves.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
Before there were rockstars, they were dentists rolling stones. So
we left town, leaving instructions and writing continued letters to
Pearl instructing her on how to terminate the pregnancy. After
months of refusing, he lured her to his dental college
in Cincinnati, Ohio, and the false pretense of a wedding.
She was last seen at a restaurant with Jackson and
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his roommate, threatening to go back home and tell her
family about the pregnancy. Her headless body was found a
few days later by a farm hand in Fort Thomas, Kentucky.
The details from then on became a mess of cross
jurisdictional legality and shoddy eighteen hundreds journalism. Suffice to say
the two men were hung for her murder in eighteen
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ninety seven, and they never revealed the location of the head.
There are a million tiny, amazing details about this case,
like the fact that her shoe was used to track
down her hometown and provide identification when no one could
identify the body, or that her story helped fuel the
satanic panic because of rumors that her head was used
for devil worship at Bobby McKee's in Kentucky. But this
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is already incredibly long. We finished the meal with my
dad adding, oh, and there was that love triangle murder
that shut down the only two good restaurants in town,
like a month before we moved there too.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
That's a whole.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Nother story for a whole nother email. Love forever, stay
sexy and never date, a quote aspiring dentist Mads.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Wow, great advice, Mats. You know what, Mats, here's what
I would like you to do. Tell your dads to
write in that email of the second story. I want
to hear the love trial, love triangle murders.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
I want to hear about the restaurants to restaurant.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Yeah, we definitely want to know what the appetizers at
those restaurants were, chants were better, what the charcuterary board
looked like, and then of course go on to the horror,
the horror of the murder. That's right, Okay, I'm going
to have to read you this title, but I'm mad
that I have to say these words. I was today
years old when I learned that I worked at the
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site of America's first recorded murder. Are you mad they
made me say? I was today years old? A thing
that needs to stop being said, Karen, Yes, yes.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
I can't believe you said that.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Are you on ready now?
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Redditing? Right now?
Speaker 3 (17:01):
This is my new thing. This is my new personality,
being young and saying what everybody else says on Twitter.
Now now that I've been mean about this person's title, Okay,
here we go, and this is how it starts. You're
my favorites. Okay, let's start it. Not anymore in the
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middle of in the middle early aughts, I was in
my late early twenties, oh and recently moved to New
York City to work at a makeup store on Spring
Street in Soho. The retail space was impressive in and
of itself, but what was not visible to shoppers but
accessible to employees was a labyrinth of rooms throughout the
lower level below. Okay, let me just say this. I
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shout on you for your subject line, which was I
was today years old. That was one of the best
opening paragraphs I've read so far. It's beautifully put together, solid,
really nice, really nice stuff going on. My full apologies
and my humblest sincere some rooms were finished to be
a break room, there was an office for higher ups
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and a storage space for corporate But there were other
unfinished rooms, clearly from yesteryear, that gave me the downright creeps.
One room with an ash floor contained a huge iron
furnace that looked straight out of Nightmare on Elm Street.
They weren't just hilarious because I just watched Nightmare on
Elm Street Part two last night, nineteen eighty five, baby,
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but the room that gave me the chills literally, we
unanimously referred to as the cold Room.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Oh No.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Most of us working in the store did not need
to access the cold room, as it was out of
the way, mostly used for storage, and was a mess
of old display units and makeup supplies. I, however, as
one of the key holders to the store Ooh, would
more than occasionally go to the cold room to get
something or lock up at night. I never saw anything,
but there was always a strange and palpable energy in
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the room, and you guessed it. The room was allays freezing.
It could be the hottest. Why did I even shower?
A miserable day of New York summer and this room
would be icy goose bump, ghostly cold cool. I had
heard stories of how Spring Street was built on or
near an actual spring, but never thought to research it
until now. As it turns out, if we press rewind,
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going back to our nation's infancy.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Always send us her turn paper.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
I mean, the apology I owe this person is giganto.
As it turns out, if we press we wind, going
back to our nation's infancy before Soho was the land
of trendy love spaces and commercial extravaganza. Where I worked
was once a marshy place called Lispensard's Meadows. There's no
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way no Lispenard's lisp Benard's Meadows and the location of
the first recorded murder in the United States. We're going
to fall back. We're going to go back to our
old ways. Right now, the interwebs tell us that Aaron
has a love hate relationship with this letter. No, no,
it's ninety nine point eight percent. Look, here's the thing
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that I will tell this letter writer. You don't need
to do things like interwebs. And I was today years old.
When you're so genius with everything else you're doing in here,
shun the trends of language of today. It will only
sink you totes and an hour back. The interwebs tell
us that approaching Christmas seventeen ninety nine, the lifeless body
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of Elma Sands was recovered from a well located on
list Spynard's Meadows near the current day intersection of Spring
and Green Streets. Levi Weeks, a young carpenter who was
reportedly courting Miss Sands at the time, was accused of
the murder, which went to trial the following year. Through
his family connections, Weeks retained none other than Alexander Hamilton
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and air and Burr as his defense attorney.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Let's had a lot drama TV show where they were.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Wait a Second. This email was written by Lynn Manuel Miranda. Famously,
Weeks was acquitted after only five minutes of jury deliberation.
The case became known as the Manhattan Well murder, and
it is on the books as the first murder in
our country containing a recorded transcript. Over the years, there
have been reports of your occurrences in the area. Some
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say the ghost of Elma appears in wet clothing. O me.
I'm haranguing that I finally have something to write to
you find folks about and that the energy of the
cold room did not live in my loan imagination. So
that's all I got for now. I'd like to thank
you for bringing laughter, storytelling, and the beautiful honesty of
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your work into my home during this doozy of a year.
Remember to trust yourself and that your body knows things.
That your mind is uncorgeous.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Oh no, you'll last care and you're.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Just like no, no, I'm back entirely. This is That
was a beautiful sentence. Remember this is what is truer.
Remember to trust yourself and that your body knows things
your mind is unconscious of. Stay safe, and maybe don't
accept a job to unknowingly work on a historic murder site. Fondly,
Scott ps. The well still exists and you can visit it.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Creepy.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Okay, Scott, please don't stop being my friend. I was
mean about the about the trendy language, but that was
a beautifully written hometown.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Got that job.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
I was very worried about how long it was, and
that thing clipped right along because you're a great writer.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
I left that about New York where like the city
where like when you are you're in like a fancy
new restaurant and then you go to the USA restrooms,
which like because everything's so old, it's like down these
tiny stairs and suddenly you're in the eighteen hundreds.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Yeah, does no matter how.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
Nice the restaurant is, they have like terrible access to
bathrooms at every fucking location you're at. And it's creepy
and celery and celery. It's like a cellar.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
It's cellar filled with celery smells of celery. Also like
the room he described the night my are own Elm
Street room where it's like the floor is ash and
there's a gigantic old furnace because like, yeah, of course
they're not going to just like go in and crane
lift a huge.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Price out of there.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
They just leave everything where it is, and then things
are built on top of it.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
I bet there's so many like basements and addicts to
go through and oh for real, I mean, damn it.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
The Treasure of New York. Perhaps Scott would write a
book called The Treasure of New York Truly, The Treasure
of New York, Truly Trasure New York style.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
Okay, my last one, it's called black Mold Story speaking
of rooms that are too cold. Okay, Hi, best friends
who don't actually know me hy. I heard Georgia mentioned
black mold on a Minnesota and wanted to send in
my family story. The first house I ever lived in
was in Hancock Park, about three blocks from Larchmont Village
(24:06):
in LA.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
What's up, Rich?
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Yeah, so that's like, must be nice everyone.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
There's a like gorgeous old Victorian mid century Ish mansions.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
It's there is You're dud?
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Did he direct?
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Friends?
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Just tell us? Well, check this out. I wrote in
about how haunted that house was as well. Well, we
didn't see it when I was too I started to
get extremely sick. I started to cough uncontrollably all the time.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
I was weak.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
I looked like I had cancer, and no doctor could
figure out what was wrong with me. I wasn't the
only one to experience issues. My mom would get bronchitis
all the time. She was head of casting at Paramount
at the time. There you go, so so missing work
was not an option. My sister kept getting nosebleeds, and
my dad started having memory issues. We only found out
(24:55):
about the mold when the bathroom ceiling collapsed and black
water started poor bring out. Yeah, that's bad, says Casual.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
I Knowsual.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
Turns out our house was completely infested with black mold.
I was and am extremely allergic, which is why I
got the worst of it. We ended up having to
literally burn all of our possessions. But really, but before that,
our insurance company, who knew about the mold the whole time,
tried to tell us that the house was safe to
(25:32):
move back into after the bathroom was fixed. What had
the contractor not called my dad and told him in
Hebrew not to come back. I might not be around today.
Why in Hebrews they probably were both Israeli or he
and SO was like, hey, brother, like what's up?
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Oh, oh, don't listen.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Yeah, I'm going to level with you in our native town.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
Yeah, because we're brothers, So I need to tell you
what is don't listen to the insurance safe to say,
insurance companies are as holes. After the whole fiasco and
three rental homes later, we moved into a wonderful home
in Los Felis, right down the street from the Lobyanca house. Ooh,
thank you for being my comfort. During zoom law school,
I'm hoping to be a public defender because this legal
(26:14):
system only benefits the fortunate few. Stay sexy and don't
trust insurance companies. Katrina, Katrina had to burn all their
possessions because black bole gets on every.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
It's it it's and it's terrible. It's terrible from human beings.
Tucks very bad. Ugh, I just winds crazy.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
I want to see the fucking ceiling collapse of blackwater
pouring out.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Do you know that that that happened at my aunt
Jean's house where we spent much of our time. It
was there were these there in I think it was
like nineteen seventy eight, there were these really bad floods
and pedluma that it never stopped raining. It was like
novemberish and it was the final episode of Mash. So
we were all at my inn, the living room of
(27:01):
my Auntieen's house, in the TV room and the like
the living room, let's call it that. That was the
living room, the front room. No one ever went out
there unless there was like a party and all the
adults would go there, but like the TV room is
where everybody actually hung out. So every both families were
in the TV room watching Mash and it like the
(27:23):
reception got worse and worse because it was storming so
bad outside and we lived out in the country, so
everything was on an antenna and we're like, as we're
watching this thing, all of a sudden we hear this
cracking sound and then the ceiling in the living room
just collapses in like like probably a six or seven
(27:44):
foot like circumference hole with water like because there was
like holes my I guess my aunt's roof was leaking stuff.
But it was like totally soaked insulation. It was the
craziest it was. Yeah, it was amazing, but I don't
I think it was like more like green mold.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
Yeah, but when yeah, but when you when you have
a lot of you live in somewhere with a lot
of floods, that's when the mold happens.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
So check you guys.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
If you move into a new place and you start
getting acne or some weird symptoms, knock down your dry
wall and see what's in there.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Get your first of all, get your contractor's license. Yeah
then yeah, yeah, I get a bit one of those
laser compass things, right, a laser ballot.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
Those those are very Send us all your fucked up
disaster house stories or whatever else you feel like at my.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
Yeah we want to and whatever you want, do it.
Send it, We want to hear about it. I will
definitely insult you at least one point, at one point.
That's part of it. That's right, that's part of being
in it. Yeah. Thanks, but we love you.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Yeah, thanks for sticking around despite that. We love you.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
And because of it. Some people come because of it.
Not everybody doesn't like it, that's true. Stay sexy and
don't get murdered.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Go bye, Elvis. Do you want a cookie raw?
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