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Speaker 1 (00:21):
I want to dance with the Muppets At the Irish shop.
Bathe in the moonlight At theIrish shop.
Creep through the graveyard Tothe Irish shop.
The door's always open At theIA shop.
(00:47):
What's up?
Oddballs?
It's Kara and Zachary and we'reactually here for a bonus
episode.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Bow, bow bow Bow, bow bow.
It is our first episode We'verecorded in, recorded in a while
too, after a break, which iswhy Kirsten no, this is a bonus
episode.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
It's a little bit more lax.
I wasn't trying to be official.
Did you even say welcome?
Speaker 2 (01:15):
to the shop.
Welcome to the shop.
Welcome to the oddity shop.
We took a month off and wedon't know how to do it anymore.
We've missed you, though wehave, and I've kind of missed
you, thank you.
I think this is the longest youand I have ever gone without
really talking, like we almostdid not talk through this month
off.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Yeah, we both had just a lot of stuff going on
with holidays and family andthings and yeah, it's been a
wild ride.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
But we're so happy to be back and we're so happy to
be bringing you new content, sowe did promise you something new
for January.
We do have a bonus episode foryou guys today.
It's all write-ins orvoicemails, all your stories
right back at you.
Before we do it, though,because we haven't gotten to
talk about it and I've beendying, and I'm sure our
listeners are ready oh, thedrones in New Jersey.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Oh, I thought you were going to say that I'm 36
years old now, but I don't looka day over 27.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
I would say 19.
Thanks, thanks, yes.
Happy belated birthday to Kara.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
That was definitely what I was going to bring up Now
the drones, the drones.
Have you been?
Speaker 2 (02:17):
following the drones dude.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
I don't know if I know what you're talking about,
but probably, oh my God.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Okay, oh, my god, okay.
So over New Jersey, for likethe last couple of months,
there's been all these dronesthat have been flying over, and
then people are seeing all theseUFO plasmoids and they're
trying to figure out if thedrones are tracking UFOs, if
they're aliens, if they'reman-made, all this shit.
And, okay, here's what I lovemost about it.
If you had told me Okay,backtrack for a second.
Me and Julia are joking because2025 is already starting off.
Wild that we want to bring backthe bingo cards that we made in
(02:48):
2020 for, like, the crazy shitthat's going to pop off.
Oh, can we?
What's?
Speaker 1 (02:51):
another thing that we can use instead of bingo cards.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
That is true, I'm bingoed out, but I get it.
These drones, ok, the.
You know who, like the numberone whistleblower on TikTok, has
been on these drones and givinginformation Bethany Frankel,
you know, like Skinny Girl,margarita, real Housewives, she
is all into these.
So this is the best part, thebest video I've ever seen.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
She, so she for those that are not watching, that
can't see me I don't likereality TV.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
She has no idea why I'm so excited.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
OK, anyways, bethany Franankel she's a real housewife
.
She has no business talkingabout aliens, but she has been
and she started to realize thatthey, um, started to like bury
her in the algorithm.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Every time you say drones, it was getting buried,
so she started calling them diorbags okay, what I will say is I
did see her pop up on one of mythings about it and I was what
the hell is happening, right?
Speaker 2 (03:47):
So now she talks in code right, the drones are Dior
bags, the aliens are the Oscarde la rentas, and now she's not
getting buried.
But instead of saying thegovernment really funny.
It's so fucking funny.
So instead of saying like thegovernment's in charge of it
should be like the designers andit's all this code, she goes.
So she posts this tiktok theother day.
(04:07):
She's laying in bed, she'sdying laughing, she goes.
Listen, I didn't realize thiswas going to take off.
She goes.
I just saw a video of a man onan oil rig talking about dior
bags hashtag dior bags down inhis description.
This straight man has nevereven known what a door bag was
we're starting a movement.
Um, I'm so obsessed with this.
(04:28):
I think 2025 is the year we'regonna get aliens.
I'm saying it right now?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
well, we've already got aliens.
This is the year that we'regoing to see them, witness them
and hopefully get to go homewith them absolutely okay.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
So I'm sorry.
I've been studying that forweeks.
I've been wanting to talk toyou and everyone.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
I love it so great, great, great, um, wow.
I think that that's enoughexcitement.
Yes, let's get into their tales, because they want to hear
their stories being told from us, which is crazy to me, but I
will tell all your stories allright so.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
So this first one is lengthy, but this comes from a
really, really long timelistener, becky R.
Becky, the first time she wrotein, just wrote in to say I
don't have a story.
I just have to say like I loveyou guys and that was one of our
first write-ins ever, which isso cute.
So thank you, becky, becausethat gave us a lot of energy to
keep going, but now we get toread your story.
(05:27):
Okay, so it is titled hamilton,smartsville road, in
parentheses spooky stories.
She starts off with well, hellomy little oddballs.
I trust you had a magicalhalloween.
I'm so sorry, becky.
We've sat on this one for aminute.
Some time ago I wrote in withthe promise of spooky stories.
While I've attempted multipletimes to tell this particular
tale, the universe hasconstantly provided obstacles.
The keyboard needs newbatteries, the dog chokes,
(05:48):
someone calls, the keyboard withnew batteries stops working.
Again, the power goes out.
I can appreciate the humor, butit's annoying as shit.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
It's actually also really weird.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Right.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Like why can we not talk about this story?
Speaker 2 (06:01):
I don't know, becky, you should go listen to the
Slider episode, see if ithappens in more places.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Yeah, ooh.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
So here we go.
In 1982, if my math is correct,my family moved from a rural
house on the outskirts of a.
Let me start that sentenceagain.
In 1982, if my math is correct,my family moved from a rural
house on the outskirts of townto a small rental after an
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unfortunate foreclosure.
The upside was it was morecentrally located I can't speak
Placing my brothers and I closerto schools and my dad closer to
work.
My mother, a stay-at-home mom,appreciated the closer proximity
, but little else about thehouse.
To be frank, she hated it themoment she walked in.
This is noteworthy because itwas largely shrugged off as her
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being unhappy with the move andlosing her gardening space and
larger living space.
My two older brothers didn'tseem to have an opinion either
way at the time, and my dad andI actually loved it there.
We moved in at the end of myfirst grade school year and grew
accustomed to the newenvironment over the course of
the summer.
My brother shared one of thetwo bedrooms in the main part of
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the home and I delighted inbeing just across the tiny
hallway and within earshotshowed a monster spring from my
closet.
You know, it's like the threatof that happening is always
there just saying yeah, ourparents' room was fully at the
other end of the house in anadd-on area.
That summer provided absolutelynothing noteworthy regarding the
house or our time there.
(07:32):
By the standards of my youngmind, the house was huge.
There was a yard big enough formy brothers and I to scramble
in a double car garage for mydad, and a guest house in back
that my mom and her sisterpromptly claimed as a ceramic
studio.
Ooh, I.
Guest house in back that my momand her sister promptly claimed
as a ceramic studio.
Oh, I love that.
The best part, though, was thesomewhat shotgun style of the
house.
While I've come to know it as aranch style, it was tweaked and
(07:53):
added on too many times tobecome such.
Do you know what shotgun styleis like?
Picture um houses in neworleans.
I've never been remember, uh,really really long houses that,
basically, you open the frontdoor, you can open the back door
and see through the whole house.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah and it'slike things are added on.
That makes sense.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Okay, perfect, thank you.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
So, coming through the front door, you could stay
straight through the section ofa living room, pass through
literally into the dining roomand straight through the kitchen
to the back.
Add on.
I guess had I just kept readingI would have explained it to
you.
It's okay, I appreciate you.
You're welcome.
My brothers and I took fulladvantage and roller skated
through the house as often aspossible.
These were our days that summerSkating, playing, settling in
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the house felt as much like ahome as any others we had been
in.
I think we were all sure atthat point that mom would come
to love it too.
Come winter, my parents' roomat the back of the house
developed a leak in the roof.
This necessitated my parentsmoving into my room and I moved
into the bunk with my brothers.
At one point my dad made thedecision to remove the wood
stove located at the rear of thehouse.
(08:54):
I know that sounds terrible.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Ugh, I only had one little brother.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
I don't want to share a room with two Right and used
it to replace the less efficientheater located in front of the
house.
Something in this actionchanged our every day.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Okay, before you continue on, I just have to say
I won't name the podcast, butthere is this one podcast that I
listen to and every time theyhave a write in they're always
like you don't have to explainyour house, you don't have to do
this, but I love when peopleexplain their houses and how
things are set up, because itgives me that perfect visual and
then I can really hone in andlike understand the story.
So I appreciate all of thisknowledge of the home.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
I do too.
It's so much background butlike it paints the picture.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Yes, I love it.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
OK.
So that part changed withsomething in this action changed
our every day.
Then it says in quotations Sure, jim, I'll take your dog for a
walk.
Shortly after moving into mybrother's room I started waking
up to my eldest brother sittingup in bed talking.
It wasn't even something that Iremember being afraid of.
I recall vividly waking up,seeing him in the light of the
(10:00):
windows and generous Scooby-Doonight nightlight, turning over
toward the wall and fallingright back to sleep.
As this went on, our middlebrother would occasionally wake
up and even mutter at him a bit,but never in our room or never,
but never in our kid brains didit occur to us to be alarm.
Eventually it happened enoughmany times a week at this point
(10:21):
that we started to complain andeven make fun of him for being
weird.
This got the attention of ourparents, but again didn't raise
alarm.
I'm sure they just figured hewas dreaming and talking in his
sleep.
What did change, however, wasthe conversation.
Oh then in parentheses yeah,jim, I'll walk your dogs, you
better go now they're coming.
Ew, okay, okay, it's startingto get a little weird.
(10:42):
So now she says says this night, this one scared me.
On this night I saw, or what mysix-ish year old brain thinks,
the outline of a person with alarge dog standing next to his
bed.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Oh my God, you saw it .
No, but you did see it.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Oh yeah, we believe you.
I screamed loud, as you should.
My parents, now just across atiny hall, immediately ran in
and found their eldest talkingin their sleep, my brother shell
shocked and me in hysterics.
It's worth noting that, as anadult of 47, I do not believe in
ghosts, and still I immediatelygot chills writing this.
(11:17):
I love that this is happeningand you don't believe, but
you're you're that skepticallistener and I love those are
our favorite.
She goes moving on.
The conversation with Jim neverreally ended.
They were just a thing mybrother did.
I never saw a figure or dogagain.
What the fuck is Jim?
We all just sort of moved on,my mom being the exception.
She refused to stay in thehouse while we were at school
(11:40):
and my dad was at work.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
I don't blame her, though she already didn't want
to be there.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
No, yeah.
Well, now you probably have abetter understanding why she
didn't like the house from thebeginning.
Her level of comfort there wentfrom tolerance to non-existent.
Something in disturbing, theadd-on in that house opened a
door to very strange things.
My mother would see thereflection of a man in the
microwave above the stovetopwhen she looked up from cooking
(12:05):
oh, I just got full bodygoosebumps, holy oh, it'll get
worse.
She would see figures walkingfrom the dining room into the
hallway near our bedrooms.
Figures in the kitchen.
Knives in the drying rack hadbeen placed with the blade down,
only to find the blades hadturned upright.
The tv would turn on and off atwill, and how do you not
believe?
Yeah, how SeriouslyRespectfully.
(12:27):
But how.
One day, after many months, evena year or more, I really can't
say anymore the neighbor caughtup with my mom out in the garden
.
While having a random chat, sheexpressed how much she missed
her neighbor and was stillheartbroken by her sudden death.
Jim, Her dearly loved neighbor,jim Mm-hmm.
(12:48):
So now this is where we loveBecky even more.
Becky does research, okay, ooh,what is this?
Per Ancestrycom slash, find aGrave.
James Frederick Hartman wasborn October 4th 1922, in
Wichita, kansas, to George andMabel.
Jim was a laundry route man andteamster before moving to
California.
Jim met and married Georginaand they moved to Linda, ca.
(13:11):
On April 29, 1980, age 57, hada fatal heart attack inside his
home.
Also good on you for doing thedigging.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Do your research.
Rest in peace, jim.
But hey, we get to carry on hislegacy a little bit, okay.
So it goes on a little bit more.
We're almost through.
This next bit is from storiestold and I have no way to prove,
disprove or elaborate.
This is strictly sharing what'sbeen shared with me.
Oh, jim and georgina never hadchildren.
Jim wanted children, but shenever did.
In their place, jim had twogerman shepherd dogs that he
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loved dearly.
Uh, it is told that she hatedanimals.
Shortly after jim's passings,the dogs mysteriously died.
Oh, hold on my god they wereburied under what went on to
become the rear add-on of thehouse.
You know the part theydisturbed.
It is said that georgina addedonto the house after his passing
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in order to rent the house to alarger family, as it was
previously only two bed one.
What a bitch.
She did send us a link to thehouse and realtorcom, but she
did ask us not to share itpublicly.
Yeah, but we can totallycorroborate the pictures.
Uh, she goes on to say theentire rear section of the house
is gone and only a concreteporch remains.
The window and window cooler atthe rear wall of the kitchen
(14:27):
used to be the door leading intothe entire rear addition of the
house.
So the door has been relocated,add-ons been removed, along
with the guest house.
But so it's.
You know it's been changed overthe years and I wonder if now
that it's back to the original,if maybe that activity stopped a
little bit.
I don't know, but OK, so it'sback to the original, if maybe
that activity stopped a littlebit, I don't know, but okay.
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So she says I'll close withthis.
I do not consider myself abeliever of spirit.
Rather I believe that energycan linger.
That makes sense.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Okay, that does make sense I get it now can it linger
for years?
Speaker 2 (14:58):
no, not in my opinion .
So I'm a non-believer that Ihave no explanations for the
events in this house, nor do Ihave an explanation for why my
computer shits the bed when Itry to write this story.
I love that she addressed that.
Either way, I know I thought itmight have some spooky story
value for you both.
As always, you guys are awesome.
Keep doing what you're doing.
(15:18):
Much love, becky R.
First of all, beckyfantastically well-written are
first of all, beckyfantastically well written
background research yeah, girlfor non-believer, you nailed it.
You have to believe at least alittle bit if you keep listening
to us.
But you know what we appreciateyou either way.
We love the skeptics and I kindof agree with your energy thing
, though I think it is moreenergy than something else.
(15:40):
But maybe jim's fucking withyour computer.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
You never know no see , I think it's Georgina.
I think she's a fucking bitch.
She killed those dogs andburied them, then built over
them and then obviously that'swhy, when he was saying they're
coming, it might've been likeGeorgina's coming, like I've got
the dogs.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
I gotta go yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Oh, weird Bitch, I said it.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Georgina, you a bitch .
That was a good one.
I love the length of that one,though.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
No, that was perfect.
I love it.
I love the research.
That's my favorite.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
No, that was just like.
Honestly, I wish you guys couldhave seen how it's written too,
like with the quotes andeverything else.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Well, also, I do think that if you're going to be
like some sort of a skeptic,like you do do your research,
like you just want to hone inand dive in all that.
So I really do appreciate that.
That's cool.
Okay, great job, thank you okay.
So I have one, and it is awrite-in from a username called
starfighter 104, underscore 104starfighter.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Okay, starfighter, let's go.
Probably a fellow nerd, I likethem probably a Probably a what.
Fellow nerd.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Oh, fellow nerd yeah, um okay, or like a astrologist.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Starfighter is the name of like sci-fi spaceships
that fight each other.
Okay, what would he be fightingin astrology, I don't know.
Punch Sagittarius in the face.
Okay, I'm done, go on.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
If y'all could see my face.
Okay, not really personal, butmy grandmother witnessed
something strange in her housein the nineties.
The nineties are so far awaynow.
It's so sad.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Let's not dwell.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
It was a small house with an attic.
One day she heard somethingrunning around in the attic from
one side to the other, stompingvery loudly.
The dog that was in the housewas going crazy and barking at
the entrance of the attic.
After some time the stompingvery loudly, the dog that was in
the house was going crazy andbarking at the entrance of the
attic.
After some time the stompingstopped and she and her mother
climbed into the attic to checkwhat it was, but there was no
one there.
No one could get in or out ofthere because the roof of the
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attic had no windows.
In addition, in the samevillage they sometimes noticed
flying orbs that hung over theelectrical substation and they
quickly took off into the sky.
I want to note that this wassomewhere between the 80s and
90s in western Ukraine, quiteclose to the local former
storage of the nuclear warheads.
(17:58):
Then few people had televisionor radio.
No one knew what it was was,but it scared people terribly.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
that's I like this one for almost the opposite
reasons.
I like becky is this one'sshort and sweet.
Aliens, ghosts, dogs, all of myfavorite things and one and a
little bit of mystery to it andyeah, oh yeah, possible frogging
situation see, I would havethought that it was an animal
that was up there.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
But they were.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
But obviously the stomping very loudly made them
think that it was actuallysomebody up there, because it
said they went to go check,right, if somebody was up there
and even if it wasn't somebodywhere they said there's no other
way in or out, if it was somesort of animal like you would
have to have seen where theywere scurrying in or out from,
so definitely which makes itseem like they didn't have any
obvious spots of like where theycould have gotten in and out.
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So that's actually really creepyall right, so are you ready for
another one?
I am perfect.
You're gonna love this one too,because I don't have to
struggle through reading it.
It is a voicemail, so we'regonna go ahead and play that now
.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Hey Zach, hey Kara.
My name is Eric.
You've actually heard about mepreviously from another listener
, my wonderful wife Mariel.
You know the famous Mar liberalarts college.
My freshman year I went withsome friends to the Haunted
(19:21):
Tunnel.
In the Haunted Tunnel.
We are told that you willeither hear kids clapping,
moaning from the hanging slavesthat were hung there, and that's
(19:48):
how that goes.
So when I went, it was me, abunch of my friends and my wife
and I hadn't met yet, and wewent there.
We were told the story and aswe were getting in there, I was
the very last person in thegroup to enter the tunnel.
(20:09):
My girlfriend was to my sideand quickly got behind me
because she was not feeling safe.
Her hands were clasped around mywaist so there was no way this
was her hand, but I felt a handraise my butt.
(20:30):
Nobody else had ever feltsomething.
Nobody else had ever heardanything other than the children
laughing or the moaning?
But, yes, I had a ghost stealme up, because apparently that's
what they do.
Love you guys and I lookforward to listening to more
(20:50):
Oddity Shop Podcast.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Okay, eric, first off , we love you just as much as we
love your wife, so she is notthe only famous Mayor Hell from
the Oddity Shop.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
I love that this was pre them.
I know I feel like we'regetting so much of their story.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
I love this and hopefully you guys enjoyed.
They were one of the winners ofthe giveaway too for patreon,
so hopefully you guys enjoyed.
But, eric dude, not many peopleget felt up by ghosts, that's.
That's pretty cool, I love this.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
This is so fucking funny I, it's hilarious.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
I also love that, like you're like yeah, so we
went in the haunted tunnel, likeyou, and I are just like like
yes, I ran to target.
It's so normalized for you guys.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
I am obsessed with it , um there really isn't much
else to say.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
It's so funny I know, but yeah, nobody else is going
to call in voicemails.
You two keep leaving them.
You guys are killing it.
But our number is down in theshow note and just in case you
want it again, it's 616-320-4935.
Okay.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
You can just call us if you're bored, we don't even
need a spooky story that is true.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Yeah, leave us voicemails of whatever the fuck
you want entertain us okay, thatwas really funny.
All right that shall we go withthe last and final one today?
Speaker 1 (22:08):
yes, we shall perfect .
All right, this is a long oneand you know we haven't been
doing this for a minute, so bearwith me hey, you saw how bad I
tried to read through.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
We gotta we just gotta like work on practice the
skill you know so this is comingfrom onyx carpenter, and I
absolutely love that name.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Onyx, that's a great name.
It is a really cool name.
Okay, the subject is the dog.
If a dog dies in this, againI'm done for the rest of the
night.
All right, here we go.
Basically, it was late at nightand my girlfriend randomly
stopped by my house because shewasn't doing well mentally.
I decided to walk her around myneighborhood until my stepdad
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came home.
Since I had no idea where to goand my usual hiding spots from
my parents was taken, I decidedto take her to this alleyway
between a few houses Also good,boyfriend, though I know
Everything was fine and nothingreally seemed off.
The only time it did was whenwe went deeper into it.
Usually, when I went into thisalleyway, or whatever it was
called, I never went as far as Idid.
(23:09):
That night, my girlfriend madea joke about how, on the ground,
it looks like someone had beendragged through there.
And you didn't immediately runAlleyways freak me out, no
matter what, truly.
After that everything kind ofjust went badly.
Oh no, we're trying to take heron like a mental health walk,
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but good boyfriend to try to gether out.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
True, true, maybe not the best location.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Everything felt off about that spot and everything
about it just screamed unsafeand I hated.
I was the only one in thatmoment feeling it.
My girlfriend was making jokesand I couldn't was the only one
in that moment feeling it.
My girlfriend was making jokesand I couldn't stop looking into
these bushes.
That's when I saw a figure thatwas pitch black yet had a
toothy smile, and it looked likesomeone crouching to get to
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somebody's level and hide theiractual height, like you do to
talk to a toddler.
I just peed my pants.
I couldn't see exactly what itwas until my girlfriend felt
cold air on her right side and Isaid I saw it move.
The terrifying part was that weboth knew that whatever it was
wasn't just a hallucination.
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When we ran out of the alleywayI saw it either in the corner
of my eyes at first or inchingits way to me.
Eventually we made it to wherewe thought it'd be safe and
called my friend Grace, as wewere.
I saw it on the ground, nevertaking its eyes off of me or
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smiling.
We were panicked, scared anddidn't know what was going on.
My girlfriend was having herown monster or whatever it was,
but I only ever heard it.
After ending the call with Grace, we had to fight with my
girlfriend's parents becausethey refused to take her home,
even though her phone died Aftercalling Grace back.
That's when it got worse.
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We stood underneath a tree andmy girlfriend was the first to
get touched.
Oh my God, it laid its hand.
That's so touching in thisepisode.
I know it laid its hand on herhead and just kept it there
since she was too afraid to move.
I was the second to get touched.
The quote dog was climbing ontomy back, using my shoulders to
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hoist itself up, and that's themoment I could really tell it
wasn't a dog, because I felthooves.
Dude, I'm fucking dying overhere.
I can't even finish yeah, thisis terrifying, onyx it struggled
for a bit until both of thecreatures just kind of
disappeared and I honestlyalmost cried from how scared for
both me and her I I would have.
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I don't know how you didn't cryyeah, I would I would have
after a bit of the crawling was.
It was almost like I heard ahowl in my head, not even in my
ears or anything like that.
After a while, me and mygirlfriend had to part ways, but
it didn't end there.
The dog found a place to stayand, surprisingly, didn't want
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me near it.
The only problem was that itwas my closet, but my closet
always scared me anyways.
When I'd leave the house it'dbe right there with me and even
pretended to be my protectiveenergy that I have.
After arriving to school, itwas also there.
Oh my God, this is horrifying.
It liked when it'd sit in theback of the class because the
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seating arrangements, and duringculinary it got bold.
This is.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Is culinary, what they call home ec.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Now, Well, home ec was like a bunch of different
sick, but like I just hadcooking which wasn't home ec, it
was just cooking, so it wouldbe like culinary.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
I went to school at North, so we had one day where
they bashed a fish with arolling pin and showed us how to
cook it.
That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
I'm dying reading this, though it approached
slowly and I could feel its eyesjust burning in the back of my
head.
Eventually I heard a knock onthe door but saw no shadow of
someone actually being there, soI knew it was just something to
get me to be afraid.
To be afraid.
Grace eventually met me atlunch and we talked it out,
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trying to figure out solutionsand discuss our concerns about
my girlfriend, since she had adifferent lunchtime than us
During that, though it neverreally left.
It'd be behind me.
Use my protective energyanything to get me to trust it.
Yet it never felt human ornatural, so I'd always be on my
guard.
It kind of slowly faded awayafter a bit, but to this day it
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doesn't actually feel fully gone.
Occasionally I'll feel chill,like I'm being watched, or even
sometimes in a public settingand my back is turned.
I feel hands deliberatelyplacing themselves on my back
and slowly climbing up.
Anyways, I hope my story wasn'ttoo wordy and enjoyable to read
.
No, it was not enjoyable toread, because that is terrifying
.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
We need to get you cleansed okay, mr onyx, first of
all, thank you for writing in,because that was an absolutely
horrifying way to end thisepisode.
Uh, but what kara was beingsaid this to me and kara chime
in please.
But sounds like something thatwas looking for human attachment
, correct?
You and your girlfriend were ina at least she was in a
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negative energy headspace.
So it found which I'm kind ofsurprised.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
It didn't attach to her, though, but it's good.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
So at one point in the story he said that she had
her own monster.
So it sounds like whatever itwas was trying to get them both.
Well, that's, and I wonder ifshe just wasn't noticing it like
you were, because of her ownstate at the time.
That's very true.
Not something that I share veryoften, but as somebody who
thinks that I've had anattachment that I had to work
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through, I have a bunch of toolsthat helped me get rid of that
thing.
So, if you are open to it, Iwill respond to your email with
some tips and tricks.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Reading this reminded me of yours, and let's not
speak too much about it, butit's the back thing on the back.
That's what reminded me backfor sure so.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
So reach out.
Anyways, I will send you somestuff actually just reach out.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
If you're open to it, I'm I'm going to send it but we
hope it helps.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
And that was well written too, though, and I think
, probably one of our mosthorrifying.
I think it's the mosthorrifying first person story
that we've had that was crazy.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
So thank you, I hope you're okay.
Wow, thank you, though, we dohope you're okay.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
And what a way to end our january bonus maybe we
should have read these before.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
We should have ended with one lighter note one.
Sorry guys.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Oh, okay, you know what.
I will end with a lighter one.
Okay, so this isn't a listenerwrite-in by any means, but it is
.
A listener told me a story andnow I'm voluntolding them to be
on this episode.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Who would be?
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Because they didn't specifically write in, I'm going
to not call them out.
Oh, when they yell at me laterfor not calling them out, I will
call them out on a futureepisode, so you all know, if
they choose.
But friends of mine weresitting at home when, all of a
sudden, now they live in an areathat kind of loses power
somewhat decently or notdecently Frequently Frequently,
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that's the word I was lookingfor.
And, um, a lot of times they'llget brown out.
So the lights dimmed andthey're like oh, here we go,
we're gonna lose power.
Okay, but they didn't.
However, it got very, very coldin the room as the lights
dimmed was this the?
animals started to freak outvery recently, and then the
Google Home, two rooms away,said no, hi, I'd love to talk to
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you about your day.
No, so you know, like, have youever?
I don't want to say the words.
But hi, g word, how are you?
I don't want to say it becausemine will turn on.
Yeah, it was like somebody saidhow are you, or I want to talk
to you, or something like that,and the pets were freaking out.
After a while, though, thelights came back on and the room
went back to normal temp.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Yeah, that's bizarre.
Write that in, whoever you are.
Thanks.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Yeah, yes.
So if you are listening and youdo want your names to be known,
go ahead and let me know and Iwill call you out on our next
episode.
But with that, we are now fullyback at it, guys.
Next week, brand new episodescoming your way.
Um, also next week, if not theweek, this comes out, because
once again we are pre back topre-recording.
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We are going to have a superbig oh, and a little bit of a
surprise something we've beenworking on.
Oh yeah, okay yeah, this isgonna be a good one.
Well what else do we need to do?
That's it.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
This is fun.
Let's just close out.
We appreciate you.
We love hearing your stories,even the creepy, weird ones.
But just again, like we saidearlier, you can just call us,
leave us a fun little voicemailor just email us about your day,
we don't care.
Just we want to talk to youguys because we're sick of
talking to ourselves.
Yeah, we do it a lot.
(31:48):
Well, I hope that you guysappreciate that we took off this
month.
I hope you're okay with it.
Listening to some of our youknow older episodes that we
loved so much.
I know you guys understand, soI don't even know why I'm
talking about it.
We love you guys so much.
If you listen to this, leave anemoji of a dog.
We love you guys so much.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
If you listen to this , leave an emoji of a dog,
absolutely.
I was going to say dog, a zwog,it's got to be a dog.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
And I've been a little bit more silent on social
media.
I'm so sorry, but I'm going toget back into it.
So leave me a zwog and I'lltalk to you later and do all the
other things that I normallyask of you.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
But the most important thing you can do for
us is to creep it.
Real yard balls, goodbye.
I'm home with the dogmen At theAli-Shop, hooked in the shadows
At the Ali-Shop, and home withthe eyeballs At the Ali-Shop.
The door's always open At theAisha.
I want to dance with the Muppets At the Irish shop.
Bathe in the moonlight At theIrish shop.
Creep through the graveyard Tothe Irish shop.
The door's always open At theIA shop.
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What's up?
Oddballs?
It's Kara and Zachary and we'reactually here for a bonus
episode.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Bow, bow bow Bow, bow bow.
It is our first episode We'verecorded in, recorded in a while
too, after a break, which iswhy Kirsten no, this is a bonus
episode.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
It's a little bit more lax.
I wasn't trying to be official.
Did you even say welcome?
Speaker 2 (01:15):
to the shop.
Welcome to the shop.
Welcome to the oddity shop.
We took a month off and wedon't know how to do it anymore.
We've missed you, though wehave, and I've kind of missed
you, thank you.
I think this is the longest youand I have ever gone without
really talking, like we almostdid not talk through this month
off.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Yeah, we both had just a lot of stuff going on
with holidays and family andthings and yeah, it's been a
wild ride.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
But we're so happy to be back and we're so happy to
be bringing you new content, sowe did promise you something new
for January.
We do have a bonus episode foryou guys today.
It's all write-ins orvoicemails, all your stories
right back at you.
Before we do it, though,because we haven't gotten to
talk about it and I've beendying, and I'm sure our
listeners are ready oh, thedrones in New Jersey.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Oh, I thought you were going to say that I'm 36
years old now, but I don't looka day over 27.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
I would say 19.
Thanks, thanks, yes.
Happy belated birthday to Kara.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
That was definitely what I was going to bring up Now
the drones, the drones.
Have you been?
Speaker 2 (02:17):
following the drones dude.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
I don't know if I know what you're talking about,
but probably, oh my God.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Okay, oh, my god, okay.
So over New Jersey, for likethe last couple of months,
there's been all these dronesthat have been flying over, and
then people are seeing all theseUFO plasmoids and they're
trying to figure out if thedrones are tracking UFOs, if
they're aliens, if they'reman-made, all this shit.
And, okay, here's what I lovemost about it.
If you had told me Okay,backtrack for a second.
Me and Julia are joking because2025 is already starting off.
Wild that we want to bring backthe bingo cards that we made in
(02:48):
2020 for, like, the crazy shitthat's going to pop off.
Oh, can we?
What's?
Speaker 1 (02:51):
another thing that we can use instead of bingo cards.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
That is true, I'm bingoed out, but I get it.
These drones, ok, the.
You know who, like the numberone whistleblower on TikTok, has
been on these drones and givinginformation Bethany Frankel,
you know, like Skinny Girl,margarita, real Housewives, she
is all into these.
So this is the best part, thebest video I've ever seen.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
She, so she for those that are not watching, that
can't see me I don't likereality TV.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
She has no idea why I'm so excited.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
OK, anyways, bethany Franankel she's a real housewife
.
She has no business talkingabout aliens, but she has been
and she started to realize thatthey, um, started to like bury
her in the algorithm.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Every time you say drones, it was getting buried,
so she started calling them diorbags okay, what I will say is I
did see her pop up on one of mythings about it and I was what
the hell is happening, right?
Speaker 2 (03:47):
So now she talks in code right, the drones are Dior
bags, the aliens are the Oscarde la rentas, and now she's not
getting buried.
But instead of saying thegovernment really funny.
It's so fucking funny.
So instead of saying like thegovernment's in charge of it
should be like the designers andit's all this code, she goes.
So she posts this tiktok theother day.
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She's laying in bed, she'sdying laughing, she goes.
Listen, I didn't realize thiswas going to take off.
She goes.
I just saw a video of a man onan oil rig talking about dior
bags hashtag dior bags down inhis description.
This straight man has nevereven known what a door bag was
we're starting a movement.
Um, I'm so obsessed with this.
(04:28):
I think 2025 is the year we'regonna get aliens.
I'm saying it right now?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
well, we've already got aliens.
This is the year that we'regoing to see them, witness them
and hopefully get to go homewith them absolutely okay.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
So I'm sorry.
I've been studying that forweeks.
I've been wanting to talk toyou and everyone.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
I love it so great, great, great, um, wow.
I think that that's enoughexcitement.
Yes, let's get into their tales, because they want to hear
their stories being told from us, which is crazy to me, but I
will tell all your stories allright so.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
So this first one is lengthy, but this comes from a
really, really long timelistener, becky R.
Becky, the first time she wrotein, just wrote in to say I
don't have a story.
I just have to say like I loveyou guys and that was one of our
first write-ins ever, which isso cute.
So thank you, becky, becausethat gave us a lot of energy to
keep going, but now we get toread your story.
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Okay, so it is titled hamilton,smartsville road, in
parentheses spooky stories.
She starts off with well, hellomy little oddballs.
I trust you had a magicalhalloween.
I'm so sorry, becky.
We've sat on this one for aminute.
Some time ago I wrote in withthe promise of spooky stories.
While I've attempted multipletimes to tell this particular
tale, the universe hasconstantly provided obstacles.
The keyboard needs newbatteries, the dog chokes,
(05:48):
someone calls, the keyboard withnew batteries stops working.
Again, the power goes out.
I can appreciate the humor, butit's annoying as shit.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
It's actually also really weird.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Right.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Like why can we not talk about this story?
Speaker 2 (06:01):
I don't know, becky, you should go listen to the
Slider episode, see if ithappens in more places.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Yeah, ooh.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
So here we go.
In 1982, if my math is correct,my family moved from a rural
house on the outskirts of a.
Let me start that sentenceagain.
In 1982, if my math is correct,my family moved from a rural
house on the outskirts of townto a small rental after an
(06:29):
unfortunate foreclosure.
The upside was it was morecentrally located I can't speak
Placing my brothers and I closerto schools and my dad closer to
work.
My mother, a stay-at-home mom,appreciated the closer proximity
, but little else about thehouse.
To be frank, she hated it themoment she walked in.
This is noteworthy because itwas largely shrugged off as her
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being unhappy with the move andlosing her gardening space and
larger living space.
My two older brothers didn'tseem to have an opinion either
way at the time, and my dad andI actually loved it there.
We moved in at the end of myfirst grade school year and grew
accustomed to the newenvironment over the course of
the summer.
My brother shared one of thetwo bedrooms in the main part of
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the home and I delighted inbeing just across the tiny
hallway and within earshotshowed a monster spring from my
closet.
You know, it's like the threatof that happening is always
there just saying yeah, ourparents' room was fully at the
other end of the house in anadd-on area.
That summer provided absolutelynothing noteworthy regarding the
house or our time there.
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By the standards of my youngmind, the house was huge.
There was a yard big enough formy brothers and I to scramble
in a double car garage for mydad, and a guest house in back
that my mom and her sisterpromptly claimed as a ceramic
studio.
Ooh, I.
Guest house in back that my momand her sister promptly claimed
as a ceramic studio.
Oh, I love that.
The best part, though, was thesomewhat shotgun style of the
house.
While I've come to know it as aranch style, it was tweaked and
(07:53):
added on too many times tobecome such.
Do you know what shotgun styleis like?
Picture um houses in neworleans.
I've never been remember, uh,really really long houses that,
basically, you open the frontdoor, you can open the back door
and see through the whole house.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah and it'slike things are added on.
That makes sense.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Okay, perfect, thank you.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
So, coming through the front door, you could stay
straight through the section ofa living room, pass through
literally into the dining roomand straight through the kitchen
to the back.
Add on.
I guess had I just kept readingI would have explained it to
you.
It's okay, I appreciate you.
You're welcome.
My brothers and I took fulladvantage and roller skated
through the house as often aspossible.
These were our days that summerSkating, playing, settling in
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the house felt as much like ahome as any others we had been
in.
I think we were all sure atthat point that mom would come
to love it too.
Come winter, my parents' roomat the back of the house
developed a leak in the roof.
This necessitated my parentsmoving into my room and I moved
into the bunk with my brothers.
At one point my dad made thedecision to remove the wood
stove located at the rear of thehouse.
(08:54):
I know that sounds terrible.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Ugh, I only had one little brother.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
I don't want to share a room with two Right and used
it to replace the less efficientheater located in front of the
house.
Something in this actionchanged our every day.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Okay, before you continue on, I just have to say
I won't name the podcast, butthere is this one podcast that I
listen to and every time theyhave a write in they're always
like you don't have to explainyour house, you don't have to do
this, but I love when peopleexplain their houses and how
things are set up, because itgives me that perfect visual and
then I can really hone in andlike understand the story.
So I appreciate all of thisknowledge of the home.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
I do too.
It's so much background butlike it paints the picture.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Yes, I love it.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
OK.
So that part changed withsomething in this action changed
our every day.
Then it says in quotations Sure, jim, I'll take your dog for a
walk.
Shortly after moving into mybrother's room I started waking
up to my eldest brother sittingup in bed talking.
It wasn't even something that Iremember being afraid of.
I recall vividly waking up,seeing him in the light of the
(10:00):
windows and generous Scooby-Doonight nightlight, turning over
toward the wall and fallingright back to sleep.
As this went on, our middlebrother would occasionally wake
up and even mutter at him a bit,but never in our room or never,
but never in our kid brains didit occur to us to be alarm.
Eventually it happened enoughmany times a week at this point
(10:21):
that we started to complain andeven make fun of him for being
weird.
This got the attention of ourparents, but again didn't raise
alarm.
I'm sure they just figured hewas dreaming and talking in his
sleep.
What did change, however, wasthe conversation.
Oh then in parentheses yeah,jim, I'll walk your dogs, you
better go now they're coming.
Ew, okay, okay, it's startingto get a little weird.
(10:42):
So now she says says this night, this one scared me.
On this night I saw, or what mysix-ish year old brain thinks,
the outline of a person with alarge dog standing next to his
bed.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Oh my God, you saw it .
No, but you did see it.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Oh yeah, we believe you.
I screamed loud, as you should.
My parents, now just across atiny hall, immediately ran in
and found their eldest talkingin their sleep, my brother shell
shocked and me in hysterics.
It's worth noting that, as anadult of 47, I do not believe in
ghosts, and still I immediatelygot chills writing this.
(11:17):
I love that this is happeningand you don't believe, but
you're you're that skepticallistener and I love those are
our favorite.
She goes moving on.
The conversation with Jim neverreally ended.
They were just a thing mybrother did.
I never saw a figure or dogagain.
What the fuck is Jim?
We all just sort of moved on,my mom being the exception.
She refused to stay in thehouse while we were at school
(11:40):
and my dad was at work.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
I don't blame her, though she already didn't want
to be there.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
No, yeah.
Well, now you probably have abetter understanding why she
didn't like the house from thebeginning.
Her level of comfort there wentfrom tolerance to non-existent.
Something in disturbing, theadd-on in that house opened a
door to very strange things.
My mother would see thereflection of a man in the
microwave above the stovetopwhen she looked up from cooking
(12:05):
oh, I just got full bodygoosebumps, holy oh, it'll get
worse.
She would see figures walkingfrom the dining room into the
hallway near our bedrooms.
Figures in the kitchen.
Knives in the drying rack hadbeen placed with the blade down,
only to find the blades hadturned upright.
The tv would turn on and off atwill, and how do you not
believe?
Yeah, how SeriouslyRespectfully.
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But how.
One day, after many months, evena year or more, I really can't
say anymore the neighbor caughtup with my mom out in the garden
.
While having a random chat, sheexpressed how much she missed
her neighbor and was stillheartbroken by her sudden death.
Jim, Her dearly loved neighbor,jim Mm-hmm.
(12:48):
So now this is where we loveBecky even more.
Becky does research, okay, ooh,what is this?
Per Ancestrycom slash, find aGrave.
James Frederick Hartman wasborn October 4th 1922, in
Wichita, kansas, to George andMabel.
Jim was a laundry route man andteamster before moving to
California.
Jim met and married Georginaand they moved to Linda, ca.
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On April 29, 1980, age 57, hada fatal heart attack inside his
home.
Also good on you for doing thedigging.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Do your research.
Rest in peace, jim.
But hey, we get to carry on hislegacy a little bit, okay.
So it goes on a little bit more.
We're almost through.
This next bit is from storiestold and I have no way to prove,
disprove or elaborate.
This is strictly sharing what'sbeen shared with me.
Oh, jim and georgina never hadchildren.
Jim wanted children, but shenever did.
In their place, jim had twogerman shepherd dogs that he
(13:45):
loved dearly.
Uh, it is told that she hatedanimals.
Shortly after jim's passings,the dogs mysteriously died.
Oh, hold on my god they wereburied under what went on to
become the rear add-on of thehouse.
You know the part theydisturbed.
It is said that georgina addedonto the house after his passing
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in order to rent the house to alarger family, as it was
previously only two bed one.
What a bitch.
She did send us a link to thehouse and realtorcom, but she
did ask us not to share itpublicly.
Yeah, but we can totallycorroborate the pictures.
Uh, she goes on to say theentire rear section of the house
is gone and only a concreteporch remains.
The window and window cooler atthe rear wall of the kitchen
(14:27):
used to be the door leading intothe entire rear addition of the
house.
So the door has been relocated,add-ons been removed, along
with the guest house.
But so it's.
You know it's been changed overthe years and I wonder if now
that it's back to the original,if maybe that activity stopped a
little bit.
I don't know, but OK, so it'sback to the original, if maybe
that activity stopped a littlebit, I don't know, but okay.
(14:48):
So she says I'll close withthis.
I do not consider myself abeliever of spirit.
Rather I believe that energycan linger.
That makes sense.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Okay, that does make sense I get it now can it linger
for years?
Speaker 2 (14:58):
no, not in my opinion .
So I'm a non-believer that Ihave no explanations for the
events in this house, nor do Ihave an explanation for why my
computer shits the bed when Itry to write this story.
I love that she addressed that.
Either way, I know I thought itmight have some spooky story
value for you both.
As always, you guys are awesome.
Keep doing what you're doing.
(15:18):
Much love, becky R.
First of all, beckyfantastically well-written are
first of all, beckyfantastically well written
background research yeah, girlfor non-believer, you nailed it.
You have to believe at least alittle bit if you keep listening
to us.
But you know what we appreciateyou either way.
We love the skeptics and I kindof agree with your energy thing
, though I think it is moreenergy than something else.
(15:40):
But maybe jim's fucking withyour computer.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
You never know no see , I think it's Georgina.
I think she's a fucking bitch.
She killed those dogs andburied them, then built over
them and then obviously that'swhy, when he was saying they're
coming, it might've been likeGeorgina's coming, like I've got
the dogs.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
I gotta go yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Oh, weird Bitch, I said it.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Georgina, you a bitch .
That was a good one.
I love the length of that one,though.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
No, that was perfect.
I love it.
I love the research.
That's my favorite.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
No, that was just like.
Honestly, I wish you guys couldhave seen how it's written too,
like with the quotes andeverything else.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Well, also, I do think that if you're going to be
like some sort of a skeptic,like you do do your research,
like you just want to hone inand dive in all that.
So I really do appreciate that.
That's cool.
Okay, great job, thank you okay.
So I have one, and it is awrite-in from a username called
starfighter 104, underscore 104starfighter.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Okay, starfighter, let's go.
Probably a fellow nerd, I likethem probably a Probably a what.
Fellow nerd.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Oh, fellow nerd yeah, um okay, or like a astrologist.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Starfighter is the name of like sci-fi spaceships
that fight each other.
Okay, what would he be fightingin astrology, I don't know.
Punch Sagittarius in the face.
Okay, I'm done, go on.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
If y'all could see my face.
Okay, not really personal, butmy grandmother witnessed
something strange in her housein the nineties.
The nineties are so far awaynow.
It's so sad.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Let's not dwell.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
It was a small house with an attic.
One day she heard somethingrunning around in the attic from
one side to the other, stompingvery loudly.
The dog that was in the housewas going crazy and barking at
the entrance of the attic.
After some time the stompingvery loudly, the dog that was in
the house was going crazy andbarking at the entrance of the
attic.
After some time the stompingstopped and she and her mother
climbed into the attic to checkwhat it was, but there was no
one there.
No one could get in or out ofthere because the roof of the
(17:38):
attic had no windows.
In addition, in the samevillage they sometimes noticed
flying orbs that hung over theelectrical substation and they
quickly took off into the sky.
I want to note that this wassomewhere between the 80s and
90s in western Ukraine, quiteclose to the local former
storage of the nuclear warheads.
(17:58):
Then few people had televisionor radio.
No one knew what it was was,but it scared people terribly.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
that's I like this one for almost the opposite
reasons.
I like becky is this one'sshort and sweet.
Aliens, ghosts, dogs, all of myfavorite things and one and a
little bit of mystery to it andyeah, oh yeah, possible frogging
situation see, I would havethought that it was an animal
that was up there.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
But they were.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
But obviously the stomping very loudly made them
think that it was actuallysomebody up there, because it
said they went to go check,right, if somebody was up there
and even if it wasn't somebodywhere they said there's no other
way in or out, if it was somesort of animal like you would
have to have seen where theywere scurrying in or out from,
so definitely which makes itseem like they didn't have any
obvious spots of like where theycould have gotten in and out.
(18:46):
So that's actually really creepyall right, so are you ready for
another one?
I am perfect.
You're gonna love this one too,because I don't have to
struggle through reading it.
It is a voicemail, so we'regonna go ahead and play that now
.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Hey Zach, hey Kara.
My name is Eric.
You've actually heard about mepreviously from another listener
, my wonderful wife Mariel.
You know the famous Mar liberalarts college.
My freshman year I went withsome friends to the Haunted
(19:21):
Tunnel.
In the Haunted Tunnel.
We are told that you willeither hear kids clapping,
moaning from the hanging slavesthat were hung there, and that's
(19:48):
how that goes.
So when I went, it was me, abunch of my friends and my wife
and I hadn't met yet, and wewent there.
We were told the story and aswe were getting in there, I was
the very last person in thegroup to enter the tunnel.
(20:09):
My girlfriend was to my sideand quickly got behind me
because she was not feeling safe.
Her hands were clasped around mywaist so there was no way this
was her hand, but I felt a handraise my butt.
(20:30):
Nobody else had ever feltsomething.
Nobody else had ever heardanything other than the children
laughing or the moaning?
But, yes, I had a ghost stealme up, because apparently that's
what they do.
Love you guys and I lookforward to listening to more
(20:50):
Oddity Shop Podcast.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Okay, eric, first off , we love you just as much as we
love your wife, so she is notthe only famous Mayor Hell from
the Oddity Shop.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
I love that this was pre them.
I know I feel like we'regetting so much of their story.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
I love this and hopefully you guys enjoyed.
They were one of the winners ofthe giveaway too for patreon,
so hopefully you guys enjoyed.
But, eric dude, not many peopleget felt up by ghosts, that's.
That's pretty cool, I love this.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
This is so fucking funny I, it's hilarious.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
I also love that, like you're like yeah, so we
went in the haunted tunnel, likeyou, and I are just like like
yes, I ran to target.
It's so normalized for you guys.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
I am obsessed with it , um there really isn't much
else to say.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
It's so funny I know, but yeah, nobody else is going
to call in voicemails.
You two keep leaving them.
You guys are killing it.
But our number is down in theshow note and just in case you
want it again, it's 616-320-4935.
Okay.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
You can just call us if you're bored, we don't even
need a spooky story that is true.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Yeah, leave us voicemails of whatever the fuck
you want entertain us okay, thatwas really funny.
All right that shall we go withthe last and final one today?
Speaker 1 (22:08):
yes, we shall perfect .
All right, this is a long oneand you know we haven't been
doing this for a minute, so bearwith me hey, you saw how bad I
tried to read through.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
We gotta we just gotta like work on practice the
skill you know so this is comingfrom onyx carpenter, and I
absolutely love that name.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Onyx, that's a great name.
It is a really cool name.
Okay, the subject is the dog.
If a dog dies in this, againI'm done for the rest of the
night.
All right, here we go.
Basically, it was late at nightand my girlfriend randomly
stopped by my house because shewasn't doing well mentally.
I decided to walk her around myneighborhood until my stepdad
(22:48):
came home.
Since I had no idea where to goand my usual hiding spots from
my parents was taken, I decidedto take her to this alleyway
between a few houses Also good,boyfriend, though I know
Everything was fine and nothingreally seemed off.
The only time it did was whenwe went deeper into it.
Usually, when I went into thisalleyway, or whatever it was
called, I never went as far as Idid.
(23:09):
That night, my girlfriend madea joke about how, on the ground,
it looks like someone had beendragged through there.
And you didn't immediately runAlleyways freak me out, no
matter what, truly.
After that everything kind ofjust went badly.
Oh no, we're trying to take heron like a mental health walk,
(23:29):
but good boyfriend to try to gether out.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
True, true, maybe not the best location.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Everything felt off about that spot and everything
about it just screamed unsafeand I hated.
I was the only one in thatmoment feeling it.
My girlfriend was making jokesand I couldn't was the only one
in that moment feeling it.
My girlfriend was making jokesand I couldn't stop looking into
these bushes.
That's when I saw a figure thatwas pitch black yet had a
toothy smile, and it looked likesomeone crouching to get to
(23:56):
somebody's level and hide theiractual height, like you do to
talk to a toddler.
I just peed my pants.
I couldn't see exactly what itwas until my girlfriend felt
cold air on her right side and Isaid I saw it move.
The terrifying part was that weboth knew that whatever it was
wasn't just a hallucination.
(24:16):
When we ran out of the alleywayI saw it either in the corner
of my eyes at first or inchingits way to me.
Eventually we made it to wherewe thought it'd be safe and
called my friend Grace, as wewere.
I saw it on the ground, nevertaking its eyes off of me or
(24:37):
smiling.
We were panicked, scared anddidn't know what was going on.
My girlfriend was having herown monster or whatever it was,
but I only ever heard it.
After ending the call with Grace, we had to fight with my
girlfriend's parents becausethey refused to take her home,
even though her phone died Aftercalling Grace back.
That's when it got worse.
(24:58):
We stood underneath a tree andmy girlfriend was the first to
get touched.
Oh my God, it laid its hand.
That's so touching in thisepisode.
I know it laid its hand on herhead and just kept it there
since she was too afraid to move.
I was the second to get touched.
The quote dog was climbing ontomy back, using my shoulders to
(25:20):
hoist itself up, and that's themoment I could really tell it
wasn't a dog, because I felthooves.
Dude, I'm fucking dying overhere.
I can't even finish yeah, thisis terrifying, onyx it struggled
for a bit until both of thecreatures just kind of
disappeared and I honestlyalmost cried from how scared for
both me and her I I would have.
(25:41):
I don't know how you didn't cryyeah, I would I would have
after a bit of the crawling was.
It was almost like I heard ahowl in my head, not even in my
ears or anything like that.
After a while, me and mygirlfriend had to part ways, but
it didn't end there.
The dog found a place to stayand, surprisingly, didn't want
(26:02):
me near it.
The only problem was that itwas my closet, but my closet
always scared me anyways.
When I'd leave the house it'dbe right there with me and even
pretended to be my protectiveenergy that I have.
After arriving to school, itwas also there.
Oh my God, this is horrifying.
It liked when it'd sit in theback of the class because the
(26:26):
seating arrangements, and duringculinary it got bold.
This is.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Is culinary, what they call home ec.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Now, Well, home ec was like a bunch of different
sick, but like I just hadcooking which wasn't home ec, it
was just cooking, so it wouldbe like culinary.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
I went to school at North, so we had one day where
they bashed a fish with arolling pin and showed us how to
cook it.
That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
I'm dying reading this, though it approached
slowly and I could feel its eyesjust burning in the back of my
head.
Eventually I heard a knock onthe door but saw no shadow of
someone actually being there, soI knew it was just something to
get me to be afraid.
To be afraid.
Grace eventually met me atlunch and we talked it out,
(27:07):
trying to figure out solutionsand discuss our concerns about
my girlfriend, since she had adifferent lunchtime than us
During that, though it neverreally left.
It'd be behind me.
Use my protective energyanything to get me to trust it.
Yet it never felt human ornatural, so I'd always be on my
guard.
It kind of slowly faded awayafter a bit, but to this day it
(27:27):
doesn't actually feel fully gone.
Occasionally I'll feel chill,like I'm being watched, or even
sometimes in a public settingand my back is turned.
I feel hands deliberatelyplacing themselves on my back
and slowly climbing up.
Anyways, I hope my story wasn'ttoo wordy and enjoyable to read
.
No, it was not enjoyable toread, because that is terrifying
.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
We need to get you cleansed okay, mr onyx, first of
all, thank you for writing in,because that was an absolutely
horrifying way to end thisepisode.
Uh, but what kara was beingsaid this to me and kara chime
in please.
But sounds like something thatwas looking for human attachment
, correct?
You and your girlfriend were ina at least she was in a
(28:09):
negative energy headspace.
So it found which I'm kind ofsurprised.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
It didn't attach to her, though, but it's good.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
So at one point in the story he said that she had
her own monster.
So it sounds like whatever itwas was trying to get them both.
Well, that's, and I wonder ifshe just wasn't noticing it like
you were, because of her ownstate at the time.
That's very true.
Not something that I share veryoften, but as somebody who
thinks that I've had anattachment that I had to work
(28:36):
through, I have a bunch of toolsthat helped me get rid of that
thing.
So, if you are open to it, Iwill respond to your email with
some tips and tricks.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Reading this reminded me of yours, and let's not
speak too much about it, butit's the back thing on the back.
That's what reminded me backfor sure so.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
So reach out.
Anyways, I will send you somestuff actually just reach out.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
If you're open to it, I'm I'm going to send it but we
hope it helps.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
And that was well written too, though, and I think
, probably one of our mosthorrifying.
I think it's the mosthorrifying first person story
that we've had that was crazy.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
So thank you, I hope you're okay.
Wow, thank you, though, we dohope you're okay.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
And what a way to end our january bonus maybe we
should have read these before.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
We should have ended with one lighter note one.
Sorry guys.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Oh, okay, you know what.
I will end with a lighter one.
Okay, so this isn't a listenerwrite-in by any means, but it is
.
A listener told me a story andnow I'm voluntolding them to be
on this episode.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Who would be?
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Because they didn't specifically write in, I'm going
to not call them out.
Oh, when they yell at me laterfor not calling them out, I will
call them out on a futureepisode, so you all know, if
they choose.
But friends of mine weresitting at home when, all of a
sudden, now they live in an areathat kind of loses power
somewhat decently or notdecently Frequently Frequently,
(30:04):
that's the word I was lookingfor.
And, um, a lot of times they'llget brown out.
So the lights dimmed andthey're like oh, here we go,
we're gonna lose power.
Okay, but they didn't.
However, it got very, very coldin the room as the lights
dimmed was this the?
animals started to freak outvery recently, and then the
Google Home, two rooms away,said no, hi, I'd love to talk to
(30:29):
you about your day.
No, so you know, like, have youever?
I don't want to say the words.
But hi, g word, how are you?
I don't want to say it becausemine will turn on.
Yeah, it was like somebody saidhow are you, or I want to talk
to you, or something like that,and the pets were freaking out.
After a while, though, thelights came back on and the room
went back to normal temp.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Yeah, that's bizarre.
Write that in, whoever you are.
Thanks.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Yeah, yes.
So if you are listening and youdo want your names to be known,
go ahead and let me know and Iwill call you out on our next
episode.
But with that, we are now fullyback at it, guys.
Next week, brand new episodescoming your way.
Um, also next week, if not theweek, this comes out, because
once again we are pre back topre-recording.
(31:14):
We are going to have a superbig oh, and a little bit of a
surprise something we've beenworking on.
Oh yeah, okay yeah, this isgonna be a good one.
Well what else do we need to do?
That's it.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
This is fun.
Let's just close out.
We appreciate you.
We love hearing your stories,even the creepy, weird ones.
But just again, like we saidearlier, you can just call us,
leave us a fun little voicemailor just email us about your day,
we don't care.
Just we want to talk to youguys because we're sick of
talking to ourselves.
Yeah, we do it a lot.
(31:48):
Well, I hope that you guysappreciate that we took off this
month.
I hope you're okay with it.
Listening to some of our youknow older episodes that we
loved so much.
I know you guys understand, soI don't even know why I'm
talking about it.
We love you guys so much.
If you listen to this, leave anemoji of a dog.
We love you guys so much.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
If you listen to this , leave an emoji of a dog,
absolutely.
I was going to say dog, a zwog,it's got to be a dog.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
And I've been a little bit more silent on social
media.
I'm so sorry, but I'm going toget back into it.
So leave me a zwog and I'lltalk to you later and do all the
other things that I normallyask of you.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
But the most important thing you can do for
us is to creep it.
Real yard balls, goodbye.
I'm home with the dogmen At theAli-Shop, hooked in the shadows
At the Ali-Shop, and home withthe eyeballs At the Ali-Shop.
The door's always open At theAisha.
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