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Speaker 1 (00:03):
I want to dance with
the mothman At the ID shop,
bathed in the moonlight At theID shop.
Creep through the graveyard Tothe ID shop.
The door's always from aroundthe globe.
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I'm your curator zach, sittinghere with the other lovely,
wonderful, beautiful,sensational curator, cara hi wow
, thanks hi you think you'resensational?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
I am because you said
I am I think you're sensational
.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
How are you today?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
I'm great.
How are you oh?
Speaker 1 (01:02):
I'm not too bad.
I I've had a day off today andI got a bunch of stuff done this
morning and you have power andI have power and my breakers
aren't flipping.
Okay, so we're having a heatwave here and I literally was
having a meltdown.
Because I was melting, first ofall I did not feel good, and
then my AC wouldn't, like.
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Every once in a while it justwon't go to cool, like it just
has a fan, and it was doing thatand I finally got it working
and then Well, that was in youroffice, right, not the home.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Yeah, ok.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Yeah, and then we
lost power right after it
started working.
So I'm dying.
I'm trying to work from like mylaptop.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Yeah, and we were
supposed to record.
And laptop, yeah, and we weresupposed to record and Zach's
like I have no air in my office.
I'm like okay, so we'llreschedule.
And then, literally like 30seconds later, he's like and we
just lost power.
I'm like okay, well then wereally need to reschedule.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Then, yeah, the power
came back on and the breakers
started kind of going crazy andgot really hot.
So thankfully I have a friendwho is an electrician.
Thank you, dustin, for talkingme off of a ledge.
Oh nice.
And then, yeah, so everythingseems to be working now and I'm
not a grumpy, sweaty, hot messanymore I love it, me too.
Okay, that's about all that'snew in my world.
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Very exciting stuff over here.
I have.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
I normally don't have
stuff to talk about, so I have
stuff to talk about, so wehaven't recorded in a minute.
I feel like the usual two weeks.
I feel like it's been longerthan that, but I could be crazy,
it's fine.
I went and saw.
I Know what you Did Last Summer.
How was it?
Chef's Kiss, absolutely fuckingamazing.
I texted you.
(02:36):
I made a whole TikTok about it.
But I texted you and said, whoknew, all I needed was a 90s
inspired slasher film to justbring me back to life.
All I needed was a 90s inspiredslasher film to just bring me
back to life.
It was everything I would havedreamed of.
I was very nervous because theoriginal is like my favorite,
one of my favorites.
That and Scream are my twocomfort movies, so I was a
little bit nervous.
But Freddie Prinze Jr hasn'tbeen on screen as like in the
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theater in 20 years, so I kindof missed my baby.
I went by myself.
It was freaking amazing.
I don't want to give anyspoilers because I'd love
everyone to see it.
I do know that a lot of you didnot like it for a particular
reason, but I love thatparticular reason.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
That's all that
matters.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
I love that
particular reason.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
I actually almost
went to the movies today.
Oh, I wish you would have but Iso I was between that and 28
years later is in the theatersright now and I, I, I feel like
I'm not a big theater person,like I maybe go once every
couple years, yeah, but I feellike I have to see 28 years
later in the theater becausethat, like, I just love those
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movies I love the first one, thesecond one's okay I couldn't
even tell you anything aboutthem.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
I don't remember them
, but have you, um, have you
gone to the theater by yourself?
I'm sure you have.
You do a lot of things alone,or have you?
Speaker 1 (03:52):
not, you know, I
don't think that's one that I've
done by myself, because it'sjust like I don't go unless
somebody want.
Usually somebody wants to goit's not something I would
choose to do by myself buthere's's what I will tell you.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
So I went and saw the
Barbie movie by myself I know
we talked about that.
That was forever ago because Ijust didn't have anyone to go
with.
And then I did not want to missthe first screening of I Know
what you Did Last Summer, so I'mlike I'm going.
So I just went on a randomThursday at 2 pm.
I have now decided thatwhenever I want to go to the
movies, I actually prefer to goalone, because nobody talks to
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you.
Nobody talks to you, becausethat's why I hate going.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
You don't have to
share your snacks.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
You're just in the
zone, you're alone.
No one has talked to you.
You don't have to like explainthings to somebody.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
You can pick your
nose if you want.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
You could do whatever
you want.
I I actually highly recommendit, highly highly recommend it.
It is my new favorite thingthing.
But then what else you got?
So that was like last thursdayand then sunday I went and took
my parental units out and we daydrank all day on the water just
like had a really great day andit was just like absolutely
amazing.
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And I don't know why isaacthinks that I have madonna on my
t-shirt when I clearly havebuffy.
Oh well, it was scrunched upand I'm wearing it because they
did cast.
They cast the new, the newSlayer.
It's in production.
I don't know when I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Oh, they haven't
announced it.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Not.
If they did, I don't want toknow, but Dolly Parton and Sarah
Michelle Gellar are producingit, so it's going to be great
the really sad part is thatsarah didn't want.
She wanted to only do it ifeveryone all original cast was
going to be there.
And it's really sad thatmichelle trachtenberg passed
away, because I think it just Ihave goosebumps, but anyway,
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that's really all I have rightnow.
I thought I had more for you,but that's enough.
That's enough that's okay.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
They probably want to
hear our stories anyway.
People probably skip this partmostly no, so if you're not a
skipper, thank you uh, I'malways a skipper on podcast to
get to the story it depends onwhich podcast that's fair, okay,
well, let's open our shop doorsso the skippers can stop
skipping.
Uh, do you have a question forme?
(06:01):
What?
What is the?
Speaker 2 (06:02):
best road trip snack.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Licorice.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
I knew you were going
to say it and I was waiting and
I was like if you switch gearson me.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
I don't eat licorice
unless I'm going on a road trip.
I know, and I don't go on aroad trip without licorice.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
I know it's like the
only time.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
All right.
Well, that's it.
Brand not red vines.
I like the ones you get.
Those are are an okaysubstitute, but it's not regular
licorice I know, but I'm notthat big of a licorice person.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
So if I'm gonna get
you, if I'm gonna buy the road
trip snacks, I want to make sureyou have what you have.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
But I also want it to
be like what I like and the
ones are good they're so goodand I love the watermelon yeah,
but I will say I think mine itjust comes from like nostalgia,
yeah, like family road.
That is such a denise thing,okay, like yeah if you're going
on a road trip, you have a bagof licorice you got the licorice
, all right, ew, but hold on.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
What about black
licorice?
Speaker 1 (06:57):
uh, you know what's
nasty.
I really don't like to eat it,but I don't mind what do you do
with it, zachary?
Well, I don't mind liquor thattastes like black I'm like what
do you do with it?
I don't like to eat it like thegreek ozo ozo, that's nasty I
always say I like it.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Okay, all right, are
you ready to get in the zone?
Speaker 1 (07:21):
I think so.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Okay, this is a
rhetorical question, so don't
start answering.
I'll try my best.
Okay, how would you feel if youstayed at a charming little inn
on a road trip and later foundout it had vanished without a
trace?
No road, no building, and notonly could no one else find it,
the photos you took there werejust gone.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
now you can say
something, if you well, you told
me it was rhetorical, so Ididn't think of a response.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Well, the first part.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
I didn't want to
answer because I knew you were
going to just pipe on in andanswer I I've heard a couple of
these types of stories beforeand I love them, so I'm really
excited for this.
Really quick side note, thoughI meant to tell you this earlier
and you saying about thepictures I was talking.
So I went out this last weekwith my cousins who are in town
John and Carrie, oh yeah and wewere just talking about, like
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you know, creepy, haunted, weirdstuff, because that's what
everybody talks to me about.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Naturally.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
And my cousin John
had time to kill in Key West and
ended up at the museum whereRobert the doll is and he said
he tried to take a bunch ofpictures while he was in there.
He didn't know any of the storyhe didn't know, and later all
those pictures disappeared fromhis phone, everything from the
museum.
He had everything from before,everything from after, but
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everything that he took in themuseum was gone.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
But did he take
pictures of Robert?
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Yes, and I was like,
so did you have a string of bad
luck and you have to write theletter?
And his wife looked at him andgoes, oh, is that what created
our bad luck streak?
I'm like stop.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
I have goosebumps
everywhere.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
I know, I don't know
how I forgot to tell you a
Robert story.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Oh, robert, we're so
sorry, we're talking about you.
It's not in a negative way.
They need to write you a letter.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
They need to give
them the address, like I will.
I'll text it while you'retalking, don't worry.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Oh my God, I'm like
everywhere All over my legs and
arms.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
OK, sorry, back to
your little inn.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
No, I loved that.
Ok, so this is the story of twoBritish couples, Len and
Cynthia Gisby and Jeff andPauline Simpson from Dover, Kent
, UK, Nice, Okay.
Back in late September 1979,the four friends set off on a
relaxing driving holiday tonorthern Spain.
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This wasn't a ghost hunt or athrill-seeking trip.
They were just kind of lookingfor some sunshine, good food and
maybe a few souvenirs along theway.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
I love about Europe
that you can just like.
Oh, our weekend getaway is justto another country.
I wish we could do that.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
I know I mean we can
just weekend trip to Wisconsin.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
I guess we could go
to Canada or like.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Canada yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Okay, but somewhere
near and I forgot to look at
this up, so I'm going to spellit for you M-O-N-T-E-L-I-M-A-R.
I don't know, france, theyfound something else entirely.
Okay, so this story I heard andI was just like it.
It was one of those storieswhere I couldn't stop thinking
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about it, only because it's likevery simple, it's nothing great
.
I mean it's crazy, but it'snothing like too over the top.
I guess you could say, likebased on things that we talk
about, yeah, yeah, but it mademe feel so like unsettled in the
way that I was like I don'tknow what I would do if I were
these people.
Like I think I'd have to checkmyself into a sane asylum
because I would think that I'mcrazy.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Just take like a
little grippy sock vacation.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Yes, absolutely All
right.
So, tired from hours of driving, the group pulled into a modern
motel along the highway.
Or I should say I'm sorry, or Ishould say I'm sorry motel.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
What's the difference
?
Motel, motel, holiday inn Motelis just like you can.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
What is the actual
definition?
I think a motel is like whereit doesn't have like a lobby and
things like that.
It's like the little like it'seach room.
Does that make sense?
Where a hotel has a lobby andlike a?
Speaker 1 (11:27):
I will say I just
Googled it, but the difference
is hotels are generallygenerally generally larger and
more feature rich and oftenfound in urban areas where
motels are smaller, simpler andlocated along highways.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
thank you, google so
it's a motel, all right, but
this motel was full.
So, according according totheir account, a man in a plum
colored uniform, which theynoted was oddly out of place,
told them there was a smallhotel a bit further down a side
road.
So they followed the directionsand turned off onto a narrow
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cobblestone road.
It was lined with old circusposters that look like they
hadn't been touched in decades.
Also, I do love like what wewere just talking about.
I love like I don't know if I'dwant to do this because it
would give me anxiety,especially nowadays, but like
can you imagine just likedriving around, not having
anywhere to stay and you're justlike leisurely going to a hotel
.
Do you have an open room?
That would give me anxiety, butalso, at the same time, I feel
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like it would be really fun.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
So I haven't done
that with hotels, but I've done
that while I've been campingwhere I just hope and I've had a
couple bad days come from thatwhere I've lost an entire day
camping because I'm going fromfull campground to full
campground and starting to freakout.
But I will say when those havehappened I have found the most
gorgeous out of the way, like myfavorite campgrounds are all
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from those types of situationsthat's actually really cool.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Okay, it is stressful
though yeah, so eventually they
arrived at a two-story rusticinn right next to a building
marked as a oh, what do you call?
I meant to look up, because Iknow there's a name.
What is, uh, the frenchpoliceman called?
I don't know.
Do you know the name?
Okay, well, so they, they wereright next to a building marked
as like a french police station.
(13:12):
I just I meant to look up thename because I know that there's
a name for them according togoogle, again, it's la police I
thought it was something with ag oh wait, if I kept going, gend
, I can't pronounce wordsg-e-n-d, a-r-m-e-r-i-e get
gender gendarmerie okaygendarmerie I don't know.
(13:35):
Okay, well, whatever, itdoesn't matter.
So inside the hotel everythingfelt kind of like off, weird,
just like wrong, but like not ina way where you're like I need
to run type of deal, you knowjust bad vibe spa there were no
modern and amenities thank you.
There were no modern amenityanemone I was just gonna do that
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.
Okay, the rooms had thick woodenshutters instead of glass
windows.
So I watched, um, you know acheesy well, whatever, it was a
cheesy remake, where one of thecouples was on a UK show.
It was almost like oh my God,unsolved Mysteries, that type of
vibes, and they were basicallylike the recreation was like a
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reenactment, I should say.
They were like it's hot in hereor something, and they're like
there's no glass, like they hadno's no glass, like they had no,
literally no.
I feel like that's very commonfor, like france and italy, yeah
, but probably not in almost the80s.
Okay, fair, you know what Imean.
So that they're like what thehell?
And it's just like big brownwooden shutters and no glass in
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the window, got it?
Uh, there was no pillows, uh,it was just old-fashioned
bolsters which I didn't look upa description, but I think
everybody knows what that islike a cushion yeah, it's like
not a pillow, it's yeah justweird.
so like they had wooden clutcheson the doors instead of like
modern locks.
There was no electricity in anyof the rooms, only like dim
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lighting in the dining area, andI guess you could say that like
if it's just like a little inoff the way, like it's kind of
like a charming thing, likewhere maybe it's like this is
their niche, like let's make itfeel old vibey type of deal.
So I don't, I don't think likethey just didn't really care,
they were just like OK, this iskind of odd.
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All the furniture looked reallyantique and like so was the
plumbing okay, so it just haslike old vibes.
Yeah, I think that.
I think that they probably justthought, like I said, it's just
like a little in off the way.
That's why they had vacancy,because it's probably like not
up to what other people want,but it's kind of like this cute
little charming place.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Yeah, people aren't
pining for it, but it's cute
enough.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Yeah, okay.
So, like we just said, it'skind of not up to the 1979
standards, but the hotel staffwas polite, the food was decent
and the two policemen that theysaw outside they were dressed,
though, in uniforms that lookedlike they were from like another
era, like they did not.
Later it was identified asmatching the styles from around
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1905.
What year was this?
Again, 1979.
Ok, so almost the 80s.
Yeah that's a little odd.
Ok, so here's where so they.
They only say the one nightbecause you know they were doing
all kinds of things.
So the next day, you know, thecouple gets up, they have
breakfast and after staying thenight and enjoying like their
simple little breakfast, thenext morning the group checked
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out and in, like the littlereenactment, like one of the
couples was like hey, I'm goingto get all the bags, you go pay.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Got it.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
So they get the bill
for four people.
So this is including dinnerrooms and breakfast, and it was
only 19 French francs.
A total like that would havebeen outrageously low even
decades earlier, let alone in1979.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Did we figure out
what that is in today's money?
Speaker 2 (17:00):
You know what I meant
to do the calculation.
Let's look it up really quick,are you looking it up?
Thanks, you got two monitors,you're quicker.
What?
Oh yeah, so 19 francs.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
That would be 2.9
euros in 1979.
So about $3.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Okay, so in 1979, can
you imagine paying $3 for four
people to stay at a hotel,dinner and breakfast?
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Wait, no, it's $3 in
1979.
Hold on, ooh.
$14 today, wow yeah, I wouldlove to pay that for travel.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Right.
So the couple's like holy crap,they are like that's crazy.
But they didn't even questionit.
They were just like, okay,anyway, I wouldn't question it
either.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
I'm taking the deal
yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
So they were totally
surprised, but they chalked it
up to finding like a hiddenlittle gem, continuing on their
way towards spain.
So on the return trip like aweek it was about a week or so
later they made their way backthrough france and they were
like you know what, let's stopat the same cozy little inn,
because why not For such a stealRight?
Speaker 1 (18:07):
I mean, you're coming
back, you're broke now, so you
know how vacation goes.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Yeah, and it's also
like you're only staying one
night, so who cares if theydon't have windows and a pillow?
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Literally just
somewhere to put your bed or
your head.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Your head.
Get some good food?
Yeah it.
It was inexpensive, quiet andkind of charming is what they
all thought.
So they took what they believewas the same route, expecting to
see the circus posters, thepolice station and a tucked away
little hotel.
But this time there was nothing.
The old road they were likeremember taking wasn't there.
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There were no signs and whenthey had asked, no one had ever
heard of a hotel like what theydescribed in the reenactment.
Um, the one couple was like weliterally were in the car, kind
of just like back and forth,like driving four times reverse,
forward, back forth, likebecause we're like no, this was
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the road this is like they're100 sure yes, and it's like four
people like no, like we know,this is where it was.
Like what's going on?
They again just drove a whiletrying to retrace their steps,
but they looked in the entirearea and it looked completely
different, like the place hadnever existed.
Okay, whatever, they had tostay somewhere else.
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They just like wasted so muchtime trying to find this like
road and this path and theseposters that led them there, and
they couldn't find it.
So once I got back home, it gotweirder.
When they developed their filmfrom their trip, they found that
the photos that they had takenoutside of the hotel were
completely missing.
So the couple had takenmultiple pictures, like you know
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, just like a nice poses, goofyposes, like you know, switching.
So couples.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Is it not just like
the frames are messed up on the
negatives?
Speaker 2 (19:50):
it's just gone, it's
gone every other picture is
completely there, but it wasgone.
And the one I I can't rememberthe names, but the one like lady
called.
The other one was like hey, dome a favor, you got your
pictures developed cool, can yougo through and find the ones at
the little inn?
And she's like that's like thedarndest thing, they're not
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there.
And she's like so strange,they're not there at all.
Like, yeah, so not blurry, notoverdeveloped, just absolutely
gone.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
That would send me
into I don't even know what the
fuck just happened.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
I have no idea.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
I just glitched, so
oh, okay your face looks like
you thought I froze I.
I just didn't know what washappening, so I was just waiting
for you.
Hold on if this makes you feelany better.
Earlier today, when I was goingout to brunch, I was coming up
to a crosswalk and I thoughtthis couple was gonna cross and
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they didn't, so I started tostop.
But the next street down had ared light.
Okay, I totally dissociated.
I stopped my car because I'mlooking at the red light, but
it's the next crosswalk down,because I was already starting
to stop because this couple andI'm sitting there for like
probably five seconds before Igo, what the hell am I doing?
And continue to drive?
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I had just dead stopped in themiddle of wealthy street in
Grand Rapids.
What is going?
Speaker 2 (21:23):
on.
Okay.
So years later the Simpsonswent public with their story and
interviews and paranormalinvestigators, so Jeff Simpson.
He even underwent hypnosis andin 1985, under the supervision
of the paranormal researcherJenny Randles.
The hope was that, like maybehe'd recall, like suppressed
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details or uncover clues.
But instead nothing new cameout of this.
It was just the same vividmemories that he'd always
claimed that he had, likenothing changed.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
I'm pretty sure,
didn't Jenny Randles do a lot of
like the UFO abduction hypnosis?
Speaker 2 (22:00):
I think that was her,
I think so.
Like.
Later, when Jeff was asked, helike, plainly like said there is
no doubt this happened to us.
Like he, he's just naughty, didyou see that?
Speaker 1 (22:13):
I'm hoping that was a
bug.
That looked like a gnat.
I think there was wings no, ohmy god anyways, for everyone at
home, either a bug or an orbthat just flew in front of
carrie's face, zigzagged andthen went off the opposite
opposite direction.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
My eyes are watering.
Is this because I literallyrecorded a Patreon video saying
I don't like fairy smut?
They're not my thing.
If that was a fairy.
I am so sorry.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
You didn't bad talk,
the fay.
No, I just said I don't wantsmut as a book oh no, oh, you
pissed off the fay.
I know, and they scare me sobad.
My ex did that.
He flipped off a fairy circle,you know the mushroom circles
when we were in line for a rideat Cedar Point.
And then guess whose phone cameout of their pocket on our next
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ride.
You don't piss off the fae.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
No, you don't.
They terrify me.
That's why we've never coveredthem.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
There's a reason.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Okay, go on, let's
get back to it.
We are all over the place today.
It's okay, it's, this is nice,it's like a raw episode, okay.
So, um, as strange as it sounds, the couple never changed their
story.
They never tried to monetize it.
Like you know, the one coupledid kind of go on some
investigation things and talkabout it, but they never tried
to like make money off of it.
Gotcha.
They all remained veryconsistent Every time they
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talked about it.
Nothing ever changed.
So then it's kind of like okay,so, like what really happened?
There's no confirmed record ofthe hotel, no photos, no
receipts, no GPS or likecoordinates to to verify.
But there is also like no knownexplanation for like why four
people completely sober, calmand coherent could have like the
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exact same hallucination didthey happen to do like a search
to see if there was historicalrecords in the early 1900s?
here's where some of the story,like as far as like the blog
posts and like the reenactmentand some things like kind of
change, because there were somestuff One of the things that I
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read said that they did findthat there had been that police
station like there were recordsof that police station being
there, okay, records of thatpolice station being there, okay
.
And then on one account, or acouple accounts, I read that it
wasn't the original hotel thatthey went to or motel that they
tried to stay at and they saidthat there was like a weird guy
dressed in like older clothingthat directed them somewhere
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else.
The plumb suit guy yeah, therewas another one that said that
there was a lady at the inn thathad a plumb suit kind of, or pl
plum colored suit.
That was just like really outof place.
So there are kind of some, butI don't think it's because of
the couple changing their story,like everybody says.
The couple never changed thestory.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
So I think that's
just like different accounts
getting, like you know, like thetelephone right, everything
gets plus, let's be honest ifyou and me tell the story of the
same thing we went to, we'retelling it different.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Exactly.
So there are some weird thingslike that, but I don't know as
far as like if there wereactually records other than,
like what I said the policestation I read that a couple of
times that they did find that itwas like there and that there
was a circus or something aroundthere and that's why there's a
circus posters.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Oh, I forgot about
this.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
But the in itself.
I didn't read anything or findanything that said that that was
there from a time ago, likehistoric Okay.
Okay.
So some do believe it's a timeslip and others think that they
may have stumbled into, like apreserved historical reenactment
, and like what Odd.
But I like Okay, so there was,just like this reenactment site,
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there's always a skepticexplanation.
No one ever found it in thearea again I don't, I love these
liminal spaces.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
That's why I asked,
like the history thing, because,
like for me, is it?
Yeah was it a time slip or wasit just total alternate reality,
like do they slip into anotherdimension?
Yeah well, multiverse, yeah,multiverse.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Yeah, Multiverse.
And then you know there's those, there are those who chalk it
up as like just misrememberingor fabricating wishful thinking.
You know, it's just likethere's so many different
theories and they're like, likeI said, no one sought fame for
this.
So it's like why, what are wemaking this up for?
Like we're not trying to getfame, we're not trying to get
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money out of it, Like it's notlike they had anything to gain.
Yeah, none of them gainedanything from it and, like, when
they were interviewed, theyalways seemed like really
genuinely unsettled and justlike really disturbed by this.
So it's not like they were like, oh, like you know, excited to
tell their story.
They were really genuinely likeupset about it because it was
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really troubling that they allcould not figure out what
happened.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Yeah, you'd almost
start to like second guess your
own sanity after a while withsomething like that.
I know I would for sure.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
So I know we kind of
briefly covered time slips and I
don't remember what yourepisode was like a while back,
so I'm just going to give abrief little thing of what a
time slip is.
So a time slip is anunexplained phenomenon where a
person or group of peoplebriefly and involuntary,
involuntarily, experience ashift in time.
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They can involve perceiving orphysically entering a different
historical period, either thepast or, more rarely, the future
, before returning to theiroriginal time frame.
Unlike intentional time traveltheories, the time slips are
typically spontaneous,disorienting and short-lived,
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which, if you think of thatdefinition to what happened to
them, it is definitely like atime slip.
People often describeencountering outdated clothing,
architecture, language ortechnology that doesn't match
the present, only to laterdiscover these details belong to
a different era.
Theories attempting to explaintime slips include um psycho,
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psychological episodes,environmental not a lot
environmental anomalies likemagnetic fields or spectra.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
I don't know what
word you're going for.
I need more of it.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Speculative physics,
concepts such as parallel
timelines or temporaldistortions.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Blame CERN.
I mean, they're not far from itat this point so there are.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
There's no scientific
uh like there, we just have
theories, like I mean time slipsjust remain mysterious,
controversial you know.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
The thing is, though,
is like you could chalk it up
to them being off their rockersor whatever come up with, like
the reenactment story, but thesethings happen more than I think
people think they do.
Tenny did.
I don't know if his podcast therealm of the weird is still
available to stream I know wetalked about favorite episodes
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of that, yeah, where he stumbledinto that diner oh, I think we
did talk about that on yourepisode yeah well, you're right,
there are a lot of differentpeople experience did?
I just segue you accidentally.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Yes, you did um, so I
do have a couple reddit stories
for us?
Of course you do because therereally isn't much left to this
story.
But, like I said, it just mademe feel like, oh, because I
don't know what I would do ifthis is something that I
experienced.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
I would love to
experience this.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
I kind of would too.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
I'm not going to lie
To like, prove it.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
But it also makes me
feel like, every time you and I
leave, like a paranormalinvestigation.
I never doubt it.
I mean, there are some thingsthat I'm like OK, it could have
been this, but like I alwayslike, believe it Like.
But like I always like, believeit like, oh, that happened.
Like this is like theconversation, so it might be the
same feeling, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
I mean like, I don't
mean to like prove it to
everyone else.
I just mean, like I think it'dbe an interesting thing to like
have happen, like, ok, wow, Idon't know.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Well, I think we need
to experience it together, OK
let's start looking for timeslips.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
I'll get a.
What's the land of the lost?
What's his machine?
The tachyon generator orwhatever?
What's the?
Speaker 2 (30:13):
forest that I covered
forever ago, because that
always has time slips.
We could just go there.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
There you go.
What was?
All I'm thinking is Haribogummy bears, but that's not it.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
It's like If you eat
too many of those, that'll
probably cause a time slip.
Hi about you, hi about you.
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Haribo was not far
off.
I knew I was close.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
I knew you were close
too, because it made me think,
ok, so let's get to these Redditstories.
I think I have three.
Some are a little bit lengthy,all right, so this one was
posted in time slips.
And good place for it.
Um, username is a note um,anomia 793, um, and it's like
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the little subreddit is likediscussion advice.
I am wondering if there isanyone here who has experienced
a time slip different from losttime stories, but feel free to
post those here as well if youhave them.
Out of all the paranormalhappenings, the time slip is the
most confusing, strange to me.
Yet my husband and I bothexperienced one together.
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It was a few years back when wewere driving on an industrial
road in a town we lived in.
We passed some train tracks andsuddenly experienced the slip.
It is hard to explain if youhave never experienced it, but
it's almost like somethingimprinted, a memory on our brain
, which that is such a good wayof describing it.
Yeah, I've never heard itdescribed that way.
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That is an odd way.
I like it, though.
Instead of the industrial pavedroad, it was an older rural
gravel road with tall goldengrass and no buildings gravel
road with tall golden grass andno buildings.
It was very 1940s, 50s, and aman was pulled off to the side
of the road, looking angrily atus as if we had done something
terrible, and was angered we hadcome upon him.
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The mood was very go now orelse Then, just like that,
reality snapped back into place.
During this slip we were.
There was no sound, it was onlyvisual and lasting a fraction
of a second.
The best way to describe it isall of our consciousness is a
movie reel, and someone spliceda short flashback into the
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middle of the reel.
After the experience, myhusband and I were both very
quiet and then he said to me didyou feel that I had him tell me
what he had experienced, sothat there was no way he could
be changing a story to fit mineand it all fit.
It was one of the strangestthings I've ever experienced.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
I don't know why on
that one, but I think it's just
because they're in the car.
But it reminds me of this moviecalled I'm thinking of ending
things, where there's all thesesorts of weird time shifts and
reality splits.
I would tell you to watch it,but I think you would actually
hate it.
I watched all three hours of itand I kind of hated it and then
I had three hours.
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I'm done, no no, I can'tremember.
I I know it's very long, Ican't remember if it's exactly
three hours but then me andjulia had to watch like an hour
long YouTube because we couldn'tagree on what even the premise
of the movie was.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Yeah, no, I would
hate it, okay.
So, that being said, time slipsseem to be one of the most
elusive phenomenons out there.
I hardly ever come across thesestories, but no, it happened to
me and my husband.
I have read of an account onthe Queen Mary that had no sound
and lasted very briefly, butthen there is a story of a
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couple who stayed at an oldhotel, only to find out that it
didn't exist anymore the nextmorning.
So I am curious if anyone elsehas stories.
Thanks, and what hotel do youthink she was talking about?
I love the little synchronicitywhen you're looking up stories
and you find that it's strangeto me too, because I feel like a
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lot of the times time slipshappen when people are traveling
or driving.
It's a lot of the times whenyou're driving or you're going
somewhere.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
And it's almost
always like in a place that's
unfamiliar to you.
Or you can almost like I dondon't know.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Notice it at first
because a lot of stories I was
finding where it was like no,this, I know this road, I go on
it every day and all of a sudden, it's changed so I don't know.
it's kind of like a mix, but Ido have another one, like I said
.
So this one is from oil burner,my time slip story, subcategory
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experience.
I was unaware this is what itwas called and that it was a
thing until about a year ago.
In the fall of 2018, I was on asolo road trip into Georgia
buying fenders from a man for atruck I was restoring.
At the time I had gotten to mydestination, went to leave and
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stopped to get gas.
Upon entering the gas station,everything was suddenly
different.
It was an indescribable feeling.
Something had changed.
I went to pay for my gas and Inoticed behind the counter none
of the tobacco products had anywarning labels and all of them
looked very dated and different.
There was no credit card readeron the counter for credit cards
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.
The prices of things on theracks were a third of what they
are today.
Designs on the smokelesstobacco cans look like they were
from 1999 or 2000.
I noticed all the drinks andsodas in the store also had
dated and old labels on them.
I asked the woman behind thecounter why they were selling
outdated tobacco and drinks.
She handed me a can and saideverything was fresh and not out
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of date, and the date expiredJuly of 2000.
At this point, I could notbelieve what I was seeing.
It freaked me out so bad I left.
I drove 20 miles down the roadto get gas elsewhere.
To this day, I have lookedeverywhere on Google Maps and
cannot locate this gas station.
There is simply nothing there.
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This is the first time I spokeabout what happened since 2018.
I stopped telling people aboutit because people thought I was
simply crazy.
I stopped telling people aboutit because people thought I was
simply crazy.
That's so weird, though,because it's not Well, I guess
it was still 18 years.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
I think the
interesting thing, too, about so
many of these stories, and likeothers that I've heard, is that
it's not just like you found abuilding that looked out of
place like the people interactwith.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
It's not like they're
interacting with spirit.
It's like literally just likethis lady was like nothing is
out of date, it's likeexpiration of 2000.
So I guess what?
Usually the expiration dateslast a typically like a while.
So let's say that this was 1999then right, yeah that's wild
it's so weird like I really dowant to experience this, because
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to me it's nothing like.
I mean, it's not scary, it'sjust so unsettling, unsettling,
strange, really.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
What, oh my god, all
right, what do you want to
experience?
Like what kind of business orplace?
Speaker 2 (37:05):
oh, the gas station's
kind of cool.
I don't know if I wouldnecessarily want it like a hotel
or anything.
You know what would be coollike a bar?
Speaker 1 (37:13):
that's what I was
thinking like a dive bar or
something.
And you're like wait what ishappening Then again, most times
when you walk into a dive bar,you feel like you've gone back
two decades anyway.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
Maybe that's why I
would just not even notice.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
The way you and I
used to drink before we started.
All this we probably have.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
Because, yeah, we
would have never noticed.
All right, this one was postedin paranormal.
It was three years ago.
I don't know if I said theother date, sorry, this is from
page R1453.
And then this is under timeslip slash glitch.
They were not of this era andthis is also like under
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subcategory experience.
I don't know what to call thisa glitch, a time slip, or just a
weird coincidence?
I'm really not sure.
I'm from West Yorkshire, uk.
I'm a 27-year-old woman andthis happened in 2010, when I
was 15, and I remember it as ifit was yesterday.
Here's my story my mom, grandmaand a friend all went to a
local coastal town for the day,somewhere we had been many times
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before, at least three or fourtimes a year, because we have
got family who live there.
Ever since my mom was a child,we always traveled the same
route through the countrysiderather than the motorway,
because we like to stop off atthe what we call halfway house
to grab a sandwich on the waythere and a drink on the way
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back.
I think that is so funny when Iread this.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
I do like that.
Speaker 2 (38:42):
We always stop at the
same places because it's just
part of the routine.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
And what we have
always licorice.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
Yeah, how and how
we've always done and enjoyed.
So they stop at a halfway housefor lunch and then another one
for a drink, do?
Speaker 1 (38:55):
you remember
Fuddruckers?
I never went.
That was.
We always stopped at the onehalfway up north when we were
going like on an up north trip.
Every single time you had to goto Fuddruckers.
That's fun, I love that.
Speaker 2 (39:07):
On this particular
day, everything was normal.
We had driven to the coast,stopped off for a sandwich, the
sun was shining, it was a normal, lovely day.
To the coast, stopped off for asandwich, the sun was shining,
it was a normal, lovely day.
However, on the way back iswhen it got weird.
We set off mid to lateafternoon because we wanted to
miss all the evening traffic andto make sure my friend got home
at a decent time.
The journey felt normal.
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We traveled on the same roadsas we always did, and we were
planning on stopping off theusual pub for a drink
non-alcoholic.
In the space of about five toten minutes we noticed the
weather had really changed.
It had gone from being aglorious, warm, sunny day to
being gray, overcast and quitecold.
We didn't think much of it andthen my mom said oh, I don't
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know where, I am Confused.
We just said we must have takena wrong turn.
But then she was adamant thatshe has been on the same road
for the last eight miles, a roadwe have traveled countless
times.
We wondered if the road hadbeen altered since the last time
we visited, because now none ofus recognize the road or their
surroundings.
We looked for a familiarlandmark that would hopefully
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guide us to the right direction,but there was nothing but
fields for miles.
We began to notice that theroad we were on was very quiet
and we seemed to be the only cardriving along it, which that's
always weird to me.
I hate that feeling.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
I kind of like it
sometimes.
Speaker 2 (40:31):
Okay, I was.
I was actually just going tosay actually I like it, but at
the same time, when it's likewhen it feels like there should
be other cars and people, that'swhen it's like eerie.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
I think I just spent
so much time driving up north
that I love that feeling of justbeing like the only human being
I can see.
Speaker 2 (40:47):
Oh, Nothing had
passed us in what seemed like
ages.
Me and my friend began to getanxious because of how weird
this felt and we were worriedabout being lost.
My mom calmed us down and saidnot to worry and that the next
village we drive through we willpull over so she can get the
sat nav up.
Speaker 1 (41:07):
In 2010,.
Speaker 2 (41:08):
Phones didn't really
have maps or anything, tom, tom.
Speaker 1 (41:11):
No, the smartphones
came out in 11.
Uh-huh.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
About 10 minutes
later we saw a couple of houses
in the distance.
So we approached and we noticedthat there was two
semi-detached houses, a smallfarmhouse and a yard, an old
fashion level crossing fortrains and a pub.
My grandma suggested that wepull into the pub so my mom
could set up her sat-nav and wecould have our halfway house
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drink while we were there tohelp calm our nerves.
We entered the pub.
It was empty, except for an oldman in a rocking chair in front
of a burning fire.
Oh God, he stopped rocking thechair abruptly and stared at us
as we walked in, as if in shockrocking chairs really freak me
out.
As if in shock rocking chairsreally freak me out.
Speaker 1 (41:55):
They're just really
great at setting a like tense
mood.
Speaker 2 (42:01):
Oh, can you imagine
an old man in a pub rocking in
front of a fire and then he justlike angrily gets mad at you
because you like disturbed him?
Speaker 1 (42:10):
I feel like that's
like such a record-scratching
and stopping moment.
Speaker 2 (42:13):
Ew Ugh.
He was wearing brown trouserswith braces, black boots, a
cream shirt with a knitted vest,a flat cap and was smoking a
pipe, as if he had stoppedstraight out of 1910.
Speaker 1 (42:26):
I literally, when I
imagined this, I imagined the
pipe.
Speaker 2 (42:29):
Yeah, he didn't speak
, just stared.
We approached the bar, thebarmaid landlady was walking
behind the bar and halted in hertracks as soon as she saw us,
again, as if in shock.
We asked if the pub was opendue to it being so quiet, and
she stuttered oh yes, yes, it is.
What can I get you?
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We all asked for soft drinks,me and my friend being underage
at the time and my mom being thedriver, etc.
The lady scrambled aroundgetting us the drinks and looked
baffled when we tried to paywith a bank card.
She used paper and a pencil toadd up the cost of our drinks,
so we paid with loose change tomake it easier for her.
To the right of us was a narrowstaircase, and down ran a little
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girl around the age of seven oreight.
She was wearing white tights,brown I don't know what, what is
bro?
B-r-o-g-u-e, broge-like shoesand a burgundy, pinafore style
embroidered dress with ahand-knit cardigan, and her hair
was in ringlets.
She gasped and also lookedsurprised to see us and looked
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between us and the lady behindthe bar.
And also looked surprised tosee us and looked between us and
the lady behind the bar,presumably her mother.
We thanked them and then tookthe drinks outside to one of the
wooden tables.
The man in the rocking chairbecame to rock again and watched
us intently as we walked out.
We sat down on site with hushedvoices, spoke about how weird
the whole situation was yeah,how could you not?
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We noticed how there wasn'tanyone else around no other cars
in the car park, no otherpeople in the pub or the beer
garden and no people walking thestreets near the houses.
The places seemed deserted,abnormally quiet and stuck in
time.
As we quickly finished thedrinks, a man in a van pulled up
, got out, got a pickaxe andspayed out of the back and
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looked over to us and said oh,visitors.
And went inside the pub.
We got back in the car asquickly as possible and left
within a matter of minutes.
Speaker 1 (44:24):
Yeah, I would not
have stayed to drink my soda
there.
Speaker 2 (44:26):
No, we were on the
road and we recognized
everything.
The sun was shining once again.
The whole thing was so bizarreand unbelievable.
It's all we could talk aboutfor the rest of the journey home
.
We were trying to understandthe situation the unrecognizable
roads, the old timey clothesand the overall feel of the
place, and how people reactedwhen they saw us, as if we were
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aliens.
So that's my story.
The memory of it all is stillso clear and I'll never forget
the expressions on their faces.
We still talked about it tothis day, 12 years later.
All of our memories are soclear.
It was possibly the moststrangest experience of my life
and I feel like I wanted toshare my story on here to get
other opinions and if anyone hadexperienced anything similar.
Speaker 1 (45:11):
Thanks, I would love
to have that happen so that's I.
Speaker 2 (45:16):
I think that is what
I would like yeah, just
something like so bewildering,like, not like the motel where,
like they didn't realize likethese people pegged it right
right away, and also it's likeyou're going to a place where,
like a road places where you'vebeen a million times right, you
know the journey, and then allof a sudden you're like, oh wait
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a second, where am I?
Speaker 1 (45:40):
I've had that happen,
but that's just the road
hypnosis where you've beendriving for like 30 minutes.
Speaker 2 (45:44):
All of a sudden
you're like whoa, I yeah totally
spaced that scares me fordifferent reasons, because I'm
like I don't remember gettinghome right all of a sudden
you're pulling into yourdriveway.
Speaker 1 (45:53):
How did I get here?
I?
Speaker 2 (45:55):
hate that though,
because I'm just like was I
driving safe?
Did I fall asleep?
Speaker 1 (46:00):
How many people did I
run over?
Speaker 2 (46:02):
Right.
So that is kind of my time slip, ish, weird things.
So it's like oh, I just want toknow if people have had time
slips.
Speaker 1 (46:12):
Yes, tell us.
Tell us your stories for sure,write in and call in.
I also want to know yourthoughts on this.
Do you think it's time slipped?
Do you think this is multiverse?
Is this like just liminal spacesort of like?
I kind of think it's not closeto, but it's somewhat related to
, like a crossroads demon, likethose places that just exist
somewhat outside of normal, likeI think that last one just
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because we have visitors, thatone just made it seem so weird.
Speaker 2 (46:39):
I don't think it's a
crossroad.
Crossroad demons?
Are you go to the crossroadtracks to make a deal with the
devil?
Speaker 1 (46:43):
Well, no, I'm not
saying it is a crossroad demon,
I'm saying it's a liminal spacelike the crossroad hell.
Those exist.
Speaker 2 (46:50):
Um, I don't know,
because I think you were onto
something.
I think if these people in allof these stories went back and
looked up if there was actuallythese places like historically,
then I think it was a time slipIf they're not.
Well, that one person said thathe went in that gas station and
never existed, like he couldn'tfind it.
But that doesn't mean it neverdid.
Speaker 1 (47:11):
Yeah, records weren't
always right.
Speaker 2 (47:13):
But I'm thinking that
those would be more of time
slips in my head is how Ienvision them.
If I guess you're thinking oflike okay, there's no record of
these places ever existinghistorically, like there's
nothing, then I'm thinking, yeah, you're like crossing realms,
or like um, how did you, whatdid you describe it earlier?
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Like um?
Speaker 1 (47:35):
like a multiverse
sort of yeah, like a multiverse
like it gives me almost likebackroom vibes yes, like you
just entered some sort of spacebetween realities yeah, like a
different reality or like that.
Speaker 2 (47:47):
But I guess that kind
of is a time slip, it kind of
reminds me of the movie big fishI never watched that.
Speaker 1 (47:52):
I know you talked
about that I I don't cry much at
movies.
Speaker 2 (47:57):
That movie makes me
ball oh, lord, then I'm not
watching it time.
Oh my god, it's so good butanyway, that is my that story
just kind of that story justkind of stuck with me and I was
like I, it's not long, it's not,like I said, elaborate or
overwhelming, but it was justlike it's still perfectly
bizarre yeah, it's somethingweird about like just like a
nice little couple, like coupleslike going on a quaint little
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holiday and like just this, justchange in everything for them
okay, I'm gonna open it up.
Speaker 1 (48:25):
Not only do we want
to hear your time slip stories,
but if you've had like the, Ifeel like these are good
secondhand stories.
So if you have had friends offriends or whatever people tell
you them spill their tea, damnit.
Yeah, leave it on our voicemail.
Email us.
Speaker 2 (48:42):
What's a good emoji
for a time slip?
Ooh, a clock.
Okay, yeah, I was thinking atornado, for some reason Like
it's just A clock and a tornado.
Like an abrupt sear world typeof thing, yeah.
Okay, I like it's just a clockand a tornado, like an abrupt
seer world type of yeah, okay, Ilike it.
Well, that's what I have foryou, little oddballs perfect.
Speaker 1 (49:02):
I guess we should
start uh closing up the shop.
Hey, will you do your side worktoday?
I feel like I always have topick up your end of the closing
what's?
Speaker 2 (49:11):
yeah like leaving the
lights on.
Speaker 1 (49:12):
You never sweep Half
the time.
You pull away in the open sign.
Speaker 2 (49:18):
Listen, listen,
zachary sucks.
Listen, little oddballs, Do usa favor.
This is our little call toaction.
Leave us voicemails of whateverwe want, whatever you want, we
don't even care at this point.
Write us in.
Write us in.
Write into us, write in.
(49:38):
But please follow us on allsocial media platforms.
If you don't, and if you do,follow us, comment like,
subscribe to things like, but itreally helps us.
So if you love us grow, if youlove us, share us to a friend,
to family.
Anyone else on the streets thatstarts talking bizarre to you,
tell, tell them to head our way.
Speaker 1 (49:54):
Okay, the last and
another thing is also, if you
guys are doing really coolcontent creation stuff online,
follow us and we'll follow youback and share the love back too
.
So send us your links.
Speaker 2 (50:06):
Okay, so yes, those
are the things that we would
love from you.
You guys, keep being you.
The most important thing thatyou could do for us is to creep
a reel, you little oddballs.
Speaker 1 (50:16):
Goodbye.
Speaker 2 (50:18):
Bye.
I'm home with the dark man Atthe ID shop Locked in the
(50:40):
shadows At the ID shop, at homewith the oddballs At the ID shop
.
The door's always open At theIE shop.