January 31, 2023 • 52 mins
In episode 113 of Thanks, I Hate It!, Brittany and Windsor finally get back to our true crime/paranormal episodes and this week we are in Illinois. Brittany discusses the tragic death of Yingying Zhang and Windsor does a dramatic reading of 92 Rainbow Road.
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Hi, it's Brittany hand Windsor andyou're listening to Thanks I Hated, a
bi weekly social commentary podcast where twofriends shoot the shit about social issues,
thorochhaded on suspective targets, and finallyget back into true crime. Finally.
It's been what like six months?Um, we at least haven't touched it
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since last year. Yeah, wehaven't seen each other since last year,
guys. Um, but we're gonnasee each other and about a month.
God, I can't do math orthink about how months works because you're sick
again. Ho. I know right, I got sick again. Here's the
thing, though, Charles has hadthe flu, pneumonia and now COVID.
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How he's not dead, he's blowingmy month. That's why his pressures up
the flu pneumonia and then got COVID. Sir, sir. So it's feeling
pretty invincible. Yeah. I thinkI'm the only one of us that hasn't
gotten it yet. You are.You are the only person that I know
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who has not. Oh, youand a lady at work who is just
as crazy as you are. Soit must be the crazy that keeps it
away. But you know what,you guys, win's a win. Win
is a win because the rest ofus don't have lungs that are going to
last. I've I got the RSVand that knocked me on my ass.
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So, I mean, I wasn'tfree of disease, but whoa, that's
right. I forgot about that,like and oh it goes. I would
be like, oh, I thinkI'd feel good enough to go to work
tomorrow, and about eight o'clock anight, I'd be like, I was
like, oh, I'm dying.Like I would feel okay, yeah,
and then towards the end of theday out goodbye. So when we first
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started texting about UM recording tonight,I was like, yeah, I'm feeling
good, and then I sat downto do my notes and I was just
like, oh, I think Imight die. Yeah the fuck. But
I need you to not get COVIDagain because I will not be the last
friend of us alive. I can'tget it again. Shmary's had it twice,
I think, Melissa twice, nowme twice. Yeah, we can't
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go three for three. I don'tknow our bodies canna handle it. We're
elder. I mean, thankfully,it's been relatively mild for you because you're
healthy. But like we were,we're getting up there, we're middle aged.
We're too old to be fucking aroundwith this shit. Yeah, we're
too old to be fucking around andfind it out anyway, because one o,
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our bones can't handle it, ourjoints can't handle it, our hearts
can't handle it, our lungs can'thandle it. You know, we can't
handle though Illinois. Oh wait,no, we can't handle Illinois. Well,
we're gonna have to because we're gonnahave to. I mean, not
all of it's horrible, but itis the Midwest, So I mean,
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and I think that's the worst partabout Illinois is the fact that it is
in the Midwest, because I mean, no, I do hate to Chicago
because you know, that's one ofthe most beautiful cities in this country.
It's also I just found out todaynot the capital of Illinois fucking Springfield as
the capitol of Illinois, spring Bill, Illinois exactly. And I'm like,
yeah, it's gotta be Chicago.That only makes sense. Nope, nope,
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because we are not a nation ofthings. That makes sense. Nope,
nope, nope. So today let'stalk about it. Yeah, we're
gonna jump into true crime Supernatural forthe state of Illinois, which is where
we left off last year, becauseI believe our last true Crime Supernatural was
Georgia, No Hawaii, it wasHawaiian. Yeah, and the crime was
literally America stealing this lat Yeah.And that was like the summer because we
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went to bi weekly recording, soand we took the vacation. Didn't have
to kill it one. Yeah.Yeah, because we're kind of over the
whole like true crime thing as aas it pertains to the true crime culture
because you know, we can stillwatch Forensic Files to the day I fucking
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die. But the thing about forensicfiles is is that they have the family's
permission because the families are on ittalking about it. Oh right, definitely,
because I'll be watching Cold Case Filesand I have been watching Cold Case
Files literally and their families up theretalking about my oven. And yes,
their families be up there having communication, having conversations. And that's the type
of true crime wave that I camein on, and that Windsor came in
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on. We came in on theone where they're involved. Yeah we can
ki ki, we can ha ha, because I mean, we have enough
trauma, so we can make traumaticjokes. But at the same time,
the whole true crime hotcast thing,the vast majority of them do not do
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it well, even the most popularor of y'all. Some of y'all's included.
Yes, growth. So before Iget into the crime that we're going
to be doing for Illinois, I'mgonna give you a couple little weird facts
about Illinois. They're actually not weird. So first and foremost, it was
the twenty first state to join theUnion. Okay, it's sometime called the
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Prairie State. I guess that's theMidwest in it. Yeah, that's definitely
the Midwest in it. Their stateslogan is the Land of Lincoln, the
man who three all the slaves.No, but he was our first gay
president. He was our first gaypresident. And I believe his wife was
our first bisexual first lady. Ohyeah, she was definitely getting hers.
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That's why she didn't have nothing tosay about him getting his listen, because
there's things that there's things families don'ttalk about still to this day. And
it's literally the twenty twenty three nowexactly. The state fossil is the Tally
Monster, which I went to lookup, but I went to sleep instead.
Valid. Wow. I just saidthe state slogan was the Land of
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Lincoln. I also have the stateslogan. We were at three different things
for this state now state Sovereign NationalUnion, which is contradictory a little bit,
a little bit. And my lastlittle incy Wincy fact about the state
is that their state snack is popcorn, which sounds so basic, but they
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do have. Oh oh, butit's valid. Have you ever had fucking
Chicago popcorn? No? I justfound that is amazing. So when me,
Melissa and them went to h AndersonCooper's filming, um, I think
it was for redacted. Yeah.Um, they gave us they had like
some of that Chicago popcorn. Theywere giving it out. The only thing
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Chicago was not good for is pizza. I fucking said it. You at
me. I was not pizza.It's a pie. It's literally a pie.
It's not pizza. I was watchingthe show called south Side, which
is about the South Side of Chicago, and in it they kept saying,
people from Chicago don't eat this pizza. Like we can tell when you're from
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out of town if you come andeat a Chicago deep dish. It is
a fucking pie with a pizza pie, That's what it is. I'm from
New Haven, raised in New Havenfor the past thirty five years. We
got the best pizza in the fuckingcountry. And that's not a fucking it's
not it's not there's it's not aquestion. It is what it is.
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So I'm assuming then that Illinois hasthe best popcorn and I will have to
try the sound. Yes, butI will say that there the Chicago deep
dish is good. It's just nota pizza. And that's my hold of
a pizza. The Italians say,it's not a pizza. That little baby,
that little baby who was like listen, you're not listening, wouldn't be
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happy exactly exactly? Did you haveany weird crimes? I not know.
I have some weird laws. Soapparently there's a a city called or a
town called Normal. That sounds likea lie. Yeah, but in Normal
it is illegal to make faces atdogs like who the fuck are you?
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What kind of monster? Doesn't go, oh, look what I'm gonna seme
happens is they're not allowed to havedogs, period. It is illegal to
give a pet a cigar, yes, valid, but I want to know
why this all was created. Exactlyexactly. It is illegal to eat in
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a burning building. Okay, youknow what, it's a valid point.
Yeah, valid m h. InChicago, it is illegal to take a
French poodle to the opera, buta pit bull must be good, which
as it should be. Number five. In Eureka, it is illegal for
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a man with a mustache to kissa woman. But it doesn't. That's
right, that's right. That isprogressive thinking there. Yes, those bear
daddies get it on. So this, i feel, is a personal vendetta
against people like us, even thoughwe don't do this particular activity. You
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don't know that, but like,apparently it's not like Chicago, is not
like Walmart. In Chicago, itis illegal to go fishing in your pajamas
and then they're little yeah, andthen in their little uh like little the
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thing thing it says, instead,we're an overpriced Columbia fishing vest. It
is also illegal to give whiskey todogs. Again, why the fuck do
we have these laws? Because theworld okays, it brings us back to
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Arkansas, Arkansas. It is illegalto mispronounce Joliet as Jolliet because but that's
what it is. It's Jolliet.I don't even know where this place is
in the state, so fuck it. What is it? Joy, it's
joilet like toilet. Jolliet's prettier.In Ottawa, it is illegal to spit
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on the sidewalk. Good, becausethat's just fucking nasty. In kellen Worth,
a rooster must stand back three hundredfeet from a residence if it wishes
to crow. Yeah, that betterlisten. I think it's only respect.
Yeah, So they need to knowthat they need to back the fuck up.
The cock needs to stay in theirfucking place as they should always always.
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So Dune Thune done. What isour crime? So our crime you're
probably expecting like an H. Holmesor John Wynne Jacy or Dame massacre,
No bitch, because I'm saying wedid the Valentine's Dame massacre already though,
did we? Oh shit, wedid. See It's a good thing I
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didn't fucking pick that one, whichI started to do. So then you
would have about real stupid because wealready had the notes. Oh that would
have pissed me off. That wouldhave pissed me off more than redoing the
crime that she just redid the workthe fact that I redid the work would
have pissed me off. No,we are talking about the unfortunate and untimely
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demise of Yinging Saying in Chicago.So this crime is really fucked and I
was kind of stuff about it.I get pissed off about a lot of
crime. So we're talking about YiningZang. She was born in the Fujian
province of China in the year nineteenninety, so she wasn't even in the
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eighties. She was a little sweetbaby angel. And she was also a
super fucking smarty pant because she graduatedat the top of her class at sun
yat Sen University and then went onto get her masters from Pinking University in
China. So okay, she's superintelligent. And not only did she do
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these things, she did them infucking science, like she's a science person,
which is anybody can buy through somelike literature. Yep, anybody can
go into like European Renaissance tenants,history or social work apps. All you
really got to do is bullshit yourway through that. Listen. Going into
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social work and finishing a social workdegree is literally just being able to manipulate
people into agreeing with your bad ideas, like that's it. And so she
went into something that you can't bullshityour way through. She literally went into
the actual scientist. So this babygenius was considering getting her PhD. And
she's not like the rest of uspeople with masters, where we go through
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this shit like once a year,like, m I should go back to
college, I should get my PhD. No, she was fully ready to
go on a PhD, but beforeshe hopped into a program, she wanted
to give it kind of like atest drive. And so she entered the
Chinese Academy of Science as a Chinesescholar studying photosynthesis and something else. I
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apparently didn't write what the other thingwas. And this was at the University
of Illinois. Our band as Champagne. I feel like those could be really
cool places, but I know thatthey're not. I mean that they fucking
suck. So before getting into thatprogram, she says, Hey, I'm
gonna go for a year as afucking scholar to this place in the middle
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of the United States, that Illinois. What does that even mean? And
I'm going to see if they're liketheir program, and then if everything goes
well, I might apply for theirPhD program. So Yinging arrived in April
of twenty seventeen to begin her scholarlywork. The plan I from what I
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was reading, apparently was in Octoberto go back to China to marry her
longtime boyfriend, and then I'm assumingthey're both coming back to Illinois so that
she can continue to be just anintellectual badness. But all of this came
to like a resounding halt in Juneof twenty seventeen, so we're barely three
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months outside of her arriving. SoYingying started her life in Illinois. I'm
assuming, but I can't find anydefinitive information living with friends or people that
she met met as a part ofher program. So on June ninth of
that same year, Ying finally founda place and she's going to go sign
a lease for her new apartment.She's very excited for it. She's really
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face deep in her research and shit, and so she's just like, I've
got a little bit of time togo sign this lease, and then I've
got to get back to science becausescience is what's paying the goddamn bills.
And so she gets up a busand she misses her next bust, and
so she's like fuck. So shewalks to the next bus stop and misses
that bus. Now she's fucking furiousbecause we've all missed a bus, train.
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We'll not playing. God Jesus Christ, oh God, her anxiety would
never get doing. We're at thefucking airport four hours early. We are
our parents in that situation. Buta play or no, a bus or
train. Absolutely half missed a trainbefore. And so at one thirty nine
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pm she takes the leasing agent andshe says, hey, bitch, I'm
running late, but I'm like tryingto catch another bust. I'm on my
way. I'm assuming. The leasingagent says, you know, be easy.
Unfortunately, after she gets to thatnext bus stop, which is in
front of the PBS radio building atthe College, the bus it leaves.
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So now she's missed another bus andshe's fucking furious. Sam Z's girl.
And so at two o'clock two pmon the dot you see at or a
bus a dark colored car pass infront of her can go around the corner,
and at two or three you seethis exact same car come back around
the corner and stop in front ofwhere Yinging was standing. So they had
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like a really quick combo maybe abouta minute, and then Yingying gets into
the car and she's never seen again. Yeah I know, right, Jesus
Christ. So at two thirty eightPM, Yinging's real atur is like,
hey, bitch, where the fuckare you? Because I've been waiting here
all this time for you and younever text back, You never got in
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touch with me again. Are wesigning the lace or not? Yinging doesn't
respond. Later that evening, mYinging's friends have been and reaching out to
her all day because they didn't expectthis task to take very loan. They
literally thought she was going to thepleasing office signing release and coming back.
It was supposed to be a relativelyquick event. Around nine that evening,
they finally start getting in touch withPoliceia. So they're just like, we
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don't know what happened to our friend. It's really weird. She's not from
around here, and now she's notanswering call's, texts, emails, anything
like. I'm assuming she had reallysmart friends science and advanced studies, so
they knew call, text, email, FaceTime, book, messenger, snatchat
everything, what's up. They gotall the chats just looking for her and
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because of their diligence, they wereable to get this search party train working
really quickly. So the police,the campus police, who are usually the
bad guys, the FBI, theyall start looking with these friends for this
student because she's seemingly disappeared off theface of the Yinging's family flew in from
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China, and literally the whole areais looking for her. Even crime Stoppers
puts out one of the highest rewardsin the history of their state, at
fifty thousand dollars for any information thatwill lead to yingying hopefully safety but safely.
But we know how things fucking go. Unfortunately, things don't come together
as you would want them to.And basically the last place that ying in
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a scene is with this car.So the police, police, I wrote,
the police, police harder than ever. The police do their thing.
They did, and they determined thatthe car that they were the lie detector
that determined that was a lie.Okay, it was a lie. Later
we will find out it was afucking line. But they determined that there
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were only that the car was aSaturn Astra, which I've never seen These
fucking cars. I probably have seenthem, and I just can't name them.
Because it's a Saturn and they don'teven make the motherfuckers anymore. But
there were only eighteen in the area. That car that picked Saturn's the only
Saturns that we ever saw and neverhad the right paint color on them exactly
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always came off. So it wasa Saturn. What astra Astra? Well,
now I have to look it upto a Saturn Astra is literally a
fucking basic ass. Oh that isnot a cute car, it's not.
So they're eighteen Saturn Astras that matchedthe description of the car that Yunan was
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lasting getting into. One of thoseSaturn Astras had a damaged hub cap,
and that was the Saturn Astra thatwas in the video. And it was
also the Saturn Astra that belonged toUniversity of Illinois PhD student Brent Christianson the
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name. She got in there becauseshe knew him, So they don't believe
that they actually knew one another,but they saw each other. They went
to the same school, and hewas just like, oh, yeah,
I'm a PhD student here, I'massuming, and she being pairing and kind
and you know, sweet baby angels. She likely didn't think it too much
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further beyond that this nice guys thatI give her a ride. So the
police, they still policed harder thanthey've ever policed before. So Christiansen lied
and said that he didn't remember everpicking anybody up, he didn't know what
they were talking about, he didn'tknow who they were talking about, and
that because his wife was out oftown, he likely believed that he was
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sleeping or playing video games, whichis the ultimate male answer. None of
our spouses will ever be able tohave like a real alement because my husband
don't play that shit. Oh well, Charles be sleepy and playing video games.
He he just gets too bored andit makes the movement, gives emotion
sickness me too. But if yousay sleeping, if you say sleeping,
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he got you no for rell likeexactly. So despite this bitches lies,
the police were able to match thesunroof on the car and the damage hubcap
to Brent's car. They were justlike, listen, this guy's an asshole.
He's a fucking liar. So we'repretty sure that this is the guy.
We got him dead to rights.But they did it because they needed
something more solid than their assumptions.And so some people call this person his
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girlfriend. I don't know if hehad a wife and a girlfriend. I
don't know if he probable were awife exactly men ain't shit twenty twenty three,
or if he had, if theywere both girlfriends, it doesn't matter.
Basically, this female on his lifewas like, I'm going to prove
that he's not guilty, So I'llwear a wire and we will just clear
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all this up. But I wantto know how work out for home.
During the conversation with his wife girlfriend, he stated that not only did he
remember picking Yingying up, but heultimately brought her to his home, held
her against her will, and ultimatelykilled her and dismembered her body like a
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bitch. What was the reason?And so there were stories that went around
about he picked her up, hetook a wrong turn and she started flipping
out and she was just like,no, this is not the right way,
and that he got either angry atthat point, and so some people
are saying that, my thing is, how did you get her into your
apartment? Just willy nilly if thatwas the case. But by the end
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of the month, on June thirtieth, the day of the Pride parade,
this bitch was arrested for kidnapping,and he was later charged with kidnapping that
led to death and to counsel lyneto federal agents. It took very little
time for the jury to deliberate duringhis trial, and in July of twenty
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nineteen, Christiansen was convicted on allcounts and he was sentenced to life in
prison without the possibility of parole.And so now he is in a Florida
prison because he is a ward ofthe state. The estate property and he
can't decide where he wants to go, so they sell it to the highest
bidder. Yes, and he wassold. We talk about that ship wetually.
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Haven't talked about that yet. Howjails be doing that. That'll be
forthcoming. But he deserved it.He did fucking rat because he didn't have
to do all that. He didit. And unfortunately her body was never
able to be recovered, and soher parents just had to go back to
China without their daughter, with onlythe cold comfort of knowing that in their
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culture, really really bad. Yeah, and so they was ready for him
to be Yeah, like they werelike, listen, we built a guillotine,
let's fucking go. And the judgmentwas like, I'm sorry, we
can't do that. So, yeah, that is the murder of Yuinion sang
Um. I'm sure she touched manypeople's lives, hope, and I hope
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they are resting peacefully. Sweetie,you didn't deserve that. No, but
honestly, out of everybody in thisworld, nobody deserves that. Nobody deserves
that. It was it was bitchmove like honestly, and had he just
assaulted her, he would have maybedone I'm assuming he was white. His
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name is Brett. He would havewhich is where all the bad stories start.
He would have served six months becausea jury would have been like,
oh but you know, this willruin his life, and he would have
been like six months later, hewould have been good, and she would
have been living her life back homein China, yep, with her husband
and her she'd been a professor,which is what she always wanted to do.
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And that bitch was smart as fuck, so she definitely could have done
it. That's why you know whatthis is. Take this as a lesson.
Don't get a car with anybody.Don't get in a car with anybody,
even if they say I'm friends withyour mom. You should know that
your mom. Oh, definitely not, because yeah, your mom don't got
no fucking friends. And if shedo got friends and you don't know them,
you know what's a goddamn lie.Because her two friends be at the
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house all the time exactly and youcan't name them. It doesn't happen exactly.
Like your mom told me to comepick you up, No the fuck
she didn't, because she's like ifI missed the bus, I'm fucking walking
home. So I know, Goddamn Welsh didn't tell nobody get me.
So are you ready to go toCaucasianville? Yeah, I'm ready to go
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to Whitesville. So I am talkingabout the haunting of ninety two Rainbow Road,
which is located in Barrington, Illinois, which this article quotes as a
Bucolic village. I don't know whatthat means. Approximately forty miles northwest of
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Loop and it looks exactly the waycity Dwellas might imagine a quiet, wealthy
suburbs. I live in Connecticut.I know plenty of quiet, wealthy suburbs.
Yes, yes, and they don'ttip for shit, just so y'all
know, No, no, theydon't. At a wall Buckers, the
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house is that big. The lawnsare short, and the people are polished.
They don't wear their pajamas fishing,okay. Former residents of this town
include Kristin Cavalari. She's some sortof reality TV person. She was on
The Hills, oh Okay and MinnesotaMinnesota Vinkings. So this must be Lizzo's
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new man. Quarterback Kirk Cousins Oho. Lizza's boyfriend is on the Minnesota Vikings.
Remember new man on the Minnesota Iremember it. I just didn't know
it was an actual thing. Butthis person lived who played on the Minnesota
Vikings used to live in this town. Who and teenagers, because you know,
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they always got to make fun ofsomething, calls it Borington. Brats
go to hell. Barrington, however, quote unquote, is not boring.
The town, which has lately morethan ten thousand residents, contains only slightly
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fewer ghost stories. It's past includemysterious accidents, desecrated graves, sketchy safehouses,
and the burn Torso Torso of amafia still pigeon. I don't know
that means, but somebody fucked aroundand found out they did. A local's
going on about their business on thenorthwest Highway near Cuba Road. Are driving
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the same stretch of road where ababy faced Nelson on his way home from
to Barrington in nineteen thirty four gota bloody machine gun battle. I mean
it's a machine gun battle. Iwould assume it's bloody the fuck, and
it took his life and the livesof two Bureau agents. Now this is
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where it gets real white. Thetown re enacted the shootout in twenty fifteen
and a parking lot on Lions Parkwayjust behind the McDonald's. Why the fuck
would you tell me that that isthe most white thing that I've literally ever
heard of my life. They werelike, actually, we're gonna redact to
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this whole shit, this whole mafiamachine gun shoot out with the fucking FBI.
At least it wasn't a black personwho lost their life that there,
thank god. And a plaque commemoratesthe site in nearby Ligandorf Park, not
far from the pickle ball courts.It gets worse every moment, every every
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chance. Yep. So now thatwe're in bearing team, we're gonna go
to ninety two Rainbow Road. Thehouse no longer sits on this property.
It was abandoned, so the citysold it to a developer. Yeah,
okay. Tucked deep into the woods, behind a foreboating iron gate and a
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tantalizingly long driveway was tantalizing that tantalizingthe long deck, there was a house.
The house is long gone, nomore than a ghost loss to the
forests and the inevitable bulldozer of asuburban developers. This article is so fucking
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dramatic, and I love it.It's dramatic, it deserves a pulitzer,
a pulitzer, but it's stories liveon, passed around like a joint by
teenager's thirsty for something, anything,to break the infinite boredom of suburban adolescence.
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Get the fuck out of here.This is like, this is so
dramatic. Yes, like a joint. This is so funny. This is
why this article is why I pickedthis And the house still haunts people who
once lived there. The sister whowitnessed her brother's accidental death, a little
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girl who lay away carrying noises inthe attic. A caretaker's son who Lacy,
grew up in the most exciting andterrifying place on earth. As the
years and their lives settle, intosomething far more ordinary. Memories still reach
out and beckon them like an icy, cold finger in the night. This
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article is amazing. The article ispsychotic in a place where solid, verifiable
fact has a way of blurring intohalf baked rumors. The house on Rainbow
Road was shrouded in mystery too,for a generation of Barrington residence, long
after the last owners moved out andleft the house abandoned. Because they really
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said, you know what, Iain't fucking you know what, the bank
can abbit, I'm done. Itwas a terrifying rite of passage to hop
on the iron gate and explore thedecaying grounds in search of ghosts and adrenaline.
This is the best article I've everread in my life. Now,
it's dramatic. Those bold enough toventure all the way down to the basement
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were supposedly met with the blood andpentagrams drawn by the kids before them.
To some locals, memories of excludedproperty still chill their blood. And here's
the crazy thing, A surprising numberof the legends are true. Bomb Boom
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and it's Heyday. The house atninety two Rainbow Road was a brazen declaration
of wealth, built in the earlynineteen sixties, so when my mama was
born get out of town. Itboasted comforts that wouldn't be standard in most
home for decades. Satellite TV,marble floor, a gourmet kitchen, a
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waterfall cascaded beneath a grand staircase intoa pond stocked with quit fish, and
a curvy bar that was decorated withpictures of race horses that the patriarch owned
at Arlington Park. Even the powderroom was adorned with velvet wallpaper and twenty
four carrot gold fixtures. So theyhave money, money, and I wish
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I had money money like that.I could tell you I wouldn't have twenty
four carrot gold fixtures. Hold,I'm gonna lean back. I gotta lean
back because this is giving me life. Wait, this is really why I
moved my situation here, not yoursituation bit isolated in picturesque. The land
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around the house had long been idealfor residents in search of privacy. Once
belonging to the to the Patawatomi,Chippeuwa, and Ottawa tribes, the rural
area now known as Barrington was quoteunquote founded. This is honestly why this
article is the best, Because theydid founded in eighteen fifty four by New
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York farmers who enjoyed large swaths ofproperty far from the pianized government interference.
That's right, that's fucking right.The unchecked freedom led to inevitable violence from
Rainbow Roads. Very start in eighteenseventy seven, a farmer named Peter Davison,
angry that the my cousin assent thenascent o't fucking know the Nascent road
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was infringing on his orchard. Don'ttread on my orchard. Don't tread on
my orchard, built a blockade alongthe road, harass travelers, and ultimately
shot a road commissioner named John Robertsonthrough the chin, the shot of jingleheimers
Schmidt. The shot accidental, claimedDavidson, sent Davis into prison and Robertson
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to the cemetery. This is afucking amazing Barrington drew farmers from its early
days, then drew wealthy Chicagoans lookingfor a retreat from bustling citywife, from
fucking city life. That's what Iheard, bustling. By the nineteen thirties,
every outlaw from al Capone to DonDella Jercy to have connections in Barrington.
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Perfectly situated between Chicago where they workedin Wisconsin where they played the quote
quote the criminal element in Chicago wasable to use the newly built Northwest Highway
to get away from the city,either for pleasure to Lake Geneva or as
a hideout if things were hating upin Chicago, says Katie Mills, a
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library and history buff at the BarlingtonArea Library. The combination of the combination
of privacy and little in the wayof law enforcement interference didn't hurt. So
if one wanted to say, punisha campone lieutenant named Mike de Pike Heitler
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Hitler Heitler, who may have alsobeen a rat, let's go with both.
Yeah, he was also a rat. By locking him in an ice
house one on a large estate andsetting fire so hot the authorities can only
identify the body based on his faultteeth. One could just saying, and
that's something that they wanted to do, They could do that. Other strange
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chraategies over their years touched Barrington andits residence. On August fourth, nineteen
seventy two, for Vietnam War veteransidentified as members of the Di Ma Mall,
a military group whose members were implicatedin slings and highland parking. Many
invaded a secluded Barrington Hills house atrandom, intending to rob it. Insteadly
killed everyone inside. A retired insuranceexecutive, his wife's stepdaughter, and sister
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in law the mansion. As crimescared neighbors, so Voo bought guns and
guard dogs in response, Where dothey live fucking Florida? Jesus Christ?
Right? With all the dark undercurrentsrunning through the area, the house on
Rainbow Road was already larger than light. From the nineteen sixties to the nineteen
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eighties, the forty acre lot ofland on a former Turkey and swuab farm
was owned by an extravagantly successful realestate developer and his family, plus various
staff, groundskeepers, pets, andfarm animals. Just as a disclaimer,
due to the traumatic nature of someevents, family members will only discuss what
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happened on there on the condition ofanonymity, But even a monoratorily interest of
websleuthe could determine more details. Thesprawling woodsy grounds where a cartoon wonderland that
included a heliport, a six cargarage, a gas station, fifty bone
lines, two barns, a giantplayground at Apple Orchard, multiple tennis courts
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and a silo. The family broughta couple alligators for a pond on the
property, and they used to wanderinto the kitchen, recalls Robin, who
was the third of the family sixchildren. Every morning before school, someone
would call out, somebody, goget the alligators and catch them and put
them back into the pond. Shesays, it was a fairytale house.
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It was a fairytale pond back likethis is Florida in Chicago it is,
but like many fairytale houses in thewoods, it had a shadowy presence with
a gruesome backstory. So on Februarynineteen, nine sixty eight, Billie Cooke
now or the third, who wasa seven year old son of the groundskeeper
who lived on the property, wasclimbing in the concrete bird bath near the
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front door of the main house.So his sister, who was four at
the time, said she could hearthe thing wobbling, and she was standing
nearby. She said he lost hisfooting and grabbed the top of the structure
and it fell on him. Robin, who was in third grade at the
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time, says she witnessed the accidentthrough a window inside the house, and
she tells a different story. Shesaid she saw the bird bath lift up
in the air, move over andjust fall on him. Fuck that,
She says. She tried to scream, but nothing was coming out. When
the police arrived to investigate, Robinreportedly told them the same thing. No,
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it didn't tip over, it floatedthrough the air, and the death
was declared an accident and the restof the Kochnour family moved out shortly after.
Robin, however, couldn't shake thefeeling that some presence was haunting the
property. She said there was somethinggoing on in that house. Her bedroom
was right beneath the attic, andsomething, she says today, was dragging
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itself across the attic floor. Hermother and her aunt repeatedly tried blessing the
attic with holy water, but thesense continued from much of her childhood.
Nope, I will say that shesaw something so traumatic it could She honestly
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probably saw what she thought she saw, like I'm not saying she's lying,
but her brain may be using thatas a trauma response. Because her brain
couldn't handle that such a tragic thinghappened. Her brain had to rationalize it
by adding something else to it.Your brain on trauma. It's hardcore.
Yeah, Like it's literally just tryingto see something so it can process it.
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Like an eight year old cannot processsomething Like an eight year old cannot
process something so traumatic. I cannotprocess something so traumatic. We just talked
about intrusive thoughts. Do you thinkthat would ever leave our head? No,
it would be the most intrusive thoughtpowder. Honestly, I I could
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see un aliving as a result ofthis easy So the disturbances weren't confined solely
to the main house. Colin Santi, who lived on the grounds and his
family in the eighties while his fatherserved as the last latest in a long
line of care triggers, caretakers,caretakers, it's all good, recalled seeing
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a ghost in his bedroom one nightand chasing it down the hall and his
skies and chasing it down the halland his batman under ruse yes. Growing
up on Rainbow Road was confusing,as confusing and wonderful, he says.
There was always a band plane somewhereon the property, and the barbecues and
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wonderfulness, but there was always thepresent. That place was crazy, haunted,
but it wasn't ghost that haunted theowner of the property. By the
mid nineteen eighties, his enormous realestate empire included everything from suburban shopping centers
and country clothes to developments in Tennesseeand Florida, but he was starting to
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face multiple legal issues Following a divorce. The family vacated the property around nineteen
eighty six, and it typically agnomaticfashion. Yes, the family parents,
but it sounds bad. Yes,the family appeared to leave in a hurry,
taking some furniture and valuables, butleaving other items in the home with
caregivers. The house still had forksin the kitchen drawers, pictures on the
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walls, and like one visitor duringthis time, a creepy statue sitting by
the fireplace of a goat like creaturewith horns and colins said fuck out of
town. There was always the presencethat plays was crazy haunted. So the
properties changed hands and the house sittersmoved on. The unoccupied house fell into
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limbo, raised on tales about phantomsightings around the nearby White Cemetery Board.
Teenagers who had heard rumors about thehouse and Rainbow Road for years stepped into
the void. Now, all theyhad to do was scale the white Art
Deco wall and see for themselves.And they did. No, no,
they did. Curiosity seekers gave wayto larger groups of partiers and looters who
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said about vandalizing much of the property, and of course some of these parties
took a dark turn. Santi,who snuck into the basement with friends in
the early nineties, was stunned bywhat he found. Now, mind you,
this is a person who lived there, so he knows it was supposed
to be there, and what wasn'tHe said, They've got pentagrams on the
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mares and stuff Satan rituals, werecandles all over the place, beer cans
and a breeze and paraphernalia in thebar. They smashed everything they could and
took the rest of it. Doyou know what I'm hearing. I'm hearing
a lot of so you're also hearinga lot of what assholes did in the
eighties and nineties. This is whatteenagers did in the eighties and nineties because
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they thought it was fucking funny.They tried to summon the fucking devil.
This is facts, debaucherous tales ofanimal sacrifice and black magic within the walls
of the decaying house may sound apocryphal, but neighbors weren't taking any chances.
Lenna McGill, who runs the alpacafarm that started on Baby Faced Nelson's old
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property Just Talk to Cuba Road,recalls golding her barn cats around Halloween from
people looking to do animal sacrifices.Fucking animal sacrifices. Goddamn and honestly they
I would not put it past anineties teenager to sacrifice a fucking black cat
on Halloween. No, of coursenot. They would have fucking in it.
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And these are white kids, toremember that. Over the years,
the interlopers reported a strange site aroundthe property, a young boy plodden fire
truck, pajamas or blue jean overallswith a red shirt underneath. One of
the superstitions that took hold was thatanyone who drove down the Long Highway at
Eggs actually thirty seven miles an hour, would see the face of him.
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Well. Scott Marcus, a paranormalinvestigator and author of the two thousand and
eight book Voices from the Chicago Gray, learned about the nineteen sixty eight death
of Billy cookanocher he reached out tothe family and relayed reports of the spirit.
I was shocked, Carol says.My brother did wear overalls at the
time, but to be fair ora boy in nineteen sixty eight didn't wear
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overalls. Okay, I'll give youthat one. In nineteen eighty four,
the federal government brought a criminal caseagainst the patriarch of the departed family,
alleging that he had bribed and deproductthe government to finance numerous suburban construction projects.
He landed in prison for nine yearson one count of racketeering they always
get caught for fucking racketeering always,and fourteen counts of making false state mister
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Banks and forced to forfeit assets totallyeight point six million. The house on
Rainbow Rose that mostly emptied for morethan a decade, slowly crumbling. It's
once gleaming swimming pool filled with slimywater. It was almost like the woods
were swallowing the house back. Eventuallyit was offered to the leg Exerch Fire
Department so firefighters could train with controlledburns. It was in such a state
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of disarray. Requails Stephen rass mussina Barrington High alumnus who used to ride
four wheelers on the property. Weheard these eerie sounds, maybe coming from
a speaker intentionally. I'm not sureif it was someone living in the hot
list, or that they were aspeaker to scare us off. Another one
of those kids, coincidentally, wasCarol, who passed more than one evening
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party and at the rains of thehouse. By that point it was just
a show of a basement, unawarethat she had lived on the property more
than twenty years early. My mothernever told us where anything everything happened,
so basically she was there. Shedidn't even realize that that's where she saw
her brother die. No, ma'am. Could you imagine like just like five
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in with your friends unintentionally at theplace where you saw your brother die a
horrific death. No, ma'am.But progress has a way of paving over
history, and in two thousand andfour, a real estate developer named Tim
Pattinson put together a deal for theland. By then, the whole thing
had become such a nuisance that theneighbors couldn't take it anymore, particularly the
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rest in to the south, whosebedroom looked onto the property. He'd hear
the cars and the kids and themusic and the screaming because they're staying in
the middle of the night. Hewas frustrated and whine it done, It
gone well. Pattis away to getstarted on new subdivision. He spent Halloween
on the property, shining a flashlighton tresspassers and watching them scream if lee
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once brave enough to stop and sayhello, got candy, honestly though,
badass eventually ass but also fuck off. Yeah, like the one asshole that's
like, oh are you scared you? Okay, here's some candy you could
treat. Eventually, he put analarm system, which meant constant hall study
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authorities, reports Christopher Cavelli, adeputy chief of the Lake County Sheriff's Office.
It was worth noting that Cavelli,who grew up in the area,
himself a cause, driving out toRamoor Road of friends as a teenager and
listening in the dark for house andscreens they were told would come from the
house. We never did hear it, he said, almost sadly. By
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the mid two thousands, a legendsa rounding the place where spread so far
that Pattinson had to feel Inquiries froma production company hoping to do a quote
paranormal study of the people who weremurdered in at the Stane asylum there.
Of course, there was no recordof an asylum there or anywhere in the
facility. After the family moved out, the Rainbow Road property drew teenagers.
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Oh wait, that was just fora picture, pat as It took out
the famous gates and put in aroad in place of the long standing driveway,
Caitlin's Way, he named for hisdaughter. Before selling off most of
the property. Nothing was left ofthe house from Rainbow Road, but stories
still the property quants, at leastsome of his former residents. Though Carol
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lives nearby, she has no plansto return to the site of her childhood
trauma, and neither does Robin.There's a demon on that property, Robin
says, And I swear I wouldnever go back because I don't want to
risk a demon inhabiting me. Right, others seem less a concern. Police
still get calls about trespassers. Ithink everyone just wants to believe their proximity
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to something exceptional, says the author. That that doesn't mean that it's just
not a normal little street. Andthere's a hidden history that we only know
about and we can pass on.So these days the drive down the road
is a little more than a benignjaunt through a pristine wooden suburbia, migrating
Sandhill Crane's last ladies about in thesame pond where people swear they encountered ghosts.
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Anyone hoping to catch a terrifying glimpseof a rotting house scrolled with pentagrams
or spectral boy in overalls say,get a quiet cool to sec. If
he didn't know what really happened there, it would seem all like any other
one. But listen when Shorty saidshe saw it get picked up and dropped
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on her brother. This whole thingis a note for me because honestly,
I'm good on that ship, andhonestly, these fucking assholes back in the
eighties and nineties probably brought a lotmore shit than was absolutely because you know
what, that boy probably left immediatelyhe moved on because children rarely have unfinished
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business. He moved on. Butpeople are fucking just like not letting him
rest. He said, Okay,if I have to deal with you guys,
you guys have to deal with metoo. Yeah. Period, So
that is our episode. That thenext one Indiana. I think so and
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I a girl. It's some crimesin Indiana. That place is fucking weird.
Indiana is a fucking crime. Indianais the crime. Yeah. I
mean I lived as I'll bend fora little bit it I um. I
was born in the Midwest, shewas, I wasn't, but the Midwest
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as a hellhole and you could notpay me to move back there. Honestly,
the only way you could get meto move back to the Midwest was
it we made it like a milliondollars a year, and then I would
have to suck at the fuck upbecause because you'd be able to travel wherever
you want. Exactly, if wemade a million dollars a year, I
would just not be there. I'dhave a second house, right, I
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wanted to live like you would justbe gone. Period. So that is
our episode an Illinois, Illinois.Illinois is sorry. So as always,
remember to drink your water, rememberthat you are that bitch, you'll ever
be that bitch. And honestly,if you can just just avoid the Midwest,
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just avoid the Midwest, just don'tgo and some of the salts.
Honestly, just avoid America. Yeah, America, if you can. It's
kind of ghetto, little a littlebit. She's a trailer park. She's
a trailer park girl. Go brownme outside, brought me outside, Get
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the fuck out of town. GoodNight, guys, good night,
Hi, it's Brittany hand Windsor andyou're listening to Thanks I Hated, a
bi weekly social commentary podcast where twofriends shoot the shit about social issues,
thorochhaded on suspective targets, and finallyget back into true crime. Finally.
It's been what like six months?Um, we at least haven't touched it
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since last year. Yeah, wehaven't seen each other since last year,
guys. Um, but we're gonnasee each other and about a month.
God, I can't do math orthink about how months works because you're sick
again. Ho. I know right, I got sick again. Here's the
thing, though, Charles has hadthe flu, pneumonia and now COVID.
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How he's not dead, he's blowingmy month. That's why his pressures up
the flu pneumonia and then got COVID. Sir, sir. So it's feeling
pretty invincible. Yeah. I thinkI'm the only one of us that hasn't
gotten it yet. You are.You are the only person that I know
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who has not. Oh, youand a lady at work who is just
as crazy as you are. Soit must be the crazy that keeps it
away. But you know what,you guys, win's a win. Win
is a win because the rest ofus don't have lungs that are going to
last. I've I got the RSVand that knocked me on my ass.
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So, I mean, I wasn'tfree of disease, but whoa, that's
right. I forgot about that,like and oh it goes. I would
be like, oh, I thinkI'd feel good enough to go to work
tomorrow, and about eight o'clock anight, I'd be like, I was
like, oh, I'm dying.Like I would feel okay, yeah,
and then towards the end of theday out goodbye. So when we first
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started texting about UM recording tonight,I was like, yeah, I'm feeling
good, and then I sat downto do my notes and I was just
like, oh, I think Imight die. Yeah the fuck. But
I need you to not get COVIDagain because I will not be the last
friend of us alive. I can'tget it again. Shmary's had it twice,
I think, Melissa twice, nowme twice. Yeah, we can't
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go three for three. I don'tknow our bodies canna handle it. We're
elder. I mean, thankfully,it's been relatively mild for you because you're
healthy. But like we were,we're getting up there, we're middle aged.
We're too old to be fucking aroundwith this shit. Yeah, we're
too old to be fucking around andfind it out anyway, because one o,
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our bones can't handle it, ourjoints can't handle it, our hearts
can't handle it, our lungs can'thandle it. You know, we can't
handle though Illinois. Oh wait,no, we can't handle Illinois. Well,
we're gonna have to because we're gonnahave to. I mean, not
all of it's horrible, but itis the Midwest, So I mean,
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and I think that's the worst partabout Illinois is the fact that it is
in the Midwest, because I mean, no, I do hate to Chicago
because you know, that's one ofthe most beautiful cities in this country.
It's also I just found out todaynot the capital of Illinois fucking Springfield as
the capitol of Illinois, spring Bill, Illinois exactly. And I'm like,
yeah, it's gotta be Chicago.That only makes sense. Nope, nope,
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because we are not a nation ofthings. That makes sense. Nope,
nope, nope. So today let'stalk about it. Yeah, we're
gonna jump into true crime Supernatural forthe state of Illinois, which is where
we left off last year, becauseI believe our last true Crime Supernatural was
Georgia, No Hawaii, it wasHawaiian. Yeah, and the crime was
literally America stealing this lat Yeah.And that was like the summer because we
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went to bi weekly recording, soand we took the vacation. Didn't have
to kill it one. Yeah.Yeah, because we're kind of over the
whole like true crime thing as aas it pertains to the true crime culture
because you know, we can stillwatch Forensic Files to the day I fucking
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die. But the thing about forensicfiles is is that they have the family's
permission because the families are on ittalking about it. Oh right, definitely,
because I'll be watching Cold Case Filesand I have been watching Cold Case
Files literally and their families up theretalking about my oven. And yes,
their families be up there having communication, having conversations. And that's the type
of true crime wave that I camein on, and that Windsor came in
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on. We came in on theone where they're involved. Yeah we can
ki ki, we can ha ha, because I mean, we have enough
trauma, so we can make traumaticjokes. But at the same time,
the whole true crime hotcast thing,the vast majority of them do not do
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it well, even the most popularor of y'all. Some of y'all's included.
Yes, growth. So before Iget into the crime that we're going
to be doing for Illinois, I'mgonna give you a couple little weird facts
about Illinois. They're actually not weird. So first and foremost, it was
the twenty first state to join theUnion. Okay, it's sometime called the
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Prairie State. I guess that's theMidwest in it. Yeah, that's definitely
the Midwest in it. Their stateslogan is the Land of Lincoln, the
man who three all the slaves.No, but he was our first gay
president. He was our first gaypresident. And I believe his wife was
our first bisexual first lady. Ohyeah, she was definitely getting hers.
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That's why she didn't have nothing tosay about him getting his listen, because
there's things that there's things families don'ttalk about still to this day. And
it's literally the twenty twenty three nowexactly. The state fossil is the Tally
Monster, which I went to lookup, but I went to sleep instead.
Valid. Wow. I just saidthe state slogan was the Land of
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Lincoln. I also have the stateslogan. We were at three different things
for this state now state Sovereign NationalUnion, which is contradictory a little bit,
a little bit. And my lastlittle incy Wincy fact about the state
is that their state snack is popcorn, which sounds so basic, but they
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do have. Oh oh, butit's valid. Have you ever had fucking
Chicago popcorn? No? I justfound that is amazing. So when me,
Melissa and them went to h AndersonCooper's filming, um, I think
it was for redacted. Yeah.Um, they gave us they had like
some of that Chicago popcorn. Theywere giving it out. The only thing
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Chicago was not good for is pizza. I fucking said it. You at
me. I was not pizza.It's a pie. It's literally a pie.
It's not pizza. I was watchingthe show called south Side, which
is about the South Side of Chicago, and in it they kept saying,
people from Chicago don't eat this pizza. Like we can tell when you're from
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out of town if you come andeat a Chicago deep dish. It is
a fucking pie with a pizza pie, That's what it is. I'm from
New Haven, raised in New Havenfor the past thirty five years. We
got the best pizza in the fuckingcountry. And that's not a fucking it's
not it's not there's it's not aquestion. It is what it is.
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So I'm assuming then that Illinois hasthe best popcorn and I will have to
try the sound. Yes, butI will say that there the Chicago deep
dish is good. It's just nota pizza. And that's my hold of
a pizza. The Italians say,it's not a pizza. That little baby,
that little baby who was like listen, you're not listening, wouldn't be
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happy exactly exactly? Did you haveany weird crimes? I not know.
I have some weird laws. Soapparently there's a a city called or a
town called Normal. That sounds likea lie. Yeah, but in Normal
it is illegal to make faces atdogs like who the fuck are you?
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What kind of monster? Doesn't go, oh, look what I'm gonna seme
happens is they're not allowed to havedogs, period. It is illegal to
give a pet a cigar, yes, valid, but I want to know
why this all was created. Exactlyexactly. It is illegal to eat in
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a burning building. Okay, youknow what, it's a valid point.
Yeah, valid m h. InChicago, it is illegal to take a
French poodle to the opera, buta pit bull must be good, which
as it should be. Number five. In Eureka, it is illegal for
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a man with a mustache to kissa woman. But it doesn't. That's
right, that's right. That isprogressive thinking there. Yes, those bear
daddies get it on. So this, i feel, is a personal vendetta
against people like us, even thoughwe don't do this particular activity. You
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don't know that, but like,apparently it's not like Chicago, is not
like Walmart. In Chicago, itis illegal to go fishing in your pajamas
and then they're little yeah, andthen in their little uh like little the
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thing thing it says, instead,we're an overpriced Columbia fishing vest. It
is also illegal to give whiskey todogs. Again, why the fuck do
we have these laws? Because theworld okays, it brings us back to
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Arkansas, Arkansas. It is illegalto mispronounce Joliet as Jolliet because but that's
what it is. It's Jolliet.I don't even know where this place is
in the state, so fuck it. What is it? Joy, it's
joilet like toilet. Jolliet's prettier.In Ottawa, it is illegal to spit
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on the sidewalk. Good, becausethat's just fucking nasty. In kellen Worth,
a rooster must stand back three hundredfeet from a residence if it wishes
to crow. Yeah, that betterlisten. I think it's only respect.
Yeah, So they need to knowthat they need to back the fuck up.
The cock needs to stay in theirfucking place as they should always always.
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So Dune Thune done. What isour crime? So our crime you're
probably expecting like an H. Holmesor John Wynne Jacy or Dame massacre,
No bitch, because I'm saying wedid the Valentine's Dame massacre already though,
did we? Oh shit, wedid. See It's a good thing I
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didn't fucking pick that one, whichI started to do. So then you
would have about real stupid because wealready had the notes. Oh that would
have pissed me off. That wouldhave pissed me off more than redoing the
crime that she just redid the workthe fact that I redid the work would
have pissed me off. No,we are talking about the unfortunate and untimely
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demise of Yinging Saying in Chicago.So this crime is really fucked and I
was kind of stuff about it.I get pissed off about a lot of
crime. So we're talking about YiningZang. She was born in the Fujian
province of China in the year nineteenninety, so she wasn't even in the
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eighties. She was a little sweetbaby angel. And she was also a
super fucking smarty pant because she graduatedat the top of her class at sun
yat Sen University and then went onto get her masters from Pinking University in
China. So okay, she's superintelligent. And not only did she do
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these things, she did them infucking science, like she's a science person,
which is anybody can buy through somelike literature. Yep, anybody can
go into like European Renaissance tenants,history or social work apps. All you
really got to do is bullshit yourway through that. Listen. Going into
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social work and finishing a social workdegree is literally just being able to manipulate
people into agreeing with your bad ideas, like that's it. And so she
went into something that you can't bullshityour way through. She literally went into
the actual scientist. So this babygenius was considering getting her PhD. And
she's not like the rest of uspeople with masters, where we go through
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this shit like once a year,like, m I should go back to
college, I should get my PhD. No, she was fully ready to
go on a PhD, but beforeshe hopped into a program, she wanted
to give it kind of like atest drive. And so she entered the
Chinese Academy of Science as a Chinesescholar studying photosynthesis and something else. I
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apparently didn't write what the other thingwas. And this was at the University
of Illinois. Our band as Champagne. I feel like those could be really
cool places, but I know thatthey're not. I mean that they fucking
suck. So before getting into thatprogram, she says, Hey, I'm
gonna go for a year as afucking scholar to this place in the middle
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of the United States, that Illinois. What does that even mean? And
I'm going to see if they're liketheir program, and then if everything goes
well, I might apply for theirPhD program. So Yinging arrived in April
of twenty seventeen to begin her scholarlywork. The plan I from what I
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was reading, apparently was in Octoberto go back to China to marry her
longtime boyfriend, and then I'm assumingthey're both coming back to Illinois so that
she can continue to be just anintellectual badness. But all of this came
to like a resounding halt in Juneof twenty seventeen, so we're barely three
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months outside of her arriving. SoYingying started her life in Illinois. I'm
assuming, but I can't find anydefinitive information living with friends or people that
she met met as a part ofher program. So on June ninth of
that same year, Ying finally founda place and she's going to go sign
a lease for her new apartment.She's very excited for it. She's really
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face deep in her research and shit, and so she's just like, I've
got a little bit of time togo sign this lease, and then I've
got to get back to science becausescience is what's paying the goddamn bills.
And so she gets up a busand she misses her next bust, and
so she's like fuck. So shewalks to the next bus stop and misses
that bus. Now she's fucking furiousbecause we've all missed a bus, train.
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We'll not playing. God Jesus Christ, oh God, her anxiety would
never get doing. We're at thefucking airport four hours early. We are
our parents in that situation. Buta play or no, a bus or
train. Absolutely half missed a trainbefore. And so at one thirty nine
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pm she takes the leasing agent andshe says, hey, bitch, I'm
running late, but I'm like tryingto catch another bust. I'm on my
way. I'm assuming. The leasingagent says, you know, be easy.
Unfortunately, after she gets to thatnext bus stop, which is in
front of the PBS radio building atthe College, the bus it leaves.
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So now she's missed another bus andshe's fucking furious. Sam Z's girl.
And so at two o'clock two pmon the dot you see at or a
bus a dark colored car pass infront of her can go around the corner,
and at two or three you seethis exact same car come back around
the corner and stop in front ofwhere Yinging was standing. So they had
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like a really quick combo maybe abouta minute, and then Yingying gets into
the car and she's never seen again. Yeah I know, right, Jesus
Christ. So at two thirty eightPM, Yinging's real atur is like,
hey, bitch, where the fuckare you? Because I've been waiting here
all this time for you and younever text back, You never got in
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touch with me again. Are wesigning the lace or not? Yinging doesn't
respond. Later that evening, mYinging's friends have been and reaching out to
her all day because they didn't expectthis task to take very loan. They
literally thought she was going to thepleasing office signing release and coming back.
It was supposed to be a relativelyquick event. Around nine that evening,
they finally start getting in touch withPoliceia. So they're just like, we
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don't know what happened to our friend. It's really weird. She's not from
around here, and now she's notanswering call's, texts, emails, anything
like. I'm assuming she had reallysmart friends science and advanced studies, so
they knew call, text, email, FaceTime, book, messenger, snatchat
everything, what's up. They gotall the chats just looking for her and
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because of their diligence, they wereable to get this search party train working
really quickly. So the police,the campus police, who are usually the
bad guys, the FBI, theyall start looking with these friends for this
student because she's seemingly disappeared off theface of the Yinging's family flew in from
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China, and literally the whole areais looking for her. Even crime Stoppers
puts out one of the highest rewardsin the history of their state, at
fifty thousand dollars for any information thatwill lead to yingying hopefully safety but safely.
But we know how things fucking go. Unfortunately, things don't come together
as you would want them to.And basically the last place that ying in
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a scene is with this car.So the police, police, I wrote,
the police, police harder than ever. The police do their thing.
They did, and they determined thatthe car that they were the lie detector
that determined that was a lie.Okay, it was a lie. Later
we will find out it was afucking line. But they determined that there
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were only that the car was aSaturn Astra, which I've never seen These
fucking cars. I probably have seenthem, and I just can't name them.
Because it's a Saturn and they don'teven make the motherfuckers anymore. But
there were only eighteen in the area. That car that picked Saturn's the only
Saturns that we ever saw and neverhad the right paint color on them exactly
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always came off. So it wasa Saturn. What astra Astra? Well,
now I have to look it upto a Saturn Astra is literally a
fucking basic ass. Oh that isnot a cute car, it's not.
So they're eighteen Saturn Astras that matchedthe description of the car that Yunan was
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lasting getting into. One of thoseSaturn Astras had a damaged hub cap,
and that was the Saturn Astra thatwas in the video. And it was
also the Saturn Astra that belonged toUniversity of Illinois PhD student Brent Christianson the
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name. She got in there becauseshe knew him, So they don't believe
that they actually knew one another,but they saw each other. They went
to the same school, and hewas just like, oh, yeah,
I'm a PhD student here, I'massuming, and she being pairing and kind
and you know, sweet baby angels. She likely didn't think it too much
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further beyond that this nice guys thatI give her a ride. So the
police, they still policed harder thanthey've ever policed before. So Christiansen lied
and said that he didn't remember everpicking anybody up, he didn't know what
they were talking about, he didn'tknow who they were talking about, and
that because his wife was out oftown, he likely believed that he was
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sleeping or playing video games, whichis the ultimate male answer. None of
our spouses will ever be able tohave like a real alement because my husband
don't play that shit. Oh well, Charles be sleepy and playing video games.
He he just gets too bored andit makes the movement, gives emotion
sickness me too. But if yousay sleeping, if you say sleeping,
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he got you no for rell likeexactly. So despite this bitches lies,
the police were able to match thesunroof on the car and the damage hubcap
to Brent's car. They were justlike, listen, this guy's an asshole.
He's a fucking liar. So we'repretty sure that this is the guy.
We got him dead to rights.But they did it because they needed
something more solid than their assumptions.And so some people call this person his
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girlfriend. I don't know if hehad a wife and a girlfriend. I
don't know if he probable were awife exactly men ain't shit twenty twenty three,
or if he had, if theywere both girlfriends, it doesn't matter.
Basically, this female on his lifewas like, I'm going to prove
that he's not guilty, So I'llwear a wire and we will just clear
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all this up. But I wantto know how work out for home.
During the conversation with his wife girlfriend, he stated that not only did he
remember picking Yingying up, but heultimately brought her to his home, held
her against her will, and ultimatelykilled her and dismembered her body like a
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bitch. What was the reason?And so there were stories that went around
about he picked her up, hetook a wrong turn and she started flipping
out and she was just like,no, this is not the right way,
and that he got either angry atthat point, and so some people
are saying that, my thing is, how did you get her into your
apartment? Just willy nilly if thatwas the case. But by the end
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of the month, on June thirtieth, the day of the Pride parade,
this bitch was arrested for kidnapping,and he was later charged with kidnapping that
led to death and to counsel lyneto federal agents. It took very little
time for the jury to deliberate duringhis trial, and in July of twenty
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nineteen, Christiansen was convicted on allcounts and he was sentenced to life in
prison without the possibility of parole.And so now he is in a Florida
prison because he is a ward ofthe state. The estate property and he
can't decide where he wants to go, so they sell it to the highest
bidder. Yes, and he wassold. We talk about that ship wetually.
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Haven't talked about that yet. Howjails be doing that. That'll be
forthcoming. But he deserved it.He did fucking rat because he didn't have
to do all that. He didit. And unfortunately her body was never
able to be recovered, and soher parents just had to go back to
China without their daughter, with onlythe cold comfort of knowing that in their
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culture, really really bad. Yeah, and so they was ready for him
to be Yeah, like they werelike, listen, we built a guillotine,
let's fucking go. And the judgmentwas like, I'm sorry, we
can't do that. So, yeah, that is the murder of Yuinion sang
Um. I'm sure she touched manypeople's lives, hope, and I hope
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they are resting peacefully. Sweetie,you didn't deserve that. No, but
honestly, out of everybody in thisworld, nobody deserves that. Nobody deserves
that. It was it was bitchmove like honestly, and had he just
assaulted her, he would have maybedone I'm assuming he was white. His
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name is Brett. He would havewhich is where all the bad stories start.
He would have served six months becausea jury would have been like,
oh but you know, this willruin his life, and he would have
been like six months later, hewould have been good, and she would
have been living her life back homein China, yep, with her husband
and her she'd been a professor,which is what she always wanted to do.
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And that bitch was smart as fuck, so she definitely could have done
it. That's why you know whatthis is. Take this as a lesson.
Don't get a car with anybody.Don't get in a car with anybody,
even if they say I'm friends withyour mom. You should know that
your mom. Oh, definitely not, because yeah, your mom don't got
no fucking friends. And if shedo got friends and you don't know them,
you know what's a goddamn lie.Because her two friends be at the
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house all the time exactly and youcan't name them. It doesn't happen exactly.
Like your mom told me to comepick you up, No the fuck
she didn't, because she's like ifI missed the bus, I'm fucking walking
home. So I know, Goddamn Welsh didn't tell nobody get me.
So are you ready to go toCaucasianville? Yeah, I'm ready to go
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to Whitesville. So I am talkingabout the haunting of ninety two Rainbow Road,
which is located in Barrington, Illinois, which this article quotes as a
Bucolic village. I don't know whatthat means. Approximately forty miles northwest of
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Loop and it looks exactly the waycity Dwellas might imagine a quiet, wealthy
suburbs. I live in Connecticut.I know plenty of quiet, wealthy suburbs.
Yes, yes, and they don'ttip for shit, just so y'all
know, No, no, theydon't. At a wall Buckers, the
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house is that big. The lawnsare short, and the people are polished.
They don't wear their pajamas fishing,okay. Former residents of this town
include Kristin Cavalari. She's some sortof reality TV person. She was on
The Hills, oh Okay and MinnesotaMinnesota Vinkings. So this must be Lizzo's
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new man. Quarterback Kirk Cousins Oho. Lizza's boyfriend is on the Minnesota Vikings.
Remember new man on the Minnesota Iremember it. I just didn't know
it was an actual thing. Butthis person lived who played on the Minnesota
Vikings used to live in this town. Who and teenagers, because you know,
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they always got to make fun ofsomething, calls it Borington. Brats
go to hell. Barrington, however, quote unquote, is not boring.
The town, which has lately morethan ten thousand residents, contains only slightly
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fewer ghost stories. It's past includemysterious accidents, desecrated graves, sketchy safehouses,
and the burn Torso Torso of amafia still pigeon. I don't know
that means, but somebody fucked aroundand found out they did. A local's
going on about their business on thenorthwest Highway near Cuba Road. Are driving
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the same stretch of road where ababy faced Nelson on his way home from
to Barrington in nineteen thirty four gota bloody machine gun battle. I mean
it's a machine gun battle. Iwould assume it's bloody the fuck, and
it took his life and the livesof two Bureau agents. Now this is
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where it gets real white. Thetown re enacted the shootout in twenty fifteen
and a parking lot on Lions Parkwayjust behind the McDonald's. Why the fuck
would you tell me that that isthe most white thing that I've literally ever
heard of my life. They werelike, actually, we're gonna redact to
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this whole shit, this whole mafiamachine gun shoot out with the fucking FBI.
At least it wasn't a black personwho lost their life that there,
thank god. And a plaque commemoratesthe site in nearby Ligandorf Park, not
far from the pickle ball courts.It gets worse every moment, every every
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chance. Yep. So now thatwe're in bearing team, we're gonna go
to ninety two Rainbow Road. Thehouse no longer sits on this property.
It was abandoned, so the citysold it to a developer. Yeah,
okay. Tucked deep into the woods, behind a foreboating iron gate and a
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tantalizingly long driveway was tantalizing that tantalizingthe long deck, there was a house.
The house is long gone, nomore than a ghost loss to the
forests and the inevitable bulldozer of asuburban developers. This article is so fucking
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dramatic, and I love it.It's dramatic, it deserves a pulitzer,
a pulitzer, but it's stories liveon, passed around like a joint by
teenager's thirsty for something, anything,to break the infinite boredom of suburban adolescence.
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Get the fuck out of here.This is like, this is so
dramatic. Yes, like a joint. This is so funny. This is
why this article is why I pickedthis And the house still haunts people who
once lived there. The sister whowitnessed her brother's accidental death, a little
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girl who lay away carrying noises inthe attic. A caretaker's son who Lacy,
grew up in the most exciting andterrifying place on earth. As the
years and their lives settle, intosomething far more ordinary. Memories still reach
out and beckon them like an icy, cold finger in the night. This
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article is amazing. The article ispsychotic in a place where solid, verifiable
fact has a way of blurring intohalf baked rumors. The house on Rainbow
Road was shrouded in mystery too,for a generation of Barrington residence, long
after the last owners moved out andleft the house abandoned. Because they really
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said, you know what, Iain't fucking you know what, the bank
can abbit, I'm done. Itwas a terrifying rite of passage to hop
on the iron gate and explore thedecaying grounds in search of ghosts and adrenaline.
This is the best article I've everread in my life. Now,
it's dramatic. Those bold enough toventure all the way down to the basement
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were supposedly met with the blood andpentagrams drawn by the kids before them.
To some locals, memories of excludedproperty still chill their blood. And here's
the crazy thing, A surprising numberof the legends are true. Bomb Boom
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and it's Heyday. The house atninety two Rainbow Road was a brazen declaration
of wealth, built in the earlynineteen sixties, so when my mama was
born get out of town. Itboasted comforts that wouldn't be standard in most
home for decades. Satellite TV,marble floor, a gourmet kitchen, a
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waterfall cascaded beneath a grand staircase intoa pond stocked with quit fish, and
a curvy bar that was decorated withpictures of race horses that the patriarch owned
at Arlington Park. Even the powderroom was adorned with velvet wallpaper and twenty
four carrot gold fixtures. So theyhave money, money, and I wish
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I had money money like that.I could tell you I wouldn't have twenty
four carrot gold fixtures. Hold,I'm gonna lean back. I gotta lean
back because this is giving me life. Wait, this is really why I
moved my situation here, not yoursituation bit isolated in picturesque. The land
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around the house had long been idealfor residents in search of privacy. Once
belonging to the to the Patawatomi,Chippeuwa, and Ottawa tribes, the rural
area now known as Barrington was quoteunquote founded. This is honestly why this
article is the best, Because theydid founded in eighteen fifty four by New
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York farmers who enjoyed large swaths ofproperty far from the pianized government interference.
That's right, that's fucking right.The unchecked freedom led to inevitable violence from
Rainbow Roads. Very start in eighteenseventy seven, a farmer named Peter Davison,
angry that the my cousin assent thenascent o't fucking know the Nascent road
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was infringing on his orchard. Don'ttread on my orchard. Don't tread on
my orchard, built a blockade alongthe road, harass travelers, and ultimately
shot a road commissioner named John Robertsonthrough the chin, the shot of jingleheimers
Schmidt. The shot accidental, claimedDavidson, sent Davis into prison and Robertson
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to the cemetery. This is afucking amazing Barrington drew farmers from its early
days, then drew wealthy Chicagoans lookingfor a retreat from bustling citywife, from
fucking city life. That's what Iheard, bustling. By the nineteen thirties,
every outlaw from al Capone to DonDella Jercy to have connections in Barrington.
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Perfectly situated between Chicago where they workedin Wisconsin where they played the quote
quote the criminal element in Chicago wasable to use the newly built Northwest Highway
to get away from the city,either for pleasure to Lake Geneva or as
a hideout if things were hating upin Chicago, says Katie Mills, a
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library and history buff at the BarlingtonArea Library. The combination of the combination
of privacy and little in the wayof law enforcement interference didn't hurt. So
if one wanted to say, punisha campone lieutenant named Mike de Pike Heitler
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Hitler Heitler, who may have alsobeen a rat, let's go with both.
Yeah, he was also a rat. By locking him in an ice
house one on a large estate andsetting fire so hot the authorities can only
identify the body based on his faultteeth. One could just saying, and
that's something that they wanted to do, They could do that. Other strange
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chraategies over their years touched Barrington andits residence. On August fourth, nineteen
seventy two, for Vietnam War veteransidentified as members of the Di Ma Mall,
a military group whose members were implicatedin slings and highland parking. Many
invaded a secluded Barrington Hills house atrandom, intending to rob it. Insteadly
killed everyone inside. A retired insuranceexecutive, his wife's stepdaughter, and sister
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in law the mansion. As crimescared neighbors, so Voo bought guns and
guard dogs in response, Where dothey live fucking Florida? Jesus Christ?
Right? With all the dark undercurrentsrunning through the area, the house on
Rainbow Road was already larger than light. From the nineteen sixties to the nineteen
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eighties, the forty acre lot ofland on a former Turkey and swuab farm
was owned by an extravagantly successful realestate developer and his family, plus various
staff, groundskeepers, pets, andfarm animals. Just as a disclaimer,
due to the traumatic nature of someevents, family members will only discuss what
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happened on there on the condition ofanonymity, But even a monoratorily interest of
websleuthe could determine more details. Thesprawling woodsy grounds where a cartoon wonderland that
included a heliport, a six cargarage, a gas station, fifty bone
lines, two barns, a giantplayground at Apple Orchard, multiple tennis courts
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and a silo. The family broughta couple alligators for a pond on the
property, and they used to wanderinto the kitchen, recalls Robin, who
was the third of the family sixchildren. Every morning before school, someone
would call out, somebody, goget the alligators and catch them and put
them back into the pond. Shesays, it was a fairytale house.
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It was a fairytale pond back likethis is Florida in Chicago it is,
but like many fairytale houses in thewoods, it had a shadowy presence with
a gruesome backstory. So on Februarynineteen, nine sixty eight, Billie Cooke
now or the third, who wasa seven year old son of the groundskeeper
who lived on the property, wasclimbing in the concrete bird bath near the
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front door of the main house.So his sister, who was four at
the time, said she could hearthe thing wobbling, and she was standing
nearby. She said he lost hisfooting and grabbed the top of the structure
and it fell on him. Robin, who was in third grade at the
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time, says she witnessed the accidentthrough a window inside the house, and
she tells a different story. Shesaid she saw the bird bath lift up
in the air, move over andjust fall on him. Fuck that,
She says. She tried to scream, but nothing was coming out. When
the police arrived to investigate, Robinreportedly told them the same thing. No,
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it didn't tip over, it floatedthrough the air, and the death
was declared an accident and the restof the Kochnour family moved out shortly after.
Robin, however, couldn't shake thefeeling that some presence was haunting the
property. She said there was somethinggoing on in that house. Her bedroom
was right beneath the attic, andsomething, she says today, was dragging
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itself across the attic floor. Hermother and her aunt repeatedly tried blessing the
attic with holy water, but thesense continued from much of her childhood.
Nope, I will say that shesaw something so traumatic it could She honestly
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probably saw what she thought she saw, like I'm not saying she's lying,
but her brain may be using thatas a trauma response. Because her brain
couldn't handle that such a tragic thinghappened. Her brain had to rationalize it
by adding something else to it.Your brain on trauma. It's hardcore.
Yeah, Like it's literally just tryingto see something so it can process it.
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Like an eight year old cannot processsomething Like an eight year old cannot
process something so traumatic. I cannotprocess something so traumatic. We just talked
about intrusive thoughts. Do you thinkthat would ever leave our head? No,
it would be the most intrusive thoughtpowder. Honestly, I I could
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see un aliving as a result ofthis easy So the disturbances weren't confined solely
to the main house. Colin Santi, who lived on the grounds and his
family in the eighties while his fatherserved as the last latest in a long
line of care triggers, caretakers,caretakers, it's all good, recalled seeing
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a ghost in his bedroom one nightand chasing it down the hall and his
skies and chasing it down the halland his batman under ruse yes. Growing
up on Rainbow Road was confusing,as confusing and wonderful, he says.
There was always a band plane somewhereon the property, and the barbecues and
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wonderfulness, but there was always thepresent. That place was crazy, haunted,
but it wasn't ghost that haunted theowner of the property. By the
mid nineteen eighties, his enormous realestate empire included everything from suburban shopping centers
and country clothes to developments in Tennesseeand Florida, but he was starting to
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face multiple legal issues Following a divorce. The family vacated the property around nineteen
eighty six, and it typically agnomaticfashion. Yes, the family parents,
but it sounds bad. Yes,the family appeared to leave in a hurry,
taking some furniture and valuables, butleaving other items in the home with
caregivers. The house still had forksin the kitchen drawers, pictures on the
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walls, and like one visitor duringthis time, a creepy statue sitting by
the fireplace of a goat like creaturewith horns and colins said fuck out of
town. There was always the presencethat plays was crazy haunted. So the
properties changed hands and the house sittersmoved on. The unoccupied house fell into
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limbo, raised on tales about phantomsightings around the nearby White Cemetery Board.
Teenagers who had heard rumors about thehouse and Rainbow Road for years stepped into
the void. Now, all theyhad to do was scale the white Art
Deco wall and see for themselves.And they did. No, no,
they did. Curiosity seekers gave wayto larger groups of partiers and looters who
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said about vandalizing much of the property, and of course some of these parties
took a dark turn. Santi,who snuck into the basement with friends in
the early nineties, was stunned bywhat he found. Now, mind you,
this is a person who lived there, so he knows it was supposed
to be there, and what wasn'tHe said, They've got pentagrams on the
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mares and stuff Satan rituals, werecandles all over the place, beer cans
and a breeze and paraphernalia in thebar. They smashed everything they could and
took the rest of it. Doyou know what I'm hearing. I'm hearing
a lot of so you're also hearinga lot of what assholes did in the
eighties and nineties. This is whatteenagers did in the eighties and nineties because
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they thought it was fucking funny.They tried to summon the fucking devil.
This is facts, debaucherous tales ofanimal sacrifice and black magic within the walls
of the decaying house may sound apocryphal, but neighbors weren't taking any chances.
Lenna McGill, who runs the alpacafarm that started on Baby Faced Nelson's old
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property Just Talk to Cuba Road,recalls golding her barn cats around Halloween from
people looking to do animal sacrifices.Fucking animal sacrifices. Goddamn and honestly they
I would not put it past anineties teenager to sacrifice a fucking black cat
on Halloween. No, of coursenot. They would have fucking in it.
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And these are white kids, toremember that. Over the years,
the interlopers reported a strange site aroundthe property, a young boy plodden fire
truck, pajamas or blue jean overallswith a red shirt underneath. One of
the superstitions that took hold was thatanyone who drove down the Long Highway at
Eggs actually thirty seven miles an hour, would see the face of him.
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Well. Scott Marcus, a paranormalinvestigator and author of the two thousand and
eight book Voices from the Chicago Gray, learned about the nineteen sixty eight death
of Billy cookanocher he reached out tothe family and relayed reports of the spirit.
I was shocked, Carol says.My brother did wear overalls at the
time, but to be fair ora boy in nineteen sixty eight didn't wear
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overalls. Okay, I'll give youthat one. In nineteen eighty four,
the federal government brought a criminal caseagainst the patriarch of the departed family,
alleging that he had bribed and deproductthe government to finance numerous suburban construction projects.
He landed in prison for nine yearson one count of racketeering they always
get caught for fucking racketeering always,and fourteen counts of making false state mister
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Banks and forced to forfeit assets totallyeight point six million. The house on
Rainbow Rose that mostly emptied for morethan a decade, slowly crumbling. It's
once gleaming swimming pool filled with slimywater. It was almost like the woods
were swallowing the house back. Eventuallyit was offered to the leg Exerch Fire
Department so firefighters could train with controlledburns. It was in such a state
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of disarray. Requails Stephen rass mussina Barrington High alumnus who used to ride
four wheelers on the property. Weheard these eerie sounds, maybe coming from
a speaker intentionally. I'm not sureif it was someone living in the hot
list, or that they were aspeaker to scare us off. Another one
of those kids, coincidentally, wasCarol, who passed more than one evening
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party and at the rains of thehouse. By that point it was just
a show of a basement, unawarethat she had lived on the property more
than twenty years early. My mothernever told us where anything everything happened,
so basically she was there. Shedidn't even realize that that's where she saw
her brother die. No, ma'am. Could you imagine like just like five
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in with your friends unintentionally at theplace where you saw your brother die a
horrific death. No, ma'am.But progress has a way of paving over
history, and in two thousand andfour, a real estate developer named Tim
Pattinson put together a deal for theland. By then, the whole thing
had become such a nuisance that theneighbors couldn't take it anymore, particularly the
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rest in to the south, whosebedroom looked onto the property. He'd hear
the cars and the kids and themusic and the screaming because they're staying in
the middle of the night. Hewas frustrated and whine it done, It
gone well. Pattis away to getstarted on new subdivision. He spent Halloween
on the property, shining a flashlighton tresspassers and watching them scream if lee
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once brave enough to stop and sayhello, got candy, honestly though,
badass eventually ass but also fuck off. Yeah, like the one asshole that's
like, oh are you scared you? Okay, here's some candy you could
treat. Eventually, he put analarm system, which meant constant hall study
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authorities, reports Christopher Cavelli, adeputy chief of the Lake County Sheriff's Office.
It was worth noting that Cavelli,who grew up in the area,
himself a cause, driving out toRamoor Road of friends as a teenager and
listening in the dark for house andscreens they were told would come from the
house. We never did hear it, he said, almost sadly. By
(48:22):
the mid two thousands, a legendsa rounding the place where spread so far
that Pattinson had to feel Inquiries froma production company hoping to do a quote
paranormal study of the people who weremurdered in at the Stane asylum there.
Of course, there was no recordof an asylum there or anywhere in the
facility. After the family moved out, the Rainbow Road property drew teenagers.
(48:45):
Oh wait, that was just fora picture, pat as It took out
the famous gates and put in aroad in place of the long standing driveway,
Caitlin's Way, he named for hisdaughter. Before selling off most of
the property. Nothing was left ofthe house from Rainbow Road, but stories
still the property quants, at leastsome of his former residents. Though Carol
(49:06):
lives nearby, she has no plansto return to the site of her childhood
trauma, and neither does Robin.There's a demon on that property, Robin
says, And I swear I wouldnever go back because I don't want to
risk a demon inhabiting me. Right, others seem less a concern. Police
still get calls about trespassers. Ithink everyone just wants to believe their proximity
(49:27):
to something exceptional, says the author. That that doesn't mean that it's just
not a normal little street. Andthere's a hidden history that we only know
about and we can pass on.So these days the drive down the road
is a little more than a benignjaunt through a pristine wooden suburbia, migrating
Sandhill Crane's last ladies about in thesame pond where people swear they encountered ghosts.
(49:52):
Anyone hoping to catch a terrifying glimpseof a rotting house scrolled with pentagrams
or spectral boy in overalls say,get a quiet cool to sec. If
he didn't know what really happened there, it would seem all like any other
one. But listen when Shorty saidshe saw it get picked up and dropped
(50:15):
on her brother. This whole thingis a note for me because honestly,
I'm good on that ship, andhonestly, these fucking assholes back in the
eighties and nineties probably brought a lotmore shit than was absolutely because you know
what, that boy probably left immediatelyhe moved on because children rarely have unfinished
(50:39):
business. He moved on. Butpeople are fucking just like not letting him
rest. He said, Okay,if I have to deal with you guys,
you guys have to deal with metoo. Yeah. Period, So
that is our episode. That thenext one Indiana. I think so and
(51:00):
I a girl. It's some crimesin Indiana. That place is fucking weird.
Indiana is a fucking crime. Indianais the crime. Yeah. I
mean I lived as I'll bend fora little bit it I um. I
was born in the Midwest, shewas, I wasn't, but the Midwest
(51:20):
as a hellhole and you could notpay me to move back there. Honestly,
the only way you could get meto move back to the Midwest was
it we made it like a milliondollars a year, and then I would
have to suck at the fuck upbecause because you'd be able to travel wherever
you want. Exactly, if wemade a million dollars a year, I
would just not be there. I'dhave a second house, right, I
(51:42):
wanted to live like you would justbe gone. Period. So that is
our episode an Illinois, Illinois.Illinois is sorry. So as always,
remember to drink your water, rememberthat you are that bitch, you'll ever
be that bitch. And honestly,if you can just just avoid the Midwest,
(52:08):
just avoid the Midwest, just don'tgo and some of the salts.
Honestly, just avoid America. Yeah, America, if you can. It's
kind of ghetto, little a littlebit. She's a trailer park. She's
a trailer park girl. Go brownme outside, brought me outside, Get
(52:28):
the fuck out of town. GoodNight, guys, good night,
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