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Courtney (00:00):
Rob would have a fit
if he thought I did.
Hannah (00:02):
You should have been a
ballerina.
Those are beautiful feet.
Hey, thank you, I can get afeet finder.
Courtney (00:07):
Any takers, any takers
, okay.
Hannah (00:21):
Hi, I'm Hannah and I'm
Courtney.
Join us as we delve into truecrime, paranormal encounters and
all things spooky.
Courtney (00:27):
Grab your flashlight
and get ready to wander into the
darkness with us.
This is Wicked.
Hannah (00:35):
Wanderings.
Hi gordy, hi hannah, so we'regonna do one of your favorite
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things and we're gonna do theguessing game.
Courtney (00:59):
You said we're gonna
do one of your favorite things.
I was like, but I already reada book today.
The guessing game.
Okay, is there to be a categoryor do I just get like freebies,
like?
Hannah (01:09):
are you guessing like
town or a place or a person?
Courtney (01:12):
Yeah.
Hannah (01:13):
I can tell you.
Okay, it's kind of like, whatis it Mineral person?
When you do that guessing gameand you're like, is it mammal,
mineral or something else?
Courtney (01:31):
You never played that
game.
I don't know.
Hannah (01:32):
I was thinking it's like
guess who and I'm not very good
at that either.
Okay, animal, animal something,or mineral interplay, that no,
just guess who.
Okay, cool, I'm just gonna dosome reading.
You're trying to guess the townthe town.
Courtney (01:38):
Okay, yes okay.
Hannah (01:39):
Can a family be so
cursed they carry their dark
fortunes across an ocean to anentirely different continent?
And can the place they settleand absorb so much of their bad
blood that it forever affectsthe fates of those who live
there, even when they flee theplace forever?
Okay, some swear this canhappen and that such a place
actually exists.
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In the woods of this placethere lies a remote community
where unexplained orbs of lightswirl around the dark forest,
where residents go mad orsuccumb to violent and unnatural
deaths, and where even thelocal wildlife dares not go.
It's also called the Village ofthe Damned.
Okay, I will tell you, it's inthe US.
Courtney (02:17):
When you said fleeing,
I was like the Glauben
Reservoir, Because I just hatethe way that they did those
people so dirty.
That way, it's in the US andit's okay.
Okay, I'm going to keep going.
Okay, lynn from Springfield isyelling the answer right now.
Hannah (02:29):
I just know it, she's
like Courtney come on and Mark's
yelling it.
Courtney (02:33):
I can hear them.
Hannah (02:34):
The curse and the legend
begins in England in the year
1510, when King Henry VIIIordered Edmund Dudley to be
beheaded.
H ordered Edmund Dudley to bebeheaded, hint, hint.
The legend goes that at thetime of the beheading, all of
Dudley's residents were cursedfor his crimes, and one of his
descendants was William Dudley,born on June 8th 1639, aboard a
ship headed for America.
William's son, joseph, was bornin Saybrook on September 14th
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1674.
I mean, I want to just yellDudley.
Courtney (03:03):
It's close, dudley.
Hannah (03:08):
Dud, for I mean, I want
to just yell dudley, it's close,
deadly, deadem, dudlem, I'mjust guessing now.
It's a small hamlet filled withghostly tales, demons,
unexplained events and curses.
Today, the area looks much likeit did when it was first
settled 250 years ago a verythick forest and incredibly
rocky terrain in the shadow ofthree mountains bald mountain,
woodbury mountain and the coltsfoot triplets.
The dense, tall forest, whichwas given the ominous name of
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dark entry forest, and theshadows of the mountain ensured
that the village received littlesunlight.
All the remains of the hamletthat once stood there are cellar
holes and a few foundations.
The roads have become foresttrails.
Many people claim that thewoods are strangely silent.
The birds and bugs that singand call during a hike up to
don't follow into the village.
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Nope, okay, you got Dudley.
It's in New England.
Oh, I'm guessing the state too.
You don't have to guess thestate.
No, you want me to tell you thestate?
Courtney (03:58):
yeah, connecticut I
don't know man, I don't know
connecticut deadly town, deadlytown.
Okay, that would have madesense because you said it was a
town.
See, that's just.
But I had.
I can confidently say that if Ihad gotten that it would have
been on a pure guess, because Idon't know anything about that.
You did.
No, look at hannah's.
Like I'm gonna find somethingthat she knows about and then
she picks something that I don't.
If you don't know anythingabout this, next one, oh man me
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and you I don't know if we couldbe friends.
Hannah (04:22):
Oh boy, I'm about to get
kicked off, guys.
Courtney (04:24):
It's been great
knowing you okay this macabre
and infamous play.
Hannah (04:28):
Oh, by the way, we're
looking for, I guess, a house,
okay, okay.
This macabre and infamousplayground rhyme describes a
violent tragedy that befell anunassuming town in massachusetts
over 100 years ago.
It's a stanza repeated so oftenthat, even though most people
are familiar with it, they can'trecall the circumstances that
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prompted it or the playersinvolved.
And that's a darn shame,because, as murder mysteries go,
this one was a real humdinger,particularly for its time.
Was he borden house?
Courtney (05:03):
we can be friends man,
I was a little nervous there.
No, I just kept thinking abouthow my mom used to repeat it and
she never she would repeat it.
And then, I think a coupleyears ago, I was like, hey, mom,
do you know what that's about?
And she was like no, actually.
And that's when you said that Iwas like I'm confident that
this was the lizzie borden houseoh my god, okay, if the next
one yes, I am a gated, dirt roadis all that blocks the outside
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world from the eighth gate tohell what am I guessing?
Hannah (05:30):
whatever you want,
spider gate seminary I just had
that one in there she's tryingto make me sound.
Courtney (05:36):
Good guys, I got two
out of three.
I'll settle for at least 50% ofhowever many we do, so I'm
hoping I can keep this up.
Okay, is this weird US or weirdMassachusetts?
Weird.
Hannah (05:47):
US.
Courtney (05:47):
That's why I'm going
to suck at these.
Hannah (05:50):
Yeah, but I'm doing all
New England so far actually.
Courtney (05:53):
It's because if you
get out of New England, I'm not
going to know the answer.
Hannah (05:56):
I mean, honestly, in New
England we have a lot of weird
shit.
Ooh, okay, you ready.
Yes, okay, so you're.
It has to be in a same asylum.
Courtney (06:06):
Okay.
Hannah (06:07):
After three years in
Louisville, I'm starting to
learn a few things about weirdKentucky.
One of the famous local sitesis blank.
It was a tuberculosis hospitalat the beginning of the 20th
century and later a mentalhospital.
The building has been abandonedsince 1980 or so.
During the Halloween seasonthey hold haunted tours there
and I have heard many mediapeople tell stories of how their
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equipment stops working or theyhave other strange experiences
Transverse or traverse Nope,they say things like I'm going
to the other Halloween hauntedhouses.
You know they are just theater.
This one is for real.
Courtney (06:42):
Ooh, I start with a W
In Kentucky.
Uh-huh, it's not Western.
I don't think I know Kentucky.
Hannah (06:50):
Waverly Hills.
Courtney (06:53):
I don't think I know
that one, no way.
Maybe I've heard it in passing,but it's definitely not one
I've researched or read about.
Hannah (06:59):
Maybe I could you know,
I think we need to switch roles
at some point, because oh you,oh, give me one more, and then
we're switching.
Courtney (07:07):
Oh, okay, all right,
let's, we can do two episodes,
let's do it, okay, and then wecould switch, and then we could
do it that way.
So we have three again.
Hannah (07:17):
This is so weird.
Courtney (07:18):
I'm just trying to
make sure, this thing is like
sharing the thing I'm asking itto.
Hannah (07:23):
Pressure, pressure,
let's do.
I wish I had the Massachusettsone, because I think my brother
has one I think I have theMassachusetts one.
Okay, how about this?
These strange creatures havebeen spotted in many locals,
locales, locales, yeah, often insouthern Atlantic states with
their low-lying roads that crossthrough swamps, swamp people.
Sorry, you're looking for abeast of some sort.
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I should have started with that.
I apologize, it's Kenzie,kenzie.
Courtney (07:49):
She just ran by.
Hannah (07:51):
Oh she did.
She like checks in once in awhile.
If one didn't know better,they'd see Bishopville, south
Carolina, as just another smallsouthern town surrounded by
swamps.
But what happened there onesummer 15 years ago made the
sleepy place rife with frenzyand fear Cue them.
In 1988, the eyes of the worldfocused on Bishopville in hopes
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of catching a glimpse of themysterious and dangerous blank.
The sensation began in June when17-year-old Christopher Davis
was on his way home from workingthe late shift at McDonald's.
As he drove along the outskirtsof town, along the border of
Scape or Swamp, a tire blew out.
It was already approaching 2 inthe morning and the exhausted
teenager simply wanted to gohome and go to bed.
The events that occurred asChris labored to change his tire
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would make it difficult for theyoung man to ever sleep soundly
again.
Suddenly, to change his tirewould make it difficult for the
young man to ever sleep soundlyagain.
Suddenly, chris heard a loudthump in a bean field across the
street from his disabled car.
A few days later, davisdescribed his experience this
way to the AP wire services, andI quote and here I am quoting I
looked back and saw somethingrunning across the field towards
me.
It was about 25 yards away and Isaw red eyes glowing
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Skinwalkers Nope, zombies, nope.
Eyes glowing Skinwalkers Nope,zombies, nope.
I ran to the car and as Ilocked it, the thing grabbed the
door handle.
I could see him from the neckdown the three big fingers, long
black nails and green roughskin.
Frankenstein it's not the LochNess Monster, nope, it was
strong and angry.
I looked into my mirror and sawa blur of green running.
I could see his toes and thenhe jumped on the roof of my car.
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I'm sorry, I'm very distracted.
His toes Yep.
I thought I heard a grunt, andthen I could see his fingers
through the front windshieldwhere they curled around on the
roof.
I sped up and swerved to shakethe creature off.
It starts with an L.
Courtney (09:30):
Lizard people, lizard
man, I got it.
It's the lizard man, I got it.
Hannah (09:34):
Yay, I got it.
It's the lizard men.
I got it.
Yay, I just had to slurp at you, woohoo.
Courtney (09:40):
Lizard people.
It took me a while.
I think I might need to getlike a handicap or something.
I feel like I really don't havea good time with this.
I mean, I have a good timedoing it, but I'm not good at it
.
I'm not good at it at all.
Hannah (09:55):
Maybe it's not your
fortune.
I mean girl, we're gonna see.
Courtney (09:57):
Now I probably suck
we're gonna flip the script here
a little bit.
All right, courtney, what afine night.
Courtney, I'm picking a card bymyself.
Pick a card, any card, courtney.
Okay, courtney, I'm picking acard.
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You can't do that I have abreast lump.
I picked the nine of hearts areyou sure it's a heart?
Hannah (10:29):
I'm gonna show you a
fist in a minute.
I picked the nine of hearts.
Are you sure it's a?
Courtney (10:32):
heart.
I'm gonna show you a fist in aminute.
I picked the nine of hearts andit is mr christopher white.
On july 14th 2006, the firedepartment responded to a house
fire at 242 haywood street inbraintree.
Oh, the victim was found insidehis bedroom and had been
stabbed.
If you have any informationabout this case, please call
1-855-MA-SOLVE.
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That is so sad and almost for aminute I was like okay, it's
very sad, it was a house fireand they just like buried the
lead, they were like, and he wasstabbed and that's just Right,
a cover-up, yeah, and Braintreeis so close to like the Boston
area.
Hannah (11:08):
I feel like this is
where a lot of these are.
Courtney (11:09):
We've had a few
Springfields.
It's feeling very Karen Reid tome.
Karen Reid, dude, that's awhole different episode.
Hannah (11:19):
Bye Wanderers.
Courtney (11:20):
Bye.
Hannah (11:28):
Thanks for listening
today.
Wicked Wanderings is hosted byme, hannah, and co-hosted by me,
courtney, and it's produced byRob Fitzpatrick.
Music by Sasha M.
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