September 3, 2025 • 39 mins
Join us as we explore the eerie world of abandoned amusement parks, where once-vibrant attractions now stand as decaying monuments to forgotten joy and lingering spirits.
• Mountain Park in Holyoke, Massachusetts operated from the late 1800s until the mid-1980s with visitors reporting phantom carnival music and shadowy figures
• Lincoln Park in Dartmouth, Massachusetts closed after a roller coaster accident with the tracks still standing like skeletal remains
• Six Flags New Orleans was abandoned immediately after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, leaving everything frozen in time
• Lake Shawnee Amusement Park in West Virginia was built on Native American burial grounds and experienced numerous tragic deaths
• Spree Park in Berlin features rotting swan boats and dinosaur statues with reports of the Ferris wheel turning on its own
• Aqpo Land in South Korea contains a duck-themed ride frozen mid-loop where a child died
• Heritage USA was a Christian-themed park that fell into ruin after scandals and a hurricane
• Pripyat Amusement Park in Chernobyl never officially opened before the nuclear disaster
If you're interested in horror movies, check out "It Feeds" starring Ashley Greene from Twilight, rated 4/5 overall with a 4.5/5 for gore and body horror content.
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Hannah (00:00):
You're making it so awkward.
Rob Fitz (00:02):
Why I'm not doing anything.
Hannah (00:04):
No, because usually me and Courtney are like.
I feel like he's got a timeclock, so yeah.
Courtney (00:08):
You know what I picture when you're at some
place and they have that visualtimer where it's like counting
down the minutes to the nexttransition.
Oh yeah, like with the red part.
Hannah (00:16):
Yes, kids love those clocks.
Brett (00:18):
Those are good clocks.
Courtney (00:19):
I bought one at the thrift store.
Brett (00:23):
Okay.
Hannah (00:33):
Hi, I'm Hannah and I'm Courtney.
Join us as we delve into truecrime, paranormal encounters and
all things spooky.
Courtney (00:40):
Grab your flashlight and get ready to wander into the
darkness with us.
Brett (00:46):
This is Wicked.
Hannah (00:47):
Wanderings Hello Courtney, hi Hannah, and we have
a, I guess, special guest,because you're never here
(01:09):
anymore.
Hello Rob, hello.
Courtney (01:13):
What a warm welcome.
I felt the warmth on this sideof the room.
Rob Fitz (01:17):
From me or from Hannah ?
Both oh, both is good.
Hannah (01:21):
So, wanderers, we are going to be talking about spooky
, abandoned and weird amusementparks Courtney's favorite
because they have clowns.
Brett (01:31):
Yeah.
Courtney (01:31):
The minute I heard about what the topic was, I was
like oh, come on.
Hannah (01:35):
Courtney loves the clowns.
Courtney (01:38):
I'm feeling the tears welling up in my eyes about
clowns, but I'm going to justtry to not repeat, definitely
not about clowns.
I'm going to try to come upwith creative input that doesn't
have to do with clowns.
Hannah (01:50):
Amusement parks are supposed to be timeless.
Brett (01:52):
Yeah.
Hannah (01:53):
Right.
They're built for joy,happiness, rides spinning around
.
Rob Fitz (01:59):
We got a local one.
We got a local one right here.
Six Flags used to be RiversidePark.
Hannah (02:04):
I think Six Flags is actually on the list.
I mean not the.
Rob Fitz (02:07):
Agawam one, not the Agawam one you ever been to Six
Flags or Riverside.
Courtney (02:12):
A long time ago.
I'm beyond just not likingclowns.
I don't like rides.
I don't like crowds.
I don't like loud noises.
Hannah (02:24):
My ADHD shows Got a lot of sensory stuff going on.
So when we are in amusementparks we always smell things too
Like, even if you go to the BigE popcorn, right yeah, fried
dough.
Brett (02:36):
Cotton candy.
Hannah (02:37):
Cotton candy Hot dogs Right Stinky BO people.
And then there's that, yesdefinitely.
So when the rides stop right,they rust, they're not usable
anymore.
The paint peels off, the gatesare locked.
That's when the ghosts move in.
(02:57):
And today we're going to wanderthrough the shadows of
abandoned amusement parks.
So the first one is going to bemountain park in holyoke mass
very close to us is that the onethat was on mount tom mount tom
.
Courtney (03:15):
Yes oh, I have some good pictures I can share with
the wanderers of mount tom fromskiing uh no, from a picture of
the abandoned amusement park.
That was, oh okay.
Rob Fitz (03:22):
Oh okay, I used to ski there when I was a wee little
tyke, when it was still a MountTom ski place resort Rob's
dating himself.
Courtney (03:30):
Yeah, I know.
Hannah (03:32):
They do have the abandoned chairlift up there.
Courtney (03:34):
They did the last time I was there.
Rob Fitz (03:35):
Mm-hmm, I don't remember seeing that During
COVID we actually hiked up MountTom yeah.
God, that's brutal and we sawthe old wave pool.
Courtney (03:44):
They used to have.
There's an old quarry up theretoo.
The quarry is a little.
You have to be careful if youever visit the quarry, because
it's you could easily fall orslip it's not stable, yeah yeah
so mountain park in holland,massachusetts.
Hannah (03:57):
It opened in the late 1800s.
It was the shining jewel of thepioneer valley and families
would take the trolley up themountain for roller coasters,
concerts and even ballroomdances which I didn't know, but
by the mid-1980s the rides wereshutting down, the laughter
faded and nature reclaimed theMidway, which makes sense for
you if you were up there at thattime.
(04:18):
Do you remember seeing theamusement park?
Rob Fitz (04:19):
I don't think the amusement park was open when it
was skiing.
Courtney (04:23):
still, I don't know the the crossover, I believe
amusement park had closed down,and then, when nature started to
reclaim the area, that's whenthey were changing it into.
I could be speaking completelyincorrectly but, that's the way
it looks, even when you look atin the early 2020s, when you're
looking at kind of how thingswere abandoned.
It looked like the other stuffwas older than music.
Rob Fitz (04:44):
So the Mount Tomski area opened in either 1960 or
1962, with most sources citing1960 at the first season, others
stating 1962 as the opening, soearly 60s.
Courtney (04:56):
Yeah, it didn't have a terribly long run, it was only
a couple of decades.
Rob Fitz (05:00):
And then it closed in 97, 98 season.
Hannah (05:04):
So, but still hikers today who wandered to the
grounds, like me and Rob.
They report strange experiences.
Now, I think we were veryfocused on being socially
distant when we did it in 2020and not being near people and
whatever, but apparently there'ssome strange experiences people
have.
They say they hear the distantsound of carnival organs echoing
through the fog.
Others swear they they seenshadowy figures moving in the
(05:27):
mist where the rides once stood,always just far enough away to
make you doubt your own eyes,which of course, that always
seems to happen, but interestingI would say so over by where
the wave pool was.
Courtney (05:39):
It was probably so the lodge caught on fire before I
remember you telling me aboutthat so when I had gone last,
you could go into the lodge, andso it was like the lodge was on
your left, you're facing thewave pool, and there was like a
mini golf kind of building offto the right and I distinctly I
had gone up there about threedifferent times and one time I
did have my friend tina.
(06:00):
Uh, hannah, you've met tina.
She was like, oh, I'm gonna,can you take my picture?
I'm going to stand over here.
And she took off ahead of me,as Tina does when we go anywhere
Balls, tina, yes, the balls,yes, yes.
Balls, tina, yes.
And she kept wandering and Ijust remember it being dark and
she would go left and I feltlike I was going of mirrors.
(06:29):
I kept swearing, I was seeingher over here, but then she was
over there.
Interesting it was a veryinteresting building.
Hannah (06:32):
I'm gonna have to look back and see if I have pictures
of that still, because thatbuilding was odd.
It was a very odd building,love it.
Number two is lincoln park indartmouth, massachusetts, and it
closed after a roller coasteraccident in the 1980s.
Explorers claim they still hearthe screams of riders near the
skeleton of the old coaster.
Even now the rusty tracks justhave the trees like the bones of
some long-dead creature.
Courtney (06:53):
I don't think I've ever heard of that one?
I haven't either.
Rob Fitz (06:56):
So the roller coasters are still up.
Courtney (06:59):
Apparently, the tracks a lot of times are up at
abandoned amusement parks butthe coaster itself, like the
mechanical piece, I think theyreused that probably.
Okay, the tracks a lot of timesare up at abandoned amusement
parks but the coaster itself,like the mechanical piece, I
think they reuse that probablyokay because the tracks they've
been in the weather they'reprobably not worth very much.
I mean scrap metal, but who'sgonna go up there and cut them
down?
Hannah (07:14):
they don't make coasters like they used to like they
used to be wooden, all wooden,and then six flags.
In agawam used to have some.
I don't know if they have anywooden ones anymore, so they had
two.
Rob Fitz (07:23):
Yeah, they had two like original ones yeah, the
cyclone, and uh, I can'tremember the other one I don't
think they're there anymore,though, or they've upgraded them
they've upgraded them.
They're metal, but they'restill the same track but that
doesn't matter, I don't know.
Courtney (07:38):
The idea of wood kind of freaks me out a little bit,
because you have to think aboutthat, the weather, the elements,
breaks it rots it's, it's notreally a great material to build
something that's going to holdweight on top of it?
No, no, probably not they justlook sketchy up there, they just
, you know, there's just thesebeams to nowhere and I'm afraid
of heights also.
So carnivals and me where wedon't get along well third one
(08:01):
is six flags, new orleans, ohyeah, that one I knew about well
, do you have anything you wantto say before?
I have friends who have gone tonew orleans just to break in and
get pictures.
What if I can remember whichfriend it was who went there?
Hannah (08:18):
I will ask him if we can use some of his pictures
excellent so farther south, wehave six New Orleans, and it was
left for dead after HurricaneKatrina in 2005.
Everything was abandoned inplace Roller coasters, rust,
clown faces, concession standsand urban explorers swear.
They see movement in theshadows carousel horses shifting
(08:39):
slightly, clown heads turningwhen no one is looking and the
park feels less abandoned andmore in awaiting you said 2005,
I mean that was 20 years ago now, wow but that still makes sense
though, because, if you thinkabout it, a lot of places like
mount tom they abandoned it withsome understanding that they
were going to abandon it.
Rob Fitz (08:59):
They closed up.
They're like okay we're alldone.
Courtney (09:01):
We went bankrupt, whatever the situation was.
When you're talking a naturaldisaster, it's just left.
It's even more haunting.
I would imagine becauseeverything is left exactly the
way it was, and it's like it'swaiting for you to come back and
you're not going to thisactually reminds me of the
horror book that I read.
Rob Fitz (09:19):
Great, it's gonna be about clones and no, and what
was this book called?
Hannah (09:23):
Okay, it was called Fantastic Land.
It's by Mike Bokovan, but Iread it last year.
Actually, I listened and readbecause the audiobook was
fantastic, and it was about howthere was an amusement park I
believe it was in Florida,though and there was a hurricane
coming through and they triedto get everybody off of the park
(09:43):
, but they couldn't geteverybody, like all the workers.
So it ended up being like,until they could, like the help
could get to them, like theybasically built their own
society of like right and wrong,and they had groupings together
that were against each other,kind of like very apocalyptic,
like cults on this one property.
Rob Fitz (10:03):
So there was killings that happened this is a fiction
book yeah, yeah, yeah yeah itwas a horror.
Courtney (10:08):
You said right was the genre.
Yeah, it was sounds like thepurge a little bit, but like
mixed with the walking dead.
Hannah (10:15):
If you listen to the audiobook, which I recommend, it
basically was the interviewsafter the event, so they
interviewed everybody that wasat the park that was still alive
.
Courtney (10:29):
That's such an interesting perspective for a
book.
I feel like everybody who'swriting books right now is doing
multiple POVs and that's theway that they're structuring the
whole book, or they're doingmultiple timelines.
So they're flashing between twotimelines, but you rarely hear
of a book that masters beingable to go through interview or
recollection.
Hannah (10:43):
Yeah, it was.
I highly recommend.
But anyways, that kind ofreminded me of that amusement
park.
Courtney (10:48):
Give me the clown scale here, one being there's
some clowns but it's livable,and 10 being nope, just don't do
it.
Hannah (10:52):
No, I don't think there was any clowns.
I don't remember Goodness abook about carnivals I can read.
You might actually really likeit.
No-transcript.
(11:13):
So built over a Native Americanburial ground, oh, this was
just a recipe for disaster.
It quickly gained a reputationfor accidents and deaths, from
drownings in the lake to a childkilled on the swings.
Actually, I think I watched aghost.
I wasn't Ghost Avengers, Ithink it was Kindred Spirits,
but they did an episode on thisone because I remember them
talking about the NativeAmerican burial grounds and
(11:33):
there was a child killed on theswings.
Courtney (11:35):
We're just going to call it back from our last
episodes here.
Why American Burial Grounds andthere was a child killing
swings?
We're just going to call itback from our last episodes here
.
Why are we allowed to buildthings on Native American burial
grounds?
I know Where's.
Hannah (11:43):
Johnny.
Today it's considered one ofthe most haunted amusement parks
in America.
Visitors talk about swings thatmove on their own, which they
had happen Laughter driftingacross the ground.
So they had laughter.
I remember with the swing, Ibelieve, because they asked a
little girl if she wanted toplay and some things happened
and the unmistakable feeling ofbeing watched, which, of course,
you're on native land.
Courtney (12:03):
Why wouldn't you?
Brett (12:03):
be, watched.
Courtney (12:04):
I feel like most places, if you're in tune with
the spirit world and alone,you're going to feel like you're
being watched.
Hannah (12:09):
And Rob, I think you are in tune with the spirit world.
Brett (12:13):
Am I I believe you are, hmm I, I mean, I envy your gift.
Rob Fitz (12:19):
I think it can be used in certain ways I haven't woken
up in the middle of the nightto see anything recently
recently great now tonight'sgonna be the night do you?
Courtney (12:30):
find that there's a time that you usually wake up,
because that happens to me andI've had had a lot of, not so
much where I'm living now butwhere I lived previously and
I've talked about in otherepisodes.
I've had things happen and it'salways between three and three
30 AM.
Rob Fitz (12:46):
The witching hour, absolutely I don't have a time,
but I did take a nap a couplemonths ago and I did wake up and
I thought I saw a spider on thewall, but it was during the day
.
Hannah (12:56):
Yep, I was watching TV and you're like I'm going to
take a quick nap.
It was like a Saturday orSunday and you took a quick nap
and I was watching a show and hejust bolts out of bed.
I'm like, are you okay?
He's like you don't see that.
I'm like, see what?
And he's like you don't see.
You're looking for Spider-Manor something.
Yeah, he's like it's huge.
(13:17):
I'm like, no, honey, I don'tsee anything.
Courtney (13:21):
Well, some people, I think, try too hard and I feel
like spirits don't want to showthemselves to you.
I mean, that's how I would beif I was walking around haunting
the world.
Somebody was out here, likewith their ghost box, trying to
get me to talk to them.
Brett (13:46):
I'd be like like jokes on you.
Hannah (13:46):
I'm gonna go prank the guy next door.
Seems like a lot more fun.
We have had no luck with theghost box.
Did you bring it to your?
Uh salem, I did.
We did not use it.
It wasn't the right vibe forwhere we were.
It really wasn't.
I think if we had time to go tolike a graveyard or something,
then maybe, but just yeah, justdidn't we need a day trip for
that, I think.
Courtney (13:57):
I think we should plan like purposely that's what
we're doing, yeah even if westay overnight.
But we do it like strategically, because technically you could
even do like a thursday into afriday yeah.
Hannah (14:09):
Next one is rocky point park in warwick.
Rhode island entertainedfamilies for more than a century
before closing in the 90s.
Wow, the midway is gone now,but people still swear the
grounds aren't empty.
Some say they hear screams fromthe scrambler ride that once
stood there scrambler yeah, thatsounds fun oh that sounds
dizzying.
Courtney (14:27):
No, thank you it's kind of like the flying bobs, I
think flying bobs where they goand like the bobsleds what?
Sometimes I say things fromberkshire county and it never
strikes me as weird untileveryone in the room looks at me
like they just did.
I'm gonna google flying bobsand y'all are gonna understand
that I'm not cray cray, I meanteacups, I think I'm about to
call brett and be like brett.
(14:48):
Yo brett flying bobs you know.
Rob Fitz (14:51):
If you know what a flying bob is, text us.
Hannah (14:54):
The link is down in in the notes call brett honestly,
and I'm just gonna read thisflying motherfucking bobs,
motherfucking, motherfuckingyou're gonna have to post that
on the instagram flying bob.
I still think you're making itup.
Others report smelling popcornand saltwater drifting on the
breeze long after the rides weretorn down.
Courtney (15:17):
Oh, I have to call his correct number.
That would be.
Imagine I call a random personfrom North Adams Like yeah, I
know the Flying Babs.
Hannah (15:26):
Hey how you doing.
Rob Fitz (15:27):
Hey, what's going on?
You're on the Wicked Wanderingspodcast.
Hello.
Courtney (15:31):
Hello, I have to ask you a question, and don't ask me
why.
Just answer me, okay.
Brett (15:37):
Oh, I love this game.
Courtney (15:43):
Okay, so there's a ride that I'm picturing at the
carnival in North Adams right,and it went in circles and it
was called the Flying what.
Okay, what was it?
It was the Flying Bobs right.
Brett (15:52):
Was it Flying Bob Sled?
Courtney (15:53):
Yeah, but it was called Flying Bobs, but it was a
bobsled.
Brett (15:56):
Yeah, but it was called Flying Bobs, but it was a
bobsled, yeah, and it kind of itwent in a circle like a
merry-go-round or a carousel andlike up and down it had like,
it had like dips.
Yes it went in a circle butlike up and down, like it would
on, like a ski trail, like aregular roller coaster, except
it went in a circle.
Hannah (16:15):
Oh my God, hi Brett there, except it went in a
circle.
Courtney (16:16):
Oh my god, hi brett, so this was at a carnival yeah,
there was a traveling carnivalthat came to north adams every
year and it was called theflying bob wasn't it in like the
price chopper parking lot?
Brett (16:28):
yeah, north adams is kind of ghetto y'all I'm trying to
think of where it was, becauseit was bigger than that, but
wait, where was it?
Courtney (16:35):
the ad Aggie Fairgrounds?
Right on Kern Highway.
Brett (16:38):
They didn't have too many rides, though it had to have
been Price Chopper.
Courtney (16:42):
Because Price Chopper closed and that's when they used
the parking lot.
Brett (16:46):
Was it near Lanesboro somewhere?
Courtney (16:47):
Well, I think they had it at the Dalton Carnival too.
Brett (16:50):
Oh, maybe it was that one .
No, because they had it inNorth Adams, it was at the mall.
Courtney (16:54):
There's no mall in North Adams no but there's a
mall in Lanesboro.
Brett (16:58):
That's what I mean.
Like was it in the mall.
It was close because like Iwent to it, Like I drove with
like friends when I was older.
Courtney (17:06):
So you remember it though right, Because we're,
we're, you're on the podcastright now.
Hannah (17:12):
You're going through the soundboard.
By the way, I miss my life, heypeople of the internet.
Courtney (17:16):
I was sitting here and we were talking about we're
doing an episode on hauntedamusement parks and I was like
yeah, like the flying bobs androb and hannah both looked at me
like I was absolutely crackedin the head and I was like no,
it's a thing, guys, it's aberkshire county thing I'm like
what the fuck are you talking?
Brett (17:31):
about yeah I brought it up the thing you sit in is looks
like a bobsled and it had likepainted icicles or something.
Yes, it was blue, yeah, it wasblue and white, and it said,
like the flying bobs, and it hadbobsleds and it just went in a
circle and it kind of like.
It was like it went uphill andthen went back down and it kept
doing that.
Hannah (17:50):
So you guys not only have flying bobsleds, you guys
have dragons.
So we all know now that that'swhere everything is pretty much.
Courtney (17:58):
I'm just glad that somebody else knew what I was
talking about, because I said itand got looked at like I had 12
heads no, it's definitely,definitely real.
Brett (18:07):
I'm smoking a bowl, so pardon my language it's fine.
Courtney (18:10):
She's like I'm calling brian, we're all just having a
beer doing our recording and Iwas like I'm gonna call brett,
so we hooked you up through thesoundboard.
If you want to hang out for afew minutes and listen to the
rest of Hannah's list, you'remore than welcome to.
Rob Fitz (18:22):
Well, Brett, since you're smoking a bowl, I'm on my
way.
Brett (18:25):
Oh, all right, Don't tell me twice Spicy.
Rob Fitz (18:34):
No, I'm not serious, I'm not coming.
That's a long drive.
Courtney (18:37):
Well, you're fired, you're fired, fired, fired
Immediately.
Hannah (18:42):
So do you want to stay on for the next one?
Brett (18:44):
I would.
I have to go cook food.
Courtney (18:48):
Oh, wow, boring.
Okay, but we will reach out toyou to schedule you to be on an
episode because we need you tobe a guest.
Rob Fitz (18:54):
Yes, definitely.
Courtney (18:57):
Oh, make it something gay.
Do you want to do your ownhaunted gay episode?
Oh yeah, you absolutely can.
Brett (19:00):
Oh, no, no.
Courtney (19:02):
Okay, well then, text me a list of ideas and we'll put
something together and have youon for commentary.
Rob Fitz (19:07):
Tell it hubbies, and you don't even have to come to
the studio.
We can do it right on yourphone.
Courtney (19:14):
Or we could have him come out and he could just stay
at my house.
Brett (19:16):
Oh yes, yes definitely.
Hannah (19:18):
Let's do it.
I'm down.
Brett (19:21):
Turn me a limo and I'll be ready in five minutes, all
right.
Courtney (19:24):
Well, thank you for backing me up on the North Adams
culture that everybody elseneeded today.
Brett (19:28):
Have fun smoking your bowl we love you.
Kisses.
North Adams is a scary place.
Hannah (19:32):
Love you guys bye, bye, bye, brett.
Oh my god, he's such a greatvibe.
I love him.
Oh, bye, alright, next one,wanderers.
After that, lovely talk withBrad.
I love it.
Courtney (19:46):
No, don't be sorry, that's awesome I had to be
checked on it and the fact thathe described it to a T from the
picture I just showed you, I waslike it's cause he's smoking a
bowl.
Hannah (19:54):
He's not smart enough to google it right now.
I love it so much.
We're in spree park, berlin,germany everybody, we're out the
country.
I told you we were going farwe're out across the ocean
across the pond yes, spree parklooks like a horror movie set
I'm intrigued, let's go swanboats rot in the weeds, dinosaur
(20:16):
statues collapse into the mudand the Ferris wheel still
creaks slowly in the wind.
This is very dramatic Explorershave heard whispers in the dark
tunnels and phantom footstepspacing the grounds.
The eerie grinding of theFerris wheel turning on its own
has been recorded more than once.
Ooh, so the Ferris wheel'sstill up.
Brett (20:36):
Mm.
Hannah (20:37):
Kind of like once.
Brett (20:37):
Ooh, so the Ferris wheel's still up, mm Kind of
like that, mm.
Hannah (20:40):
Next is Aqpo Land in South Korea.
Brett (20:44):
Ooh.
Hannah (20:45):
Oh God, guys, I'm sorry for language here.
On Gyoje Island in South Korea,Aqpo Land once bustled with
families, but after a series ofaccidents in the 90s, including
the death of a child on a duckthemed ride why is it always a
child?
The park shut down overnight.
The duck car where the accidenthappened was left in place,
frozen mid-loop, for years ohlocals whispered that the
(21:08):
child's spirit haunted the ride,waiting endlessly for the day
it would start again.
I mean that's so sad oh my god,yikes.
Rob Fitz (21:16):
so growing my family.
We had timeshare in Florida.
My parents still have timesharein Florida, in Orlando and
Kissimmee, which is right nextto Orlando, and we used to get a
free day pass to a water park.
It wasn't wet and wild, it wascalled something else.
(21:36):
It was smaller, but they hadthis wave pool and they didn't
like limit the amount of peoplewere in there and there was uh,
you could only go in there ifyou had a tube and unfortunately
, one of the days we were thereone of the kids slipped through
the tube and he wasn't able toget up because of all the tubes
(21:57):
and he ended up drowning, oh mygod, and I will remember that
for the rest of my life
Courtney (22:02):
yeah, yeah, oh oh my god, yeah scary, very scary,
very scary, that's why there'sthings like limits on them and I
want to say, when I had gone acouple of times to places that
had wave pools, there was likeyou were not allowed to bring a
tube in.
You're not allowed to bring a,a noodle or anything other than
like swimmies on children yeahyou were not allowed to bring
any floats, which I alwaysimagined was for that reason
(22:24):
that's scary, I'll have to textmy parents and ask them what the
uh I hope it wasn't wildbecause I feel bad.
But wet and wild just soundslike a wet t-shirt contest
waiting to happen.
Rob Fitz (22:35):
No, wet and wild was a bigger park, this one was a
smaller one.
Let's see, so it wasn'taffiliated with disney so the
water park that we used to go toyeah, the name was water mania-
ah, water mania, that's abetter name yes a better name
yeah, it wasn't wet and wild,that was a bigger one next we
(22:57):
have heritage usa in southcarolina oh, I think I've heard
of this one not all amusementparks were about thrills.
Hannah (23:03):
Heritage usa in south carolina was a massive christian
themed park.
Well, there's your problem oh,and you never heard of this one
I mean my mom didn't likeamusement parks to begin with,
like even when my parents weredivorced.
My father, if he had freetickets because whatever um, and
we would go to six flags,agawarm and we had to walk
because, the bastard was sofucking cheap was it six flags?
Rob Fitz (23:25):
yet?
Yeah, it wasn't.
It wasn't riverside, nope, itwas six flags.
Hannah (23:29):
We had to walk through the woods um, that's another
story.
Everybody um, where was?
I was, oh, yeah.
So my mom hated six flags,slash riverside.
She hated it.
So I'm not surprised that shewasn't like oh, is that my kids
here?
Rob Fitz (23:42):
I should know about that so it was, would you guys
walk through the woods and getin for free?
Hannah (23:48):
we would walk, so he didn't have to pay to park ah
but he would have tickets for usto get in free, or at least a
couple of us to get in free doyou know how much parking is now
at Six Flags?
Rob Fitz (23:59):
No, so I was driving past it a couple of weeks ago
this was just before thebachelor party and I was just
picking up some nicotineproducts in Connecticut because
it's cheaper, anyway.
So I was driving past Six Flagsand I saw people holding signs
out like $10, $15, $20 to parkand I was like what are they
(24:23):
parking for?
$20.
What?
And so I Googled how muchparking is.
How much?
Do you think?
It is?
Probably like 40 bucks, $75 topark inside Six Flags.
Courtney (24:38):
That's insane.
So I'm always surprised, likeokay, so we go to the Big E, we
talk about that on the podcastall the time.
Part of going to the Big E isthat the big e hosts it, but
they're renting out their spacekind of to all these vendors too
, right right.
So I understand why when we goto the big e, we pay an entry
fee, which is not that expensivein my opinion.
No, it's not, I agree.
(24:59):
I also feel like paying to parkon their property is also not
unheard of, because when youcombine those two together,
you're still under the 75 topark.
Rob Fitz (25:07):
It's oh, 100, absolutely.
It's 20 for a ticket to go tothe Big E and if you park on
property it's $5.
Right, it's more expensive topark at the houses or the
businesses around the Big E.
Courtney (25:18):
They're just closer usually.
Sometimes.
Rob Fitz (25:21):
Less traffic to get in and out.
Courtney (25:23):
I don't think places should be able to charge you an
entry fee into their facilityand parking.
I feel like, especially for aplace.
I mean mean, maybe if you're inboston or york city where
there's not any parking, but fora place like six flags that has
ample parking.
Hannah (25:36):
They have a huge parking lot but if you have a season
pass, is it still that expensive?
They?
Courtney (25:40):
probably sell you a parking pass for the season too
and make double the money yeah,exactly, it's insane to me.
Does anybody know if disneyland, if you have to pay to park out
?
Rob Fitz (25:48):
I'm really intrigued about that I think you do at all
theme parks.
You have to pay to park out.
I'm really intrigued about that.
I think you do All theme parks.
You have to pay to park.
But that's why.
Courtney (25:53):
That's probably why it's cheaper for families to
stay there in a Disney parkresort so they can just take the
shuttle in right and so whenyou get to the parks without
having to park, it's been solong since I've been to an
amusement park I can't evenremember how, because my dad
would take us but it's been solong Because, if you go to a
carnival right the carnival'sbrand I were just talking about
(26:13):
you paid your $5 to get in orwhatever, and then your tickets
for the ride, but nobody chargedyou to park.
When you got there you had towalk up to the ticket booth and
pay them.
I feel like parking is like howdo you expect your guests to
get here if they can't park.
Rob Fitz (26:25):
Yeah, exactly when I go to the grocery store.
Hannah (26:27):
I don't pay them to go into big y to buy my products,
yeah if we were ever going to godisney world again, I would
stay on resort or somewhere.
That was like okay, you park atour resort and we'll shuttle
you in like that or take an uberdefinitely a parked.
Courtney (26:40):
Yeah, and I'm sure uber does a ton of business
because of that too.
Yeah, it's just something I'vealways thought about that I'm
like that's so weird evenconcerts, if you think about you
go, you pay your ticket andunless there's no parking on the
venue, then you don't pay topark or if you pay for your
ticket, that's guaranteedparking right.
Hannah (26:57):
Like that's just silly to me um where did we go with
this?
Oh yeah, so we were talkingabout heritage, usa in south
carolina, which was the massivechristian themed park and resort
created by televangelist jimand tammy faye baker bacher you
ever heard of them?
No, in your christian childhoodso I'm sure my grandparents
(27:20):
probably know them.
So after scandals, of course,this could be a scandal with a
christianism mark yes,christians in the 90s scandals
god, sorry guys, feelings afterscandals.
In a hurricane it fell intoruin good I was a hurricane
scandals and a hurricane yes
Courtney (27:39):
the scandals were the pertinent part.
Hannah (27:40):
Oh, yeah, definitely today, explorers report hearing
church bells tolling where nobells remain and faint hymns
echoing from the amphitheater,as if a service is still being
held in the empty air.
Brett (27:52):
Wow.
Courtney (27:53):
I sometimes wonder if people create those kinds of
things themselves.
Hannah (27:56):
Oh, 100% Knowing what it is.
Courtney (27:58):
Because there's certain places, like hospitals
and churches, that have acertain Right.
Hannah (28:01):
You hear like the beeping or the crying out.
Courtney (28:04):
Psychology is very impressive.
You can tell yourself oh, we'reat a church, oh, do you hear
the bell?
And you will hear the bell.
Hannah (28:11):
Yep, now we're next to Daddy Park in Belgium.
Ooh so Daddy Park in Belgium isa small family amusement park
with outdated, dangerous rides.
It shut down after a string oftragic accidents Of course it's
always a freaking accident.
Courtney (28:25):
I'm really curious about why they named it that.
Hannah (28:27):
So it's D-A-D-I-P-A-R-K.
Rob Fitz (28:32):
Dottypuck.
Hannah (28:33):
Dottypuck.
Now locals report children'slaughter echoing through the
abandoned playgrounds andshadowy figures darting between
crumbling slides and swings.
Courtney (28:46):
The place built for joy has become a playground for
ghosts that one gives me theheebie-jeebies.
Rob Fitz (28:49):
I don't know what it is about that last one?
That's just like they speakGerman in Belgium, right?
Or is it French?
Know what it is about that lastone?
That's just like they speakgerman in belgium?
Right?
Or is it french?
Or do they speak?
Or is it dutch?
Courtney (28:56):
no, it's not dutch.
Rob Fitz (28:57):
It might depend on where they're at okay, in
belgium right so the, the daddy,might be a translation to
another word and whateverwhatever their native language
is and the last one is pripyatp-r-i-p-y-a-t sounds russian
amusement park in chernobyl,ukraine oh, we all know what
(29:19):
happened in chernobyl.
Hannah (29:20):
Yes, we do perhaps the most haunting of all is the
pripyat amusement park inukraine.
It was scheduled to open on may1st 1986, but it never truly
did.
The chernobyl nuclear disasterstruck just days before and the
park stood empty from the start.
That's so sad.
The Ferris wheel, bumper carsand rusted rides still stand as
ghostly monuments to a day thatnever came.
Urban explorers and workers inthe exclusion zone report
(29:43):
hearing children's laughterechoing through the empty lot,
even though no children everrode those rides.
Some even claim the Ferriswheel creaks in.
The stillness turns slightly,though there's no wind.
I don't know about that.
Like I think Chernobyl itselfis just spooky, yeah.
Courtney (30:00):
But if the park hadn't even opened, like I mean, I
guess, unless it's on an Indianburial ground?
Again, I know right, seriouslyToo soon for that.
Rob Fitz (30:05):
But so you know the YouTuber I watch Indigo Traveler
.
Hannah (30:09):
Yeah yeah.
So he actually went tochernobyl with a guide which is
very dangerous.
Rob Fitz (30:16):
It's very dangerous because they're still still
active radioactive it's stillradioactive, it's not as bad as
it used to be, but, uh, you canspend a little bit of time there
.
But uh, he actually wentthrough some of the buildings
and then went into this park andsaw it.
And fun fact about Chernobylthere's actually dogs that were
(30:36):
left there that have become wildChernobyl dogs, so they've
become their own breed.
Well, it makes sense, butthey're wild dogs.
Courtney (30:46):
It's interesting they don't wander too far beyond the
limit.
You know what I'm saying.
Rob Fitz (30:49):
There's military that guards it.
You can't even get in therewithout crossing a checkpoint.
Courtney (30:52):
But they even care about the limit.
You know what I'm saying.
There's military that guards it.
You can't even get in therewithout crossing a checkpoint.
But they even care about thedogs.
They won't even let the dogsback out.
Hannah (30:59):
So if you ever stood the gates of an abandoned amusement
park, you know the feeling.
The heavy air the sense thatsomething is still there, just
out of sight.
So what do you think?
Is it all in our heads?
I think some of these placesare definitely all in our heads.
Or do these places really holdonto spirits long after the ride
shut down?
So tonight we close the gatesbehind us.
(31:20):
The Ferris wheel is still, thelights are dark, but the ghosts
remain, and that was ourwandering through the haunted
echoes of abandoned amusementparks.
Rob Fitz (31:29):
Mm Beautiful, Nicely done Hannah.
Hannah (31:32):
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Rob Fitz (31:33):
Wanderers.
That was a great episode.
Hannah (31:36):
Yeah, it was interesting .
Rob Fitz (31:39):
Before we end Hannah, do you have any horror movie
recommendations?
I?
Hannah (31:49):
do, and I actually got better with how I was rating
based off of our last talk.
Oh yeah To make sure that I hadan overall rating and then a
gore body horror rating.
Courtney (31:57):
Yeah because that is important to some people.
Some people like horror, butthey don't like that gory,
bloody stuff.
Rob Fitz (32:03):
Yeah, exactly, I don't mind.
A little is okay.
I have come to learn that thereare some horror movies out
there that I will watch, so thatis good having that rating.
Hannah (32:17):
It's a good trigger warning, I think too for
listeners.
Okay, so this is actually onethat I watched recently.
It's not an older one, it'scalled it Feeds.
Rob Fitz (32:25):
It Feeds.
Hannah (32:25):
It Feeds and it actually had one of the vampires from
the Twilight series.
Brett (32:31):
Ooh.
Hannah (32:32):
One of the sisters.
Rob Fitz (32:33):
Okay, which?
Hannah (32:33):
one, alice, alice.
It was Alice, so she plays amom in this one and she's
supposed to be a therapist, butshe actually has other abilities
that come with it.
But it's not like it's on thedown low.
Okay, so, depending on, like,if you need certain therapy
quote-unquote she gets referred.
(32:54):
These people, so this girl, sohers.
Okay, let's back up a littlebit so that the father is passed
and so the mom still has thisbusiness of being a therapist
and the daughter is coming ofage and helping her mom, like
basically do some type of likeonboarding thing.
Okay, what do you need?
What?
What kind of therapy are youlooking for?
And this girl actually comeswithout her father, like in a
(33:16):
panic.
She's like I need your mother'shelp.
And she's like well, what kindof help are you looking for?
I don't know, maybe this is notthe right fit for us.
And the mom comes around thecorner.
So the alice cullen comesaround the corner and sees
basically like this demonattached to this little girl.
So I actually gave this a 4.0overall.
Rob Fitz (33:36):
I absolutely ate this up is this out of a one to four
scale?
Hannah (33:41):
yes, oh, no one to five one to five okay one to five
scale.
Um, there's a lot of trauma,there are demons, so there's
like kind of a cult aspect andit is heavy.
It's not an easy horror watch,which I don't know how else to
say it.
For the gore, body horror, Iwould say it's a 4.5.
So there is kind of a lot of itso if you don't like that, but
(34:03):
it has a very interesting endingso if that's your vibe, it
feeds.
Rob Fitz (34:09):
I absolutely ate it up so the actress's name is ashley
green right that sounds right.
Hannah (34:15):
Yep, yep, but she played alice cullen, so it's kind of
like she had longer hair,because you know alice in the
twilight had like short hair soI kept like cutting her hair off
in the movie, I was like, ohyeah, I see it, she's a mom now
yeah, that's a greatrecommendation.
Courtney (34:30):
Thank you, henna, and, as always, check your trigger
warnings on things for yourself,mental health is important
buddy.
Watch if you need to, if youwant to watch it, but you don't
want to see the gore.
Hannah (34:39):
Um, just you know, be kind to your own mental health
no, no, go ahead I was gonna saythe final, final movie of the
conjuring series, the lastrights, is coming out on
september 5th.
I want to go see it.
I'm asking Courtney if she willgo see it with me, because I
don't think Rob will.
Rob Fitz (34:55):
No, no, thank you.
Hannah (34:56):
But that's another horror movie that's finishing
out soon.
I'll go to that one.
Excellent.
So, guys, if you need a buddy,go with a buddy.
Rob Fitz (35:04):
Courtney, do you have any recommendations?
Courtney (35:06):
I don't have any on-brand recommendations right
now.
I have been elbow deep inpersonal things and work things.
I've done a little bit of arcreading lately.
I did read a ghosted arc readthat I can put the link in the
show notes.
Hannah (35:21):
Oh yes, your paranormal one, right yes.
Courtney (35:24):
I guess I did.
It was a paranormal.
I gave it a 4 out of 5 stars onGoodreads, which anyone who
knows me and my Goodreads knowsthat I'm kind of a snob on
Goodreads which anyone who knowsme and my Goodreads knows that
I'm kind of a snob.
Hannah (35:33):
Yeah, you're not a snob, you're just you're, you're a
particular.
You're particular yes.
Courtney (35:40):
And I do have some good mystery and thriller
recommendations if people wantthose.
Rob Fitz (35:42):
But that's a little bit different than what we talk
about here.
All right, so my recommendationwould be uh, it's a new, uh
YouTube show I've been watchinglately.
It's called Lesnoy L-E-S-N-O-YOkay, and they just build these
small little cabins out in thewoods and that's it, so it's
(36:02):
good to put on when you'retrying to fall asleep you know,
yeah, and there's no talking,it's just them building and
sometimes it's sped up at, likeyou know, 1.25, but it's they're
not building them for anybodyuh, they're building them for
themselves.
I I've come to the conclusion Ithink there's about four guys
and it definitely seems european, like eastern european.
(36:25):
Okay, I mean, they don't talkor anything, they're just
building, but just from, likethe vehicles I've seen and stuff
like that, but it's it veryrelaxing.
Hannah (36:34):
So I love that you brought that up, because it
actually reminds me of so, ifyou like, the Calm app one of
the stories is about thesebasically like hideaway cabins
in the Scotch Highlands thathave been used for basically
centuries.
I think they were mostlyhunting cabins, but they've used
them now for hikers that arehiking through the highlands.
And even well, it's not thequeen anymore, it's the king,
(36:57):
it's his house.
But they've actually taken likewhat was kind of like an
outhouse and they turned it moreinto a cabin for hikers to go
into.
So it's just, most of them arejust places to put a cot and a
gives you shelter for a night ortwo.
So it kind of reminds me ofthat.
Rob Fitz (37:14):
And that's literally how big they are.
I'd say, you know, 10 by 10there's enough room.
They usually build some sort ofbed and a fireplace.
Hannah (37:23):
Or a mattress of some sort.
Rob Fitz (37:24):
Exactly yeah.
Courtney (37:26):
Hey, when you need shelter, you need shelter.
When you need to sleep, yougotta have something to watch.
Rob Fitz (37:32):
Well, thanks for having me on again.
It's fun being in front of themic instead of, you know, in the
studio editing this and puttingit together.
Hannah (37:41):
Now you know what to expect.
Courtney (37:42):
Don't let them fool you.
We don't need to be edited.
We sound great, the first try.
Hannah (37:46):
We're magnificent and, on that note, thank you,
wanderers, for listening.
We love you Bye.
Thanks for listening today.
Wicked Wanderings is hosted byme, hannah, and co-hosted by me.
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We appreciate every one of you.
You're making it so awkward.
Rob Fitz (00:02):
Why I'm not doing anything.
Hannah (00:04):
No, because usually me and Courtney are like.
I feel like he's got a timeclock, so yeah.
Courtney (00:08):
You know what I picture when you're at some
place and they have that visualtimer where it's like counting
down the minutes to the nexttransition.
Oh yeah, like with the red part.
Hannah (00:16):
Yes, kids love those clocks.
Brett (00:18):
Those are good clocks.
Courtney (00:19):
I bought one at the thrift store.
Brett (00:23):
Okay.
Hannah (00:33):
Hi, I'm Hannah and I'm Courtney.
Join us as we delve into truecrime, paranormal encounters and
all things spooky.
Courtney (00:40):
Grab your flashlight and get ready to wander into the
darkness with us.
Brett (00:46):
This is Wicked.
Hannah (00:47):
Wanderings Hello Courtney, hi Hannah, and we have
a, I guess, special guest,because you're never here
(01:09):
anymore.
Hello Rob, hello.
Courtney (01:13):
What a warm welcome.
I felt the warmth on this sideof the room.
Rob Fitz (01:17):
From me or from Hannah ?
Both oh, both is good.
Hannah (01:21):
So, wanderers, we are going to be talking about spooky
, abandoned and weird amusementparks Courtney's favorite
because they have clowns.
Brett (01:31):
Yeah.
Courtney (01:31):
The minute I heard about what the topic was, I was
like oh, come on.
Hannah (01:35):
Courtney loves the clowns.
Courtney (01:38):
I'm feeling the tears welling up in my eyes about
clowns, but I'm going to justtry to not repeat, definitely
not about clowns.
I'm going to try to come upwith creative input that doesn't
have to do with clowns.
Hannah (01:50):
Amusement parks are supposed to be timeless.
Brett (01:52):
Yeah.
Hannah (01:53):
Right.
They're built for joy,happiness, rides spinning around
.
Rob Fitz (01:59):
We got a local one.
We got a local one right here.
Six Flags used to be RiversidePark.
Hannah (02:04):
I think Six Flags is actually on the list.
I mean not the.
Rob Fitz (02:07):
Agawam one, not the Agawam one you ever been to Six
Flags or Riverside.
Courtney (02:12):
A long time ago.
I'm beyond just not likingclowns.
I don't like rides.
I don't like crowds.
I don't like loud noises.
Hannah (02:24):
My ADHD shows Got a lot of sensory stuff going on.
So when we are in amusementparks we always smell things too
Like, even if you go to the BigE popcorn, right yeah, fried
dough.
Brett (02:36):
Cotton candy.
Hannah (02:37):
Cotton candy Hot dogs Right Stinky BO people.
And then there's that, yesdefinitely.
So when the rides stop right,they rust, they're not usable
anymore.
The paint peels off, the gatesare locked.
That's when the ghosts move in.
(02:57):
And today we're going to wanderthrough the shadows of
abandoned amusement parks.
So the first one is going to bemountain park in holyoke mass
very close to us is that the onethat was on mount tom mount tom
.
Courtney (03:15):
Yes oh, I have some good pictures I can share with
the wanderers of mount tom fromskiing uh no, from a picture of
the abandoned amusement park.
That was, oh okay.
Rob Fitz (03:22):
Oh okay, I used to ski there when I was a wee little
tyke, when it was still a MountTom ski place resort Rob's
dating himself.
Courtney (03:30):
Yeah, I know.
Hannah (03:32):
They do have the abandoned chairlift up there.
Courtney (03:34):
They did the last time I was there.
Rob Fitz (03:35):
Mm-hmm, I don't remember seeing that During
COVID we actually hiked up MountTom yeah.
God, that's brutal and we sawthe old wave pool.
Courtney (03:44):
They used to have.
There's an old quarry up theretoo.
The quarry is a little.
You have to be careful if youever visit the quarry, because
it's you could easily fall orslip it's not stable, yeah yeah
so mountain park in holland,massachusetts.
Hannah (03:57):
It opened in the late 1800s.
It was the shining jewel of thepioneer valley and families
would take the trolley up themountain for roller coasters,
concerts and even ballroomdances which I didn't know, but
by the mid-1980s the rides wereshutting down, the laughter
faded and nature reclaimed theMidway, which makes sense for
you if you were up there at thattime.
(04:18):
Do you remember seeing theamusement park?
Rob Fitz (04:19):
I don't think the amusement park was open when it
was skiing.
Courtney (04:23):
still, I don't know the the crossover, I believe
amusement park had closed down,and then, when nature started to
reclaim the area, that's whenthey were changing it into.
I could be speaking completelyincorrectly but, that's the way
it looks, even when you look atin the early 2020s, when you're
looking at kind of how thingswere abandoned.
It looked like the other stuffwas older than music.
Rob Fitz (04:44):
So the Mount Tomski area opened in either 1960 or
1962, with most sources citing1960 at the first season, others
stating 1962 as the opening, soearly 60s.
Courtney (04:56):
Yeah, it didn't have a terribly long run, it was only
a couple of decades.
Rob Fitz (05:00):
And then it closed in 97, 98 season.
Hannah (05:04):
So, but still hikers today who wandered to the
grounds, like me and Rob.
They report strange experiences.
Now, I think we were veryfocused on being socially
distant when we did it in 2020and not being near people and
whatever, but apparently there'ssome strange experiences people
have.
They say they hear the distantsound of carnival organs echoing
through the fog.
Others swear they they seenshadowy figures moving in the
(05:27):
mist where the rides once stood,always just far enough away to
make you doubt your own eyes,which of course, that always
seems to happen, but interestingI would say so over by where
the wave pool was.
Courtney (05:39):
It was probably so the lodge caught on fire before I
remember you telling me aboutthat so when I had gone last,
you could go into the lodge, andso it was like the lodge was on
your left, you're facing thewave pool, and there was like a
mini golf kind of building offto the right and I distinctly I
had gone up there about threedifferent times and one time I
did have my friend tina.
(06:00):
Uh, hannah, you've met tina.
She was like, oh, I'm gonna,can you take my picture?
I'm going to stand over here.
And she took off ahead of me,as Tina does when we go anywhere
Balls, tina, yes, the balls,yes, yes.
Balls, tina, yes.
And she kept wandering and Ijust remember it being dark and
she would go left and I feltlike I was going of mirrors.
(06:29):
I kept swearing, I was seeingher over here, but then she was
over there.
Interesting it was a veryinteresting building.
Hannah (06:32):
I'm gonna have to look back and see if I have pictures
of that still, because thatbuilding was odd.
It was a very odd building,love it.
Number two is lincoln park indartmouth, massachusetts, and it
closed after a roller coasteraccident in the 1980s.
Explorers claim they still hearthe screams of riders near the
skeleton of the old coaster.
Even now the rusty tracks justhave the trees like the bones of
some long-dead creature.
Courtney (06:53):
I don't think I've ever heard of that one?
I haven't either.
Rob Fitz (06:56):
So the roller coasters are still up.
Courtney (06:59):
Apparently, the tracks a lot of times are up at
abandoned amusement parks butthe coaster itself, like the
mechanical piece, I think theyreused that probably.
Okay, the tracks a lot of timesare up at abandoned amusement
parks but the coaster itself,like the mechanical piece, I
think they reuse that probablyokay because the tracks they've
been in the weather they'reprobably not worth very much.
I mean scrap metal, but who'sgonna go up there and cut them
down?
Hannah (07:14):
they don't make coasters like they used to like they
used to be wooden, all wooden,and then six flags.
In agawam used to have some.
I don't know if they have anywooden ones anymore, so they had
two.
Rob Fitz (07:23):
Yeah, they had two like original ones yeah, the
cyclone, and uh, I can'tremember the other one I don't
think they're there anymore,though, or they've upgraded them
they've upgraded them.
They're metal, but they'restill the same track but that
doesn't matter, I don't know.
Courtney (07:38):
The idea of wood kind of freaks me out a little bit,
because you have to think aboutthat, the weather, the elements,
breaks it rots it's, it's notreally a great material to build
something that's going to holdweight on top of it?
No, no, probably not they justlook sketchy up there, they just
, you know, there's just thesebeams to nowhere and I'm afraid
of heights also.
So carnivals and me where wedon't get along well third one
(08:01):
is six flags, new orleans, ohyeah, that one I knew about well
, do you have anything you wantto say before?
I have friends who have gone tonew orleans just to break in and
get pictures.
What if I can remember whichfriend it was who went there?
Hannah (08:18):
I will ask him if we can use some of his pictures
excellent so farther south, wehave six New Orleans, and it was
left for dead after HurricaneKatrina in 2005.
Everything was abandoned inplace Roller coasters, rust,
clown faces, concession standsand urban explorers swear.
They see movement in theshadows carousel horses shifting
(08:39):
slightly, clown heads turningwhen no one is looking and the
park feels less abandoned andmore in awaiting you said 2005,
I mean that was 20 years ago now, wow but that still makes sense
though, because, if you thinkabout it, a lot of places like
mount tom they abandoned it withsome understanding that they
were going to abandon it.
Rob Fitz (08:59):
They closed up.
They're like okay we're alldone.
Courtney (09:01):
We went bankrupt, whatever the situation was.
When you're talking a naturaldisaster, it's just left.
It's even more haunting.
I would imagine becauseeverything is left exactly the
way it was, and it's like it'swaiting for you to come back and
you're not going to thisactually reminds me of the
horror book that I read.
Rob Fitz (09:19):
Great, it's gonna be about clones and no, and what
was this book called?
Hannah (09:23):
Okay, it was called Fantastic Land.
It's by Mike Bokovan, but Iread it last year.
Actually, I listened and readbecause the audiobook was
fantastic, and it was about howthere was an amusement park I
believe it was in Florida,though and there was a hurricane
coming through and they triedto get everybody off of the park
(09:43):
, but they couldn't geteverybody, like all the workers.
So it ended up being like,until they could, like the help
could get to them, like theybasically built their own
society of like right and wrong,and they had groupings together
that were against each other,kind of like very apocalyptic,
like cults on this one property.
Rob Fitz (10:03):
So there was killings that happened this is a fiction
book yeah, yeah, yeah yeah itwas a horror.
Courtney (10:08):
You said right was the genre.
Yeah, it was sounds like thepurge a little bit, but like
mixed with the walking dead.
Hannah (10:15):
If you listen to the audiobook, which I recommend, it
basically was the interviewsafter the event, so they
interviewed everybody that wasat the park that was still alive
.
Courtney (10:29):
That's such an interesting perspective for a
book.
I feel like everybody who'swriting books right now is doing
multiple POVs and that's theway that they're structuring the
whole book, or they're doingmultiple timelines.
So they're flashing between twotimelines, but you rarely hear
of a book that masters beingable to go through interview or
recollection.
Hannah (10:43):
Yeah, it was.
I highly recommend.
But anyways, that kind ofreminded me of that amusement
park.
Courtney (10:48):
Give me the clown scale here, one being there's
some clowns but it's livable,and 10 being nope, just don't do
it.
Hannah (10:52):
No, I don't think there was any clowns.
I don't remember Goodness abook about carnivals I can read.
You might actually really likeit.
No-transcript.
(11:13):
So built over a Native Americanburial ground, oh, this was
just a recipe for disaster.
It quickly gained a reputationfor accidents and deaths, from
drownings in the lake to a childkilled on the swings.
Actually, I think I watched aghost.
I wasn't Ghost Avengers, Ithink it was Kindred Spirits,
but they did an episode on thisone because I remember them
talking about the NativeAmerican burial grounds and
(11:33):
there was a child killed on theswings.
Courtney (11:35):
We're just going to call it back from our last
episodes here.
Why American Burial Grounds andthere was a child killing
swings?
We're just going to call itback from our last episodes here
.
Why are we allowed to buildthings on Native American burial
grounds?
I know Where's.
Hannah (11:43):
Johnny.
Today it's considered one ofthe most haunted amusement parks
in America.
Visitors talk about swings thatmove on their own, which they
had happen Laughter driftingacross the ground.
So they had laughter.
I remember with the swing, Ibelieve, because they asked a
little girl if she wanted toplay and some things happened
and the unmistakable feeling ofbeing watched, which, of course,
you're on native land.
Courtney (12:03):
Why wouldn't you?
Brett (12:03):
be, watched.
Courtney (12:04):
I feel like most places, if you're in tune with
the spirit world and alone,you're going to feel like you're
being watched.
Hannah (12:09):
And Rob, I think you are in tune with the spirit world.
Brett (12:13):
Am I I believe you are, hmm I, I mean, I envy your gift.
Rob Fitz (12:19):
I think it can be used in certain ways I haven't woken
up in the middle of the nightto see anything recently
recently great now tonight'sgonna be the night do you?
Courtney (12:30):
find that there's a time that you usually wake up,
because that happens to me andI've had had a lot of, not so
much where I'm living now butwhere I lived previously and
I've talked about in otherepisodes.
I've had things happen and it'salways between three and three
30 AM.
Rob Fitz (12:46):
The witching hour, absolutely I don't have a time,
but I did take a nap a couplemonths ago and I did wake up and
I thought I saw a spider on thewall, but it was during the day
.
Hannah (12:56):
Yep, I was watching TV and you're like I'm going to
take a quick nap.
It was like a Saturday orSunday and you took a quick nap
and I was watching a show and hejust bolts out of bed.
I'm like, are you okay?
He's like you don't see that.
I'm like, see what?
And he's like you don't see.
You're looking for Spider-Manor something.
Yeah, he's like it's huge.
(13:17):
I'm like, no, honey, I don'tsee anything.
Courtney (13:21):
Well, some people, I think, try too hard and I feel
like spirits don't want to showthemselves to you.
I mean, that's how I would beif I was walking around haunting
the world.
Somebody was out here, likewith their ghost box, trying to
get me to talk to them.
Brett (13:46):
I'd be like like jokes on you.
Hannah (13:46):
I'm gonna go prank the guy next door.
Seems like a lot more fun.
We have had no luck with theghost box.
Did you bring it to your?
Uh salem, I did.
We did not use it.
It wasn't the right vibe forwhere we were.
It really wasn't.
I think if we had time to go tolike a graveyard or something,
then maybe, but just yeah, justdidn't we need a day trip for
that, I think.
Courtney (13:57):
I think we should plan like purposely that's what
we're doing, yeah even if westay overnight.
But we do it like strategically, because technically you could
even do like a thursday into afriday yeah.
Hannah (14:09):
Next one is rocky point park in warwick.
Rhode island entertainedfamilies for more than a century
before closing in the 90s.
Wow, the midway is gone now,but people still swear the
grounds aren't empty.
Some say they hear screams fromthe scrambler ride that once
stood there scrambler yeah, thatsounds fun oh that sounds
dizzying.
Courtney (14:27):
No, thank you it's kind of like the flying bobs, I
think flying bobs where they goand like the bobsleds what?
Sometimes I say things fromberkshire county and it never
strikes me as weird untileveryone in the room looks at me
like they just did.
I'm gonna google flying bobsand y'all are gonna understand
that I'm not cray cray, I meanteacups, I think I'm about to
call brett and be like brett.
(14:48):
Yo brett flying bobs you know.
Rob Fitz (14:51):
If you know what a flying bob is, text us.
Hannah (14:54):
The link is down in in the notes call brett honestly,
and I'm just gonna read thisflying motherfucking bobs,
motherfucking, motherfuckingyou're gonna have to post that
on the instagram flying bob.
I still think you're making itup.
Others report smelling popcornand saltwater drifting on the
breeze long after the rides weretorn down.
Courtney (15:17):
Oh, I have to call his correct number.
That would be.
Imagine I call a random personfrom North Adams Like yeah, I
know the Flying Babs.
Hannah (15:26):
Hey how you doing.
Rob Fitz (15:27):
Hey, what's going on?
You're on the Wicked Wanderingspodcast.
Hello.
Courtney (15:31):
Hello, I have to ask you a question, and don't ask me
why.
Just answer me, okay.
Brett (15:37):
Oh, I love this game.
Courtney (15:43):
Okay, so there's a ride that I'm picturing at the
carnival in North Adams right,and it went in circles and it
was called the Flying what.
Okay, what was it?
It was the Flying Bobs right.
Brett (15:52):
Was it Flying Bob Sled?
Courtney (15:53):
Yeah, but it was called Flying Bobs, but it was a
bobsled.
Brett (15:56):
Yeah, but it was called Flying Bobs, but it was a
bobsled, yeah, and it kind of itwent in a circle like a
merry-go-round or a carousel andlike up and down it had like,
it had like dips.
Yes it went in a circle butlike up and down, like it would
on, like a ski trail, like aregular roller coaster, except
it went in a circle.
Hannah (16:15):
Oh my God, hi Brett there, except it went in a
circle.
Courtney (16:16):
Oh my god, hi brett, so this was at a carnival yeah,
there was a traveling carnivalthat came to north adams every
year and it was called theflying bob wasn't it in like the
price chopper parking lot?
Brett (16:28):
yeah, north adams is kind of ghetto y'all I'm trying to
think of where it was, becauseit was bigger than that, but
wait, where was it?
Courtney (16:35):
the ad Aggie Fairgrounds?
Right on Kern Highway.
Brett (16:38):
They didn't have too many rides, though it had to have
been Price Chopper.
Courtney (16:42):
Because Price Chopper closed and that's when they used
the parking lot.
Brett (16:46):
Was it near Lanesboro somewhere?
Courtney (16:47):
Well, I think they had it at the Dalton Carnival too.
Brett (16:50):
Oh, maybe it was that one .
No, because they had it inNorth Adams, it was at the mall.
Courtney (16:54):
There's no mall in North Adams no but there's a
mall in Lanesboro.
Brett (16:58):
That's what I mean.
Like was it in the mall.
It was close because like Iwent to it, Like I drove with
like friends when I was older.
Courtney (17:06):
So you remember it though right, Because we're,
we're, you're on the podcastright now.
Hannah (17:12):
You're going through the soundboard.
By the way, I miss my life, heypeople of the internet.
Courtney (17:16):
I was sitting here and we were talking about we're
doing an episode on hauntedamusement parks and I was like
yeah, like the flying bobs androb and hannah both looked at me
like I was absolutely crackedin the head and I was like no,
it's a thing, guys, it's aberkshire county thing I'm like
what the fuck are you talking?
Brett (17:31):
about yeah I brought it up the thing you sit in is looks
like a bobsled and it had likepainted icicles or something.
Yes, it was blue, yeah, it wasblue and white, and it said,
like the flying bobs, and it hadbobsleds and it just went in a
circle and it kind of like.
It was like it went uphill andthen went back down and it kept
doing that.
Hannah (17:50):
So you guys not only have flying bobsleds, you guys
have dragons.
So we all know now that that'swhere everything is pretty much.
Courtney (17:58):
I'm just glad that somebody else knew what I was
talking about, because I said itand got looked at like I had 12
heads no, it's definitely,definitely real.
Brett (18:07):
I'm smoking a bowl, so pardon my language it's fine.
Courtney (18:10):
She's like I'm calling brian, we're all just having a
beer doing our recording and Iwas like I'm gonna call brett,
so we hooked you up through thesoundboard.
If you want to hang out for afew minutes and listen to the
rest of Hannah's list, you'remore than welcome to.
Rob Fitz (18:22):
Well, Brett, since you're smoking a bowl, I'm on my
way.
Brett (18:25):
Oh, all right, Don't tell me twice Spicy.
Rob Fitz (18:34):
No, I'm not serious, I'm not coming.
That's a long drive.
Courtney (18:37):
Well, you're fired, you're fired, fired, fired
Immediately.
Hannah (18:42):
So do you want to stay on for the next one?
Brett (18:44):
I would.
I have to go cook food.
Courtney (18:48):
Oh, wow, boring.
Okay, but we will reach out toyou to schedule you to be on an
episode because we need you tobe a guest.
Rob Fitz (18:54):
Yes, definitely.
Courtney (18:57):
Oh, make it something gay.
Do you want to do your ownhaunted gay episode?
Oh yeah, you absolutely can.
Brett (19:00):
Oh, no, no.
Courtney (19:02):
Okay, well then, text me a list of ideas and we'll put
something together and have youon for commentary.
Rob Fitz (19:07):
Tell it hubbies, and you don't even have to come to
the studio.
We can do it right on yourphone.
Courtney (19:14):
Or we could have him come out and he could just stay
at my house.
Brett (19:16):
Oh yes, yes definitely.
Hannah (19:18):
Let's do it.
I'm down.
Brett (19:21):
Turn me a limo and I'll be ready in five minutes, all
right.
Courtney (19:24):
Well, thank you for backing me up on the North Adams
culture that everybody elseneeded today.
Brett (19:28):
Have fun smoking your bowl we love you.
Kisses.
North Adams is a scary place.
Hannah (19:32):
Love you guys bye, bye, bye, brett.
Oh my god, he's such a greatvibe.
I love him.
Oh, bye, alright, next one,wanderers.
After that, lovely talk withBrad.
I love it.
Courtney (19:46):
No, don't be sorry, that's awesome I had to be
checked on it and the fact thathe described it to a T from the
picture I just showed you, I waslike it's cause he's smoking a
bowl.
Hannah (19:54):
He's not smart enough to google it right now.
I love it so much.
We're in spree park, berlin,germany everybody, we're out the
country.
I told you we were going farwe're out across the ocean
across the pond yes, spree parklooks like a horror movie set
I'm intrigued, let's go swanboats rot in the weeds, dinosaur
(20:16):
statues collapse into the mudand the Ferris wheel still
creaks slowly in the wind.
This is very dramatic Explorershave heard whispers in the dark
tunnels and phantom footstepspacing the grounds.
The eerie grinding of theFerris wheel turning on its own
has been recorded more than once.
Ooh, so the Ferris wheel'sstill up.
Brett (20:36):
Mm.
Hannah (20:37):
Kind of like once.
Brett (20:37):
Ooh, so the Ferris wheel's still up, mm Kind of
like that, mm.
Hannah (20:40):
Next is Aqpo Land in South Korea.
Brett (20:44):
Ooh.
Hannah (20:45):
Oh God, guys, I'm sorry for language here.
On Gyoje Island in South Korea,Aqpo Land once bustled with
families, but after a series ofaccidents in the 90s, including
the death of a child on a duckthemed ride why is it always a
child?
The park shut down overnight.
The duck car where the accidenthappened was left in place,
frozen mid-loop, for years ohlocals whispered that the
(21:08):
child's spirit haunted the ride,waiting endlessly for the day
it would start again.
I mean that's so sad oh my god,yikes.
Rob Fitz (21:16):
so growing my family.
We had timeshare in Florida.
My parents still have timesharein Florida, in Orlando and
Kissimmee, which is right nextto Orlando, and we used to get a
free day pass to a water park.
It wasn't wet and wild, it wascalled something else.
(21:36):
It was smaller, but they hadthis wave pool and they didn't
like limit the amount of peoplewere in there and there was uh,
you could only go in there ifyou had a tube and unfortunately
, one of the days we were thereone of the kids slipped through
the tube and he wasn't able toget up because of all the tubes
(21:57):
and he ended up drowning, oh mygod, and I will remember that
for the rest of my life
Courtney (22:02):
yeah, yeah, oh oh my god, yeah scary, very scary,
very scary, that's why there'sthings like limits on them and I
want to say, when I had gone acouple of times to places that
had wave pools, there was likeyou were not allowed to bring a
tube in.
You're not allowed to bring a,a noodle or anything other than
like swimmies on children yeahyou were not allowed to bring
any floats, which I alwaysimagined was for that reason
(22:24):
that's scary, I'll have to textmy parents and ask them what the
uh I hope it wasn't wildbecause I feel bad.
But wet and wild just soundslike a wet t-shirt contest
waiting to happen.
Rob Fitz (22:35):
No, wet and wild was a bigger park, this one was a
smaller one.
Let's see, so it wasn'taffiliated with disney so the
water park that we used to go toyeah, the name was water mania-
ah, water mania, that's abetter name yes a better name
yeah, it wasn't wet and wild,that was a bigger one next we
(22:57):
have heritage usa in southcarolina oh, I think I've heard
of this one not all amusementparks were about thrills.
Hannah (23:03):
Heritage usa in south carolina was a massive christian
themed park.
Well, there's your problem oh,and you never heard of this one
I mean my mom didn't likeamusement parks to begin with,
like even when my parents weredivorced.
My father, if he had freetickets because whatever um, and
we would go to six flags,agawarm and we had to walk
because, the bastard was sofucking cheap was it six flags?
Rob Fitz (23:25):
yet?
Yeah, it wasn't.
It wasn't riverside, nope, itwas six flags.
Hannah (23:29):
We had to walk through the woods um, that's another
story.
Everybody um, where was?
I was, oh, yeah.
So my mom hated six flags,slash riverside.
She hated it.
So I'm not surprised that shewasn't like oh, is that my kids
here?
Rob Fitz (23:42):
I should know about that so it was, would you guys
walk through the woods and getin for free?
Hannah (23:48):
we would walk, so he didn't have to pay to park ah
but he would have tickets for usto get in free, or at least a
couple of us to get in free doyou know how much parking is now
at Six Flags?
Rob Fitz (23:59):
No, so I was driving past it a couple of weeks ago
this was just before thebachelor party and I was just
picking up some nicotineproducts in Connecticut because
it's cheaper, anyway.
So I was driving past Six Flagsand I saw people holding signs
out like $10, $15, $20 to parkand I was like what are they
(24:23):
parking for?
$20.
What?
And so I Googled how muchparking is.
How much?
Do you think?
It is?
Probably like 40 bucks, $75 topark inside Six Flags.
Courtney (24:38):
That's insane.
So I'm always surprised, likeokay, so we go to the Big E, we
talk about that on the podcastall the time.
Part of going to the Big E isthat the big e hosts it, but
they're renting out their spacekind of to all these vendors too
, right right.
So I understand why when we goto the big e, we pay an entry
fee, which is not that expensivein my opinion.
No, it's not, I agree.
(24:59):
I also feel like paying to parkon their property is also not
unheard of, because when youcombine those two together,
you're still under the 75 topark.
Rob Fitz (25:07):
It's oh, 100, absolutely.
It's 20 for a ticket to go tothe Big E and if you park on
property it's $5.
Right, it's more expensive topark at the houses or the
businesses around the Big E.
Courtney (25:18):
They're just closer usually.
Sometimes.
Rob Fitz (25:21):
Less traffic to get in and out.
Courtney (25:23):
I don't think places should be able to charge you an
entry fee into their facilityand parking.
I feel like, especially for aplace.
I mean mean, maybe if you're inboston or york city where
there's not any parking, but fora place like six flags that has
ample parking.
Hannah (25:36):
They have a huge parking lot but if you have a season
pass, is it still that expensive?
They?
Courtney (25:40):
probably sell you a parking pass for the season too
and make double the money yeah,exactly, it's insane to me.
Does anybody know if disneyland, if you have to pay to park out
?
Rob Fitz (25:48):
I'm really intrigued about that I think you do at all
theme parks.
You have to pay to park out.
I'm really intrigued about that.
I think you do All theme parks.
You have to pay to park.
But that's why.
Courtney (25:53):
That's probably why it's cheaper for families to
stay there in a Disney parkresort so they can just take the
shuttle in right and so whenyou get to the parks without
having to park, it's been solong since I've been to an
amusement park I can't evenremember how, because my dad
would take us but it's been solong Because, if you go to a
carnival right the carnival'sbrand I were just talking about
(26:13):
you paid your $5 to get in orwhatever, and then your tickets
for the ride, but nobody chargedyou to park.
When you got there you had towalk up to the ticket booth and
pay them.
I feel like parking is like howdo you expect your guests to
get here if they can't park.
Rob Fitz (26:25):
Yeah, exactly when I go to the grocery store.
Hannah (26:27):
I don't pay them to go into big y to buy my products,
yeah if we were ever going to godisney world again, I would
stay on resort or somewhere.
That was like okay, you park atour resort and we'll shuttle
you in like that or take an uberdefinitely a parked.
Courtney (26:40):
Yeah, and I'm sure uber does a ton of business
because of that too.
Yeah, it's just something I'vealways thought about that I'm
like that's so weird evenconcerts, if you think about you
go, you pay your ticket andunless there's no parking on the
venue, then you don't pay topark or if you pay for your
ticket, that's guaranteedparking right.
Hannah (26:57):
Like that's just silly to me um where did we go with
this?
Oh yeah, so we were talkingabout heritage, usa in south
carolina, which was the massivechristian themed park and resort
created by televangelist jimand tammy faye baker bacher you
ever heard of them?
No, in your christian childhoodso I'm sure my grandparents
(27:20):
probably know them.
So after scandals, of course,this could be a scandal with a
christianism mark yes,christians in the 90s scandals
god, sorry guys, feelings afterscandals.
In a hurricane it fell intoruin good I was a hurricane
scandals and a hurricane yes
Courtney (27:39):
the scandals were the pertinent part.
Hannah (27:40):
Oh, yeah, definitely today, explorers report hearing
church bells tolling where nobells remain and faint hymns
echoing from the amphitheater,as if a service is still being
held in the empty air.
Brett (27:52):
Wow.
Courtney (27:53):
I sometimes wonder if people create those kinds of
things themselves.
Hannah (27:56):
Oh, 100% Knowing what it is.
Courtney (27:58):
Because there's certain places, like hospitals
and churches, that have acertain Right.
Hannah (28:01):
You hear like the beeping or the crying out.
Courtney (28:04):
Psychology is very impressive.
You can tell yourself oh, we'reat a church, oh, do you hear
the bell?
And you will hear the bell.
Hannah (28:11):
Yep, now we're next to Daddy Park in Belgium.
Ooh so Daddy Park in Belgium isa small family amusement park
with outdated, dangerous rides.
It shut down after a string oftragic accidents Of course it's
always a freaking accident.
Courtney (28:25):
I'm really curious about why they named it that.
Hannah (28:27):
So it's D-A-D-I-P-A-R-K.
Rob Fitz (28:32):
Dottypuck.
Hannah (28:33):
Dottypuck.
Now locals report children'slaughter echoing through the
abandoned playgrounds andshadowy figures darting between
crumbling slides and swings.
Courtney (28:46):
The place built for joy has become a playground for
ghosts that one gives me theheebie-jeebies.
Rob Fitz (28:49):
I don't know what it is about that last one?
That's just like they speakGerman in Belgium, right?
Or is it French?
Know what it is about that lastone?
That's just like they speakgerman in belgium?
Right?
Or is it french?
Or do they speak?
Or is it dutch?
Courtney (28:56):
no, it's not dutch.
Rob Fitz (28:57):
It might depend on where they're at okay, in
belgium right so the, the daddy,might be a translation to
another word and whateverwhatever their native language
is and the last one is pripyatp-r-i-p-y-a-t sounds russian
amusement park in chernobyl,ukraine oh, we all know what
(29:19):
happened in chernobyl.
Hannah (29:20):
Yes, we do perhaps the most haunting of all is the
pripyat amusement park inukraine.
It was scheduled to open on may1st 1986, but it never truly
did.
The chernobyl nuclear disasterstruck just days before and the
park stood empty from the start.
That's so sad.
The Ferris wheel, bumper carsand rusted rides still stand as
ghostly monuments to a day thatnever came.
Urban explorers and workers inthe exclusion zone report
(29:43):
hearing children's laughterechoing through the empty lot,
even though no children everrode those rides.
Some even claim the Ferriswheel creaks in.
The stillness turns slightly,though there's no wind.
I don't know about that.
Like I think Chernobyl itselfis just spooky, yeah.
Courtney (30:00):
But if the park hadn't even opened, like I mean, I
guess, unless it's on an Indianburial ground?
Again, I know right, seriouslyToo soon for that.
Rob Fitz (30:05):
But so you know the YouTuber I watch Indigo Traveler
.
Hannah (30:09):
Yeah yeah.
So he actually went tochernobyl with a guide which is
very dangerous.
Rob Fitz (30:16):
It's very dangerous because they're still still
active radioactive it's stillradioactive, it's not as bad as
it used to be, but, uh, you canspend a little bit of time there
.
But uh, he actually wentthrough some of the buildings
and then went into this park andsaw it.
And fun fact about Chernobylthere's actually dogs that were
(30:36):
left there that have become wildChernobyl dogs, so they've
become their own breed.
Well, it makes sense, butthey're wild dogs.
Courtney (30:46):
It's interesting they don't wander too far beyond the
limit.
You know what I'm saying.
Rob Fitz (30:49):
There's military that guards it.
You can't even get in therewithout crossing a checkpoint.
Courtney (30:52):
But they even care about the limit.
You know what I'm saying.
There's military that guards it.
You can't even get in therewithout crossing a checkpoint.
But they even care about thedogs.
They won't even let the dogsback out.
Hannah (30:59):
So if you ever stood the gates of an abandoned amusement
park, you know the feeling.
The heavy air the sense thatsomething is still there, just
out of sight.
So what do you think?
Is it all in our heads?
I think some of these placesare definitely all in our heads.
Or do these places really holdonto spirits long after the ride
shut down?
So tonight we close the gatesbehind us.
(31:20):
The Ferris wheel is still, thelights are dark, but the ghosts
remain, and that was ourwandering through the haunted
echoes of abandoned amusementparks.
Rob Fitz (31:29):
Mm Beautiful, Nicely done Hannah.
Hannah (31:32):
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Rob Fitz (31:33):
Wanderers.
That was a great episode.
Hannah (31:36):
Yeah, it was interesting .
Rob Fitz (31:39):
Before we end Hannah, do you have any horror movie
recommendations?
I?
Hannah (31:49):
do, and I actually got better with how I was rating
based off of our last talk.
Oh yeah To make sure that I hadan overall rating and then a
gore body horror rating.
Courtney (31:57):
Yeah because that is important to some people.
Some people like horror, butthey don't like that gory,
bloody stuff.
Rob Fitz (32:03):
Yeah, exactly, I don't mind.
A little is okay.
I have come to learn that thereare some horror movies out
there that I will watch, so thatis good having that rating.
Hannah (32:17):
It's a good trigger warning, I think too for
listeners.
Okay, so this is actually onethat I watched recently.
It's not an older one, it'scalled it Feeds.
Rob Fitz (32:25):
It Feeds.
Hannah (32:25):
It Feeds and it actually had one of the vampires from
the Twilight series.
Brett (32:31):
Ooh.
Hannah (32:32):
One of the sisters.
Rob Fitz (32:33):
Okay, which?
Hannah (32:33):
one, alice, alice.
It was Alice, so she plays amom in this one and she's
supposed to be a therapist, butshe actually has other abilities
that come with it.
But it's not like it's on thedown low.
Okay, so, depending on, like,if you need certain therapy
quote-unquote she gets referred.
(32:54):
These people, so this girl, sohers.
Okay, let's back up a littlebit so that the father is passed
and so the mom still has thisbusiness of being a therapist
and the daughter is coming ofage and helping her mom, like
basically do some type of likeonboarding thing.
Okay, what do you need?
What?
What kind of therapy are youlooking for?
And this girl actually comeswithout her father, like in a
(33:16):
panic.
She's like I need your mother'shelp.
And she's like well, what kindof help are you looking for?
I don't know, maybe this is notthe right fit for us.
And the mom comes around thecorner.
So the alice cullen comesaround the corner and sees
basically like this demonattached to this little girl.
So I actually gave this a 4.0overall.
Rob Fitz (33:36):
I absolutely ate this up is this out of a one to four
scale?
Hannah (33:41):
yes, oh, no one to five one to five okay one to five
scale.
Um, there's a lot of trauma,there are demons, so there's
like kind of a cult aspect andit is heavy.
It's not an easy horror watch,which I don't know how else to
say it.
For the gore, body horror, Iwould say it's a 4.5.
So there is kind of a lot of itso if you don't like that, but
(34:03):
it has a very interesting endingso if that's your vibe, it
feeds.
Rob Fitz (34:09):
I absolutely ate it up so the actress's name is ashley
green right that sounds right.
Hannah (34:15):
Yep, yep, but she played alice cullen, so it's kind of
like she had longer hair,because you know alice in the
twilight had like short hair soI kept like cutting her hair off
in the movie, I was like, ohyeah, I see it, she's a mom now
yeah, that's a greatrecommendation.
Courtney (34:30):
Thank you, henna, and, as always, check your trigger
warnings on things for yourself,mental health is important
buddy.
Watch if you need to, if youwant to watch it, but you don't
want to see the gore.
Hannah (34:39):
Um, just you know, be kind to your own mental health
no, no, go ahead I was gonna saythe final, final movie of the
conjuring series, the lastrights, is coming out on
september 5th.
I want to go see it.
I'm asking Courtney if she willgo see it with me, because I
don't think Rob will.
Rob Fitz (34:55):
No, no, thank you.
Hannah (34:56):
But that's another horror movie that's finishing
out soon.
I'll go to that one.
Excellent.
So, guys, if you need a buddy,go with a buddy.
Rob Fitz (35:04):
Courtney, do you have any recommendations?
Courtney (35:06):
I don't have any on-brand recommendations right
now.
I have been elbow deep inpersonal things and work things.
I've done a little bit of arcreading lately.
I did read a ghosted arc readthat I can put the link in the
show notes.
Hannah (35:21):
Oh yes, your paranormal one, right yes.
Courtney (35:24):
I guess I did.
It was a paranormal.
I gave it a 4 out of 5 stars onGoodreads, which anyone who
knows me and my Goodreads knowsthat I'm kind of a snob on
Goodreads which anyone who knowsme and my Goodreads knows that
I'm kind of a snob.
Hannah (35:33):
Yeah, you're not a snob, you're just you're, you're a
particular.
You're particular yes.
Courtney (35:40):
And I do have some good mystery and thriller
recommendations if people wantthose.
Rob Fitz (35:42):
But that's a little bit different than what we talk
about here.
All right, so my recommendationwould be uh, it's a new, uh
YouTube show I've been watchinglately.
It's called Lesnoy L-E-S-N-O-YOkay, and they just build these
small little cabins out in thewoods and that's it, so it's
(36:02):
good to put on when you'retrying to fall asleep you know,
yeah, and there's no talking,it's just them building and
sometimes it's sped up at, likeyou know, 1.25, but it's they're
not building them for anybodyuh, they're building them for
themselves.
I I've come to the conclusion Ithink there's about four guys
and it definitely seems european, like eastern european.
(36:25):
Okay, I mean, they don't talkor anything, they're just
building, but just from, likethe vehicles I've seen and stuff
like that, but it's it veryrelaxing.
Hannah (36:34):
So I love that you brought that up, because it
actually reminds me of so, ifyou like, the Calm app one of
the stories is about thesebasically like hideaway cabins
in the Scotch Highlands thathave been used for basically
centuries.
I think they were mostlyhunting cabins, but they've used
them now for hikers that arehiking through the highlands.
And even well, it's not thequeen anymore, it's the king,
(36:57):
it's his house.
But they've actually taken likewhat was kind of like an
outhouse and they turned it moreinto a cabin for hikers to go
into.
So it's just, most of them arejust places to put a cot and a
gives you shelter for a night ortwo.
So it kind of reminds me ofthat.
Rob Fitz (37:14):
And that's literally how big they are.
I'd say, you know, 10 by 10there's enough room.
They usually build some sort ofbed and a fireplace.
Hannah (37:23):
Or a mattress of some sort.
Rob Fitz (37:24):
Exactly yeah.
Courtney (37:26):
Hey, when you need shelter, you need shelter.
When you need to sleep, yougotta have something to watch.
Rob Fitz (37:32):
Well, thanks for having me on again.
It's fun being in front of themic instead of, you know, in the
studio editing this and puttingit together.
Hannah (37:41):
Now you know what to expect.
Courtney (37:42):
Don't let them fool you.
We don't need to be edited.
We sound great, the first try.
Hannah (37:46):
We're magnificent and, on that note, thank you,
wanderers, for listening.
We love you Bye.
Thanks for listening today.
Wicked Wanderings is hosted byme, hannah, and co-hosted by me.
Rob Fitz (37:59):
Courtney, and it's produced by Rob Fitzpatrick.
Hannah (38:02):
Music by Sasha M.
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