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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's Mojo in the morning show Haunted House Trauma.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
You are the worst to Okay, all right, I do
not like haunted houses. If you've listened to the show
for any amount of time, you know this. Anna, you're new.
I've gone through a haunted house for the show because
I was forced to. But I don't like scary movies.
I don't like haunted houses. And this is very, very
(00:28):
deeply rooted. And so last night at dinner, when myself
and my husband and my stepdaughter, we're all talking and
my stepdaughter Samantha said, I'm going to my first haunted
house this weekend, and I thought, oh god, she I
don't think she's gonna get through it.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
She also scared. These are she got more.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
I think she's I think she's braver than I am.
But I like, she doesn't know what it's all about.
It's her first time, she's never done it. And so
it got us talking about haunted house trauma and why
I don't go through haunted houses. And it stems back
to when I was about eight years old. My step
grandparents at the time lived in Marion, Indiana, We're talking
(01:11):
the country, and took us to a haunted house that
was in the basement of their church, so pictures of
Jesus and crosses everywhere, and like Freddy Krueger coming out
of Oh my god, the kids nursery rooms. But then
they chased us to our car with chainsawsia So at
eight years old, I'm never going to a haunted house
(01:32):
again after.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
That, Oh my god, Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
And then West tells his haunted house trauma story, which
I didn't know until last night, and he was talking
about how also right around same age, eight nine years old,
his dad, who he did not have a good relationship with.
His dad was not a good nice person, brought little
West with him on a date to a haunted house
(01:58):
and West didn't want to go through the haunt house.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Started to cry like dad, please do not make me
do this.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
And his dad forced him to go through the haunted
house and said, you know they have a safe word.
Just say the safe word if you need to get out.
But his dad and his date went up ahead and
went through the haunted house.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
You let them alone, yes, so Wes said he was
screaming the safe ford, nobody had heard him, so he
balled himself up into a corner and cried, well, scary
clowns kept coming over and hackling him, and that's where
his fear of clowns comes from now.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
But was there for a good ten minutes before some
random guy came over and walked him out and reunited
him with his dad. So both of us hate haunted
houses for I feel like very good reasons. But anybody
who hates haunted house probably has a story of something
that happened to them.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Let's has caused that trauma.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Let's hear yours eight four to for Joe Live eight
four four six sixty five sixty five four eight.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
If you've you've had that before.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
So after you and Samantha's dad are telling this to her,
she's still going to a haunted house.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Well, she's still going because all her friends are going,
and she doesn't want to be the one that says,
I don't want to.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Go because I've gone through haunted houses that I thought
were legit scary. Most of them I feel like you
kind of know what's happening and about to happen, Like
most of them I think are kind of cheesy. The
thing I hated haunted houses are when the actors like
think that they can touch you or do things to you, Like,
I just don't like that at all.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
I'm just a very startily person in general.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Yeah, do you want to So, like, if.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
You come through the door and I don't know you're
about to come through the door, I scream, I jomp, Shannon,
don't go.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Through hunting house.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
This was This was one of the most iconic moments
that we've had on our show where we made Shannon
go through a hunting house.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Where was that hunted house?
Speaker 4 (03:48):
But it wasn't Wydott.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
It was the wine at Jc's and somebody gave me,
I think up five hundred bucks donation to breaking and
entering Christmas.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
If I went through it. So I was like, Okay,
I need to do.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
It, sobot to make it a thousand. Here we go.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
Shame crying, right, I mean that's like to bring an
extra pair of jeans.
Speaker 7 (04:21):
I feel like some of these haunted houses have gotten
like too legitimately, Like these are situations I could see
myself in. Like I went to Arabis one year and
it was a car driving at and I was like,
I feel like, this is real life. This is not
a person in a costume.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
How did they get the car in there? What's up? Elizabeth.
Speaker 8 (04:38):
Hi, Hi, good morning. My father took me to a
haunted house when I was little, and I was like
clawing my hands into his neck because I was so afraid.
And one of the Haunted house employees, like I wanted
to come and call my nerves, said hey, it's okay.
So he pulled off his like wear wolf mask, which
(05:00):
made me think immediately he was actually pulling off the space.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
That's awful, man, These some of these Haunted House actors
are so good and their makeup is so good.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Yeah, what's up, Kim?
Speaker 6 (05:17):
Hey?
Speaker 9 (05:18):
When I was younger, I was in a haunted house
with some of my friends. I think I was probably
under ten or something, and I twisted my knees in
the haunted house and they had to turn the house
lights on, and I was carried out by like a
werewolf or something like that. So that that is my trauma.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
It's the worst, isn't it. You injure yourself at the
haunted house. I don't pay money tearing a c l
or something if.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
I'm not in her group and the lights game? What
what's up, Jenny? How you doing?
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Hey?
Speaker 8 (05:52):
Good morning, guys.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
How are you You got injured at the haunted House too.
Speaker 8 (05:57):
I did.
Speaker 10 (05:58):
I was probably about ten eleven years old, and I
went with some friends and my parents, and my friend
had jumped back because she got scared of something that
popped out. Well, she elbowed me in the lip and
I started bleeding. It busted my lip open. There's blood
all over the place, but everybody nobody noticed. One it
was too loud they couldn't hear me yelling. And then
two they just thought it was part of the decorations
(06:18):
because there was blood. So at the end of it,
I come out and there's blood everywhere, and then finally
people realize that it was not part of the show.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
It was real blood.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
My favorites are when you go into these haunted houses,
and I've learned this from going with Jacob so much,
because Jacob studies this whole thing. My favorite is knowing
where the people are ahead of time before you get
scared by them, and having that already because Jake will
say to you right, left, right, left, like he can
tell like where they are because they usually come out
(06:50):
at you at spots. And Jake would always tell me
he goes when you're going in a room and as
you're going through the room, look left, because that's where
typically they're going to be. They don't ever jump out right.
Huh see, I don't like that.
Speaker 6 (07:04):
That's the worst part about going to hunted houses on
extremely popular weekends is that they're so packed house. You
see somebody job of like putting groups five minutes ahead,
but you can hear the people scream before you get
around the corner at the I throw in a lot.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Of cases, if you know, they always say is the
first person's gonna get scared. It's not the first person
that gets it. It's usually the last person that will
get it in some cases, like knowing where to walk through, but.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Me in the middle and surround me cauny and I'm
still going to keep my guys closed.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Sam worked at a hunted house.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
So you were one of the characters at the hunted
house and what happened?
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Sam?
Speaker 8 (07:39):
Hi?
Speaker 9 (07:40):
Yeah, So I worked at a hunter house and it
was the best job ever, just.
Speaker 8 (07:44):
So you know.
Speaker 9 (07:45):
And there was a gentleman and that he came in
with like I said, they were on a date with
a girl.
Speaker 8 (07:51):
I jumped out and I scared.
Speaker 10 (07:53):
Him so bad he peated Sam.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Oh, you just ruined that guy's chance of getting laid
that you understand.
Speaker 8 (08:00):
That maybe I made it better, because.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
That is true. Misty, what happened, Misty.
Speaker 11 (08:11):
Hit on her.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
She can get away with that. You don't usually touch
these guys. That's fun, That is great. Go with Grandma.
Grandma will keep you safe.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
In Dallas, we were talking about the chainsaw chasing Shannon
out to the car. Chainsaws are usually the worst thing
ever because the sound of them makes you scared.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Yeah, what's up?
Speaker 11 (08:35):
Absolutely, especially if they really go into character.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
I was about seven or eight.
Speaker 11 (08:40):
My mom took me to a little haunted house in
the neighborhood and this guy, he was in a leather
face like whole outfit with a chainsaw. He chased me
down the whole street, just me, no one else, and
I got lost from my mom too, so that traumatized
me even more.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
That's that's the worst.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
That's the worst, because you think it's going to end
once you leave there, and it just keeps on going.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
It upset me.
Speaker 11 (09:05):
My mom's like, what's laughing after she found me? Yeah, Oh,
I hope you're okay.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (09:13):
I want to know if any of the characters, as
Mojo calls them, have gotten hit like.
Speaker 6 (09:20):
I've been in houses with groups of people, and I
remember vividly this one girl punched a dude in the face.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
You just you know, do you know you could get
arrested for that too. That's that's literally, it's it's literally assault. Yeah,
it was like so there was the Haunted House, the
one that was in Garden City that I went to once,
and the guy has infrared cameras in there, so you
can see everything that's in the dark happening to you.
(09:49):
And he would tell me that they would send the
videos off to the police for like because you could
literally see guys hauling off like fisting.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
That's not
It's Mojo in the morning show Haunted House Trauma.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
You are the worst to Okay, all right, I do
not like haunted houses. If you've listened to the show
for any amount of time, you know this. Anna, you're new.
I've gone through a haunted house for the show because
I was forced to. But I don't like scary movies.
I don't like haunted houses. And this is very, very
(00:28):
deeply rooted. And so last night at dinner, when myself
and my husband and my stepdaughter, we're all talking and
my stepdaughter Samantha said, I'm going to my first haunted
house this weekend, and I thought, oh god, she I
don't think she's gonna get through it.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
She also scared. These are she got more.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
I think she's I think she's braver than I am.
But I like, she doesn't know what it's all about.
It's her first time, she's never done it. And so
it got us talking about haunted house trauma and why
I don't go through haunted houses. And it stems back
to when I was about eight years old. My step
grandparents at the time lived in Marion, Indiana, We're talking
(01:11):
the country, and took us to a haunted house that
was in the basement of their church, so pictures of
Jesus and crosses everywhere, and like Freddy Krueger coming out
of Oh my god, the kids nursery rooms. But then
they chased us to our car with chainsawsia So at
eight years old, I'm never going to a haunted house
(01:32):
again after.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
That, Oh my god, Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
And then West tells his haunted house trauma story, which
I didn't know until last night, and he was talking
about how also right around same age, eight nine years old,
his dad, who he did not have a good relationship with.
His dad was not a good nice person, brought little
West with him on a date to a haunted house
(01:58):
and West didn't want to go through the haunt house.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Started to cry like dad, please do not make me
do this.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
And his dad forced him to go through the haunted
house and said, you know they have a safe word.
Just say the safe word if you need to get out.
But his dad and his date went up ahead and
went through the haunted house.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
You let them alone, yes, so Wes said he was
screaming the safe ford, nobody had heard him, so he
balled himself up into a corner and cried, well, scary
clowns kept coming over and hackling him, and that's where
his fear of clowns comes from now.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
But was there for a good ten minutes before some
random guy came over and walked him out and reunited
him with his dad. So both of us hate haunted
houses for I feel like very good reasons. But anybody
who hates haunted house probably has a story of something
that happened to them.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Let's has caused that trauma.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Let's hear yours eight four to for Joe Live eight
four four six sixty five sixty five four eight.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
If you've you've had that before.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
So after you and Samantha's dad are telling this to her,
she's still going to a haunted house.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Well, she's still going because all her friends are going,
and she doesn't want to be the one that says,
I don't want to.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Go because I've gone through haunted houses that I thought
were legit scary. Most of them I feel like you
kind of know what's happening and about to happen, Like
most of them I think are kind of cheesy. The
thing I hated haunted houses are when the actors like
think that they can touch you or do things to you, Like,
I just don't like that at all.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
I'm just a very startily person in general.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Yeah, do you want to So, like, if.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
You come through the door and I don't know you're
about to come through the door, I scream, I jomp, Shannon,
don't go.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Through hunting house.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
This was This was one of the most iconic moments
that we've had on our show where we made Shannon
go through a hunting house.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Where was that hunted house?
Speaker 4 (03:48):
But it wasn't Wydott.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
It was the wine at Jc's and somebody gave me,
I think up five hundred bucks donation to breaking and
entering Christmas.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
If I went through it. So I was like, Okay,
I need to do.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
It, sobot to make it a thousand. Here we go.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
Shame crying, right, I mean that's like to bring an
extra pair of jeans.
Speaker 7 (04:21):
I feel like some of these haunted houses have gotten
like too legitimately, Like these are situations I could see
myself in. Like I went to Arabis one year and
it was a car driving at and I was like,
I feel like, this is real life. This is not
a person in a costume.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
How did they get the car in there? What's up? Elizabeth.
Speaker 8 (04:38):
Hi, Hi, good morning. My father took me to a
haunted house when I was little, and I was like
clawing my hands into his neck because I was so afraid.
And one of the Haunted house employees, like I wanted
to come and call my nerves, said hey, it's okay.
So he pulled off his like wear wolf mask, which
(05:00):
made me think immediately he was actually pulling off the space.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
That's awful, man, These some of these Haunted House actors
are so good and their makeup is so good.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Yeah, what's up, Kim?
Speaker 6 (05:17):
Hey?
Speaker 9 (05:18):
When I was younger, I was in a haunted house
with some of my friends. I think I was probably
under ten or something, and I twisted my knees in
the haunted house and they had to turn the house
lights on, and I was carried out by like a
werewolf or something like that. So that that is my trauma.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
It's the worst, isn't it. You injure yourself at the
haunted house. I don't pay money tearing a c l
or something if.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
I'm not in her group and the lights game? What
what's up, Jenny? How you doing?
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Hey?
Speaker 8 (05:52):
Good morning, guys.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
How are you You got injured at the haunted House too.
Speaker 8 (05:57):
I did.
Speaker 10 (05:58):
I was probably about ten eleven years old, and I
went with some friends and my parents, and my friend
had jumped back because she got scared of something that
popped out. Well, she elbowed me in the lip and
I started bleeding. It busted my lip open. There's blood
all over the place, but everybody nobody noticed. One it
was too loud they couldn't hear me yelling. And then
two they just thought it was part of the decorations
(06:18):
because there was blood. So at the end of it,
I come out and there's blood everywhere, and then finally
people realize that it was not part of the show.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
It was real blood.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
My favorites are when you go into these haunted houses,
and I've learned this from going with Jacob so much,
because Jacob studies this whole thing. My favorite is knowing
where the people are ahead of time before you get
scared by them, and having that already because Jake will
say to you right, left, right, left, like he can
tell like where they are because they usually come out
(06:50):
at you at spots. And Jake would always tell me
he goes when you're going in a room and as
you're going through the room, look left, because that's where
typically they're going to be. They don't ever jump out right.
Huh see, I don't like that.
Speaker 6 (07:04):
That's the worst part about going to hunted houses on
extremely popular weekends is that they're so packed house. You
see somebody job of like putting groups five minutes ahead,
but you can hear the people scream before you get
around the corner at the I throw in a lot.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Of cases, if you know, they always say is the
first person's gonna get scared. It's not the first person
that gets it. It's usually the last person that will
get it in some cases, like knowing where to walk through, but.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Me in the middle and surround me cauny and I'm
still going to keep my guys closed.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Sam worked at a hunted house.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
So you were one of the characters at the hunted
house and what happened?
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Sam?
Speaker 8 (07:39):
Hi?
Speaker 9 (07:40):
Yeah, So I worked at a hunter house and it
was the best job ever, just.
Speaker 8 (07:44):
So you know.
Speaker 9 (07:45):
And there was a gentleman and that he came in
with like I said, they were on a date with
a girl.
Speaker 8 (07:51):
I jumped out and I scared.
Speaker 10 (07:53):
Him so bad he peated Sam.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Oh, you just ruined that guy's chance of getting laid
that you understand.
Speaker 8 (08:00):
That maybe I made it better, because.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
That is true. Misty, what happened, Misty.
Speaker 11 (08:11):
Hit on her.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
She can get away with that. You don't usually touch
these guys. That's fun, That is great. Go with Grandma.
Grandma will keep you safe.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
In Dallas, we were talking about the chainsaw chasing Shannon
out to the car. Chainsaws are usually the worst thing
ever because the sound of them makes you scared.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Yeah, what's up?
Speaker 11 (08:35):
Absolutely, especially if they really go into character.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
I was about seven or eight.
Speaker 11 (08:40):
My mom took me to a little haunted house in
the neighborhood and this guy, he was in a leather
face like whole outfit with a chainsaw. He chased me
down the whole street, just me, no one else, and
I got lost from my mom too, so that traumatized
me even more.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
That's that's the worst.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
That's the worst, because you think it's going to end
once you leave there, and it just keeps on going.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
It upset me.
Speaker 11 (09:05):
My mom's like, what's laughing after she found me? Yeah, Oh,
I hope you're okay.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (09:13):
I want to know if any of the characters, as
Mojo calls them, have gotten hit like.
Speaker 6 (09:20):
I've been in houses with groups of people, and I
remember vividly this one girl punched a dude in the face.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
You just you know, do you know you could get
arrested for that too. That's that's literally, it's it's literally assault. Yeah,
it was like so there was the Haunted House, the
one that was in Garden City that I went to once,
and the guy has infrared cameras in there, so you
can see everything that's in the dark happening to you.
(09:49):
And he would tell me that they would send the
videos off to the police for like because you could
literally see guys hauling off like fisting.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
That's not
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