October 17, 2025 • 51 mins
My usual convoluted thoughts on this bewitching time of the year. Enjoy!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Greetings and welcome to the broadcast.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Well, it is that time of year again, Halloween twenty
twenty five, the bewitching time of the year when.
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The little ghouls and goblins.
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And other assorted brats and their costumes come around for
their free candy. And when you stop and think about it,
Halloween is really the only time of the year when
you can give out free candy to kids without running
the risk of getting arrested. As always, Halloween is quite
the event here in south central Pennsylvania, with a whole
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bunch of Halloween parades and people putting out their Halloween decorations,
and as usual every year, some of the homes look
really nice with their Halloween decorps, and some just look
like some sort of hallucination from an LSA the experience,
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such as the case with the neighbor down the road
who has a bunch of those inflatable Halloween ghosts and whatnot.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
And there's a what.
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Looks like an old cabinet laying on the ground, which
I'm guessing he wants us to believe is actually a
casket of some sort with a headstone at the front
of it. Doesn't really look like a casket, but to him,
you know whatever. Then there are the people who just
decide to take an old sheet and throw it over
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their their lamp post out front of the house to
make it look like a ghost when the lamp is on.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
You.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Those quick and easy, do yourself ghosts are pretty nice,
except if there's stains on the sheet, most of which
are probably not food stains under those circumstances, if you
want to make a really creepy ghost, use a UV
light underneath instead of a regular bulb.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Now that.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
You have a ghost covered in spots, Okay, so just saying,
just saying.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
But yeah, since it is the spooky time of the
year when the veil is supposedly down between us and
the dead people, and the dead people can go running
amok for a certain time.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
I don't know if there's a limit on how long
the deceased can be here.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
And it was just Halloween or a week before and
a week after, but whatever. So let me get into
this by doing my best Count Floyd imitation and telling
you no for something really scary that didn't go very well,
did it anyway? All right, let me let me move
on here. So let me let me start to at
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least creep you out. I read the other day this
interesting fact that, according to some paranormal researchers, when you
were sleeping and you're dreaming, and you the unidentified faces
in your dreams, it is said that those faces are
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those of ghosts who are watching you while you're sleeping. Now,
run that through your head for a few minutes here,
and good luck getting a good night's sleep tonight right.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Now.
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In my case, my particular ghosts must be it must
be a bunch of perverse because I sleep usually in
the nude, and about halfway through through the night I
kick the covers off, so they're gonna get the full show,
which would probably explain why some of the faces I
see in my dreams look really mortified.
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But here's my question.
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So, if we come back as ghosts, does this mean
that we're also gonna be traveling into people's houses and
watching them sleep and popping up in their dreams. If so,
I'm gonna have a hell of a lot of fun
with that. I just can't wait to get into people's
houses and watch them while they're sleeping. Well, hell, I
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used to do that anyways, with a step ladder, looking
through their window on the occasional odd Friday night when
I had nothing to do. Fortunately the charges were dropped
against me. But that's another story for another day. But
just just think for a minute what you would see
in people's bedrooms when at night, when they're when they're
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when they're in bed, and some are not actually asleep
when they're in the bed.
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That you know, that's actually.
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Something look to look forward to if you become a ghost,
is the ability to come back around and do that.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Talk about that's better than Netflix.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Okay, hell in some cases that that's gonna be better
than porn Hub. But but anyways, let me digress here
because I'm straying off topic. I'm going from creepy to
to a point of graphic. Oh anyways, speak thinking of
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odd things that occur while you're asleep or in the
process of sleeping. One of my uncles many years ago,
this is going back into like the.
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Late nineteen seventies.
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He lived in an older home, well actually a very
old home of colonial home in Lexington, Massachusetts. And if
we're familiar with Lexington, Massachusetts, that's basically the birthplace.
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Of a lot of history right here in the United States.
During the Revolutionary War and whatnot.
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In fact, this house was literally down the street from
many of the sites of the battles and whatnot that
took place during the Revolutionary War. So he got up
one night to go to the bathroom and take a piss,
and he's going from his bedroom and he had a go.
There's a landing at the top of the steps. He
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had a cross to go over to the bathroom, which
is kind of in the middle of the house. As
he crossed the landing, he looked down the stairs to
his right, and he saw a figure murder.
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It was like almost like.
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A cloud of fog or vapor that was down at
the bottom of the stairs. And from this cloud or
mist or whatnot, he saw what appeared to be a
figure with eyes wearing a hooded cloak that was looking
up at him. He said this and scared the hell
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out of him. He didn't he dean bother. Taking his piss,
he went back to the bedroom and threw on some
of his favorite Dean Martin eight track tapes to take
his mind off what he had just seen. And this
was something this story he did not tell anyone else
until probably a couple of years after it had happened,
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and I guess it really had startled him, he thought,
and the back of his I mean, maybe was the
Grim Reaper, the Angel of Death coming to get him. Now,
some skeptics will argue that this is like a a.
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Waking dream or whatever.
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He's actually maybe sleepwalking when he saw this, But no,
he had verified that he was wide awake when he
had seen this being or entity or ghosts or whatever
the hell it was at the bottom of the stairs.
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Now, this house being as old as it is.
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And with all the Revolutionary War action taking place in
the vicinity, a house like that would probably be loaded
with spirits and ghosts and whatnot. And as possible, this
could be just one of those ghosts who happened to appear.
There's no way that it could have been the Grim
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Reaper because my uncle lived on another thirty years past
that point. So unless the Angel of Death had the
wrong address and show up at the wrong house, which
that's pretty scary into itself. He's there to take your neighbor,
and he takes you by mistake, it's like, oops, sorry,
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talk about a really bad fuck up.
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I'm one of those who does believe in ghosts.
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There's something going there's some sort of tangible phenomenon going
on here. And of course we don't know what occurs
after we die, if we come back to roaming this
earth as wayward spirits for the next three hundred years
or so. And with the huge influx of security cameras,
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ring cameras, cameras in the home, cameras out the Yan Yang,
there are images coming forth that purport to show ghosts
or spirits. Some of these photographs are quite convincing and
very difficult to explain away. Obviously, some can be explained.
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As a photographer, I can tell you that many quote
unquote ghostly images are nothing more than flair on the
camera lens or an aberration of light or whatnot. So
probably a third of these ghostly images can be explained logically.
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However, there are a lot more that cannot.
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Be explained logically, and those are the creepy ones. Those
are the ones that you got to sit back and wonder,
m you know, what's going on here? But well, I'm
on the subject of ghostly encounters and ghost stories. Let's
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stop for a minute to talk about the legend of
Sleepy Hollow and the Headless Horseman. Now, this story, which
was written by Washington, Irving. He is often credited as
being the first true published ghost story, at least in
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the United States. And for those of you I'm familiar
with the tale, let me give you a very quick
synopsis here. So it would seem that in the sleepy
town of Sleepy Hollow, New York, there was a school
teacher by the name of Ichabod Crane, or he was
a school principal, I can't remember which it is. He
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was a tall, skinny guy with really long hands and
a big nose and big ears. He apparently was in
love with his local rich girl, and another guy was
also in love with this local rich girl. And something
happened somewhere along the line where Ichabod Crane was out
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riding his horse one.
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Night through the woods in Sleepy Hollow.
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All of a sudden, the headless horseman, which was this
ghost of a man, went out a head on a
horse carrying a jack O lanton on a stick, and
the headless horseman went chasing after Ichabod Crane, and apparently
Ichabod Crane disappeared after that was ever seen from again,
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although the following day they found they apparently found his
horse and a smash pumpkin, but whatever. So now, the
ghost of the headless Horseman was supposedly that of a
Hessian soldier who was killed during the Revolutionary War when
he was decapitated by cannon fire, and thus he spent
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all eternity riding around the countryside in Sleepy Hollow to
try and find his missing head, which sounds like one
hell of a way to spend the rest the eternity. Now,
of course, there are many interpretations of this story. Some
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have said there's actually some basis in fact here because
there I guess there was a Nikabod Crane or whatever
Washington irv Irving would all would often borrow names of
friends to put into his stories. Now, whether or not
there was actually a headless horseman, that that's open to debate.
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And now we don't know.
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Did Nikobob Crane actually meet foul play at the hands
of the other guy who was chasing after the.
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Rich the rich bitch and somehow the.
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Headless horseman got the blame for what was probably a
vicious little love triangle that went horribly wrong.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Or was there something else going on here that none of.
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Us are completely aware of, nor should we should we
be aware of.
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But this much I can tell you.
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For the headless horseman to be riding around on a
horse without his head carrying a jackelinin on a stick
is quite a feat unto itself. Because on Halloween, when
I'm bringing my pumpkin outside after I carve it and
light it, it's an effort for me just to walk
across the porch carrying the jack lantin with both hands
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without falling over the lawn furniture.
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So to ride around on a horse.
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With no head while carrying a jacqueline on a stick,
that that that's quite an accomplishment right there in my book. Also,
I have a question. I know that, uh, if one
of the trick or treaders who comes to my house
even sneezes the wrong way, it usually blows up, blows
out the candle that I have inside my jack lanton,
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or if there's even a mild breeze blowing the wrong way,
it blows out the candle in my jackeline. So how
did the guy without the head right around had a
pretty good clip on his horse with the jackelanton on
the stick?
Speaker 1 (14:13):
How did the jacku lanton?
Speaker 2 (14:14):
How did the candle in the jack lanton not blow
out from the oncoming wind, from riding around on the
horse at a high speed, chasing Ichabod crane through the
woods over some woman that everyone wanted to fuck.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
You know, I just don't get it. Even if the headless.
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Horseman was going along in a slow gate on the horse,
the candle still would have blown out unless he had
one of those candles like those those those joke birthday
candles that you can't blow out no matter what. Maybe
that was what was going on, But something about this
story is not making any sense to me, is not
adding up. Also, here's another question that burns in the
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back of my head. If you don't have a head,
and obviously you cannot see, how the hell are you
riding a horse?
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It doesn't add up. How do you know even how
to get on the horse?
Speaker 2 (15:10):
I mean, for all intensive purposes, the headless horsemen could
be riding the horse backwards and would probably not realize
that he's sitting the wrong way in the saddle. In
the end, I think the headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow
is more of a convoluted conspiracy involving some people who
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should have known better to do what they were doing
at the time.
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They did it.
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But nonetheless, as I mentioned, this story is the epitome
of Halloween stories told for generations and retold and embellished
and made into movies and TV shows and musicals. There's
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probably even a bidet out there that's been named after
this entire situation.
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So take off of what it's worth.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
If you want to get a copy and read it,
by all means, go ahead and you try to figure
it out.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Because I'm not seeing the logic here.
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Something tells me there's something going on that none of
us really fully understand in this entire process. And all
that being said, let me segue onto another popular subject
for Halloween, and that would be cemeteries and funerals and
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all that good stuff. I don't know if I've ever
mentioned this or brought this up to folks in the
previous Halloween episodes, but we're all familiar with headstones grave markers.
There is actually a place right down the street from
my house here in Pennsylvania. They sell the headstones and whatnot,
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and they're having a sale. They actually have those sale
banners outside the building and there's signs that read fifty
off all inventory sale. So if you want to get
a good deal on your headstone, get it now while
the prices are low. So you know, I keep waiting
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every time I drive by there on my way to
Dunkin Donuts. I keep waiting to see like a mascot
out there with like a headstone costume or something dancing
around holding a sign that says coming now for our
great fifty percent off sale.
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So I know that's sick, But what can you expect.
But speaking.
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Speaking of headstones, uh, headstones actually serve a purpose other
than identifying the deceased in the ground in that particular spot. Supposedly,
according to like from what I've been told and what
I've read, headstones were originally intended to keep people from
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rising up from the grave as vampires.
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Yes, you heard me correct.
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So the logic was, if you were to become a
vampire and come up out of the grave and start
sucking the life blood out of all the living, kind
of like the Republican Party does, the logic was, with
a headstone on top of the grave, as you rise up,
you would not be able to get out of the
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ground because of the headstone, So therefore you cannot do
your vampiric activities under the full moon, probably because as
you're coming up, you're gonna whack your head on the
headstone and knock yourself out. But but if I could,
if I could delve into this a little bit deeper,
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one has to question the logic behind all of that
and the clarity of thought involved, because you're assuming that
someone is going to become the immortal undead here to
come up, rise up, and run amock, biting everyone in
the neck. So you're going to be this invincible creature
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of the night. And yet they believed that a slab
of rock with some names and dates on it is
actually going to stop this creature from rising up to
do its ungodly deeds, when in all actuality, they would
have been better off if they just had a clear
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glass lid on the casket over the supposed vampire's face
with the skylight leading up to the ground. That way,
the sun would come through and do far more damage
to the said vampire than having headstone over the undead's
head to prevent said walking corpse from getting out and
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causing mischief and mayhem in the town. This is right
up there with the goddamn guy with no head riding
around on the horse with a jack of lanting. Okay,
but anyways, I think you understand where I'm going with this.
So anyways, when you see a headstone, and we all
drive by cemeteries every day, going to and fro, they're everywhere,
you can't you can't swing a dead cat without hitting
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a cemetery. Look at the headstones. And remember they're not
just grave markers. They are vampire deterrent mechanisms. Yep, now
you know, and you'll learn it right from me. So there,
But if I could continue with the subject of burial processes,
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let me take a moment here to talk about substandard caskets. Lately,
in doing some research for this Halloween episode, I cruised
through YouTube YouTube and try to find videos on ghosts
and funerals and graveyard cemeteries, all liquod stuff, and I
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was surprised at the number of videos that are popping
up that show the bottoms falling out of caskets as
the pallbearers are carrying said caskets to said grave.
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Or into the funeral home or into the church or whatever.
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All of a sudden the bottom falls out and U
outcomes the corpse. As you can imagine, this causes quite
a stir among the mourners when the body of the beloved,
the dearly deceased plops out on the ground like some
sort of disheveled dishrag or something, and suddenly the corpse
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is not looking all so natural. And this leads me
to wonder, what the fuck is going on here? Is
there like a whole there's no quality control anymore over
the manufacture of caskets and or coffins and whatnot. Are
we just running these things through the assembly line without
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double checking the number of screws they stick on the
bottom or something? What is going on here? Are these
caskets being manufactured by Billy Bob's Casket Company outside of
Whiche dot Kansas?
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What the hell?
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Maybe they're coming from Walmart dot com, because it is
my understanding you can't order a casket off of Walmart
dot com, So probably that's what's going on. I don't know, However,
it was always my understanding that the modern burial container,
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aka the casket, it's supposed to be once it's closed up,
it's hermetically sealed for obvious reasons, for health reasons. Because
after the body is put in the ground, I guess,
juices leak out and all sorts of good things happen,
and you know the casket has to contain all of that.
So because I the caskets of the new caskets are
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so tight when they're sealed that bodies there's actually a
build up of methane gas or something that's released, and
bodies actually explode inside the casket. I mean not that,
not that that's funny for the deally departed to burst
while they're in the ground, But with the quality of
these these containers, now if in when the body explodes,
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it's gonna burst everywhere. Can you imagine beeting the driver
of the hearse and that suddenly happens in the back
of the vehicle while you're going one down your merry
way along the road. What a goddamn mess that's gonna
be to clean up. But speaking of going down the road,
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I'm sure we've all heard about those various ghost stories
where people encounter ghosts or phantoms or other phenomena while
driving down lonely isolated back roads somewhere, such as the
case of one guy who picked up this hitchhiking girl
and she got in the car and he asked where
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she was going to and she just pointed straight ahead,
and after a couple of minutes of driving down the road,
the girl doesn't seem to be too talkative, and the
guy happens to.
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Look around to occupy himself.
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Then he looks back over at the passenger's seat and
sees that the girl he had picked up is now gone,
just disappeared. She didn't open the door and jump out,
So after the guy shots himself, pulls over to the
side of the road and try to figure out what
the hell just happened. He later hears the story of
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the hitchhiking ghost Lady on that particular road. There's a
lot of roads in the United States that are allegedly haunted,
such as Proctor Valley Road in California, which is known
as the most haunted road in the state. It has
legends of phantom hitchhikers, demon cars, and the Proctor Valley Monster.
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And there's Demon's Road in Texas where there were stories
of a hand bursting from a grave in Martha Chapel
Cemetery that grabs visitors, and there also accounts of visitors
who become possessed or enter a catatonic state. Actually, it
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sounds like more of the adventures one might find at
a local crack house than a graveyard. But can you
imagine a random hand just coming out of the ont
of the ground or something at the graveyard and grabbing
hold of you. That would have to be the ultimate
terrifying experience. Right there, You're minding your own business and
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all of a sudden, here's a hand. Of course, now,
depending on where or how the hand would get a
hold of my body, it could either be terrifying for
me or quite enjoyable. If the ghostly hand wants to
give me a happy ending, then by all means have
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at it. Just saying, just saying. Now, with all this
ghostly phenomena occurring on various roads and highways and whatnot,
there actually is a logical explanation to explain some of
this strange stuff that is going on.
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It is said that.
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If you're driving and carbon monoxide is getting inside of
the vehicle, it can cause hallucinations, and those hallucinations can
manifest themselves into picking up a ghost or whatnot. Also,
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it has been proven that if you're on a road
for a long time and you're fatigued, and this is
especially true with some truck drivers who have admitted to
seeing some interesting stuff on the roads over the years
that can be attributed.
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To said fatigue. But obviously if you're that fatigued.
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While you're driving at night and you're seeing things, then
you probably shouldn't be driving in the first place. That's
just my safety message right there. And the thing of
it is, there's very little of any physical evidence to
back up the claims that you have picked up a
ghostly hitchhiker. A good friend of mine tried that a
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number of years ago when his wife found a pair
of panties under the seat of the car and they
weren't her panties, and he tried to claim that when
the ghostly woman suddenly disappeared out of the.
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Car or underwear came off.
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Well, his wife wasn't buying it, and neither was the
judge at the divorce proceedings. So the next time that
you're driving down a lonely road somewhere at night, late
at night, and you see a ghostly person hitchhiking on
the side of the road, I probably wouldn't pick them up.
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In fact, it's probably not a good idea to pick
up hitchhikers any which way. Or if you see a
phantom vehicle come at you that tries to run you
off the road. Of course, that's normal any given day
here in Pennsylvania. You might want to get off that
road and go someplace else. It might be a good idea.
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So I recently was having a discussion with a friend
concerning what we considered some of the greatest actor performances
in horror movies over the years, and what we consider
to be the greatest horror movies of all time. And
as you know, I'm not a big fan of the
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modern horror movies or the blood and the golore and
stuff like that. I don't think you need all that stuff.
I don't think you need people's brains getting sucked out
through their assholes to give a good scare. Although the
sight of someone's brain's getting sucked out through their ass
it could be more humorous than actually scary when you
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when you stop and think that most people's brains are
probably down there anyways. But I find nothing scary. And
someone's internal organs getting ripped out by a deranged maniac
and having said organs thrown out the nearest window. Again,
it's more humorous than it is scary. So naturally, my
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thoughts always go back to the older, the classic horror movies,
such as the original Dracula, and as far as actor portrayals,
Bela Lugosi playing the character of Dracula, he just nailed it.
The only the only better performance of Dracula would have
been that that was done by Franklinngella in the version
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of the character in the late seventies.
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But Bela Lugosi, the way he glared with.
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His eyes, and his nuances and his inflections and the
way he talked, and he just had it. He hit
it out of the park on that performance. Now, another
series of very good acting performances in a horror movie
would be the original Jaws. Some people don't consider the
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original Jaws to be a horror movie, but yes, it is.
Only in this case the villain is a very oversized shark,
not some idiot with a hockey mask running around a
chainsaw and an axe and a quark screw and don't
ask what he was going to do with the QRK screw.
But in the original Jaws, the actor Robert Shaw, who
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played the character of Quint, the.
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Grizzled long time shark hunter in.
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The movie Robert Shaw nailed that performance like Bella Lugosi
nailed Dracula.
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Shaw did this character to a t.
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That's not the same that the other actors, especially Roy
Scheider and Richard Dreyfus, they did outstanding performances as well,
especially during the time when the three were out on
the boat trying to find the great white shark that
had been killing people.
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And there were two scenes.
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In particular in which Robert Shaw was outstanding. One was
when he gave the speech of his experience on board
the USS Indianapolis, the ship that was sank in World
War Two, and what it was like to be in
the water awaiting rescue as the sharks began to circle
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and started taking out some of his fellow crewmates who
were in the water. Those few moments when he was speaking,
he nailed it. And in fact, if you watch during
that scene, the character of Hooper played by Richard Dreyfuss,
was absolutely mesmerized by Shaw's telling of the tail, and
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that was actually that actually occurred. Richard Dreyfuss, I guess,
became so enthralled by the way Robert Shaw was delivering
his lines that he just sat there and stared. Another
great moment that was done by Shaw was when they're
again looking for the shark and the character of Quint
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is sitting in a chair with a fishing pole and
a line out in the water, and Chief Brody played
by Roy Scheider is throwing out the chum line, the
fish and the blood to draw the shark in the water.
And there's a moment of kind of like quiet, and
Quint is chewing on a cracker, sitting in the chair,
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and all of a sudden, the fishing line begins to
move slowly. You hear this little creek as some line
is unrolled, as something is hooked on the other end
of the fishing line. So Quin stops nibbling on his cracker,
and the way he glances over his eyes just did
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everything win His eyes in this particular scene looked over
the line and then it moved again. So now, okay,
we got something hooked on the fishing line. At this
point in the movie, no one had really got a
good look at the shark yet, so you didn't know
what was under there where it was.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
And then Quinn.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Goes to strap himself in the chair so he doesn't
get pulled overboard by whatever.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
He's just hooked.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
He puts the fishing pole on a special mount in
the deck and braces his feet. But those couple of
moments when he's watching that line slowly creak as it moves,
it gets tugged a little bit more.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
That that was priceless.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
That was kind of like mesmerizing on a couple of
different levels, at least in my opinion. Now, what do
I know, just a dipshit with a podcast with an opinion,
But that's my thought process. If you ever that scene
is out there on YouTube, check it out. You see
what I'm talking about, Because it was this element of mystery,
did they actually hook the shark?
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Where was it? Was it? Right?
Speaker 2 (35:15):
At one point Quinn thought it was under the boat,
and you didn't know where this thing was gonna come
bursting out of the water. So that added to the
overall tension and the scariness of the movie. But the
entire scene was punctuated by just the way Robert Shaw
used his eyes to take a glance at the fishing pole. Again,
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it doesn't take a lot of blood and gore to
kind of scare the Jesus out of people. So but
while I'm on the subject of classic horror, movies. I mean,
once again give a nod to the original version of
The Thing and every Halloween episode I mentioned this movie
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because it is one of the best this movie. The
original version came out, I believe in the nineteen fifties.
Once this alien got inside of the Arctic station there,
you didn't know where it was going to pop out next.
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It started basically tormenting the crew inside of this place,
and it was that was the tension in the scariness here,
because you never.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
Knew where the alien was.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
They had apparently the alien had some radioactivity to it,
so they use a geg counter sometimes to determine its
approximate location. And as the gegaicond would start clicking faster,
you realized the thing was getting closer. But it just
that was the really scary part, not realizing where it
was and when and if it was going to come
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at you. It's kind of like having in laws stay
at your house over the weekend. You never really know
where they are in the house at any given time
until you go downstairs late at night and you find
your father in law in the kitchen and he's naked
and he's making a baloney sandwich for himself.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
Now that right, there is sheer terror.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
But I'll reiterate one more time, the old classic horror movies,
at least in my opinion, are still the best, hands down.
So allow me to segue to my next Halloween subject
on that is haunted houses. Well not the real haunted
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houses where you know, ghosts live and stuff like that,
but the what they call now haunted attractions. I guess
you can't call them haunted houses anymore because it's a
liability or something, so they're known as haunted attractions, and
they're they're everywhere, and you pay so much to go in,
and they have the various monsters and ghouls and fiends
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and sort of idiots to scare you. Some are downright mundane.
Some are really scary, to the point where a friend
of mine last year who visited one of these haunted
attractions actually pissed herself when this horrifying zombie came out
to chew on her brains or something. After managing to
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get her breath and realizing that she had in fact
urinated in her Nike pro leggings, she told the ghoulish
zombie to go fuck himself. Needless to say, things went
downhill from there. And there are actually haunted attractions out
there that you need to sign a liability release before
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you go in, because they are in fact so scary
and in some case is borderline dangerous that you run
the risk of injury, in or death by entering into
these attractions and enduring the nightmare that unfolds. I guess
it's difficult to keep telling yourself that the zombie monster
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is just an actor when he's coming at you what
a real chainsaw is running at full bore. Then, of
course we have the folks who try to do like
haunted house attractions on their own property and they kind
of set things up for Halloween to scare the trick
or treats that come through, and usually most of them
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are so corny and stupid they're anything but scary. And
the one guy, a couple of neighborhoods over, he had
kind of like a haunted house theme going on, and
a little trail around his yard, and he had these
life size skeletons laid out on the lawn and there
was sprawled back with their knees up, kind of laying back.
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They didn't look scary. They they looked more like cheap
hooker is waiting for their next John. At least that's
what it looked like to me. Of course, let me
give him honorable mention to the guy down the street
who set up his little haunted attraction. He made some
sort of a place of doom out of old hefty
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trash bags which were dangling from the trees in front
of the house, and he had this recording of what
he thought was scary Halloween sounds.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
I guess he did.
Speaker 2 (40:42):
The recording himself. It was just one long, endless moaning
or groaning.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
It.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
It was kind of like, to be honest, it sounded
to me like somebody on the toilet desperately trying to
take a shit.
Speaker 1 (41:07):
It didn't it wasn't frightening.
Speaker 2 (41:09):
It was actually highly annoying, to the point where you
want to call the cops.
Speaker 1 (41:13):
But all night long, the same And again, what was
this supposed to be?
Speaker 2 (41:25):
Was this supposed to be like Draggulla getting stabbed with
the wooden steak? Or is it Frankenstein getting an enema?
Speaker 1 (41:35):
What's going on? What is this noise we are hearing?
You know?
Speaker 2 (41:50):
He could have at least punctuated it with some other
different sounds, like screams. Maybe his wife could scream into
the microphone to break it up a little bit, you know,
recorder when she's coming or something. I don't know, anything
would be different than what we were hearing. It was
just like Jesus age Christ, We're gonna listen to this
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shit for hours and hours and hours. In fact, it
got to the point where some of the trick or
treaties avoided that house just because of the sound of
the noises coming out of there. Who in the right
mind would run the risk of going through that haunted
trash bag trail With those noises, you're liable to come
across some guys sitting on a toilet out there. This
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is exactly the sort of goddamn garbage that makes Vincent
Price roll over in his grave. Now, let me ask
how many of you out there are afraid of things
that go bump in the night. Are you afraid of
the dock and what might be lurking in the dock?
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Maybe it's your father in law making that sandwich, or
even more rus maybe it's the Boogeyman. Not surprisingly, a
recent survey tells us that upwards of twenty nine percent
of people are afraid of the dark, and nearly that
many actually will sleep with a night light, and there
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are some yet who will sleep with all the lights
on because they are so terrified of the dark.
Speaker 1 (43:25):
Perhaps just goes back to the time.
Speaker 2 (43:27):
When we were told as kids that there were monsters
hiding under our bed. Well, actually they probably are monsters
under the bed. They follow you through the remainder of
your life, even when you grow up and become an adult.
Like I did you get a platform bed, hopefully that,
hopefully the monsters will have no place.
Speaker 1 (43:44):
To hide under a platform bed.
Speaker 2 (43:46):
But no, they'll hide under the bookcase headboard if you
give them half a chance, laying in wait looking. In fact,
the monsters under your bed will probably follow you all
the way to your old age. When you're in a
nursing home laying in bed, playing with your diaper, that
monster will still be under the bed, just waiting for
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God only knows what.
Speaker 1 (44:13):
How do you get rid of those monsters? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (44:17):
Maybe try spraying some insecticide under the bed. Maybe they'll
chase them out. But there actually was a case in
Kansas in March or twenty twenty five where a babysitter
found a man by the name of Martin Villa Lobos
Junior hiding under a child's bed after the child complained
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about a monster under the bed. Well, in fact, there
was a monster under the bed. Once the said monster
was discovered, there was a scuffle and the babysitter was
knocked over and the child was knocked over as well,
and mister Villa Bobos, whatever his name is, escaped. He
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was later apprehended and it turned out that he was
a former resident with a protective order against him. In
April of twenty twenty five, a solo traveler from Thailand
found a man hiding under her bed in a hotel
room in Tokyo. Apparently she had noticed a weird smell
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in the room, and when she looked under the bed,
she saw a pair of eyes looking back at her.
The woman suddenly started screaming. The man under the bed
started screaming, and he ran out and got away. And
in twenty sixteen, a woman in Tennessee discovered her ex
boyfriend hiding under the bed. I guess he just couldn't
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get enough action in the bed, right, and she shot
him in the foot. So in a nutshell, I guess
that's how you would do with monsters under your bed.
So As Halloween rapidly approaches, I've been debating what sort
of candy to buy to give out to the kids
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this year. Normally we have quite a few kids come
through because we live in a fairly busy street, although
this time around I'm thinking about getting some healthy snacks
to give to the little fuckers. You know, nothing is
worse as a kid when you're going to the door
trick or treating expecting it to get chocolate retreats and
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you wind up getting raisins and nuts instead. I could
be like the weird ass neighbor that we had down
the road when I was a kid. When you go
trick or treating, he would hand out these funny little
pamphlets with strange, halfway satanic messages that could only They're
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all printed backwards, so you can only read them if
you held it up to the mirror.
Speaker 1 (47:03):
Although these days.
Speaker 2 (47:04):
In our ultra paranoid world, if you hand out shit
like that, you're probably gonna get arrested for causing emotional
damage to.
Speaker 1 (47:13):
The trick or treaters.
Speaker 2 (47:16):
So last year on Halloween, I put out my usual
Jack Olnton that I carved up from a rather hefty
sized pumpkin and on Halloween night, I suddenly realized that
I had no candles to stick inside, said Jack Olnton.
I went out to a couple of local stores trying
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to find those led battery operated lights that you can
stick inside of the pumpkin, but everyone was sold out,
by no surprise. So with no other options, I took
an old cell phone that I had that was still
an access online and I downloaded those apps that shows
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a crackling burning fire. I guess meant to actually aid
in relaxation, and I set the app to the crackling fire,
and I put the phone inside of the pumpkin, so
it looked, for all intentsive purposes to those who were
walking by the house, as if there was actually a
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fire going inside of my Jackelanten, because you really couldn't
see the phone at the bottom of the pumpkin. Most
people were quite fascinated by my little display. However, there
was one person who pointed out to me that it
was extremely dangerous to hook up a gas line to
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light a fire inside of a pumpkin. I tried to
explain that I did not hook up a gas line
to my pumpkin to light up the jackelantin it is
actually my old cell phone with a fireplace app going
on the screen. I then told them to calm the
fuck down, have a nice night, and go buy your
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trick or treating. Anyways, it is about time for me
to wrap up this special Halloween edition of the podcast. Normally,
towards the end of the Halloween episodes, I tried to
go in the bathroom and conjure up an image of
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Bloody Mary in the mirror by saying her name three times.
It has yet to work because I honestly believe that
the demon Bitch is a fraud and no matter how
many times you call her name, she's not gonna show up.
So I'm not even gonna bother this year to waste
my time and your time by trying to conjure her
in the bathroom mirror. But I would like wish you
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all a very happy Halloween this year. I hope you
get lots of candy For those adults out there who
are gonna go and costume enjoy yourselves. I'm sure this
year the Phillies Karen will be the big costume that
most people male and female will be sporting. I've always
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wanted to get a raincoat and go out as a flasher,
but I've yet to do that. Maybe this year I'll
try it. I don't know, we'll see what happens. But anyways,
i'd like to take thank you for taking the time
to listen to this special edition.
Speaker 1 (50:29):
Hope you enjoyed it. If you didn't enjoy it, well
I don't know what to do for you.
Speaker 2 (50:35):
And before I before I go, before I wrap this up,
let me just take one quick moment here to do
one more thing.
Speaker 1 (50:51):
There. I just had to get that off my chest
one more time.
Speaker 2 (50:56):
So anyways, you all have a good all hellos even
so long for now, Bye bye,
Greetings and welcome to the broadcast.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Well, it is that time of year again, Halloween twenty
twenty five, the bewitching time of the year when.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
The little ghouls and goblins.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
And other assorted brats and their costumes come around for
their free candy. And when you stop and think about it,
Halloween is really the only time of the year when
you can give out free candy to kids without running
the risk of getting arrested. As always, Halloween is quite
the event here in south central Pennsylvania, with a whole
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bunch of Halloween parades and people putting out their Halloween decorations,
and as usual every year, some of the homes look
really nice with their Halloween decorps, and some just look
like some sort of hallucination from an LSA the experience,
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such as the case with the neighbor down the road
who has a bunch of those inflatable Halloween ghosts and whatnot.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
And there's a what.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Looks like an old cabinet laying on the ground, which
I'm guessing he wants us to believe is actually a
casket of some sort with a headstone at the front
of it. Doesn't really look like a casket, but to him,
you know whatever. Then there are the people who just
decide to take an old sheet and throw it over
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their their lamp post out front of the house to
make it look like a ghost when the lamp is on.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
You.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Those quick and easy, do yourself ghosts are pretty nice,
except if there's stains on the sheet, most of which
are probably not food stains under those circumstances, if you
want to make a really creepy ghost, use a UV
light underneath instead of a regular bulb.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Now that.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
You have a ghost covered in spots, Okay, so just saying,
just saying.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
But yeah, since it is the spooky time of the
year when the veil is supposedly down between us and
the dead people, and the dead people can go running
amok for a certain time.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
I don't know if there's a limit on how long
the deceased can be here.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
And it was just Halloween or a week before and
a week after, but whatever. So let me get into
this by doing my best Count Floyd imitation and telling
you no for something really scary that didn't go very well,
did it anyway? All right, let me let me move
on here. So let me let me start to at
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least creep you out. I read the other day this
interesting fact that, according to some paranormal researchers, when you
were sleeping and you're dreaming, and you the unidentified faces
in your dreams, it is said that those faces are
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those of ghosts who are watching you while you're sleeping. Now,
run that through your head for a few minutes here,
and good luck getting a good night's sleep tonight right.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Now.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
In my case, my particular ghosts must be it must
be a bunch of perverse because I sleep usually in
the nude, and about halfway through through the night I
kick the covers off, so they're gonna get the full show,
which would probably explain why some of the faces I
see in my dreams look really mortified.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
But here's my question.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
So, if we come back as ghosts, does this mean
that we're also gonna be traveling into people's houses and
watching them sleep and popping up in their dreams. If so,
I'm gonna have a hell of a lot of fun
with that. I just can't wait to get into people's
houses and watch them while they're sleeping. Well, hell, I
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used to do that anyways, with a step ladder, looking
through their window on the occasional odd Friday night when
I had nothing to do. Fortunately the charges were dropped
against me. But that's another story for another day. But
just just think for a minute what you would see
in people's bedrooms when at night, when they're when they're
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when they're in bed, and some are not actually asleep
when they're in the bed.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
That you know, that's actually.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Something look to look forward to if you become a ghost,
is the ability to come back around and do that.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Talk about that's better than Netflix.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Okay, hell in some cases that that's gonna be better
than porn Hub. But but anyways, let me digress here
because I'm straying off topic. I'm going from creepy to
to a point of graphic. Oh anyways, speak thinking of
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odd things that occur while you're asleep or in the
process of sleeping. One of my uncles many years ago,
this is going back into like the.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Late nineteen seventies.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
He lived in an older home, well actually a very
old home of colonial home in Lexington, Massachusetts. And if
we're familiar with Lexington, Massachusetts, that's basically the birthplace.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Of a lot of history right here in the United States.
During the Revolutionary War and whatnot.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
In fact, this house was literally down the street from
many of the sites of the battles and whatnot that
took place during the Revolutionary War. So he got up
one night to go to the bathroom and take a piss,
and he's going from his bedroom and he had a go.
There's a landing at the top of the steps. He
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had a cross to go over to the bathroom, which
is kind of in the middle of the house. As
he crossed the landing, he looked down the stairs to
his right, and he saw a figure murder.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
It was like almost like.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
A cloud of fog or vapor that was down at
the bottom of the stairs. And from this cloud or
mist or whatnot, he saw what appeared to be a
figure with eyes wearing a hooded cloak that was looking
up at him. He said this and scared the hell
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out of him. He didn't he dean bother. Taking his piss,
he went back to the bedroom and threw on some
of his favorite Dean Martin eight track tapes to take
his mind off what he had just seen. And this
was something this story he did not tell anyone else
until probably a couple of years after it had happened,
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and I guess it really had startled him, he thought,
and the back of his I mean, maybe was the
Grim Reaper, the Angel of Death coming to get him. Now,
some skeptics will argue that this is like a a.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Waking dream or whatever.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
He's actually maybe sleepwalking when he saw this, But no,
he had verified that he was wide awake when he
had seen this being or entity or ghosts or whatever
the hell it was at the bottom of the stairs.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Now, this house being as old as it is.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
And with all the Revolutionary War action taking place in
the vicinity, a house like that would probably be loaded
with spirits and ghosts and whatnot. And as possible, this
could be just one of those ghosts who happened to appear.
There's no way that it could have been the Grim
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Reaper because my uncle lived on another thirty years past
that point. So unless the Angel of Death had the
wrong address and show up at the wrong house, which
that's pretty scary into itself. He's there to take your neighbor,
and he takes you by mistake, it's like, oops, sorry,
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talk about a really bad fuck up.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
I'm one of those who does believe in ghosts.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
There's something going there's some sort of tangible phenomenon going
on here. And of course we don't know what occurs
after we die, if we come back to roaming this
earth as wayward spirits for the next three hundred years
or so. And with the huge influx of security cameras,
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ring cameras, cameras in the home, cameras out the Yan Yang,
there are images coming forth that purport to show ghosts
or spirits. Some of these photographs are quite convincing and
very difficult to explain away. Obviously, some can be explained.
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As a photographer, I can tell you that many quote
unquote ghostly images are nothing more than flair on the
camera lens or an aberration of light or whatnot. So
probably a third of these ghostly images can be explained logically.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
However, there are a lot more that cannot.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Be explained logically, and those are the creepy ones. Those
are the ones that you got to sit back and wonder,
m you know, what's going on here? But well, I'm
on the subject of ghostly encounters and ghost stories. Let's
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stop for a minute to talk about the legend of
Sleepy Hollow and the Headless Horseman. Now, this story, which
was written by Washington, Irving. He is often credited as
being the first true published ghost story, at least in
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the United States. And for those of you I'm familiar
with the tale, let me give you a very quick
synopsis here. So it would seem that in the sleepy
town of Sleepy Hollow, New York, there was a school
teacher by the name of Ichabod Crane, or he was
a school principal, I can't remember which it is. He
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was a tall, skinny guy with really long hands and
a big nose and big ears. He apparently was in
love with his local rich girl, and another guy was
also in love with this local rich girl. And something
happened somewhere along the line where Ichabod Crane was out
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riding his horse one.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Night through the woods in Sleepy Hollow.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
All of a sudden, the headless horseman, which was this
ghost of a man, went out a head on a
horse carrying a jack O lanton on a stick, and
the headless horseman went chasing after Ichabod Crane, and apparently
Ichabod Crane disappeared after that was ever seen from again,
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although the following day they found they apparently found his
horse and a smash pumpkin, but whatever. So now, the
ghost of the headless Horseman was supposedly that of a
Hessian soldier who was killed during the Revolutionary War when
he was decapitated by cannon fire, and thus he spent
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all eternity riding around the countryside in Sleepy Hollow to
try and find his missing head, which sounds like one
hell of a way to spend the rest the eternity. Now,
of course, there are many interpretations of this story. Some
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have said there's actually some basis in fact here because
there I guess there was a Nikabod Crane or whatever
Washington irv Irving would all would often borrow names of
friends to put into his stories. Now, whether or not
there was actually a headless horseman, that that's open to debate.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
And now we don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Did Nikobob Crane actually meet foul play at the hands
of the other guy who was chasing after the.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Rich the rich bitch and somehow the.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Headless horseman got the blame for what was probably a
vicious little love triangle that went horribly wrong.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Or was there something else going on here that none of.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Us are completely aware of, nor should we should we
be aware of.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
But this much I can tell you.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
For the headless horseman to be riding around on a
horse without his head carrying a jackelinin on a stick
is quite a feat unto itself. Because on Halloween, when
I'm bringing my pumpkin outside after I carve it and
light it, it's an effort for me just to walk
across the porch carrying the jack lantin with both hands
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without falling over the lawn furniture.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
So to ride around on a horse.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
With no head while carrying a jacqueline on a stick,
that that that's quite an accomplishment right there in my book. Also,
I have a question. I know that, uh, if one
of the trick or treaders who comes to my house
even sneezes the wrong way, it usually blows up, blows
out the candle that I have inside my jack lanton,
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or if there's even a mild breeze blowing the wrong way,
it blows out the candle in my jackeline. So how
did the guy without the head right around had a
pretty good clip on his horse with the jackelanton on
the stick?
Speaker 1 (14:13):
How did the jacku lanton?
Speaker 2 (14:14):
How did the candle in the jack lanton not blow
out from the oncoming wind, from riding around on the
horse at a high speed, chasing Ichabod crane through the
woods over some woman that everyone wanted to fuck.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
You know, I just don't get it. Even if the headless.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Horseman was going along in a slow gate on the horse,
the candle still would have blown out unless he had
one of those candles like those those those joke birthday
candles that you can't blow out no matter what. Maybe
that was what was going on, But something about this
story is not making any sense to me, is not
adding up. Also, here's another question that burns in the
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back of my head. If you don't have a head,
and obviously you cannot see, how the hell are you
riding a horse?
Speaker 1 (15:05):
It doesn't add up. How do you know even how
to get on the horse?
Speaker 2 (15:10):
I mean, for all intensive purposes, the headless horsemen could
be riding the horse backwards and would probably not realize
that he's sitting the wrong way in the saddle. In
the end, I think the headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow
is more of a convoluted conspiracy involving some people who
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should have known better to do what they were doing
at the time.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
They did it.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
But nonetheless, as I mentioned, this story is the epitome
of Halloween stories told for generations and retold and embellished
and made into movies and TV shows and musicals. There's
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probably even a bidet out there that's been named after
this entire situation.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
So take off of what it's worth.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
If you want to get a copy and read it,
by all means, go ahead and you try to figure
it out.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Because I'm not seeing the logic here.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Something tells me there's something going on that none of
us really fully understand in this entire process. And all
that being said, let me segue onto another popular subject
for Halloween, and that would be cemeteries and funerals and
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all that good stuff. I don't know if I've ever
mentioned this or brought this up to folks in the
previous Halloween episodes, but we're all familiar with headstones grave markers.
There is actually a place right down the street from
my house here in Pennsylvania. They sell the headstones and whatnot,
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and they're having a sale. They actually have those sale
banners outside the building and there's signs that read fifty
off all inventory sale. So if you want to get
a good deal on your headstone, get it now while
the prices are low. So you know, I keep waiting
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every time I drive by there on my way to
Dunkin Donuts. I keep waiting to see like a mascot
out there with like a headstone costume or something dancing
around holding a sign that says coming now for our
great fifty percent off sale.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
So I know that's sick, But what can you expect.
But speaking.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Speaking of headstones, uh, headstones actually serve a purpose other
than identifying the deceased in the ground in that particular spot. Supposedly,
according to like from what I've been told and what
I've read, headstones were originally intended to keep people from
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rising up from the grave as vampires.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Yes, you heard me correct.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
So the logic was, if you were to become a
vampire and come up out of the grave and start
sucking the life blood out of all the living, kind
of like the Republican Party does, the logic was, with
a headstone on top of the grave, as you rise up,
you would not be able to get out of the
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ground because of the headstone, So therefore you cannot do
your vampiric activities under the full moon, probably because as
you're coming up, you're gonna whack your head on the
headstone and knock yourself out. But but if I could,
if I could delve into this a little bit deeper,
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one has to question the logic behind all of that
and the clarity of thought involved, because you're assuming that
someone is going to become the immortal undead here to
come up, rise up, and run amock, biting everyone in
the neck. So you're going to be this invincible creature
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of the night. And yet they believed that a slab
of rock with some names and dates on it is
actually going to stop this creature from rising up to
do its ungodly deeds, when in all actuality, they would
have been better off if they just had a clear
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glass lid on the casket over the supposed vampire's face
with the skylight leading up to the ground. That way,
the sun would come through and do far more damage
to the said vampire than having headstone over the undead's
head to prevent said walking corpse from getting out and
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causing mischief and mayhem in the town. This is right
up there with the goddamn guy with no head riding
around on the horse with a jack of lanting. Okay,
but anyways, I think you understand where I'm going with this.
So anyways, when you see a headstone, and we all
drive by cemeteries every day, going to and fro, they're everywhere,
you can't you can't swing a dead cat without hitting
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a cemetery. Look at the headstones. And remember they're not
just grave markers. They are vampire deterrent mechanisms. Yep, now
you know, and you'll learn it right from me. So there,
But if I could continue with the subject of burial processes,
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let me take a moment here to talk about substandard caskets. Lately,
in doing some research for this Halloween episode, I cruised
through YouTube YouTube and try to find videos on ghosts
and funerals and graveyard cemeteries, all liquod stuff, and I
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was surprised at the number of videos that are popping
up that show the bottoms falling out of caskets as
the pallbearers are carrying said caskets to said grave.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Or into the funeral home or into the church or whatever.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
All of a sudden the bottom falls out and U
outcomes the corpse. As you can imagine, this causes quite
a stir among the mourners when the body of the beloved,
the dearly deceased plops out on the ground like some
sort of disheveled dishrag or something, and suddenly the corpse
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is not looking all so natural. And this leads me
to wonder, what the fuck is going on here? Is
there like a whole there's no quality control anymore over
the manufacture of caskets and or coffins and whatnot. Are
we just running these things through the assembly line without
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double checking the number of screws they stick on the
bottom or something? What is going on here? Are these
caskets being manufactured by Billy Bob's Casket Company outside of
Whiche dot Kansas?
Speaker 1 (22:40):
What the hell?
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Maybe they're coming from Walmart dot com, because it is
my understanding you can't order a casket off of Walmart
dot com, So probably that's what's going on. I don't know, However,
it was always my understanding that the modern burial container,
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aka the casket, it's supposed to be once it's closed up,
it's hermetically sealed for obvious reasons, for health reasons. Because
after the body is put in the ground, I guess,
juices leak out and all sorts of good things happen,
and you know the casket has to contain all of that.
So because I the caskets of the new caskets are
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so tight when they're sealed that bodies there's actually a
build up of methane gas or something that's released, and
bodies actually explode inside the casket. I mean not that,
not that that's funny for the deally departed to burst
while they're in the ground, But with the quality of
these these containers, now if in when the body explodes,
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it's gonna burst everywhere. Can you imagine beeting the driver
of the hearse and that suddenly happens in the back
of the vehicle while you're going one down your merry
way along the road. What a goddamn mess that's gonna
be to clean up. But speaking of going down the road,
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I'm sure we've all heard about those various ghost stories
where people encounter ghosts or phantoms or other phenomena while
driving down lonely isolated back roads somewhere, such as the
case of one guy who picked up this hitchhiking girl
and she got in the car and he asked where
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she was going to and she just pointed straight ahead,
and after a couple of minutes of driving down the road,
the girl doesn't seem to be too talkative, and the
guy happens to.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Look around to occupy himself.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Then he looks back over at the passenger's seat and
sees that the girl he had picked up is now gone,
just disappeared. She didn't open the door and jump out,
So after the guy shots himself, pulls over to the
side of the road and try to figure out what
the hell just happened. He later hears the story of
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the hitchhiking ghost Lady on that particular road. There's a
lot of roads in the United States that are allegedly haunted,
such as Proctor Valley Road in California, which is known
as the most haunted road in the state. It has
legends of phantom hitchhikers, demon cars, and the Proctor Valley Monster.
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And there's Demon's Road in Texas where there were stories
of a hand bursting from a grave in Martha Chapel
Cemetery that grabs visitors, and there also accounts of visitors
who become possessed or enter a catatonic state. Actually, it
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sounds like more of the adventures one might find at
a local crack house than a graveyard. But can you
imagine a random hand just coming out of the ont
of the ground or something at the graveyard and grabbing
hold of you. That would have to be the ultimate
terrifying experience. Right there, You're minding your own business and
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all of a sudden, here's a hand. Of course, now,
depending on where or how the hand would get a
hold of my body, it could either be terrifying for
me or quite enjoyable. If the ghostly hand wants to
give me a happy ending, then by all means have
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at it. Just saying, just saying. Now, with all this
ghostly phenomena occurring on various roads and highways and whatnot,
there actually is a logical explanation to explain some of
this strange stuff that is going on.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
It is said that.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
If you're driving and carbon monoxide is getting inside of
the vehicle, it can cause hallucinations, and those hallucinations can
manifest themselves into picking up a ghost or whatnot. Also,
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it has been proven that if you're on a road
for a long time and you're fatigued, and this is
especially true with some truck drivers who have admitted to
seeing some interesting stuff on the roads over the years
that can be attributed.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
To said fatigue. But obviously if you're that fatigued.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
While you're driving at night and you're seeing things, then
you probably shouldn't be driving in the first place. That's
just my safety message right there. And the thing of
it is, there's very little of any physical evidence to
back up the claims that you have picked up a
ghostly hitchhiker. A good friend of mine tried that a
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number of years ago when his wife found a pair
of panties under the seat of the car and they
weren't her panties, and he tried to claim that when
the ghostly woman suddenly disappeared out of the.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Car or underwear came off.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Well, his wife wasn't buying it, and neither was the
judge at the divorce proceedings. So the next time that
you're driving down a lonely road somewhere at night, late
at night, and you see a ghostly person hitchhiking on
the side of the road, I probably wouldn't pick them up.
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In fact, it's probably not a good idea to pick
up hitchhikers any which way. Or if you see a
phantom vehicle come at you that tries to run you
off the road. Of course, that's normal any given day
here in Pennsylvania. You might want to get off that
road and go someplace else. It might be a good idea.
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So I recently was having a discussion with a friend
concerning what we considered some of the greatest actor performances
in horror movies over the years, and what we consider
to be the greatest horror movies of all time. And
as you know, I'm not a big fan of the
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modern horror movies or the blood and the golore and
stuff like that. I don't think you need all that stuff.
I don't think you need people's brains getting sucked out
through their assholes to give a good scare. Although the
sight of someone's brain's getting sucked out through their ass
it could be more humorous than actually scary when you
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when you stop and think that most people's brains are
probably down there anyways. But I find nothing scary. And
someone's internal organs getting ripped out by a deranged maniac
and having said organs thrown out the nearest window. Again,
it's more humorous than it is scary. So naturally, my
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thoughts always go back to the older, the classic horror movies,
such as the original Dracula, and as far as actor portrayals,
Bela Lugosi playing the character of Dracula, he just nailed it.
The only the only better performance of Dracula would have
been that that was done by Franklinngella in the version
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of the character in the late seventies.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
But Bela Lugosi, the way he glared with.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
His eyes, and his nuances and his inflections and the
way he talked, and he just had it. He hit
it out of the park on that performance. Now, another
series of very good acting performances in a horror movie
would be the original Jaws. Some people don't consider the
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original Jaws to be a horror movie, but yes, it is.
Only in this case the villain is a very oversized shark,
not some idiot with a hockey mask running around a
chainsaw and an axe and a quark screw and don't
ask what he was going to do with the QRK screw.
But in the original Jaws, the actor Robert Shaw, who
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played the character of Quint, the.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Grizzled long time shark hunter in.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
The movie Robert Shaw nailed that performance like Bella Lugosi
nailed Dracula.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Shaw did this character to a t.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
That's not the same that the other actors, especially Roy
Scheider and Richard Dreyfus, they did outstanding performances as well,
especially during the time when the three were out on
the boat trying to find the great white shark that
had been killing people.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
And there were two scenes.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
In particular in which Robert Shaw was outstanding. One was
when he gave the speech of his experience on board
the USS Indianapolis, the ship that was sank in World
War Two, and what it was like to be in
the water awaiting rescue as the sharks began to circle
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and started taking out some of his fellow crewmates who
were in the water. Those few moments when he was speaking,
he nailed it. And in fact, if you watch during
that scene, the character of Hooper played by Richard Dreyfuss,
was absolutely mesmerized by Shaw's telling of the tail, and
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that was actually that actually occurred. Richard Dreyfuss, I guess,
became so enthralled by the way Robert Shaw was delivering
his lines that he just sat there and stared. Another
great moment that was done by Shaw was when they're
again looking for the shark and the character of Quint
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is sitting in a chair with a fishing pole and
a line out in the water, and Chief Brody played
by Roy Scheider is throwing out the chum line, the
fish and the blood to draw the shark in the water.
And there's a moment of kind of like quiet, and
Quint is chewing on a cracker, sitting in the chair,
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and all of a sudden, the fishing line begins to
move slowly. You hear this little creek as some line
is unrolled, as something is hooked on the other end
of the fishing line. So Quin stops nibbling on his cracker,
and the way he glances over his eyes just did
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everything win His eyes in this particular scene looked over
the line and then it moved again. So now, okay,
we got something hooked on the fishing line. At this
point in the movie, no one had really got a
good look at the shark yet, so you didn't know
what was under there where it was.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
And then Quinn.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Goes to strap himself in the chair so he doesn't
get pulled overboard by whatever.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
He's just hooked.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
He puts the fishing pole on a special mount in
the deck and braces his feet. But those couple of
moments when he's watching that line slowly creak as it moves,
it gets tugged a little bit more.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
That that was priceless.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
That was kind of like mesmerizing on a couple of
different levels, at least in my opinion. Now, what do
I know, just a dipshit with a podcast with an opinion,
But that's my thought process. If you ever that scene
is out there on YouTube, check it out. You see
what I'm talking about, Because it was this element of mystery,
did they actually hook the shark?
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Where was it? Was it? Right?
Speaker 2 (35:15):
At one point Quinn thought it was under the boat,
and you didn't know where this thing was gonna come
bursting out of the water. So that added to the
overall tension and the scariness of the movie. But the
entire scene was punctuated by just the way Robert Shaw
used his eyes to take a glance at the fishing pole. Again,
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it doesn't take a lot of blood and gore to
kind of scare the Jesus out of people. So but
while I'm on the subject of classic horror, movies. I mean,
once again give a nod to the original version of
The Thing and every Halloween episode I mentioned this movie
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because it is one of the best this movie. The
original version came out, I believe in the nineteen fifties.
Once this alien got inside of the Arctic station there,
you didn't know where it was going to pop out next.
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It started basically tormenting the crew inside of this place,
and it was that was the tension in the scariness here,
because you never.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
Knew where the alien was.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
They had apparently the alien had some radioactivity to it,
so they use a geg counter sometimes to determine its
approximate location. And as the gegaicond would start clicking faster,
you realized the thing was getting closer. But it just
that was the really scary part, not realizing where it
was and when and if it was going to come
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at you. It's kind of like having in laws stay
at your house over the weekend. You never really know
where they are in the house at any given time
until you go downstairs late at night and you find
your father in law in the kitchen and he's naked
and he's making a baloney sandwich for himself.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
Now that right, there is sheer terror.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
But I'll reiterate one more time, the old classic horror movies,
at least in my opinion, are still the best, hands down.
So allow me to segue to my next Halloween subject
on that is haunted houses. Well not the real haunted
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houses where you know, ghosts live and stuff like that,
but the what they call now haunted attractions. I guess
you can't call them haunted houses anymore because it's a
liability or something, so they're known as haunted attractions, and
they're they're everywhere, and you pay so much to go in,
and they have the various monsters and ghouls and fiends
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and sort of idiots to scare you. Some are downright mundane.
Some are really scary, to the point where a friend
of mine last year who visited one of these haunted
attractions actually pissed herself when this horrifying zombie came out
to chew on her brains or something. After managing to
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get her breath and realizing that she had in fact
urinated in her Nike pro leggings, she told the ghoulish
zombie to go fuck himself. Needless to say, things went
downhill from there. And there are actually haunted attractions out
there that you need to sign a liability release before
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you go in, because they are in fact so scary
and in some case is borderline dangerous that you run
the risk of injury, in or death by entering into
these attractions and enduring the nightmare that unfolds. I guess
it's difficult to keep telling yourself that the zombie monster
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is just an actor when he's coming at you what
a real chainsaw is running at full bore. Then, of
course we have the folks who try to do like
haunted house attractions on their own property and they kind
of set things up for Halloween to scare the trick
or treats that come through, and usually most of them
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are so corny and stupid they're anything but scary. And
the one guy, a couple of neighborhoods over, he had
kind of like a haunted house theme going on, and
a little trail around his yard, and he had these
life size skeletons laid out on the lawn and there
was sprawled back with their knees up, kind of laying back.
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They didn't look scary. They they looked more like cheap
hooker is waiting for their next John. At least that's
what it looked like to me. Of course, let me
give him honorable mention to the guy down the street
who set up his little haunted attraction. He made some
sort of a place of doom out of old hefty
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trash bags which were dangling from the trees in front
of the house, and he had this recording of what
he thought was scary Halloween sounds.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
I guess he did.
Speaker 2 (40:42):
The recording himself. It was just one long, endless moaning
or groaning.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
It.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
It was kind of like, to be honest, it sounded
to me like somebody on the toilet desperately trying to
take a shit.
Speaker 1 (41:07):
It didn't it wasn't frightening.
Speaker 2 (41:09):
It was actually highly annoying, to the point where you
want to call the cops.
Speaker 1 (41:13):
But all night long, the same And again, what was
this supposed to be?
Speaker 2 (41:25):
Was this supposed to be like Draggulla getting stabbed with
the wooden steak? Or is it Frankenstein getting an enema?
Speaker 1 (41:35):
What's going on? What is this noise we are hearing?
You know?
Speaker 2 (41:50):
He could have at least punctuated it with some other
different sounds, like screams. Maybe his wife could scream into
the microphone to break it up a little bit, you know,
recorder when she's coming or something. I don't know, anything
would be different than what we were hearing. It was
just like Jesus age Christ, We're gonna listen to this
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shit for hours and hours and hours. In fact, it
got to the point where some of the trick or
treaties avoided that house just because of the sound of
the noises coming out of there. Who in the right
mind would run the risk of going through that haunted
trash bag trail With those noises, you're liable to come
across some guys sitting on a toilet out there. This
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is exactly the sort of goddamn garbage that makes Vincent
Price roll over in his grave. Now, let me ask
how many of you out there are afraid of things
that go bump in the night. Are you afraid of
the dock and what might be lurking in the dock?
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Maybe it's your father in law making that sandwich, or
even more rus maybe it's the Boogeyman. Not surprisingly, a
recent survey tells us that upwards of twenty nine percent
of people are afraid of the dark, and nearly that
many actually will sleep with a night light, and there
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are some yet who will sleep with all the lights
on because they are so terrified of the dark.
Speaker 1 (43:25):
Perhaps just goes back to the time.
Speaker 2 (43:27):
When we were told as kids that there were monsters
hiding under our bed. Well, actually they probably are monsters
under the bed. They follow you through the remainder of
your life, even when you grow up and become an adult.
Like I did you get a platform bed, hopefully that,
hopefully the monsters will have no place.
Speaker 1 (43:44):
To hide under a platform bed.
Speaker 2 (43:46):
But no, they'll hide under the bookcase headboard if you
give them half a chance, laying in wait looking. In fact,
the monsters under your bed will probably follow you all
the way to your old age. When you're in a
nursing home laying in bed, playing with your diaper, that
monster will still be under the bed, just waiting for
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God only knows what.
Speaker 1 (44:13):
How do you get rid of those monsters? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (44:17):
Maybe try spraying some insecticide under the bed. Maybe they'll
chase them out. But there actually was a case in
Kansas in March or twenty twenty five where a babysitter
found a man by the name of Martin Villa Lobos
Junior hiding under a child's bed after the child complained
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about a monster under the bed. Well, in fact, there
was a monster under the bed. Once the said monster
was discovered, there was a scuffle and the babysitter was
knocked over and the child was knocked over as well,
and mister Villa Bobos, whatever his name is, escaped. He
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was later apprehended and it turned out that he was
a former resident with a protective order against him. In
April of twenty twenty five, a solo traveler from Thailand
found a man hiding under her bed in a hotel
room in Tokyo. Apparently she had noticed a weird smell
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in the room, and when she looked under the bed,
she saw a pair of eyes looking back at her.
The woman suddenly started screaming. The man under the bed
started screaming, and he ran out and got away. And
in twenty sixteen, a woman in Tennessee discovered her ex
boyfriend hiding under the bed. I guess he just couldn't
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get enough action in the bed, right, and she shot
him in the foot. So in a nutshell, I guess
that's how you would do with monsters under your bed.
So As Halloween rapidly approaches, I've been debating what sort
of candy to buy to give out to the kids
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this year. Normally we have quite a few kids come
through because we live in a fairly busy street, although
this time around I'm thinking about getting some healthy snacks
to give to the little fuckers. You know, nothing is
worse as a kid when you're going to the door
trick or treating expecting it to get chocolate retreats and
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you wind up getting raisins and nuts instead. I could
be like the weird ass neighbor that we had down
the road when I was a kid. When you go
trick or treating, he would hand out these funny little
pamphlets with strange, halfway satanic messages that could only They're
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all printed backwards, so you can only read them if
you held it up to the mirror.
Speaker 1 (47:03):
Although these days.
Speaker 2 (47:04):
In our ultra paranoid world, if you hand out shit
like that, you're probably gonna get arrested for causing emotional
damage to.
Speaker 1 (47:13):
The trick or treaters.
Speaker 2 (47:16):
So last year on Halloween, I put out my usual
Jack Olnton that I carved up from a rather hefty
sized pumpkin and on Halloween night, I suddenly realized that
I had no candles to stick inside, said Jack Olnton.
I went out to a couple of local stores trying
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to find those led battery operated lights that you can
stick inside of the pumpkin, but everyone was sold out,
by no surprise. So with no other options, I took
an old cell phone that I had that was still
an access online and I downloaded those apps that shows
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a crackling burning fire. I guess meant to actually aid
in relaxation, and I set the app to the crackling fire,
and I put the phone inside of the pumpkin, so
it looked, for all intentsive purposes to those who were
walking by the house, as if there was actually a
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fire going inside of my Jackelanten, because you really couldn't
see the phone at the bottom of the pumpkin. Most
people were quite fascinated by my little display. However, there
was one person who pointed out to me that it
was extremely dangerous to hook up a gas line to
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light a fire inside of a pumpkin. I tried to
explain that I did not hook up a gas line
to my pumpkin to light up the jackelantin it is
actually my old cell phone with a fireplace app going
on the screen. I then told them to calm the
fuck down, have a nice night, and go buy your
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trick or treating. Anyways, it is about time for me
to wrap up this special Halloween edition of the podcast. Normally,
towards the end of the Halloween episodes, I tried to
go in the bathroom and conjure up an image of
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Bloody Mary in the mirror by saying her name three times.
It has yet to work because I honestly believe that
the demon Bitch is a fraud and no matter how
many times you call her name, she's not gonna show up.
So I'm not even gonna bother this year to waste
my time and your time by trying to conjure her
in the bathroom mirror. But I would like wish you
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all a very happy Halloween this year. I hope you
get lots of candy For those adults out there who
are gonna go and costume enjoy yourselves. I'm sure this
year the Phillies Karen will be the big costume that
most people male and female will be sporting. I've always
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wanted to get a raincoat and go out as a flasher,
but I've yet to do that. Maybe this year I'll
try it. I don't know, we'll see what happens. But anyways,
i'd like to take thank you for taking the time
to listen to this special edition.
Speaker 1 (50:29):
Hope you enjoyed it. If you didn't enjoy it, well
I don't know what to do for you.
Speaker 2 (50:35):
And before I before I go, before I wrap this up,
let me just take one quick moment here to do
one more thing.
Speaker 1 (50:51):
There. I just had to get that off my chest
one more time.
Speaker 2 (50:56):
So anyways, you all have a good all hellos even
so long for now, Bye bye,
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I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!
Ruthie's Table 4
For more than 30 years The River Cafe in London, has been the home-from-home of artists, architects, designers, actors, collectors, writers, activists, and politicians. Michael Caine, Glenn Close, JJ Abrams, Steve McQueen, Victoria and David Beckham, and Lily Allen, are just some of the people who love to call The River Cafe home. On River Cafe Table 4, Rogers sits down with her customers—who have become friends—to talk about food memories. Table 4 explores how food impacts every aspect of our lives. “Foods is politics, food is cultural, food is how you express love, food is about your heritage, it defines who you and who you want to be,” says Rogers. Each week, Rogers invites her guest to reminisce about family suppers and first dates, what they cook, how they eat when performing, the restaurants they choose, and what food they seek when they need comfort. And to punctuate each episode of Table 4, guests such as Ralph Fiennes, Emily Blunt, and Alfonso Cuarón, read their favourite recipe from one of the best-selling River Cafe cookbooks. Table 4 itself, is situated near The River Cafe’s open kitchen, close to the bright pink wood-fired oven and next to the glossy yellow pass, where Ruthie oversees the restaurant. You are invited to take a seat at this intimate table and join the conversation. For more information, recipes, and ingredients, go to https://shoptherivercafe.co.uk/ Web: https://rivercafe.co.uk/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/therivercafelondon/ Facebook: https://en-gb.facebook.com/therivercafelondon/ For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iheartradio app, apple podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
The Joe Rogan Experience
The official podcast of comedian Joe Rogan.