October 1, 2025 • 44 mins
Natty, along with Miss Stacy, delves into the captivating legend of Oscar, a gigantic snapping turtle from the small town of Churubusco, Indiana. Despite numerous attempts by residents, hunters, divers, and even a 200-pound female turtle bait, Oscar remains elusive. The tale is filled with quirky commentary, local folklore, and a community's enduring fascination, ultimately leading to the annual Turtle Days Festival.
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Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churubusco,_Indiana
The United States of Cryptids - A Tour of American Myths and Monsters by J.W. Ocker Chasing American Monsters By Jason Offutt
https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/mqr/2015/09/unsolved-histories-a-giant-turtle-a-stubborn-man-and-dredging-up-a-myth/
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The United States of Cryptids - A Tour of American Myths and Monsters by J.W. Ocker Chasing American Monsters By Jason Offutt
https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/mqr/2015/09/unsolved-histories-a-giant-turtle-a-stubborn-man-and-dredging-up-a-myth/
https://turtledays.org/
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I leave it in for the patrons.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Yeah, So if I ever referenced dessert pizza, now we
should I leave this in.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Okay, so now we will all know inside joke for
my patrons, what dessert pizza is? Okay? Or peach milkshakes? God, actually,
peach milkshake doesn't sound horrible. Oh, by the way, you
got a shout out on the last episode. So the
one that's going to be coming out this week, this
is going to be the week after I'm getting ready,
(03:07):
which I need to apologize to everybody. I have been
getting my ass handed to me. You can't turn down
extra hours. So this week it is, which okay for
all of you listening, it's going to be when you're
listening now, it's last week.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Birthdays a week away.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Mine's Friday, is it really yep? Shut the front, Yep,
we're very close. So I've I switch shifts to the
lady because I was supposed to work on my birthday
and she's, oh, here, I'll just swap you because you
don't have to work on your birthday. It's bullshit. So
now I picked up a day and I switched day,
so I'm working four twelves in a row, and then
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my birthday's Friday, and then it's youth season. So this
week again. So last week you got an honorable mention.
I was talking because of the the Yes, so some
of the stuff that we were talking about took place
in California. So you got a match out.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Okay, oh oh yeah, so keep your.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Eyes open for that. Go back and listen. All of
your friends give Yeah. I always try to give shout
outs the best I can, but it was all alien based.
But this week we're gonna be going back to my roots,
to the old cryptids. Yeah, this isn't just any ordinary cryptid.
I'm a little frustrated because we're only known in Indiana
(04:31):
for a few things like Puckwa Geese, the mill Race Monster.
So everybody, and this was it a squawk? Is that
an Indiana or is that a Michigan thing? I think
it's an Indiana thing. It's unknown.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
As you said, the squak, Yes, that sounds like what
you get after you eat a garbage burrito from a
bad taco truck.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
I was thinking it sounds like some kind of like
dirty sex term.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Well okay, but you put it to them.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
I gave him a squalk.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
You know, I had a squamp after I had a
spicy tacoy. That's at that point you don't know whether
to congratulate them or hand them yeast infection cream.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Snuggled up in the northeastern portion of Indiana, you'll find
a quaint little town of Traubusco. They only have a
little under two thousand hoosiers spread across a small but
inviting and friendly patch of geography. And if you slowly
wander into this tiny town, you'll be greeted with an
interesting tidbit of information as you enter none other than
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Turtle Town, USA.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
The look on your facetle Town, Okay, I just want
to be sure you said turtle turtle turtle Town, and
it may not too.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Love And after the hype around this particular monster, this
town became quite the turtle Topia. The local dental establishment,
Turtle Town Dental, even sports a tooth in the shape
of a turtle is their logo. You can find a
turtle wearing a sailor's hat above a candy store named
(06:22):
the Chocolate Turtle Real Original Right. Ironically, the turtles are
one of my favorites. Wait uh oh uh oh.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Is it chocolate turtle anything like a chocolate starfish.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Ha.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
No, you know what turtle is.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
It's like it's a I think it's like pecan and
like caramel and you dip it in chocolate.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Yeah, oh no, I yeah, I don't love a turtle.
Oh yeah, we also okay, we have that, but this
almost the same thing, except it's not pecan's. It's peanuts
is moose tracks. So yeah, sometimes if you put a
turtle at the bottom of your bowl, you can have
a moose track right over the top of it. And
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both of them sound like poop joke, they do.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
But they're delicious red. Oh they're talking about me anyway.
All right. So in ninety look go backwards boop. All right.
So even the town water tower has a turtle on it.
There's all this turtle fever going on in sure Boostco.
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And I wanted to get into what started the hype.
So in ninety eight, a local farmer by the name
of Oscar Folk reported a run in with a substantially
sized snapping turtle.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Okay, those bastards are mean. I don't care what anybody says.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Those bards they're like dinasaurs. They literally can take off
a finger I'm not joking. Don't mess with a snapping turtle.
Chop a tete off. That's the best way to kill it.
Chop a teed off. They give it like a zombie guillotine.
I've had one get shot and it still came after it.
(08:14):
Oh no, you may.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Look if you guys out there, there's anybody that's listening
that that that does any kind of like woodworking, make
me a little guillotine. Yeah, little, it would be like this,
wouldn't it a little guillotine?
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Yeah, just like one of those cigar cutters.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
I've seen those. Yeah, I've seen them that look like guillotines.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
See, that's what you need. That's what we need to do. Now.
Just this one sighting alone started the legend of the
beasts of Busco, and a lot of the locals refer
to it as Oscar. So they have named Oscar, they
have named said turtle. Now great Oscar is the original
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person who sighted the beast, so I guess they named
it after him, which is interesting because it doesn't normally happen.
But for decades after the initial sighting, there had been
whispers of a beast circulating throughout the locals, but none
of the supposed sightings ended with the capture of the
reclusive reptile for the norm. However, the legend came to
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life on a private plot then owned by Gal and
Helen Harris. During the summer of nineteen forty eight. Avid
fisherman and Helen's brother, Charlie Wilson, was accompanied by his
son in law or a Blue, spent the day fishing
on Folk Lake.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
I had a great uncle. His name was Charlie Wilson.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
There you go. Maybe it's the same. We know a guy,
we know a guy.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
I know a guy that knows a guy.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Yeah. Now, these two men, with the tendency to take
a ton of time trolling the ten acre land enough
to fish to fee their families were going to wish
that they had wandered off well before they bore witness
to a beast that had remained hidden beneath the waters
until that fateful day. Wilson himself was known for big
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fish stories, so it wasn't a complete surprise when he
hurried into the Harris' home blubbering about the biggest turtle
he had ever seen. No one believed him.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
I don't know why, though, because those bastards are big
because they get big.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Yeah, oh, this thing is like car size big. Not oh,
it's a big turtle. I'm talking a car.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
They had a snapping turtle the size of the Volkswagen
pretty much.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
We'll get into more details.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Okay, yeah, and after the show. Actually, here, hold on
because I'm gonna tell you something funny. I'm gonna pause recording. Sorry, guys,
you don't need to hear this.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
That's impressive. Yeah, so there's that's impressive.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Now do you get this? Now we're talking about staff turtles.
So that's why I keep chuckling. Okay, sorry, guys, y'all
don't need to hear that part. Yes, spirit, that's right.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
I was just kind of wondering if there there is
a snap in turtle that like dessert pizzas.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Yes, I hear. They love dessert pizza. It's like their favorite.
The Harrisons had only inhabited the property about a year's
time and couldn't consider the fact that the lake was
concealing such a colossal creature. Later that same year, Gail
Harris had invited his pastor, Orville Reese, to assist in
patching up the barn roof. Say you're from a small
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town without saying you're from a small town hanged. Okay,
so when you have your pastor over to help you
patch up your barn, you're definitely from the Midwest, like
it keeps saying, hanged.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Oh, I would have been in the eighteen hundreds. That's
pretty yeah, I'm pretty sure about that.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
We are now in nineteen forty eight. We are in
the forties, I might balance into So while up on
the roof, the men stopped due to a distraction of
something very large splashing around in the lake. As they
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looked along the length of the lake, they cut a
quick glimpse of something swimming. Hurrying to investigate, the men
bounded into a boat that was I don't want to
say parked, parked up on there in a not so
hot pursuit because it was a paddle boat. The farmer,
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in his holiness, round ravaging towards the rough location of
where the rock is That occurred after a long look
see around the lake. Rhese perked up, proclaiming that he
had eyes on the beast and this is the pasture.
Harris relayed the revelation that the rascally rept out had
revealed itself on his side of the boat. So both
men were baffled by the bulk of the beast because
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they're arguing, no, I'm seeing the beast, No, I'm seeing
it well. And behold, it was so big that they
were both seeing it on their sides of the boat.
Both men began estimating the enormous side they had each
agreed the sensational shell was about the size of a
dining room table. And I would like to point out
that back then tables were made to hold larger families
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than typically today's are. Says no thanks, so I thanks
to just the shell that they could see under their
little tiny boat was as big as a dining room table,
like a very large dining room table.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
The b Sabusco was tagged with a guestimate of being
around five hundred pounds dead estimate, and right about then
Oscar sank down out of sight, leaving both witnesses dumbfounded.
Soon after, Oscar briefly exposed itself to the landowner, then
submerged itself once again, but not before igniting the determination
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deep within Gail Harris. After Gail's sighting, for whatever reason,
whispers among locals turned to shouts heard around the country
next thing, they knew, townies and strangers alike were lining
the bags of folk Lake to attempt to capture the beast.
So we're getting super crazed.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Okay, why would you want to do that though it's
as big as a table, Why do you want to
catch this thing?
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Probably for the same reason everybody goes to freak shows. Yeah, okay,
to see if it's real.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
I get that. I get that. I would hang out
on the side and watch somebody else bring it in
to see it.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
But oh man, yeah, I personally ancient. Yeah, it probably
is ancient. Now even a county Oh hold on. It
wasn't just hunters and trappers that showed up at the scene.
Vendors were setting up selling everything from popcorn to lemonade
for those exhausted from the search and needing a little
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pick me up. Or maybe they were just wanting to
observe the spectacle. Who knows, but.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
That's a good idea though.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Here, let's get some lemonade. And so then a county
fair was initiated surrounding the search of the Beast of Buscaux.
So now we've got a whole full on fare event.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Okay, that's cool and shit yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Yeah, small towns in the Midwest can be pretty cool.
What's crazy is at this fair so many people attended
to search that state patrol officers were called in to
manage the crowds like they were bringing in assuredly.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
That doesn't surprise me. That truly does not surprise me.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
And it was one of the largest searches for anything
in the state of Indiana, like mill Race. I think
mill Race was the biggest.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
I'm like, it's a turtle the size of a Volkswagen. Yeah,
there's gonna be crowds.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Yeah, now, I just we'll talk about it at the end,
but I'm just not sure. Now. They tried to drudge
the lake, and when they started getting a little bit
more understand serious, they had the lake drained because he
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was so determined. However, gotta know, the lake was never
entirely emptied, because after weeks of pumping, there was a
half assed damn and it gave way and refilled the
entire lake. Again.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
It goes logical, okay, And somewhere somebody turned to the
person standing next to him and said, damn it, Jeff,
damn it, Kevin.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Sorry, that's like an ongoing thing. I don't know why.
But I've always made a joke about Kevin, not R. Kevin,
but it's always just been Kevin in general. And then
I met RK Kevin.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Home alone Kevin.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Yeah, damn Kevin. That's what it usually is. Yeah, I
don't understand why. But then he went ahead and tried
to do all of that. No evidence surfaced.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Then I'm surprised.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Yeah, the dam broke and all the like I said,
all the water flowed right back in. But Harris did
not give up. He instead inquired about a professional diver.
When the diver arrived, they noted that the wrong equipment
had been ordered and they were unable to get to
the bottom of the lake to investigate. What kind of
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diver doesn't bring the right equipment and what equipment do
you need to get to the bottom of this lake
that you're not going to use for something else?
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Well, what are we what year we're talking about? In
the forty eight.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
The fifties, wouldn't that.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Be the giant metal head die scuba suits that are
like the big old metal head and the maybe he
left his hose at home. It could happen.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Always carry your hose.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
He's got a big head. I guess he didn't figure
he needed the hose.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
It goes. How come you never know what you're gonna
be diving, That's how come. Again, they couldn't get to
the bottom of the lake, but even Life Magazine threw
their hat into the ring by sending a photographer who
shot three hundred frames of the lake and the surrounding environment.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
And that doesn't surprise me.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Still, no evidence, didn't catch anything. Surprise. Yeah, So after
a few Oscar Oscar yep Oscar, the Beast of Bustco
and apparently turtle, I'm just thinking of the disguise, like
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all the disguises that could try to be like, oh,
it's just a rock. Oh it's just a log. Oh
it's just this, it's just that.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Okay, But as big as that damn thing is, I
could truly see, Okay, it's a lake. It's murky. I
could see the old boy getting.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Down there with his old metal head and just going
and walking all the way across his giant house show
and just be like, oh, it's the Oh okay, it's the.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Bottom of the lake is uneven. Oh it's just slippery.
Maybe it's a rock yep reached up there. Yeah, until
Oscar reached up there and bit his butt off.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Yeah exactly. Now see here's the thing. After a few
failed attempts at hunting down or trapping the beast, Harris
kept his resilience and continued his search for proof. He
set out baited traps, nothing, put out nets. Nothing. This
dude even climbed into the trees to try to trick
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the creature into making an appearance, but again nothing. He
was like, if I climb in this tree, it's not
gonna see that I'm out there. Maybe it'll come up.
So you just hung out the tree.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
It's as big as a Volkswagen. It sees you, yeah,
and it thinks you're stupid.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
It probably doesn't just throw what this idiot doing?
Speaker 2 (21:13):
How far you doing up in that tree? Oh and
I supposed see you? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Oh my bad, and crept. Towards the fall season of
nineteen forty nine, Harris's health slowly deteriorated as a result
of the stress. And it's like, so the stress of
the search, he starts getting sick. The crops failed during
the hunt for Oscar because he was so concerned about
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seeing him that he wasn't tending to his fields, and
therefore tough times and it just amazes me. But let's
dive into the community's contributions concerning this giant reptile, because
this is where it gets funny to me.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
I was like, okay, so we're gonna be talking about
the fair in the popcorn. I would go for the popcorn.
I'm gonna be honest.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Yeah, I'm a big fan of popcorn.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Though.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
I will eat popcorn three meals a day. And if
I go to the if I go to the movie theater,
don't you dare touch my popcorn? Bugget you better get
your own. I'm not sharing. I'll share my soda.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
It was all right, I'll share. I don't like it.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
I don't like it either.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
I don't like yourn.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
I've been harding it for forty something years.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
No, I'm going to get into this whole thing here,
and you're gonna get a kick out of it.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
I think I can't wait to hear this.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
With the search gaining traction, the town took action and
anticipation of the influx of individuals to the area. On
March fourteenth, the Churubusco Community Club held a super special
session to discuss how they would handle this atuuation. And
maintain order. I meant it. First on the docket was
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to establish the Turtle Committee, and if you were turtle
enough for the Turtle Committee, you were tasked with trapping
the beast alive. And well, so they were very much,
don't kill the turtle, we just want to capture it.
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I'm just letting the Turtle Committee. I'm like, that's what.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Okay, that's like I can't make up.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
I can't make it up.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
I'm like, okay, everybody's doubt the moose Lodge and they're like, okay,
tonight is not called the moose laghnight is the turtle
You know what?
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Community club started it? So you got to be part
of the Cherubus Community Club. And then they decide who
is turtle enough for the Turtle Committee.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Ask pretty fucked up because you know what if this
nerds show up and we know everything about this damn
turtle and they don't let us in because.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
We're nerds or because we're not locals, Yeah, they too,
so it don't like outsiders. Now, affiliates agreed the search
group should enlist an experienced diver, so they also said diver.
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So the lucky pick was a diver from Fort Wayne
by the name of Woodrow Rigsby. It is.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
What you said.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
They brought everything. He goes beer, well, smart beer.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
This is entertaining.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Yeah, bring your pitchforest for going. Now. On the eighteenth
of March, Rigsby donned his diving duds and dove into
the lake in search of oscar. Unfortunately, how did you
come up with this?
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Doned his diving?
Speaker 1 (25:01):
I like alliteration. I can't help it. I can't not
write it because I write all my own stuff and
I just can't help myself.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
I Yeah, I know there's times I'll say something and
I'll think to myself, Oh I come up with that.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Yeah, I talking about like this is good, this is good,
This is good. This is good situations.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
I likes.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
He goes under and unfortunately the helmet cracks and his
search is ceased.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Yeah, because how did his helmet crack?
Speaker 1 (25:36):
It doesn't say it just says it cracked.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
He ran into the back of that turtle. I'm telling.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Get, like, what's you know what it might be? What
if he like rammed its head.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Of think about it? Okay, so we'll just a regular turtle, right, Yep.
Their tails are they're hard. Yeah, and they got a
point on them. And if this fucking thing's as big
as a Volkswagen, this is a good.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
I didn't think about that. I didn't think about that.
That's a good that's a good point.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
He's lucky he didn't poke his eye out.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
You're gonna poke your eye out with that, That's what
I was thinking. The air stops. And three days after
Risby took a dive into the murky waters, a different
diver dove on down himself in hopes of seeing the
super sized snapper. And this man was Walter Johnson, and
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again he yielded no evidence whatsoever of the monster. Yeah,
And following the diving dudes, hordes of people crafted traps
from simple the complex, but they caught nothing and appeared
to show that something was super strength had escaped. So
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some of them had built some pretty sturdy things, and
something very large or very heavy destroyed the trap, like
broke through the trap.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
So Oscar was not one to be messed with. Nose.
You got these engineers showing up with these gigantic traps
and Oscar's come at me, bro.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Go ahead, yeah, yeah, and he just goes through it
like cut. One of them looked like it was completely
like the his his bite. Yes, it kind of looks
like something bit through or pushed through and broke the netting.
And it was so big it looked like it almost
like cracked the like circle part.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
No, I don't doubt it because I look at the
little the regular shap in turtles. When they get big,
let's just like the biggest one I ever seen, like this, right,
and when they bite, shit, they've got that gnarly little
tip on one part. Then then they've got the on
the bottom.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
And I've watched them bite into something and pull back
and just tear it apart.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Yep, they're gnarly. You really got to watch them. I
had one in my backyard and this one house I
lived in, and this thing was every bit like bigger
than my laptop. I can't even it was probably bigger
than your dog.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Yeah, I'm not surprised.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Yeah, And this thing was covered in moss, the whole
shell covered in moss, and it was going like real slow,
and my ex husband sit be a picture of it.
I'm like, whatever, you do not get close to it? Like,
do not? I got Gary again, Hi, Gary Hag, that's
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not very nice. What do you say hag.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Ya mama.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Yeah, oh my gosh. Anyway, after episode thing, so a
posse flocked and searched the area with their flashlights overnight,
and once again, no one caused so much as a
glimpse of the gargaguan creature. And desperation, the town hired
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professional turtle trappers. They too had no success. Surprise. Now
this is when the.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Sir, oh, wait, so you're telling me I went through
twenty plus years of college or school and then I
and I got two professional degrees and all this time
(29:55):
I could have been a freaking turtle trapper. Yeah, I
got screwed. I got screwed.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Or a diver.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
I don't want to dive. I've watched Jaws too many times.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
The good point, but turtle trapper seems like a pretty
sweet gig until you get the wrong one.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
I started. Take that fucker turns around and snapped your ass. Yep,
you lose half a butt cheek. That'd be a hell
of a conversation in the cafe in the morning. Here
here comes Eddie and he's only got half a butt
cheek because he oscar.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
It goes absolutely turtle ted over there, turtle tad. But
here's the thing. So they go through this, they're hiring
all these people, they're not having any success. But then
the town took the search down a bit of a
weird path. So they were so, oh determined, it's.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
A giant turtle, so look for a giant turtle. Was
not weird enough.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Oh no, this is where it goot. This is funny,
speaking of snap of turtles. They were so determined that
they were going to use the busco beasts primal instinct
to cause him to slip up and be captured. The
townspeople gathered as they released a ravishing two hundred pound
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which is ninety point seven kilograms reptile of the female
variety into the lake. They set out some poot inner bait.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
We stroke, so they used a honey pot. Yeah, he
pound two hundred pounds honey pot and tossed her in
there for oscar. Yeah, and he outweighs her by probably
eight hundred pounds.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
They were estimating he was about five hundred pounds, so
it'd be like a little less than half his size.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Okay, and the other two I'm pretty sure like a
thousand pounds.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Yeah, it's just and as much as the trappers were
hoping for a lakeside liaison. Their sexy see turtle didn't
get any attention either.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Could you imagine the crowd.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Then we're gonna watching to you these turtles porking and.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
Turtle pork Oh god, that's that's the high level best
reality right there.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
Like that, It's only.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Best reality if you're involved in the fucking of the turtle.
You throw a.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Two hundred pounds chick in there, you're not involved.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
I'm just saying, if you're not porking the turtle, it's
technically not best reality. Correct, it's weird.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
It's weird. Yeah, no, you're right, Yeah, it's weird, but it's.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
Not there's no law.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
If you try the turtle fuckers the turtle. One of
the voyeurs. We got a bunch of cup chairs over
by the lake.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Oh, not only are you encouraging this thing to mate,
you're encouraging to have little oscars. No oscars are not
gonna be very little.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
They're just saying, Oh, we're gonna we're gonna put this
sexy turtle out here, and he's gonna come out of
the depths, and when he does, we're gonna catch him.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Okay, what if Oscar doesn't like chicks, ballid.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
You got no action. Maybe he's racist and he doesn't
like the sea turtles. I only want a lakeside beauty turtle. Racism.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
She was up. She was an uptown turtle and he
was a down home book.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Turtle. Shame. But again, no action, no nothing. And after
this attempt, they actually dradged or dragged the entire lake
with hooks like they were like, Oha, grew it, We're
going all in and they're just going the whole nine
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with hooks again. Nothing that's fucked up.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
Okay, I don't care. That's fucked up. This dude's just
hanging out. He's just trying to live his life, and
you're gonna slam into him with hooks just as you're
curious enough to see what a five hundred pound turtle
looks like. Yep, that's cruel. I'll hope he buys their
wieners off.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Don't go skinny dipping in the lake. Just say now,
we'll oscar that lake, any lakes around here, just say
it or not. If you're gonna get into that, I'm
gonna out myself and my light's going off now. Okay, yeah,
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we're not going into that story all right now. The
search for the Beast of Busco continues to this day,
and since nineteen fifty, this little town of Churubusco holds
an annual Turtle Days festival. Give it to me, I
don't think so, oh, give it to me, And the
(35:38):
light comes on. I'm like, maybe this is Gary Gary
the park.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
Maybe they're talking, Maybe they're talking to each other.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Maybe we'll find out. I've got to help.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
There's sex in the spirit life. I don't want to
think this.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Is I'm involved, because they seem to do it around me.
They're creepers. The other one was like, straight up, oh
my gosh, ok, sorry, that's an after after recording discussion.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Anyway, I'm like, look at you. I will come after
you as a ghost.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Thanks. I appreciate that. I hope I have a really
good dream tonight. I had a weird one last night.
I woke up in like a bad mood. But so
this is a two day hodown consisting of everything from
barbershop quartets, a five K race and evil even turtle racing.
You b yot and you literally mark your turtles and
(36:31):
they race. When is that?
Speaker 2 (36:36):
When is this?
Speaker 1 (36:38):
I want to say? It's usually in June or July.
Oh wait, hold on, here we go ready, So if
you're feeling turtle ish in the month of June, head
over to Cherbusco and join the search for Oscar, the
beloved Beast of Busco.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
Coming. I got it. I've got to participate in this.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
Yep, and it's up north. You repeat, it's up north.
But I'd say it's a trip for me. It'd be
at least a four hour three or four hour drive
because I'm at the bottom of the state and this
is all the way at the top.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
Shit, grab I'll grab a plane. You grab a plane.
Let's grow, let's get a lab on board.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
Yeah, Turtle days. There's also I think there's a festival
in Columbus or something for the mill Race Monster. And
that one's really close to me. That one's drivable in
a day.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
Why can't we do it all? Why can't we do
it all?
Speaker 1 (37:33):
One's south and ones all the way north.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
Ain't you got airplanes?
Speaker 1 (37:42):
Well, if we don't have, we only have one air place,
and that's in the middle of the state.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
Okay, but if you fly to the middle of the state,
then you only have half way up to go.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
You I gotta drive to the airport.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
Well, I'm thinking, I mean, we're actually we're actually getting
ready to buy an r V. So not I'm not
even joking. We're literally like we're getting ready to settle,
like on just buying this r V and I'll drive,
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we'll pick you up the airport. Hey, we can imagine
the three of us, the three.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
Of us, we'd get into so much trouble.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
I'm down.
Speaker 1 (38:41):
We get in trouble one way or the other, we'd
be in trouble.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
I'm down. But we could get into turtle trouble, Turtle trouble. Man, dude, Okay, no,
I got it. I got it. We're going to the
Turtle and we're going as the teenage mutant Ninja Turtles.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
I'm down because I was the same thought I had.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
I don't even care which one I am. I don't
even I don't even know their names. I don't even care.
We're wearing bikinis and shells.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
All right. I don't The bikini I have is I
might have one that works. The other one definitely is
not an in public bikini. I guess it could be,
but for me, no.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
I'm the same sizes. I'm the same size as Oscar's
potential girlfriends. I don't know if I should be running out.
Speaker 1 (39:40):
I'm bigger than his girlfriend. But we should totally make
this happen. I think it's at the end of June.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
Gets this time to plant. I seriously thought you about
to say we should go their nude. I was gonna
be like, no, I'm a two hundred pound turtle. I
don't think I should go.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
No, I'm a two hundred pound turtle. I'm more than
a two hundred pound turtle.
Speaker 2 (40:11):
Yeah, but you wear it better than I do.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
Eh vicious sick. That's what I have on Oscar aka
the Beast of Busco, one thing that my state is
known for. Unfortunately, So what do you think are pretty cool?
Speaker 2 (40:34):
Oh? No, I think no. I've seen them bastards get huge.
I'm not completely convinced that Oscar is not real. Had
a lot of times.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
Had he been south.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
They live forever?
Speaker 1 (40:49):
Yeah? How big DoD sea turtles get? Is it a
no tortoise? It's a tortoise technically tortoise?
Speaker 2 (40:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (40:57):
Don't they get huge?
Speaker 2 (41:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (41:02):
How big does a tortoise get? That?
Speaker 2 (41:05):
Hold on one? I can tell you. I'll ask thee
Almighty Google, Hey, Siri, how big is the biggest tortoise?
Oh wait, I got turned up eight pounds? So see
they the Galapaos I just started to say this, then
yeah them bassards. The Galapgos tortoise is the largest tortoise
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species and can weigh over eight hundred pounds.
Speaker 1 (41:31):
That's a big ass turtle tortoise. It goes, yeah, bang.
Speaker 2 (41:40):
That's crazy though. Yeah, it tells me right here, they'll
bite your toes off.
Speaker 1 (41:52):
That being said, what do you think, kryptid crab you're
saying cryptied?
Speaker 2 (41:56):
I yes, I'm saying kryptied.
Speaker 1 (41:59):
All right, I'm gonna day it's possible. So we're going
crypt it. No craps this round, but no let us know.
Get on there and comment crypti or crap or whether
or not you want to go to Chiabusco for the
Turtle Day Festival. But until next time, everybody, Yeah, we'll
see you.
Speaker 2 (42:18):
We'll see you.
Speaker 1 (42:23):
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I leave it in for the patrons.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Yeah, So if I ever referenced dessert pizza, now we
should I leave this in.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Okay, so now we will all know inside joke for
my patrons, what dessert pizza is? Okay? Or peach milkshakes? God, actually,
peach milkshake doesn't sound horrible. Oh, by the way, you
got a shout out on the last episode. So the
one that's going to be coming out this week, this
is going to be the week after I'm getting ready,
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which I need to apologize to everybody. I have been
getting my ass handed to me. You can't turn down
extra hours. So this week it is, which okay for
all of you listening, it's going to be when you're
listening now, it's last week.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Birthdays a week away.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Mine's Friday, is it really yep? Shut the front, Yep,
we're very close. So I've I switch shifts to the
lady because I was supposed to work on my birthday
and she's, oh, here, I'll just swap you because you
don't have to work on your birthday. It's bullshit. So
now I picked up a day and I switched day,
so I'm working four twelves in a row, and then
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my birthday's Friday, and then it's youth season. So this
week again. So last week you got an honorable mention.
I was talking because of the the Yes, so some
of the stuff that we were talking about took place
in California. So you got a match out.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Okay, oh oh yeah, so keep your.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Eyes open for that. Go back and listen. All of
your friends give Yeah. I always try to give shout
outs the best I can, but it was all alien based.
But this week we're gonna be going back to my roots,
to the old cryptids. Yeah, this isn't just any ordinary cryptid.
I'm a little frustrated because we're only known in Indiana
(04:31):
for a few things like Puckwa Geese, the mill Race Monster.
So everybody, and this was it a squawk? Is that
an Indiana or is that a Michigan thing? I think
it's an Indiana thing. It's unknown.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
As you said, the squak, Yes, that sounds like what
you get after you eat a garbage burrito from a
bad taco truck.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
I was thinking it sounds like some kind of like
dirty sex term.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Well okay, but you put it to them.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
I gave him a squalk.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
You know, I had a squamp after I had a
spicy tacoy. That's at that point you don't know whether
to congratulate them or hand them yeast infection cream.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Snuggled up in the northeastern portion of Indiana, you'll find
a quaint little town of Traubusco. They only have a
little under two thousand hoosiers spread across a small but
inviting and friendly patch of geography. And if you slowly
wander into this tiny town, you'll be greeted with an
interesting tidbit of information as you enter none other than
(05:44):
Turtle Town, USA.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
The look on your facetle Town, Okay, I just want
to be sure you said turtle turtle turtle Town, and
it may not too.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Love And after the hype around this particular monster, this
town became quite the turtle Topia. The local dental establishment,
Turtle Town Dental, even sports a tooth in the shape
of a turtle is their logo. You can find a
turtle wearing a sailor's hat above a candy store named
(06:22):
the Chocolate Turtle Real Original Right. Ironically, the turtles are
one of my favorites. Wait uh oh uh oh.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Is it chocolate turtle anything like a chocolate starfish.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Ha.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
No, you know what turtle is.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
It's like it's a I think it's like pecan and
like caramel and you dip it in chocolate.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Yeah, oh no, I yeah, I don't love a turtle.
Oh yeah, we also okay, we have that, but this
almost the same thing, except it's not pecan's. It's peanuts
is moose tracks. So yeah, sometimes if you put a
turtle at the bottom of your bowl, you can have
a moose track right over the top of it. And
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both of them sound like poop joke, they do.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
But they're delicious red. Oh they're talking about me anyway.
All right. So in ninety look go backwards boop. All right.
So even the town water tower has a turtle on it.
There's all this turtle fever going on in sure Boostco.
(07:34):
And I wanted to get into what started the hype.
So in ninety eight, a local farmer by the name
of Oscar Folk reported a run in with a substantially
sized snapping turtle.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Okay, those bastards are mean. I don't care what anybody says.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Those bards they're like dinasaurs. They literally can take off
a finger I'm not joking. Don't mess with a snapping turtle.
Chop a tete off. That's the best way to kill it.
Chop a teed off. They give it like a zombie guillotine.
I've had one get shot and it still came after it.
(08:14):
Oh no, you may.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Look if you guys out there, there's anybody that's listening
that that that does any kind of like woodworking, make
me a little guillotine. Yeah, little, it would be like this,
wouldn't it a little guillotine?
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Yeah, just like one of those cigar cutters.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
I've seen those. Yeah, I've seen them that look like guillotines.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
See, that's what you need. That's what we need to do. Now.
Just this one sighting alone started the legend of the
beasts of Busco, and a lot of the locals refer
to it as Oscar. So they have named Oscar, they
have named said turtle. Now great Oscar is the original
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person who sighted the beast, so I guess they named
it after him, which is interesting because it doesn't normally happen.
But for decades after the initial sighting, there had been
whispers of a beast circulating throughout the locals, but none
of the supposed sightings ended with the capture of the
reclusive reptile for the norm. However, the legend came to
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life on a private plot then owned by Gal and
Helen Harris. During the summer of nineteen forty eight. Avid
fisherman and Helen's brother, Charlie Wilson, was accompanied by his
son in law or a Blue, spent the day fishing
on Folk Lake.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
I had a great uncle. His name was Charlie Wilson.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
There you go. Maybe it's the same. We know a guy,
we know a guy.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
I know a guy that knows a guy.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Yeah. Now, these two men, with the tendency to take
a ton of time trolling the ten acre land enough
to fish to fee their families were going to wish
that they had wandered off well before they bore witness
to a beast that had remained hidden beneath the waters
until that fateful day. Wilson himself was known for big
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fish stories, so it wasn't a complete surprise when he
hurried into the Harris' home blubbering about the biggest turtle
he had ever seen. No one believed him.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
I don't know why, though, because those bastards are big
because they get big.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Yeah, oh, this thing is like car size big. Not oh,
it's a big turtle. I'm talking a car.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
They had a snapping turtle the size of the Volkswagen
pretty much.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
We'll get into more details.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Okay, yeah, and after the show. Actually, here, hold on
because I'm gonna tell you something funny. I'm gonna pause recording. Sorry, guys,
you don't need to hear this.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
That's impressive. Yeah, so there's that's impressive.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Now do you get this? Now we're talking about staff turtles.
So that's why I keep chuckling. Okay, sorry, guys, y'all
don't need to hear that part. Yes, spirit, that's right.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
I was just kind of wondering if there there is
a snap in turtle that like dessert pizzas.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Yes, I hear. They love dessert pizza. It's like their favorite.
The Harrisons had only inhabited the property about a year's
time and couldn't consider the fact that the lake was
concealing such a colossal creature. Later that same year, Gail
Harris had invited his pastor, Orville Reese, to assist in
patching up the barn roof. Say you're from a small
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town without saying you're from a small town hanged. Okay,
so when you have your pastor over to help you
patch up your barn, you're definitely from the Midwest, like
it keeps saying, hanged.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Oh, I would have been in the eighteen hundreds. That's
pretty yeah, I'm pretty sure about that.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
We are now in nineteen forty eight. We are in
the forties, I might balance into So while up on
the roof, the men stopped due to a distraction of
something very large splashing around in the lake. As they
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looked along the length of the lake, they cut a
quick glimpse of something swimming. Hurrying to investigate, the men
bounded into a boat that was I don't want to
say parked, parked up on there in a not so
hot pursuit because it was a paddle boat. The farmer,
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in his holiness, round ravaging towards the rough location of
where the rock is That occurred after a long look
see around the lake. Rhese perked up, proclaiming that he
had eyes on the beast and this is the pasture.
Harris relayed the revelation that the rascally rept out had
revealed itself on his side of the boat. So both
men were baffled by the bulk of the beast because
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they're arguing, no, I'm seeing the beast, No, I'm seeing
it well. And behold, it was so big that they
were both seeing it on their sides of the boat.
Both men began estimating the enormous side they had each
agreed the sensational shell was about the size of a
dining room table. And I would like to point out
that back then tables were made to hold larger families
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than typically today's are. Says no thanks, so I thanks
to just the shell that they could see under their
little tiny boat was as big as a dining room table,
like a very large dining room table.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
The b Sabusco was tagged with a guestimate of being
around five hundred pounds dead estimate, and right about then
Oscar sank down out of sight, leaving both witnesses dumbfounded.
Soon after, Oscar briefly exposed itself to the landowner, then
submerged itself once again, but not before igniting the determination
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deep within Gail Harris. After Gail's sighting, for whatever reason,
whispers among locals turned to shouts heard around the country
next thing, they knew, townies and strangers alike were lining
the bags of folk Lake to attempt to capture the beast.
So we're getting super crazed.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Okay, why would you want to do that though it's
as big as a table, Why do you want to
catch this thing?
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Probably for the same reason everybody goes to freak shows. Yeah, okay,
to see if it's real.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
I get that. I get that. I would hang out
on the side and watch somebody else bring it in
to see it.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
But oh man, yeah, I personally ancient. Yeah, it probably
is ancient. Now even a county Oh hold on. It
wasn't just hunters and trappers that showed up at the scene.
Vendors were setting up selling everything from popcorn to lemonade
for those exhausted from the search and needing a little
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pick me up. Or maybe they were just wanting to
observe the spectacle. Who knows, but.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
That's a good idea though.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Here, let's get some lemonade. And so then a county
fair was initiated surrounding the search of the Beast of Buscaux.
So now we've got a whole full on fare event.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Okay, that's cool and shit yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Yeah, small towns in the Midwest can be pretty cool.
What's crazy is at this fair so many people attended
to search that state patrol officers were called in to
manage the crowds like they were bringing in assuredly.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
That doesn't surprise me. That truly does not surprise me.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
And it was one of the largest searches for anything
in the state of Indiana, like mill Race. I think
mill Race was the biggest.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
I'm like, it's a turtle the size of a Volkswagen. Yeah,
there's gonna be crowds.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Yeah, now, I just we'll talk about it at the end,
but I'm just not sure. Now. They tried to drudge
the lake, and when they started getting a little bit
more understand serious, they had the lake drained because he
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was so determined. However, gotta know, the lake was never
entirely emptied, because after weeks of pumping, there was a
half assed damn and it gave way and refilled the
entire lake. Again.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
It goes logical, okay, And somewhere somebody turned to the
person standing next to him and said, damn it, Jeff,
damn it, Kevin.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Sorry, that's like an ongoing thing. I don't know why.
But I've always made a joke about Kevin, not R. Kevin,
but it's always just been Kevin in general. And then
I met RK Kevin.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Home alone Kevin.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Yeah, damn Kevin. That's what it usually is. Yeah, I
don't understand why. But then he went ahead and tried
to do all of that. No evidence surfaced.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Then I'm surprised.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Yeah, the dam broke and all the like I said,
all the water flowed right back in. But Harris did
not give up. He instead inquired about a professional diver.
When the diver arrived, they noted that the wrong equipment
had been ordered and they were unable to get to
the bottom of the lake to investigate. What kind of
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diver doesn't bring the right equipment and what equipment do
you need to get to the bottom of this lake
that you're not going to use for something else?
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Well, what are we what year we're talking about? In
the forty eight.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
The fifties, wouldn't that.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Be the giant metal head die scuba suits that are
like the big old metal head and the maybe he
left his hose at home. It could happen.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Always carry your hose.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
He's got a big head. I guess he didn't figure
he needed the hose.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
It goes. How come you never know what you're gonna
be diving, That's how come. Again, they couldn't get to
the bottom of the lake, but even Life Magazine threw
their hat into the ring by sending a photographer who
shot three hundred frames of the lake and the surrounding environment.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
And that doesn't surprise me.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Still, no evidence, didn't catch anything. Surprise. Yeah, So after
a few Oscar Oscar yep Oscar, the Beast of Bustco
and apparently turtle, I'm just thinking of the disguise, like
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all the disguises that could try to be like, oh,
it's just a rock. Oh it's just a log. Oh
it's just this, it's just that.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Okay, But as big as that damn thing is, I
could truly see, Okay, it's a lake. It's murky. I
could see the old boy getting.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Down there with his old metal head and just going
and walking all the way across his giant house show
and just be like, oh, it's the Oh okay, it's the.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Bottom of the lake is uneven. Oh it's just slippery.
Maybe it's a rock yep reached up there. Yeah, until
Oscar reached up there and bit his butt off.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Yeah exactly. Now see here's the thing. After a few
failed attempts at hunting down or trapping the beast, Harris
kept his resilience and continued his search for proof. He
set out baited traps, nothing, put out nets. Nothing. This
dude even climbed into the trees to try to trick
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the creature into making an appearance, but again nothing. He
was like, if I climb in this tree, it's not
gonna see that I'm out there. Maybe it'll come up.
So you just hung out the tree.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
It's as big as a Volkswagen. It sees you, yeah,
and it thinks you're stupid.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
It probably doesn't just throw what this idiot doing?
Speaker 2 (21:13):
How far you doing up in that tree? Oh and
I supposed see you? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Oh my bad, and crept. Towards the fall season of
nineteen forty nine, Harris's health slowly deteriorated as a result
of the stress. And it's like, so the stress of
the search, he starts getting sick. The crops failed during
the hunt for Oscar because he was so concerned about
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seeing him that he wasn't tending to his fields, and
therefore tough times and it just amazes me. But let's
dive into the community's contributions concerning this giant reptile, because
this is where it gets funny to me.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
I was like, okay, so we're gonna be talking about
the fair in the popcorn. I would go for the popcorn.
I'm gonna be honest.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Yeah, I'm a big fan of popcorn.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Though.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
I will eat popcorn three meals a day. And if
I go to the if I go to the movie theater,
don't you dare touch my popcorn? Bugget you better get
your own. I'm not sharing. I'll share my soda.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
It was all right, I'll share. I don't like it.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
I don't like it either.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
I don't like yourn.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
I've been harding it for forty something years.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
No, I'm going to get into this whole thing here,
and you're gonna get a kick out of it.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
I think I can't wait to hear this.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
With the search gaining traction, the town took action and
anticipation of the influx of individuals to the area. On
March fourteenth, the Churubusco Community Club held a super special
session to discuss how they would handle this atuuation. And
maintain order. I meant it. First on the docket was
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to establish the Turtle Committee, and if you were turtle
enough for the Turtle Committee, you were tasked with trapping
the beast alive. And well, so they were very much,
don't kill the turtle, we just want to capture it.
(23:28):
I'm just letting the Turtle Committee. I'm like, that's what.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Okay, that's like I can't make up.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
I can't make it up.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
I'm like, okay, everybody's doubt the moose Lodge and they're like, okay,
tonight is not called the moose laghnight is the turtle
You know what?
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Community club started it? So you got to be part
of the Cherubus Community Club. And then they decide who
is turtle enough for the Turtle Committee.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Ask pretty fucked up because you know what if this
nerds show up and we know everything about this damn
turtle and they don't let us in because.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
We're nerds or because we're not locals, Yeah, they too,
so it don't like outsiders. Now, affiliates agreed the search
group should enlist an experienced diver, so they also said diver.
(24:25):
So the lucky pick was a diver from Fort Wayne
by the name of Woodrow Rigsby. It is.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
What you said.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
They brought everything. He goes beer, well, smart beer.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
This is entertaining.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Yeah, bring your pitchforest for going. Now. On the eighteenth
of March, Rigsby donned his diving duds and dove into
the lake in search of oscar. Unfortunately, how did you
come up with this?
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Doned his diving?
Speaker 1 (25:01):
I like alliteration. I can't help it. I can't not
write it because I write all my own stuff and
I just can't help myself.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
I Yeah, I know there's times I'll say something and
I'll think to myself, Oh I come up with that.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Yeah, I talking about like this is good, this is good,
This is good. This is good situations.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
I likes.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
He goes under and unfortunately the helmet cracks and his
search is ceased.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Yeah, because how did his helmet crack?
Speaker 1 (25:36):
It doesn't say it just says it cracked.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
He ran into the back of that turtle. I'm telling.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Get, like, what's you know what it might be? What
if he like rammed its head.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Of think about it? Okay, so we'll just a regular turtle, right, Yep.
Their tails are they're hard. Yeah, and they got a
point on them. And if this fucking thing's as big
as a Volkswagen, this is a good.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
I didn't think about that. I didn't think about that.
That's a good that's a good point.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
He's lucky he didn't poke his eye out.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
You're gonna poke your eye out with that, That's what
I was thinking. The air stops. And three days after
Risby took a dive into the murky waters, a different
diver dove on down himself in hopes of seeing the
super sized snapper. And this man was Walter Johnson, and
(26:45):
again he yielded no evidence whatsoever of the monster. Yeah,
And following the diving dudes, hordes of people crafted traps
from simple the complex, but they caught nothing and appeared
to show that something was super strength had escaped. So
(27:06):
some of them had built some pretty sturdy things, and
something very large or very heavy destroyed the trap, like
broke through the trap.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
So Oscar was not one to be messed with. Nose.
You got these engineers showing up with these gigantic traps
and Oscar's come at me, bro.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Go ahead, yeah, yeah, and he just goes through it
like cut. One of them looked like it was completely
like the his his bite. Yes, it kind of looks
like something bit through or pushed through and broke the netting.
And it was so big it looked like it almost
like cracked the like circle part.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
No, I don't doubt it because I look at the
little the regular shap in turtles. When they get big,
let's just like the biggest one I ever seen, like this, right,
and when they bite, shit, they've got that gnarly little
tip on one part. Then then they've got the on
the bottom.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
And I've watched them bite into something and pull back
and just tear it apart.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Yep, they're gnarly. You really got to watch them. I
had one in my backyard and this one house I
lived in, and this thing was every bit like bigger
than my laptop. I can't even it was probably bigger
than your dog.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Yeah, I'm not surprised.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Yeah, And this thing was covered in moss, the whole
shell covered in moss, and it was going like real slow,
and my ex husband sit be a picture of it.
I'm like, whatever, you do not get close to it? Like,
do not? I got Gary again, Hi, Gary Hag, that's
(28:55):
not very nice. What do you say hag.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Ya mama.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Yeah, oh my gosh. Anyway, after episode thing, so a
posse flocked and searched the area with their flashlights overnight,
and once again, no one caused so much as a
glimpse of the gargaguan creature. And desperation, the town hired
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professional turtle trappers. They too had no success. Surprise. Now
this is when the.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Sir, oh, wait, so you're telling me I went through
twenty plus years of college or school and then I
and I got two professional degrees and all this time
(29:55):
I could have been a freaking turtle trapper. Yeah, I
got screwed. I got screwed.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Or a diver.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
I don't want to dive. I've watched Jaws too many times.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
The good point, but turtle trapper seems like a pretty
sweet gig until you get the wrong one.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
I started. Take that fucker turns around and snapped your ass. Yep,
you lose half a butt cheek. That'd be a hell
of a conversation in the cafe in the morning. Here
here comes Eddie and he's only got half a butt
cheek because he oscar.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
It goes absolutely turtle ted over there, turtle tad. But
here's the thing. So they go through this, they're hiring
all these people, they're not having any success. But then
the town took the search down a bit of a
weird path. So they were so, oh determined, it's.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
A giant turtle, so look for a giant turtle. Was
not weird enough.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Oh no, this is where it goot. This is funny,
speaking of snap of turtles. They were so determined that
they were going to use the busco beasts primal instinct
to cause him to slip up and be captured. The
townspeople gathered as they released a ravishing two hundred pound
(31:25):
which is ninety point seven kilograms reptile of the female
variety into the lake. They set out some poot inner bait.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
We stroke, so they used a honey pot. Yeah, he
pound two hundred pounds honey pot and tossed her in
there for oscar. Yeah, and he outweighs her by probably
eight hundred pounds.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
They were estimating he was about five hundred pounds, so
it'd be like a little less than half his size.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Okay, and the other two I'm pretty sure like a
thousand pounds.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Yeah, it's just and as much as the trappers were
hoping for a lakeside liaison. Their sexy see turtle didn't
get any attention either.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Could you imagine the crowd.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Then we're gonna watching to you these turtles porking and.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
Turtle pork Oh god, that's that's the high level best
reality right there.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
Like that, It's only.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Best reality if you're involved in the fucking of the turtle.
You throw a.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Two hundred pounds chick in there, you're not involved.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
I'm just saying, if you're not porking the turtle, it's
technically not best reality. Correct, it's weird.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
It's weird. Yeah, no, you're right, Yeah, it's weird, but it's.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
Not there's no law.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
If you try the turtle fuckers the turtle. One of
the voyeurs. We got a bunch of cup chairs over
by the lake.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Oh, not only are you encouraging this thing to mate,
you're encouraging to have little oscars. No oscars are not
gonna be very little.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
They're just saying, Oh, we're gonna we're gonna put this
sexy turtle out here, and he's gonna come out of
the depths, and when he does, we're gonna catch him.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Okay, what if Oscar doesn't like chicks, ballid.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
You got no action. Maybe he's racist and he doesn't
like the sea turtles. I only want a lakeside beauty turtle. Racism.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
She was up. She was an uptown turtle and he
was a down home book.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Turtle. Shame. But again, no action, no nothing. And after
this attempt, they actually dradged or dragged the entire lake
with hooks like they were like, Oha, grew it, We're
going all in and they're just going the whole nine
(34:33):
with hooks again. Nothing that's fucked up.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
Okay, I don't care. That's fucked up. This dude's just
hanging out. He's just trying to live his life, and
you're gonna slam into him with hooks just as you're
curious enough to see what a five hundred pound turtle
looks like. Yep, that's cruel. I'll hope he buys their
wieners off.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Don't go skinny dipping in the lake. Just say now,
we'll oscar that lake, any lakes around here, just say
it or not. If you're gonna get into that, I'm
gonna out myself and my light's going off now. Okay, yeah,
(35:18):
we're not going into that story all right now. The
search for the Beast of Busco continues to this day,
and since nineteen fifty, this little town of Churubusco holds
an annual Turtle Days festival. Give it to me, I
don't think so, oh, give it to me, And the
(35:38):
light comes on. I'm like, maybe this is Gary Gary
the park.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
Maybe they're talking, Maybe they're talking to each other.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Maybe we'll find out. I've got to help.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
There's sex in the spirit life. I don't want to
think this.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Is I'm involved, because they seem to do it around me.
They're creepers. The other one was like, straight up, oh
my gosh, ok, sorry, that's an after after recording discussion.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Anyway, I'm like, look at you. I will come after
you as a ghost.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Thanks. I appreciate that. I hope I have a really
good dream tonight. I had a weird one last night.
I woke up in like a bad mood. But so
this is a two day hodown consisting of everything from
barbershop quartets, a five K race and evil even turtle racing.
You b yot and you literally mark your turtles and
(36:31):
they race. When is that?
Speaker 2 (36:36):
When is this?
Speaker 1 (36:38):
I want to say? It's usually in June or July.
Oh wait, hold on, here we go ready, So if
you're feeling turtle ish in the month of June, head
over to Cherbusco and join the search for Oscar, the
beloved Beast of Busco.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
Coming. I got it. I've got to participate in this.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
Yep, and it's up north. You repeat, it's up north.
But I'd say it's a trip for me. It'd be
at least a four hour three or four hour drive
because I'm at the bottom of the state and this
is all the way at the top.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
Shit, grab I'll grab a plane. You grab a plane.
Let's grow, let's get a lab on board.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
Yeah, Turtle days. There's also I think there's a festival
in Columbus or something for the mill Race Monster. And
that one's really close to me. That one's drivable in
a day.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
Why can't we do it all? Why can't we do
it all?
Speaker 1 (37:33):
One's south and ones all the way north.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
Ain't you got airplanes?
Speaker 1 (37:42):
Well, if we don't have, we only have one air place,
and that's in the middle of the state.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
Okay, but if you fly to the middle of the state,
then you only have half way up to go.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
You I gotta drive to the airport.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
Well, I'm thinking, I mean, we're actually we're actually getting
ready to buy an r V. So not I'm not
even joking. We're literally like we're getting ready to settle,
like on just buying this r V and I'll drive,
(38:23):
we'll pick you up the airport. Hey, we can imagine
the three of us, the three.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
Of us, we'd get into so much trouble.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
I'm down.
Speaker 1 (38:41):
We get in trouble one way or the other, we'd
be in trouble.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
I'm down. But we could get into turtle trouble, Turtle trouble. Man, dude, Okay, no,
I got it. I got it. We're going to the
Turtle and we're going as the teenage mutant Ninja Turtles.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
I'm down because I was the same thought I had.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
I don't even care which one I am. I don't
even I don't even know their names. I don't even care.
We're wearing bikinis and shells.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
All right. I don't The bikini I have is I
might have one that works. The other one definitely is
not an in public bikini. I guess it could be,
but for me, no.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
I'm the same sizes. I'm the same size as Oscar's
potential girlfriends. I don't know if I should be running out.
Speaker 1 (39:40):
I'm bigger than his girlfriend. But we should totally make
this happen. I think it's at the end of June.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
Gets this time to plant. I seriously thought you about
to say we should go their nude. I was gonna
be like, no, I'm a two hundred pound turtle. I
don't think I should go.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
No, I'm a two hundred pound turtle. I'm more than
a two hundred pound turtle.
Speaker 2 (40:11):
Yeah, but you wear it better than I do.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
Eh vicious sick. That's what I have on Oscar aka
the Beast of Busco, one thing that my state is
known for. Unfortunately, So what do you think are pretty cool?
Speaker 2 (40:34):
Oh? No, I think no. I've seen them bastards get huge.
I'm not completely convinced that Oscar is not real. Had
a lot of times.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
Had he been south.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
They live forever?
Speaker 1 (40:49):
Yeah? How big DoD sea turtles get? Is it a
no tortoise? It's a tortoise technically tortoise?
Speaker 2 (40:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (40:57):
Don't they get huge?
Speaker 2 (41:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (41:02):
How big does a tortoise get? That?
Speaker 2 (41:05):
Hold on one? I can tell you. I'll ask thee
Almighty Google, Hey, Siri, how big is the biggest tortoise?
Oh wait, I got turned up eight pounds? So see
they the Galapaos I just started to say this, then
yeah them bassards. The Galapgos tortoise is the largest tortoise
(41:27):
species and can weigh over eight hundred pounds.
Speaker 1 (41:31):
That's a big ass turtle tortoise. It goes, yeah, bang.
Speaker 2 (41:40):
That's crazy though. Yeah, it tells me right here, they'll
bite your toes off.
Speaker 1 (41:52):
That being said, what do you think, kryptid crab you're
saying cryptied?
Speaker 2 (41:56):
I yes, I'm saying kryptied.
Speaker 1 (41:59):
All right, I'm gonna day it's possible. So we're going
crypt it. No craps this round, but no let us know.
Get on there and comment crypti or crap or whether
or not you want to go to Chiabusco for the
Turtle Day Festival. But until next time, everybody, Yeah, we'll
see you.
Speaker 2 (42:18):
We'll see you.
Speaker 1 (42:23):
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