July 3, 2025 • 47 mins
Revisit this episode with Dustin Grammer of Moonlight Monster media, as he discusses his films, books , etc.
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paranal one Friends. We have a special guest for you tonight.
Got a little bit different topics, so it's gonna be fun,
interesting and can't wait to talk to him.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
But first I just want to let you know that.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Our guest he's an author and musician, director, and he's
founder of Moonlight Monster Media.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
So please welcome Dustin Graham for the show. Welcome Dustin.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
Hey, hur are you up tonight?
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Doing good? Doing good? So I'm interested in knowing a
little bit about you.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
I know when I was kind of reading some of
your things, you started this production Moonlight Monster Media.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
But I want you to tell our guest, how does
this tie in with you being a musician and how
did this all come about?
Speaker 6 (03:00):
Okay, yeah, that's a I'm glad you started with the
musician part, because that is that is how it started out.
I was a musician way before I attempted any of
this other stuff. But I've always, growing up, just had
an interest in paranormal horror, you know, ghost stories, that
sort of stuff. But I played the guitar, and the
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way I came to where I'm at is at my job.
And see, I'm going to tell this right this time.
I always forget to come back and tell the part
where I eventually succeeded at work. But I had been
where I worked for ten years and got a potion
that required you to take a very hard examination and
get a license. And I've never had any difficulty, you know,
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getting qualifications at any time in my life. And I
failed this one, and you know, it has a very
low pass rate. It's a more damn but I put
ten years of a career on the line with this
and failed it the first time. And you know, I
had a young son at home and my wife was
pregnant at the time, so you know, I just sat
out and felt like a loser.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
You just you know that sort of.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Hit in the gut.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
Yeah, I'm like, I'm you know, I would lose my
job if I don't get this, and that's ten years
down the drain. So being a musician, when you fell
that miserably, you.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
Your self worth, your your your worth goes.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
Down, and you just want to prove something to yourself.
So I decided to record a piece of music and
I did this electric guitar kind of heavier metal style
piece called Silver Bullet. And you know, eventually I did
go on to pass the test and get the license,
and I still work at the same place to this day.
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This was probably in twenty sixteen, so almost ten years since,
you know, so a couple of years went by, and
you know, I just started to set these goals. I
don't you know, I'll watch a lot of.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
B C movies, you.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
Know, documentaries on big Foot, the ghost Hunters, that sort
of stuff, and I really get into that. And I
was just thinking, you know, some of these guys seem
like they're able to be reached personally. I wonder if
to put some of my music in one of their movies.
So ill, you know, I'll stop there because I don't
want to just keep rambling on right when the show started.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
But that's completely fine.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
I want to hear the story of how this all
came to because I mean, I read some of it,
but you know, this will kind of help our listeners
understand where we're going with us.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
So that's fine if you want to ramble.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
So yeah, that's the the beginning.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
So it started with music.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
I've been playing guitars since I was fifteen, and I
started wanting to just you know, I don't remember why.
I just kind of thought, man, it'd be cool to
have a piece featured in music. So I started to do.
Was when I'd watched these movies on Prime or YouTube
or whatever, I would go to the credits and see
what company or if a director, and then I would
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look them up on like Facebook, and I had written,
you know, a message.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
And I would just copy and paste say I'm just
syn Grammar.
Speaker 6 (06:15):
I really liked your movie, because of course, if I'm
sending it, I did watch the movie, and I was
wondering if you have any projects coming up? If you
were just I wasn't even going to charge you, and
I'm like, just for free, would you put like five
seconds of a song in a movie?
Speaker 5 (06:29):
Because at this point I had a couple more i'd recorded.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
And you know, when you you cold call or email
like that, I could have hit maybe you know, twenty
twenty people, and I think I got like two replies.
You know, you get like two to three replies, and tummas. Markham,
who runs Zombie Media outfit Zombie Media and the Zombie
Media Publishing he actually responded back to me and was
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very kind and answered some questions for me and listened
to my tracks and gave me feedback. But he, you know,
used a different program and he had different methods and
a lot of them already had their own guys.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
So that didn't work out that year.
Speaker 6 (07:08):
And I don't remember a couple of years later, I
decided to try again and I didn't have any more success.
So the story, you know, the moral of the story,
I guess it persistence and the technology, you know, the
apps on the phones get better, and we started making reals.
Me and my friend and become digital creators. And he's
gone his own way since doing his thing. We'll team
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up every once in a while, but my editing skills
start to get a little better.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Yea.
Speaker 6 (07:33):
And we started doing like documentary type bigfootfo sightings with
these two redneck characters.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
We put on wigs or whatever.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
So one day I just sat there and I was like,
I'll just made my own movie like low quality, used
some retro effects, make like an old eighties hate And
I reached out to get again to Thomas Markham at
Zomniemedia to ask him how do you make your movies?
And yet again he answered a question I had. And
I've gotten so far, and I'm very thankful. You don't
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want everybody, you know, if you're listening to everything that
for one minute, I'm not appreciative. I had a lot
of volunteers on the Steve Ridge movie. That's when I
ended up calling It, which is a fictional town in Alabama,
and everybody played these goofy witnesses and you know, and
they did it for free. It was on and we
went through you know, Zombie Media distributed it for me
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and it's on two.
Speaker 5 (08:28):
It's I think it's still on there.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Yeah, yeah it is.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
That was a That was that.
Speaker 6 (08:36):
So now I had this going and got on a
podcast and did this and we're promoting the movie. Well
then I start, you know, have a friend that does
podcasts and he was trying to get a few things
going there for a minute, and I was gonna do
an audio I didn't want to do a podcast, but
I thought about doing some sort of audio channel.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
I tell, like horror stories.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
Oh yeah, And I started that up with mic with
my computer and trying to like freelance, you know.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
Free basic, no notes, and I couldn't do it.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
So I started taking notes in a notepad yep, like
bullet points, and then that wasn't getting it. So I
started just fill out, typing paragraphs to read and by
the time I did all that work type and I
just figured I might as well make a book. So
then that's how the book came up.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
And this book.
Speaker 6 (09:21):
So yet it yet again, I hit Thomas mark them
up at Zombie Media because he publishes books.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
And he's written books. I'm like, how do you do this?
Speaker 6 (09:29):
And step by steps like I'm a hey man, I
think I've got this book of short stories or nineteen
short stories done. He said, well, if you want me
to all publish that for you, let me get get
you know, if you don't mind me having a look
at it. And then so now the book's published. So
it's just a domino effect of having hobbies and just
taking these random shots at things like, hey, you know,
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this sounds like this might be fine, let me try
it well.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
And I love it. I love it that I I
could not sit down and write a book. I mean
when I was younger, yes, I thought that's what I
wanted to do.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
I even have like a whole kit to make my
own book back like fourth grade, and I started writing
like a thriller book and I only got about four
pages in and that's about all there is to it.
So kudos to you is sitting down and doing this.
But going back to your documentary, Siege Ridge, how.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Did you come up with the name and how did
you decide to do one kind of like a spoof
on like Bigfoot.
Speaker 6 (10:30):
And I want to be clear, it's a mockumentary, but
I'm not making fun of anybody. Like I really enjoyed
the I'm just not a serious person. Yeah, and you know,
it was it was all learning, Like I had no
idea what I was doing. I still don't, but you know,
I just I get lay every once in a while.
But because I take so many shots, I miss a
whole lot. But we were doing funny. We were doing
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funny reals and it just came natural, you know, and
I put my own music in it. You know, that
was the goal to begin with. But we just, I
don't know, people thought some of our Bigfoot and ghost
reels were funny. So we kind of made a document
because I didn't know anybody. Well, I didn't know one
person who actually has sightings. But I wasn't going to
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bring her into something funny, you know, attempting to do
an actual serious documentary. And interviewed her, but I wasn't
gonna bring her into something as silly as Steve Ridge
was so mean. I've always you know, Bigfoot's always interested me.
That it was just easy to go with that because
you know, I couldn't be wrong, I guess, and the
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way I did it.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Yeah, absolutely. Now do you do you believe in.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
Okay? I would really like to. Yeah, I'm not sure
how I feel about it though.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
It's where I'm at. It's the people who say they've
seen it though. I mean, I'm not falling anybody a
liar because it's you know, they're convinced that it's all
something and I don't know. I'm just kind of open
on that one. Paranormal. I'm a little more of a
believer in big I'm kind of on the fence sometimes
because there's so many people who are opportunities and they'll
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they'll thank for attention.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
So oh yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 6 (12:12):
And I don't know it, but i'd like to think
that there's a fiefoat out there, you know.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Going When we went to Indiana State Sanitorium last was
it last? No, it was not last Summer's the summer before.
I swear there was something like that out in those trees.
We were up on top of the roof of one
of the buildings and we could hear like a knocking
on a tree, and we're like, there's got to be
a crew out there. So we're like shining light, We're
trying to yell, but it continuously kept knocking on the
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same tree and you could see just the branches on
that tree move.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
It was the most bizarre thing ever. And one time when.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
We were at Cambrie House, swore we heard something out
there that sounded like it could have been somebody on
the river. Don't know, but you know, that's one of
those things too that I'm like, I'd like to believe
it's real, but I don't know if it really is.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
You know, some people are like, well, they're interveentionals.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
That's why you don't ever see him because they can,
you know, cross into other dimensions and stuff, and that's
why you don't ever see him.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
If that's real, it'd be cool if that's real, But
you know, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (13:10):
Yeah, I was about to ask you that question, what
do you think about it?
Speaker 5 (13:14):
Or have anything before? Or so I have not.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Those are the things that I have experienced. I'm kind
of like, Okay, what is really making that? Because like,
you know, if it was an actual like animal or something,
and we're like screaming at it, yelling at it, flashing light,
you think it would like take off, but it just
continuously like we would do something and it would just
knock on that scene tree. Like I'm like, that's kind
of odd, like it you know how they do those
tree knocks or whatever.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
That's kind of what it was.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
It was really weird and you could see just that
one tree, like the leaves on it kind of move
really bizarre.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
Didn't see any you know, critters and there who were
shining the light we walked down there.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
I don't know. I couldn't explain it. But whether it
was or not, I don't know. Something. I would still
like to go out and try to investigate, but I
don't know. Kim wants to go in the middle of
the night and a wooded area that we don't know
anything about ourselves. I take my done.
Speaker 7 (14:08):
I suppose, not not for Bigfoot, but all the other
animals might attack you.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I did sort of a like
I said, I was kind of working on a more
serious documentary type thing, and I went out in the
woods because you know, the lady I know doesn't live
too far from here says they come up and yell
at the house and stuff, and oh wow, I did
go out in the woods right here but I also, did,
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you know, bring a gun because other you know, animals,
But I totally get that.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Oh yeah, yeah, I don't know about that.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
I mean, I still want to do it, but i'd
have to go in a group, maybe somebody who's more
experienced searching for those things before I did that. But yeah,
that's still my Listen.
Speaker 8 (14:52):
To you get lost in Timber I probably would. I
honestly probably would. It doesn't take much for me to
get lost anywhere. Now we already talked about sez Rich.
I did see it on TV. Was there any other places,
like if somebody wanted to check it out? I can't
remember if it was on the Amazon Prime or anything
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like that.
Speaker 5 (15:15):
It is.
Speaker 6 (15:16):
I think you can rent it on Zombie Media video
Video on Demand, and then it was.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
Oh my Memories bad it.
Speaker 6 (15:25):
It did hit a couple of like I think it
one was called Typhoon and it was on a couple
of streaming services services at one time.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
But I know for fact too, he seems to be
the one. Yeah, that's the easiest to find and it's free.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
Some of the other ones, I think you had to
pay and rent it, but that one's kind of getting
a couple of years in the rear view mirror now
and I have a hard time keeping I kind of
kind of moved on to the book stuff now and
the movie thing is kind of hit the back burner
at for now.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Gotcha, that was what I was gonna ask you.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
I wondered if you had anything else in the books
for doing any more films or anything like that.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
Well, I'm see you said something earlier out right, and
when you were young, Yes, that's kind of where I
was when I was about ten years old, that's about Yeah,
depends on paper. At school, we wrote a few stories
and I'd always after that tried to finish something.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
And you know that was shoot almost thirty years ago now, and.
Speaker 6 (16:28):
My whole life, I've been trying to write a book
or finish a project, and I'm not good. I start
a lot of things and I'm hard to you know,
it's hard for me to always finish them. So when
I did in this Steeve's Ridge, I was really proud
of myself for seeing it all the way through. Same
with the book, it just it's like it just clicked
one day and I just kept going and would you know,
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just staying on until it was done.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
And I've got to find that fire again.
Speaker 6 (16:52):
So this, you know, starting to cool off a little
bit now it you know, it's not as it's a
lot more comfortable with whether and things are slowing down some.
Speaker 5 (17:01):
So I was hoping this winter fall, winter spring to
maybe do it another book.
Speaker 6 (17:06):
I've got all the notes, I've started a couple of stories,
and then I've got footage for a documentaries. Like I said,
I went out to try to do a quick one,
but I had a hard time get participation with that one,
get people on, you know, to talk about it.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
So I moved back. You know, I was doing a
paranormal one.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
I was gonna make a big one with that covered
a lot of topics, right, and started getting more material,
too much material to go in one.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
So I've got paranormal.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
Stuff too, and we actually I won't do those by myself,
and I may not ever do one again, I'm not sure.
But we went to a couple of cemeteries. And then
there's an old haunted house in town that this couple
refurbished and they use it for a wedding venue. Is
actually the Drish House, and it's featured in the Thirteen
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Ghosts of Alabama.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Book oh nice.
Speaker 6 (17:56):
We got to go in there back in the spream
end and God did for about an hour and we
videoed with the camera and I had a digital recorder
and we actually got a couple of EVPs.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
M h, I've still got that stuff. I just I
need witnesses, you know.
Speaker 6 (18:11):
I want to get some story like witness stories together
in interviews, so that that's the piece I'm missing there.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
Oh yeah, I was like, what's that? Noise is starting
to rain outide was really loud. I thought something was
tapping on the window.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
For a minute, you saying, are you located Indiana? Oh,
we're in Iowa.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Yeah. We just traveled to Indiana to investigate that location,
which is a phenomenal location. By the way, if anybody
is interested in booking a place to investigate that place's
hoping for sure, I like to go back.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Oh yeah, for sure.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
So y'all got you got evidence while you were out there?
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Oh yeah, yeah, shadow figures. We had wasted screaming. Yeah,
it was insane. It's all pretty much in the nurse's wing.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
And they dragged my music box. They wouldn't shut it off.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Oh yeah, that thing went off the whole time. We
have a paranormal music box, so like to text shadows.
So if something box in front of it, it's gonna
play this like creepy kind of music and flash it's light,
it would not stop.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
Oh wow, yeah it was.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
It was insane.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
But anyhow, now, I know you said that your filming
and stuff is on the back burner. But anybody who's
listening who might be thinking about getting into that, do
you have any words of wisdom for them as to
how they should get started or.
Speaker 6 (19:40):
Anything like that, or yeah, I mean, not to be
cheesy or anything, but if the words wisdom I have
is just to start. Just if you if it's fun
to you and you enjoy or maybe not even fun
but interesting, if it's something you're interested in, you just
have to start. I mean, you know, some people are
more prepared than I am, and they do a lot
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of research, but I'm wanting to just start crying stuff
and you've just got to be ready to be persistent.
And I'm still at that stage too. I mean, uh,
it's a challenge, and you know, you get moments where
you feel defeated or you feel down and fac you're
wasting your time or nobody cares about what you're doing,
or you feel like you kind of suck at it
because you know, you're like, this is not good and
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but you know it's fun. So I mean, I wouldn't
say I had like a lot of nuggets of wisdom
other than to just go for it and be just
you be ready to just take that challenge and keep
you know, the the more project. Every time I complete
a project, I learned a lot and the next time I'm.
Speaker 5 (20:47):
Gonna be better.
Speaker 6 (20:48):
You know, I learned a lot of tech with cameras
or the writing aspect. I go back and look through
stuff and see kind of like as much people stories
on what they like. So that's that's it. Just you know,
you be surprised once you start stuff like that and
you get Facebook groups or you know, people who will
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support you, and you know, I'm really thankful for that,
and you know I wouldn't I wouldn't have been going
without that.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
I mean, having having a network of people helps out tremendously.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Honestly, it really does. It helps you. Uh key, what
am I what's the word I want to say? I
can't think of the word. I'm having a brain part
right now.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
But you're able to connect with other people that may
have the same interested you and they can help you.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
You know, guide you through things.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
Maybe they know a little bit more in one area
and you might know something more another area, and you
guys can.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Network in that sense to help each other out, which
is easy.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Yeah. With you stepping aside from your your film, you
do have a book of short horror stories called Tales.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
Correct, Yes, there are road Tales of Horror.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Yep, yep.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
Now can you kind of give us a little brief
description of like what's in there or how did you
come up with these stories?
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (22:11):
Yeah, it's there are there's nineteen short stories in there.
They're all based in the Southeastern United States because you know, initially,
like I said, I was gonna do like an audio channel,
and I may still do that when I get more material.
I like, you know, like that have like thirty forty
stories in the bank before I started something like that.
Oh yeah, Uh so I decided to go the Southeast
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because if I'm gonna do audio, which now there's a
technology with AI and all this stuff changed voices, but
I have an accent, So I was like, well, if
it's gonna be sort of immersive, I probably should stick
it in the South, so I think some of some
of the stories don't necessarily stay. But I kind of
tried to at different states, and I tried not to
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reheat topics and.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
Some of the stories most stuff. And I just came
up with him the last year. But there were a
couple from earlier ages, you know.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
And the dirt road thing is sort of significant because
me and my brother we lived on a dirt road
growing up, and we would walk up down it after
school talk and sometimes and we tell each other stories,
so that it kind of plays back into that and
the stories to come from that time and some in
high school. And then just someone came up with as
an adult.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Wow, I was gonna ask you how you came up
with that? The oh my gosh, the title for the book.
My brain is just in my mind.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
But yeah, the title for your book. I was going
to ask you how you came up with that? So
that's that's very interesting.
Speaker 6 (23:41):
Yeah, anytime I've came up with the title like Stege
Ridge or dirt Road Tales of Horror, I just I
don't know. I'll get in my head, like I'll walk
around for for days and just I'll say you know
mentally in my head just repeat stuff like I think.
Initially I had Stege Ridge called something like pine Ridge
and I'll google, and you know off pine Ridge actually exists.
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I was like, uh, what in Alabama town?
Speaker 5 (24:05):
What was? You know?
Speaker 6 (24:05):
And I don't remember where Steed came from? And you
know we have play you know you already do too.
There's like these little towns with these odd names, right, yeah,
the dirt road tells a horror thing, you know, basing
it in the southeast, and I don't know, just the
old dirt road imagery came to me, and then I
ended up being able to tie that into like childhood
stuff and went with it when I saw that didn't
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already exists.
Speaker 5 (24:29):
Very cool.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Do you know one of the stories off the top
of your head?
Speaker 5 (24:32):
Oh yeah, I've got the book with me for reference. Yeah,
I needed.
Speaker 6 (24:37):
I was like, I better have this book. Asked a question,
Uh yeah, I mean, let me see. I'm looking at them,
so I've got I mean, what do you you asking me?
Like for titles?
Speaker 4 (24:53):
If you want to share a short one with us,
just so we have an idea.
Speaker 6 (24:59):
Well, let's see I could read I tell you what
I can read. The introduction if you've got time. Oh yeah,
you know, I may read kind of slow, so I
didn't take up the old time of the show.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Oh no, you're good.
Speaker 6 (25:13):
Yeah, so this is the very first part in the introduction.
I may read like a few paragraphs, so not like
an air grator.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
But okay.
Speaker 6 (25:21):
So the headlights of the Kenworth semi truck illuminated silhouette
of a man who was standing near the start of
a dirt road with his thumb.
Speaker 5 (25:28):
In the air.
Speaker 6 (25:30):
Ritt Howell engazed his jake break and started to shift
down in order to stop the semi to speak with
the apparent hitchhiker. As the truck slowed, the features of
the man could be more clearly seen against the backdrop
of the humid and hazy Florida Panhandle summer night. Rick
could see that the man was hauling lanky and was
dressed in western where a black cowboy hat sat on
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his head, and in the hand not throwing up the thumb,
which was his left hand, he held and worn out
guitar case. Got the truck pulled over on the shoulder
near the dirt road, beckon for the slender drifter to
approach the passenger side door of his rig. Rhett wasn't
one to just pull over and pick up strangers, especially
in this day in time, but he felt sort of
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an intuition that he couldn't explain guiding him into the action.
The trucker was an old dog, though, and he kept
his pistol hidden and ready underneath his left leg, just
in case the hitchhiker decided to be trouble. The passinger
door opened up and looked and looked onto a clean shaven,
tan face with dark, squinting eyes nestled under the black
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cowboy hat. A roguish but friendly looking smile began to
grow on the drifter's sun weathered chase, and then he
agreed against the sound of the rumbling, idle shruck. Many
appreciations of you, goods are for stopping to pit me
up on this fine, warm evening. Name's chance, and who
might you be? Name's Rhett, replied the trucker.
Speaker 5 (26:53):
Roughly.
Speaker 6 (26:54):
The sound of whipperwill could be heard coming from the
hazy marshes near the dirt road as Red halted, then asked, where.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
Are you trying to head? This truck's going to Raleigh,
North Carolina.
Speaker 6 (27:05):
Sounds good, mister, Rhet you see, I made my living
off the ballad stories and a little bit of gambler
from time to time. I ain't got no place that
I call home, so I'm always on the move. But
I'm ready to get out from Florida for now. Chance said, now,
climbing up into the truck, shutting the door, don't try
no funny business.
Speaker 5 (27:24):
Young man, and I think we'll be all right. You
ain't some sort of criminal, are you?
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Not?
Speaker 1 (27:28):
That?
Speaker 5 (27:28):
I reckon?
Speaker 6 (27:29):
You tell me if you were, Red remark. Red remark,
noticing that the stranger wore a shiny silver medallion outside
of a Jetsy Pearl Snap Western shirt. On closer examination,
the medallion almost appeared to have a faint glow to it,
and Ritt could see that it had the image of
an angel and grave on it. It was given to
me by a special lady, Chance said, noticing Rhett staring
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at the medallion. Huh, Red distractedly asked, the medallion seen
you looking at it? It was given to me by
a special lady, I said, Almost looks like it glows
a little sometimes, don't it. To answer your question, though,
I ain't any kind of criminal, unless you consider one
of my tales or bad. It's so bad to be criminal,
Chance responded as he touched his guitar back out of
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the way behind the truck seat.
Speaker 5 (28:16):
Then it goes on a couple more pages.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Wow, that's did you now did you publish this yourself?
Speaker 5 (28:24):
I published it as I'm the immediate post.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (28:28):
The what ends up going on is they talked just
a little bit more and the hitt hiker is telling
the stories in the book. So they from Florida to
North Carolina, and he tells the stories as they so
each story is and then there's a conclusion at the end.
Werhaps that introduction us. I've never been asked to just
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read it before.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
I just want listeners interested in the book. Yeah, exactly. See,
that's why we ask you, because then you know, I
people to be like, I have a little bit love it.
You know, you did very good. You did very good.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
I'd be nervous trying to read a book online or
you know, on a podcast or anything like that.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
I'm a shy person as is, so just me stitzing
here talking is. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (29:16):
I'm a very introverted person. But I do stuff like this.
Speaker 6 (29:20):
It's like I flip a switch in my head, like
I just shut it off and like, pretend it's not live,
or pretend it's not a record, like I'm just speaking
to someone I made for the first time.
Speaker 5 (29:30):
You know, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
It's yeah, yeah, well you did a real good job,
and we're getting feedback in our actually in our chat
right now, Nick from Beyond Her.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Normal said he liked it and that you should do
story books on YouTube. So there you go.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
Oh, thank you, thank you. It's really good.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
So yeah, absolutely, that's awesome.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
You said you've got some other stories and things COMPI us,
So are you working on another.
Speaker 6 (29:51):
Book then, or yeah, I'm going to do something very
similar and do another short story. I really enjoyed doing that.
You know, I guess I have a shorter I listened
to another podcast where a guy explained why he writes
short stories, and I can totally relate to that. It's
like an attention span thing. I just, you know, it's
easy for me to do little bits and move on
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to something fresh and.
Speaker 5 (30:16):
Get older.
Speaker 6 (30:18):
I'm working on I've got a whole notebook behind me
of ideas, and I've kind of got some of it
mapped out. I've started, I finished one of I've got
a draft of the story, another and a quarter of another.
So I may do another fifteen to twenty stories, hopefully
in the next few months and put that one out.
I've really really enjoyed doing this.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Oh yeah, that's awesome. Let's see here. Oh okay, so
we got it one. It has popped up on Mighty yet.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
But Kim just showed me that they also are saying
that maybe through your short stories into short films, like
a three to five minute movie, like a little short
clip like that.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
What do you kind of.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
I am?
Speaker 5 (30:59):
I have recorded worn and was trying to put images
to it.
Speaker 6 (31:04):
Good idea though, if it was short, Yeah, it'd be possible,
because that's the other thing when you're dealing with other people,
were nate. Everybody's so busy all the time, so right,
if it doesn't get done.
Speaker 5 (31:16):
That's on me.
Speaker 6 (31:16):
But making movies and videos have to drive some wearing,
coordinate with people and then usually they'll they'll get busy
and it never happens.
Speaker 5 (31:25):
But yeah, that's a good idea.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
It's very Yeah, that that is a very good idea.
Thank you from me.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
On paranormals, you've got people in here just they're already
loving it. Where now if they want to get this book.
Where can they purchase your book?
Speaker 6 (31:39):
It is on Amazon, It's in paperback, digital and audio.
There is an audio version.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
Oh very cool. Okay, all right, something i'd listen to work.
Speaker 5 (31:50):
Then do that all the time.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Well, I mean I could do it when I have.
Speaker 4 (31:59):
Patients like but I don't know if they probably, I
mean I could probably put it on the speaker and
listen to it.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
Some of them just wouldn't care. But you know, some
of them might be like, what in the hell are
we listening to?
Speaker 4 (32:09):
If I'm listening to horror stories and stuff while we're
drilling of teeth, I don't know what you got another
one in here that popped up? Oh okay, perfect, Okay,
So beyond hern I will also said, you know, with
the AI that's out there can create, maybe you could
do something like.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
That with your stories. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (32:31):
Yeah, that that's sort of what I was doing, because
unfortunately I'm not an artist and I would I can't
afford that. So, yeah, that's exactly what I was doing.
I had taken one of my shorter stories and I
narrated well, you know, I recorded myself and then I
used AI to change my voice to voice and then
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I was putting images together. I just I've been so
busy the last couple of weeks. I just hadn't gone
back because I do little short reels tier Tuesdays in
September in October and my kids helped me do that
and some of my friends. And then we just got
back from Salem this weekend. Oh cool, and went to
an event there, my first event and first speaking engagement.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Oh, I was going to ask you about that? Yeah,
how'd that go?
Speaker 5 (33:19):
I was nervous.
Speaker 6 (33:22):
I thought I had a really good basic outline in
my head of how that was going to go. And
I got up there and my hands got real sweaty,
and I forgot everything I was doing, and just I
felt like I had talked twenty to thirty minutes almost,
and it's probably like ten. And you know, I looked
at the NC and they're like, you still have time, like, oh,
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talk to you.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
You're like, crap, what am I going to do? Now?
That was it? Do you plan on doing anymore?
Speaker 5 (33:51):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (33:52):
Yeah? You know that one I can't do.
Speaker 6 (33:55):
I don't think I can do too many unless they're closer.
That really took, you know, I take off couple days
from work and lighting up you know, finances and places
to stay. That's not something I could do a lot of,
but it was it would just experienced me and my
wife wanted and we'd with Salem during our honeymoon.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
Like wow, that's cool.
Speaker 5 (34:16):
It was that almost thirteen years ago. Maybe I know,
you know, we drove the East Coast then, but we
played this time. Okay, all right, went to New Hampshire.
So I marked off a lot of the East Coast
states off my list of place. But yeah, i'd love
I love doing events like that, but for now, I
think want to stay more local for a little bit,
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at least till next year. Maybe.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
Oh yeah, for sure.
Speaker 5 (34:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
I get that it's expensive doing that because you know, kimb.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
Night at our first expo what nine years ago, eight
nine years ago, and then we just finally did our
second one this year, so like, oh yeah, I mean
they get kind of expensive and things.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
Like that, and you know, I like them because you
get to meet a lot of people. Yeah, that's a things,
a lot of people.
Speaker 5 (35:02):
I was the most excited about that.
Speaker 6 (35:04):
It's networking through Facebook and all the people in New
England have made and so it was I was more
excited about just meeting them in person and meeting people
who are going to be there than I was anything
I was bringing or having to do.
Speaker 5 (35:18):
It was it was fun.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
That part was oh yeah, yeah, for sure. Let's see here.
We did have a question.
Speaker 4 (35:24):
We had somebody who just joined chat a little bit
late April, so she was wanting to know, well, what
is your favorite story. We haven't gotten to any of
your because I know you said you've had a couple
of normal experiences.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
We haven't gotten to that. But she did put that
as a slash, so if you want to, you know,
kind of share some of that with us.
Speaker 5 (35:40):
Okay, so like favorite real life or favorite, like like
up your.
Speaker 4 (35:46):
Favorite story, maybe one that you've written. And then she
also wanted to experiences like if you had a paranormal experience.
Speaker 6 (35:54):
Okay, It's it's sort of hard for me to pick
my favorite stories because some of the ones I have
a different way. I've learned this by just writing this
one book. Not like I have a lot of experience,
But the ones I really had worked the hardest at
and do the most revising are not my favorites, like
they stressed me out. But some of those are the
ones that other readers are liking the most, so I
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can't personally because they're kind of like the kids.
Speaker 5 (36:20):
I do kind of like them all. But so far,
I would say that I remember the music and the
walk home.
Speaker 6 (36:30):
Has I've gotten good feedback on. I remember the music,
the walk home, the walker, just night brim fishing one
about the guys going fishing. Those are Cordero, the very
first one. Those are the ones I've gotten pretty good
feedback on.
Speaker 5 (36:45):
Can sick.
Speaker 6 (36:46):
You know, everybody favorites, but three feets those tend to
be the ones that are on most people's Now paranormal,
Let's see which one because I only have two or
three and I can't plan. But okay, so then as
I can't explain it, so I'll do the one that
had another witness.
Speaker 5 (37:05):
When I was I think I.
Speaker 6 (37:07):
Was seventeen eighteen, I worked for construction company and the
church up here in the community had built like an
activity center and they were having a Valentine's Day like
spaghetti dinner. You know that night, said the boss, who
was also a preacher of the church. I worked with
his son.
Speaker 5 (37:25):
He put me and his son.
Speaker 6 (37:26):
Together on a cradle lot. We're the same age, and
he has signed us because we weren't skilled labors exactly.
We're just teenagers with you know. It was a part
time job for me. So he assigned us to get
clean up upstairs part of the they built like some
little rooms for classrooms and stuff, and they wanted it.
That was a newer part and they wanted to be
presentable for the church at their suppers. I sent us
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to clean up to two by four sweep to saw
to us up. So we're up there and there's a
like some concrete steps that go up and it's like
a little narrow hallway and the door is.
Speaker 5 (37:56):
Shut, which was a big metal door, and we had
it shut. And you know, your teenagers are going to
do off some at work. I still goof off now
yet chance. And so we're up there sweeping and cleaning.
Speaker 6 (38:08):
I took a piece of tube by four or whatever
reason and hit one of the rail, just knocked one
of the rails on the I guess maybe it was
like a nervous habit or just I don't know that.
Speaker 5 (38:18):
It's something like a bell told a dome. It's a
real deep toll. I started doing it and like a
rhythm it It kind of sounds like hell's bells. So
the other guy, the other teenager.
Speaker 6 (38:31):
The other guy when he starts like mimicking the guitar
with his mouth, don and then I'm up there dome
all of a sudden, you know, his dad would like
get on to like give us a hard time sometimes.
Speaker 5 (38:41):
So we hear somebody. We hear like boots come up
to steps like really fast, and he.
Speaker 6 (38:46):
Goes, oh crap, it's dad, And we drive everything to
get the boom starts sweeping out like we're working, and
the footsteps stop behind this door and we're sitting there
waiting on the door and open. His dad come in
and like get this work done, you know, get on
this where the door never opened. Woe and him look
at each together and we're like, hey, who's in here
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with us? So we going snatch the door, and nobody's there.
Both of us heard it. So we go downstairs really
fast check parking lot, which was most of gravel and
dirt at the time, and it was a rainy It
was a rainy afternoon and the only traps coming into
the building where the truck we took in, so no dhics.
We didn't se anybody on the stairs, so we went
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through every bathroom, stall, closet, cabinet, utilroom, electric room, whatever door,
cabinet would open in the building and look, never have
a person. Wow, And you know, it's one of those
things where I had a second person not We both
jumped because we thought we were about to get chewed out.
Speaker 5 (39:46):
So I know he heard it right like I thought
of it was something else. But that's just one of them.
I've never forgot.
Speaker 3 (39:55):
Well, that would be one not forget hit.
Speaker 4 (39:57):
Honestly, it's always be hearings come up on you don't
see anybody.
Speaker 6 (40:03):
Yeah, and yeah, we didn't wait long either till we
opened the door, so it's not like if somebody was there,
they had time to get away.
Speaker 5 (40:09):
Could have hurt and descendant, right, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 6 (40:13):
And the steps came up fast like it was like
somebody was sure enough, like come to get it, like
you guys are fitting to get in trouble.
Speaker 3 (40:24):
Yeah. No, have you ever thought about like investigating the paranormal.
Speaker 5 (40:35):
Well, with the you know, the documentary thing, I was
kind of weak with the experience. What's that.
Speaker 6 (40:43):
Yeah, a couple of MP meters and a digital recorder
with a microphone, and I got a couple of guys
go with me because it kind of scared me a
little bit, you know, and I needed somebody to hold
equipment and somebody, you know. I ran the camera and
had these two guys with me from Word that are
my friends, and we go out and the first stop
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we made in the cemetery, at one point, the MP
meter starts.
Speaker 5 (41:09):
Going to red and I'm like, hold on, let me
get my camera I got from.
Speaker 6 (41:12):
This and you know, we're filming it and I'm freaking out. Somebody, dude,
the thing is going off. And guy says, what did
you expect to go on in the graveyard at night?
And I said nothing, honestly nothing. We were just going
for like, if something happens, it happens. If it don't,
I'm just going to record a little trip and add
it to the movie. And we got way more than
weary for it. Went to the second location.
Speaker 5 (41:35):
And nothing had you know.
Speaker 6 (41:37):
The MP meter would go up and go you know, yeah,
we got that on film. And I got home that night,
put my earbuds in and started listening, just started the
recorder from the beginning, let it play, and close my
there and actually heard a EV pop up wow, and
it made me jump, you know, my wife and kids
done went to bed. So I'm in there kind of
in the dark living room, and it gave me a chill,
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so why And I'm listening to it over and over
and then I'm you know, I edited out just that
saw section and put in an audio thing to try
to edit it clear, and it's I swear it sounds
like I cut the head off tonight.
Speaker 5 (42:13):
Oh tonight, so.
Speaker 3 (42:14):
That, Oh my gosh, I'd be a creepy one to
catch you.
Speaker 6 (42:18):
It's kind of getting me chills now because it's like
we went out there, I didn't expect anything to happen,
and you hear something that intense and so immediately, you know,
I was also a video recording, So I go to
the camp drill and I'm like, maybe one of them
were talking under their breath or something, and it sounded like,
you know, I was like, maybe they were talking and
it it picked them up. And I'm watching the video
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and we're walking. Nobody's even saying anything. We just got
flashlights and met her and then I mashed it up
and I'm like, oh my god, you know, what is that?
Speaker 5 (42:48):
So that's why I say I made you know.
Speaker 6 (42:50):
And then we did the one of the dresh house
and wom me David opens the door. And when I
listen back in that audio, it's very trying to let
somebody at the comment Saturday listen to it.
Speaker 5 (43:00):
You can hear shut the door. Wow, yeah, I may
never I'm like, I'm above in over my head on
this one I made.
Speaker 4 (43:09):
That's pretty cool though, And and the fact that you
went back to trying to debunk it, that's what investigators now.
Speaker 3 (43:14):
So you know you got you got a little bugging
you there. I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (43:18):
I'm saying, well, you know that was that was the angle.
I was on the front.
Speaker 6 (43:23):
I don't know enough about it. So it was like,
this is one hundred percent amateur. If something happens, it does.
If it doesn't, then it's just not there. And we
didn't go in any of these locations like they do
some teams are that you sound even like is anyone
here who would like to We're like, if something's there,
let's not bothering and just we'll go hang out like
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we talked to each other like and just we didn't
we didn't try to provoke anything or anything like that.
We casually walked around with devices going that that was
the method we used, I'd like go back and finish that.
Speaker 3 (44:01):
But that's late. Yeah, it is.
Speaker 5 (44:05):
That's when we are most well.
Speaker 6 (44:07):
I was also afraid too, if you go in there
and aggravate something that, yeah, yeah, you're asking for trouble.
So I was like, no, we're not going to anything
if we can help it.
Speaker 3 (44:18):
Yeah, yeah for sure. Now where was this are?
Speaker 1 (44:21):
You said?
Speaker 3 (44:22):
Is this an Alabama then?
Speaker 5 (44:23):
Or yeah?
Speaker 6 (44:24):
Yeah, all of this was actually in Tuscalousa County where
I live. Oh, okay, Okay county for these.
Speaker 3 (44:31):
Wow, very cool? Okay, all right.
Speaker 4 (44:35):
For our listeners before we start to wrap things up,
where where can they find it? Like if they have
questions or anything like that, or where can they find you?
Speaker 3 (44:46):
What can social media?
Speaker 4 (44:47):
Do you have?
Speaker 6 (44:48):
My My active social media is actually Facebook, Facebook, anything,
And I'm trying to readdirect off of Dustin grammar Onto
the Moonlight for Media's page, and I check it for
every day, so because I get messages and I talk
to people on there. So I'm on Facebook, I'm on Instagram,
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and I'm on TikTok and I'm on X but I
never really check X.
Speaker 5 (45:14):
I don't understand that.
Speaker 4 (45:17):
I still call it Twitter. It's always going to be
squared to me, this X thing is hobwash. Heloney, just
keep it Twitter, damn little boe bird.
Speaker 3 (45:25):
But anyways, yeah, I like, yeah, Kim does our Facebook
stuf because I don't have Facebook.
Speaker 4 (45:30):
So like the Instagram and our Twitter slash x because
Kim's not anything bad about those. She's like, hey, now
do you have like, do you have a wet you
have a don't you have a Moonlight Monster media website?
Speaker 5 (45:44):
I have YouTube.
Speaker 6 (45:45):
I forget you but here on YouTube, and I have
a website, but I need to work on it. You know,
I bought the domain or rented the domain or whatever
you do.
Speaker 5 (45:56):
I don't have. I'm not that experience with web building.
We kind of like have book yeah, uh to do much.
Speaker 3 (46:08):
Yeah, that's kind of how him and I have done too.
Speaker 4 (46:09):
We've tried a couple of websites and I get partially
through and get frustrated. I say screwt us on social media, like,
oh man, that's so funny. Okay, all right, so before
we go, I just want to say make sure you
guys check out his book on Amazon.
Speaker 3 (46:29):
Dirt Road Tales of Horror.
Speaker 7 (46:30):
Is that right?
Speaker 4 (46:31):
Is it?
Speaker 5 (46:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (46:33):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (46:34):
Right?
Speaker 4 (46:34):
And I will make sure that I put the rest
of his information on our social media as well as
we can find us in on there.
Speaker 3 (46:41):
Thank you to everybody in chat for participating in joining us,
I pre teach you guys. Thank you to everybody who's
not in chat listening. We ap prechach every one of you.
Next week, guys. Want let you guys know before we go, we.
Speaker 4 (46:52):
Have a special guest and con she's an author of
be Like the Wind three Queen's channel Spiritual Night. She
has somebody who can speak table, So tune in for that,
find out a little bit more of that, and thank
you for being on. It was a pleasure having you on.
Speaker 3 (47:07):
It was so much fun.
Speaker 7 (47:09):
So I gotta get that book. Got interested, I know,
I lovele horror stories like that. That's the kind of
stuff that I read in school like all the time,
you know. So I'm like, you get that itch to,
you know, go back to that when you have time,
you know. But you get older and you just can't
find damn time to do anything anymore.
Speaker 3 (47:24):
But you've got it on audio. I have time to
do that. I can listen to that. I can listen
to it at work. So make sure you guys check
that book out and once again thank you Doesn't for
joining us. It was a pleasure talking to you.
Speaker 4 (47:34):
And thank you once again everybody who was listening and
joining us in chat. We really appreciating every one of you.
Peace out until this week.
Speaker 3 (47:40):
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paranal one Friends. We have a special guest for you tonight.
Got a little bit different topics, so it's gonna be fun,
interesting and can't wait to talk to him.
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But first I just want to let you know that.
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Our guest he's an author and musician, director, and he's
founder of Moonlight Monster Media.
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So please welcome Dustin Graham for the show. Welcome Dustin.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
Hey, hur are you up tonight?
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Doing good? Doing good? So I'm interested in knowing a
little bit about you.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
I know when I was kind of reading some of
your things, you started this production Moonlight Monster Media.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
But I want you to tell our guest, how does
this tie in with you being a musician and how
did this all come about?
Speaker 6 (03:00):
Okay, yeah, that's a I'm glad you started with the
musician part, because that is that is how it started out.
I was a musician way before I attempted any of
this other stuff. But I've always, growing up, just had
an interest in paranormal horror, you know, ghost stories, that
sort of stuff. But I played the guitar, and the
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way I came to where I'm at is at my job.
And see, I'm going to tell this right this time.
I always forget to come back and tell the part
where I eventually succeeded at work. But I had been
where I worked for ten years and got a potion
that required you to take a very hard examination and
get a license. And I've never had any difficulty, you know,
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getting qualifications at any time in my life. And I
failed this one, and you know, it has a very
low pass rate. It's a more damn but I put
ten years of a career on the line with this
and failed it the first time. And you know, I
had a young son at home and my wife was
pregnant at the time, so you know, I just sat
out and felt like a loser.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
You just you know that sort of.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Hit in the gut.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
Yeah, I'm like, I'm you know, I would lose my
job if I don't get this, and that's ten years
down the drain. So being a musician, when you fell
that miserably, you.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
Your self worth, your your your worth goes.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
Down, and you just want to prove something to yourself.
So I decided to record a piece of music and
I did this electric guitar kind of heavier metal style
piece called Silver Bullet. And you know, eventually I did
go on to pass the test and get the license,
and I still work at the same place to this day.
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This was probably in twenty sixteen, so almost ten years since,
you know, so a couple of years went by, and
you know, I just started to set these goals. I
don't you know, I'll watch a lot of.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
B C movies, you.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
Know, documentaries on big Foot, the ghost Hunters, that sort
of stuff, and I really get into that. And I
was just thinking, you know, some of these guys seem
like they're able to be reached personally. I wonder if
to put some of my music in one of their movies.
So ill, you know, I'll stop there because I don't
want to just keep rambling on right when the show started.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
But that's completely fine.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
I want to hear the story of how this all
came to because I mean, I read some of it,
but you know, this will kind of help our listeners
understand where we're going with us.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
So that's fine if you want to ramble.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
So yeah, that's the the beginning.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
So it started with music.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
I've been playing guitars since I was fifteen, and I
started wanting to just you know, I don't remember why.
I just kind of thought, man, it'd be cool to
have a piece featured in music. So I started to do.
Was when I'd watched these movies on Prime or YouTube
or whatever, I would go to the credits and see
what company or if a director, and then I would
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look them up on like Facebook, and I had written,
you know, a message.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
And I would just copy and paste say I'm just
syn Grammar.
Speaker 6 (06:15):
I really liked your movie, because of course, if I'm
sending it, I did watch the movie, and I was
wondering if you have any projects coming up? If you
were just I wasn't even going to charge you, and
I'm like, just for free, would you put like five
seconds of a song in a movie?
Speaker 5 (06:29):
Because at this point I had a couple more i'd recorded.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
And you know, when you you cold call or email
like that, I could have hit maybe you know, twenty
twenty people, and I think I got like two replies.
You know, you get like two to three replies, and tummas. Markham,
who runs Zombie Media outfit Zombie Media and the Zombie
Media Publishing he actually responded back to me and was
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very kind and answered some questions for me and listened
to my tracks and gave me feedback. But he, you know,
used a different program and he had different methods and
a lot of them already had their own guys.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
So that didn't work out that year.
Speaker 6 (07:08):
And I don't remember a couple of years later, I
decided to try again and I didn't have any more success.
So the story, you know, the moral of the story,
I guess it persistence and the technology, you know, the
apps on the phones get better, and we started making reals.
Me and my friend and become digital creators. And he's
gone his own way since doing his thing. We'll team
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up every once in a while, but my editing skills
start to get a little better.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Yea.
Speaker 6 (07:33):
And we started doing like documentary type bigfootfo sightings with
these two redneck characters.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
We put on wigs or whatever.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
So one day I just sat there and I was like,
I'll just made my own movie like low quality, used
some retro effects, make like an old eighties hate And
I reached out to get again to Thomas Markham at
Zomniemedia to ask him how do you make your movies?
And yet again he answered a question I had. And
I've gotten so far, and I'm very thankful. You don't
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want everybody, you know, if you're listening to everything that
for one minute, I'm not appreciative. I had a lot
of volunteers on the Steve Ridge movie. That's when I
ended up calling It, which is a fictional town in Alabama,
and everybody played these goofy witnesses and you know, and
they did it for free. It was on and we
went through you know, Zombie Media distributed it for me
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and it's on two.
Speaker 5 (08:28):
It's I think it's still on there.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Yeah, yeah it is.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
That was a That was that.
Speaker 6 (08:36):
So now I had this going and got on a
podcast and did this and we're promoting the movie. Well
then I start, you know, have a friend that does
podcasts and he was trying to get a few things
going there for a minute, and I was gonna do
an audio I didn't want to do a podcast, but
I thought about doing some sort of audio channel.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
I tell, like horror stories.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
Oh yeah, And I started that up with mic with
my computer and trying to like freelance, you know.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
Free basic, no notes, and I couldn't do it.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
So I started taking notes in a notepad yep, like
bullet points, and then that wasn't getting it. So I
started just fill out, typing paragraphs to read and by
the time I did all that work type and I
just figured I might as well make a book. So
then that's how the book came up.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
And this book.
Speaker 6 (09:21):
So yet it yet again, I hit Thomas mark them
up at Zombie Media because he publishes books.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
And he's written books. I'm like, how do you do this?
Speaker 6 (09:29):
And step by steps like I'm a hey man, I
think I've got this book of short stories or nineteen
short stories done. He said, well, if you want me
to all publish that for you, let me get get
you know, if you don't mind me having a look
at it. And then so now the book's published. So
it's just a domino effect of having hobbies and just
taking these random shots at things like, hey, you know,
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this sounds like this might be fine, let me try
it well.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
And I love it. I love it that I I
could not sit down and write a book. I mean
when I was younger, yes, I thought that's what I
wanted to do.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
I even have like a whole kit to make my
own book back like fourth grade, and I started writing
like a thriller book and I only got about four
pages in and that's about all there is to it.
So kudos to you is sitting down and doing this.
But going back to your documentary, Siege Ridge, how.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Did you come up with the name and how did
you decide to do one kind of like a spoof
on like Bigfoot.
Speaker 6 (10:30):
And I want to be clear, it's a mockumentary, but
I'm not making fun of anybody. Like I really enjoyed
the I'm just not a serious person. Yeah, and you know,
it was it was all learning, Like I had no
idea what I was doing. I still don't, but you know,
I just I get lay every once in a while.
But because I take so many shots, I miss a
whole lot. But we were doing funny. We were doing
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funny reals and it just came natural, you know, and
I put my own music in it. You know, that
was the goal to begin with. But we just, I
don't know, people thought some of our Bigfoot and ghost
reels were funny. So we kind of made a document
because I didn't know anybody. Well, I didn't know one
person who actually has sightings. But I wasn't going to
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bring her into something funny, you know, attempting to do
an actual serious documentary. And interviewed her, but I wasn't
gonna bring her into something as silly as Steve Ridge
was so mean. I've always you know, Bigfoot's always interested me.
That it was just easy to go with that because
you know, I couldn't be wrong, I guess, and the
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way I did it.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Yeah, absolutely. Now do you do you believe in.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
Okay? I would really like to. Yeah, I'm not sure
how I feel about it though.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
It's where I'm at. It's the people who say they've
seen it though. I mean, I'm not falling anybody a
liar because it's you know, they're convinced that it's all
something and I don't know. I'm just kind of open
on that one. Paranormal. I'm a little more of a
believer in big I'm kind of on the fence sometimes
because there's so many people who are opportunities and they'll
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they'll thank for attention.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
So oh yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 6 (12:12):
And I don't know it, but i'd like to think
that there's a fiefoat out there, you know.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Going When we went to Indiana State Sanitorium last was
it last? No, it was not last Summer's the summer before.
I swear there was something like that out in those trees.
We were up on top of the roof of one
of the buildings and we could hear like a knocking
on a tree, and we're like, there's got to be
a crew out there. So we're like shining light, We're
trying to yell, but it continuously kept knocking on the
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same tree and you could see just the branches on
that tree move.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
It was the most bizarre thing ever. And one time when.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
We were at Cambrie House, swore we heard something out
there that sounded like it could have been somebody on
the river. Don't know, but you know, that's one of
those things too that I'm like, I'd like to believe
it's real, but I don't know if it really is.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
You know, some people are like, well, they're interveentionals.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
That's why you don't ever see him because they can,
you know, cross into other dimensions and stuff, and that's
why you don't ever see him.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
If that's real, it'd be cool if that's real, But
you know, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (13:10):
Yeah, I was about to ask you that question, what
do you think about it?
Speaker 5 (13:14):
Or have anything before? Or so I have not.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Those are the things that I have experienced. I'm kind
of like, Okay, what is really making that? Because like,
you know, if it was an actual like animal or something,
and we're like screaming at it, yelling at it, flashing light,
you think it would like take off, but it just
continuously like we would do something and it would just
knock on that scene tree. Like I'm like, that's kind
of odd, like it you know how they do those
tree knocks or whatever.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
That's kind of what it was.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
It was really weird and you could see just that
one tree, like the leaves on it kind of move
really bizarre.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
Didn't see any you know, critters and there who were
shining the light we walked down there.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
I don't know. I couldn't explain it. But whether it
was or not, I don't know. Something. I would still
like to go out and try to investigate, but I
don't know. Kim wants to go in the middle of
the night and a wooded area that we don't know
anything about ourselves. I take my done.
Speaker 7 (14:08):
I suppose, not not for Bigfoot, but all the other
animals might attack you.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I did sort of a like
I said, I was kind of working on a more
serious documentary type thing, and I went out in the
woods because you know, the lady I know doesn't live
too far from here says they come up and yell
at the house and stuff, and oh wow, I did
go out in the woods right here but I also, did,
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you know, bring a gun because other you know, animals,
But I totally get that.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Oh yeah, yeah, I don't know about that.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
I mean, I still want to do it, but i'd
have to go in a group, maybe somebody who's more
experienced searching for those things before I did that. But yeah,
that's still my Listen.
Speaker 8 (14:52):
To you get lost in Timber I probably would. I
honestly probably would. It doesn't take much for me to
get lost anywhere. Now we already talked about sez Rich.
I did see it on TV. Was there any other places,
like if somebody wanted to check it out? I can't
remember if it was on the Amazon Prime or anything
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like that.
Speaker 5 (15:15):
It is.
Speaker 6 (15:16):
I think you can rent it on Zombie Media video
Video on Demand, and then it was.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
Oh my Memories bad it.
Speaker 6 (15:25):
It did hit a couple of like I think it
one was called Typhoon and it was on a couple
of streaming services services at one time.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
But I know for fact too, he seems to be
the one. Yeah, that's the easiest to find and it's free.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
Some of the other ones, I think you had to
pay and rent it, but that one's kind of getting
a couple of years in the rear view mirror now
and I have a hard time keeping I kind of
kind of moved on to the book stuff now and
the movie thing is kind of hit the back burner
at for now.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Gotcha, that was what I was gonna ask you.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
I wondered if you had anything else in the books
for doing any more films or anything like that.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
Well, I'm see you said something earlier out right, and
when you were young, Yes, that's kind of where I
was when I was about ten years old, that's about Yeah,
depends on paper. At school, we wrote a few stories
and I'd always after that tried to finish something.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
And you know that was shoot almost thirty years ago now, and.
Speaker 6 (16:28):
My whole life, I've been trying to write a book
or finish a project, and I'm not good. I start
a lot of things and I'm hard to you know,
it's hard for me to always finish them. So when
I did in this Steeve's Ridge, I was really proud
of myself for seeing it all the way through. Same
with the book, it just it's like it just clicked
one day and I just kept going and would you know,
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just staying on until it was done.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
And I've got to find that fire again.
Speaker 6 (16:52):
So this, you know, starting to cool off a little
bit now it you know, it's not as it's a
lot more comfortable with whether and things are slowing down some.
Speaker 5 (17:01):
So I was hoping this winter fall, winter spring to
maybe do it another book.
Speaker 6 (17:06):
I've got all the notes, I've started a couple of stories,
and then I've got footage for a documentaries. Like I said,
I went out to try to do a quick one,
but I had a hard time get participation with that one,
get people on, you know, to talk about it.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
So I moved back. You know, I was doing a
paranormal one.
Speaker 6 (17:23):
I was gonna make a big one with that covered
a lot of topics, right, and started getting more material,
too much material to go in one.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
So I've got paranormal.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
Stuff too, and we actually I won't do those by myself,
and I may not ever do one again, I'm not sure.
But we went to a couple of cemeteries. And then
there's an old haunted house in town that this couple
refurbished and they use it for a wedding venue. Is
actually the Drish House, and it's featured in the Thirteen
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Ghosts of Alabama.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Book oh nice.
Speaker 6 (17:56):
We got to go in there back in the spream
end and God did for about an hour and we
videoed with the camera and I had a digital recorder
and we actually got a couple of EVPs.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
M h, I've still got that stuff. I just I
need witnesses, you know.
Speaker 6 (18:11):
I want to get some story like witness stories together
in interviews, so that that's the piece I'm missing there.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
Oh yeah, I was like, what's that? Noise is starting
to rain outide was really loud. I thought something was
tapping on the window.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
For a minute, you saying, are you located Indiana? Oh,
we're in Iowa.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Yeah. We just traveled to Indiana to investigate that location,
which is a phenomenal location. By the way, if anybody
is interested in booking a place to investigate that place's
hoping for sure, I like to go back.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Oh yeah, for sure.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
So y'all got you got evidence while you were out there?
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Oh yeah, yeah, shadow figures. We had wasted screaming. Yeah,
it was insane. It's all pretty much in the nurse's wing.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
And they dragged my music box. They wouldn't shut it off.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Oh yeah, that thing went off the whole time. We
have a paranormal music box, so like to text shadows.
So if something box in front of it, it's gonna
play this like creepy kind of music and flash it's light,
it would not stop.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
Oh wow, yeah it was.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
It was insane.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
But anyhow, now, I know you said that your filming
and stuff is on the back burner. But anybody who's
listening who might be thinking about getting into that, do
you have any words of wisdom for them as to
how they should get started or.
Speaker 6 (19:40):
Anything like that, or yeah, I mean, not to be
cheesy or anything, but if the words wisdom I have
is just to start. Just if you if it's fun
to you and you enjoy or maybe not even fun
but interesting, if it's something you're interested in, you just
have to start. I mean, you know, some people are
more prepared than I am, and they do a lot
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of research, but I'm wanting to just start crying stuff
and you've just got to be ready to be persistent.
And I'm still at that stage too. I mean, uh,
it's a challenge, and you know, you get moments where
you feel defeated or you feel down and fac you're
wasting your time or nobody cares about what you're doing,
or you feel like you kind of suck at it
because you know, you're like, this is not good and
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but you know it's fun. So I mean, I wouldn't
say I had like a lot of nuggets of wisdom
other than to just go for it and be just
you be ready to just take that challenge and keep
you know, the the more project. Every time I complete
a project, I learned a lot and the next time I'm.
Speaker 5 (20:47):
Gonna be better.
Speaker 6 (20:48):
You know, I learned a lot of tech with cameras
or the writing aspect. I go back and look through
stuff and see kind of like as much people stories
on what they like. So that's that's it. Just you know,
you be surprised once you start stuff like that and
you get Facebook groups or you know, people who will
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support you, and you know, I'm really thankful for that,
and you know I wouldn't I wouldn't have been going
without that.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
I mean, having having a network of people helps out tremendously.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Honestly, it really does. It helps you. Uh key, what
am I what's the word I want to say? I
can't think of the word. I'm having a brain part
right now.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
But you're able to connect with other people that may
have the same interested you and they can help you.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
You know, guide you through things.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
Maybe they know a little bit more in one area
and you might know something more another area, and you
guys can.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Network in that sense to help each other out, which
is easy.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Yeah. With you stepping aside from your your film, you
do have a book of short horror stories called Tales.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
Correct, Yes, there are road Tales of Horror.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Yep, yep.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
Now can you kind of give us a little brief
description of like what's in there or how did you
come up with these stories?
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (22:11):
Yeah, it's there are there's nineteen short stories in there.
They're all based in the Southeastern United States because you know, initially,
like I said, I was gonna do like an audio channel,
and I may still do that when I get more material.
I like, you know, like that have like thirty forty
stories in the bank before I started something like that.
Oh yeah, Uh so I decided to go the Southeast
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because if I'm gonna do audio, which now there's a
technology with AI and all this stuff changed voices, but
I have an accent, So I was like, well, if
it's gonna be sort of immersive, I probably should stick
it in the South, so I think some of some
of the stories don't necessarily stay. But I kind of
tried to at different states, and I tried not to
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reheat topics and.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
Some of the stories most stuff. And I just came
up with him the last year. But there were a
couple from earlier ages, you know.
Speaker 6 (23:05):
And the dirt road thing is sort of significant because
me and my brother we lived on a dirt road
growing up, and we would walk up down it after
school talk and sometimes and we tell each other stories,
so that it kind of plays back into that and
the stories to come from that time and some in
high school. And then just someone came up with as
an adult.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Wow, I was gonna ask you how you came up
with that? The oh my gosh, the title for the book.
My brain is just in my mind.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
But yeah, the title for your book. I was going
to ask you how you came up with that? So
that's that's very interesting.
Speaker 6 (23:41):
Yeah, anytime I've came up with the title like Stege
Ridge or dirt Road Tales of Horror, I just I
don't know. I'll get in my head, like I'll walk
around for for days and just I'll say you know
mentally in my head just repeat stuff like I think.
Initially I had Stege Ridge called something like pine Ridge
and I'll google, and you know off pine Ridge actually exists.
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I was like, uh, what in Alabama town?
Speaker 5 (24:05):
What was? You know?
Speaker 6 (24:05):
And I don't remember where Steed came from? And you
know we have play you know you already do too.
There's like these little towns with these odd names, right, yeah,
the dirt road tells a horror thing, you know, basing
it in the southeast, and I don't know, just the
old dirt road imagery came to me, and then I
ended up being able to tie that into like childhood
stuff and went with it when I saw that didn't
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already exists.
Speaker 5 (24:29):
Very cool.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Do you know one of the stories off the top
of your head?
Speaker 5 (24:32):
Oh yeah, I've got the book with me for reference. Yeah,
I needed.
Speaker 6 (24:37):
I was like, I better have this book. Asked a question,
Uh yeah, I mean, let me see. I'm looking at them,
so I've got I mean, what do you you asking me?
Like for titles?
Speaker 4 (24:53):
If you want to share a short one with us,
just so we have an idea.
Speaker 6 (24:59):
Well, let's see I could read I tell you what
I can read. The introduction if you've got time. Oh yeah,
you know, I may read kind of slow, so I
didn't take up the old time of the show.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Oh no, you're good.
Speaker 6 (25:13):
Yeah, so this is the very first part in the introduction.
I may read like a few paragraphs, so not like
an air grator.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
But okay.
Speaker 6 (25:21):
So the headlights of the Kenworth semi truck illuminated silhouette
of a man who was standing near the start of
a dirt road with his thumb.
Speaker 5 (25:28):
In the air.
Speaker 6 (25:30):
Ritt Howell engazed his jake break and started to shift
down in order to stop the semi to speak with
the apparent hitchhiker. As the truck slowed, the features of
the man could be more clearly seen against the backdrop
of the humid and hazy Florida Panhandle summer night. Rick
could see that the man was hauling lanky and was
dressed in western where a black cowboy hat sat on
(25:51):
his head, and in the hand not throwing up the thumb,
which was his left hand, he held and worn out
guitar case. Got the truck pulled over on the shoulder
near the dirt road, beckon for the slender drifter to
approach the passenger side door of his rig. Rhett wasn't
one to just pull over and pick up strangers, especially
in this day in time, but he felt sort of
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an intuition that he couldn't explain guiding him into the action.
The trucker was an old dog, though, and he kept
his pistol hidden and ready underneath his left leg, just
in case the hitchhiker decided to be trouble. The passinger
door opened up and looked and looked onto a clean shaven,
tan face with dark, squinting eyes nestled under the black
(26:35):
cowboy hat. A roguish but friendly looking smile began to
grow on the drifter's sun weathered chase, and then he
agreed against the sound of the rumbling, idle shruck. Many
appreciations of you, goods are for stopping to pit me
up on this fine, warm evening. Name's chance, and who
might you be? Name's Rhett, replied the trucker.
Speaker 5 (26:53):
Roughly.
Speaker 6 (26:54):
The sound of whipperwill could be heard coming from the
hazy marshes near the dirt road as Red halted, then asked, where.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
Are you trying to head? This truck's going to Raleigh,
North Carolina.
Speaker 6 (27:05):
Sounds good, mister, Rhet you see, I made my living
off the ballad stories and a little bit of gambler
from time to time. I ain't got no place that
I call home, so I'm always on the move. But
I'm ready to get out from Florida for now. Chance said, now,
climbing up into the truck, shutting the door, don't try
no funny business.
Speaker 5 (27:24):
Young man, and I think we'll be all right. You
ain't some sort of criminal, are you?
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Not?
Speaker 1 (27:28):
That?
Speaker 5 (27:28):
I reckon?
Speaker 6 (27:29):
You tell me if you were, Red remark. Red remark,
noticing that the stranger wore a shiny silver medallion outside
of a Jetsy Pearl Snap Western shirt. On closer examination,
the medallion almost appeared to have a faint glow to it,
and Ritt could see that it had the image of
an angel and grave on it. It was given to
me by a special lady, Chance said, noticing Rhett staring
(27:52):
at the medallion. Huh, Red distractedly asked, the medallion seen
you looking at it? It was given to me by
a special lady, I said, Almost looks like it glows
a little sometimes, don't it. To answer your question, though,
I ain't any kind of criminal, unless you consider one
of my tales or bad. It's so bad to be criminal,
Chance responded as he touched his guitar back out of
(28:13):
the way behind the truck seat.
Speaker 5 (28:16):
Then it goes on a couple more pages.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Wow, that's did you now did you publish this yourself?
Speaker 5 (28:24):
I published it as I'm the immediate post.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (28:28):
The what ends up going on is they talked just
a little bit more and the hitt hiker is telling
the stories in the book. So they from Florida to
North Carolina, and he tells the stories as they so
each story is and then there's a conclusion at the end.
Werhaps that introduction us. I've never been asked to just
(28:48):
read it before.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
I just want listeners interested in the book. Yeah, exactly. See,
that's why we ask you, because then you know, I
people to be like, I have a little bit love it.
You know, you did very good. You did very good.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
I'd be nervous trying to read a book online or
you know, on a podcast or anything like that.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
I'm a shy person as is, so just me stitzing
here talking is. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (29:16):
I'm a very introverted person. But I do stuff like this.
Speaker 6 (29:20):
It's like I flip a switch in my head, like
I just shut it off and like, pretend it's not live,
or pretend it's not a record, like I'm just speaking
to someone I made for the first time.
Speaker 5 (29:30):
You know, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
It's yeah, yeah, well you did a real good job,
and we're getting feedback in our actually in our chat
right now, Nick from Beyond Her.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Normal said he liked it and that you should do
story books on YouTube. So there you go.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
Oh, thank you, thank you. It's really good.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
So yeah, absolutely, that's awesome.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
You said you've got some other stories and things COMPI us,
So are you working on another.
Speaker 6 (29:51):
Book then, or yeah, I'm going to do something very
similar and do another short story. I really enjoyed doing that.
You know, I guess I have a shorter I listened
to another podcast where a guy explained why he writes
short stories, and I can totally relate to that. It's
like an attention span thing. I just, you know, it's
easy for me to do little bits and move on
(30:13):
to something fresh and.
Speaker 5 (30:16):
Get older.
Speaker 6 (30:18):
I'm working on I've got a whole notebook behind me
of ideas, and I've kind of got some of it
mapped out. I've started, I finished one of I've got
a draft of the story, another and a quarter of another.
So I may do another fifteen to twenty stories, hopefully
in the next few months and put that one out.
I've really really enjoyed doing this.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Oh yeah, that's awesome. Let's see here. Oh okay, so
we got it one. It has popped up on Mighty yet.
Speaker 4 (30:44):
But Kim just showed me that they also are saying
that maybe through your short stories into short films, like
a three to five minute movie, like a little short
clip like that.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
What do you kind of.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
I am?
Speaker 5 (30:59):
I have recorded worn and was trying to put images
to it.
Speaker 6 (31:04):
Good idea though, if it was short, Yeah, it'd be possible,
because that's the other thing when you're dealing with other people,
were nate. Everybody's so busy all the time, so right,
if it doesn't get done.
Speaker 5 (31:16):
That's on me.
Speaker 6 (31:16):
But making movies and videos have to drive some wearing,
coordinate with people and then usually they'll they'll get busy
and it never happens.
Speaker 5 (31:25):
But yeah, that's a good idea.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
It's very Yeah, that that is a very good idea.
Thank you from me.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
On paranormals, you've got people in here just they're already
loving it. Where now if they want to get this book.
Where can they purchase your book?
Speaker 6 (31:39):
It is on Amazon, It's in paperback, digital and audio.
There is an audio version.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
Oh very cool. Okay, all right, something i'd listen to work.
Speaker 5 (31:50):
Then do that all the time.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Well, I mean I could do it when I have.
Speaker 4 (31:59):
Patients like but I don't know if they probably, I
mean I could probably put it on the speaker and
listen to it.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
Some of them just wouldn't care. But you know, some
of them might be like, what in the hell are
we listening to?
Speaker 4 (32:09):
If I'm listening to horror stories and stuff while we're
drilling of teeth, I don't know what you got another
one in here that popped up? Oh okay, perfect, Okay,
So beyond hern I will also said, you know, with
the AI that's out there can create, maybe you could
do something like.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
That with your stories. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (32:31):
Yeah, that that's sort of what I was doing, because
unfortunately I'm not an artist and I would I can't
afford that. So, yeah, that's exactly what I was doing.
I had taken one of my shorter stories and I
narrated well, you know, I recorded myself and then I
used AI to change my voice to voice and then
(32:53):
I was putting images together. I just I've been so
busy the last couple of weeks. I just hadn't gone
back because I do little short reels tier Tuesdays in
September in October and my kids helped me do that
and some of my friends. And then we just got
back from Salem this weekend. Oh cool, and went to
an event there, my first event and first speaking engagement.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Oh, I was going to ask you about that? Yeah,
how'd that go?
Speaker 5 (33:19):
I was nervous.
Speaker 6 (33:22):
I thought I had a really good basic outline in
my head of how that was going to go. And
I got up there and my hands got real sweaty,
and I forgot everything I was doing, and just I
felt like I had talked twenty to thirty minutes almost,
and it's probably like ten. And you know, I looked
at the NC and they're like, you still have time, like, oh,
(33:42):
talk to you.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
You're like, crap, what am I going to do? Now?
That was it? Do you plan on doing anymore?
Speaker 5 (33:51):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (33:52):
Yeah? You know that one I can't do.
Speaker 6 (33:55):
I don't think I can do too many unless they're closer.
That really took, you know, I take off couple days
from work and lighting up you know, finances and places
to stay. That's not something I could do a lot of,
but it was it would just experienced me and my
wife wanted and we'd with Salem during our honeymoon.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
Like wow, that's cool.
Speaker 5 (34:16):
It was that almost thirteen years ago. Maybe I know,
you know, we drove the East Coast then, but we
played this time. Okay, all right, went to New Hampshire.
So I marked off a lot of the East Coast
states off my list of place. But yeah, i'd love
I love doing events like that, but for now, I
think want to stay more local for a little bit,
(34:37):
at least till next year. Maybe.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
Oh yeah, for sure.
Speaker 5 (34:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
I get that it's expensive doing that because you know, kimb.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
Night at our first expo what nine years ago, eight
nine years ago, and then we just finally did our
second one this year, so like, oh yeah, I mean
they get kind of expensive and things.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
Like that, and you know, I like them because you
get to meet a lot of people. Yeah, that's a things,
a lot of people.
Speaker 5 (35:02):
I was the most excited about that.
Speaker 6 (35:04):
It's networking through Facebook and all the people in New
England have made and so it was I was more
excited about just meeting them in person and meeting people
who are going to be there than I was anything
I was bringing or having to do.
Speaker 5 (35:18):
It was it was fun.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
That part was oh yeah, yeah, for sure. Let's see here.
We did have a question.
Speaker 4 (35:24):
We had somebody who just joined chat a little bit
late April, so she was wanting to know, well, what
is your favorite story. We haven't gotten to any of
your because I know you said you've had a couple
of normal experiences.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
We haven't gotten to that. But she did put that
as a slash, so if you want to, you know,
kind of share some of that with us.
Speaker 5 (35:40):
Okay, so like favorite real life or favorite, like like
up your.
Speaker 4 (35:46):
Favorite story, maybe one that you've written. And then she
also wanted to experiences like if you had a paranormal experience.
Speaker 6 (35:54):
Okay, It's it's sort of hard for me to pick
my favorite stories because some of the ones I have
a different way. I've learned this by just writing this
one book. Not like I have a lot of experience,
But the ones I really had worked the hardest at
and do the most revising are not my favorites, like
they stressed me out. But some of those are the
ones that other readers are liking the most, so I
(36:16):
can't personally because they're kind of like the kids.
Speaker 5 (36:20):
I do kind of like them all. But so far,
I would say that I remember the music and the
walk home.
Speaker 6 (36:30):
Has I've gotten good feedback on. I remember the music,
the walk home, the walker, just night brim fishing one
about the guys going fishing. Those are Cordero, the very
first one. Those are the ones I've gotten pretty good
feedback on.
Speaker 5 (36:45):
Can sick.
Speaker 6 (36:46):
You know, everybody favorites, but three feets those tend to
be the ones that are on most people's Now paranormal,
Let's see which one because I only have two or
three and I can't plan. But okay, so then as
I can't explain it, so I'll do the one that
had another witness.
Speaker 5 (37:05):
When I was I think I.
Speaker 6 (37:07):
Was seventeen eighteen, I worked for construction company and the
church up here in the community had built like an
activity center and they were having a Valentine's Day like
spaghetti dinner. You know that night, said the boss, who
was also a preacher of the church. I worked with
his son.
Speaker 5 (37:25):
He put me and his son.
Speaker 6 (37:26):
Together on a cradle lot. We're the same age, and
he has signed us because we weren't skilled labors exactly.
We're just teenagers with you know. It was a part
time job for me. So he assigned us to get
clean up upstairs part of the they built like some
little rooms for classrooms and stuff, and they wanted it.
That was a newer part and they wanted to be
presentable for the church at their suppers. I sent us
(37:47):
to clean up to two by four sweep to saw
to us up. So we're up there and there's a
like some concrete steps that go up and it's like
a little narrow hallway and the door is.
Speaker 5 (37:56):
Shut, which was a big metal door, and we had
it shut. And you know, your teenagers are going to
do off some at work. I still goof off now
yet chance. And so we're up there sweeping and cleaning.
Speaker 6 (38:08):
I took a piece of tube by four or whatever
reason and hit one of the rail, just knocked one
of the rails on the I guess maybe it was
like a nervous habit or just I don't know that.
Speaker 5 (38:18):
It's something like a bell told a dome. It's a
real deep toll. I started doing it and like a
rhythm it It kind of sounds like hell's bells. So
the other guy, the other teenager.
Speaker 6 (38:31):
The other guy when he starts like mimicking the guitar
with his mouth, don and then I'm up there dome
all of a sudden, you know, his dad would like
get on to like give us a hard time sometimes.
Speaker 5 (38:41):
So we hear somebody. We hear like boots come up
to steps like really fast, and he.
Speaker 6 (38:46):
Goes, oh crap, it's dad, And we drive everything to
get the boom starts sweeping out like we're working, and
the footsteps stop behind this door and we're sitting there
waiting on the door and open. His dad come in
and like get this work done, you know, get on
this where the door never opened. Woe and him look
at each together and we're like, hey, who's in here
(39:07):
with us? So we going snatch the door, and nobody's there.
Both of us heard it. So we go downstairs really
fast check parking lot, which was most of gravel and
dirt at the time, and it was a rainy It
was a rainy afternoon and the only traps coming into
the building where the truck we took in, so no dhics.
We didn't se anybody on the stairs, so we went
(39:28):
through every bathroom, stall, closet, cabinet, utilroom, electric room, whatever door,
cabinet would open in the building and look, never have
a person. Wow, And you know, it's one of those
things where I had a second person not We both
jumped because we thought we were about to get chewed out.
Speaker 5 (39:46):
So I know he heard it right like I thought
of it was something else. But that's just one of them.
I've never forgot.
Speaker 3 (39:55):
Well, that would be one not forget hit.
Speaker 4 (39:57):
Honestly, it's always be hearings come up on you don't
see anybody.
Speaker 6 (40:03):
Yeah, and yeah, we didn't wait long either till we
opened the door, so it's not like if somebody was there,
they had time to get away.
Speaker 5 (40:09):
Could have hurt and descendant, right, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 6 (40:13):
And the steps came up fast like it was like
somebody was sure enough, like come to get it, like
you guys are fitting to get in trouble.
Speaker 3 (40:24):
Yeah. No, have you ever thought about like investigating the paranormal.
Speaker 5 (40:35):
Well, with the you know, the documentary thing, I was
kind of weak with the experience. What's that.
Speaker 6 (40:43):
Yeah, a couple of MP meters and a digital recorder
with a microphone, and I got a couple of guys
go with me because it kind of scared me a
little bit, you know, and I needed somebody to hold
equipment and somebody, you know. I ran the camera and
had these two guys with me from Word that are
my friends, and we go out and the first stop
(41:04):
we made in the cemetery, at one point, the MP
meter starts.
Speaker 5 (41:09):
Going to red and I'm like, hold on, let me
get my camera I got from.
Speaker 6 (41:12):
This and you know, we're filming it and I'm freaking out. Somebody, dude,
the thing is going off. And guy says, what did
you expect to go on in the graveyard at night?
And I said nothing, honestly nothing. We were just going
for like, if something happens, it happens. If it don't,
I'm just going to record a little trip and add
it to the movie. And we got way more than
weary for it. Went to the second location.
Speaker 5 (41:35):
And nothing had you know.
Speaker 6 (41:37):
The MP meter would go up and go you know, yeah,
we got that on film. And I got home that night,
put my earbuds in and started listening, just started the
recorder from the beginning, let it play, and close my
there and actually heard a EV pop up wow, and
it made me jump, you know, my wife and kids
done went to bed. So I'm in there kind of
in the dark living room, and it gave me a chill,
(41:59):
so why And I'm listening to it over and over
and then I'm you know, I edited out just that
saw section and put in an audio thing to try
to edit it clear, and it's I swear it sounds
like I cut the head off tonight.
Speaker 5 (42:13):
Oh tonight, so.
Speaker 3 (42:14):
That, Oh my gosh, I'd be a creepy one to
catch you.
Speaker 6 (42:18):
It's kind of getting me chills now because it's like
we went out there, I didn't expect anything to happen,
and you hear something that intense and so immediately, you know,
I was also a video recording, So I go to
the camp drill and I'm like, maybe one of them
were talking under their breath or something, and it sounded like,
you know, I was like, maybe they were talking and
it it picked them up. And I'm watching the video
(42:39):
and we're walking. Nobody's even saying anything. We just got
flashlights and met her and then I mashed it up
and I'm like, oh my god, you know, what is that?
Speaker 5 (42:48):
So that's why I say I made you know.
Speaker 6 (42:50):
And then we did the one of the dresh house
and wom me David opens the door. And when I
listen back in that audio, it's very trying to let
somebody at the comment Saturday listen to it.
Speaker 5 (43:00):
You can hear shut the door. Wow, yeah, I may
never I'm like, I'm above in over my head on
this one I made.
Speaker 4 (43:09):
That's pretty cool though, And and the fact that you
went back to trying to debunk it, that's what investigators now.
Speaker 3 (43:14):
So you know you got you got a little bugging
you there. I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (43:18):
I'm saying, well, you know that was that was the angle.
I was on the front.
Speaker 6 (43:23):
I don't know enough about it. So it was like,
this is one hundred percent amateur. If something happens, it does.
If it doesn't, then it's just not there. And we
didn't go in any of these locations like they do
some teams are that you sound even like is anyone
here who would like to We're like, if something's there,
let's not bothering and just we'll go hang out like
(43:46):
we talked to each other like and just we didn't
we didn't try to provoke anything or anything like that.
We casually walked around with devices going that that was
the method we used, I'd like go back and finish that.
Speaker 3 (44:01):
But that's late. Yeah, it is.
Speaker 5 (44:05):
That's when we are most well.
Speaker 6 (44:07):
I was also afraid too, if you go in there
and aggravate something that, yeah, yeah, you're asking for trouble.
So I was like, no, we're not going to anything
if we can help it.
Speaker 3 (44:18):
Yeah, yeah for sure. Now where was this are?
Speaker 1 (44:21):
You said?
Speaker 3 (44:22):
Is this an Alabama then?
Speaker 5 (44:23):
Or yeah?
Speaker 6 (44:24):
Yeah, all of this was actually in Tuscalousa County where
I live. Oh, okay, Okay county for these.
Speaker 3 (44:31):
Wow, very cool? Okay, all right.
Speaker 4 (44:35):
For our listeners before we start to wrap things up,
where where can they find it? Like if they have
questions or anything like that, or where can they find you?
Speaker 3 (44:46):
What can social media?
Speaker 4 (44:47):
Do you have?
Speaker 6 (44:48):
My My active social media is actually Facebook, Facebook, anything,
And I'm trying to readdirect off of Dustin grammar Onto
the Moonlight for Media's page, and I check it for
every day, so because I get messages and I talk
to people on there. So I'm on Facebook, I'm on Instagram,
(45:10):
and I'm on TikTok and I'm on X but I
never really check X.
Speaker 5 (45:14):
I don't understand that.
Speaker 4 (45:17):
I still call it Twitter. It's always going to be
squared to me, this X thing is hobwash. Heloney, just
keep it Twitter, damn little boe bird.
Speaker 3 (45:25):
But anyways, yeah, I like, yeah, Kim does our Facebook
stuf because I don't have Facebook.
Speaker 4 (45:30):
So like the Instagram and our Twitter slash x because
Kim's not anything bad about those. She's like, hey, now
do you have like, do you have a wet you
have a don't you have a Moonlight Monster media website?
Speaker 5 (45:44):
I have YouTube.
Speaker 6 (45:45):
I forget you but here on YouTube, and I have
a website, but I need to work on it. You know,
I bought the domain or rented the domain or whatever
you do.
Speaker 5 (45:56):
I don't have. I'm not that experience with web building.
We kind of like have book yeah, uh to do much.
Speaker 3 (46:08):
Yeah, that's kind of how him and I have done too.
Speaker 4 (46:09):
We've tried a couple of websites and I get partially
through and get frustrated. I say screwt us on social media, like,
oh man, that's so funny. Okay, all right, so before
we go, I just want to say make sure you
guys check out his book on Amazon.
Speaker 3 (46:29):
Dirt Road Tales of Horror.
Speaker 7 (46:30):
Is that right?
Speaker 4 (46:31):
Is it?
Speaker 5 (46:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (46:33):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (46:34):
Right?
Speaker 4 (46:34):
And I will make sure that I put the rest
of his information on our social media as well as
we can find us in on there.
Speaker 3 (46:41):
Thank you to everybody in chat for participating in joining us,
I pre teach you guys. Thank you to everybody who's
not in chat listening. We ap prechach every one of you.
Next week, guys. Want let you guys know before we go, we.
Speaker 4 (46:52):
Have a special guest and con she's an author of
be Like the Wind three Queen's channel Spiritual Night. She
has somebody who can speak table, So tune in for that,
find out a little bit more of that, and thank
you for being on. It was a pleasure having you on.
Speaker 3 (47:07):
It was so much fun.
Speaker 7 (47:09):
So I gotta get that book. Got interested, I know,
I lovele horror stories like that. That's the kind of
stuff that I read in school like all the time,
you know. So I'm like, you get that itch to,
you know, go back to that when you have time,
you know. But you get older and you just can't
find damn time to do anything anymore.
Speaker 3 (47:24):
But you've got it on audio. I have time to
do that. I can listen to that. I can listen
to it at work. So make sure you guys check
that book out and once again thank you Doesn't for
joining us. It was a pleasure talking to you.
Speaker 4 (47:34):
And thank you once again everybody who was listening and
joining us in chat. We really appreciating every one of you.
Peace out until this week.
Speaker 3 (47:40):
Bye,
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