Bert's Ghost Cat

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:05):
This messes is for you little tricker treaters. You little
Halloween lovers. Don't ring my dough bell, don't knock at
my door, do you, little Halloween tricker tree lovers? Hear

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Speaker 2 (00:37):
Wonderful town, wonderful people, places to go, things to see.

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My love is mom Meal.

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That's my wonderful.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
Beautiful boats, schools and churches and entertainment places to shop.

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My heart's in Marmy.

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That's my wonderful Time.

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Good Finement's ideal for progress. You see.

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My love is Moeal.

Speaker 6 (01:28):
That's my wonderfault.

Speaker 5 (01:34):
Oh that role Okay, it says the Uncle Henry Show.

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You're on news radio seventy ten w n Tim, and
I really appreciate you. I really do today more than ever.
I appreciate you listening to the Uncle Henry Show, especially
on Halloween, because I know there's a strong pull right now,

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the demonic, the satanic, all of that trying to draw
you away and if you're if you've decided to listen
to this, that that means you don't couple up with
that other garbage. So I'm so appreciative of you joining
me instead of getting involved in all that satanic debauchery
with your Halloween. Instead, you would spend your time with

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me this hour and possibly the next here on the
Uncle Henry. So I appreciate it ver very much. Telephone
number here's two five one four seven nine two seven
two three. That's two five one four seven nine two
seventy two three. Email address Uncle Henry at iHeartMedia dot com.
As I start the program a little, I'm a little
tired out for a variety of reasons. Yeah, I'm yes,

(03:34):
a little unusually tired. I stayed up late last night
doing my annual tradition of getting ready for the trick
or treaters by sitting down and writing Bible verses on
index cards which I'm going to be handing out to
the tricker treaters. You write the You write a Bible

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verse on the index card, as I've done for many years,
and then you I used to tape a penny to
the index card to make it more easily drop down
into the treat bag. But the US mint has stopped
making pennies, and I've transitioned out of nickels, So this
is another I guess you could call this more Bidenflation

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getting us even though Biden isn't in there spending the
money anymore. So I'm now taping nickels to the index
cards to make the Bible Verse drop more quickly into
the treat bag for the children. I do believe this
is beneficial. By the way, I decided this year, I
wanted everything to be Proverbs twenty five. Yes, I picked

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Bible versus from Proverbs because the little children can go
home and they can ask mommy and Daddy to help
them understand the Bible verse and apply it in their
own lives. For example, all of the kids are eating
candy and stuff. Verbs twenty five sixteen. Proverbs twenty five

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sixteen King James version, hast thou found honey, eat so
much as is sufficient for thee lest thou'll be filled
therewith and vomit it. It's good advice you learn as
a child. You should learn the proverbs. You know, people
spend a lot of money on on ozimpic and Wagovi

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and all this and goat. You just read proverbs, and
the proverbs will tell you don't eat, don't eat all that,
don't eat all that, honey. Their problems solved. So anyway
I was doing, I stayed up late doing that and
some other things. I'll tell you more, but I've got
a living caller already here on this Halloween I want
to talk to. Let's find out who's calling the uncle
in show two five, one, four, seven, nine, two seventy two.

Speaker 8 (05:49):
Three to call Hello, caller, Good evening, all the Henry
Bert Bert.

Speaker 5 (05:54):
You are live on the radio.

Speaker 8 (05:58):
Sometime between five even ten years ago on Halloween, you
asked your listeners to tell some true ghost stories, or
at least ghost stories they believed to be true. And
at that time I told you the story of a
ghost I had seen in a nightclub owned by my uncle.
My aunt was with me at the time. We were

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the only two people in the club because it was
closed and it was open only for us relatives of
the club owner. And I saw something that looked like
just the air had turned dark blue about shoulder height
next to me. I turned to my aunt and asked her,
do you see something here? And she said yes, I do.
There's this blue thing right next to you. So I

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had a witness to my ghost story.

Speaker 5 (06:44):
And that was Now could you describe it one more time?
I want to paint a mental picture in my mind.

Speaker 8 (06:50):
Yes, it was a shapeless mass that was dark blue
and it was about shoulder height. Okay, okay, fine, details
like any person or anything like that. But my aunt
saw the exact same thing that I saw, in the
same place that I saw it at the same time.
That was the story that I told somewhere between five

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and ten years ago. Now I want to tell you
a couple of new stories.

Speaker 5 (07:16):
Oh new story.

Speaker 8 (07:18):
Yes, this was many years later. I'm going to say
around two thousand and two. My girlfriend and I were
doing the usual Dolphin Street bar crawl. I don't remember
which bar we were in, but there was a young

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man sitting on a bar stool talking to nobody in particular,
and he said, man, everything everybody thinks I'm crazy. And
I asked him, I said, give me the details. What's up,
what's going on in life? He said, I work at
Winstle's oyster house, and one night, very recently, old man

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Winstle came up to me and said, you're the only
one that's doing a good job in this place in
my opinion. And the problem with that story is that
old man Winstle, the founder of the restaurant, had been
dead for several years.

Speaker 5 (08:13):
Oh wow, this happened.

Speaker 8 (08:16):
Then he described the guy perfectly. Number two. Now this
is hearsay.

Speaker 5 (08:22):
You wait now, Bert, can you I've got I want
to hear this story. But I'm up on the break.
Can you hang on all right, please? I want to
hear it.

Speaker 3 (08:32):
Now.

Speaker 5 (08:34):
We went from a shapeless blue mass to somebody that
looked like the late great mister Winstill. Now we're going
to wait for the third story as the Uncle Henry
Show proceeds forward. After the break, Uncle Henry Show it

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it's five twenty news headlines coming up in ten minutes.
Telephone numbers two, five, one, three. We're here together on
this ridiculous Halloween. Now, Bert was on the line. If
you just tuned in due to your lack of initiative
or lack of interest, Bert called in the first segment

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and was telling some ghost stories. And now we've got
a third one. Bert, you've got a third story for us.

Speaker 8 (09:38):
Yes, sir, I do all right. Now I want to
set the scene up for your listeners. I lived in
an apartment complex, a large apartment complex with a lot
of people on the little end of the economic scale, right,
and there were a a lot of stray cats in

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the area, and I must admit I fed them. The
management didn't like that, but I did. And I wasn't
the only one. And there was this one what they
call a ginger cat, an orange tabby. Yes you know
what I'm talking about, I do. And I and all
the neighbors called him Marris after the cat and the commercials,

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so he was. I had just come home from a
gig at the old VFW post on Thalton Parkway, and
I had put out some food for Mars. And I
lived right next to the launder room of that little
section of the apartment complex. There was a little front

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porch in front of my apartment, in front of the
launder room. And I saw another ginger cat and on
the front porch of the launder room. And this was
like one or two in the morning, and the launder
room was closed. And you know how cats will bunch

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of stretched down and then pounds, right. Have you seen
him do that?

Speaker 5 (11:08):
Yes?

Speaker 8 (11:10):
All right? He looked just like Mars. I saw nothing
out of the ordinary, but all of a sudden, this
orange cat jumped into the laundry room through a locked door.

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So helped me, Uncle, Henry, I saw this in my
own eyes.

Speaker 5 (11:34):
You saw a cat that was able to go through
a wall like a ghost.

Speaker 8 (11:41):
Yes, And I was willing to convince myself that I
hadn't seen this. How could this possibly happen? I didn't
see that except for one little thing. Mars saw it too.
I had put out a little bit of food for him,
but he was touching it. His eyes the whole time

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were on that front porch where he had just seen
what was very obviously a ghost cat jump into the
laundry room through a locked door. That's how I know
that what I saw was the real deader, the same
as when I saw the the dark blue entity at

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my uncle's club many many years before that. I had
a witness, and that that earliest story, I had my
aunt as a witness. In this story, I had the
cat that I used to feed as a witness. And
that's my story for today, Henry.

Speaker 5 (12:45):
I'm practically speechless. I'm practically speechless about this, Burton. Thank you.

Speaker 8 (12:51):
I've got enough stories like that to write a book
on Henry. So here so help me I do well.

Speaker 5 (12:56):
Please please, in the future share these stories with the listener.
I know the listeners of the Uncle Ebery Show have
appreciated this as much as I have. Thank you, Bert,
thank you so much.

Speaker 8 (13:07):
Well, thank you for taking a call to Henry.

Speaker 5 (13:09):
Very there he goes Bert and Bert call back next week.
We want to talk about your gig. You have a
gig a week from today, I believe at Blues Tavern.
I would love to be able to see Bert play.
How about that?

Speaker 6 (13:24):
And Bert?

Speaker 5 (13:25):
Bert saw a ghost cat and he had a witness
with him, an actual cat. Unfortunately, cats still not allowed
to testify in court, but someday you never know. Two five,
one four seven nine two three the telephone number here
on the Uncle Every Show.

Speaker 1 (13:45):
Hello caller, Hey Uncle Harry.

Speaker 7 (13:48):
Yes, sir, let me ask some you think it's gonna
be possible for the Republicans to reach out and find
five Democrat leaders that maybe will have the same need
that they would pick. They can pick one item out

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of that one point five trillion dollar deal so that
maybe they can get that continuing resolution signed off. Because see,
let me, if they can get they can find five senators.
I believe with senators that they can pick one item
off of that list and then, uh, you know, promise

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them they're gonna put that on there. Add that to
the continuing resolution to get them to vote. To me,
that seems like the only way they're going to resolve
this banner because Chuck Schuman is never gonna sign off,
or they've got to get five people where they can
at least find l'sia say they all agree that for
like a year, they'll extend the Obama credits for you know,

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the Obama insurance or whatever, and do that for like
one year. Get five Democrats that will sign off if
we agree to do that. Do you see that being
really the only option to get that bill?

Speaker 5 (15:05):
Well, it is. It is definitely not the only option.
President Trump floated the option of using the nuclear option
and getting rid of the filibuster and just blowing it
through that way. Now, that would that would really upset
the apple card in official Washington d C. If they
did that. They're trying not to do that because every

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norm that still exists would be blown out of the water.
But they do have that option. I would be willing
for them to use that option if they also had
other legislation ready to go, that they could blow through
there at the same time and fix a lot of problems.
But that's that's one option. Nuclear option is an option,
your option where you bribe senators by putting pork in

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a bill or something. You could do that. The other
option is to keep the government shut down until they
cave in.

Speaker 7 (16:01):
Well, I mean, obviously Trump's not gonna give in. I mean,
obviously you know that's gonna You know that's the case.
So and I do hear about the nuclear option. The
only thing that don't think I heard about it is
is that if we do that, then the Democrats can
use it when they're in right, So you know, yes,
And that's the reason why they're not really doing it,
because then they'll play that card once they're in office.

Speaker 5 (16:23):
So well, and I would say to that they're gonna
use it. Uh, after what we've all been through. These
political parties are at each other's throats and they're gonna
Republicans are probably not gonna use it. Democrats will use it.
I believe they will. That's that's personal opinion of mine
that they will use in the future.

Speaker 7 (16:44):
Well, you know that not either either party's not gonna
budge at this point. It just seems like the only
option is to reach out to see if they can
find five senators give them at least one item off
of that list so they feel like they've got they
gained a little ground, right, just so they and like
and it'll be It'll probably be the senators that are
in probably a Republican state where at least they'll you know,

(17:06):
they'll do it'll it'll save face with with them with
you know, their area, and still get everything pass it.
Otherwise we're just gonna be the stalemate forever. I mean,
I just don't see any I don't because when you
listen to Chuck Schumer, he sits there likes everybody you know,
and yeah.

Speaker 5 (17:23):
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm up on the break. I
gotta run. But I think, I mean, I think even
the Washington Post was editorializing against the Democrats today, asking
them to end it. The longer it goes on, the
more it falls on them, I think they'll cave.

Speaker 8 (17:47):
W nt M.

Speaker 1 (17:58):
Halloween, your trees, get to know away from my dog
right now, Get away for my goal right now. Ain't
no dogging Halloween up is her message deleted.

Speaker 5 (18:11):
Tree four Uncle Henry show continuing here on Halloween two

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five one four seventy nine two seven two three. That's
two five one four seventy nine, two seventy two three.
Email address Uncle Henry at iheartvidia dot com. That's Uncle
Henry at iHeartMedia dot com. Today. Also, as was pointed
out on yesterday's show, today, Halloween also the birthday of

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Nick Saban. Yes, indeed, Nick Saban I believe turning seventy
four years old today. Happy birthday to Nick Saban. Let's see.
I tried to find a a clip of Nick Saban
being scary for Halloween. I don't know, maybe I don't
if he's scary here or not. Let's listen.

Speaker 9 (19:20):
Okay, So it was kind of a strong effort from
the first half starters, but it was kind of a
still fairly slow start on both sides in the first quarter,
like for the first half the first quarter. So how
much of an emphasis as the first first quarter been
in a week of preparation?

Speaker 3 (19:38):
You know, I think you really got to be digging deep.
You know, it's hard to win and I see people
getting beat. What was the Florida score today against Stamford?

Speaker 5 (19:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (19:56):
So, I mean, do you want me to be critical
of my team because we had to pump once in
the first quarter and they got a field goal. I mean,
I'm not going to do it. Like I said, they
did a couple of things. We made a couple of mistakes,
they did some things different, we adjusted to it. I
think the players did a good job. And you know,
I'm not going to be critical of anything that our

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players did when we win fifty nine to three. So
not not a good question.

Speaker 5 (20:24):
That was infinitely if you were a reporter, that would
be very scary.

Speaker 3 (20:30):
Not not a good question.

Speaker 5 (20:32):
Incidentally, So yes, indeed, Happy birthday, Nick Saban. Here is
another just here's another little bit of scary Nick for Halloween.

Speaker 3 (20:45):
Don't draw conclusions because if you do, you're going to
be wrong. You can draw them if you want, just
be wrong. I guess you all don't have any consequences
for being wrong.

Speaker 5 (20:55):
All right, Anyway, I could maybe should maybe next year,
if if I'm allowed to still be here, I think
I will be allowed to still be here. Maybe I
need to spend the entire hour first hour of the
Uncle Henry Show just playing Nick Saban clips on his birthday.
Next year, that would be a wonderful way to take

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attention away from the demonic nature of Halloween. Two five
one four seven nine two seven two three. The telephone
number that's two five to one, four seven nine two
seven two three. Email address Uncle Henry at iHeartMedia dot com.
That's Uncle Henry at iHeartMedia dot com. Now this, Uh,

(21:35):
this week, I have played in the six o'clock hour
of the Uncle Henry Show some audio clips of a
state trooper Alabama Law Enforcement Association captain who has given
some Halloween safety tips the last couple of nights. I've
shared these in the six o'clock hour of the Uncle

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Henry Show.

Speaker 6 (21:59):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (21:59):
If you did not hear that, just very briefly, here
is a if you haven't gone out yet to do
any tricker treating, here is a captain with Alabama Law
Enforcement explaining how you should approach your Halloween when you
take the children out this evening.

Speaker 2 (22:16):
Well, one of the things that we really continue to
drive home, and these are things that people often don't
think about, is the parent to child ratio.

Speaker 5 (22:25):
All Right, you need to figure this out parents child ratio.

Speaker 2 (22:27):
So that's one of the things that's just really important
and that's the reality. You can have a really good
plan in place, but if you don't have an appropriate
number of personnel, appropriate number of parents, an appropriate number
of guardens out there with you to help execute that plan,
that's where things starting to go sideways, you know.

Speaker 5 (22:48):
All right, So you've got to have your plan and
you have to have the proper personnel to execute the plan,
and that does depend on a parent child ratio. Now, now,
longtime caller Buford has heard the news report with the
Alabama Law Enforcement Association Camptain talking about this, and he's

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he's got his own plan. I believe.

Speaker 6 (23:14):
A different family has a Halloween plan of action. Heard
the State of Alabama's request. First off, for going to
friend of Allard's house in the neighborhood that we've in
trick or treats as they were little down Herman and River. Henry,
not many houses are welcomed welcoming to trick and or traitors,

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so we venture out. But Henry, friend of ours and
the big Halloween sindig the parents to child ratio will
be close to one to one. That's right, Henry, Wow,
one adult for everyone. Chill dream Wow has been my
past experience. That is absolutely the worst ratio because everyone

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believes someone else is watching the chill dream and what happened?
The other children are being.

Speaker 4 (24:01):
Watched, but are the only rules we have is the
children are not allowed to venture out past the perimeter
of our operation area.

Speaker 6 (24:13):
And they're pretty good about that because you see, especially
the view for girls, they understand they are food and
if they venture out of their regular little world of
the bubble that they live in, then they enter the
food chain.

Speaker 5 (24:31):
Anyway, Henry, I'm just pausing there to congratulate you. I
don't know how you've taught your daughters this without making
them quite paranoid, using using the food chain as an
example on it. You need to be safe, but congratulations.
If you are able to keep your children safe, congratulations,

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I give you up.

Speaker 6 (24:53):
They don't know how there's Halloween's trick and or treating goes,
then I will.

Speaker 5 (24:58):
Tell you this.

Speaker 6 (24:59):
My children and have had an excessionally good time trigger
treating though the years, got a nice group of kids,
are friends with and now got good families and now
lives similar in a similar nice neighborhood. They throw a
big ocean dig every every Halloween, Henry, So it should

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be a good time. But I don't know if our
operational plan if it works out or not. Just want
y'all want you know I am. We are doing with
the state of Alabama. The state government is requesting everyone
to have a Halloween plan anyway, Henry. Also, I told

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Ruth he needed to wear some reflective safety gear, Henry,
and he told me that was gay few and I
was kind of proud of him for that. It wasn't
pushed anyway, Henry.

Speaker 5 (26:02):
You have a good day, all right, Beautford. Thank you
very much for your phone call. I don't know if
that that type of language. I don't know if that
type of language is appreciated in modern times, Beaufford, but
it sounds like you've got the parent child ratio. I
don't know how it could be better. We heard the

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that was the number one thing that goes wrong with
Halloween and Alabama, according to Alabama Law Enforcement Association Captain Burkett.

Speaker 2 (26:31):
One of the things that we really continue to drive home,
and these are things that people often don't think about,
is the parent to child ratio.

Speaker 5 (26:40):
So you have got it one to one, which is
who would ever expect that to happen? So anyway, congratulations
on all of that and the reflective gear. Look Beaufford
when you should tell Beauford Junior that when he is
actually in a adult male then he can shed the

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reflective gear if he chooses to do so. But as
a minor that is being instructed by the parents, the
parental end of the ratio, he should wear the reflective
gear for his own safety, despite how it makes him feel.

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There is more to come. Yes, more Uncle Henry's Show.
As the evening moves forward, there will be more of
this after the break Uncle Henry Show. It's five. The

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news headlines coming up in ten minutes. I've already I've
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Speaker 10 (28:27):
Hey, Auns, Pat Nelly, Hope you're having a great afternoon. Yes, hey, listen,
are you glad that Bama has a bye week this week?

Speaker 5 (28:38):
I'm gonna pause there to say yes, especially because I
use YouTube TV and the YouTube TV has dropped ABC
and ESPN and all Disney products because they're in some
kind of a dispute. So the people that use YouTube
TV are going to have some issues trying to watch

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some college football this weekend. So yes, I'm glad Alabama
has a bye week.

Speaker 10 (29:06):
Yeah me too. Anyways, I heard Burt talking about his
ghost story and mister Wintle, but I have a real
short ghost story. A lot of the chums know that me,
Mss Rohnda and the family spend a lot of time
done at Ulphin Island and we stay.

Speaker 5 (29:27):
All right now, I'm pausing there just to let you
the radio listener know that Pat Nelly mentioned the chums.
Know there's a group of people that are the Chums.
It was created back what I was doing the Friday
Night Show with Johnny Gwinn back during the pandemic. The
Chums of Friday Night with Uncle Henry. Well, all those

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people have just stuck together and are friends with each
other and communicate on Facebook and get together from time
to time. So the Chums are just a group of
Uncle Henry show fans that formed during the pandemic.

Speaker 10 (30:01):
Till the evening sometimes late with the whole family. And
I were coming back from Daulphin Island. We were there
on Daulphin Island Parkway between what is that Lauren Dean? Heck,
I can't remember it's I think it's Lauren Dean. Dulphin
Island Parkway goes all the way up to the interstate.

Speaker 6 (30:23):
Right.

Speaker 10 (30:24):
There were all them chemical companies and it's real dark.
And we was coming back one night. Ronda was driving
and I was in the passenger seat, and we passed
by a man. He was probably three feet from the
passenger's mirror on Ronda's tahoe, and he was all tattered

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and everything. His clothes were all looked like they were dirty,
but you could definitely tell it was a Civil War uniform.
But here's the caveat. He was black, and that impression
has been in my mind for probably twenty years now.
He was standing there just as if I was standing

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and talking to you. Anyways. Uh oh, here's another one.
This is not really a ghost story. But do you
know why they used to call John words sharky?

Speaker 6 (31:22):
No, why you don't know?

Speaker 10 (31:24):
Well, the reason why they called him sharky's because he
was out floundered in Mobile Bay by the battleship and
the shark bit his arm off. All right, don't have
a great even and a great weekending roll tide roll
tied row.

Speaker 5 (31:37):
Pat Nelly, thank you very much for telling your ghost story,
your Dauphin Island ghost story from twenty years ago that
had stuck in your mind what you saw there on
the road. And I'm going to assume that you had
witnesses in the vehicle with you that can testify, just
like Bert when he told his story. He had the cat,

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he had his cat, more us as a witness, and
you had your family in the vehicle there as a witness. Well,
I'm glad to hear that. All right, let's see what else?
What else can I tell you about? We're almost out
of time in this hour of Uncle Henry's show, looking

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forward to what I hope is a trouble free Halloween.
I've told you the story before that my first Halloween
in Midtown almost ten years ago, I was taken aback
because I got, along with my Bible verses that I
hand out to children, I also got a bunch of
handy candy to hand out. And I was surprised that

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in my first Halloween in Midtown, around eight o'clock at night,
an adult woman with no kids and no costume just
came up to the door wanting candy. But the rules,
the rules in Midtown a little bit different from Halloween
rules and other communities, and many communities it's little children

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in costumes getting the candy. And when I moved to
Midtown my first Halloween, there were adults looks looked like
a forty year old woman, no costume, no kids, just
desirous of candy. So hoping for no incidents for me,
or for you, or for anybody else during this Halloween

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coming up. There is more to get to as The
Uncle Henry Show continues here on News Radio seventy ten WNTM.
Now Monday, the new mayor and the new city Council
are being sworn in Monday. Mayor Stempson has given an
exit interview to Lenise Lea God, I want to hear

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some of that. We'll listen to a little bit of
that after the new break. So all of that and
more on the way as The Uncle Henry Show continues
here on News Radio seventy ten