October 26, 2025 • 34 mins
Tiffany Hobbs goes deep into SoCal’s most chilling haunts and explores the strangest phobias you’ve ever heard of. Then, it’s “Scammers Gonna Scam” with the eerie new trend of ghost tapping. All that and more on KFIAM-640!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Tiffany Hobbs here filling in for Chris Merrill, who maybe
he said, A, he's really eyeballing the poop costume. Seemed
like he thought that that might be one that would
be interesting to be. I kind of swayed him away
from the giant condom one. I said that might be
able to risk a Chris maybe poop over that other.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
He's still out there looking. That's why he's not here.
He's trying to find the most offensive costume to don
all week and definitely on Friday. So your suggestions have
been a lot of fun, as well as your talkbacks,
your spookiest most supernatural tales. And I believe Ali, we
have another one there. Someone sent us something really spooky.
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Let me know when you're.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Ready, Jean.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
My husband passed away at home, and the dog jumped
on his chest and tried to wake him up, and
he didn't. But anyway, I went to the cemetery afterwards,
and my dog led me right to the gravesite and
he sat right there and wouldn't move. He saw rabbits
and birds and other little squirrels. But he didn't move,
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He just sat there.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
What a good boy, What a good boy. That's a
good boy, right there, that's a good boy.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Right Dogs animals period, but dogs are just so in
tune with us, so that's not surprising.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
It's heartwarming.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
I'm really sorry for your loss, all of you who've
shared stories of loss, I'm really sorry for that. The
supernatural element is really interesting, it's riveting, and thank you
for sharing. Keep them coming. Other people are sharing their
stories around the Southland, from the furthest reaches of La
County down into the furthest recesses of the South Bay,
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their stories in between and on all corners that are
super natural. These are so some of the spookiest tales
in Haunted Los Angeles County. Starting with this is our
deeper dive segment. By the way, Griffith parks Scale singing woman.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
What let's find out?
Speaker 2 (02:17):
About five years ago, while Coral Barrero was working at
the La Zoo, she suddenly heard a woman singing scales
outside of the zoo perimeter. It was a very eerie song,
a very strange song. The sound was haunting. Ali, can
I have some scary music, A nice scary instrumental at
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the don't you play Taylor Swift? That's not scary, Alie,
that's offensive. Something scary under me while I'm talking. So
she heard the sound that was haunting. She says, I
couldn't stop thinking about it throughout the weeks. When she
asked one of the keepers at the zoo that works
in that particular area, he said that he too has
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heard the woman singing. A few months later, the same
zookeeper told Barrero he too had hurt the woman now
singing scales. Oh that's good, Oli, And then he began
to see her in a yellow raincoat and when she
turns around to face the person, she doesn't have a face.
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That is the singing woman who sings scales. She's quite
talented at the La Zoo. So if you're the Griffith
Park Zoo on the La Zoo side there, so if
you see this woman and she's in a yellow raincoat
and she's singing, and she turns towards you and she
doesn't have a face, that's the woman, and you have
just been officially haunted. You ever been to the Roxy
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on Sunset famous club? I've been to the Roxy. That
was definitely a haunt, so to speak. Of mine in
my twenties.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
Well.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
David to been managed The Rock Sea on Sunset from
two thousand and three to two thousand and six. During
his time there, he says he's had quite a few
supernatural encounters, but none as creepy as the one that
took place on Sunday night in two thousand and three.
It was just David and one of his staff and
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they were alone in the club going over plans for
a new promotion. That's when the noises started. First, it
was a couple slamming doors from within the club that
Tobin and his coworker tried to brush off, but then
the banging sound started, he says, So we started to
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freak out. We couldn't move. We're in the corner booth,
and all of a sudden we heard feet banging on
the steps halfway up the stairs and stopped. At that point,
we grabbed the stuff and ran out the back door,
freaked out of our mind because there was no one
in the building.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
There was only us.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
David Tobin discribed ribes it as a quote pretty amazing experience. Now,
the Roxy has seen many legends come through their upstairs
and down on the stage as well, so Jake Tobin says,
or David Tobin says, it made sense that there was
someone there. I just didn't stay around to find out
who it was.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Sounds like you, Ollie.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Then there's the San Pedro warehouse, so now we're taking
a trip down into the South Bay. The hooded figure
in this San Pedro warehouse. Redondo resident Latisia Castillo used
to handle HR and administrative duties at a fifty six
thousand square foot warehouse in San Pedro. Some coworkers complained
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of an eerie energy in the warehouse, but she didn't
put much stock in those complaints.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
First mistake.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Even when I feel like it's really loud, Ali, it's like, fuck,
I'm competing.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
There we go.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Even when a forklift operator quit on this spot thanks
after supposedly having seen a ghost, she Latissia Castillo remains,
he gets out of his forklift, comes running to me
with this pale face and tells me, I'm not staying here.
There's ghosts here. Someone just hit my forklift, but no
one's here. I'm leaving. The TCA could do nothing to
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convince the operator to stay and didn't think much of
the incident until a few weeks later, there was an
accident with another operator. As is customary, they wrote up
an incident report and took photos of the spot in
the warehouse where the accident took place. The TCA says,
so when we took the pictures, we noticed the shadow
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on a picture that kind of reminded me of either
a priest or like something weird that had this hood
at cape on and it was really eerie. Then there's
West Covina, the Ghosts of keg Canyon. When West Covina
account and Barry Reemer was living in unincorporated La County's
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tiny community of kig Canyon, some odd things started happening
in his home, said Keegel Canyon. That's the really bad one,
all right. They culminated one quiet night when Barry tried
to sleep, he woke to the sound of his front
door knobs shaking back and forth, as if someone was
trying to get in. Barry Reamer, gathered his courage, walked
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over to the living room and yelled, someone lives here.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Go away.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
He figured it was a squatter who assumed the house
was empty and abandoned. And because this is La and
although that experience was unnerving, he went back to sleep.
That's when things got weirder. All of a sudden, I
hear this sound. It sounded like children or high pitched cackling.
They were inside. I look over and I see a
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transparency of ten twelve ghosts. These apparitions you could see
right through them, and they were just kind of floating.
The apparitions took off upstairs when Barry Reamer confronted them,
and they left behind the smell of burnt matches. After
that incident, Barry Reamer packed up his things and moved out,
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but to this day he recalls very clearly the burning
smell the ghosts left behind. When we continue our deeper
dive segment, we're going to learn about the voice at
six six six Union. That's already an ominous address, a
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whrror in Korea Town. It doesn't have to do with parking,
something called dancing Joe hmm. And this is somewhere around
Long Beach. And I hope to be able to get
more of your spooky stories using our talkback feature on
the iHeart app. Let us know of your supernatural experiences,
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your ghost tales, your tales of or will play them
as long as they're true. And this is your platform
to share just before we get to Halloween, your scariest, spookiest,
most supernatural experiences right here on KFI AM six forty
Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Tiffany Hobbs filling in
from MARYL till seven.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Tiffany Hobbs filling in for Meryl. He's still on this
journey to find the most offensive Halloween costume. I said, Chris,
I don't think that's a good idea, but I feel like,
you know, you're making yourself vulnerable to getting canceled. And
He's like, I can do it. You know they'll understand it.
They get me, they get me. And I was like,
all right, So I've been looking at lists of strange
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costumes that are interesting. They're funny, placement of meatballs and
places they shouldn't be, and middle finger costumes and all
sorts of things. If you want a costume, first, there's
a poor, a potty adult costume. There's an oversized costume
for men where you can be a bra because that's
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where we're at now in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
You can be beer, you can be a breathalyzer. There
you go. You'll be the life of the party.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
If you're that, you can also be a toilet, complete
with like all the details that look like a toilet,
and you have to hope that someone doesn't mistake you
for an actual one once the drinks get flowing. At
any rate, have fun out there, Chris. I'm here till seven.
Maybe Chris will hit the talk back and let us
know about his scary stories. You've certainly been doing, so
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keep it coming. Keep those stories coming, supernatural ghost stories,
whatever they are. Let us know what you've experienced. You
have about thirty seconds to do so I'm gonna jump
back in to this list by LAist dot com of
Haunted la people from southern California sharing their spookiest tales.
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Oh that's good, here we go. The voice at six
six six Union. That's already ominous, right. Frank Ayala used
to work a job at an address that had the
numbers six six six in it. He would start at midnight,
and the lighting at the building was practically nonexistent. To
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mitigate this, he'd have to wear a headlamp to do
his work on the day of the incident. The incident
in question. Frank arrived punctually at midnight. It was just
him and another worker who had arrived earlier and was
on the other side of the building. As Frank set
up his tractor to begin his routine, his phone rang.
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It was his daughter, who would call him two to
three times a week around midnight while she was getting
off of work. He continued to do his work while
they chatted, when suddenly Frank heard the voice of a
man clearing his throat. Dad, his daughter said on the phone,
is someone there with you? I'll call you back, Frank said.
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When Frank turned around toward the sound of the voice,
his head light shined on no one. Frank turned back
to do his work kind of brushed it off, and
he heard it again, only this time even louder. He
gathered his courage, turned around again and said, I came
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here to do a job. I don't bother anyone, and
I don't want to be bothered from the dark. He
heard a long, low chuckle. Frank returned to his work
and never encountered the voice again. Or in Koreatown. This
doesn't have to do with parking, which would be terrifying
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enough if you know Korea Town, but in this case.
A little more than twenty years ago, a man named
Mark Roder was living in an apartment in Koreatown. Everything
was fine until it wasn't. First, it started with some
creepy ghost activity at the foot of his bed. He
woke to his dog staring intently at the corner near
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his bed. He says, I looked there, and the corner
of the bed is pressed down, as if somebody is
sitting there, But there was no one there, and I'm
looking at this, and the corner of the bed just
rises as if whoever was sitting there got up and
walked away. That one night, while Mark was washing the
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dishes completely home alone, suddenly he felt as if someone
pushed him. The last straw came a couple weeks later,
when Mark and his wife were going to see a movie.
They were halfway out the building when Mark realized he'd
forgotten something in the apartment. He says, I run up
to go get it, and as soon as I walked
through the door to the apartment, I just felt some
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kind of negative presence. And all I can understand from
this presence is that I'm not supposed to be there.
A couple days later, Mark and his wife began looking
for another place to live. He says, we're packing up
to move and the next door neighbor says.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Oh, you guys are moving. That's too bad.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
DIDs something weird happen? And I said, what are you
talking about? The neighbor says, oh, the guy who lived
there before you. He killed himself in the apartment. We
found him dead in the bathtub. He'd been in there
for about three weeks. Dontantan dancing, Joe. This will be
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our final spooky tale of the evening. Not all ghosts
are bad. We're not all malevolent. Some are just a
little silly, little mischievous.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
Well.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Julie Greenberg currently lives in Long Beach, but this story
takes place about twenty years ago, when she's worked the
door at a rock club. The building was a residential
home decades before it became a club, but remnants of
its past life remained.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Specifically, Joe.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Joe was a man believed to have lived at the
rock club when it was a residential building. Not much
is known about Joe, though the story went that he
fought in World War Two. Once the building was turned
into the club, Julie would often catch glimpses of Joe.
She says, I saw Joe several times at the club.
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His image never frightened me. When I would see his
image moving in front of the stage for more than
thirty seconds, that was my way of knowing he liked
the band. Now it's been years since Julie worked at
the club, but she says she still drives by that corner,
and although the building doesn't look like a house anymore,
she hopes Joe is still dancing. Those are are our
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spooky tales from all across southern California. When we come back,
we're going to look at a few rare, maybe irrational,
and certainly pecul Your phobias you've likely never heard of.
You know, there's a fear of peanut butter sticking to
the roof of your mouth, or even a fear of
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being without your cell phone that's specific to teenagers. There's
even a fear of opening one's eyes, especially with what's
going on in the world, I imagine. But we'll get
into more of those fears and phobias on the other
side of the brake. Tifney Hobbs filling in from maryl
till seven and then doctor Wendy will be here with
her wonderful show as always.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Tiffany Hobbs here and we are going to get into
something that I'm fascinated by. And the list, I think
what fascinates me most is at the seems to be
ever evolving and ever expanding. And I don't know what
the criteria is for this thing to become classified as
a phobia or for the thing to be classified as
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a phobia, the fear. But again, that list seems to
be very fluid, like it just keeps going. And here
are twenty one rare, maybe even irrational, judgy, judge and
certainly different phobias that you and I've likely never heard
of until today. Now, phobias are fears and we often
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know of like the ones that are based around pop
culture a rack nophobia, fear of spiders, whole movie was
made from it, terrified me as a kid, Love it now,
But fear of spiders, a rack noophobia, fear of heights, acrophobia.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
There are lots of phobias that you might know.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
But what about the fear of peanut butter sticking to
the roof of your mouth. There is such a thing,
the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of
your mouth. And bear with me, I'm going to try
to pronounce it a raki butter a phobia. A raka
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butter with phobia is the fear of peanut butter sticking
to the roof of your mouth, and the severity varies
from person to person. But some people with this condition
may be able to eat small amounts of peanut butter,
but others will avoid peanut butter or anything with a
similar consistency all together. Then there's nama phobia. Nama phobia
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is the fear of being without your cell phone. People
who experience nama phobia often also experience excessive anxiety about
not having their phone with them, their battery being low
or dying, or their phone losing service, and people will
panic and experience extreme symptoms of anxiety. Often stems from
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having a cell phone addiction. So if you don't have
your phone, then you have nomophobia. Then there's a rhythmaphobia,
fear of numbers. I think I had this in eleventh
grade algebra two. Fear of numbers a rhythmophobia. These are
people who grew up dreading math class cheers to that,
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but people with a rhythmophobia also have a genuine fear
of numbers, and they often experience anxiety associated with doing
math or dealing with numbers in general, versus a fear
of actually seeing number symbol. So it's manipulating numbers in
some way, either through math or whatever any other occasion
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might be. And it can be a major impairment in
someone's life, affecting their jobs, affecting how they handle money.
That's a rhythma phobia, fear of numbers. Now, on the
flip side of that, let's say you're making a whole
bunch of money and that's scared that terrifies you. Fear
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of money is called plutophobia, plutophobia. Do you have that, Kayla? Plutophobia?
H no, oh, fear of money.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Actually, if you attract what you're scared of, I hear,
then yes, I have a.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Huge fear of money. A little reverse psychology there you go.
I know most people, of course, probably most of us
listening and here in the studio probably wish we had
more money. We work in radio, right, But plutophobia is
a fear of money or wealth, and people with this
fear legitimately fear anything associated with wealth, even wealthy people
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or becoming wealthy themselves. They generally dread money and having
to deal with it, even leading to the sabotaging of careers.
My favorite color is green. What's your favorite color, Kayla?
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Blue?
Speaker 2 (21:05):
I like a mixture of the two, in fact turquoise.
But did you know that you can actually have a
legitimate phobia of colors, and specifically, the fear of the
color yellow is xanta phobia.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
How do you even avoid the color yellow? It's everywhere nature?
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Well, people with this rare phobia are usually also afraid
of any.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Object that's yellow, such as school buses.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
I don't mean them, they are terrifying, don't mean a
Have you ever driven next to one?
Speaker 3 (21:35):
There's scaries.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
I might get into the banana aisle and they're like,
oh god, no, school buses, flowers, bananas, yellow crayons.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
The sun, the sun, all those four fellows. So have
you got that phobia? Talk back to us, what happens
to you?
Speaker 2 (21:56):
They may even find yellow foods to be distressing, the
corn them. They're like, oh god, oh, this phobia tends
to interfere with everyday life. You think as yellow things
can be found everywhere. Then there's a fear of bathing,
A fear of bathing, a bluetophobia that just sounds bad.
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A bluphobia, yes, is the fear of bathing, washing, or
cleaning oneself, and it often occurs in children and can
resolve itself with age.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
You've been around little kids.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
They're very water adverse outside of pools or like playing
in water. But when it's baftime, oh no, now they
fight like cats. Like they become very limber and strong
all of a sudden. But it usually resolves itself with age,
although it can be present in adults. People with a
bluetophobia so harsh a bluetophobia avoid bathing and showering, which
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can the words are hard also lead to all sorts
of high gene issues and sometimes social isolation. However, their
fear of bathing and the anxiety they experience while bathing
can become so extreme that their consequences are significant. It
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can result from traumatic events involving water or a fear
of getting wet, and in some cases can be related
to aquaphobia, which is the fear of water, fear of
the number eight They go aisle one, two, three, four, five,
sixty seven nine, one, two, three, four, five, six seven nine. Nope,
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not doing it. Octophobia. Octophobia is the fear of the
number eight. There are few other known phobias related to
specific numbers. There is the fear of numbers themselves. That's
a rhythmophobia. We talked about that. And there's the fear
of the number thirteen, which is often related to something supernatural.
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You know, there's no thirteenth floor on this in this hotel,
or in the elevator, whatever it may be. But people
with octaphobia fear the symbol eight as it appears written down,
such as in addresses or advertisements. They can also fear
objects presenting in groups of eight. Now they say that
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this rare phobia may come from its resemblance to the
infinity sign. It also can stem from traumatic events involving
the number eight, such as an accident that happened on
the eighth of the month or the eighth month, or
whatever it may be. Octophobia the fear of the number eight.
Optophobia the fear of opening one's eyes. We're talking about
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rare phobias and fears. Optophobia is the fear of opening
one's eyes.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
That's I think that's all that needs to be said.
With that one.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
There's a fear of of balloons. That's glob of phobia,
fear of long words. Know what what this phobia is called?
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Fear of law.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Here we go, Hippopota monstrosis equipped aliophobia.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
They can't say what they have. Fear of long words.
That's just how as a doctor diagnosed the person, you
say the word.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
I think if they try to say this and they
scream and like fall down and just distress, they're like, yeah,
you got that, of which many people would have if
they looked at this word, this word that the actual
phobia is like, can't count it quickly, but it's at
least twenty five letters.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
This is crazy.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Hippopota monstrosis equipped aliophobia. I'm sure somebody will have the
talk back and say, you're not pronouncing that right, Well,
let us know how it's pronounced. There's also the fear
of adolescence fa bi phobia. You fear youth, You fear
kids youth, fear of belly buttons, that's omphalophobia, fear of string,
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linona phobia, fear of hair, chay to phobia, fear of beards,
paga phobia. Don't like beards, they're they're for some people,
they're terrifying, for others, they're lovely. Vesta phobia, fear of clothing,
ergo phobia, fear of work. Have that often decide a phobia,
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fear of making decisions. S so trophobia, fear of mirrors, depthnaphobia,
fear of dining with others, phoba phobia, fear of phobias
come on, and then that's our last one, phoba phobia,
fear of phobias.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
So these these.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Are there, and this is just a list of the
twenty one most rare, irrational and strange phobias you've likely
not heard of. All Right, when we come back, we're
not going to talk about the number yellow or the
number or the excuse me, the color yellow or the
number eight, lest we scare some of our listeners.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
But we are going to.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Get into what is genuinely, genuinely scaring educators teachers around
the country, and it has to do with the ability
or inability of their students. And students are melting down
when asked to do this one simple task.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
I'll tell you what it is.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
On the other side of the break, I am six
forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app Tifney Hobbs here
till seven filling in for Meryl.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Tiffany Hobbs here, and we are going to jump into
our newest segment, which is not really it's not really
a new segment, but it's a segment that I'm pulling
from where it used to be, which was at a
different point, And it's the Viral Load where we chronicle
some of the stories that are going viral on social media.
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And these stories have been shared by hundreds of thousands,
even millions of people to the tune of us knowing
about what's happening because they're popular. And this story is
a story that fits right in with the Halloween theme
and spooky theme of today.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
By the way, keep your talkbacks coming.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
If you have a spooky tale, a supernatural tale of
which we've had quite a few submissions and played them
on air, you can get on air.
Speaker 5 (28:21):
Guys.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Let us know.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
We want to know your spookiest, scariest, most supernatural stories
in thirty seconds or less, of course, and again we'll
get them on air. Can't wait to hear what you're
cooking up that is our question of the evening, and
later on we will definitely get to the there's no
business life Go.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Business segment first.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Sure, so stay tuned for that, but right now, a
high school teacher went viral this week to the tune
of tens of millions of view shares and comments showing
his students horrified reaction to a simple instruction to write
a paragraph. Let's hear what the teacher, Eli Carbuluto had
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to say and how his students reacted in.
Speaker 5 (29:13):
A paragraph, Oh, my gosh, in a paragraph? Well, you
know what complete senses? Yeah, exploit five sentences, five sentences. Yeah,
you have to do five complete sentences. Could you imagine
that having to write five complete sentences? Okay, that's a
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test on its own, five complete sentences.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
The horror, that's a test on its own, one of
the students says, and carbo Luto has to has to
repeat it. That's a test on its own, five sentences.
This is a terrifying story, if ever there was one.
So in the video posted this previous Wednesday, high school
teacher and coach Eli Carbillito demonstrated how dire the situation
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is in American schools. It's the sophomores in his class
are reacting to him asking them to write five complete sentences.
The footage, which you can see online and we heard
the audio from, shows mister Carballito sitting at his desk
as he begins to relay instructions for the simple writing exercise.
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He goes on to say in a paragraph, and the
students interject and go, oh, my gosh, you heard them,
Oh oh, this waffling, and then Carballito, mister Carballito tries
to explain what a paragraph actually means. He's like, you
know what a complete sentence is, Just write five of
those things. And at this demand, as you heard there,
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his class erupts in outrage. Oh no, oh, five centenzens.
Another many of them are again saying five sentences. One says,
that's like a test on its own. Now, mister Carballrito
is himself new to teaching. He's only twenty three, and
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he's kind of green. You're kind of green, fresh out
of college, fresh out of you know, your whatever program
you've been in. And mister Carballrito, twenty three, bless his heart,
might not yet realize just how bad things have become
in the public school system in the United states. At
the end of the previous school year, one teacher went
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to TikTok and said she quit because her sophomore class
could not read. It pushed her to actually quit. Now,
this teacher went on to say, quote technology is ruining education.
She says, it's directly contributing to the literacy decrease that
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we're seeing now. For those of us who are north
of anything in the teens, anything in the twenties, thirties, forties,
you likely can remember a time when this was the norm,
not necessarily the reaction, but the request, the requirement, the
ability to construct a complete paragraph with five sentences. Some
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of you might even be saying only five. I remember
when it was five to seven. I'm of that ilk
it's now three to five, and I believe that things
have been lowered to respond to this sort of arguing
against simplistic writing exercises. The Nation's report Card, which compiles
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an assessment of educational progress, return disappointing results for the
year twenty twenty four. They found the Nation's report Card
this organization that reading scores for high school seniors fell
to their lowest since nineteen nine two. Now these scores
decline significantly for grades four and eight as well, but
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high school seniors are seeing a sharp decline in the
ability to read Dean Martin excuse me, Martin, West Harvard
Graduate School of Education. Dean also suspects that the culprit
is modern technology. He says, I don't think we have
smoking gun evidence that the rise of screen based childhood
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is a direct contributor to the literacy trends that we're seeing,
But I'm willing to put it very high on my
list of potential suspects. What is the fear of writing
a paragraph or the phobia of writing or constructing a
complete paragraph? Paragraph of phobia That probably will be added
to the list very shortly as more and more US
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students are unable or unwilling to construct simple paragraphs.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
How the mighty have fallen?
Speaker 2 (34:02):
When we come back, we're going to get into our
scammers gonna scam segment. What the heck is ghost tapping?
Is it you poking an apparition or a ghost? No,
but I will tell you what it is on the
other side.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
KFI AM six forty on demand
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Tiffany Hobbs here filling in for Chris Merrill, who maybe
he said, A, he's really eyeballing the poop costume. Seemed
like he thought that that might be one that would
be interesting to be. I kind of swayed him away
from the giant condom one. I said that might be
able to risk a Chris maybe poop over that other.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
He's still out there looking. That's why he's not here.
He's trying to find the most offensive costume to don
all week and definitely on Friday. So your suggestions have
been a lot of fun, as well as your talkbacks,
your spookiest most supernatural tales. And I believe Ali, we
have another one there. Someone sent us something really spooky.
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Let me know when you're.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Ready, Jean.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
My husband passed away at home, and the dog jumped
on his chest and tried to wake him up, and
he didn't. But anyway, I went to the cemetery afterwards,
and my dog led me right to the gravesite and
he sat right there and wouldn't move. He saw rabbits
and birds and other little squirrels. But he didn't move,
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He just sat there.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
What a good boy, What a good boy. That's a
good boy, right there, that's a good boy.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Right Dogs animals period, but dogs are just so in
tune with us, so that's not surprising.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
It's heartwarming.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
I'm really sorry for your loss, all of you who've
shared stories of loss, I'm really sorry for that. The
supernatural element is really interesting, it's riveting, and thank you
for sharing. Keep them coming. Other people are sharing their
stories around the Southland, from the furthest reaches of La
County down into the furthest recesses of the South Bay,
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their stories in between and on all corners that are
super natural. These are so some of the spookiest tales
in Haunted Los Angeles County. Starting with this is our
deeper dive segment. By the way, Griffith parks Scale singing woman.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
What let's find out?
Speaker 2 (02:17):
About five years ago, while Coral Barrero was working at
the La Zoo, she suddenly heard a woman singing scales
outside of the zoo perimeter. It was a very eerie song,
a very strange song. The sound was haunting. Ali, can
I have some scary music, A nice scary instrumental at
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the don't you play Taylor Swift? That's not scary, Alie,
that's offensive. Something scary under me while I'm talking. So
she heard the sound that was haunting. She says, I
couldn't stop thinking about it throughout the weeks. When she
asked one of the keepers at the zoo that works
in that particular area, he said that he too has
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heard the woman singing. A few months later, the same
zookeeper told Barrero he too had hurt the woman now
singing scales. Oh that's good, Oli, And then he began
to see her in a yellow raincoat and when she
turns around to face the person, she doesn't have a face.
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That is the singing woman who sings scales. She's quite
talented at the La Zoo. So if you're the Griffith
Park Zoo on the La Zoo side there, so if
you see this woman and she's in a yellow raincoat
and she's singing, and she turns towards you and she
doesn't have a face, that's the woman, and you have
just been officially haunted. You ever been to the Roxy
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on Sunset famous club? I've been to the Roxy. That
was definitely a haunt, so to speak. Of mine in
my twenties.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
Well.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
David to been managed The Rock Sea on Sunset from
two thousand and three to two thousand and six. During
his time there, he says he's had quite a few
supernatural encounters, but none as creepy as the one that
took place on Sunday night in two thousand and three.
It was just David and one of his staff and
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they were alone in the club going over plans for
a new promotion. That's when the noises started. First, it
was a couple slamming doors from within the club that
Tobin and his coworker tried to brush off, but then
the banging sound started, he says, So we started to
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freak out. We couldn't move. We're in the corner booth,
and all of a sudden we heard feet banging on
the steps halfway up the stairs and stopped. At that point,
we grabbed the stuff and ran out the back door,
freaked out of our mind because there was no one
in the building.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
There was only us.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
David Tobin discribed ribes it as a quote pretty amazing experience. Now,
the Roxy has seen many legends come through their upstairs
and down on the stage as well, so Jake Tobin says,
or David Tobin says, it made sense that there was
someone there. I just didn't stay around to find out
who it was.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Sounds like you, Ollie.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Then there's the San Pedro warehouse, so now we're taking
a trip down into the South Bay. The hooded figure
in this San Pedro warehouse. Redondo resident Latisia Castillo used
to handle HR and administrative duties at a fifty six
thousand square foot warehouse in San Pedro. Some coworkers complained
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of an eerie energy in the warehouse, but she didn't
put much stock in those complaints.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
First mistake.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Even when I feel like it's really loud, Ali, it's like, fuck,
I'm competing.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
There we go.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Even when a forklift operator quit on this spot thanks
after supposedly having seen a ghost, she Latissia Castillo remains,
he gets out of his forklift, comes running to me
with this pale face and tells me, I'm not staying here.
There's ghosts here. Someone just hit my forklift, but no
one's here. I'm leaving. The TCA could do nothing to
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convince the operator to stay and didn't think much of
the incident until a few weeks later, there was an
accident with another operator. As is customary, they wrote up
an incident report and took photos of the spot in
the warehouse where the accident took place. The TCA says,
so when we took the pictures, we noticed the shadow
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on a picture that kind of reminded me of either
a priest or like something weird that had this hood
at cape on and it was really eerie. Then there's
West Covina, the Ghosts of keg Canyon. When West Covina
account and Barry Reemer was living in unincorporated La County's
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tiny community of kig Canyon, some odd things started happening
in his home, said Keegel Canyon. That's the really bad one,
all right. They culminated one quiet night when Barry tried
to sleep, he woke to the sound of his front
door knobs shaking back and forth, as if someone was
trying to get in. Barry Reamer, gathered his courage, walked
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over to the living room and yelled, someone lives here.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Go away.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
He figured it was a squatter who assumed the house
was empty and abandoned. And because this is La and
although that experience was unnerving, he went back to sleep.
That's when things got weirder. All of a sudden, I
hear this sound. It sounded like children or high pitched cackling.
They were inside. I look over and I see a
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transparency of ten twelve ghosts. These apparitions you could see
right through them, and they were just kind of floating.
The apparitions took off upstairs when Barry Reamer confronted them,
and they left behind the smell of burnt matches. After
that incident, Barry Reamer packed up his things and moved out,
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but to this day he recalls very clearly the burning
smell the ghosts left behind. When we continue our deeper
dive segment, we're going to learn about the voice at
six six six Union. That's already an ominous address, a
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whrror in Korea Town. It doesn't have to do with parking,
something called dancing Joe hmm. And this is somewhere around
Long Beach. And I hope to be able to get
more of your spooky stories using our talkback feature on
the iHeart app. Let us know of your supernatural experiences,
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your ghost tales, your tales of or will play them
as long as they're true. And this is your platform
to share just before we get to Halloween, your scariest, spookiest,
most supernatural experiences right here on KFI AM six forty
Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Tiffany Hobbs filling in
from MARYL till seven.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Tiffany Hobbs filling in for Meryl. He's still on this
journey to find the most offensive Halloween costume. I said, Chris,
I don't think that's a good idea, but I feel like,
you know, you're making yourself vulnerable to getting canceled. And
He's like, I can do it. You know they'll understand it.
They get me, they get me. And I was like,
all right, So I've been looking at lists of strange
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costumes that are interesting. They're funny, placement of meatballs and
places they shouldn't be, and middle finger costumes and all
sorts of things. If you want a costume, first, there's
a poor, a potty adult costume. There's an oversized costume
for men where you can be a bra because that's
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where we're at now in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
You can be beer, you can be a breathalyzer. There
you go. You'll be the life of the party.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
If you're that, you can also be a toilet, complete
with like all the details that look like a toilet,
and you have to hope that someone doesn't mistake you
for an actual one once the drinks get flowing. At
any rate, have fun out there, Chris. I'm here till seven.
Maybe Chris will hit the talk back and let us
know about his scary stories. You've certainly been doing, so
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keep it coming. Keep those stories coming, supernatural ghost stories,
whatever they are. Let us know what you've experienced. You
have about thirty seconds to do so I'm gonna jump
back in to this list by LAist dot com of
Haunted la people from southern California sharing their spookiest tales.
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Oh that's good, here we go. The voice at six
six six Union. That's already ominous, right. Frank Ayala used
to work a job at an address that had the
numbers six six six in it. He would start at midnight,
and the lighting at the building was practically nonexistent. To
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mitigate this, he'd have to wear a headlamp to do
his work on the day of the incident. The incident
in question. Frank arrived punctually at midnight. It was just
him and another worker who had arrived earlier and was
on the other side of the building. As Frank set
up his tractor to begin his routine, his phone rang.
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It was his daughter, who would call him two to
three times a week around midnight while she was getting
off of work. He continued to do his work while
they chatted, when suddenly Frank heard the voice of a
man clearing his throat. Dad, his daughter said on the phone,
is someone there with you? I'll call you back, Frank said.
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When Frank turned around toward the sound of the voice,
his head light shined on no one. Frank turned back
to do his work kind of brushed it off, and
he heard it again, only this time even louder. He
gathered his courage, turned around again and said, I came
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here to do a job. I don't bother anyone, and
I don't want to be bothered from the dark. He
heard a long, low chuckle. Frank returned to his work
and never encountered the voice again. Or in Koreatown. This
doesn't have to do with parking, which would be terrifying
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enough if you know Korea Town, but in this case.
A little more than twenty years ago, a man named
Mark Roder was living in an apartment in Koreatown. Everything
was fine until it wasn't. First, it started with some
creepy ghost activity at the foot of his bed. He
woke to his dog staring intently at the corner near
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his bed. He says, I looked there, and the corner
of the bed is pressed down, as if somebody is
sitting there, But there was no one there, and I'm
looking at this, and the corner of the bed just
rises as if whoever was sitting there got up and
walked away. That one night, while Mark was washing the
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dishes completely home alone, suddenly he felt as if someone
pushed him. The last straw came a couple weeks later,
when Mark and his wife were going to see a movie.
They were halfway out the building when Mark realized he'd
forgotten something in the apartment. He says, I run up
to go get it, and as soon as I walked
through the door to the apartment, I just felt some
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kind of negative presence. And all I can understand from
this presence is that I'm not supposed to be there.
A couple days later, Mark and his wife began looking
for another place to live. He says, we're packing up
to move and the next door neighbor says.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Oh, you guys are moving. That's too bad.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
DIDs something weird happen? And I said, what are you
talking about? The neighbor says, oh, the guy who lived
there before you. He killed himself in the apartment. We
found him dead in the bathtub. He'd been in there
for about three weeks. Dontantan dancing, Joe. This will be
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our final spooky tale of the evening. Not all ghosts
are bad. We're not all malevolent. Some are just a
little silly, little mischievous.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
Well.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Julie Greenberg currently lives in Long Beach, but this story
takes place about twenty years ago, when she's worked the
door at a rock club. The building was a residential
home decades before it became a club, but remnants of
its past life remained.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Specifically, Joe.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Joe was a man believed to have lived at the
rock club when it was a residential building. Not much
is known about Joe, though the story went that he
fought in World War Two. Once the building was turned
into the club, Julie would often catch glimpses of Joe.
She says, I saw Joe several times at the club.
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His image never frightened me. When I would see his
image moving in front of the stage for more than
thirty seconds, that was my way of knowing he liked
the band. Now it's been years since Julie worked at
the club, but she says she still drives by that corner,
and although the building doesn't look like a house anymore,
she hopes Joe is still dancing. Those are are our
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spooky tales from all across southern California. When we come back,
we're going to look at a few rare, maybe irrational,
and certainly pecul Your phobias you've likely never heard of.
You know, there's a fear of peanut butter sticking to
the roof of your mouth, or even a fear of
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being without your cell phone that's specific to teenagers. There's
even a fear of opening one's eyes, especially with what's
going on in the world, I imagine. But we'll get
into more of those fears and phobias on the other
side of the brake. Tifney Hobbs filling in from maryl
till seven and then doctor Wendy will be here with
her wonderful show as always.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Tiffany Hobbs here and we are going to get into
something that I'm fascinated by. And the list, I think
what fascinates me most is at the seems to be
ever evolving and ever expanding. And I don't know what
the criteria is for this thing to become classified as
a phobia or for the thing to be classified as
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a phobia, the fear. But again, that list seems to
be very fluid, like it just keeps going. And here
are twenty one rare, maybe even irrational, judgy, judge and
certainly different phobias that you and I've likely never heard
of until today. Now, phobias are fears and we often
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know of like the ones that are based around pop
culture a rack nophobia, fear of spiders, whole movie was
made from it, terrified me as a kid, Love it now,
But fear of spiders, a rack noophobia, fear of heights, acrophobia.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
There are lots of phobias that you might know.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
But what about the fear of peanut butter sticking to
the roof of your mouth. There is such a thing,
the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of
your mouth. And bear with me, I'm going to try
to pronounce it a raki butter a phobia. A raka
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butter with phobia is the fear of peanut butter sticking
to the roof of your mouth, and the severity varies
from person to person. But some people with this condition
may be able to eat small amounts of peanut butter,
but others will avoid peanut butter or anything with a
similar consistency all together. Then there's nama phobia. Nama phobia
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is the fear of being without your cell phone. People
who experience nama phobia often also experience excessive anxiety about
not having their phone with them, their battery being low
or dying, or their phone losing service, and people will
panic and experience extreme symptoms of anxiety. Often stems from
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having a cell phone addiction. So if you don't have
your phone, then you have nomophobia. Then there's a rhythmaphobia,
fear of numbers. I think I had this in eleventh
grade algebra two. Fear of numbers a rhythmophobia. These are
people who grew up dreading math class cheers to that,
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but people with a rhythmophobia also have a genuine fear
of numbers, and they often experience anxiety associated with doing
math or dealing with numbers in general, versus a fear
of actually seeing number symbol. So it's manipulating numbers in
some way, either through math or whatever any other occasion
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might be. And it can be a major impairment in
someone's life, affecting their jobs, affecting how they handle money.
That's a rhythma phobia, fear of numbers. Now, on the
flip side of that, let's say you're making a whole
bunch of money and that's scared that terrifies you. Fear
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of money is called plutophobia, plutophobia. Do you have that, Kayla? Plutophobia?
H no, oh, fear of money.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Actually, if you attract what you're scared of, I hear,
then yes, I have a.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Huge fear of money. A little reverse psychology there you go.
I know most people, of course, probably most of us
listening and here in the studio probably wish we had
more money. We work in radio, right, But plutophobia is
a fear of money or wealth, and people with this
fear legitimately fear anything associated with wealth, even wealthy people
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or becoming wealthy themselves. They generally dread money and having
to deal with it, even leading to the sabotaging of careers.
My favorite color is green. What's your favorite color, Kayla?
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Blue?
Speaker 2 (21:05):
I like a mixture of the two, in fact turquoise.
But did you know that you can actually have a
legitimate phobia of colors, and specifically, the fear of the
color yellow is xanta phobia.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
How do you even avoid the color yellow? It's everywhere nature?
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Well, people with this rare phobia are usually also afraid
of any.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Object that's yellow, such as school buses.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
I don't mean them, they are terrifying, don't mean a
Have you ever driven next to one?
Speaker 3 (21:35):
There's scaries.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
I might get into the banana aisle and they're like,
oh god, no, school buses, flowers, bananas, yellow crayons.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
The sun, the sun, all those four fellows. So have
you got that phobia? Talk back to us, what happens
to you?
Speaker 2 (21:56):
They may even find yellow foods to be distressing, the
corn them. They're like, oh god, oh, this phobia tends
to interfere with everyday life. You think as yellow things
can be found everywhere. Then there's a fear of bathing,
A fear of bathing, a bluetophobia that just sounds bad.
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A bluphobia, yes, is the fear of bathing, washing, or
cleaning oneself, and it often occurs in children and can
resolve itself with age.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
You've been around little kids.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
They're very water adverse outside of pools or like playing
in water. But when it's baftime, oh no, now they
fight like cats. Like they become very limber and strong
all of a sudden. But it usually resolves itself with age,
although it can be present in adults. People with a
bluetophobia so harsh a bluetophobia avoid bathing and showering, which
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can the words are hard also lead to all sorts
of high gene issues and sometimes social isolation. However, their
fear of bathing and the anxiety they experience while bathing
can become so extreme that their consequences are significant. It
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can result from traumatic events involving water or a fear
of getting wet, and in some cases can be related
to aquaphobia, which is the fear of water, fear of
the number eight They go aisle one, two, three, four, five,
sixty seven nine, one, two, three, four, five, six seven nine. Nope,
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not doing it. Octophobia. Octophobia is the fear of the
number eight. There are few other known phobias related to
specific numbers. There is the fear of numbers themselves. That's
a rhythmophobia. We talked about that. And there's the fear
of the number thirteen, which is often related to something supernatural.
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You know, there's no thirteenth floor on this in this hotel,
or in the elevator, whatever it may be. But people
with octaphobia fear the symbol eight as it appears written down,
such as in addresses or advertisements. They can also fear
objects presenting in groups of eight. Now they say that
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this rare phobia may come from its resemblance to the
infinity sign. It also can stem from traumatic events involving
the number eight, such as an accident that happened on
the eighth of the month or the eighth month, or
whatever it may be. Octophobia the fear of the number eight.
Optophobia the fear of opening one's eyes. We're talking about
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rare phobias and fears. Optophobia is the fear of opening
one's eyes.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
That's I think that's all that needs to be said.
With that one.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
There's a fear of of balloons. That's glob of phobia,
fear of long words. Know what what this phobia is called?
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Fear of law.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Here we go, Hippopota monstrosis equipped aliophobia.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
They can't say what they have. Fear of long words.
That's just how as a doctor diagnosed the person, you
say the word.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
I think if they try to say this and they
scream and like fall down and just distress, they're like, yeah,
you got that, of which many people would have if
they looked at this word, this word that the actual
phobia is like, can't count it quickly, but it's at
least twenty five letters.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
This is crazy.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Hippopota monstrosis equipped aliophobia. I'm sure somebody will have the
talk back and say, you're not pronouncing that right, Well,
let us know how it's pronounced. There's also the fear
of adolescence fa bi phobia. You fear youth, You fear
kids youth, fear of belly buttons, that's omphalophobia, fear of string,
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linona phobia, fear of hair, chay to phobia, fear of beards,
paga phobia. Don't like beards, they're they're for some people,
they're terrifying, for others, they're lovely. Vesta phobia, fear of clothing,
ergo phobia, fear of work. Have that often decide a phobia,
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fear of making decisions. S so trophobia, fear of mirrors, depthnaphobia,
fear of dining with others, phoba phobia, fear of phobias
come on, and then that's our last one, phoba phobia,
fear of phobias.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
So these these.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Are there, and this is just a list of the
twenty one most rare, irrational and strange phobias you've likely
not heard of. All Right, when we come back, we're
not going to talk about the number yellow or the
number or the excuse me, the color yellow or the
number eight, lest we scare some of our listeners.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
But we are going to.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Get into what is genuinely, genuinely scaring educators teachers around
the country, and it has to do with the ability
or inability of their students. And students are melting down
when asked to do this one simple task.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
I'll tell you what it is.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
On the other side of the break, I am six
forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app Tifney Hobbs here
till seven filling in for Meryl.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Tiffany Hobbs here, and we are going to jump into
our newest segment, which is not really it's not really
a new segment, but it's a segment that I'm pulling
from where it used to be, which was at a
different point, And it's the Viral Load where we chronicle
some of the stories that are going viral on social media.
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And these stories have been shared by hundreds of thousands,
even millions of people to the tune of us knowing
about what's happening because they're popular. And this story is
a story that fits right in with the Halloween theme
and spooky theme of today.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
By the way, keep your talkbacks coming.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
If you have a spooky tale, a supernatural tale of
which we've had quite a few submissions and played them
on air, you can get on air.
Speaker 5 (28:21):
Guys.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Let us know.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
We want to know your spookiest, scariest, most supernatural stories
in thirty seconds or less, of course, and again we'll
get them on air. Can't wait to hear what you're
cooking up that is our question of the evening, and
later on we will definitely get to the there's no
business life Go.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Business segment first.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Sure, so stay tuned for that, but right now, a
high school teacher went viral this week to the tune
of tens of millions of view shares and comments showing
his students horrified reaction to a simple instruction to write
a paragraph. Let's hear what the teacher, Eli Carbuluto had
(29:09):
to say and how his students reacted in.
Speaker 5 (29:13):
A paragraph, Oh, my gosh, in a paragraph? Well, you
know what complete senses? Yeah, exploit five sentences, five sentences. Yeah,
you have to do five complete sentences. Could you imagine
that having to write five complete sentences? Okay, that's a
(29:38):
test on its own, five complete sentences.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
The horror, that's a test on its own, one of
the students says, and carbo Luto has to has to
repeat it. That's a test on its own, five sentences.
This is a terrifying story, if ever there was one.
So in the video posted this previous Wednesday, high school
teacher and coach Eli Carbillito demonstrated how dire the situation
(30:06):
is in American schools. It's the sophomores in his class
are reacting to him asking them to write five complete sentences.
The footage, which you can see online and we heard
the audio from, shows mister Carballito sitting at his desk
as he begins to relay instructions for the simple writing exercise.
(30:31):
He goes on to say in a paragraph, and the
students interject and go, oh, my gosh, you heard them,
Oh oh, this waffling, and then Carballito, mister Carballito tries
to explain what a paragraph actually means. He's like, you
know what a complete sentence is, Just write five of
those things. And at this demand, as you heard there,
(30:55):
his class erupts in outrage. Oh no, oh, five centenzens.
Another many of them are again saying five sentences. One says,
that's like a test on its own. Now, mister Carballrito
is himself new to teaching. He's only twenty three, and
(31:16):
he's kind of green. You're kind of green, fresh out
of college, fresh out of you know, your whatever program
you've been in. And mister Carballrito, twenty three, bless his heart,
might not yet realize just how bad things have become
in the public school system in the United states. At
the end of the previous school year, one teacher went
(31:39):
to TikTok and said she quit because her sophomore class
could not read. It pushed her to actually quit. Now,
this teacher went on to say, quote technology is ruining education.
She says, it's directly contributing to the literacy decrease that
(31:59):
we're seeing now. For those of us who are north
of anything in the teens, anything in the twenties, thirties, forties,
you likely can remember a time when this was the norm,
not necessarily the reaction, but the request, the requirement, the
ability to construct a complete paragraph with five sentences. Some
(32:22):
of you might even be saying only five. I remember
when it was five to seven. I'm of that ilk
it's now three to five, and I believe that things
have been lowered to respond to this sort of arguing
against simplistic writing exercises. The Nation's report Card, which compiles
(32:43):
an assessment of educational progress, return disappointing results for the
year twenty twenty four. They found the Nation's report Card
this organization that reading scores for high school seniors fell
to their lowest since nineteen nine two. Now these scores
decline significantly for grades four and eight as well, but
(33:08):
high school seniors are seeing a sharp decline in the
ability to read Dean Martin excuse me, Martin, West Harvard
Graduate School of Education. Dean also suspects that the culprit
is modern technology. He says, I don't think we have
smoking gun evidence that the rise of screen based childhood
(33:31):
is a direct contributor to the literacy trends that we're seeing,
But I'm willing to put it very high on my
list of potential suspects. What is the fear of writing
a paragraph or the phobia of writing or constructing a
complete paragraph? Paragraph of phobia That probably will be added
to the list very shortly as more and more US
(33:54):
students are unable or unwilling to construct simple paragraphs.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
How the mighty have fallen?
Speaker 2 (34:02):
When we come back, we're going to get into our
scammers gonna scam segment. What the heck is ghost tapping?
Is it you poking an apparition or a ghost? No,
but I will tell you what it is on the
other side.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
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