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items only. So

1:02

we're looking at our tour schedule and

1:04

the idea because we love to travel

1:06

the idea is we're going to try

1:09

to either come in a day or

1:11

two early To the cities that we're

1:13

touring through or stay a day or

1:16

two after depending upon the booking schedule

1:18

Yeah, and there will be some that

1:20

it will be kind of tight But

1:22

there are some places where we are

1:24

definitely going to be for a few

1:26

days so we're hoping that you might

1:28

assist us in making out to our

1:30

itinerary, because you know how I like

1:32

to plan things. Well, especially when

1:34

it comes to food. Haha. Yeah,

1:38

I definitely, as soon as we booked Atlanta,

1:41

I was like, I bet there's a Tupelo

1:43

Honey in Atlanta, and you know what, there

1:45

is. Yeah, she's building our

1:48

entire tour around certain restaurant

1:50

chains. And frankly, can't

1:52

blame her on that one. Also,

1:56

somebody reached out to

1:58

us from a curiosity

2:00

and oddities museum that's a listener

2:02

and has been for a long

2:04

time, suggesting we go and visit

2:06

there. If you have any suggestions

2:09

like that, let us know. Just

2:11

send them to us curator at

2:13

theboxofodities.com, whether it's Seattle, because we're

2:15

going to be there for a

2:17

couple of days prior to the

2:19

show. Portland, we're thinking about staying

2:21

over for a day or two. Atlanta

2:24

will be coming in early and Philadelphia

2:26

will probably be staying late. I

2:29

do want to get back to the Motor Museum

2:31

now. Absolutely. And

2:33

keep in mind that our interests

2:35

are varied. It's not like it

2:37

has to be just an oddity

2:39

shop or just a tubelo honey.

2:43

You know, a lot of things are

2:46

interesting to us. So if you want

2:48

to give us a shout, we would

2:50

very much appreciate it. Yeah. Curator at

2:52

theboxofodities.com. But I should mention

2:54

this, if you don't mind me taking

2:56

just another moment of your time. Thank

2:59

you. Good day. I

3:01

just discovered that

3:03

I have approximately

3:05

400 unread private

3:07

messages on Facebook.

3:10

And I just want to once again

3:12

remind you that we have so many

3:14

ways to reach out and we love

3:16

communicating with you, but I do not

3:18

check my message requests on Facebook. Don't

3:21

send me a private message. I will

3:23

never get it. Yeah, she just gets

3:25

hammered with that stuff. Speaking of which,

3:27

yes, we got a message from Katie

3:29

on Instagram. Hi, cat.

3:31

I'm sure you get about five

3:34

bajillion DMs, but I've never seen

3:36

an Instagram account more up booze

3:38

alley. This is such an interesting

3:40

account. I just wanted to

3:42

share if anything, maybe it'll give you

3:44

all a laugh. I hope you and

3:46

JJ have a wonderful day or night,

3:49

depending on when you hopefully see this.

3:51

Katie, a big fan of Boo from

3:53

Northwest Georgia. And

3:55

the, the account is

3:57

depths of Wikipedia on

4:00

Instagram. And I am

4:03

now obsessed. It's

4:05

so fun. Thank you so much for

4:07

the recommendation. I'll bet there's

4:09

some pretty interesting stuff there. And Katie,

4:12

we hope to see you at the

4:14

Atlanta show. That would be great. Kat

4:16

and Jethro, I was binge listening your

4:18

show while cleaning my garage. Bad

4:20

idea. And in one

4:23

episode, Jethro made an offhand

4:25

comment about finding, quote, a

4:28

severed doll head just staring at

4:30

you. Five minutes later,

4:32

I move a box. Out rolled

4:34

a plastic doll head. Just

4:37

the head, nobody, no

4:40

memory of ever owning such a thing.

4:43

Long story short, I'm moving to

4:45

another garage. Thanks, I guess. Big

4:48

love, Chris. That just

4:50

for some reason reminded me of the

4:52

day that I walked out of our front

4:55

door when we lived in Maine. And

4:57

there was a small plastic

4:59

wishbone on our front step.

5:03

It's like, okay. Some kind

5:05

of a voodoo thing. This is

5:07

weird. Yeah, like a little plastic

5:09

wishbone, like would come from the

5:12

game operation or something, but yeah,

5:14

that was really weird. But did

5:16

we own operation? No. No. I

5:19

haven't played operation since I kicked Bo

5:21

Bridge's ass. I don't know anybody else

5:23

who can say shit like that. Yeah,

5:27

I beat him badly in a game of

5:29

operation. I told that story

5:31

on TikTok, I think. Yeah. David

5:34

wrote us, I'm listening to the Space

5:36

Cult and Arachnid Queen episode. And I'm

5:38

not even through JJ's story, but I

5:41

wanted to share a book recommendation. I'm

5:44

only a little way into this book, but

5:46

so far it's great. The author ties a

5:48

lot of the American cult culture back to

5:51

the Puritans. It's very cool and kind of

5:53

scary. Cults Like Us by

5:55

Jane Borden. Anyhow, thanks as

5:57

always for being you two, and

6:00

there's a link attached with the

6:02

book. Well, I'll be checking that

6:04

out. Thanks. Thanks, David. It looks

6:06

great. Hey, Cat and J .G.,

6:08

just a quick story for you.

6:10

Yesterday was Admin Assistant Day, and

6:12

none of us at my office

6:14

heard anything from any of our

6:16

bosses. But today we

6:18

got a belated surprise. Sometimes the

6:20

people we work for have packages

6:22

sent to their assistants instead of

6:25

their homes. But today's

6:27

package was quite a surprise. This

6:30

boss had their sister -in

6:32

-law's cremains shipped to his

6:34

assistant. His sister

6:36

is now currently hanging out in our

6:38

shared cubicle next to the coffee maker

6:40

as Jesus intended. We've all left a

6:42

food donation next to her as a

6:44

sign of goodwill. Nice. And a bribe

6:46

in hopes that she doesn't haunt us

6:48

for having a hearty laugh at the

6:50

situation. Enclosed is

6:52

a picture for your eyes only. Oh

6:55

my god. I think it's a little

6:57

rude to share publicly. Yes, yeah, we

6:59

won't share that. But thank you very

7:01

much Meg. Kylie sent us

7:03

a message. Hey y 'all, I just

7:05

listened to Kat's segment on Dutch badass

7:08

Peter Freuken. And I have a quick

7:10

question. You mentioned he escaped from the

7:12

Nazis, but you didn't go into detail

7:14

about how. Now, regardless of whether you

7:16

know how he escaped, I'm wondering what

7:19

you're picturing here. This is

7:21

a man who wears a polar bear as a

7:23

coat, and the coat fits. He's

7:25

a big motherfucker. I can't picture

7:27

him sneaking away from a Nazi prison.

7:29

I can picture him putting his coat

7:31

on, getting on all fours and pretending

7:33

to be a polar bear in order

7:35

to scare the guards away. Or

7:37

maybe he just walked up and said, I'm

7:40

leaving now. Just

7:42

let him through. I'm

7:44

dying to hear how you think he

7:46

escaped. P .S., my phone wants to

7:48

autocorrect Freudkin to French engineering. Conspiracy?

7:51

Uh -huh. Yes, it is. It's

7:54

funny you mention picturing him

7:57

putting on his polar bear

7:59

coat. I imagine him just...

8:01

his shirt off entirely with

8:04

his chest muscles glistening as

8:06

he slowly walks into the

8:09

barbed wire fence and it

8:11

stretches and stretches. He doesn't

8:13

even grimace and the barbed

8:16

wire just gives way snapping

8:18

like fish line and he

8:21

doesn't even slow down. There

8:23

aren't even any marks on

8:25

his chest. He just keeps

8:28

trudging through the field. until

8:30

he gets to the forest

8:33

line. And at that point,

8:35

he puts his shirt back on and

8:37

goes back for his coat. Certainly very

8:40

warm in here. But

8:42

that's just me. Sure. Carrie

8:47

and I got into a

8:49

back -and -forth on Facebook

8:51

and she said, I have

8:53

only one boo effect. You

8:55

were talking about Coca -Cola

8:57

from Mexico or... Anyway,

9:01

apparently they don't sell Mexican cock.

9:03

On my way home, I stopped

9:06

at my tiny shop in my

9:08

village and guess what? They just

9:10

started selling Mexican Coca -Cola. It

9:12

tastes really good, but really expensive.

9:15

Two pounds, 99 cents, or $398

9:17

in dollars. I had to buy

9:19

it to close the circle. I

9:23

have another short story where I made an

9:25

old lady think I was some kind of

9:27

psychopath that she invited into her home. I

9:29

was hanging up curtains for her, and like

9:31

so many times, I was listening to your

9:33

podcast on my phone. When this

9:35

lovely old lady came into the room to see

9:37

her pride and joy, her new

9:39

lovely curtains, at the moment

9:41

you were describing in detail

9:43

something horrible about dismantling a

9:45

body. I didn't realize that

9:47

the old woman was standing behind me trying

9:49

to admire her new curtains and learning the

9:51

best way to get rid of a dead

9:54

person. Thanks,

9:56

Gary. Sorry about

9:59

that. We don't condone

10:01

dismembering bodies. We're

10:03

not encouraging anybody to do that.

10:06

But I can see where the

10:08

misunderstanding might come in if somebody

10:10

pops in mid... if it's out

10:13

of context. Hey

10:15

cat and Jethro long -time listener

10:17

here I have a Roomba that

10:19

for some reason I can't explain

10:22

starts vacuuming at 3 .07 in

10:24

the morning at least it has

10:26

for the last few nights even

10:28

though it's set to manual mode

10:31

only Last week it vacuumed a

10:33

perfect circle around my bed No

10:35

other part of the room just

10:37

a circle around my bed I

10:40

didn't know robots could practice witchcraft.

10:42

That's exactly what I pictured. Holy

10:45

shit. If I disappear, tell the

10:47

authorities the Roomba did it. Cheers,

10:51

Max. Reminds me of that meme that

10:53

was out for a while where somebody

10:55

had a carpet that was printed to

10:57

look like a Ouija board, and

11:00

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14:26

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14:29

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14:31

thinking like it was just too

14:33

mean made me laugh. That's when

14:35

we both had decided we hated

14:37

the smell of black ice car

14:40

fresheners. It

14:42

was a game of one upsmanship to

14:44

the point where I think there were

14:46

about 15 or 20 of them taped

14:49

to the ceiling of my car. You

14:52

actually, I was getting my

14:54

oil change. You actually went

14:56

to the dealership with your

14:58

own key and they assisted

15:00

you. Can't believe that. Guten

15:02

prank. Guten prank indeed. Anyway,

15:05

she said it made me laugh. It

15:07

actually made me think of why don't

15:09

my husband and I do that, LOL.

15:12

The current episode I'm listening to, Jethro's

15:14

talking about the Winchester house. And I

15:16

just had to email you to a

15:19

little story. I've been waiting

15:21

for you guys to cover the topic that

15:23

would apply to my life in some way

15:25

so I could share with you. Now

15:27

hold on to your seats because this

15:29

is gonna blow your minds. I'm ready.

15:31

Back when I was an early teenager,

15:34

say 13 or 14, my

15:36

mother told me that for years she

15:38

had a dream about the Winchester house.

15:41

Well, more or less a nightmare.

15:44

She always told me that it

15:46

never was a good dream. She

15:48

always dreamed of a house that

15:50

had staircases leading to nowhere, windows

15:52

that opened to a wall, and

15:54

just rooms that didn't make any

15:57

sense at all. At the time,

15:59

neither one of us knew about

16:01

the actual famous house. However,

16:03

one day, when we were just

16:05

sitting around watching TV, my mom

16:07

happened to see that there was

16:09

on the screen this big mansion

16:12

like the house that she'd been

16:14

dreaming about for almost a decade.

16:16

She never had that dream again after

16:18

seeing it on TV. Later

16:21

years, she told me that she always

16:23

felt like she was being told something

16:25

in the dream but could never figure

16:27

it out, but it was something scary.

16:30

Fun fact, I'm third generation medium.

16:33

That's right, as far as I know,

16:35

I'm the third. My mother, my sister,

16:37

and myself are all mediums. I feel

16:40

like my mother and I are a

16:42

special kind of medium, in the sense

16:44

that sometimes we have very vivid dreams

16:47

that are actually our mental psyche. being

16:49

shown something in our sleep. That's very

16:52

interesting. With that said, love your podcast,

16:54

keep up the good work, look forward

16:56

to what's coming up next. Lisa,

16:59

well, that's fascinating, Lisa. Love to hear

17:01

some more of your medium stories. I

17:06

have an idea for you. You talked about

17:09

medical coding briefly today when you were reading

17:11

someone's letter. And I remembered an article I

17:13

saw years ago that had its tears streaming

17:15

down my face as I laughed. Here's the

17:18

article, if not the same one, a similar

17:20

one. And it is strange. ICD

17:23

-10 codes, which we have talked about

17:25

a couple of times, but they're never

17:27

not great. And there are so many

17:29

that are so weird. Read

17:31

some, please. bitten by a

17:33

pig. That's a

17:36

W55 .41XA. R15

17:39

.2 is a fecal

17:41

urgency. Wow.

17:44

I had one of those on

17:46

the airplane recently. Y92

17:48

.241. Hurt at

17:51

the library. Oh,

17:55

God. It says hurt,

17:57

but not necessarily injured. So maybe

17:59

it was just, you know. They

18:01

read an emotion. decided to read

18:03

to kill a mockingbird again. Yeah,

18:05

just emotionally scarring. W61

18:08

.62xd struck by

18:11

a dock. Wow.

18:14

These are very specific. Laura goes

18:16

on to say, I am sure

18:18

that there are so many of

18:20

these, but there's so many questions

18:22

raised here. For example, struck by

18:24

a turtle question mark. Does that

18:26

mean that the turtle hauled off

18:28

and swatted you? Or perhaps more

18:30

disturbingly, someone chucked a turtle at

18:32

you? Or were you just moving

18:35

so slow that a turtle crashed

18:37

into you? I need answers. Yeah,

18:39

I do too. And

18:41

the fact that Apparently, that happens

18:43

enough that they had to create

18:46

a specific code for it. That's

18:48

hilarious. Hey, freak fam,

18:51

I adopted a one -eyed

18:53

Maine Coon cat last month.

18:55

Lucky you. She

18:57

growls at Alexa, sleeps

18:59

with a paw on a wooden Viking

19:02

shield I bought at a yard sale,

19:05

and only responds to the name

19:07

Bjorn, even though I named her

19:09

Clarice. Last

19:12

week, I was eating and she

19:14

dragged a turkey drumstick off my

19:17

plate while maintaining intense eye contact.

19:20

I think I've adopted a reincarnated

19:22

Norse warrior. Maine Coons are very

19:24

special and not for the faint

19:27

of heart. That's true. There's a

19:29

lot of wild in them. This

19:32

is from Erin, who goes on to

19:35

say, should I buy her a longship?

19:37

Yes, always. You

19:40

can never go wrong with a

19:42

longship. And it's interesting that it's

19:44

a Maine Coon cat because in

19:47

the 70s, You remember the archaeological

19:49

discovery of Viking coins in Maine,

19:51

which was the first indication, or

19:54

first proof anyway, that Vikings had

19:56

landed on the coast of Maine.

19:59

All right, that was kind of

20:01

a stretch of a connection, but

20:03

sure, yeah. Well, Maine Coon Cat,

20:05

and it's a reincarnated Norse warrior.

20:07

So there you go. There's your

20:09

connection. My mom has two Maine

20:11

Coon Cats, and one of them,

20:14

Bogey, is so aggressively

20:16

affectionate that it's not

20:19

even like, oh, this

20:21

is cute and enjoyable

20:23

for everyone because it

20:25

is not. He wraps

20:28

his arms around your arm so that

20:30

you can't let go and you have

20:32

to keep scratching him or he'll bite

20:34

you. Wow. Yeah. Nothing like feline affection.

20:36

He's very cute. Hi, Cat and Jethro.

20:38

Ginger writes, it was so awesome to

20:41

see you and talk to you all

20:43

the other day in the Freaks Zoom

20:45

call. I was in my pre -coffee

20:47

setting and not fully calibrated for the

20:49

day. So of course I forgot to

20:51

share an interesting dream from like a

20:53

month ago. This was our 5 a

20:56

.m. Zoom call from last month. which

20:58

you did not love. No, I'm still angry at

21:00

you. I'm sorry. Don't say, find

21:02

whatever you want if you don't mean

21:05

it. I say a lot of things

21:07

I don't mean. It's up to you

21:09

to sort them out. I had a

21:11

fine time. Anyway, ginger goes on. In

21:13

the dream, I was in a giant

21:15

warehouse where a thunderstorm cloud was hovering

21:17

above some very tall shelves near the

21:19

ceiling. Lots of thunder and

21:22

rain in just that smallish section of

21:24

the warehouse. I was with

21:26

two humans and another very differently

21:28

shaped character. She was very blocky

21:31

and geometric in shape and style,

21:33

and her coloration was almost prismatic

21:35

and shiny from what I remember.

21:38

I nicknamed her Lego Lady, and she

21:40

seemed to get a kick out of

21:42

it. We were holding an incredibly giant

21:44

vacuum hose, like at least two -ish

21:46

feet in diameter. It was so long

21:48

it took multiple people to hold on

21:50

to. The mouth of the hose was

21:52

even wider and it looked like a

21:54

rectangular register. We were holding

21:56

this vacuum with the sole purpose of

21:58

vacuuming the weather out of the warehouse.

22:01

While we were vacuuming, the Lego lady

22:03

got spooked by a lightning strike and

22:05

fell to pieces. So the rest of

22:07

us had to stop and help pick

22:09

up her pieces before any of the

22:12

parts got sucked into the vacuum. We

22:14

managed to put her back together, but

22:16

then I don't remember anything else since

22:18

I woke up. I had this dream

22:20

exactly two weeks before the episode of

22:22

the machine elves say hi. Okay. Now

22:25

it all makes sense. And after

22:27

listening to that episode, it may be pause

22:29

and wonder, was the Lego

22:31

lady in the warehouse a machine elf?

22:33

Did I have an encounter with an entity

22:36

from another dimension? Did

22:38

I have bad tacos that probably expired two

22:40

weeks ago and caused a really bad trip?

22:42

There's no way of knowing. I thought y

22:44

'all would be intrigued by this. Thanks for

22:46

everything you do because your podcast is getting

22:48

me through some pretty big stuff at the

22:50

moment. Flying my freak flag

22:52

high and proudly helping the machine

22:54

elves vacuum weather of warehouses. Well

22:57

done. Love you, Ginger. Ginger.

22:59

Ginger. We love you. Incredible.

23:02

Ginger's been with us in the freak

23:05

family for a long, long time and

23:07

I'm sorry to hear you're going through

23:09

some difficult stuff. We're here for you

23:11

and so are the machine elves. I

23:13

don't trust them. Hi, Cat and Jethro.

23:15

So funny story. I was

23:18

listening to your episode about

23:20

spontaneous human combustion while cooking

23:22

dinner. Great vibes. Right as

23:24

Kat said, quote, and

23:26

then she just burst into flames, my

23:29

stove literally shot up a

23:31

huge fireball from grease splatter.

23:34

I'm fine. The kitchen is

23:37

mostly fine, but I'm choosing

23:39

to believe this was just

23:41

a coincidence and not foreshadowing.

23:43

Unless you start talking about

23:45

plagues next week, then I'm

23:47

worried. Thanks for all the

23:49

weirdness, Naomi. Be careful, Naomi.

23:51

Always keep a little fire

23:53

extinguisher near your stove. Kat

23:56

had one that had a

23:58

picture of Frankenstein on it.

24:00

Actually, it looked more like

24:02

Peter Boyle's interpretation of Frankenstein's

24:04

monster from young Frankenstein, and

24:06

it just said underneath, fire

24:09

bad. Kitchen safety is

24:11

important. I had that fire extinguisher for

24:14

years before I realized that they expire.

24:16

Here, I see Down the street,

24:18

there's a place where you can

24:20

recharge your fire extinguisher, which I

24:22

didn't know was a thing. I

24:24

didn't know that was a thing

24:26

either. At least not in the

24:28

U .S. I'm sure it is

24:30

a thing. I've just never seen

24:32

it. Laura writes, question. If armadillo

24:34

means little armored thing, does quesadilla

24:36

mean little cheesy thing? Crap,

24:39

now I want a little cheesy thing.

24:41

Who doesn't? Yeah. Hey, Kat,

24:43

JG, I was at

24:45

a... Oh no. I was

24:47

at a family visitation at a funeral

24:49

home. Very somber vibes.

24:53

And I was trying to discreetly

24:55

listen to boo to keep myself

24:57

composed. That was a bad idea.

25:00

Right as the funeral director was

25:02

giving a very serious talk, Kat

25:05

blurted out something about a haunted

25:07

toaster, and I snorted so loudly

25:10

I startled a priest. It

25:13

was both the worst and best

25:15

moment of my life. Thanks for

25:17

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26:14

Paz, Mexico. Hola, Cat,

26:16

y Jethro. Willy

26:18

is coming up on his second birthday.

26:21

We don't know the exact date, but

26:23

we have chosen El Cinco de Mayo,

26:25

the day when the Mexican army defeated

26:27

the French at the Batala de Puebla.

26:29

We have four dogs which the universe

26:32

has brought to us, but Willy is

26:34

the only one that likes to bite.

26:36

For him, it's fun. The

26:38

way he kisses me is touching the

26:41

tip of my nose with his nose,

26:43

and that is just so adorable. He

26:45

gets especially excited when we are opening

26:47

packages from Amazon. He puts his front

26:49

paws up on the table, leans in,

26:52

and I can hear him say telepathically,

26:54

what you got for me? Once

26:57

I received a pair of bedroom shoes, and

26:59

in less than a second, he had one

27:02

out the door with him. It sounds to

27:04

me a little bit like Sid, who when

27:06

Sid gets excited, we'll start taking shoes from

27:08

the pile in front of the door and

27:11

then piling them up in the living room.

27:13

Now there's a lot of words here that

27:15

I had to look up how to pronounce,

27:17

so bear with me on this, okay? That's

27:20

me talking. not Elena. I

27:23

am studying the Nahuatl Aztec

27:25

language, which is spoken by

27:27

some 2 million Mexicans. It's

27:30

somewhat like Greek or German

27:32

in that it breaks up

27:34

words and uses pieces to

27:36

create new, longer words, which

27:38

express the entire concept. For

27:41

example, the word Tlaue Skalpantuchli,

27:44

which refers to the planet

27:46

Venus and is composed of

27:48

the words Kalawili,

27:52

or light, Kayi,

27:54

or house, Pan, which means

27:56

in or above, and

27:59

Tutli, which means Lord.

28:01

The Waddle has only around 15 or

28:04

16 letters that lacks a B, a

28:06

D, an F, a G, an R,

28:08

and a V. It would

28:10

be interesting to learn about the

28:12

grammatical structure of the Qichwa, a

28:14

language spoken in Ecuador. It's actually

28:16

from Peru, and there is a

28:19

relationship between Quechua

28:21

and Parepecha and that's a language

28:23

that is spoken in the state

28:25

of Michoacan, Mexico and has no

28:28

relationship to Nahuatl. That's a really

28:30

cool thing to be studying and

28:33

it's important that these languages are

28:35

kept alive and passed along. Yeah.

28:37

Kichwa is prevalent here. It's

28:40

more of a like Andy's thing.

28:43

And so in the city, you

28:45

really only hear Spanish, but almost

28:47

everyone who speaks Kichwa also speaks

28:50

Spanish so that they can partake

28:52

in city business. Thanks, Elena. Muchas

28:55

gracias, amiga. Tiffany

28:57

sent us a message. Last Friday, I

29:00

had my first box of oddities effect.

29:02

I'm a high school teacher in Australia.

29:04

I just taught my year 10 class

29:07

about genes and how some people can

29:09

have an extra X or Y chromosome.

29:11

Oh, I thought she meant like, leave

29:13

eyes. Later that day,

29:16

I - The 511s are the

29:18

best. Later that day, I team

29:20

taught History Year 7 and they

29:22

are about to learn about Vikings.

29:25

Well, on my way back home,

29:28

I'm listening to episode 352, and

29:30

it's about the Viking who later

29:32

was discovered to have had an

29:35

extra X chromosome. Chromosomes, Vikings.

29:38

Wow. Vikings and chromosomes. How

29:40

about that? It's like a Maine

29:42

Coon cat. No, it's not

29:45

like that. Being reincarnated Norse warrior.

29:47

Nope. And they discovered Viking coins

29:49

in Maine. Same thing.

29:52

Hey, cat and JG. I'm

29:55

going through all your podcasts again. I

29:57

remember the story very well. I wanted

29:59

to write about the time at that

30:01

time, but didn't. When Jethro talked about

30:03

the clown graveyard, when the locomotive hit

30:05

the circus train, crushing it and killing

30:08

many people, my husband

30:10

is a locomotive engineer. Which by the

30:12

way, any train questions, I would be

30:14

happy to ask him for you. So

30:17

many train questions. Anyway,

30:19

when you talk about the train engineer

30:21

falling asleep, there's a reason for that.

30:24

The train companies, because there are

30:26

a few, are voted the worst

30:28

companies to work for. And it

30:30

was the worst back in the

30:32

day. They're on call 24

30:34

seven, no set days off. You could

30:36

work. every 10 hours and never get

30:38

a day off. Back then, it was

30:41

every six to eight hours they could

30:43

be back to work. It

30:45

should be illegal, but it isn't.

30:47

The railroad is an entirely separate

30:50

thing from the government. You could

30:52

also get called at any time.

30:54

So that's probably why he was

30:56

tired and fell asleep, and also

30:58

probably why he was free to

31:01

go without consequences. I'm not excusing

31:03

it. but I wanted

31:05

to explain probably what had

31:07

happened in its unfortunate love

31:09

Beth. That's fascinating insight. Thanks,

31:11

Beth. Let's wrap

31:13

with this one. Kat and

31:16

Jethro about six months ago,

31:18

every night around one o

31:20

'clock, I would hear three

31:22

knocks on my bedroom wall,

31:24

always three. No one was

31:26

outside, not plumbing, no rational

31:28

explanation. Then one night, instead

31:31

of knocking, Whatever it was,

31:33

just whispered, knock, knock. No.

31:35

And I screamed so loud,

31:37

my neighbor called the cops.

31:40

The haunting stopped after that. Apparently

31:42

even demons hate dad jokes. Who's

31:45

there? Keep

31:47

being amazing, Dylan. Thanks,

31:49

Dylan. Yeah, I don't want

31:51

to be part of whispering at one

31:54

o 'clock in the morning. I don't

31:56

like that at all. No, no. It

31:58

reminds me of a... I just saw

32:00

the other day of a woman who

32:02

had been hearing things coming from her

32:05

attic for a while, and she didn't

32:07

dare to go up there, so she

32:09

just, like, taped her phone to a

32:11

stick and then stuck it up there.

32:13

And you could see, like, the outline

32:16

of an adult man in her attic.

32:18

my God! No!

32:23

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32:25

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32:27

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32:51

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32:54

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32:56

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32:58

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33:00

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