Ep. 32 Folklore Revisited: Tales from Reddit (Vol 1.)

In this episode of Kraken Cans Cast, we crack open four of our past topics and bring fresh chills with brand-new Reddit stories for each. We dive back into the eerie world of Ouija boards, Black Eyed Kids, Haunted Dolls, and Mimics, sharing spine-tingling tales submitted by real people. But that’s not all—after each story, we challenge ourselves with a fun and interactive question or scenario that puts our survival instincts (and questionable decision-making skills) to the test. Grab a beer, brace yourself for the unknown, and let’s get Kraken!

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Transcript

Mike | 00:46
What up, and welcome back to the Cracking Cans podcast. The podcast we talk all things cryptid, all things urban legends, and all things just a little bit...
Corey | 00:57
Spooky.
Mike | 00:58
I was going to throw it over to Cory, and he's just dying on I don't know. I don't know what happened. Spooky. Spooky. Choking on a beard hair or something.
Yeah. So today we have something a little bit different planned. We don't really have a topic to present per se. We're going to go back to some of our older topics and some of our favorite topics, and we found some good Reddit stories that line up with them. We're going to read some Reddit stories out.
Like my first topic will be Ouija. Your first is Black Kids.
Corey | 01:30
Eyed.
Mike | 01:32
So, and if you really like these Reddit stories and you haven't thought the original episode, it'd be a perfect time after this to go back and check those out. So what beer we got today, Cory?
Corey | 01:44
Ooh, we got a good one today. Well, it's... Do you I just get so excited when you say, what's the beer?
Mike | 01:47
Every week, every time it's like, what do we got today? Yeah. It's delish. Beer. Let me tell you about that. Then he picks up his phone and has to find it because it's gone by the time.
Corey | 02:01
We got her down right So we got...
Mike | 02:02
Here, baby.
Corey | 02:05
We got...
Mike | 02:07
Garage beer.
Boo.
Corey | 02:17
Pretty equivalent to your Michelob Ultra. Boo.
Yeah. You're done with the booze. I was like, So this one we have here is the Classic Light Lager or Light...
No, sorry. Just Classic Light Beer. I might say light. Could have sworn I said light lager somewhere. Classic Light Beer, small batch brewed. They have a Classic Lime Beer, which is 4 % and 95 calories. And this beer originated from the Braxton Brewing Company in Cincinnati, Ohio, where both Jason and Travis Kelsey played college football for the University of Cincinnati. Recognizing its popularity, Braxton Brewing spun off Garage Beer into its own company in 2023, establishing headquarters in Columbus, Ohio.
And then in June 2024, the Kelsey brothers became significant investors, partners, owners and operators of Garage Beer. Their involvement encompasses various aspects of the business, including brewing, distribution, sales, marketing and national expansion efforts. Their passion for beer and desire to offer a high quality, straightforward product aligned with Garage Beer's mission to provide a light lager that appeals to a broad audience.
Mike | 03:53
Of light beer enthusiasts. Yeah.
Corey | 03:56
And if you look on their site, it says like this is not an IPA. It says like 0 % IPA. And like they're they really don't want this thing to be an IPA.
Yeah.
Yeah. Like, yeah.
Mike | 04:08
Yeah. You're not really speaking my language per se, it.
Corey | 04:11
But it says beer. So I'll give the reason I picked I kind of hear your idea first.
Mike | 04:14
We'll give her a whirl. So this and I have an idea of why you picked this, but I'm gonna let you go first.
So my original thought was this kind of diving into some of our original episodes of the cast. And when I think of the original episodes of the cast, I think, where did we start? We started in Corey's garage. I to get there.
Corey | 04:36
Actually OK, that's not the reason I'm here. But I thought of that like as I was waiting for you.
Mike | 04:42
Yeah, that thought. As soon as you said they texted this morning that you got it or the afternoon.
Yeah. Just like, yeah, that's be perfect.
Yeah. Like going back to our roots.
So.
Corey | 04:51
The reason so this beer shies away from everything that we have done so far regarding beer on the cast. As our main focus has pretty much been IPAs, a couple other ones thrown in here and there, but pretty much it's been IPAs. This episode is something that is completely different for us. Instead of presenting a specific topic, we are revisiting several and will present a new Reddit story for each. This is a more laid back, relaxing episode for us as preparing it was much easier.
And then when I think of relaxing, I think of the spring, summer, when I'm sitting in my garage, enjoying some brewski after a long day of doing outside work around the house. I thought that garage beer was perfect for this episode, as we are kind of trying to replicate a similar experience.
Mike | 05:44
I like it.
Corey | 05:45
So but I know I yeah, I thought like what you said. I thought of that just a little too late.
Well, after I already had my shit.
Mike | 05:52
And I just want to say if people like this episode, because I think this could be a fun episode going forward to do. I don't know, maybe every like ten or twelve episodes.
So if people really like this episode, make sure to, I don't know, hit us up with an email. I'm not going to say our email because I just totally whiff on that every time. Cracking Cans cast at Gmail dot com.
Corey | 06:13
You'll be telling them to message us on thread.
Mike | 06:15
Yeah, I will. Okay. Or you can message us on threads. Can you?
Yeah. It just won't be looked at. But you can hit us up on Facebook. We'll for sure see it or YouTube just comment something really mean on us. But if you like socks.
Yeah. You like this. Please let us know and go like our stuff on YouTube. Make me feel better. But with that, let's cheers. I have only. This is a good light beer, though it is. I'd like.
Corey | 06:39
I could drink like 100 of them, I think.
Mike | 06:41
Yeah. Good for Cornhole. No, they are good.
Well, let's specify Cornhole like the bag game. Well, 100 of them, you never know what might happen.
Corey | 06:53
Will you throw it in the hole? Yeah, Let's head to Reddit.
Mike | 06:55
We'll get it. Let's get into this episode. Let's go.
Yeah, we can do that. We should. All right. We'll do that. Let's head to Reddit.
Corey | 07:07
We're going to do it like every.
Mike | 07:09
Unit, like 38 times in the episode. Let's head to Reddit. All right.
So, yeah, I kind of got into it at the beginning of the episode. I want to dive back into Ouija boards.
So I because I thought these ones had. Yeah.
Some crazy Reddit stories when we got into them.
Corey | 07:33
Just because like Ouija boards are so like widespread across the globe and like such a huge phenomenon. And they're What was the age you had to be?
Mike | 07:40
So easy for kids to get. Yeah.
Corey | 07:44
What, nine or ten or?
Mike | 07:45
Yeah, something like, yeah. When I sat on the box, it was like, yeah, like eight plus. But any kid can go into a toy store and buy a Ouija board. And as you'll see, I think it's in this story. I don't know. I read a couple of them, but I'm pretty sure it's this story. They actually made a homemade Ouija board. That's what they would play with.
So you can even do that. Yeah.
So before we go to the Reddit story, I'll let you guys know why I picked this topic. And I think honestly, it was just because of how much fun I had looking into the topic and how crazy I thought some of the Reddit stories were the original time we went over this topic.
Plus, yeah.
Corey | 08:20
That was the one where like the CD, right? It wasn't like, yeah, was over here like wide eyed, like, yeah, hold it onto my chair.
Mike | 08:23
That's what that was the one where he's going to die. Like, tell me. I Like, what?
Yeah. But I just thought, like, the stories were so crazy. I think. And you'll see later on with one of my things. I don't know. It's like objects that I feel like can be attracted to kids. Just freak me out.
So I think that's why I really just wanted to dive more into the Ouija board a little bit and get into that. And on top of that, I thought our Ouija board episode, like I know there's been a couple episodes along the line where I felt like us together were really clicking.
Yeah. Ouija board was a good episode. I thought that really led us into our paranoia. And you worry that was in paranoia and you were very it paranormal and you worry you over here.
I thought that was a good lead in for that month. So are you ready for this Reddit story, Corey? All right.
So the Reddit user is tie loss in the south. Like ties in the country last. Maybe it's last time. Tie house is in like a lady.
Corey | 09:32
Tie last in the I think you say in the south, in the I listen to how.
Mike | 09:37
South. High less in the south. My best friends and I thought it'd be fun to convene with the spirits pretty much daily one summer. We'd regular we'd regularly break out a homemade one to see how goofy we could get. Because it gets too damn hot to do things outside during this time of year. We define things to keep our 14 to 15 year old self entertained.
So let's call her Jennifer. So at Jennifer's tiny little house. In the 90s, things went from casual and believable.
So when she says casual and believable, think like I'm a teenager who died in a house fire or I'm an old woman who died of natural causes, stuff like that to just totally disturbing. I have never had a body, but I am able to experience life down here. If you say you can accept me. For those we'd always take our hands off and demand a new spirit.
Like, I don't know if you can do that. Like, is this like a swipe right? That's how I picture it. Or is it Yeah.
Corey | 10:43
Like the MTV show next?
Mike | 10:45
Same. Yeah, exactly.
So it's like, yeah, no, thank you. That sounds rather icky.
Corey | 10:50
You're not my type anyway.
Mike | 10:53
After what was essentially auditioning them, the gang and I managed to settle on a rather gentle entity who went by AJ Duke. AJ said he could talk. We could talk to him pretty much whenever we wanted. He was eight years old and didn't want to cross over because he liked watching people go about their lives. And he's been doing this for hundreds of years.
Corey | 11:17
I'm going to guess this is a demon pretending to be an eight year old boy.
Mike | 11:20
Yeah, I don't know. But here's the thing, dude, I like just watching people live their life, too, though. Yeah.
Like, I like to go out at night and just like look in people's windows.
Corey | 11:32
Well, you live like right now.
Mike | 11:33
I know it's great. I do like a good night walk to just I try and figure out what people are watching on TV.
Corey | 11:39
You kind of like doing that, too, in like wintertime. She likes like looking in and seeing people like Christmas trees.
Mike | 11:44
Yeah, there's nothing wrong with that. My daughter will like open the blinds and look at her neighbors and try and figure out what they're watching on TV. And so is my wife. And I might do it from time to time. I like Well, I don't look for those.
Corey | 11:53
Seeing some titties.
Mike | 11:57
I look just more at TVs and stuff. So anyways, this kid sounded like BS, but whatever. It was a Ouija board and all. It was a Ouija board. All of it was kind of bullshit, right? It was all well and good for about a week or so. He could tell us things about other people in the neighborhood and his usual shitty spelling.
So that's a key. That's a key part of the story is like eight year old kid can't spell.
So but they can kind of tell what he's trying to say by sounding it out more or less. And it was always the hot tea.
You know, that figures like the hot tea, like spill the tea. Yeah. We were so polite back and forth with the thank you. And you're so adorable. And she put in parentheses at this part. OMG, cringe. I know. I felt like I just had to read that one. And we'd occasionally bring AJ up in jokes and casual banter when we weren't playing with the Ouija board. He was kind of like a fourth wheel for a few days there. Then it got kind of weird.
I mean, I think it's been kind of weird at this point. But Yeah.
Corey | 13:04
You can't say that. Yeah, it's not normal.
Mike | 13:08
AJ revealed that are playing. And this part, this is this part of the story is what made me this part, Yeah.
Corey | 13:15
Like take it to another level.
Mike | 13:16
So that our playing was attracting bad spirits onto the property. They got to understand this property is like a hundred year old property. This is an old property.
So AJ said this. AJ told him this through the Ouija board.
Like, you guys got to stop playing. You got to stop talking to me because I'm trying to block these evil things out. But they're coming. And like, damn.
Yeah. Damn. Damn. He said that we shouldn't talk as much anymore. But if we asked him, asked for him when we started, he would try to take up the space so they couldn't talk to us. He felt we felt so protected by this little dude, according as it sounds. AJ was always around the game to talk when we sat back. When we sat back down to gab soon, though, we started. Do they.
Corey | 14:02
Go down? Do they do? All right.
So I'm just guessing. I guess again, OK, do they go on this board sometime and like AJ's gone and like some other evil being is there talking to them and like says something like, AJ's gone now or something like that. We'll.
Mike | 14:18
Tell. All right. That's your guess.
Yeah. For now. For now. For now.
Yeah. I like to make multiple guesses, so I feel like I cover more bases that way.
Like after every paragraph, make a new guess. Soon, though, we started to notice the damn thing getting faster and stronger. Our arms would feel pulled this way and that and go to letters faster and with increasingly skillful precision. Increasingly, we'd end up putting the board away because the vibe started to feel super sour in the room. It's gross to say, but the gentle aspect that we liked about the spirit was replaced with wording that was not only better spelled, but sexual and catty in nature. Damn. And even though we put the freaking thing away once it got all weird, we'd go right back to it the next evening or the day after that.
So this thing, it's almost like an addiction you have to it. I feel like speaking to the spirit world, start to just become more and thrive by it. You have to just keep doing it.
Yeah, you know, and I guess maybe it could be I don't know if it's just an addiction or if it's like an adrenaline rush to talk into something that you don't know what you're talking to. So it was a compulsion. One night, Jennifer's older sister stopped by to visit their mom, but decided to hang out with us for a while. It was literally the first time she ever did this, and it felt really cool to have someone who was pretty popular in high school kick it with us. It was her This is the this is Jennifer's older sister stopped to visit their mom.
Corey | 15:48
Mom. The one kid's mom.
Mike | 15:54
OK. And so we're talking with 14, 15 year old kids, so like freshmen in high school, right around that age group. And she was a junior senior in high school when she came into Jennifer's room and saw the Ouija board, she got instantly interested. She showed we showed her what we usually got up to. And she was skeptical at first. She said, I'm going to go in the hall and hold up some fingers and we'll see if this Ouija board can get it.
So she does. And one by one, it kept nailing them. Damn, we could see the smirk wipe off her face and go into something akin to fear. Then we could see the fear go into desperate curiosity. She sat down and played with us, getting some gossip about her parents divorce that we didn't even think to ask about. It didn't take long for the sexual fatty stuff to get cranked up. She was looking at us with a face that felt the air shift when we did our usual bellyache and hands off the ritual. She protested. She thought this was when things were about to get interesting. And what did the damn thing suggest we do not five minutes after we decide she might be right? What do you think the board told them they should do?
Corey | 17:08
Well, it's all in sexual stuff, so probably like nothing out.
Mike | 17:10
Sexual. But I'm going to stop you before you say something that I'm going to have to take yeah.
Corey | 17:15
OK, that's good. No, I was going to say 96. It's going to say something about that little kid.
Mike | 17:20
Yeah. It suggested we hold a seance.
So the board, you guys should have a seance right now.
Corey | 17:31
The board, Yeah.
So they're like, OK, let's have a seance. Guess.
Mike | 17:39
What? Gang went along with it because cool big sis was super excited at this idea.
So we did. The board told us to get into a circle and hold hands, then call for a spirit to appear. Mind the Ouija isn't spelling things out as clearly. And sometimes instead of saying circle and spelling circle correctly, it would be like C I R C L. That's how it would just stop there. Anyways, we did as instructed. Nothing was happening at first, in spite of big sisters insistence that if you're there, show us a sign on repeat.
Still, our big round eyes would look around at one another. Not sure if we were hoping for something to happen or if we were waiting for another to call it off. Nobody wants to be the ultimate nerd, though. We played our cards right. We might hang out with her crew as they smoke cigarettes between classes and generally look beautiful and badass.
So if you're here, do something, she commanded. A newspaper clipping taped to the friend's mirror flickered and we all jumped. But she confirmed it was the ceiling fan and said it does it all the time. There's maybe another minute of big sister making demands, and I was certain that someone was going to speak up and break the circle. But big sis dropped. If you're here, I give you permission to show yourself. Damn. Which is I mean, it's we know from talking to the spirits episode, it's like the worst thing you can do.
Yeah, I mean, invite them in. I mean, we know all the way back to the dolls episode, like inviting stuff like this in is the worst thing you can do.
Corey | 19:19
All right. Well.
Mike | 19:21
Not a moment after she uttered these words, did she leap off her feet and scream while pulling her shirt off? Get off me. She was screaming. And Jennifer immediately hopped up and pulled the cord to turn the light back on. Her big sister threw herself back first into a wall as though smashing an invisible something that was on her.
So that's what I just pictured, like some little demon creature on her back. She just slamming up against this wall. I remember a single stream of spit hanging from her mouth as it hung open for a moment. It was really odd to see a cool person looking decisively not cool. It was fucking terrifying. She spun around and screamed, what is it? Over and just below her bra Stripe were three scratches and some places deep enough to draw a bit of blood. We instinctively huddled around her, cloaked her with a protective shield, but had no fucking clue. What to do except move the huddle downstairs into the living room.
So they move where her mother was watching TV.
Corey | 20:22
All just like huddled together. Yeah, just like.
Mike | 20:27
She leapt up and took a look at big sis's back. And as we frantically explained the scratches spelled out. In well and blood. AJ. That's the end. Shit.
Yeah, I thought that was a really good one. I was going to start with.
Yeah, that was a hard one to keep off. That was a lot of fun. I just think they won't. We know we've talked about spirits in some episodes. The Ouija episode, we talked about it. The possessed doll episode, we talked about it. Inviting this stuff in is like the absolute worst thing you could ever do. By far the worst thing you could ever do. Giving it permission to enter into your home. And most of the time, the way you ask them to enter, you're not just asking them to enter into your home. You're like inviting them to enter you in a way.
Yeah. So it's just crazy.
Corey | 21:21
And it's not just like a one time thing either. It's like you could be.
Mike | 21:24
Like forever. Yeah, you're open, you know? And I always thought when I noticed and they talked about it a little bit earlier. But a lot of times I don't know if they totally when and this was a makeshift Ouija board. But I don't think they totally would like shut this thing down correctly every time.
You know, you're supposed to say goodbye. Like they said they had their little ritual that they would do. Were they all back away from the planchette? They would all fold the paper up nice. They'd put it away. It doesn't say that they would say goodbye.
Yeah, you're supposed to before you leave. So were they leaving the portal of this world open? I don't know.
Corey | 22:00
Yeah. So why do you think this thing carved AJ on her?
Mike | 22:06
I think just because she was being taunted. I don't think it was AJ, but I don't know if AJ ever actually existed or if this was just something building up trust with these young girls. It could have been something that was mad. You think if this was some kind of. Nasty spirit that's in that house. Pretending to be AJ, getting these girls lured in, and then all of a sudden this big sister comes and wants to shift all the focus over to just like, tell me about my parents divorce. Tell me about all the negative that happened. It almost takes away all the work that this spirit has done for months, weeks, months, whatever on end. Now, all of a sudden, it's like back to square one. I don't know that it's hard to. If AJ was really there, AJ warned him of these other spirits coming.
So is this something that just carved a message into her that said, AJ is almost saying like AJ's dead. Yeah, I'm I was thinking, I don't know.
Yeah, one of those things I don't think we ever will truly understand. Yeah. What would you say?
Corey | 23:10
I mean, I was going to say that, like, is the evil beings or spirits or whatever, like got involved in like AJ couldn't keep them back anymore. So now they're messing, you know, with these people that are playing with the board and then just as like taunting or something, they the evil spirits carve, you know, AJ into her in her back or whatever. Just.
Mike | 23:33
Taunting. Yeah. Just taunting them.
Yeah. Just angering them, sending a message that they're here now.
Yeah. OK, Corey, I do have a question, though, at the end of this. And I have like I don't know if I have an answer for this question.
So think of this. You could pick up a Ouija board today and hear me out. We're not. This is like only good can happen.
Like this Ouija board, only good can happen. And we know it. You could have access to anyone in history and ask them one question, just one. It does not to be yes or no, but it's got to be like a question that could be answered through a Ouija board by a couple, maybe a word or two. Who would you go to and what would you ask them?
Corey | 24:22
This is a question I think about regularly.
Mike | 24:27
He's going to say Dale Earnhardt, I know it.
Corey | 24:30
No, but I was I honestly like he. I'm not going to lie, though, like he crossed my mind.
Mike | 24:36
The great one, what he was thinking about Dude, this is what this is where my mind was going.
Corey | 24:38
It. I was no.
So. Big Yankees fan here.
Mike | 24:46
And I think I know what you're going to say, Babe Ruth. Yeah. You did he call a shot?
Corey | 24:49
Know what the question is that I would ask him, though, ask.
Mike | 24:52
That's what I would course, if I'm Babe Ruth, I'm going to say, yeah, hell yeah.
Corey | 24:53
It's not what I was that I would see. I wonder that I do wonder that that's. Of No, but I want to know if.
Mike | 25:00
Yeah, dude.
Corey | 25:08
He thinks he could hang in today's baseball game.
Mike | 25:13
Dude, I think Babe Ruth is so freaking cool that he doesn't even watch baseball today, though. I think he's like that cool.
You know what I mean? It's like, yeah, I can watch baseball. I could go hang out at the pub and smoke a doge. That's where he's going to be.
Corey | 25:25
He's a hot dog.
Mike | 25:26
Yeah. Yeah.
Some popcorn. Yeah, I don't know, I really struggle to this question, though. I don't know who I would ask.
Corey | 25:34
Because I thought about him trying to do else. I. He's like the big one that I because I like. I think a lot about like the old like even football, baseball, like other sports and then like today, because, you know, a lot of people compare like.
You know, this generation and that generation, and like I think that's complete bullshit, like I don't think you can compare it can compare a generation to like an older generation. I don't think it's fair because, you know, one like technology has been so advanced, like the training, like everything with how things are done, how like humans have evolved over the years, how sports have evolved.
Like, I don't think it's fair to like people compare Babe Ruth with like show a tiny like I just I don't think it's fair. Like over the years, people have progressively thrown faster and faster.
You know what I mean? And even like today's generation to 50 years from now, you know, what's it going to be like? I just don't think it's fair to like previous generations to compare generation to generation. I think you should only be compared with the people that were in your generation. Babe Hell yeah.
Mike | 26:40
Ruth was hitting home runs off plumbers. Yeah, you're right.
Corey | 26:46
Yeah.
Mike | 26:47
Like makeshift electricians, baby. That's who he was taking deep.
Yeah. But no, I yeah.
Yeah. Like I said, I struggled with asking this one thing. This is like a really random one. What I thought, like it's like, what if I could hop on a Ouija board and ask Jesus what the meaning of life was?
Yeah. But at the same time, I don't know if I want to know that. There's so many things that I think of where it's like, I would ask this person this, but I don't actually want to know the answer to it, because I don't know if I'm ready for the answer to it. I think I.
Corey | 27:18
Would ask. I would ask Heath Ledger, like how messed up the Joker role made him or if the Joker role Yeah, but like.
Mike | 27:28
Actually kind of know the answer to that, though.
Corey | 27:32
You can't like I feel like some of you speculate. Because like he was already taking like medications for different things.
Like I think he was I don't know if it was like anxiety or whatever it was for. But like I know he's like a method actor, so he gets himself in that role. But like, did he get into it too deep or did he just accidentally, you know, take too many pills or whatever it was? I don't know.
Like just because I mean, I really liked him as an actor. And I think he was phenomenal and had, you know, many great movies ahead of him.
Yeah. And just wondering some like some of that.
Mike | 28:04
Stuff. So can I pose this as the fan question of the day? You cool with that? Hell yeah. Pose it.
Yeah. So I'll just read the question over one more time. Hit us with this one, because I think this one is pretty deep. And I think there is a million different ways you can go about this.
So if you could talk to anybody through the course of history, through Ouija board, now you are guaranteed to know that nothing bad was going to come from said Ouija board. Who would you talk to and what would you ask him? And obviously the question you ask him has to be able to be answered in a couple of words or a yes or no answer. But I'm anxious to hear. I really want to know. I would love to hear people's opinions on this, because this is something I sat on my couch last night and just thought about for like a half hour straight. And I can come up with an answer. Tupac. Tupac. I don't care. It's just, yeah. But yeah. You got any more? You're going to throw Biggie out there? I thought about it. I was waiting for it.
Corey | 29:04
Johnny Cash. Johnny Cash. I would ask Johnny Cash something, but I couldn't think of something to ask him.
Mike | 29:08
All right. Well, Johnny Cash, how do you like your burgers? He said, well, I like them fall into a burning ring of fire. I want them charred as the flames went higher.
So that's what I got as far as my Ouija board episode. Corey, I have to pee. Has to pee.
So we're going to take a beer break real quick.
Corey | 29:33
It's beer break time. Crack a cold one. Fill your cup and enjoy the rest of the episode. Right.
Mike | 29:51
Back to the beer break. I think you already told us what your first topic is. But let's hear it.
Corey | 29:57
I'm going to be diving into.
Mike | 29:59
It. You son of a bitch. You'd love taking my catchphrases. They're so good. I'm a catchphrase son of a gun.
Corey | 30:08
We're diving into the black eyed kids. That's right, You son of a bitch.
Mike | 30:11
Folks. That's right, folks. For the people.
Corey | 30:19
I picked this topic because for one, it just fascinates me for, well, for a couple of different reasons besides just being. Why.
Mike | 30:32
Do you freeze? Hold on. Why do we freeze on me for so long? Just staring like Randy Orton over there. Hey, I don't understand.
Corey | 30:40
So, yeah, for a few different reasons. I love this episode. I love this topic besides just like being one of my favorite episodes to research so far.
So one, I've always been interested in creepy, spooky, unexplained shit. And then two, anytime you're talking about creepy kids or children, I feel like it ups the ante and increases the spookiness.
And then three, the mystery behind this phenomenon just draws me in like those black dead eyes draw people in.
Mike | 31:14
Yeah, I think it's funny that you said your second point where like the fact that it's like kids or whatever draws you in when that's kind of what I said about like the Ouija board and the possessed dolls, like the access to that draws people, draws me into it. I think that's interesting.
Yeah.
Corey | 31:30
That's true. And it's something that seems like to me, both possible and far fetched at the same time. And I love all the different theories behind the black eyed kids. And my favorite is where they are a child or relative of the men in black. I thought that theory when we did this episode was just awesome, like especially the one story where like think it was.
Mike | 31:51
It showed up. It was wasn't it in Vermont? I I'm pretty sure it was like in Vermont.
Corey | 31:56
Yeah, I forget where it was. Yeah, it might have been. It was somewhere.
Mike | 32:01
Yeah. When they just like picked him up at the end of it, like the kids pulled their shift.
Yeah, it's just fascinating because I don't understand it. It doesn't make any sense to me. And that's why it's awesome. I know.
Corey | 32:15
You know, exactly. And then like I love reading all the different stories and trying to interpret the reasoning for them once you get into your house or into your vehicle or like whatever it is.
Mike | 32:26
Can I don't mean to interrupt you, but can I say something? Absolutely. R .I .P. Doug. Yeah. If you know.
Yeah.
Corey | 32:32
R .I .P. Doug.
Mike | 32:34
Doug's dead. D -U -G. D -U -G.
Yeah, he gone, Doug's legacy will live forever in this cast.
Corey | 32:39
But we'll always remember him.
Mike | 32:44
Hell yeah. If you don't know what we're talking about, go back to the Black Eyed Kids episode.
Yeah. I don't know. I've never been so frazzled by a story like ever. Doug's dead. I went home and drank a beer for Doug that night.
Corey | 33:00
Yeah, I drank a bunch for him, too, as we were doing the episode. Reddit story. I got the Reddit story now, baby. The Reddit user is Bailey Diane.
Mike | 33:13
Little stitty about Bailey and Diane.
Corey | 33:17
I was thinking that, too. Yeah. And it's B -A -I -L -Y Diane with two N's.
Mike | 33:23
Damn. So, you know, she hot Yeah, I feel like two ends means you got a big butt.
Corey | 33:26
Or she not.
Mike | 33:30
Yeah, I don't know. The big guy makes no sense, but that's a big. All right. I would be quiet. I'm just going to listen to this Reddit story.
Corey | 33:37
It's not as long as yours. Yeah, I had a real encounter.
Mike | 33:39
This is a long one. Sorry. That's a good one.
Yeah.
Corey | 33:43
I was working in an office that did mainly business to business sales and rentals. Since we weren't in a great part of town and we weren't exactly open to the public, I kept the door to our office locked. The only way to work the lock was with a key from either side. I'd stepped outside to go on a sales call. We had tint on our door that allowed me to see out, but was mere tint from the outside. I tended to look out before leaving because it was a rough area and I was a young female working alone. This was about 12 years ago, so it was the mid 2000s.
Mike | 34:26
And this is when 2000s is when this thing kind of this phenomenon. Yeah, it was like late 90s, 2000s Internet age.
Corey | 34:34
So this she's talking about the mid 2000s. I looked out and there were two young men walking about a block from me. No big deal. I could easily be safely to my car before they reached where I was. Before I know it, the kids both looked around 15ish were much closer than they should have been, like they had walked a city block in a split second. My flight or fight kicked in. I had no reason to be afraid, but I felt deep fear.
So I went back inside and locked the door from the inside. I'm not even sure how to describe the fear I felt that led me to rush back inside. These kids started banging on the door. Only one of the two spoke. He said, we need a phone. Let us in. I yelled no through the door. He kept banging on my glass door so hard it was vibrating. I threatened to call the cops. They kept banging and begging to use the phone. I finally got brave enough to get a better look at them so I could give a description to the police and their eyes were pitch black. I'm not super religious, but I just yelled in the name of Jesus Christ, I command you to leave.
Mike | 35:54
Did it work?
Corey | 35:55
And they disappeared. Just vanished.
Mike | 35:59
That puts like a whole new twist on things, because you know what I'm going to say? I know I will. I'll say it.
Corey | 36:05
Let I have one sentence left before you I had never heard of the B .E .K.
Phenomenon before this event.
Mike | 36:19
Yeah, I don't know. I mean, that screams demonic, though, and you like throw out of like the power of Jesus and they just vanish. Just vanish. That's crazy.
Yeah. I wonder what the I don't know. The thing that always intrigued me when you talked about the black eyed kids, I didn't really know anything about them going into the episode. What intrigued me when you talked about it is. What do they want?
Yeah, what do they want? Because people have let them in before.
Yeah.
Corey | 36:47
And they just hang out in there and drink your tea and use your bathroom. Lights go out and then they leave.
Mike | 36:54
Yeah, I just think it's fascinating that. We're in the day and age cameras and everything we haven't caught, so maybe they can't be filmed on camera.
Corey | 37:03
Well, I see. I feel like to a lot of like the Reddit stories I've seen were like three cameras sense these cameras and they know these cameras are there now?
Mike | 37:10
And shit. I mean, that makes sense.
Yeah. So like, do they to.
Corey | 37:15
So they're just trying to figure out a new way.
Mike | 37:18
There's got to be some kind of connection with like these kind of things, encrypted and cameras. If cryptids are real, you know, which I believe in cryptids, I think cryptids are freaking bad ass and I think they exist.
Yeah. Like we got Bigfoot. We got Mothman. We got Loch Ness. We got champ. I think they exist and can exist. But do they sense the cameras?
Yeah, I think there's a chance they do. I think there's a chance that some of them are just a whale penis. But that's a whole other discussion.
Yeah. Yeah. I thought it was interesting that ad that this story had where she called out to Jesus and these things just were gone. It's gone.
So that kind of adds a little something.
Corey | 38:02
Else. And I thought this one was interesting, too, because I haven't seen any other stories where like a person said something or referenced Jesus. And they just.
Mike | 38:12
Vanished. Yeah, I don't think we went over anything like that in ours. I don't even think. Demons or demonic, because I don't know what else could it be.
Like, it could it be something else where it's not a demon, but it's cast out when you bring up Jesus? Do you think there's something else it could be?
Corey | 38:29
Yes, it could be. I don't I can't think like of anything in particular. I guess like. You know, why not?
Mike | 38:36
Yeah, I'm just yeah. Yeah.
So it's interesting. Could there be like some other alien intergalactic race that still knows of our God? I don't know. It's weird.
Yeah. I don't know. I'm getting kind of. Out there over here, but I don't know, I just it's weird.
Yeah, it's weird. Yeah, we're Yeah, for sure.
Corey | 38:55
Talking about out there.
Mike | 38:56
Yeah, but it's like aliens or aliens fearful of God. Obviously, if you go just by this one Reddit story and what's said, then God's got to be real.
Well, what are you? I don't know. What are you? What do you? I feel.
Corey | 39:15
Anyway, I got a scenario for you.
Mike | 39:21
You ready? Yeah, I'm ready. Yep.
Corey | 39:23
So imagine this. You're out for a late night jog. You're not looking in, people's they like It's quiet, peaceful, and the moonlight casts a calm glow over the streets.
Mike | 39:28
I'm looking at people's windows. Yeah, looking in through windows.
You know, people are watching on TV. Peeping Mike, to call him.
Yeah.
Corey | 39:46
As you approach a park, you spot two kids swinging on the swing set. They're swinging back and forth in perfect sync, but something's off. The closer you get, the more you notice these kids are completely silent. Their movements almost unnaturally smooth. As you get closer, the swing suddenly stop and the kids slowly turn to face you. You can And they were going they were doing high swing.
Mike | 40:13
Now I picture him like stopping on a dime. Yeah. Not like coming to a stop. Just yeah.
Yeah, they were going opposite and just went the same. Boom. Stopped.
Corey | 40:24
You can clearly see their eyes. Solid black. No whites at all. They slowly get off the swings, stand completely still. Stare at you and ask if they could use your phone to call their parents. What's your next move?
Mike | 40:41
Well, I. So going off this Reddit story and some of the things we know. Everybody that sees these kids gets this huge sense of dread. There's like an overwhelming sense of dread happens to them.
So I think because before they ever asked me for the phone, I get that sense of dread. You know what I would do, honestly, like if I'm out for like a run or something. I would probably look at these kids and just point to my ears because I got headphones in.
Sorry, I can't hear you. Just like book at home.
Like, I don't care. Like people, you know, I'm a big guy. I still don't like a group of kids, man. They freak me out, dude. Especially at night.
Yeah, you get enough like 14 or 15 year olds around and it's like they're like going through puberty and going through whatnot. And they got all girls to impress. And like, I don't got I don't have as much, you know, kind of. I'm out for rugs. My wife made me. I need to get less fat.
Like I got less approval my run than a lot of these youngins do out here at the park. So I'm probably that's what I'm going to do. I'm going to point to the ears and be like, I can't hear you. And I'm ducking down the next hour. It's already seen your.
Corey | 41:50
You know what? You know, it'd be a good one to what? No, I'm not English.
Mike | 41:57
Yeah, no English and they hit straight sign language right back.
Corey | 41:59
Or sign language. You just.
Mike | 42:04
So I imagine they could speak any language. Yeah.
Yeah. But yeah, I think.
Yeah, I don't know. I am not talking to him. I think the overwhelming sense of dread will put all my senses up. I would know something's up and I would probably start to already be heading away before the swing stopped.
Yeah. So I like it. What about you?
Corey | 42:27
Well, what I do, I probably keep on running. Yeah, I won't even I'd look.
Mike | 42:33
Yeah, just pretend you don't even hear him. Yeah, I'm you googly eyed mother.
Corey | 42:34
Looking all weird and shit. And then I would just turn and like, I might have been doing a nice dog. And now I'm doing a sprint.
Yeah.
Mike | 42:41
They don't want to talk to you. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. I like it. We owned around to hell.
Corey | 42:49
Yeah. What do you got next.
Mike | 42:50
Round to I'm diving into. Jeez. Corey turns it up to like a thousand like throw overs. All right, folks. Folklore score here. Day like I say that you don't have one today. But I'm going back to one of our former champions. I'm going to possess dolls. Possessed dolls was so much fun. There's so much crazy shit on Reddit with possessed dolls. And I so I'm going back with possessed dolls because it was probably one of my favorite topics to research. I thought it was really cool. Dolls have freaked me out from such a young age. And I talked about it in the episode at my aunt's house when I'd sleep over there. She had a doll in this one room that I would always make her move to the attic because I'd freak me out. I watched Chucky when I was way too young. I watched like demonic toys when I was what dolls just freaked me out as a kid.
So it's always something that gives me the willies. So in that way, it was really fun to research it. When I head to the Reddit story, it's a little bit different. It's not a possessed doll. It's a possessed pony.
So I feel like that makes it even cooler. Damn.
Corey | 44:01
Yeah. Like a legit real life, full breathing, pooping, eating machine pony.
Mike | 44:08
Yeah. No, just a toy one. That's what your dresser.
Sorry. I didn't mean to get you so excited.
Corey | 44:14
I was thinking Yeah.
Mike | 44:15
A real. Yeah, that's my bad. As soon as you started on it, it's like, dang, I really should have specified before I.
Corey | 44:21
All.
Mike | 44:21
Right. All right.
So at least the so the right user will make you feel better. Are you ready? Ready user.
Corey | 44:32
Jesus Christ. Sorry.
Mike | 44:34
I forgot about it. This red you deserve maybe laugh a lot more than I should have just by their name. Ready user. The yogurt closet.
Corey | 44:43
The yogurt closet. I I feel like yogurt.
Mike | 44:45
Don't know. Well, I don't know.
Like that's sexual, but I don't know. And it's Maybe they do. Good for them. Yogurt's good for you. All right. The yogurt.
Corey | 44:56
Closet. Better than the one I found the other day, I'll tell you that one. I'm going to say that one.
Yeah. Put on Megan's all just by saying it.
Mike | 45:04
She's glad you had to bring it up.
Corey | 45:09
Had to do with orphans.
Mike | 45:10
Yeah. Anyways.
Yeah. So I posted this a couple of times over the years, but get downvoted every time. I'm aware of how ridiculous it sounds, but I swear to God, this is what I experienced. And keep in mind, this is coming from the perspective of an eight to 10 year old.
So again, we're diving into kids, which I think stories with kids. And I understand maybe a lot of stories with kids aren't the most accurate.
Like, for instance, at night when our air turns on, my daughter's curtains move a little bit. There's a ghost in there. I got to go. I got to go check her closet under her bed. Do my ritual. I do a dance to get the ghost out. You ever do a ghost dance?
Corey | 45:51
Never did a ghost dance. It works. I'll pull my pistol out.
Yeah. Well, let's say if a ghost moves, I'm shooting. I'm blasting.
Mike | 45:56
Listen, for a kid's perspective, a ghost dance really works, though. Yeah. Do the I'm sure it does.
Corey | 46:00
Ghost dance. It's a gun dance.
Well, Just kidding. I've never done a gun dance.
Mike | 46:04
In elementary school, this girl, Amy, bought a pony toy from the book fair. My friend Sadie Alice and I always harassed her about it and asked if we could have it. But of course, she always refused.
Well, Gave it a few months and we all kind of admitted defeat and forgot about the toy.
Corey | 46:18
That son of a bitch got possessed and they're like, she's like, y 'all want my pony?
Mike | 46:27
And out of nowhere, Amy gave the toy to Sadie with no explanation. So I'm going to say Corey is he is falling down the right track here. But after a few days, Sadie told Alice and I that the toy was possessed. Sadie said the toy would turn and look at her. One night she had lined all her pony toys up on the dresser opposite the door facing the wall. She left her room. And as soon as she got through the doorway, she realizes that she forgot something. She turned around and they were all facing her.
So all these ponies turn did a complete 180. That's like my biggest fear Yeah.
Corey | 47:03
Is like a room just of all these old dolls. And all their heads just like turn and look at you at the same time.
Mike | 47:09
Like, hey, y 'all, I'm I, you know, I feel like I don't know. You got it. You got to just try and make friends with them as quick as you can.
Yeah.
Corey | 47:15
You just turn your head to. Yeah.
Mike | 47:17
What are we looking at? They That's pretty good.
Corey | 47:19
Think you're an adult, too.
Mike | 47:22
I like that. Me and Alice kind of silently agreed. Sadie was lying and played along with it and asked her questions about it. I asked her if I could have it for a night to see for myself. And Sadie agreed. She brings it to school and I bring it home, which is a red flag.
You know, this kid is just like my this thing's possessed. It's like, yeah, can I have it?
Like, yeah, you can. Do you want it? You can have it. Take it.
Yeah.
Corey | 47:46
But she was like. She gets it during the day and then, of course, yeah, you can have it at night. Right. Because like, fuck.
Yeah, the possession I have is at night.
Mike | 47:54
Yeah. So when I get home, I told my brother about it. We joked about it being possessed when I sat on the table and it fell over. He was the only other person in the house aware of the toy. I set up my own experiment in the bathroom. I grabbed some pony toys of my own and set them all up on the shelf. One facing behind the door, one facing the shower, one facing the sink. And the pony facing the wall behind the shelf, I posted up watching from the toilet. I sat there for maybe five to 15 minutes and nothing happened. I decided it was fake. But I did have to use the bathroom.
And then I went on with my night. As soon as I walked through the doorway, I realized I forgot to wash my hands. She turned around.
Corey | 48:43
All them son of a bitches are looking at her. No way. Shut up. Don't even say that. You're.
Mike | 48:48
Going to freak me out. Bitch.
So not as I turn around, all of them were facing me, except for the one that was particularly hard to stand up. It had fallen over without making a sound and all in a matter of seconds. Keep in mind, I was the only person in the bathroom and I just used it. And even if somehow someone in the bathroom was there for all this to happen, they did it in a matter of seconds. I cried and ran to my mom and explained what just happened. Her mom was a superstitious woman and she was pissed. I brought something like this in the home without telling her. She put it in a Tupperware with salt and threw it away. Top with salt.
Like just fill that son of a bitch up with salt, because we're going to just we're going to drown, drain this thing out. You know, I went back to school and told Sadie what happened. I asked her if she has any idea why it was possessed there. And they have a good reason why they think it's possessed, which pisses me off even more that they just are acting like. Can you believe this thing's possessed?
Like a 10 Yeah, they're like, yeah, around that age of 10, somewhere in there.
Corey | 49:53
Year old.
Mike | 49:57
Yeah. And you guess what?
Like what reason she has to think it's possessed?
Corey | 50:03
No, I don't know. Yeah. She.
Mike | 50:04
Said shortly before Amy gave it away that they had a sleepover and they wanted to summon demons. She said, quote, they put books together and said an ancient chant they found on the Internet. She didn't elaborate further what that even means and didn't remember the chant or website. But she believed the ritual they found and did made the toy possessed. Or at least that was her only explanation. It's a Yeah, I would say so.
Corey | 50:35
Good explanation.
Mike | 50:37
Yeah. Like what a dick. Just pass this around to somebody that's your friend.
So that brings me to the question, though. So you go up to your room or go up to your kids room. Let's just let's revert you back to your now. We'll do it now because I feel like Corey's the same now as he was when he was 10.
Yeah. So you go up to your kids room and just like you said, you kiss him goodnight and you look up and Spider -Man's face in the window. And as you're walking out, you turn back around and Spidey's just turn around facing you. What do you do with that? And would you just pass that along to somebody else?
Corey | 51:15
I would pass along to somebody else.
Mike | 51:17
You son of a bitch. You'd give it to me. What?
Yeah.
Corey | 51:19
Why would you do that? I'm like, hey, Mike, we got two of these.
You know, You know, we'll just say like, hey, you know, we accidentally bought two of these.
Mike | 51:26
Sam. Yeah.
Yeah. We'll give them to Sam.
Yeah.
Corey | 51:33
We don't want two of them at the house, so we're just we're giving you one.
Mike | 51:36
I will never, ever take toys from you guys. You see, you know, and if I like for your kids next birthday, you remember like I got like your one son, I got him a fake beard for his birthday and stuff. He still plays with that. I want to like chant Latin over it before I give it to him next time. I just see what happens.
Corey | 51:56
I'm going to like I'm going to go take a piss on. I'm going to see that some of the hallway.
Mike | 51:58
The bears may be chasing you down the hallway. Just walk down Yeah, I don't like I don't know.
Corey | 52:03
Shit.
Mike | 52:06
Do I pass it along? I feel like you can't just throw it in the trash. It's going to come back. Do you burn it?
Corey | 52:11
I don't know. You let the demon out of it like a thrift store.
Mike | 52:12
Or you take it to a church, right? If it's possessed by a demon, I guess I take it to a church and try and let them do a thrift store. For some reason, I thought you're going to say. An orgy, I don't know what any way the thrift store.
Yeah, it could work.
Corey | 52:29
I mean, yeah, shoving it up somebody's ass might leave the demon out, too. That's maybe that's the secret.
Mike | 52:35
Maybe nobody's tried that. Yeah. And over, Corey, I got it. I was going to tell you to get I got a possessed fist right here for you. That's what I got.
Yeah. I possessed dolls was one of my favorite. I think it was a two parter and I don't know. I just had a lot of fun diving in. I think if I went back in time, I would have just done more. Robert, the doll and Annabelle was like just two separate longer episodes. But either way, I had a lot of fun researching those two. And dolls sat on top of the leaderboard for a hot minute. Did.
Yeah. So all the way till December.
Corey | 53:08
I actually have a story. It's not like a demonic doll or anything like that, but like it reminds me of that and it just makes me laugh when I think about it.
So I wanted to share this actually during the dolls episode, but I forgot about when we were younger, I don't know how old I was.
Mike | 53:20
It. I'm totally in all ears.
So.
Corey | 53:25
Probably maybe 12. My sister was probably like eight, something like that. She had a toy like boo from like Monsters, Inc. But it was like a pretty big one.
Like it was, you know, it was pretty big and you press, you know, you press its stomach or foot or whatever. And it like talks.
Yeah. Well, for whatever reason, this toy just it stopped working over time or it was like it would just keep going without stopping.
So I remember we went to Ocean City, Maryland for vacation and my grandparents were in one room, me, my mom, sister in another room. And she brought this doll with her and the time, would not shut the hell up.
Mike | 54:02
Brought her broken doll that just plays all.
Corey | 54:07
So what we did, we went over to my grandparents room and we hid this doll. So we hid it in the microwave. Right.
So end of the night, they go in, they go to bed and stuff. They're laying down in bed and they just hear this little voice know.
Mike | 54:22
Talking. And you're what you were in like a hotel.
So you could think it's somebody next door to you, like through the wall. Yeah, I don't.
Corey | 54:29
But they heard the voice talking and like they thought there was a ghost or something in their room. So they got up, turned the lights on. They're searching their entire hotel room, trying to see what the hell is going on. And I don't how they search for a while. And they just kept hearing it and stuff. And like, you know, they're freaking out like.
Mike | 54:46
They're a ghost in here and stuff. I can see. I especially see like your path, like just like. What the hell?
Yeah.
Corey | 54:53
Yeah. And then I guess they open the microwave and then they see in there.
Yeah.
Mike | 54:58
And I remember they closed that door and put it on like five and just went back to bed. That thing rose.
Corey | 55:02
But I remember like they told us about it like the next day. And it was just like classic.
Like that's something that like I won't ever forget.
Mike | 55:09
Yeah, that's hilarious. I like that.
Yeah. Yeah, that's what I got for possessed all. What do you got for the next topic or.
Corey | 55:24
Now we're going to get into some mimics?
Mike | 55:28
Let's go there.
Now I'm excited. Mimics is something that.
Like our episode didn't get a lot of downloads, but mimics are freaky as hell.
Corey | 55:45
Yeah.
Mike | 55:46
I mean, they're scary.
Corey | 55:48
Scary. Freaky.
Yeah.
Mike | 55:49
I think the biggest thing that freaks me out with mimics. And when you watch a lot of some of the ghost hunting shows and stuff, they run into mimics and stuff a lot.
Corey | 55:58
I think a mimics like. Mimicking your burps right now, because I.
Yeah, he I smell a burp.
Mike | 56:03
Looked at me like I don't think I burped. Yeah, I don't know. You burped. You just burped over there. You just burped.
Gosh, never. These mimics are super tricky. They're making us lose our minds a little bit. No, I just thought that the mimics are crazy because I don't understand what their ultimate goal is. As same as black eyes kids. What their intentions are. I feel like there's a theme for our episodes like mine are kind of more steered to like the scariness of when stuff targets children. This these ones are just like the complete unknown of intentions.
Yeah. I have absolutely no idea what the intentions of the black eyed kids are or mimics.
Corey | 56:48
So I picked mimics. Because I don't know if I mentioned it earlier, but I know I mentioned it in other episodes, I've had several paranormal experiences, you know, throughout my life. I've never had anything that resembled a mimic or an entity pretending to be someone else. But out of many of the topics we covered so far in our podcast journey. This is one that I strongly feel is real. There are so many reported experiences with mimics out there and based off of other paranormal or supernatural related occurrences. This is one that does not seem far fetched when we're talking about potential demons, trickster spirits. Laps in time, you know, I know we mentioned like alternate universe, things like that. Is that a thing?
I mean, it's in a lot of movies.
Mike | 57:47
But it's got to be real.
Corey | 57:50
Yeah, but I'm saying like it we haven't. I mean, maybe we know about it. We just don't know.
Yeah. But maybe they know, big brother. Maybe they know, but we don't know.
Mike | 58:01
But if you don't know now, you know, you No one to hold them.
Corey | 58:04
Got no one to show them. No one to walk away.
Mike | 58:11
No one to run.
Corey | 58:13
So there's many different explanations for what mimics could be. But just based off of everything that we've done so far in the paranormal realm, like I think that it's. It's a real thing.
Mike | 58:30
It could be. And I feel like a couple different of the spirit types, I think an intelligent spirit could be a mimic. I think a demonic spirit could be a mimic. Could a poltergeist spirit possibly be a mimic? Really, they don't usually talk, but I think they could be. Maybe they could mimic movements and stuff like that.
Corey | 58:47
So I have two Reddit stories, not very long. First one's a paragraph, second one's two paragraphs for mimics.
And then I have a nice old scenario here for crack dick, Mike or crack. Did he crack? What's your name? Crack Daddy. Crack Daddy Mike. That's Yeah.
Mike | 59:05
Right. Yeah, that's right.
Corey | 59:07
Third time's a charm. So first Reddit story.
Mike | 59:13
Let's go there.
Corey | 59:16
All right. Here we go. Inevitable Dash Dot 438.
Mike | 59:24
What up, Inevitable? 438? Dude.
Corey | 59:28
The comments on this brought this memory out of the woodworks. My boyfriend leaves for work before me. I usually go back to sleep and wake up a little bit later. This particular time, I heard him come back in. I opened up my eyes to see him open the door, grab something off the dresser and walk back away. During lunch break, I asked him what he forgot that morning and came back for. He said, I didn't come back home after I left. Bitch, I chalked it up to me still dreaming. But the door was open. Dot.
Mike | 01:00:07
I always struggle Yeah.
That dream state and stuff, because you never know your dream state. You could be sleepwalking. There's so many different elements to it. When you're falling asleep and dreams and everything. And that's like struggle with the hat man stuff. That's what I struggled with there.
Corey | 01:00:27
The only thing that I guess kind of brought this back to a possibility was like when they woke up, like the door was open. You know what I mean?
Like who opened the door? Yeah, that was the only thing that was like. But I like the next one here is better. Reddit user play underscore at underscore ease.
So play at ease.
Mike | 01:00:51
Play underscore at underscore ease. Play it. He's played.
Corey | 01:00:55
So my ex -husband slammed the front door while my son and I were napping.
Mike | 01:01:00
Son of a bitch. Dude, that's a dick move. I got so mad at my daughter the other day because she bought me on the nose when I was napping to wake me up. And I got so mad because I was in such a good nap.
Yeah. Yeah. That's not right. You don't ever mess with the napping person.
Yeah.
Corey | 01:01:17
He opened the bedroom door and I stood up quickly with excitement. I followed him out. I have eyes on his back and asked why he's home early from work. He said he forgot his shirt and has to hurry back walking down the hallway. OK, the grammar for this one is like sixth grade, maybe fifth grade.
So I follow him out. I have eyes on his back and ask why he's home early from work. He said he forgot his shirt and has to hurry back walking down the hallway, grabs his shirt off the couch, heading into the kitchen. I'm waiting at the front door for him to kiss me goodbye. He was never in the house.
Mike | 01:01:54
Dun. Is there no back door you go out?
Corey | 01:01:58
The worst part is the hallway where this encounter happened. We had a very strange moonlight window, a frame ceiling. My son left his Tableau on the couch. The camera captured hundreds of photos of the corner of the window. This unknowable black ectoplasm in so many different shapes. The best I can describe it is squid ink. I tried looking to see if there was a shirt or something on the Tableau that could make that image. Fuck no. I made that man come home from work immediately. LOL.
Mike | 01:02:32
Poor bastard.
Corey | 01:02:34
Yeah. So like she's pretty much saying what she.
Mike | 01:02:39
So is she saying at the same time this Tableau was set up taking pictures?
Corey | 01:02:44
Yeah. She's saying like she. She was napping with her son.
Mike | 01:02:50
Spooned.
Corey | 01:02:51
With her son. Boone, the ex husband, I guess, came in and slammed the door. She followed him, asked why he's home early. He said Forgot my Marlboro Reds.
Mike | 01:03:02
He forgot my Marlboro's. I forgot my shirt. Forgot my the hell?
Corey | 01:03:07
Shirt. Yeah.
Yeah. I didn't think about that.
Like, yeah, what.
Mike | 01:03:11
Yeah. Maybe at a different work shirt he had to wear. I don't know. I just thought it was funny. It's like, yeah, I forgot. I forgot my new drawers. Hold on a sec. I'm going to go change.
Yeah.
Corey | 01:03:21
So like he comes back, says he forgot his shirt and walked down the hallway, grabs a shirt off the couch, heads into the kitchen. She waits by the front door, give him a kiss goodbye.
And then just he was never there. Yeah.
And then she said about her son's Tableau or whatever in the living room or something or on the couch.
Mike | 01:03:46
So what was it? Just shooting just random photos?
Corey | 01:03:49
Yeah, I don't. She didn't really say just the Tableau was on the couch in the whatever it was, the living room or whatever. Just snap some pictures of like the hallway or whatever. And it snapped all these like black.
Like ink looking at the place Pictures of where this shit happened.
Mike | 01:04:07
Type thing. Yeah.
All right. I don't know.
Corey | 01:04:15
I just think mimics are. Creepy AF.
Mike | 01:04:20
They are creepy, super creepy. And I got the.
Corey | 01:04:22
Way to hear the scenario. I mean, you can finish saying what you're going to say here, but this scenario, I made sure to make it relate with like your actual house.
Mike | 01:04:31
And I've let you in my house before. I Listen, if it's something.
Listen, buddy, if you think I'm against banging a mimic, buddy, you're wrong. Yeah, I know. All right. You're not you up against the wall.
Corey | 01:04:44
Afraid to put Hattie up against the corner. Push It's a quiet evening at home.
Mike | 01:04:50
All right. Yeah. All right. Let's just hear the scenario. I got to hear it. You just know that's false. That never happens in my house. All right.
Yeah, sorry. Sorry.
Corey | 01:05:04
It's a quiet evening at home. You've just finished dinner and your wife and kids are settling down for the night. Your wife is upstairs getting the kids ready for bed while you're in the living room, relaxing after a long day of fixing telephone poles.
Mike | 01:05:19
Thanks. Appreciate the shout out.
Corey | 01:05:21
As you're sitting there.
Mike | 01:05:23
Hold on. I hope that's the only detail about my actual life. It's like that's a fix in telephone poles. Anyways, as.
Corey | 01:05:32
You're sitting there, you hear your wife call out from the kitchen. Michael, could you come here for a second? You're a bit confused. And she was upstairs just moments ago. But you assume she must have come down to grab something. You get up, walk towards the kitchen. But as you get closer, you hear her voice again. This time from upstairs. Michael, can you come up here? I need you. You freeze.
You know, she was just upstairs and now she's calling from both the kitchen and upstairs almost simultaneously. The kids are supposed to be in their room already in bed, so they wouldn't be calling you. The hairs on the back of your neck stand up as you hear the voice again from the kitchen, this time more urgently. Michael, please. I really need you right now. What do you do?
Mike | 01:06:17
Dude, you so you know, my first reaction is that I feel like I would just do. I would just yell, what? To try and figure out where the real ones are.
Like, I feel like that immediately where my brain went. Just go. What? Because I'm so confused, like my brain can't like at this point, I'm not even like freaked out. I'm just like, what the hell's going on? What? Because half the time I think it's like my brain and brain injuries lead to me being so confused. What? What? That's like the show.
And then I feel like the real one would just come and yell at me like, why are you yelling when the kids are sleeping? So I know what the real one is. It's like, babe, like if so, like, let's say I did that. What? And she came like coming down the stairs and she was just like, what's wrong with you? It's like, hey, did you go in the kitchen for a sec? You go check on something real quick. Did don't know.
Corey | 01:07:13
I leave something on the oven? I just I.
Mike | 01:07:17
Too freaked out to go look. What if it's burning my favorite oven mitt?
Yeah, I don't know. But yeah, I don't know. That's my first instinct. Just what?
Yeah, I'm so confused.
Corey | 01:07:29
I like it.
Mike | 01:07:31
What would you do in that situation? I do.
Yeah.
Corey | 01:07:34
She I know you're going to ask me that. Yeah. I'd probably run upstairs. Because I knew my wife was upstairs.
Yeah, I knew like, OK, just like because you're where you're sitting, like in your house, like you would you'd be able to see most likely. Well, depending, I guess.
Mike | 01:07:50
Yeah, but more likely, we'll see the stairs going upstairs. So I'd see him go.
Corey | 01:07:54
Yeah. So you'd be able to see.
So like, I'd probably go right upstairs. I wouldn't go in the kitchen now.
Mike | 01:08:00
But if I was hungry, I would.
Corey | 01:08:02
After the voices stopped.
Mike | 01:08:04
Yeah.
Corey | 01:08:05
Yeah. Yeah. No, I don't know.
Mike | 01:08:08
No, I like that, though. That is where my brain I would just scream. What could I be so like my brain? I feel like the way my brain works a lot of times, because I know there's a lot of people like I feel like in scary situations, there's a lot of people that look at stuff like that's paranormal. My brain just looks like what the hell was that?
You know? Yeah, I got it. I got to go see what I got to go see what the hell that was. That should be making that noise.
You know? That's what I got.
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Corey | 01:09:03
MySpace.
Mike | 01:09:04
I always forget MySpace. You do, yeah. And Zanga. We're pretty big on that.
Yeah. And remember this month only, if you donate a dollar for me to sit down with Skippy, we'll put you as our is it MySpace that has the top ten or is that?
Yeah, it's MySpace. MySpace. The top. You'll be on our top ten. You can you can.
Corey | 01:09:23
Pick our song, too. Yeah, could you could with Skippy.
Mike | 01:09:25
Yep. Just this week only. And you you could if he's sitting Which will be next to me.
Corey | 01:09:30
I'm sitting with Skippy. You can pick where I sit.
Mike | 01:09:34
Which will be next to Mike. Which would literally be my nightmare down with Skippy. It's listening to Corey breathe next to me the whole time.
Corey | 01:09:41
And I'm going to be close.
Mike | 01:09:42
Yeah. You lean up against me and I'll lean against you, that way we don't cross the lay our head in the mood. We're to butt.
Corey | 01:09:49
Going to be back to back, butt a whole campus of paranormal activity.
Mike | 01:09:51
Yeah, but the butt. Yeah. And We're going to be in one little room.
Yeah. So I'm Crack Daddy Mike, and I am out of here.
Corey | 01:10:02
And I'm the BK Corey. And I'm out. And Mike's dumb.