WEBVTT - S1: EP 4 — What Did We Sign Up For? 0:00:17.520 --> 0:00:20.759 Hello, my Haunting crew! Happy whatever day it is in 0:00:20.800 --> 0:00:24.880 the mortal realm when these episodes drop. Again, time is 0:00:25.079 --> 0:00:29.080 very abstract here. I want to kick off today's ep. by 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:32.360 saying thank you. Our subscriber count continues to grow, and 0:00:32.400 --> 0:00:35.800 my personal social following has also ballooned since starting Haunting. 0:00:36.200 --> 0:00:38.680 I'm getting closer than ever to getting my blue check, 0:00:39.159 --> 0:00:46.440 finishing my business and crossing over into, I'm gonna assume Heaven. Sharon, 0:00:46.680 --> 0:00:50.320 my caseworker, has been pretty tight lipped on those details. So, 0:00:50.520 --> 0:00:54.080 from the bottom of my no- longer- beating heart, thank 0:00:54.120 --> 0:00:57.480 you to all the Hauntingers haunters? 0:00:58.000 --> 0:00:58.400 (mumbles) 0:01:01.120 --> 0:01:04.920 Haunter- sizers? Hmm, okay, we'll keep pitching on it though. 0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:08.400 In honor of all our new friends. I thought it 0:01:08.440 --> 0:01:10.640 would be a good time for an AMA. 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:10.480 (mumbles) 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:13.240 People know what that is, Len! 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:14.240 (mumbles) 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:18.800 Fine? Fine, it stands for ask me anything. It's when 0:01:18.840 --> 0:01:22.039 you that yet to be named Listeners comment your questions 0:01:22.080 --> 0:01:25.039 and I answer them live on the pod or I 0:01:25.080 --> 0:01:32.640 guess unlive. Okay, let's get into it. Josh from New England. 0:01:32.880 --> 0:01:35.399 I used to date a Josh from New England. Maybe 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:36.840 it's the same one. Hmm. 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:39.759 We'll have to listen and see if he's constantly talking 0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:44.479 about his seventy seven classic Ford Bronco. Anyway, Josh makes 0:01:44.520 --> 0:01:49.480 some pretty serious late night accusations against a ghost. Like 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:53.200 my nanny Mildred used to say, nothing good happens after midnight. 0:01:54.080 --> 0:01:56.200 Turns out that's when she would take my mom's value 0:01:56.280 --> 0:01:58.600 and pass out with her schnops. Ugh. 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:03.440 I'm Josh, I grew up in New England and this 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:06.720 is a story about how a ghost inappropriately touched me 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:07.360 in my sleep. 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:14.080 This happened many, many years ago, when I was in 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:20.360 high school. I signed up to go and study ghosts, myths 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:24.880 and legends in Ireland for two and a half months 0:02:25.000 --> 0:02:28.359 over the summer. It was like an exchange program. Not 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:31.440 only did I get to learn about the local culture 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:33.200 where I was going while I was there, but I 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:35.200 got to learn about a lot of people's cultures from 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:37.400 the US as well. Because we were together for a 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:42.040 long time. We would talk about lore and folklore. But 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:46.960 once we were dismissed from our class structure, we were 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:51.600 pretty much unsupervised for the rest of the day. We'd 0:02:51.600 --> 0:02:54.680 hang out and we'd kinda just talk and bond over 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:59.200 fries and just kind of watch the world go by. 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:01.360 We did a lot of other stuff and then just 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:04.640 sit inside the classroom. We went on field trips. 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:07.760 Our leader's name he was Donal. It's a pretty common 0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:11.320 Irish name. He was a ringleader and he was very smart. 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:15.000 One day he comes in, he goes, all right, guys, 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:18.560 we're going somewhere and you're gonna have to pack an 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:19.239 overnight back. 0:03:19.320 --> 0:03:20.560 We were like, "oh cool, what are we doing? Are 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:23.880 we're going camping?" He goes "kinda." There was nine of us, 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:28.760 seven girls and two guys, and Donal's not telling us 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:35.640 really anything. I remember a couple of people being super excited. 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:38.280 I'm like, cool, whatever happens happens. 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:42.800 We pile in the van. We drive from Cork to 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:47.040 like right outside of Galway. We had crossed the point 0:03:47.080 --> 0:03:53.320 of no return. We went to this pub and we 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:55.760 sat down and we were all getting ready to eat dinner. 0:03:56.640 --> 0:04:00.160 As our food comes, he starts to tell us we're 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:03.840 going to a haunted house. We're gonna spend the night. 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:11.160 The story of the house is kind of sad. It 0:04:11.200 --> 0:04:15.800 was around the time of the famine. A family had 0:04:15.840 --> 0:04:18.760 moved into it and it was a young family. The 0:04:18.839 --> 0:04:21.960 mother just gave birth. The baby and The father was 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:24.960 working on a farm and as the famine came, there 0:04:25.160 --> 0:04:29.520 was less and less work. It got to a point where, 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:32.280 you know, he got really frustrated, so he turned to 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:35.600 drinking and he's not around to help provide for the family. 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:41.040 One day, he's out and the mother goes to the 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:45.120 money lender without his knowledge. She needs money to put 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:47.320 food on the table for the family and for the child. 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:50.520 He comes back in the middle of the day and 0:04:50.680 --> 0:04:55.480 he reaks of booze. He comes in, he turns to 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:59.680 her and says, "what are you doing?" She says, I 0:04:59.800 --> 0:05:02.240 went to go get money from the money lender because 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:07.960 we can't sustain our family. At this point, he was 0:05:07.960 --> 0:05:12.400 feeling shamed. The next day, the mother goes to the 0:05:12.440 --> 0:05:17.599 money lender. She leaves the baby with the husband and 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:20.359 is having this really deep, in depth conversation with the 0:05:20.360 --> 0:05:24.159 money lender that apparently went on for a couple of hours. 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:28.599 During that time, the father has a couple of drinks. 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:36.520 Baby's asleep, it's fine, another drink won't hurt. So, he 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:38.360 has a couple of more drinks. And he has a couple 0:05:38.480 --> 0:05:41.920 more drinks, and the baby wakes up and he's drunk. 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:43.520 He's absolutely drunk. 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:51.240 And the baby starts howling, screaming, crying through its lungs. 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:54.840 The accounts that were written said that the baby was 0:05:55.040 --> 0:06:00.680 howling screaming like a banshee. He's trying to do the 0:06:00.720 --> 0:06:02.960 fatherly thing and takes the baby to his chest and 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:05.440 he's just holding the baby to him and he's just 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:08.360 rocking back and forth in the chair and he pulls 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:11.680 tighter and tighter as the baby gets louder and louder, 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:15.960 and he pulls harder and deeper into his chest. 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:20.840 Then it's quiet, completely silent. 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:26.000 Then he puts the baby back in its bassinet. And 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:30.839 about ten minutes later, the mother comes in. The father 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:34.400 is sitting visibly drunk in the chair, and she says, 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:36.880 how's the baby? He said, all the baby was crying 0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:39.360 and crying and crying, and I, you know, I was 0:06:39.400 --> 0:06:41.080 a good father, and I put it to my chest 0:06:41.120 --> 0:06:43.600 and I was rocking it. The baby eventually fell back 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:45.799 to sleep and I put it back in its bascinet. 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:50.600 So she walks over to the bacinet. She looks in 0:06:50.920 --> 0:06:55.160 and she sees that the baby isn't moving. She looks closer, 0:06:55.400 --> 0:06:59.719 she sees that the baby isn't breathing. She touches the baby, 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:04.040 the baby feels cold, and at that moment something changed 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:10.320 in her. She picked up a knife, walked over to 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:16.240 her husband and screamed to the heavens as she stabbed 0:07:16.280 --> 0:07:21.520 him multiple times, and then she cut her own throat. 0:07:27.800 --> 0:07:34.280 We're being told this story over dinner. Donald goes the 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:37.000 reason that we're staying in this house is because it's haunted, 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:40.440 and then he proceeds to tell us what the actual 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:47.240 haunt is. He said that builders their tools have gone missing. 0:07:48.560 --> 0:07:52.640 If there are any knives in the house, they're stuck 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:55.120 into things, like they're picked up and they're moved, and 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:59.280 they're driven into wood. If there's any change on the floor, 0:07:59.360 --> 0:08:04.640 it usually ends up by windowsills, and there's a baby 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:10.680 that cries. The nine of us were just like, "oh man, 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:12.560 what do we sign up for? What are we doing?" 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:17.480 So, we finish our food and we go into this 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:23.960 small house. We're all sitting and he asked us to 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:28.040 bring something. Some person brought a stress ball, another person 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:31.760 brought like a journal and a pen. Another person brought 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:35.160 like a fashion magazine. The only thing that I had 0:08:35.280 --> 0:08:38.240 was a permanent marker, like a sharpie, and I left 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:41.560 that in the pocket of my cargo pants. We're all 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:43.800 hanging out and we're having fun and we're talking about stuff, 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:47.120 and we're talking about music and this and that, you know. 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:50.040 Talking about how oh Galway is, you know, so pretty. Maybe 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:54.319 we'll go into the town tomorrow before we leave, Yada, Yada. 0:08:54.760 --> 0:08:57.000 It's getting a little bit late at this point, so 0:08:57.280 --> 0:09:00.839 people start going to sleep. We're all in sleeping bags. Mind you, 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:03.640 the sharpie that I have is in my pocket inside 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:14.960 the sleeping bag. At about four am, somebody woke up. 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:18.360 They woke a couple other people up, and they were like, 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:19.920 do you, can't you hear the baby crying? Do you 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:22.440 hear there's, the baby, it's crying? Can you hear it? 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:27.719 I'm still asleep. So they told me about this secondhand, 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:33.600 and then everybody woke up, like around five thirty, six 0:09:33.640 --> 0:09:34.400 when the someone's coming. 0:09:35.120 --> 0:09:38.760 The stress ball was ripped in half, like it was 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:43.640 absolutely ripped in half. The journal had like scribbles on 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:47.160 it that didn't make any sense, like what a child 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:50.359 would do on a piece of paper with a pen, scribbles. 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:55.440 The change that was around someone else was scattered all 0:09:55.480 --> 0:09:59.800 over the house, all by windowsills. Some were stacked, somewhere 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:04.520 a line. It was wild! Wild because this stuff was 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:08.640 not far away from these people. Somebody would have woken up. 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:10.040 Somebody would have woken up. 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:14.800 Now we get to me. I woke up, my shirt 0:10:14.840 --> 0:10:16.640 is off. I went to bed with a shirt on. 0:10:20.120 --> 0:10:23.040 I go to the bathroom and I look in the mirror. 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:32.920 There was writing on my chest. Unintelligible writing, more than scribbles, 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:37.280 but less than words. And I just looked at it 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:38.400 for like ten minutes. 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:44.320 So then another person came in and said, "Oh what?" 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:50.680 I was like, "I know, right? This is weird." 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:53.480 She was like, "you told me your thing was inside 0:10:53.480 --> 0:10:53.960 your pocket." 0:10:54.080 --> 0:10:56.200 I was like, "yeah, but I didn't tell anybody else." 0:10:58.679 --> 0:11:01.040 I went to go in my pocket to find my 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:08.400 purnent marker, and it was gone. There really is no 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:10.560 way that if a person did that, I wouldn't have 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:14.720 woken up. Like the steps that a person would need 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:17.719 to take to get to the marker, you would have 0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:22.960 to unzip the sleeping bag, find what pocket the marker 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:27.040 is in, extract the marker, then pull my shirt off, 0:11:27.440 --> 0:11:33.600 then write it on my chest. Wet ink on my chest! 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:42.880 I should have woken up. It was after that night, 0:11:43.600 --> 0:11:50.760 after that experience, that solidified the feeling that I always 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:57.320 kind of had. The supernatural ghosts are real. 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:14.040 Not the josh I dated, But this one sounds like 0:12:14.080 --> 0:12:17.360 a cutie. I actually had a really similar thing happened 0:12:17.400 --> 0:12:20.440 when I was pledging Tri- Delt. It wasn't a ghost, though, 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:23.920 it was a Girl named Hannah, and she didn't write scribbles. 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:29.480 She wrote (BLEEP). Now she teaches first grade, and I can 0:12:29.520 --> 0:12:35.240 say with total confidence that her penmanship is delightful. But 0:12:35.360 --> 0:12:38.280 let's get to your questions. I had Naomi pull some 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:41.079 of the more interesting ones, so let's see what we got. 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:46.320 Kooky Spooky 027 wants to know Therésa , how did 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:49.240 you die? Naomi, I said, we're not doing these ones. Remember, 0:12:52.240 --> 0:12:55.480 I don't care how many people ask, We're not doing that, 0:12:55.720 --> 0:12:56.040 got it? 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:04.960 Here's one! From All- Things- Alyssa- XO. Hi Therésa, Alyssa 0:13:05.000 --> 0:13:09.880 here from Cincinnati pre- mortem fan, post- mortem caller. I 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:12.280 cannot express how much I look up to you and 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:17.000 appreciate what you do. Your videos, product res and ootds 0:13:17.040 --> 0:13:19.679 are always the best part of my day. And since 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:22.960 you've started haunting, I've even begun dabbling in the occult. 0:13:23.360 --> 0:13:27.240 I've really come into my power, the divine, feminine and supernatural, 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:32.600 and it's all thanks to you. Stop! No, that is 0:13:32.720 --> 0:13:36.400 so sweet. Light a candle on a pentacle under the 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:39.000 next full moon and I might just pop by to say, hey, 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:43.200 ideally something earthy or a light floral Santall twenty six 0:13:43.240 --> 0:13:44.800 if you have. But I'm not picky. 0:13:46.360 --> 0:13:46.880 I love that. 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:53.520 Let's send her some swag. Well we still don't have swag. 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:56.320 You guys are really testing me today. 0:13:58.320 --> 0:14:01.120 Moving on, this next time totally true story is more 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:04.040 of a feel good moment. Our friend Lindsay lost her 0:14:04.120 --> 0:14:07.360 dad a few years back. But just because someone's passed 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:10.320 on doesn't mean we'll never see them again. 0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:18.880 My name is Lindsay Bell, and this is the story 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:23.680 of when my dad saved my life. It was just 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:28.920 over five years ago when my dad died. I was fifteen. 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:32.880 He was a lawyer and sometimes he would have to 0:14:32.960 --> 0:14:37.240 work on research or prepare for court or something. It 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:40.160 was one of those nights, you know, where he had 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:44.160 a stayly. So my mom thought it would be you know, 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:47.000 fun if we maybe had you know, a little girl time. 0:14:49.840 --> 0:14:53.160 My mom ordered a pizza, we gave each other manicures, 0:14:53.360 --> 0:14:56.000 and we watched a movie. God, I don't even remember 0:14:56.000 --> 0:14:57.800 which one at this point. I think it might have 0:14:57.840 --> 0:15:01.320 been Pitch Perfect or something. And the movie ended. It 0:15:01.480 --> 0:15:10.200 was way past my bedtime, like around eleven thirty. Before 0:15:10.240 --> 0:15:11.920 I went to bed, I asked my mom when Dad 0:15:11.960 --> 0:15:15.520 would come back. She actually sounded a little worried, and 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:17.600 she was like, I don't know, he should have been 0:15:17.600 --> 0:15:20.360 home by now. I didn't really think too much about it, 0:15:20.400 --> 0:15:21.320 and then I went to bed. 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:26.320 The next thing I remember is my mom waking me up. 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:30.680 This wasn't like when she or my dad would wake 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:32.680 me up, because I would oversleep for school a lot. 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:36.880 She was frantic. She goes, We've got to go get dressed. 0:15:37.560 --> 0:15:39.720 I was barely awake and I did not want to 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:41.280 get out of my bed. I mean, it's like the 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:46.960 middle of the night. So there I was like okay, confused, 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:49.400 like okay, where do we have to go? And she 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:52.160 just stopped and looked at me. And I'm telling you, 0:15:53.120 --> 0:15:55.960 I will never forget that look. I mean, I can't 0:15:56.000 --> 0:15:59.160 even describe it. I was like, I don't know, like 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:02.800 terror or something like that. She just said, Dad's been 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:03.800 in an accident. 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:11.480 When we got to the emergency room, they told me 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:17.040 he was driving home from work. It had been raining 0:16:17.480 --> 0:16:19.880 and someone apparently had run a red light or something. 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:23.240 The cop said that when the guy saw my dad, 0:16:23.840 --> 0:16:26.120 he slammed on his brakes, but because the roads were 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:30.160 so slippery, he lost control of his car and slammed 0:16:30.240 --> 0:16:32.360 right into the driver's side door of my dad's car, 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:36.960 and then it started spinning all through the intersection until 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:38.800 it hit this lightpole like, head on. 0:16:42.120 --> 0:16:45.000 My mom and I were devastated. Like I saw my 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:47.840 dad that morning, but the next time I saw him 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:52.480 it was at the funeral. He was like my hero, 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:56.160 he was my protector, and then he was just gone. 0:16:58.160 --> 0:17:00.920 So I had been having a really hard time sleeping. 0:17:01.120 --> 0:17:05.600 I just kept thinking about my dad. The night after 0:17:05.640 --> 0:17:09.160 the funeral, I had this dream. 0:17:09.400 --> 0:17:13.760 I was at a park, totally normal sometimes I cut 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:17.600 through there when I walk home from school. And then 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:20.280 I saw smoke coming from where there were like a 0:17:20.320 --> 0:17:26.199 bunch of trees. The whole thing felt so real. I 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:28.720 started looking for the smoke, but I couldn't even find it. 0:17:28.960 --> 0:17:30.240 You know, It's like when you're trying to get to 0:17:30.280 --> 0:17:31.879 like the end of the rainbow or something like that, 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:35.960 there's nothing there. When I would get close it would move, 0:17:36.680 --> 0:17:38.679 and then finally I turned around. I guess i'd like 0:17:38.720 --> 0:17:41.440 given up or something, But then I saw my dad. 0:17:45.960 --> 0:17:49.320 He was just standing there like ten feet in front 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:54.320 of me. This felt so real. I mean I could 0:17:54.400 --> 0:17:56.760 even smell his cologne, like that's how real it was. 0:17:58.600 --> 0:18:01.080 So, I walk over and I asked him. I said, Daddy, 0:18:01.160 --> 0:18:05.600 is that really you? And he didn't say a word, 0:18:06.280 --> 0:18:09.639 but all he could do was just not So then 0:18:09.640 --> 0:18:11.960 I started to ask another question, and then he put 0:18:12.040 --> 0:18:14.440 his finger in front of his mouth, like to say, 0:18:14.480 --> 0:18:18.760 like be quiet. I think they used to call it 0:18:18.800 --> 0:18:22.840 and you know stop sign in kindergarten, and then he 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:28.000 holds out his hand. He was holding like a toy car. 0:18:29.040 --> 0:18:31.639 It was like this bright red SCV and with a 0:18:31.680 --> 0:18:35.560 black stripe along the side. And then he moved his 0:18:35.600 --> 0:18:38.000 finger away from his mouth and then made the no 0:18:38.200 --> 0:18:40.240 motion like he was waving it back and forth. 0:18:41.680 --> 0:18:44.040 I don't even know what it meant, but I knew 0:18:44.080 --> 0:18:49.119 that there was something clearly about this toy car that 0:18:49.240 --> 0:18:58.560 wasn't right. So when I woke up, I thought that 0:18:58.640 --> 0:19:01.080 I had been to like the car, and that everything 0:19:01.080 --> 0:19:03.400 that I dreamt of was completely real. I mean, obviously 0:19:03.440 --> 0:19:04.080 it was a dream. 0:19:04.520 --> 0:19:07.760 But then later that afternoon, I was walking home from school, 0:19:07.840 --> 0:19:09.400 and you know, I did what I did. I cut 0:19:09.400 --> 0:19:13.239 through the park. The park is huge. It had all 0:19:13.280 --> 0:19:17.399 of these baseball fields where my softball team would normally practice, 0:19:17.440 --> 0:19:20.040 and then there's like this football field. It's a huge park. 0:19:24.320 --> 0:19:26.240 On the other side of the parking lot, they were 0:19:26.280 --> 0:19:28.960 all of these trees, almost like in like a forest. 0:19:29.200 --> 0:19:30.920 I mean, I never went to that part of the park, 0:19:31.280 --> 0:19:34.639 but I'm walking towards the parking lot and then I 0:19:34.640 --> 0:19:37.000 see a friend of mine from school and her brother 0:19:37.080 --> 0:19:39.199 had just gotten his driver's license and was going to 0:19:39.200 --> 0:19:43.680 pick her up since we also lived nearby. She asked 0:19:43.720 --> 0:19:45.240 if I wanted to ride home, and of course I 0:19:45.280 --> 0:19:45.800 said yes. 0:19:46.160 --> 0:19:48.399 And then her brother pulled up, and then I started 0:19:48.400 --> 0:19:54.919 a freak out. Her brother was driving a red SUV 0:19:56.359 --> 0:19:59.439 and it had a black stripe that went all the 0:19:59.440 --> 0:20:04.679 way down side. It looked exactly like the toy car 0:20:04.760 --> 0:20:09.200 from my dream. It was the one that my dad 0:20:09.240 --> 0:20:14.359 was holding. I felt, literally all of the hair is 0:20:14.359 --> 0:20:18.600 on my arms and my neck stand straight up. My 0:20:18.720 --> 0:20:21.439 friend was probably noticing that all of the blood had 0:20:21.480 --> 0:20:23.199 rush on my face, and you know, asked if I 0:20:23.280 --> 0:20:27.639 was okay, But I wasn't okay. I didn't get in 0:20:27.640 --> 0:20:32.800 the car. I didn't even give a crap what they 0:20:32.840 --> 0:20:35.040 thought of me. There was just no way I was 0:20:35.080 --> 0:20:36.000 not getting in the car. 0:20:41.400 --> 0:20:44.720 The next day I found out that my friend got 0:20:44.720 --> 0:20:47.560 into an accident on their way home. They were okay. 0:20:48.200 --> 0:20:51.159 But I'd like to think that my dad came to 0:20:51.200 --> 0:20:53.840 me in that dream to let me know that he 0:20:53.920 --> 0:20:57.480 was still looking out for me. I still think he's 0:20:57.520 --> 0:20:58.720 always looking out for me. 0:21:13.560 --> 0:21:16.520 Oh, we love a happy ending. I'm sure he always 0:21:16.640 --> 0:21:18.920 is looking out for you, and clearly in a very 0:21:19.040 --> 0:21:22.720 casper Ghost of Christmas Present kind of way, and less of 0:21:22.760 --> 0:21:27.119 a Freddy Krueger, Boba Duke or whatever situation Josh was 0:21:27.160 --> 0:21:27.600 dealing with. 0:21:29.080 --> 0:21:32.399 All right, my scare crew, maybe are we identifying with 0:21:32.440 --> 0:21:34.240 that one? We'll keep experimenting. 0:21:35.080 --> 0:21:38.480 That's our show for today. 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