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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to my Favorite Murder.

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Speaker 2: That's Georgia hertstar.

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Speaker 3: That's Karen Kilgariff.

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Speaker 2: This is a minisode. God damn it.

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Speaker 3: Okay, we can still introduce ourselves in our minisode. Maybe

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Speaker 3: we should start doing that now.

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Speaker 2: I think we should be Yeah, ten years in, let's

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Speaker 2: keep it mysterious. Oh, I think you go first. That's time.

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Speaker 1: Okay.

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Speaker 3: We have special Halloween hometowns for you guys because it's

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Speaker 3: spooky season.

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Speaker 2: And if you're watching a video, you can see that

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Speaker 2: Georgia has a very special Halloween inspired T shirt on

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Speaker 2: right now.

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Speaker 3: I found this at a vintage shop when we were

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Speaker 3: in Denver and it reminded me of Candy Corn and

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Speaker 3: I was like, this is perfect for the show. I

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Speaker 3: want to see something really spooky. Yeah, look at the

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Speaker 3: size of that fucking is it on my phone?

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, it's the ghost of your teenage years or.

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Speaker 3: I don't know. Touring breaks me out so good, dude.

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Speaker 2: Here's the thing I watched the other day and the

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Speaker 2: bags under my eyes, like the it was hilarious. I

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Speaker 2: was just like, no one's ever gonna mention that I

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Speaker 2: have huge, like exhaustion bags. Only you think that yeah,

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Speaker 2: but good lord, I could slap some fucking restricter on there.

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Speaker 2: Do something.

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Speaker 1: It's all bad. It's all bad.

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Speaker 2: It's all we're doing a lot of things. We're aging,

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Speaker 2: we're aging. We decided to Why don't we go ahead

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Speaker 2: and record this for posterity?

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Speaker 1: Great idea?

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Speaker 3: Yeah us, all right, this one's called perfect Halloween Hometown

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Speaker 3: MFM crew, Let me jump right in. I went to

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Speaker 3: middle and high school in a small Vermont town called Woodstock.

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Speaker 3: It's quiet, historical, no stop lights kind of town, and

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Speaker 3: it reeks of its Puritan past. Central to the town

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Speaker 3: is a green like a small park where most of

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Speaker 3: the community events take place, including farmers' markets, snow sculpture contests,

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Speaker 3: et cetera. It sounds like a Hallmark movie.

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Speaker 2: Does snow sculpture like just I'm gonna give you a

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Speaker 3: But there is one community event in particular I'd like

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Speaker 3: to tell you about. In eighteen thirty four, the eldest

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Speaker 3: brother of the Ransom family, Frederick, aged twenty, died of

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Speaker 3: an illness that made him very pale and lose his

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Speaker 3: appetite for food. Three months after his death, the younger brother, Daniel,

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Speaker 3: became ill with the same symptoms and began to waste away.

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Speaker 3: The family feared that the dead son was a vampire,

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Speaker 3: draining his little brother from beyond the grave. I feel

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Speaker 3: like eighteen thirty four is a little late in the

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Speaker 3: game to be believing that, right, Yes, agreed, like sixteen

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Speaker 3: something maybe.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like or if you lived out in the

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Speaker 2: country late seventeen hundreds. But yeah, come on now, so.

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Speaker 3: This is on them. The family dug Frederick up, and

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Speaker 3: upon examining the decaying corpse, one doctor Frost determined that

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Speaker 3: there was fresh blood in Frederick's heart and that he

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Speaker 3: had likely sucked it from his brother.

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Speaker 1: Okay, sir, sir.

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Speaker 2: We need a second opinion on this one.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: The townspeople gathered together at the green with a blacksmith

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Speaker 3: forge to burn the body, because, as we all know,

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Speaker 3: this is how you release a curse. Yeah, but this

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Speaker 3: got me. The younger brother, Daniel, eats the ashes of

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Speaker 3: his brother's vampiric heart to try to cure him. Daniel

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Speaker 3: was only three years old, which means they're fucking forcing

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Speaker 3: this baby. The rest of the ashes were buried in

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Speaker 3: a box in the center of the Woodstock Green. Good lord,

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Speaker 3: I have been to the cemetery that Frederick was originally

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Speaker 3: buried at, even on schools field trips, but his grave

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Speaker 3: was supposed to house Frederick's ashes. When they reached six feet,

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Speaker 3: the earth shook and they heard screams and a deep rumbling.

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Speaker 3: Needless to say, no one is fucked with digging up

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Speaker 3: that shit since. But my best friend's mom still lives

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Speaker 3: The guy was good looking and younger than her, so

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Speaker 3: they went out a few times. That's all it takes

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Speaker 1: That's all you see.

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Speaker 2: Dum, stop talking about that. Does amity common in you?

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Speaker 2: I don't know why you keep asking how these care?

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Speaker 3: And tell He said that he thinks he's a relative

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Speaker 3: Stay sexy and dump him if he wants to drink

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Speaker 3: your blood cat as an afterward. It's it is likely

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Speaker 3: his family's eventual death was tuberculosis. I sent this in

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Speaker 3: once before and forgot to sign it. So Kachina.

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Speaker 2: Nailed it. You nailed it. You nailed it. Kat Oh,

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Speaker 2: that was really good.

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Speaker 1: So fucked up.

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Speaker 2: But also it just makes you think of like that

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Speaker 2: stuff that used to happen back then, where it's like

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Speaker 2: one old guy with a beard and he's just like, yeah,

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Speaker 2: you know what this is, and no one checked me

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Speaker 3: One elected official with like a fucking MD.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, I'm not going to read it the subject

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Speaker 2: I know this one. It says, hey, MFM faan, let's

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Speaker 2: give her something they legit say. In my hometown, I

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Speaker 2: grew up in rural Farmland, Ontario, Canada, where my parents

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Speaker 2: grew ridiculous and hideous town fair award winning giant pumpkins.

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Speaker 2: We're talking over a three hundred pound variety. And back

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Speaker 2: in those days their place was also the local party

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Speaker 2: house slash barn, where they hosted, among all the other festivities,

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Speaker 2: an annual Halloween rager. My uncle, who works for the

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Speaker 2: got the great idea to blow up that year's biggest

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Speaker 2: That's the person I want to meet. This went on

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Speaker 2: for a couple of years with that incident, just chunks

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Speaker 2: decided to up the ante that year. I need to

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Speaker 2: meet this man. He's fine, he's he is what it's about.

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Speaker 2: This is just making life fun and explosive, and basically

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Speaker 2: accidentally built a pipe bomb. Oops. I was always too

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Speaker 2: cool as a teenager to attend these parties. So I

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Speaker 2: was just arriving home that night, high as hell, and

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Speaker 2: Then came the blinding white light and the loudest bang

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Speaker 2: I stood in the driveway as I started to hear

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Speaker 2: shock for several moments, and then my uncle frantically started yelling,

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Speaker 2: is everyone okay? Miraculously and thankfully everyone was Oh drunk?

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Speaker 1: People with explosives, yeah, terrible idea.

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Speaker 2: It's bad enough when they're just firecrackers. Family and friends,

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Speaker 2: Among all the fake blood and ridiculous costumes. They had

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Speaker 2: like a cannonball, close to my aunt's head. Everyone just

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Speaker 2: Still in shock, and as the bitchy teenager I was,

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Speaker 3: So embarrassing, this is me, stupid.

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Speaker 2: You blew up a boulder and it hurts me.

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Speaker 3: Wor my problem now?

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Speaker 2: So they stormed into the house and up to their

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Speaker 2: the backside of the My fucking god, how's up for

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Speaker 1: Fucking idiots?

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Speaker 2: I stormed downstairs, where a small remainder of my family

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Speaker 2: was gathered, basically in tears, saying, you guys went too

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Speaker 2: far and everyone knew this to be true. The silence

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Speaker 2: was still so eerie, no one knew what to say.

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Speaker 2: Then the phone started ringing. The neighbors were all calling

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Speaker 2: around to each other. The town had come to the

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Speaker 2: to nervously talk them down, muttering something about homemade fireworks.

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Speaker 2: Needless to say, that was the last year they grew pumpkins,

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Speaker 2: with a real bang, Stay sexy and don't accidentally build

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Speaker 2: a pipe bomb was stolen explosives to blow shit up

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Speaker 2: as a party trick.

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Speaker 3: Laura, Oh, that's amazing, can't you just chunk those punkin

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Speaker 3: chunkin you know when they like, Yeah, sling shots, just

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Speaker 2: I know you don't need explosives. You can do any

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Speaker 2: So many ideas, so many violent ideas to replace them

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Speaker 2: the other violent idea. All right, this is a Ouiji

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Speaker 2: board story. Hi, Karen and Georgia. A friend of mine

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Speaker 2: in middle school was obsessed with all things scary and

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Speaker 2: had an October birthday, so naturally, her fourteenth birthday party

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Speaker 2: was Halloween themed. There were about ten girls in attendance,

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Speaker 2: and my friend's parents, two of the nicest people I've

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Speaker 2: at the time activities think haunted hay ride, tarot card readings,

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Speaker 2: an uncle dresses Michael Myers as fucking uncles.

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Speaker 1: Man, love you.

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Speaker 4: I'm just kind of standing in the doorway with a

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Speaker 2: While they're doing real work.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I bet she was an only child. To cap

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Speaker 3: off the night we broke out the Ouiji board, we

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Speaker 3: played around for a few minutes, then began receiving the

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Speaker 3: words help, water and res We were freaked out, but

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Speaker 3: perhaps two days later. The woman was said to have

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Speaker 3: gone missing on Friday and was found on Monday. The

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Speaker 3: and even at fourteen, was the asshole of the group

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Speaker 3: trying to rationalize away the messages. But I still get

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Speaker 3: chills thinking about it. We're from a very small town

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Speaker 3: and rumors about the woman's death ran wild. It doesn't

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Speaker 3: seem that there was any serious criminal investigation, and sadly,

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Speaker 3: Her mother is adamant that she was murdered, and sixteen

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Speaker 3: Thank you for all you do, researching, writing, and producing

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Speaker 3: this podcast. It's gotten me through many long drives slash

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Speaker 3: days at work. You rock Anonymous. Anonymous doesn't want to

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Speaker 2: stay sexy, and trust but verify Ava ps A special

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Speaker 2: thanks to Karen for her year too High song. Imagine

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Speaker 2: a middle aged woman me curled in a fetal position,

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Speaker 2: No one's ever that high.

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Speaker 1: I love trust, but verify. Yeah, that's a good one.

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Speaker 1: Let's steal it? Secret holes and walls?

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Speaker 3: Yo, yell YEAHI Hi Karen and Georgia. I've always loved

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Speaker 3: I work at Spirit Halloween. How fucking fun is that?

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Speaker 3: Oh and this year and this year, we've seen a

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Speaker 3: I work this scary ass job. Yes, stay sexy heart

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Speaker 2: I would like for you to check in every once

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Speaker 2: But also there have been stories over the years people

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Speaker 2: It's like absolute hopefully since everyone knows there's.

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Speaker 2: I bet it's fun times, okay, but you have to

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Speaker 2: it says, hello, murder besties. I have a zillion things

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Speaker 2: horrifyingly long. I'm catching up on episodes and heard something

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Speaker 2: about prankster teachers and I had to talk about mister Bream.

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Speaker 2: Do you remember prankster teachers? But we're bringing it all

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Speaker 2: back with mister brain.

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Speaker 1: Let's do it.

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Speaker 2: He was the legendary seventh grade history teacher at my

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Speaker 2: When we walked in. He looked distracted and weird, and

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Speaker 2: he was going to be next. He knew that the

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Speaker 2: climber had come back for revenge for being left for dead.

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Speaker 2: At the end of the story, the lights suddenly went

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Speaker 2: off and mister Bream screamed, Oh my god.

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Speaker 1: How do you keep us right fast?

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Speaker 2: To mister Bream, I mean, you've got to have the

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Speaker 2: passion of a prankster in you, where you're like, this

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Speaker 2: is going to scare the fuck out of them. I

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Speaker 2: just can't give it away.

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Speaker 3: I was supposed to be an actor, not a teacher.

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Speaker 3: But let's make the best of it.

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Speaker 2: You have to it. Maybe he's deep down supposed to

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Speaker 2: be an actor because he's tapping into something real. So

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Speaker 2: he screams, Oh my god, all the seventh graders screamed

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Speaker 2: before realizing that he's been fucking with us. Everyone laughed,

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Speaker 2: and he checked in to see how we were all

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Speaker 2: feeling after the story, making sure no one was too scared.

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Speaker 2: While in retrospect, this story was far fetched enough that

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Speaker 2: we should have all known it was a prank. I

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Speaker 2: was and am very gullible and believed every word right

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Speaker 2: till the end. He then told us to make sure

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Speaker 2: to tell kids and later classes that we had a

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Speaker 2: pop quiz so as not to spoil the joke.

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Speaker 3: Love it.

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Speaker 2: This teacher was also beloved enough that no one spoiled

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Speaker 2: the Pee taw Man story for the other classes. For years.

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Speaker 1: Oh shit.

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Speaker 2: I went back and listened to him tell that story

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Speaker 2: as one of the former students until I graduated high school.

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Speaker 2: I even got to be the one to turn off

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Speaker 2: the lights a few times. My gosh, older kids didn't

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Speaker 2: spoil it for their younger siblings, and mister Bream told

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Speaker 2: that story every year until he retired.

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Speaker 3: Oh my god, I'm gonna cry.

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Speaker 1: I know, it's really good.

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Speaker 2: That's like true unity of like we're going to keep

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Speaker 2: your innocence and fuck with you a little bit, and like.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but also like here's the reach that a really

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Speaker 3: good teacher who cares can have. It's like, yes, amazing.

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Speaker 2: Yes, it's fun to be in it. Clearly, it's not upsetting.

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Speaker 2: Everybody loves a good story. Yeah, And the rest of

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Speaker 2: the year was always fun and involved zero traumatizing. I'll

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Speaker 2: always be thankful that I had a teacher who was

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Speaker 2: so invested in his students having special and memorable experiences

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Speaker 2: and the hellscape that was middle.

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Speaker 1: School of God, I remember, true, they were amazing.

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Speaker 2: I mean, thank you for all you do in creating

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Speaker 2: a space to talk about mental health and your experiences

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Speaker 2: with therapy. Your podcast was no small part of the

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Speaker 2: reason I left the entertainment industry.

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Speaker 1: Me too, Wow, seriously.

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Speaker 2: And I went back to grad school to become a

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Speaker 2: therapist myself.

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Speaker 1: Wow, amazing.

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Speaker 2: I've never been happier. Stay sexy, and be awesome enough

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Speaker 2: that your students will forgive you for scaring the shit

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Speaker 2: out of them. Shawna, Shawna, Shawna, what a beautiful story.

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Speaker 2: So good.

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Speaker 3: Tell us about your memorable teachers. We want to hear

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Speaker 3: all about them and like legendary teacher teachers. Yeah, for sure,

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Speaker 3: because that's amazing. That's beautiful. That's a great Halloween app

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Speaker 3: it heard one.

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Speaker 2: Also, we started posting some teacher wish lists. I'm sure

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Speaker 2: those teacher wish lists are there's still plenty. Yeah, so

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Speaker 2: if you there's probably some on our social media, but

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Speaker 2: take a look around and see if you can't donate

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Speaker 2: some here or there, because that's like, those are the

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Speaker 2: people it's.

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Speaker 3: Going to totally totally amazing. Well, thanks for listening to you, guys.

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Speaker 3: Spooky Halloween.

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Speaker 1: We do it.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, spooky Halloween.

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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: We've been waiting all my life. Yeah, and stay sexy

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Speaker 2: and don't get murdered.

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Speaker 5: Goodbye, Elvis, Do you want a cookie?

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Speaker 2: Our editor is Aristotle las Veda.

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