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Speaker 1: Ridiculous History is a production of iHeartRadio. Hello, and welcome

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Speaker 1: back to the show Ridiculous Historians. I'm Lauren, i am

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Speaker 1: Michael Alder June, and we're not the people that you're

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Speaker 1: probably used to hearing on here. Yeah, you're like, who

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Speaker 1: in the hell are these people? Well, if you are

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Speaker 1: listening on the day this comes out, it is International

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Speaker 1: Women's Day, and a thing that I Heart likes to

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Speaker 1: do for that is to have some of us lady

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Speaker 1: hosts come on and do a takeover for some of

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Speaker 1: the dude hosts, and so Ben and Nol invited us

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Speaker 1: to come talk about some weird stuff with y'all. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and Lauren is being very nice in referring to us

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Speaker 1: both as hosts. I'm you've probably only heard my name

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Speaker 1: if you've heard it at all associated with the shows

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Speaker 1: Where Were You in ninety two and the Fabulous Too

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Speaker 1: Much Information? I cut tape on those. This is actually

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Speaker 1: I think my first time on the business side of

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Speaker 1: the microphone on one of these. So I'm very excited

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Speaker 1: maybe on these podcasts. But you have plenty of experience

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Speaker 1: you I mean, you've got you've got a long and

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Speaker 1: storied career, You've done some really stellar interviews. Oh okay,

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Speaker 1: So Lauren's referring to my dozen or so years in

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Speaker 1: public radio before this, during which time I got to

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Speaker 1: run out into traffic in the middle of Atlanta and

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Speaker 1: ride shotgun in a race car. I once conducted an

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Speaker 1: interview whilst climbing Stone Mountain that was fun and exhausting. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: breath support. Yeah, and I've I've once interviewed Spike Lee

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Speaker 1: that was terrifying. Oh my heck. I would have not

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Speaker 1: gotten there. I would have been stuck standing in my house,

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Speaker 1: not remembering how to tie my own shoes. It was

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Speaker 1: not one of the times when I was making my

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Speaker 1: job look easy. I'll we'll put it that way. Well,

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Speaker 1: making both of our jobs look easy today with us,

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Speaker 1: as always is a super producer Max Williams Man. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm still here, and I'm still here. Well, they couldn't

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Speaker 1: get rid of the entire crew. We need somebody to

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Speaker 1: push buttons and to look things up for us and

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Speaker 1: to make us sound like we aren't a couple of

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Speaker 1: bumbling fools. And I'm here and I am qualified to

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Speaker 1: do it. Possibly, we trust you, We trust you. Okay,

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Speaker 1: So for today's episode, we are going to be talking

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Speaker 1: about houses, and not just any houses, but haunted houses.

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Speaker 1: And not just any haunted houses, but haunted houses that

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Speaker 1: have been legislated about. Yes, there is at least one

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Speaker 1: home in America that is legally haunted, and we know

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Speaker 1: about that thanks to real estate. And I don't know

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Speaker 1: if y'all have ever tried to buy or sell a house.

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Speaker 1: I'm in the process of attempting to buy a house

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Speaker 1: right now, and I can speak to you from extremely

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Speaker 1: personal experience that it is arduous and complicated, and there

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Speaker 1: are all kinds of like weird plot twists that pop up,

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Speaker 1: like I don't know, man, Like is that mold in

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Speaker 1: the wall going to require me to tear down the

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Speaker 1: entire house? It could? Yeah, the installation in the attic

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Speaker 1: is that still? Does that still work? Or am I

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Speaker 1: going to have to take all of that disgusting fluff

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Speaker 1: this century. I was, at one time a homeowner, and

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Speaker 1: let me tell you, clambering around in your own attic

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Speaker 1: pirate ship and being very swashbuckling and getting the you know,

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Speaker 1: hoist the riggings. And it is not like that at all.

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Speaker 1: It is. It is disgusting, and it is laborious and expensive.

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Speaker 1: It's it's terribly, terribly expensive. And so when you're buying

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Speaker 1: set the scene. Yeah, so the Ackley House is this

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Speaker 1: earnestly beautiful Victorian home. It's in this wonderful place called Nayack,

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Speaker 1: like that. It sounds like the kind of place where

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Speaker 1: like a murder mystery would take place, But has there been.

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Speaker 1: No one knows. We don't know much about the early

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Speaker 1: back to the mid nineteen seventies, so we're jumping way

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Speaker 1: ahead in time. And in nineteen seventy seven, Readers Digest

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Speaker 1: and it was written by this woman named Helen Ackley

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Speaker 1: the Ackley House. She lived there. She was married to

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Speaker 1: many ghostly roommates that lived there. And it's funny because

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Speaker 1: it feels more like somebody describing like an unexpected pet

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Speaker 1: if if the lynx came to live in your house unexpectedly,

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Speaker 1: and let's write a charming Reader's Digest article about it. So, like,

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Speaker 1: nineteen sixty seven, a bedraggled old Victorian. It had stood

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Speaker 1: vacant for seven years. Okay, red flag right away. It's

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Speaker 1: And this was that one, and right, the couple and

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Speaker 1: So talking to that realtor, According to Helen's daughter Cynthia,

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Speaker 1: he remembers even her refusing to sign her end of

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Speaker 1: So like she did make it known that hey, places haunted,

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Speaker 1: this because the Stambofskis insist that they had not heard

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Speaker 1: acclas for and I quote, fraudulently misrepresenting a material condition

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Speaker 1: very into this. I have to admit to y'all that,

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Speaker 1: um that if I ever hang a sign like upon

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Speaker 1: my person that says in large caps, lock block letters,

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Speaker 1: not haunted, it's a lie that is absolutely over compensation

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00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:24,760
Speaker 1: and you should oh we can see it in your eyes.

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00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:36,760
Speaker 1: I don't think you need. Okay. So, having said all

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00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:41,640
Speaker 1: of that, what is the Actley House doing now? I mean,

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00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:46,480
Speaker 1: apart from standing by the Hudson handsomely. Sure, sure it

429
00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:51,840
Speaker 1: has actually changed hands like relatively frequently. The aforementioned real

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00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:55,440
Speaker 1: estate agent Ellis said, maybe it's because of the energy there,

431
00:29:56,760 --> 00:29:58,640
Speaker 1: but but right, like, it does have this history of

432
00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:03,000
Speaker 1: perceived haunting. None of the subsequent owners have just have

433
00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:06,720
Speaker 1: reported any ghosts themselves, and a bunch of them have

434
00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:10,360
Speaker 1: been like really pretty public figures. I believe the guy

435
00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:13,600
Speaker 1: who bought it after the accles were trying to sell it,

436
00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:19,080
Speaker 1: and they went through this whole Stembowski case. Was filmmaker

437
00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:22,800
Speaker 1: Adam Brooks who lived there for like twenty years. That

438
00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:25,160
Speaker 1: was his residence if you're unfamiliar with the name off

439
00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:26,960
Speaker 1: the top of your head, while he co wrote the

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00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:30,840
Speaker 1: screenplay for Practical Magic. How freaking perfect does that? I

441
00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:35,160
Speaker 1: love that? And then after him and Grid Michaelson, the

442
00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:40,600
Speaker 1: you know, lightened Bubbly Ukulele Whielder lived in it, and

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00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:44,520
Speaker 1: then she sold it in twenty fifteen. So in nineteen

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00:30:44,560 --> 00:30:49,760
Speaker 1: eighty nine it sold for how much eight hundred thousand? Okay,

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00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:53,479
Speaker 1: so by the time Ingrid Michaelson is unloading it in

446
00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:57,640
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen, it was listed for one point nine million

447
00:30:57,760 --> 00:31:02,000
Speaker 1: dollars an old victorian on the Hudson because of course,

448
00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:06,800
Speaker 1: but she didn't blame ghosts for leaving. I can't imagine

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00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:09,600
Speaker 1: that Ingrid Michaelson would like would see ghosts like she

450
00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:12,760
Speaker 1: she would like living with that Lynx. I would impress, sure, yeah,

451
00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:14,560
Speaker 1: she'd be like, hey, what do you think of this briff?

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00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:16,400
Speaker 1: And you know, I don't know if ghosts would have

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Speaker 1: an opinion. I'm sure that that old powdered wig would

454
00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:24,320
Speaker 1: probably have a word or two to say, try going

455
00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:27,280
Speaker 1: to a minor chord. See, maybe maybe this is why

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00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:34,080
Speaker 1: she left. Maybe she was like yeah, but but um

457
00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:37,920
Speaker 1: it was. In fact, another musician who bought the home.

458
00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:43,160
Speaker 1: Modest Yahoo bought the homes and lived there for four years.

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Speaker 1: Who knew until until twenty nineteen, and then the home

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00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:51,000
Speaker 1: went up for sale in twenty twenty for one point

461
00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:54,080
Speaker 1: nine million and last sold in twenty twenty one for

462
00:31:54,480 --> 00:32:00,520
Speaker 1: one million, seven hundred and ninety five thousand dollars. So

463
00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:03,840
Speaker 1: not quite the asking price. But you know, real estate's

464
00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:09,040
Speaker 1: weird right now. Yeah, okay, so maybe the most important

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00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:11,800
Speaker 1: question that we haven't really touched on. I'm surprised that

466
00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:14,800
Speaker 1: we've gone this entire time without talking about it, Lauren.

467
00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:19,200
Speaker 1: Have you ever seen a ghost? You know? I can't

468
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Speaker 1: say it was necessarily a ghost I have. I don't

469
00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:26,840
Speaker 1: believe in ghosts, but I have experienced phenomena that I

470
00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:30,640
Speaker 1: cannot say that I can explain. That's a pretty big butt, Laura.

471
00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:32,800
Speaker 1: It is a it's a that's a large that's like

472
00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:36,680
Speaker 1: a baby got back like sis, but right there, I

473
00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:39,880
Speaker 1: mean like like I brought that friend over, our friend Cody,

474
00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:43,080
Speaker 1: you know, Cody. Uh oh, yes, Cody, of oh, but perfect,

475
00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:46,000
Speaker 1: not specifically because I wanted them to do a vibe check,

476
00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:47,600
Speaker 1: like they're one of my best friends. Like I wanted

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00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:49,280
Speaker 1: them to check to see the house. In general, it's

478
00:32:49,280 --> 00:32:51,120
Speaker 1: a thing that I'm excited about. Come check out this

479
00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:55,920
Speaker 1: very expensive thing I might embark on. But right, like,

480
00:32:56,040 --> 00:32:58,120
Speaker 1: the fact that they did a vibe check was welcome,

481
00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:02,760
Speaker 1: partially because the house that I buying is an estate sale,

482
00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:09,920
Speaker 1: and you know the former owner. I'm not sure where

483
00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:13,360
Speaker 1: she passed. It might have been in the house. Oh

484
00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:16,280
Speaker 1: that's from the nineteen sixties. Any number of things could

485
00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:20,040
Speaker 1: have happened there. Oh well, of course, nineteen sixties Atlanta.

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00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:27,240
Speaker 1: Come on, right, come on, I have seen I'm fairly, no,

487
00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:31,239
Speaker 1: not fairly. I am absolutely a thousand percent certain I've

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00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:36,080
Speaker 1: seen a ghost. Yeah. Yeah. So I was staying with

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00:33:36,520 --> 00:33:38,920
Speaker 1: my I was a young child. I was staying at

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Speaker 1: my grandmother's house, and my great grandmother at that time

491
00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:48,760
Speaker 1: was in a nursing home which was almost literally just

492
00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:52,320
Speaker 1: across the street from the oh oh wow. Uh. And

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Speaker 1: I was sleeping in her old room, and I recall

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00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:05,000
Speaker 1: one night waking up because the light in the bathroom

495
00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:07,880
Speaker 1: next to that bedroom was turned on and like light

496
00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:10,439
Speaker 1: was flooding into the room in the middle of the night,

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Speaker 1: and I, you know, kind of sat up with a start.

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Speaker 1: I didn't have my glasses on because I had been asleep.

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Speaker 1: But there was a figure, a shadowed figure in the

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Speaker 1: doorway sort of poking its head into the room, and

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00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:32,040
Speaker 1: it made it made a surprised noise, like they did,

502
00:34:32,120 --> 00:34:34,719
Speaker 1: like they pup their head into the room, not expecting

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00:34:34,760 --> 00:34:38,560
Speaker 1: to see somebody lying in the bed and went huh

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00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:42,239
Speaker 1: and withdrew really quickly, and for some reason in my

505
00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:47,400
Speaker 1: like nine year old brain, I was like, oh, my

506
00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:49,960
Speaker 1: Lola is asking me to get up. So I got up.

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00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:52,040
Speaker 1: So I woke up, and I went to the bathroom

508
00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:56,400
Speaker 1: and I brushed my teeth, and then I was I

509
00:34:56,480 --> 00:34:58,600
Speaker 1: walked into the living room. It's the middle of the night,

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00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:02,120
Speaker 1: and finally I'm wearing my glasses at this point. And

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00:35:02,239 --> 00:35:06,840
Speaker 1: in the living room, my great grandmother, my Nana, I

512
00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:11,080
Speaker 1: was sitting in the chair she normally sat in right

513
00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:14,360
Speaker 1: by the front window, just looking out onto the lawn.

514
00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:20,160
Speaker 1: And it freaked me the hell out, and I ran

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00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:22,520
Speaker 1: to my Lola's bed and I like dove under the

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00:35:22,520 --> 00:35:25,640
Speaker 1: cover and slept between her and Lolo like for the

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Speaker 1: rest of the night, and then nobody believed me in

518
00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:34,040
Speaker 1: the morning until until Okay, they got news that in

519
00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:38,840
Speaker 1: the middle of the night Nana I had suffered some

520
00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:42,880
Speaker 1: internal bleeding and had to be emergency rushed to the

521
00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:45,760
Speaker 1: hospital in the middle of the night, probably right around

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Speaker 1: the time that I saw her in the living room.

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00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:55,480
Speaker 1: So I've had close personal experience with um, with the supernatural.

524
00:35:55,560 --> 00:35:57,799
Speaker 1: So I am like, I am so on board with

525
00:35:57,840 --> 00:36:01,000
Speaker 1: this whole lake, Like, let me at this. Somebody, somebody

526
00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:04,319
Speaker 1: give me, somebody give me a couple million dollars so

527
00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:06,759
Speaker 1: I can move into this house on the Hudson in

528
00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:12,840
Speaker 1: New York and and just live out, live out my

529
00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:19,840
Speaker 1: my ghostly dreams, my my links, my my my Lynxy fantasies. Yeah,

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00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:23,719
Speaker 1: I see, all of mine are much more easily explainable

531
00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:25,560
Speaker 1: than that. Like, like I don't know, like like one

532
00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:29,359
Speaker 1: of the theaters that I volunteer out around town sometimes, um,

533
00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:31,800
Speaker 1: you know, like like I would be there after hours

534
00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:33,880
Speaker 1: at weird times when when no one else was around,

535
00:36:33,960 --> 00:36:36,759
Speaker 1: and you know, I would hear weird, weird sounds coming

536
00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:39,640
Speaker 1: from places where I mean, old building, you know, things

537
00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:41,760
Speaker 1: happen in old buildings, but but sounds that I couldn't

538
00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:44,760
Speaker 1: quite explain, um, in places that I couldn't quite explain

539
00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:47,680
Speaker 1: them having come from uh kind of hot and cold

540
00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:53,160
Speaker 1: areas stuff like that. Somebody right, yeah, yeah, that kind

541
00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:56,880
Speaker 1: of thing. And um, and there was this one specific

542
00:36:56,960 --> 00:37:03,000
Speaker 1: like like really like really rhythmic knocking that would happen

543
00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:05,719
Speaker 1: that was that was just like really almost inquisitive. It

544
00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:09,640
Speaker 1: was just like a kind of thing happening. I don't

545
00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:11,279
Speaker 1: know if that picked up on Mike at all. But

546
00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:16,160
Speaker 1: this went on for a number of weeks, and then

547
00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:17,960
Speaker 1: we found out that there were raccoons living in the

548
00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:30,200
Speaker 1: air vents. So um, speaking speaking of of furry rodents

549
00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:37,799
Speaker 1: moving into your house, where's this transition going going back

550
00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:39,760
Speaker 1: to the links? Great? Great, I'm about with you. Cool

551
00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:42,800
Speaker 1: all right, So what have we learned? What have we learned? One?

552
00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:46,799
Speaker 1: Old houses are awesome and should all all of them

553
00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:51,040
Speaker 1: should come with ghosts In my opinion, yes, absolutely. But

554
00:37:51,080 --> 00:37:53,720
Speaker 1: if if, if living with a ghost is not your jam,

555
00:37:53,920 --> 00:37:56,640
Speaker 1: and you're buying a house, just ask, because they have

556
00:37:56,719 --> 00:38:02,600
Speaker 1: to tell you it's it's it's ghostly, it's it's it's

557
00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:08,319
Speaker 1: entrapman and containment. It's the great oh dear. Okay, yeah,

558
00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:10,520
Speaker 1: so buyer beware is like the biggest thing. And also

559
00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:14,040
Speaker 1: like if you live in Alaska, you know you got

560
00:38:14,120 --> 00:38:16,440
Speaker 1: a year, you got you got three hundred and sixty

561
00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:18,000
Speaker 1: five days and that's all that they're going to give you.

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00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:26,040
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, um oh hark so uh June, if people

563
00:38:26,080 --> 00:38:29,480
Speaker 1: want to hear more from you, where can they find you? Well,

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00:38:29,520 --> 00:38:33,200
Speaker 1: you can find me. I have a website, Michael June

565
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Speaker 1: dot com that's m y k a L because I

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Speaker 1: have to be extra m y k a l j

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Speaker 1: u n e like the month Michael June dot com

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00:38:42,560 --> 00:38:45,640
Speaker 1: for all your Michael June dot com needs um. That

569
00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:49,160
Speaker 1: has linked all my socials. If you follow me on Twitter,

570
00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:54,000
Speaker 1: just know that it's a mess um um. But I

571
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:56,879
Speaker 1: I have linked you know, shows that I've worked on.

572
00:38:57,400 --> 00:38:59,920
Speaker 1: I'm a writer, so you know articles that I have written,

573
00:39:00,760 --> 00:39:04,799
Speaker 1: music that I make that kind of thing of you know,

574
00:39:06,080 --> 00:39:09,640
Speaker 1: you know, spooky bit just gotta bang on guitars. It's necessary,

575
00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:13,799
Speaker 1: it's in our contract. Actually yeah, um, you died. You

576
00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:16,799
Speaker 1: don't want to cross the spooky bitch legal department and

577
00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:21,160
Speaker 1: that's terrible. Um. Yeah, my full name I don't think

578
00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:24,480
Speaker 1: I said it at the top. Was is not? Was? Oh? Gosh,

579
00:39:24,480 --> 00:39:27,480
Speaker 1: am I a ghost? Is Lauren vogel Bomb. Um. You

580
00:39:27,480 --> 00:39:30,879
Speaker 1: can find me around the internet on Instagram. I am

581
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:35,040
Speaker 1: at vogel Bomb like vog e l Bomb because I

582
00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:39,839
Speaker 1: was really feeling myself that day. On Twitter, Oh, thank you,

583
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Speaker 1: no you, oh both of us, Yeah, you two Max

584
00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:46,560
Speaker 1: on Twitter, I'm grammar monkey because that happened in like

585
00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:51,640
Speaker 1: two thousand and nine and it's very very aol instant messenger,

586
00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:55,600
Speaker 1: a kind of kind of handle. Yeah, all right, well,

587
00:39:55,640 --> 00:39:58,680
Speaker 1: Lauren June, thank y'all so much for being here. Oh,

588
00:39:58,680 --> 00:40:01,680
Speaker 1: thank you for having us. You know, it was much

589
00:40:01,719 --> 00:40:06,400
Speaker 1: better than the normal. Two fools I am with all

590
00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:09,520
Speaker 1: are much more enjoyable. But you know, Ben Noel, they

591
00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:12,919
Speaker 1: are both very spooky. Bit just too they are they

592
00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:16,480
Speaker 1: are it's what brings us together, right. But also we

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Speaker 1: want to give us special thanks to Christopher Haspiotis and

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Speaker 1: Eaves Jeff Coat, who are you know here with us

595
00:40:22,120 --> 00:40:29,480
Speaker 1: in spirit obviously, in spirits obviously, Ben Boland, Noel Brown

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00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:32,000
Speaker 1: of the normal host who will be back next week.

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00:40:32,080 --> 00:40:36,319
Speaker 1: Of course, special thanks to Alex Williams who composed this

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Speaker 1: theme right here our research associates, Jeff Bartlett and Zach Williams.

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00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:46,120
Speaker 1: Thanks Jeff's, Thanks Zach, and of course the haunted spirit

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Speaker 1: of our show, mister Jonathan's Stricklin, whose ghosts will be

601
00:40:53,200 --> 00:40:55,960
Speaker 1: around to haunt us someday soon, but hopefully that day

602
00:40:56,080 --> 00:40:58,759
Speaker 1: is not today. Just just don't stay his name two

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Speaker 1: more times it is Beel rules, oh you, And in

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Speaker 1: the words of our fast and furious leader, Noel Brown,

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