Speaker 1: Christ Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell's show podcast.
Speaker 2: We are lucky on this show.
Speaker 3: Every day we get great stories from you guys, right,
Speaker 3: But sometimes there are stories that are so vivid they
Speaker 3: burrow their way into your memory and they can't get
Speaker 3: out again, like some kind of memory. Ear one that
Speaker 3: story about three hundred red backs in the wall will
Speaker 3: haunt me, not stay with me, haunt me forever. So
Speaker 3: much so I'm starting to think about moving back to
Speaker 3: the UK.
Speaker 4: It is me.
Speaker 3: I heard that it's sunny, reminded me this place is
Speaker 3: so dangerous. It's the kind of story that will come
Speaker 3: to us at night when all the lights are off. Tonight, Jack,
Speaker 3: when you do that check of the house, the doors
Speaker 3: of luck, now check all the walls for redbacks?
Speaker 2: Oh my god, living in the wall. Yeah, but they're
Speaker 2: more scared of us than we are, not three hundred
Speaker 2: of them bread numbers. Let's is he?
Speaker 3: Is he?
Speaker 2: Good morning?
Speaker 1: How is he?
Speaker 2: Why did you have to leave your house?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 1: This was when I was a kid in London, Christian
Speaker 1: and my dad went down day because all those English
Speaker 1: housers have really big basements and he found bullet casings. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and she's got a specialist in and it turns out
Speaker 1: there might be an unexploded bomb in the basement.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So they got the specialist in. We had to
Speaker 5: be evacuated, and they evacuated the two houses next to
Speaker 5: us as well, and they got specialist in. But it
Speaker 5: turned out it was fine and it was just like
Speaker 5: the outside of the bomb.
Speaker 2: So what was it? A World War two bomb?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what they think.
Speaker 2: Did they have to send that robot in who diffuses it?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I guess they did.
Speaker 1: They didn't let us be.
Speaker 5: There when they did it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you're diffusing a bomb, you can't be there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, hurt Locker, isn't that guy? And so other people
Speaker 3: like walking with him going so it's a real bomb,
Speaker 3: is it? Shall we just blow us all up as
Speaker 3: we have a look at this? Gays get a quick
Speaker 3: selfie as you with that arm and that while you're
Speaker 3: in that big old suit?
Speaker 6: Is he?
Speaker 2: Thank you very much, your story mate, have a good day.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Michael. Why did you have to leave your house?
Speaker 1: Hi?
Speaker 6: Christian?
Speaker 4: Hi, run. We were on a holiday about nearly ten
Speaker 4: years ago now, but when our kids were little, and
Speaker 4: we drove back and we got back quite late at night,
Speaker 4: and we thought someone had got into the house. But
Speaker 4: what we discovered was in fact that a possum had
Speaker 4: been living in our house while we'd been on holidays
Speaker 4: for a good few days. So the house was pretty
Speaker 4: much destroyed. It had spent three days trying to get
Speaker 4: out of the house. No nested made a nice little
Speaker 4: home for itself and my son's cots.
Speaker 6: We saw it.
Speaker 4: She put the kids back in the car and went
Speaker 4: to her mum straight away. I put a bike helmet
Speaker 4: on and grabbed the fire poker and went looking for
Speaker 4: this thing.
Speaker 2: And what an image.
Speaker 4: Yeah, my brother in law came to the rescue and we.
Speaker 6: Were looking for it.
Speaker 2: We had a cycle helmet on as well. The pair
Speaker 2: of you were there.
Speaker 4: I'm not exactly what we did. We thought this thing
Speaker 4: called attack us, but then finally arrived and all he did.
Speaker 4: All he did was put it back in its tree.
Speaker 4: And he could see the look on my face and
Speaker 4: he assured me that that's what had to happen, otherwise
Speaker 4: more parsons.
Speaker 2: Did he have a bicycle helmet on as well?
Speaker 3: Each of all three of you like cowering behind each other,
Speaker 3: You are the front with that fire poker.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but we had to move out.
Speaker 4: We were out of the house for at least a
Speaker 4: week up to about ten days. We're in hotels and
Speaker 4: things because they had to There was painting in there
Speaker 4: to be done. Carpet replaced with.
Speaker 2: The what's the phrase, run a mock?
Speaker 3: I've always wanted to say, I've never said it before.
Speaker 3: Run a mock in there and obviously looked like Goldilocks.
Speaker 3: They tried all the beds, thought to have this cat
Speaker 3: is sick. I'm living in this um.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: Once you go back, you can't get back.
Speaker 4: That's exactly what happened.
Speaker 2: Yes, Michael, great story. Thank you very much. You give
Speaker 2: us a call mate mate, Thank you, James. Why did
Speaker 2: you have to leave your house?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 6: Well, when we were about twelve years old, my father
Speaker 6: and his brother went fishing for a week and dropped
Speaker 6: off my cousin, Renee. She is about the same age,
Speaker 6: and she bought with a Rodney the rat, a little
Speaker 6: pet rats, little a thin I don't know who, might
Speaker 6: have been about twelve fifteen centimeters long, and he used
Speaker 6: to sit on her shoulder. One afternoon, Rodney were missing,
Speaker 6: and we're looking for Rodney everywhere. I don't know how
Speaker 6: all over the joint couldn't find Rodney.
Speaker 2: I'd let him go pet rat.
Speaker 6: Mum wasn't that upset about it, but Renee was pretty devastated.
Speaker 6: She's looking for a rat, and we're looking for the rat.
Speaker 6: Around about seven eight o'clock that night, we hear that
Speaker 6: we hear this scratching and screaming around the back of
Speaker 6: the bookshelf. Are you diddy? We found the rat? So
Speaker 6: stick our head down there and couldn't find it. Calling
Speaker 6: out to him, Renee gets the torch and shines it
Speaker 6: down the back of the bookshelf that he can see
Speaker 6: the little red eyes looking back. Because that's strange that
Speaker 6: Rodney's not coming, She puts her hand down the back
Speaker 6: of the bookshelf, right up to her shoulder's lenk, grabs
Speaker 6: the rat by the head, only to realize that the
Speaker 6: rat no longer has fir or is. She's actually grabbed
Speaker 6: the head of a snake.
Speaker 2: Stop, what do you mean?
Speaker 6: There was a snake living behind the bookshelf that we
Speaker 6: know got of it. It's just eating their pet rack.
Speaker 3: What kind of snake was it?
Speaker 6: Well, we didn't hang around to find out.
Speaker 3: Are any cuddly friendly ones in this country.
Speaker 2: You were the first attach that you deal with it.
Speaker 6: Enjoy your new peak python the python.
Speaker 2: So it was a python.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: It turned out some bloke come around the next morning
Speaker 6: and pulled this thing out, isn't it It was? I look,
Speaker 6: everything seems big when you're twelve, but six foot long python.
Speaker 6: But it does explain weirdly about the only house in
Speaker 6: the street. They didn't have pigeons or possums in them.
Speaker 2: So he actually lived lived in your house, live in
Speaker 2: like a cruel space.
Speaker 6: Has been there. Well, we don't know how long I've
Speaker 6: been there, but it made itself mastertal spot. There there
Speaker 6: was through the floorboard of the Queensland was elevated Queensland
Speaker 6: as they could kind of come and go as he please.
Speaker 3: I was about to say it kind have been here
Speaker 3: with tire because when we went up traveling to the
Speaker 3: Danetree Forest, we stayed in this little rental.
Speaker 2: Right now, as I was checking out, the guy goes, uh,
Speaker 2: he made you to meet the pie. And I thought
Speaker 2: he was joking, larking character, and.
Speaker 3: He goes and he goes, no, did you see the python?
Speaker 3: I went where he goes, it's in it's in your cottage.
Speaker 3: I went, what do you mean? And we walked back in.
Speaker 3: Now he just pulls this flimsy sort of doorway across
Speaker 3: and like a cruel space.
Speaker 2: To the bat and there's a flipping python in there,
Speaker 2: just clear to guess. My wife was in.
Speaker 3: The car as we're driving away, because I was just shrink,
Speaker 3: you're right, and I went just keep driving, keep driving.
Speaker 3: Chals my wife. She burst into tears. She pulls over
Speaker 3: and goes, chick under the car, chriss over there. That
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