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she was up to. Emily saw I Guess for No a movie that I think is called Climax that she really liked, and she was posting some Instagram video of the party, which she texted me because La La from vander Pump Rules was there and I was so proud of her for recognizing La La. Did she explain why it seemed like what I imagine can to be like, which is that it was like a fancy silly bottle

service party. They were like that thing they do at big clubs where it's like a champagne bottle of sparklers coming out of it, Just like a lot of that and bubbles and sparkles she said, like John Travolta was at the party also just like a random collection of like famous and was flown out well, I mean la

Las plotline. When she first got on vander Pump pools with that, it was controversial that she had taken a vacation from working at Sir to go be on a yacht somewhere in the French riviera, I think, And is that a wink wink, nudge nudge. Everybody was kind of being like, she's a yacht girl, um, and then she basically like admitted to it and was like yeah, so what And the other vand Pump girls didn't really know what to do with that because they were like, wait,

we can't let shame her. She's like self aware, um, And she became like the coolest person on that show kind of because of that. But CAN is like a great week for blind items. That's I was going to say, I live for the blind items in CAN week. Yeah, they go on and on, and it's it's interesting because you can't really differentiate, like you could lump them all together from like the past ten years of CAN coverage and just kind of read it seamlessly as if no

time had passed. You know, it's just like the yachts, the parties, Like, just like this model was spotted lounging. This B list mostly sitcom actress was on a yacht. So Emily, we hope you're having fun and can. Um. My prediction of what Emily might be doing, because we were guessing, was that she might be in a wine cave with Agnes Varda. That's a good one talking about Eurovision. I really liked Emily's missives from Berlin before she got to Can not like we're stalking Emily, just lightly. We

are stalking kind of our friends go on vacation. It's like we're going on vacation. We don't have to go anywhere, which is great. Um. We put out a call a night call for stories about haunted dolls. It's true, and we we had a bunch of topics. But then when we started thinking it over, we were like, maybe we're just going to talk for the bulk of this podcast about haunted it's true, but first an appartif if you will.

I wanted to just talk about the episode of Jonesy's Jukebox I listened to on the way over to record this podcast because one of the great things about when we record this podcast is it's always in a time when I can listen to Jonesy on the drive over to Tessa's house, it's um, it's Steve Jones from the ex Pistols. I feel like we've talked about it before on the podcast on Kalos And it's basically it's a free form radio show and then also like a long

form interview show. And one of the fun things about it is it's also like a mystery show sometimes because they take a really long time to I d the guests sometimes and it's not on the scroll e thing, it's not on the sculling thing, and you have to figure it out from context clues. So I always like listen at least long enough to figure out who he's talking to. UM. And a lot of the best interviews are that he does are with old British rock and roll guys of the six season seventies who are his

his friends. They almost always talk about what is it black betties? Yeah, they talk about like what kind of speed they did, how late they stayed up? Yes, t they like he He talks a lot about what he puts in a blender. Yeah, baths, I feel like I've heard to talk about. Um. He spends a lot of time talking with the old British guys, also about like fish and chip shops. They're just all such like old British gents, you know, They're so like delightful to listen to.

And then they all talk about how they took so much speed because they were teddy boys. That's my favorite thing is that before he was in the Sex Pistols, he was like a mod not amount of teddy boy, and he talks about his teddy boy phase a lot. He also had a very rough upbringing. It's a great show. Everybody should listen to it, So tell us about this one. So this episode was with an American rocker, Carmine a Piece, who is a drummer, a famous rock drummer from the

band Vanilla Fudge and some other bands. And then he was like Rod Stewart drummer for a billion years. Um. But he's from Brooklyn and he also has a great accent.

Jones has like a great British accent, and then Carmine a Piece had like a Brooklyn accent and they were just talking about love and hard rock and Carmine and his brother Vinny Uh have a band together that's like the Peace Brothers, and so they're playing songs from the new a Peace Brothers album and it was so funny and good because it was like, Okay, it's a band with like two drummers for style who have the biggest kits in the world. Like no, he was saying. He

was like, oh, I don't use my uh. He like was famous, I think for putting the symbol up top and he was like I can't do that and I don't do the hanging symbol anymore because my rotator cuff. Oh my mom um. But you know he was like Jonesy was like, well, you know, what, what kid do you have? And he's like, oh, you know, I'll go like two bass drums, a kick drum, a five drum, like a symbol rud. He just like went on for so long. I was like, He's like, you know, it's

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you Lisa dot com Forward slash Nightcall. Uh. But they were just like Tenacious D songs because the first one was like about how the Peace Brothers came to be as a band, and so it was like it started in broken Listen into Gene Coo Ball because Krmine and Peace was really into Gene Crooper and wanted to be a jazz drummer. Uh. And Jones was like, did you invent like the drum solo? Like who invented the drum solo? And Karmine Piece was saying, He's like, no, Jeane Crooper

invented that. These jazz guys invented it. And Jones was like, oh is he like, so the lead singer can go do a line of blow? He's like, no, no, marijuana, that's what they did in those days. Didn't coke yet? Um? He's like no, you know, he invented like the amazing drum solo that people would like come to see the show just to see the drum solo. He was in

I'm going to get it wrong. It's back a piece and somebody, uh, which he was talking about they did Superstition Stevie wonderstthing and he was like, it was originally written for us, and then Stevie's label heard it and they were like, he's got to release this as a single, so he did. Uh, And then they were just reminiscing about like you could still ten million records. It was crazy. There's so much of that. There's a lot of that. They're like, you could sell so many records and buy

so many cars with all the records you sold. There's Jonesy is like, there's a deep melancholy. It's also weird because yeah, it comes on at noon, it's like noon to two. It's also a deep melancholy because he plays like the Kinks a lot. He plays a lot of the Kinks. He played off at the Junction by Squeeze the other day and I was like he also he also has like the exact taste of Tests and I, which is why it's also our favorite just old men

old rockers we are. But he he was talking about his fear that a texting driver would kill him and he was like, I was driving girls the canyon and looko, I'll think, like he's texting, it's the end, this is the end. And he does the long pauses after he'll say something really disturbing where there's just like some dead air for way too long. It's a little bit in the love and it's so good. Yeah, it feels real. It's it's just somebody talking to you out and but

it is. It is funny that it comes on. That's it also is funny because he like in the vein of not knowing who he's talking to, he sometimes appears to like almost on purpose, not know that much about the person he's talking to, and like, um, he had someone on a while ago who had I guess it was the lead singer of the Eels, and he was kind of like leading him to talk about his divorce, which had been covered I think in some interviews recently.

It just seemed like it was catapulting towards this like horribly awkward confrontation. But because he's Jonesy, he was able to just kind of feign like Oh you live alone, you've got you've got a kid. Oh what happened to your bird? Float? Flew away? And I was like, Jesus is so intense, but Jones is so likable that, like, you can't even blame him. Yeah, he's such a good interviewer and you just enjoy. He does talk about the apocalypse lot, but so do we, So do we. That's

one thing we have in common. Well, anyway, if you want to listen to I mean, you know you're allowed to listen to Night Call at noon, but well, I mean I wouldn't say aloud, not not incouraged, allowed, Um, but this haunted doll content might be too spooky. It's going to be spooky, might be too spooky for the daytime listeners. Save it for a nighttime, for the night Call.

I started thinking about this, and then I realized that I was going to force my husband to tell his story about his haunted doll, and so I made him type it up. Uh, this is a story that he told me like right when we first started dating, and I thought he was bullshitting. I was having a really hard time at that period in our relationship differentiating between like his joking and his his not joking at all, and this was like I assumed he was kind of putting me on, but it was real. So I will

read that. And then we also have some from readers and some calls as well. Yes, let's let's start with Tess his husband's haunted doll, the haunted doll, hated dolltail. So, um, this is there's a doll called a Kachina doll, and this was a Native American warrior Cachina doll, so he said. When I was living in New Orleans, I found the doll at the back of our driveway, like a hundred feet from the street, on the handle of a garbage can in a zip lock bag. He was about ten

inches tall and three inches wide. I brought the doll inside and we kept him in our family. A run of bad luck led my family to move to Arizona. A few years later. He was prominently displayed in our two son living room. My family continued to fall in difficult times, with work in Arizona drying up. My family was now going to be moving to the East Coast

after having spent about six years in Arizona. As we were packing up to move, we all looked at the cachina doll, and thought, man, this has brought us nothing but bad luck. So my brother and I perched him atop a pipe and left him leaning up against a neighbor's wall. We felt he needed to be placed somewhere where he could be found and taken in the same as we had done. Within an hour, a terrifying windstorm

coupled with light rains, swept through our neighborhood. It blew garbage cans over and sent them flying down the alleyway. When the storm had passed, we went outside to see not only had all the cans been blown over to the end of the alley behind our town home, but a large sequoia tree and the alley had been uprooted, with chunks of cement attached to the roots. The tree was leaning against our neighbor's house. It had smashed through the cinder block wall. We all stood their mouths a

gape at the site. But what my brother and I noticed most was that the Native American warrior still stood perch precuriously atop the pipe, leaning against the wall where we placed him, the same wall that was now smashed by a massive uprooted tree four feet away from where he stood. I think we were released from the curse that day. What did they do with the doll? Then? They just ran away, They moved, they were moving, so they left it. They just left it there for someone

else to find. And he felt bad. He was like, I feel really bad and like worried because we like passed on the curse, but we didn't want to like disrespect the doll by destroying. Destroy, can't destroy because the doll of the spirits, though, they totally just passed it on to someone else, and it was like, it's your problem now exactly. Well, that is a real, a true haunted doll story. But we have more. We do have more,

but weight there's more. So here we go. My maternal grandmother, who just to set the scene here, looks and acts like a four ft ten libya soprano, has an enormous porcelain doll collection. Each room of her house has anywhere from three to seven dolls, and they are grouped by themes e g. Victorian era dolls, dolls that wear red,

dolls that are somehow affiliated with the Catholic Church. That she then co ordinates the decor of their room around acquiring more dolls as her main hobby other than chain smoking, and she spends a lot of time at antique stores and estate sales. So even though no porcelain doll has a good vibe, some of my grandma's dolls are actively cursed vessels for the souls of their deceased owners. Needless to say, my family did not have fun during the

first weekend we spent at my grandparents house. I was about twelve at this point. They lived out east prior to this, but all their kids are still in Wisconsin, so they always came to us. We never visited them. I had to sleep in the Catholic room, which housed a nune doll who had eyes that followed me. In the morning, she was in a completely different spot than she was when I went to bed. I know no

one came in and moved her to prank me. I'm a light sleeper under the best circum stances, and obviously could barely sleep in that house full of dolls. It was the most terrifying experience of my life. I told my parents, who believed me because they were also creeped out by the dolls, and my mom asked my grandma if she could please put the dolls in storage for the rest of our stay. My grandma refused, and the argument escalated to the point where my mom thought, outside,

it's us are the dolls. My grandma doubled down and said the dolls were staying out in the open, and we went to go stay with my uncle. My grandma didn't talk to anyone in my immediate family for seven years after that. She missed my parents divorce, my mom's remarriage,

and most of my and my brother's teenage years. Things have bounced back to a more tolerable level of dysfunction in the intervening years, but we've never set foot in her house again, and none of us wants to forge any kind of real relationship with someone who once picked her fucking haunted doll collection over her human progeny. That was such a good one. Thank you to our listener, missed doll head. We're taking care not to reveel your

identity because we don't want to offend your grandmother. We don't want your grandma's haunted dolls to come for us. What what on earth is your grandmother thinking? I mean, that's absolutely crazy. Maybe she knows the dolls have powers, and she's like we can't offend the dolls because well, we should back up and say that one of the reasons that we started talking about this in the first

place was because Molly found a video of a haunted doll. Yeah, I sent you a link to a YouTube that's like two British goths on the sofa with a doll talking about whether the doll is haunted and using this device that they claim like channels the doll's voice, which is very creepy, and uh, neither of us watched the whole thing. Actually, we're like, what's a good podcast idea? Haunted dolls jump off?

So I sent Tests a bunch of stuff about Robert, the haunted doll from Key West, who Tests will tell you about now with what she learned if you grew up reading dog eared paperbacks with neon cover art and insane titles like Nightmare Hall Number one, The Silent Scream or Fear Street Number fifteen, the prom Queen. Well, well, well, we've got a podcast for you. Teen Creeps, hosted by grown up comedians Kelly Nugent and Lindsay Katie, dives headfirst into the best and worst y A pulp fiction of

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believe that this was real. But Robert is um. He was profiled in Atlas Obscura, and he is over a hundred years old, and he lives in the Fort East Martello Museum and Key West. So at one point he was the property of some guy named Robert Otto. Who was at this is from the Atlas Obscure article, an eccentric artist and a member of a prominent Key West family. So because the doll was also named they had the

same name, Robert and Robert. At some point the human Robert was like, you know what, just called me Geen, and so Robert became the doll's identity. So Otto's grandfather, I guess, had given him the doll. It was like, you know, it's just a very terrifying looking doll. It

has very like, you know, kind of featureless. It has like little nicks, and it's dressed in a sailor outfit that I us at one point belonged to Robert, but I guess he became haunted early on, and like you know, I guess Jean, formerly Robert the human boy, would blame everything that he you know, he'd be like, Robert did it, Robert did it, and everyone was like sure, sure, And people could hear like footsteps and laughing that seemed to

be coming from the doll. Um. So he then went to go live in this museum where now people send him candy and like fan letters, and he has this you know, one of the people who works at the museum. Access is kind of like messenger, and she'll right back to the The letters he gets as Robert Um, some of them are like very heartwarming. She was like, you know, a girl was being bullied and wrote to the haunted doll.

Nobody's eating the candy because they worry it's poisonous. Um. But yeah, Robert, you should look up pictures of Robert the Haunted Doll. I guess he inspired a movie that didn't get good reviews. So I didn't because I was like, he's the most famous haunted doll. And you're like, what about Annabelle? Real? Yeah, what is where's Annabelle at? I think she's also in a museum? Well, I feel like

what's cool about haunted dolls? That a lot of them probably were like roadside attraction things of like, hey, a reason for you to stop at this weird key West lime taffy stand, like look at the doll in the creepy pasta. Like some examples of how Robert was haunted, household objects would be found thrown across the room, Jean's toys turned up mutilated, and giggling could be heard, so

Jean would always blame it on Robert. And the boy took the punishment but always insisted that the blame was Roberts. So all of the people who worked in this household, because they were a prominent family, would just be like, funk this ship. I'm out, like I'm not going to deal with this doll and this weird boy, like I'm

over it. So then I guess Jean like brought he brought the doll with him, like he grew up and got married and like his wife was like, I don't want this doll in my house and he was like no, like I'm bringing it all everywhere. And so it says the turret room in in grown up Jean's house became Robert's domain after his wife moved him back to the attic. Their marriage slowly became sour until Mrs Auto supposedly went

insane and died of unknown reasons. Jean followed soon behind. Anyway, it's super, it makes for super It is creepy pasta, but it's this is all about. It says that Robert sometimes would lock people in the attic. Yeah, I mean, there's just there's too much to even go into. Well, my favorite they also is like the things the haunted dolls seem to do is like they turn the lights off,

we're on, they moved themselves around the room. Yeah, they're like, oh what chairs in a different day, but it's like gaslight. I mean that's what's really scary is that they're driving you insane. Yeah, my friend had said that's her biggest fear is that someone will move things around slightly. Well, we didn't we talk about the like mom and daughter in that like scary story about the hotel where like I think we talked, but it's in the scary stories of tell in the dark. Was like, oh, I know

what you're talking about there. I don't know, Testy, you have any haunted doll stories or is Peter your husband's honed doll story the most haunted doll story you like claim to that's the main one. But every year roughly I will kind of like Marie condo objects that I feel like are bringing me good. Yeah, I don't know.

There are definitely certain things like I got some like my mom has been cleaning out the attic and so shall occasionally send like a big huge box of toys and I'm just like, like I went through Madam Alexander faced the old toys and I just some of them. It's like I don't know what to do with them because they they they're old, and you're supposed to take care of old things, right, Like I love old things. Yeah, But like I, dolls are scary. Dolls are scary. Dolls

are just scary. Stuffed animals are cool, They're fine animal. In fact, we're sitting at the desk in my garage where there's a picture of my mom as a kid. She's like, you know who who like riding a horse Western style and the horse looks like it's very animated, when in fact it was a taxidermied horse. And there are a bunch of pictures of her and her siblings as if they are in a western with like the hat in the air, and it looks like a real good time and that is a dead ass horse. Is

so weird. It's so funny when you post to the picture of your mom yesterday from Mother's Day. I was going to be like, please post the horse picture. It's uncanny Valley to me because I'm like, it's it's strange also to see like five year old kids who are able to have such fun on a dead animal. Their posts on a prop. It's just that the prop happens to be a taxidermaid horse. And once you know that,

you cannot unknow it. Uh. I was telling to us that I went yesterday to um A Toys rs as the toys r s is are all closing r I P. I was looking for something there, and I also obviously just saw the big like shutting down sign and was like, oh, a dying store to wander, not even deal, It's just like, oh, I want to wander those like half empty aisles under

that weird flickering light. And one of the aisles was full of brand new Teddy Ruxpan's, you know, and they were all like state of the art, looked exactly the same, like they don't have a cassette in their stomach anymore, which was the original thing about them. Uh teddy Ruxpan, in case anyone did not know, is a Teddy Bear with a state of the art toy in the eighties when we were kids, and uh, it still exists somehow. And was like there was a shelf full of them

at this super eighties store that is shutting down. I felt like I was an AI. But you know what's weird is that this is the like aunt. The stuffed animal with a cassette in it is being kind of like reappropriated with just a chip in it so that you can tell your kids bedtime stories and stuff. They pach one on sharp tank, that one black mirror. That is it? My thing is it's too creepy. It too. This is a really good lead into our next night email. Oh yes it is. Uh. This one comes from Brandon.

I don't think he'll mind because his grandmother is not being called doll hoarder. So I feel like the danger threshold is looked high night collars. I just saw Tessa's tweet about haunted doll stories. My sister bought my tolder niece a veggie tale singing asparagus bedtime doll, which one squeezed would say I'm not scared, and then gently singing the child to sleep. But when the battery life on the doll wore down, the singing turned into into a

garbled satanic chant. My sister heard the demonic voice coming from her daughter's bedroom one night and pulled back her covers to the creepy green face staring back at her as it cycled through. I'm not scared. Satanic chanting, scary then and hilarious. Now wow, I love veggie tales. Okay, well this is also like a this is a glitch that will happen to all children's toys. I don't remember it happening to my own toys, but I'm sure it did.

But you know, kids love like plastic things that talk. Yeah, I don't know if it ever happened toys, but I remember that as like a future of car singing cards, yes, singing car where they start to go and it has like a like weird tinge to the point. Yeah, So my my kids had this house with like a fridge that you could open. It would be like night night and like birds that would tweet. But at some point, like it wasn't even that the batteries we changed the batteries.

It was just like it was old. It had been like hurled across the room. It would just like cycle through of like good morning, good morning, good morning, and it would start to sound just like twist. It was so scary. And then we had another thing like a own that would just say thanks for calling. But it seemed to be affected by like changes in light, so like you turn off the lights and thanks for calling,

Thanks for calling. And it's so creepy. It's like, how could you not think this through when you're making kids toys that they're going to become these scary um That's how that Black Mirror was so scary too with the bear, because it was like it had like what was it was like, well, it wasn't that was in the it was featured in the Black Museum, and then it was after the apocapal spoiler alert, after the apocalypse where all

the machines took over. It was like, you know, people trying to like get the bear for like the kid who needed the bear, and you know it was a weird doll baby Alive. Oh yeah. I was never into baby dolls or like figurative dolls really. I was always just into like soft animals and like Legos boring, no, not boring, non haunted doll story. There's haunted Legos. That's like a kind of I guess that's like in a

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we have any more night emails. Let me see. Um oh, this one comes with pictures. Hello, nightcall. I'm a real estate photographer and I've come across some very weird homes in my line of work. I've even made the occasional contribution to Molly Lambert's glass brick hashtag thank you for your service. But nothing has been more troubling than encountering scary dolls. The worst, in particular, is the reason why I'm writing today, The goats Doll. The house was in

a remote part of northern Oakland County, Michigan. I met the homeowner, an elderly German woman. She was very kind, but as soon as I arrived, she told me that she had to leave. She said that I should take my photos and lock up. When I was done, the realtor wasn't there, which was odd because this was a large house, and typically for expensive properties they always show up in person. Her house is immaculate. In one of the bedrooms, I turned a corner and find my self

staring straight at a doll with red eyes. She attached photos. It's arms were stretched out as if to beckon me toward it. I'm normally pretty chill. I don't let things get to me, but I was thoroughly freaked out. No one was home and this was a big house, so it was just me and the doll. For a few moments, I thought I was in the House of the Devil situation.

I'm not superstitious, but I had to check the tag on the doll because I reckoned if it came from a manufacturer, it couldn't be a demon in doll form. The tag said goats, which is g O was an oom lot t Z. I may even have experienced the memory laws because I normally take thirty minutes to finish the house, but this house took me a lot longer. I wasn't checking the clock, but it could have taken

me something like ninety minutes to finish. I remember thinking it was odd that the old German woman never came back with me taking so long. It seemed like she was just going to the store. But I never saw her again. Best Tad from Detroit. We will attach these pictures in some form or maybe put them on our social media annals so that you guys can see. But like, yeah, it's so scary, it's pretty scarce. Will definitely be the

image for this week's episode. Oh, speaking of which, Speaking of which, Speaking of which, you should follow us on social media at Nightcall Podcast UM on Facebook, Nightcall Podcast on Instagram, and Nightcall Pod on Twitter. And also, if you would like to share any stories of being haunted by a demonic doll, you can call or text us at two four oh four six Night or email us at Nightcall Podcast at gmail dot com. And we just found out you can also text to our phone number.

I said text, but good to remind them that if you feel more comfortable texting, Yeah, if you want to text a really long message to to four oh four six Night, it will also happen if it just feels if you feel more like texting than emailing or calling. And let us know if you want to be anonymous because you want to protect your grandmother or for whatever other reason. Yeah, if you want to make sure the

haunt adults don't come for you, please tell us. So. Um. Before we wrap up, and after having exhausted the doll topic, I do have to share. We got a really interesting heads up on Twitter from Michelle about the Rhode Island vampire scare, which is something I had never heard about. Thank you, Michelle, Michelle was writing me late night when we were soliciting late night night calls last night. Uh, and she was saying that, first of all, her mom is from the most haunted town in America, which is

in Massachusetts. Perhaps not surprisingly because New England is the spookiest place. Yeah, it's creepy. It is like the birthplace of all the tropes of spookiness. I mean, for somebody who grew up in California, the East Coast is just so full of old things that you can't believe are still there, you know that they haven't been demolished to

a Californian gold rusher. Yeah, I'm just always like, wow, you guys, just how like haunted hospitals and they just like stay up for two hundred years after nobody uses them anymore, like just so people can go explore them, I think. Uh. And so Michelle was also saying that she was talking about maybe the Haunted Mental Asylum in Rhode Island or somebody else was saying they shot a movie there and that it was very creepy and that

the attic was full of mummified birds. Uh. So, yeah, this generally just leads into our our creepy creepy New England corner that this fits into that Michelle sent us, So I think she just told us that she either told us to Google or just sent us to the Wikipedia for the Rhode Island vampire scare. But Molly and I went to college in Rhode Island, and so it was weird to me that we had never we didn't

know about this. Yeah, but I guess back in the eight nineties in Exeter, Rhode Island, Um, this is like you can also find out more about it by googling Mercy Brown. But tuberculosis and consumption. We're making the rounds, so it says in Exeter, Rhode Island, several members of George and Mary Brown's family suffered a sequence of tuberculosis infections in the final two decades of the nineteenth century. Tuberculosis was called consumption at the time and was a

devastating and much fear of disease. So Mary was the mom. She died first, then Mary Olive, the oldest daughter, died, and then um, their daughter Mercy and their son Edwin got sick. And I guess that, you know, people believed that for some reason that they one of the people who had died must have been a vampire, maybe because

it was so contagious. Um. There was also a lot of like folklore at the time that we're kind of thinking like, well, you know, diseases are spreading, like, probably a vampire anyway, George, the dad uh was basically they were like, you need to like exhume the bodies to see if they're vampires. So Mary and Mary Olive were like decomposed. But Mercy I don't know how she was stored, but she had been like refrigerated somehow, and her blood was still in her body. Like she didn't appear to

be decomposed at all. So they were like, oh, look, she's the vampire. She's the vampire. One of the crazy things. And I guess that this is like what they did back then was that you had to burn the organs of the person you thought was who was a vampire, and then you mix it up, you make like a slurry and you can you know, give it to the sick members of the family to cure them. I don't

think that worked anyway. Yeah, her her brother died. Um. But basically, the other interesting thing about this story is that there's like an addendum in the Wikipedia that's like, well, when rural Rhode Islanders moved west into Connecticut, locals perceived them as uneducated and vicious because they were like, who

would believe in vampires? I feel like I did know that a little bit that Rhode Island was like the other parts of the other states in New England were like Rhode Islands were like the rubes go No, It's true because even like to this day, I feel like there's a little shade thrown at Rhode Island for some reason, like a kookie, little weird place, weirder than Connecticut. But maybe like Salem was like, oh, they're trying to get our shine, trying to like have their own little like

which scare. But with vampires, they're just like the witches. We just burn them, like they're burning them and then making them into slushies. That's just a bridge too far. Like that. Some person was like, well, you just have to take the bodies of them, make them into a slurry. Everyone knows, but I guess like HP Lovecraft was like very inspired, obviously very inspired by that, but it's a to me. I was like, how did I not know? Like there's so many things, you guys, there's so much weird,

creepy folklore in Rhode Island. It's just it takes a long time to learn about all of it. There's like some Edgar Allan Poe stuff in there. Are you in a Girland poe head? That's your feet? Creepy New England place that you've been to, Oh, that's a good question.

The creepiest place I've ever been in New England that was the most like what I imagined New England to be like is this place called Little Compton, Rhode Island, where we went to see my friend Lydia perform at like a church that was like the oldest church um and had like a gravestone, uh, and the gravestone was like the first white woman born in the colonies. I

was like, this is a weird, bad vibe. It was like so foggy you couldn't see, and then everything is lit by like one lantern and it's like out in the middle of nowhere across the bridge. I was just like, oh, we're gonna die here for sure. But we just saw some choral music and it's a better ending. I remember.

I don't remember exactly where it is, but when I was a kid, I used to ride horses, and so there were like some strange days and lonely nights out there in rural Connecticut, and I somehow talked my at at one point into taking me to visit this Arabian

horse farm. Before you learn to drive, it's hard to know where you are when you're driving around the like upstate New York, which is not technically New England, but it's like very close to like the Boones, like it all kind of looks the same, say that, just it is hard differentiate when you're driving through the woods or you're just like on root four and you're like this could go on for him. But yeah, he took me.

It was winter and we went to this Arabian horse farm and it was like four o'clock in the afternoon, but it was like pitch black and it was like this shack with like nothing around it, and then like all of these like very kind of like fancy looking, like spooky looking horses, and I was just like, yeah, this is cool that like we can go home right now, Like they were like we're getting ready for the ice

wash par exactly. It's like this seems like I was like thinking more like heading zoo and now I'm just like, hey, let's drive like two and a half hours to go meet a horse and drive home. I feel like all of your weird stories are about like I was gonna go look at an animalum places weird. I mean, there's also there was a place that was in It's like maybe five minutes from my parents house, somewhere in Connecticut

or maybe Massachusetts border in Connecticut whatever. It is a place that sells dolls and it's also a wild animal like rehabilitation place. So we would go look at like the creepy dolls and then feed fawns baby bottles. And at first it was like really fun, and then you could just kind of were like what kind of people are? Like why not ditch the dolls and like focus on rehabilitating me. It's just seemed like such an odd marriage.

Oh you know, have you ever been to the Bunny Museum? Oh? Yeah, Okay, that's Englandy thing about about California. It's like the weird, weird old time. It's the Rhode Island of Los Angeles. The Bunny Museum is a museum. A woman runs out of our house that is all like bunny memorabilia and some real bunnies and then a bunny graveyard in the backyard. Have you been eighth grade? Oh, that's so. I'm surprised he didn't go with you. I'm surprised you didn't go.

I didn't even know. I can't believe I'm just finding out that you went in eighth grade. I want like a couple of years ago. Oh you did. Yeah, it's probably less cool as it's the same. It's good. I know. What makes it cool is that the woman who runs it is kind of like a David Lynch character, and she takes you through the tour and she tries to sell you a copy of her husband's book about conspiracy theories,

and it's just like a room. There's like a dark room full of stuffed animals that feels very like you're in like a Mike Kelly thing, but it's just somebody's house that they made into a museum. I don't think I was adequately. I didn't know what I was walking into, and I thought it was more like you're going to

go play with a bunch of moneys. And then I was like, death hangs heavy over this place, that feeling of like someone's weird collection of things which I like to because I'm like, this woman is like she's got a plan. Yeah, she's got it, but what is her plan? Yeah? Collect all the collect funnies. You can't take it with you. Um. Thanks to our sponsors Teen Creeps, Lisa and Audio Boom.

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