He was cold Cold. That was the name. He was cold on. What's going on up there? Could be the most important event in history. Now, I haven't become the destroyer of worlds, I said. I hope this is close to hell. I'll never again m Hello and welcome to the Tales from the Dark podcast. I'm your host, Bob. Here's my co host, Brittany. Hey guys, what's up. Brittany? How are you doing? I'm doing good. How are you? I'm doing well? Elephant in the room real fast. I know there's a bit of an echo.
We changed studios. We didn't just change studios, we changed homes. Yes, we did so. We moved about six and a half hours away. Yeah, depending on the day, it could be upwards to seven hours away. But yeah, so this will be a very short episode today it's Friday the thirteenth. But like I said, we don't have our new studio set up, our soundproofing stot up. I know this isn't the same uh quality you're used to, Yes, the same audio excellence you've come to expect with
Tales from the Dark, but it should just be for this episode. Yes, And also I'd also want to add that we did announce this earlier for the poll that we actually move. So if you guys aren't in the Facebook group, make sure you go join the Facebook group. If not, you're missing out, and there's been a lot of people joining as of late. So if you are to the show, you're new to the podcast or new to the group, thank you. But with that being said, miss Brittany,
it is Friday the thirteenth. It is so. I think it was two years ago we dove into the history of Friday the thirteenth, the pagan side of the holiday, the all Christian side, the Christian side, some of the night's templar stuff, if I remember correctly. Then last year we did more of a horror story style episode, if I think, that's probably about the best way I could put it. Yeah, us along with our
own personal stories. Yeah, Friday the thirteenth has been one of those that see you being from Appalachia, I was shocked you weren't, like, yep, we bore up the windows on this day. That's it. Well, I actually found something that is very interesting because I don't think you put two to two and two together when you read this. So well, well we'll get we'll cross that bridge. When we get there. Yeah, the last
thing I wanted to announce real fast. Make sure you guys get your tickets for next Saturday, the twenty first, correct the Tennessee Haunts and Legends Expo. We will both be there, along with the rest of the Phantom Farm crew. We're bringing all of them. Fortunately, I tried. I tried to leave Tyler at home. They said we had to bring him. It's ultimately it's Eric's fault from the Unseen Paranormal podcast. I'm being honest, Eric, we blame you for that. So I'm very excited. I'm nervous.
It's our first little expo. We're doing a showing a Phantom Farm. Then we'll have a little crew uh like discussion. Afterwards. We're gonna be there selling merchandise. It's gonna be a fun day to to kind of meet people. But as you guys know, I don't I don't do the whole people things. Well, you'll see how this goes. Give me a cave, give me a mountain. That's where me and Britain you're comfortable when there's people and they, you know, have expectations like I exist. That's where we're
pushing it to guys. Yeah, but again, with that being said, I just want to kind of give everyone a little bit of housekeeping. You guys know what's going on. I know that this sounds a little bit weird, but it will get better. Just give us a little bit more time. Yeah, So, why don't you get to start with some of the superstitions, because again, we've covered the history. I was kind of taken aback at the amount of superstitions surrounding this holiday. Yeah, and especially the
first one I'm about to cover. So the first one is a doomed birthday. A child born on Friday the thirteenth will be unlucky for life. If a child's name has thirteen letters, the child will have the devil's luck. According to the legend. I decided to count on my fingers on the child. Yeah, Brittany has thirteen letters her name. You're this is all coming together makes sense? Okay for those who people don't really don't know, But
my birthday's on the thirteenth. What's bears? What's his middle name? Because that's Sebastian. Your chihuaha definitely also has the devil's make around it. I don't even know what his middle name is. Okay, well it's the devil but perfect. But yeah, that's that's weird. My my mother might have been a little well esoteric with that one. There, don't cut that hair. If you cut your hair on Friday the thirteenth, someone in your family
will die. I've actually heard this one before. See, I always heard it on my birthday. Don't get a haircut on your birthday because it means you won't live to see the next one. Ah, but I feel like that's the one version I heard, probably, But Friday the thirteenth fits in anywhere. But where the here's hearses. If a funeral procession passes you on Friday the thirteenth, you will be the next to die. Okay, well that's just bad luck. Let's be honest. Yeah, so what do you
I don't believe in that one at all. No, what are you supposed to do? Call the little funeral parlor? Hey, what route you take in today? Let me know if anyone died, and if so, I'm staying at home, you know, just not come by this address. See, I would be that, I would be a jerk. I would definitely grint a hearse that day and just drive by everyone. I knew his house
every street. I'd honk the horn ghostly, I'd go reverse cas Tyler's house under Speaking of Tyler and Nathan, we have to discuss this real quick. Oh my god, we do. So I made the mistake of allowing them to go back on the news, and again I act like I actually have control over this. No, Tyler and Nathan, well, we were all invited to go back because back in March we did a media tour thing for
the local news and they reached out to Brittany on like Tuesday. So for first off, I felt really good as a content creator because I'm like, Okay, if the news is this last minute, I no longer feel bad exactly. But they reached out to Brittany. We couldn't make it because I surprised Brittany. Last night I got on the Harley. I said, hey, I got a work late. I'm sorry, I want on my phone. I rode like seven and a half eight hours down here, because I
say six and a half that's what it is minimum perfect routes. Last night, it's like last all I take you around Indianapolis. It's like, okay, great. I didn't want to really ride the Harley through Indianapolis anyway. It's just not great around rush hour. I end up getting an hour plus of standstill traffic on the bike. I'm like, if this is going to overheat, I'm not to call Britain, like, hey, I kind of
worked in Indiana. I'm sorry I can't come see you for for all those asking, We're not going to say where we moved right now, but I will say it is not Kentucky. We did not move to eastern Kentucky. But that is in the future yet it is, and it's not for lack of trying. But yeah, we're gonna do a whole episode we kind of unveil where we live because when you're not going to believe the amount of synchronousy surrounding our new house. Yeah, and I just found out tonight. Actually
I held it back because so I'm still living in Ohio. Brittany's at the new house temporarily because of work, and I've been my job ten years, so it's a lot to pass on over to the next person. Yeah. So Brittany's down here and I'm doing the research on the house and I'm finding these things. I'm like, I have to tell her. I can't tell her because she's not gonna want to be there by herself. Yeah, it is. It is that kind. I don't want to say it's groundbreaking,
but it is. It's pretty eerie stuff. So just look forward to that episode. It'll be in the next month or so because I'm almost out of Ohio, so please continue supers. Okay, So the next superstition is don't make that bed. According to legend, you should never change your bed sheets on Friday the thirteenth or you will have bad dreams. I have bad dreams every day. Yeah, I think this is the excuse you've been looking for to not make the bed anymore. Oh babe, I figured it out.
I'm sorry. They have something for every single day, like Sundays you're not supposed to make your bed either. You're not supposed to do anything any work. And then now they're just adding days in there of just excuses not to do stuff. This was definitely written by a husband who's like, I'm just sick of this. I'm sick of every day she's on me about this bed. Honey, I have nightmare. I have night terrors. Blame the bed sheets. The last one I have is Party of thirteen on Friday the thirteenth
and any other and any other day. If thirteen people dine together, one will die within the year. So let me let me back this up. So this may be I'm going to present this as if it's one hundred percent factual, but it's probably like missing something. So Mark Twain got invited to a party and it was a Friday, I think it was a Friday of the thirteenth party. He's like, I don't really want to go. It's kind of whatever. He ends up getting goaded into it in some way,
shape or form. So there's spooky stuff happening in the house right after I acknowledge it. I should not have done that. No, I'm cleanse run after this episode now, thanks. Yeah. So Mark Twin gets invited to this party and he's like, man, I don't want to go. It's unlucky. It's something, you know. I'm speaking for Mark Twain, which I'm able to do because I live close to Mark Twain National Forest, so that's I'm the guy. Anyway, it gets interesting because he gets there and
he goes, yeah, they only had food for twelve people. He didn't want to go in the first place. He goes there that was the worst thing that happened was they only had food for twelve and he didn't get to eat. I mean I would, I'd be throwing a fit. Someone else would have to not eat. It's not me, I would open up with I am literally genius, Mark Twain, You're going to fe I'm just start grabbing stuff off plates like this looks good, This looks is mine. Yeah.
Thanks. I'm not a big fan of the green beans today, but that double chicken. All right, So let's talk some some Friday the thirteenth horror stories. I know you've got a few, kind of go back and forth. Your mine come from Reddit, so kind of take it with a grain of salt because it's Reddit. But it's kind of interesting, all right. So you got The first one I've got is called the Facebook Stalker. I went to a bar about twenty minutes from my apartment in Brooklyn, New
York. Brittany, who you not live in Brooklyn, New York. This is already a fake story. I know it's fake, not just kidding. Because of construction, and because I didn't know the way home. I'd lived there for only a month, it took some time to get home. When I got there, I noticed I had a Facebook message from someone said I didn't know, saying nice apartment, Can I come in? I looked outside and there was a guy who had followed me home. I have no idea
how he got my Facebook details. I bolted the door and blocked him. That's that's the most scary thing about like big cities for me. Oh yeah, And I had this thought when we were not intoxicated at all on Bourbon Street, we wouldn't do that. We're responsible, We definitely don't get shit faced. That's not what we do. Let's just be honest. No, But we were on Bourbon Street and as we were walking towards the main hub where your ubers pick you up. So, if you've never been to New
Orleans, Bourbon Street is this notorious street where you can drink. There's no cars. Yeah, there's no cars. It's all foot traffic. And there's a bar every twenty thirty feet, if not less than that. Yeah, most of the bars are like neck like, literally they share doors with one another. Well, even the police, like they have mounted police officers on horses. So that should tell you the nonsense that happens on Bourbon Street. But as I was walking up. I remember looking up and seeing like all
these little subgroups of people. Then they're like one person walking by themselves, and I'm like, man, this is a stalker's paradise because like everyone's semi intoxicated or intoxicated, and if they're not drinking, they're soaking in New Orleans, they're soaking in Bourbon Treat. The lights. It's very paying attention to what's happening around them. Yes, and it's in Bourbon Street, especially New Orleans as a whole. It is the way of Bourbon Treat. Specifically,
it's very intoxicating just being there because there's so much to see. There's so many people that there's a very unique sensory overload because of how many flashing lights. It's like Vegas almost, yeah, And I kept thinking like, man, this is this is Like I'm surprised there aren't more of these kind of stalker horror stories out of New Orleans specifically, just because of like like you said, it's such sensory overload. You're not really paying attention to you.
You're making sure you're not walking into the guy in front of you. That's it, and that's really it. And then you're like well, were can I get my next drink? And that's really New Orleans in a nutshell. But I do love the culture of New Orleans, and I definitely think there's a lot of people that we met even just passing by, Yeah, that they saw something like that and was able to identify something like that they would
do something about it. Well, I've been looking for a way to segue in kind of shout us out, what is the esoteric shop that we is it Madam House of Hoodoo, And it's Madam the woman that they kind of modeled the shop around. But it is a beautiful, like hands on, my favorite magic place's favorite we've been in. Mount Shasta's pretty cool though when it comes to like how big a story is Mount Shasta all the way, all the way, But the authenticity of that one is unbeatable from any of
the ones I went to. Most of them in New Orleans, we went almost every single one. Well, basically anytime we hit the road, we make an effort to stop and check these places out. Well, I'm just saying in New Orleans specifically, that's my favorite one, and then across country, I haven't found one that beats it. Yeah, No, I agree,
Okay, so we're just gonna do a few more. Like so, this is gonna be a shorter episode, but we wanted to get something out to you guys, just to kind of explain our absence of big It's not like saying it's pooky and not. Everyone's in the Facebook group for whatever reasons we got. We got Dad Terry to get Facebook and get in the group. So just be honest here, you guys. You step it up.
Yeah, so, okay, this one comes from red I'm actually gonna do two from Reddit here, because like, this one's it's interesting but it's kind of explainable, and the other one's like, oh wait, what what did you say? So this one's spookiest thing that ever happened to me on a Friday the thirteenth was when I was like eleven. My friend had just moved
moved house and said her new house was haunted. I was a kid who was super into supernatural and paranormal and fantasy, but by this point I was already starting to turn skeptic, but I mostly kept that to myself because it was fun to pretend I still believed Tyler Terry wrote this. It was anyway, it was a Friday, and for some reason, my friend's whole family accept her. We're out of the house for a few hours, and she invited me over to house it with her. I can't remember if I spent
the night. I think I did. We thought it would be fun to watch one of those ghost hunt shows, and at the part where freaking Derek Acora was asking for the ghost to come out, my friend's video player turned on are rewinding itself. This is a time before that shit was automated and theirs was old. You had to rewind it yourself by pressing the button on the controller, and the controller was on top of the video player, so it wasn't my friend messing with me. Scared the shit out of us.
But other than that, she told me how creepy other creepy things have been happening, like your sister's hearing someone whispering their name into their ears, and a closed haanger being thrown across the room from the side of the room where no one was, and other things like that. I consider myself a skeptic to till this day, but that still always creeps me out because I was
there. My friend wasn't the kind of person to make stuff up. I think she was like me, skeptic, but still found it fun to talk about. I mean, the problem with the old VCR, so I had one. I can't remember the name of the company. Growing up, I would get the crap scared out of me because I would sneak down at eleven years old and watch some nighttime HBO and oh my god, that's all I can say. That's a Patreon episode. That's a whole that I just unlocked,
a complete childhood trauma. That's a full hour long for Patreon. We don't talk about that. Keep an eye appealed for this one anyway. So I was not watching HBO after dark, and this was probably the closest to a heart attack I ever came ever, because I'm sitting there with the We had the old like big box TV and the VCRs on top of my dad would like always tape Cops and just random shows that he never watched these vh I'm pretty sure we only own like six blank VHS tapes and he just kept
recording over them. And this is before TVO, this is before DVR all that stuff, and the VCR starts rewinding itself. I thought I'm caught I'm dead. This is the end of my life. I have to accept that this is how I go out. Oh my god, yes, because again I was definitely watching not Skinemax without a shadow of a doubt. Here, just move on from that. Oh my god, No, but I was
confident. My dad like opened the door and just I'm musted, and I'm like, you know what, I'm just gonna assume the position because I know what happens next. This is Herbie all over again. But it's gonna be worse because because there was no talking. You need, everyone needed everything. Every kid was eleven with HBO. Let's just be every guy's like. You know, I was there. I get it. Okay. So this one spookiest thing has ever happened to me is back when I was sixteen and my
friend was hanging out playing games. My mom came back, had a little too much to drink, and went to bed. Whatever seems normal. So here's why stuff starts getting weird. I got a message from my mom, a text message, and I said, hurry, something bad is going to happen. I'm like, huh, weird, whatever, So I put my phone back down. First off, do you just hate your mom? Is that's a weird You're just like, she's fine, too much, Chardnay,
it's fine. Whatever. I get another message about two minutes later saying, hurry, gun under pillow. So this time a red flag appeared. I'm like, okay, mus go check this out. I went into the room and looked under the pillow and bam, a gun was locked and loaded. Well, I'm like, that's weird. Took the gun with me and unloaded
it and took it apart. It's op okay for a se like, that's a weird thing that your drunk mom just had a loaded gun and you're like, all right, mom, let me just take it, take it apart. What else happened that You're like, But he's also stupid, like if they if someone is in trouble, don't unload it, just keep the safety on. It's about five minutes later I got another message saying you might have won the battle, but the war isn't over. Her life is mine tonight.
By this point, I'm just like, what the fuck is happening? I go, uh, this sounds like he needs therapy because he's accepted a lot of this just kind of blindly. I don't know. I feel like you would have too if this was your childhood home. But go ahead there, So okay, so it continues on, let me ask you what would you have done in this situation? Like right now before I continue on?
Where was his mom? Exactly? In her room? We wait, didn't he have to go into her room to get the gun from under the pillow? Yeah? So did he not see her in there? No, she was in there. Okay, this doesn't make any sense. What doesn't make sense about it? He goes in there, doesn't say anything about how what his mother was doing, what was happening, And he's like, oh, I got the pistol up, loaded it and I didn't see anything. I just thought this was fine, it's it's normal. I didn't see anything with
his mom. No, this doesn't make sense at all. Okay, So anyway, the guns in the polic point, you may have won the battle with the wars and over her life is mine tonight? By this point, I'm just like, what the fuck is happening? Go back to my mom's room and wake her up and asked her why she's being so weird and scary. She doesn't know what I'm talking about. So I thought, well, I'll just hide your phone under the bed, and just to be safe,
I'll take it take it the board so she'll have no idea. I'm guessing it means take the battery out. Yeah, but surely the fuck next, I get another message saying necklace choking. Hurry I go in there. My mom has a rosary wrapped around her and the christ being pulled up squeezing it, and her left hand so hard that she was bleeding. So I woke her up and tried to explain what happened to her, but she was still
so drunk it didn't make a difference. I was curious about her phone, so I checked, and lo and behold, it was still under her bed and not like nothing had happened. Well, I grabbed her phone and tried to look at the messages, but they weren't there, like none of them were on her phone. Fast forward the next day. Explaining everything to my mom and showed her the messages and she starts crying. So the messages that ended with a my mom thinks it was her firstborn that died, since her
first name is Amethyst. Freaky shit though got plenty of stories for whatever reason. Paranormal shit loves me I don't trust it. I don't trust that either, but I do love The next story is literally just we all have skeletons inside of our bodies. That's his story. Okay, I'm gonna let you do one more and then we're gonna end this episode. Like I know, it's shorter, but we had to give you guys something a little spoopy booby. This one's called the Creepy Caller. I was alone in the house.
An unknown number called me. I could hear the same TV show I was watching and playing in the background. I kept saying hello, and my voice would just echo back. I thought it was just one of those broken calls that you hear when your mike feedback, but hear your mike feedback. But what happened next creep me out. Right before I put down this call, I heard a voice whisper goodbye, good night. I stared at the phone, confused as what as to what had happened? And I said Hello again,
and the static and the echo disappeared. It was all quiet. Then suddenly Hi. I put down the phone, turned off the TV and ran to bed. I'm fighting the ghost. I'm shooting everything. I'm putting my hand through the phone. That's it. You had to throw the whole house away, Jesus Christ. Well, that being said Miss Britney, this is our little kickoff Spooky season. We will do something for Halloween. I don't I don't know what it's going to be yet. It might be a live
stream, might be a video thing, might be a longer show. We're going to get something put together. Like I said, we're in the middle of this huge move. I definitely like overestimated my own personal ability to move that entire house several states away. Yeah, so that was fun. You definitely underestimated how much of a toll it was going to take too. Well, the problem is we have turned into little treasure goblins. That is the major problem. We had like three boxes of just trinkets. We don't talk
about the trinkets. Yeah, you went and bought this giant roll bubble wrap that was like three meters wide, and there's like none left, and I didn't understand where all went. And then I'm like, oh, we have to wrap this up, wrap this up. Oh the alien head tequila that that's gotta be double wrapped, let's be honest. And then I went and looked at our books, our boxes that we have left when I got down here, and I'm like, that's an entire box filled to the of D
and D stuff, and that's our news. That's our newest hobby. We can't go somewhere like, oh well this might come in handy. We never know we're gonna need this, uh pineapple can opener could definitely be something spooky down the line with this thing. Oh my god, and then we just have to buy your Harry Potter wand your quill set. We have a problem. Okay, this is what happens. And you give like not like we're grown up in the sense of like we're adults, but then we also like
had bad childhoods or like, let's make up. We're to make up for thirty years of bad life trauma and trauma and our trinkets in six months in trinkets. So with that being said, in spritey last thing, I wanted to remind everyone Tennessee Haunson Legends next week. I really hope you guys come out. We want to meet you guys. I know Matthew Bird's going to be there. We got him out of his hobbit. Yeah, if we can't, if we can get Matthew to come out. What are you guys
doing? You've got to be there. It's ten bucks. Tickets go to a great cause. Phantom form will be shown. So look, here's the way I see it. Phantom farms like four dollars. Probably Tyler's in charge of that, so I don't actually know how much phantom farm costs. Matthew birds being there, that's a seven dollars value. You're already making your money back by buying the ticket's already I mean, Tyler Terry is going to be there, so that's minus. We wanted to take a dollar off, so
you're basically eating him for free. If we're being hundred percent, well, Eric's going to be there, that's two bucks. That's Austin's there. Take off a dollar. We're going. We can do the math, but it's at least a ten dollars value. The math math. Matthew's going to be there. We can probably add two more dollars to that, Beau, we haven't seen him in a while. Very true. So with that being said to the sprite, unless there anything else that you would like to add,
stay tuned and do some spook stuff for Spoopy season. Yes, stay tuned one hundred percent. We have something cool in the pipeline. I just haven't thought of it yet. That's a lie. You have a lot of I have a ton of things down the pipeline, but I gotta gotta set the hook. Yeah. So with that being said, oh, one last thing to all of my middle aged listeners, go on Netflix and watch Rust Valley Restores Terry's talking to you. This show has its hooks in me so deep.
It's worse than Supernatural and Suits combined. I'm all in. I have anime arcs about these characters already planned out. I don't know if any of them are true, but oh my god, am I into this show Sin. Since me and Brittany been living apart, I have fully embraced his old man, middle aged Midwestern I'm listening to like the Yelman Brothers. I'm going to bed at eight thirty. I'm eating the same thing every two days. Spaghettio's has been my diet for a minute, and it's been fantastic. Right
now, we don't talk about the chef, right, Okay? Well, first off, Spaghettio's and chefferd different. This shows how far we've every day we drink a little further away from the ward's vision. With that being said, this Brittany, I think we're got to add this episode of Friday the thirteenth. You are never ending, but are always growing. Tails from the dark include see