¶ Playful Opening Banter
Rob would have a fit if he thought I did .
You should have been a ballerina . Those are beautiful feet . Hey , thank you , I can get a feet finder .
Any takers , any takers , okay .
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¶ Episode Introduction
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Wanderings . Hi gordy , hi hannah , so we're gonna do one of your favorite things and we're gonna do the guessing game
¶ The Guessing Game Begins
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You said we're gonna do one of your favorite things . I was like , but I already read a book today . The guessing game . Okay , is there to be a category or do I just get like freebies , like ?
are you guessing like town or a place or a person ?
Yeah .
I can tell you . Okay , it's kind of like , what is it Mineral person ? When you do that guessing game and you're like , is it mammal , mineral or something else ?
You never played that game . I don't know .
I was thinking it's like guess who and I'm not very good at that either
¶ Village of the Damned Mystery
. Okay , animal , animal something , or mineral interplay , that no , just guess who . Okay , cool , I'm just gonna do some reading . You're trying to guess the town the town .
Okay , yes okay .
Can a family be so cursed they carry their dark fortunes across an ocean to an entirely different continent ? And can the place they settle and absorb so much of their bad blood that it forever affects the fates of those who live there , even when they flee the place forever ? Okay , some swear this can happen and that such a place actually exists .
In the woods of this place there lies a remote community where unexplained orbs of light swirl around the dark forest , where residents go mad or succumb to violent and unnatural deaths , and where even the local wildlife dares not go . It's also called the Village of the Damned . Okay , I will tell you , it's in the US .
When you said fleeing , I was like the Glauben Reservoir , Because I just hate the way that they did those people so dirty . That way , it's in the US and it's okay . Okay , I'm going to keep going . Okay , lynn from Springfield is yelling the answer right now .
I just know it , she's like Courtney come on and Mark's yelling it .
I can hear them .
The curse and the legend begins in England in the year 1510 , when King Henry VIII ordered Edmund Dudley to be beheaded . H ordered Edmund Dudley to be beheaded , hint , hint .
The legend goes that at the time of the beheading , all of Dudley's residents were cursed for his crimes , and one of his descendants was William Dudley , born on June 8th 1639 , aboard a ship headed for America . William's son , joseph , was born in Saybrook on September 14th 1674 . I mean , I want to just yell Dudley .
It's close , dudley .
Dud , for I mean , I want to just yell dudley , it's close , deadly , deadem , dudlem , I'm just guessing now . It's a small hamlet filled with ghostly tales , demons , unexplained events and curses .
Today , the area looks much like it did when it was first settled 250 years ago a very thick forest and incredibly rocky terrain in the shadow of three mountains bald mountain , woodbury mountain and the colts foot triplets .
The dense , tall forest , which was given the ominous name of dark entry forest , and the shadows of the mountain ensured that the village received little sunlight . All the remains of the hamlet that once stood there are cellar holes and a few foundations . The roads have become forest trails . Many people claim that the woods are strangely silent .
The birds and bugs that sing and call during a hike up to don't follow into the village . Nope , okay , you got Dudley . It's in New England . Oh , I'm guessing the state too . You don't have to guess the state . No , you want me to tell you the state ?
yeah , connecticut I don't know man , I don't know connecticut deadly town , deadly town . Okay , that would have made sense because you said it was a town . See , that's just . But I had . I can confidently say that if I had gotten that it would have been on a pure guess , because I don't know anything about that . You did . No , look at hannah's .
Like I'm gonna find something that she knows about and then she picks something that I don't . If you don't know anything about this , next one , oh man me and you I don't know if we could be friends .
Oh boy , I'm about to get kicked off , guys .
It's been great knowing you okay this macabre and infamous play .
Oh , by the way , we're looking for , I guess , a house , okay , okay . This macabre and infamous playground rhyme describes a violent tragedy that befell an unassuming town in massachusetts over 100 years ago . It's a stanza repeated so often that , even though most people are familiar with it , they can't recall the circumstances that prompted it or the players involved .
And that's a darn shame , because , as murder mysteries go , this one was a real humdinger , particularly for its time . Was he borden house ?
¶ Lizzie Borden House Challenge
we can be friends man , I was a little nervous there . No , I just kept thinking about how my mom used to repeat it and she never she would repeat it . And then , I think a couple years ago , I was like , hey , mom , do you know what that's about ? And she was like no , actually .
And that's when you said that I was like I'm confident that this was the lizzie borden house oh my god , okay , if the next one yes , I am a gated , dirt road is all that blocks the outside world from the eighth gate to hell what am I guessing ?
whatever you want , spider gate seminary I just had that one in there she's trying to make me sound .
Good guys , I got two out of three . I'll settle for at least 50% of however many we do , so I'm hoping I can keep this up . Okay , is this weird US or weird Massachusetts ? Weird .
US .
That's why I'm going to suck at these .
Yeah , but I'm doing all New England so far actually .
It's because if you get out of New England , I'm not going to know the answer .
I mean , honestly , in New England we have a lot of weird shit . Ooh , okay , you
¶ Waverly Hills Sanatorium
ready . Yes , okay , so you're . It has to be in a same asylum .
Okay .
After three years in Louisville , I'm starting to learn a few things about weird Kentucky . One of the famous local sites is blank . It was a tuberculosis hospital at the beginning of the 20th century and later a mental hospital . The building has been abandoned since 1980 or so .
During the Halloween season they hold haunted tours there and I have heard many media people tell stories of how their equipment stops working or they have other strange experiences Transverse or traverse Nope , they say things like I'm going to the other Halloween haunted houses . You know they are just theater . This one is for real .
Ooh , I start with a W In Kentucky . Uh-huh , it's not Western . I don't think I know Kentucky .
Waverly Hills .
I don't think I know that one , no way . Maybe I've heard it in passing , but it's definitely not one I've researched or read about .
Maybe I could you know , I think we need to switch roles at some point , because oh you , oh , give me one more , and then we're switching .
Oh , okay , all right , let's , we can do two episodes , let's do it , okay , and then we could switch , and then we could do it that way . So we have three again .
This is so weird .
I'm just trying to make sure , this thing is like sharing the thing I'm asking it to .
Pressure , pressure , let's do . I wish I had the Massachusetts one , because I think my brother has one I think I have the Massachusetts one . Okay , how about this ? These strange creatures have been spotted in many locals , locales , locales , yeah , often in southern Atlantic states with their low-lying roads that cross through swamps , swamp people .
Sorry , you're looking for a beast of some sort
¶ The Lizard Man of Bishopville
. I should have started with that . I apologize , it's Kenzie , kenzie .
She just ran by .
Oh she did . She like checks in once in a while . If one didn't know better , they'd see Bishopville , south Carolina , as just another small southern town surrounded by swamps . But what happened there one summer 15 years ago made the sleepy place rife with frenzy and fear Cue them .
In 1988 , the eyes of the world focused on Bishopville in hopes of catching a glimpse of the mysterious and dangerous blank . The sensation began in June when 17-year-old Christopher Davis was on his way home from working the late shift at McDonald's . As he drove along the outskirts of town , along the border of Scape or Swamp , a tire blew out .
It was already approaching 2 in the morning and the exhausted teenager simply wanted to go home and go to bed . The events that occurred as Chris labored to change his tire would make it difficult for the young man to ever sleep soundly again . Suddenly , to change his tire would make it difficult for the young man to ever sleep soundly again .
Suddenly , chris heard a loud thump in a bean field across the street from his disabled car . A few days later , davis described his experience this way to the AP wire services , and I quote and here I am quoting I looked back and saw something running across the field towards me .
It was about 25 yards away and I saw red eyes glowing Skinwalkers Nope , zombies , nope . Eyes glowing Skinwalkers Nope , zombies , nope . I ran to the car and as I locked it , the thing grabbed the door handle . I could see him from the neck down the three big fingers , long black nails and green rough skin .
Frankenstein it's not the Loch Ness Monster , nope , it was strong and angry . I looked into my mirror and saw a blur of green running . I could see his toes and then he jumped on the roof of my car . I'm sorry , I'm very distracted . His toes Yep .
I thought I heard a grunt , and then I could see his fingers through the front windshield where they curled around on the roof . I sped up and swerved to shake the creature off . It starts with an L .
Lizard people , lizard man , I got it . It's the lizard man , I got it .
Yay , I got it . It's the lizard men . I got it . Yay , I just had to slurp at you , woohoo .
Lizard people . It took me a while . I think I might need to get like a handicap or something . I feel like I really don't have a good time with this . I mean , I have a good time doing it , but I'm not good at it . I'm not good at it at all .
Maybe it's not your fortune . I mean girl , we're gonna see .
Now I probably suck we're gonna flip the script here a little bit . All right , courtney , what a fine night . Courtney , I'm picking a card by myself . Pick a card , any card , courtney . Okay , courtney , I'm picking
¶ Unsolved Murder in Braintree
a card . You can't do that I have a breast lump . I picked the nine of hearts are you sure it's a heart ?
I'm gonna show you a fist in a minute . I picked the nine of hearts . Are you sure it's a ?
heart . I'm gonna show you a fist in a minute . I picked the nine of hearts and it is mr christopher white . On july 14th 2006 , the fire department responded to a house fire at 242 haywood street in braintree . Oh , the victim was found inside his bedroom and had been stabbed . If you have any information about this case , please call 1-855-MA-SOLVE .
That is so sad and almost for a minute I was like okay , it's very sad , it was a house fire and they just like buried the lead , they were like , and he was stabbed and that's just Right , a cover-up , yeah , and Braintree is so close to like the Boston area .
I feel like this is where a lot of these are .
We've had a few Springfields . It's feeling very Karen Reid to me . Karen Reid , dude , that's a whole different episode .
Bye Wanderers .
Bye .
¶ Episode Closing and Credits
Thanks for listening today . Wicked Wanderings is hosted by me , hannah , and co-hosted by me , courtney , and it's produced by Rob Fitzpatrick . Music by Sasha M . If you enjoyed today's episode , don't forget to leave a rating and review and be sure to follow on all socials . You can find the links down in the show notes .
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