A Haywood Hangin

Hi, I'm Holly and I'm Haley. Welcome to Mountain Mysteries Tales from Appalachia. Hi everybody. Hello.

We are back once again and you know we keep saying we're alive not really thriving. It has actually gotten worse. I've gotten better. I hate these gotten better.

I have not. I've been through it this past little bit. Yeah, this week of months. Yeah, it's an awful house.

Pipes burst. Did like $23,000 worth of damage to my kitchen. Thank God for home motors insurance. Yep.

No kidding. Right. And it was funny. I told Haley this but it was funny.

We were walking down the stairs and we were getting ready to take out the garbage because my son calls himself the garbage man. But mostly he wants to hold the recycling because it's in a blue bag. Anyway, I digress and blues his favorite color. But we were walking down the stairs and I heard water and I said, is it?

Is it? Do you hear water to my son? And he said, yes, it's raining outside. It was not.

It was raining in our basement. And so it caused significant damage. So we are living in just a few rooms of our house because it destroyed many. So but you know several blessings is that we have a construction crew that is amazing and they are supporting us and just so lovely to work with.

So when I said silver lining, you get any floors and basically a new kitchen. Yeah, yeah, because it destroyed the lower kitchen cabinets. Yeah, living room, entryway, hallway, stairs, everything. Everything.

Yeah. So and my son had RSV and then I got the adult version of RSV. So if I sound like an old smoker, shoot is not. I'm not.

It's just grown up RSV. Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's what I had this last go around. After Lyme disease, I then got some type of horrific upper respiratory situation and I'm pretty sure it's RSV because we had a lot of kids at my school that actually had it and you know, I work with older kids. So it doesn't present as like a dozen infants and then young kids.

So I'm pretty sure one of those little hooligans caught it from them. It's a very nice thing to say. They're lovely. I love them all.

But they are little hooligans. And I'm pretty sure I got it from them. But I did talk to my doctor and she gave me antibiotics and I felt a lot better. Could be what I need.

So you probably just need to see a pack. Yeah. But I got that and feeling good and we're rolling into testing this next week. Yeah.

Or this week actually. Yeah, because today is the 15th of December. Yeah, we're in the swing of testing right now. It's okay.

It's good to forget about. You know, well, and what's really great about the school that I work in is because I'm not a classroom teacher. Like I don't have to do like be in there with testing. Right.

I mean, I'm on a, you know, if an emergency happens, if somebody needs to be out like obviously I'll be in there to practice. But like myself and guys, counselors and people like that were kind of with a crisis happens able to take care of it and not be caught up in testing. But yeah, I think because they're ready. I think I'll be out.

Yeah. I think they're ready for a Christmas break. I think that's what I've been. I'm not sure who's more excited the kids are the staff about getting to be out for, you know, almost two weeks.

That's a good, a good reset. I'm glad you have that. Yeah. Right.

Well, and I don't know, she so she started listening from the beginning. I told her don't do that. It's a bad idea. I always apologize.

I know. And I was like, it's better. I swear. But one of our teachers at our school, Jamie, she's been listening and she has been organizing all the testing in her school.

Like she does all the schedules like just been knocking it out of the park. So I'm, I'm Jamie. You know, it'd be fun to do with your kids if they are listening to the podcast and you want to give them some trivia. It could be like, you know, Mount mysteries, tells her how to latch a trivia.

Oh my gosh. In which episode did they say when I was giving, I think dismemberment, you know. Yeah. I don't think the kids have found it yet.

But I'm just waiting for it. I'm just waiting. And like, I'm not like, I'm worried about them finding it because we're not like an explicit, you know, well, not yet. Not unless they listen to patreon.

I don't know. Exactly. No, they're teens. But I keep waiting for them to find it.

And somebody just like, because I have a few that I know would just like slide in my office and drop a, like, listen to your podcast. Yeah. Just be a goofy, but. And if they do, hey kids.

Hi, children. Be steady for those tests. Go to school. Be a productive number of society.

Do not end up on this podcast, please. Well, Haley, speaking of podcasting. That's why we're here. Are you ready?

I'm so ready. All right. Let me just put my coffee down. We are talking today about the first hanging.

Hanging. Hanging. In Heywood County, North Carolina. So Heywood County is about, I don't know, 30 minutes maybe from Asheville, North Carolina.

It is on the West Side, kind of in the area of Wainsville, Canton. So Canton's out there. Yep. Yeah.

Can't. That's right. With a paper mill. That's right.

It just smells terrible. It smells so bad. But it's, I was telling this to somebody the other day that I would live in Canton. Like I've been through there a few times.

Their downtown is adorable. It is so cute. But when the wind picks up that paper mill smell. Yeah, it's pretty good.

I'm sure if you live there, you just get used to it. I'm thinking so. Like I'm every, a dairy farm. And I know that people walk by it and go, oh my God.

But you just get used to it. That's what it is. Randy at the Garchack. Is it actually?

Can you get used to Randy's Fio? I don't know if Randy has Fio. Randy, I don't know if he's listening, but I want to play it on the same side. Randy, if you're listening, I love you.

You're wonderful. The cologne is great. You don't have BIO at all. Well, he luckily doesn't have to like pat me down.

I'm going to do it. So, Haley's coming to get me. Okay. Hands on the vehicle.

She likes it. All right, y'all. So we are headed to March of 1851. Yes, we're going way back.

Way back. So we're going to McClure Cove, which lies in the hollow or the hauler. I was like, what are you talking about? That's a hauler.

Sorry. In the hauler. In the hauler. Hauler.

Heywood County in western North Carolina. So David Mason and his wife Mary lived in a small cabin along the rolling hills with her four children ages seven to 14. David and Mary had been married for about 16 years having met in and around 1835 and settled in the Crabtree community. Crabtree?

That's still a pretty thriving little community. It is. I think it's more like Wainville. Okay.

Okay. Yeah. Thanks. So, the Mason family lived a typical farm life.

David worked in the fields while Mary cared for the house and the children, you know, very common. All of the familial normalcy, however, would end in March of 1851 when Mary was found dead in her home. Mary. Yeah.

Why Mary? Mary had not died, however, of natural causes. As one would think, you know, just watched Rob's dead in their house. No, we wouldn't be doing the story about Mary had she just, you know, died of that heart attack.

No, no, no, but rather her throat had been slashed. Oh, wow. So clearly she had been med dead. Yeah.

It's usually not just there's no accidental throat. It's not like I was carving the chicken and just got a little nuts with it and just slish my own throat. No, typically not. But the real question is who would want to kill Mary and why?

Mary didn't appear to have any enemies. She mostly kept to herself. She stayed at home and like, aside from Sunday's a church, she pretty much kept it to the cabin. Got it.

Yeah. That's how I feel. Keep it to the cabin. Quick sign.

No, we are recorded in Haley's brand new podcast room. Yes. And I have to say, it's pretty amazing. We finally finished all the painting and everything in our rental.

My brother is living with me and he currently has my dog somewhere in this house. So if we are interrupted, that's why. But yeah, it's a lovely stage green color. Very calming.

We've got a big old chandelier in here that I got for about 20 bucks at the Habitat for Humanity resort. Beautiful. I nicknamed it Fred. I love it.

And then you will wack your head on it though, because it's pretty low. It is, but I bent down. Yeah, we got some free shares from if you remember, call back to the haunted house of Illy Pute. I wanted a kid.

She had some chairs in her house that she no longer wanted. So now they live in the podcast room. I love it. And they match the color.

I know, they're perfect. They are. They're like big wing back. Yes.

These are wing back chairs. Very, I don't know what the flower is on this. Kind of a nice old paisley. Chrysanthemum almost looking flower on it.

So yeah, yes. The podcast room, the gift that keeps on giving. It does. And it's not too echoey in here because we've actually put furniture in here.

So yeah, it's really great. All right. So back to our story. Because at Mary, didn't appear to have any known enemies.

Unlike Haley. I mean, you know, Haley leaves her house. So not said. But so with little evidence to go on, the police instantly blamed guess who?

The husband. The husband. David 100%. Right.

So David immediately without really investigating from what I can see was arrested. And he claimed like, no, I was innocent. He said, you know, he would never harm his wife. He was at work.

And he was a farmer. So he was like, I, you know, who could attest that I was there, I guess maybe some cows. I don't, you know, they're not the best witnesses. No, they did not be police and those in the community did not believe David didn't believe a story.

And quickly, this mild mannered farmer had gone from like church going community member to evil wife killer. Oh, wow. Okay. Yeah, it's a quick turn.

It is a quick turn because the day before everybody's like, but how are you, man? You know, all right. And he's like, good. How's down your hay bale?

How's the family and your hay and, you know, getting that a corn house? How is that corn? How is that corn? How is has, have you turned it into moonshine?

What time are you here with us? March. He would be still growing that corn. Yep.

How's that corn? How's the getting tall is, you hope it's, you hope it gets tall. And you can tell that I'm a farmer because, you know, when you ask me about my corn, how is it I say tall? Well, no, I mean, I was with you because I was like, you know, you want it tall because when you have to start cutting in the fall to make, which they probably weren't doing in the 1800s, but like nowadays when our corn gets tall, when the fall, we turn into silage to be the cows.

Just a chop it, chop it all up. So you don't use it at all. No, it's not for people. Oh, it's for cats.

You don't make moonshine? That's a real bug. You can't legally though. No.

Yeah. You can't sell it, but you can make it. But no, we don't make it. Thank you sure that's not what I want to do.

I think it is. I think it's a missed opportunity and if I can find somebody with a good still then Dr. Hayley's moonshine. It cures all your ails and it makes you enjoy the podcast even more.

All right. So, you know, David now is an evil horrible wife killer. Okay. Charge with his wife, murder, his wife's murder, he sat in the Haywood County jail, awaiting trial.

In the meantime, several of David's closest friends try to actually post bail for him. Yeah. I mean, so there were still people in the community who were, you know, on his side and said, there's no way David could not have committed this crime. So his friend, Aaron Fulbright, contributed $100 to his bail, which actually I looked up the equivalent for today's value, equivalent to $3,800.

Yeah. That's a lot of money. That was a rich ass farmer. He was doing well.

Yeah. I mean, it was more than corn. I'd take just $100 now and be thrilled. Same.

Same. Yeah. So Mr. Fulbright, not only contributed the $100, but he also agreed to testify in David's defense.

Yeah. Another friend, James Grave, posted another $100 bond and promised that his wife, I love this. Here's a hundred bucks. And by the way, my wife would be happy to testify that David couldn't have committed this murder.

I'm not going to do it. I'm not as savvy with the words. But my wife will. But my wife, she wants to actually know I told her to and she knows what's good for her and she'll do it.

She agreed. After a good meeting, she agreed to do it. It's the 1800s. I would assume.

Maybe these were gentlemen on their phones. All right. Okay. Sure.

All in all, there was over $4,100 towards David's bonds. That's crazy. That's a lot of money. So it wasn't just two people, a lot of people in the community.

But get this. He was never released. So here's a question for you, then, Haley. What happened to all that money?

Did they give it back to the men or did it go for the trial or something? Probably neither. Maybe his lawyer. Neither.

Neither. Neither. They just took it. Probably.

So I'm going with. Yeah. Sometimes we need a new wagon, a police wagon. The Patrick wagon.

So while David had many friends supporting him and his innocence, not everybody agreed. Emotions in the town were running pretty high and it quickly became apparent that David would not receive a fair or impartial trial and Haley would tell me. Yeah. I mean, I could see that.

I'm sure there were, you know, Lynch mobs and people ready to go, you know, how could you do this? Well, I think even now, like, oh my gosh. I mean, you see them move trials all the time. Like, if that happened in my town, you know, somebody prominent like that.

So prominent. They would want to move that trial to somewhere else. I think they would have her so fast. So quick.

She's a witch. Wait a minute. Where are we? No, this isn't Salem.

No, all right. Still, they're still good for it. I feel like she's a witch. She cast you specter on me.

Right. All right. All right. Okay.

That's fine. So you know, a couple years. You're fine. I'll be there.

I'll bring my son. Great. Like they did, like they did in the days of your. Oh, great.

Yeah. Good educational opportunity. It really is. Some don't act like this.

Don't be a witch. So David's defense attorney suggested that the trial be moved to another county. There was a lot of back and forth when it came to the trial. No, it needs to be that the murder was committed in Heywood County.

It needs to be done here. His lawyers were like, no, it's not fair to him. So it just constant back and forth. So finally, a year after the murder.

Now, you got to think about this. In the 1850s, it was pretty much like, bang bang shoot. Yeah. Okay.

You're guilty. Search for evidence later. You know, you're dead, basically. And everything happened very quickly.

But because everybody was contesting this and there was so much back and forth, it took a year. So finally, it was agreed that the trial would be held in the neighboring county of Buncombe. Now, Buncombe County actually encompasses the city of Asheville and is much larger, even then it was much larger. And it would offer a larger pool of jurors whom may not have the same bias that the Heywood County jurors were.

So they weren't as close to it. They weren't as close to it. Yes, they probably read this in their news. But you know, after a year, there are other news stories.

Right. So exactly. So yes, they probably weren't paying as much attention. And after at least one, possibly more continuances of court, David finally went on trial for the murder of his wife in the early summer of 1852.

So we're talking about 15 months after the crime. David continued to explain his innocence, stating that he hadn't even been home on that morning, that you know, there was no way he could have committed the crime. And the trial only lasted a few days, obviously. And that's all they needed, right?

And quickly, it went to the jury to decide David's fate. The jury returned, shocking, guilty verdict. And it was a clear that David was hang for his crime. Yeah, overwhelmed by the verdict and subsequent sentence, David started planning his escape.

I wonder why he waited a full year, though, like maybe he had faith in the justice system. In this scenario, you know, you know, guilty innocent, and doesn't matter, they're going to take care of you. So anyway, when a guard's back was turned, David was able to sneak out of the Bunkham County Jail. And made his way by foot westwards towards his home in Hayward County.

Why would you go back there? See, that's the first place they're going to look. Right, you need to go the opposite direction. Maybe north, maybe like Madison County.

Yep. Hit up to Madison, maybe hit some ENC. Maybe some Tennessee. Tennessee, Tennessee, cross on over.

Yeah. I think though, and it could have been that he wanted to see his kids. Maybe. Maybe that's, you know, and maybe, you know, that's all he had known.

He'd grown up there. It was familiar. And it isn't like us, you know, nowadays where we can just drive County County so easily. I mean, the sky was on foot.

And we're talking about, even if you're in a car, it would take you 30 minutes from Bunkham County to get there. I mean, we're talking probably days to get there. Yeah. So when jailers discovered he was missing, they sent out the wagons and the dogs to find him.

They weren't going to let go that easily. David had just made it over the Hayward County line. Just made it when officials caught up to him and took him back to the Bunkham County Jail. David's fake was sealed at that point.

He was going to be executed for the crime. And still, he kept claiming over and over. It wasn't me. I did not, I wouldn't have done this.

I love my family. In the summer of 1852, David was forcibly led to the gallows that sat on College Street in downtown Asheville. Interesting. Now College Street, kind of near the I-26 interchange there.

Today stands as, you know, an area with a lot of bars. A lot of, I don't think what else is not the safest neighborhood. On College Street. Bars and restaurants.

So you just have very like, a little shot. I mean, like a happening. Look, it's just a downtown area. Expensive.

Yeah. And you know, as you sit at the local brewery and you are having your beer, you probably aren't thinking, ah, yes, this is where many were hanging. Yeah, no. That's not the crust of mind.

It will now. It will now. Thanks for that. So of course, being the time period it was, the whole community came out to watch.

You know, bring your kids, parents, young children, you know, bring your toddlers. It's free entertainment. Education. I do wonder if this was one of those things where it's like, you know, yes, it's traumatizing.

But really, kids need to see this because they need to see like, you shouldn't be doing this. Like, yeah, if you act this way, you'll end up like David. I don't know. A little bit on a Friday night.

Like back in my day, I was watching like, T.G.I.F. on ABC, you know, like, I wonder what Urkel's going to get into today. Yeah. You know, got me cheese.

No, got me hangings. Not good. Not good. Anyway, so everyone gathered round to watch David's father.

His name is Peter. He was present at the hanging as was David's lawyer. So as they took him up to the gallows, they asked him if he had anything to say. I didn't do it.

Well, not quite. Hey, Lee, this is going to sound super familiar to you. Okay. So his father yelled out from the crowd below, die with it in you, Dave.

Was this just a common phrase? I was thinking, I don't know a bit. So, um, you know, I was going to say if you all sound, you think this sounds familiar, December of 2020, we had an episode or 10th episode and it was actually called Die With It In Ya. And it was all about a woman who was accused of killing her husband and her father yelled out from the crowd.

Die with it in ya. I wonder if that is just a common phrase. So this was thinking, like maybe a common phrase back then, like meaning like take it to your grave. Maybe it's not good to say anything this moment because like, what will it matter?

You know, like, will it change their opinion of you? Probably not. You're still going to die. So his dad said, die with it in you, Dave.

If you don't want to talk, die with it in you son. Yeah, Lee. I mean, I would say, no, I don't want to die with it in me. I'm going to tell you one last time.

I did not do this and you were killing an innocent man. That's what I would say. That is just me. So yeah, yes, kind of common phrasing.

So back to the hanging. Die with it. That's what I'm going to say to Hailey at her witch execution. As she says, you know, but I'm not a witch.

I'm not. Die with it in ya, Hailey. Just tell him that when they come knocking on me I'm probably, are you a witch? I mean, maybe.

I don't know. She made me do weird things. Suddenly I was podcasting. Yeah, fair.

It's true. It's true. So a teenager who was at the hanging, of course. Exactly.

Like instead of getting into debauchery, we will go to the hanging. A local teen at the hanging reported years later that David Mason actually called two men up. You know, when they said, do you have anything to say, he called up two men, including Aaron Fulbright, and possibly James Grove. These were the two men that actually had posted bond and said, you know, hey, we're going to, you know, testify on your defense.

Well, you point his finger at them and says, you have sworn my life away. What? So I don't understand if these men were like going to testify on his defense. They've given him bond money.

Did they end up testifying for the prosecution? Probably. There's not a lot of record to the court trial because, you know, this is 1851. Right.

But it kind of seems like either they screwed him over when they went to testify. Like maybe the prosecution really got them and they were like, it kind of fell apart, or they agreed to testify for the prosecution. Right. Maybe.

Yeah. So he tells them, he's sworn my life away. Nonetheless, a news was secured around David's neck and swiftly the bottom of the gallows floor dropped out from under him. David hung in front of a large crowd for over 10 minutes until he was pronounced dead.

You know, it takes a long time. Yeah, I do. And it just really bothers me. Me too.

To think about it. Yeah. Yeah. After the crowd dissipated, Peter's father took his son's body in a wagon and drove the long way back home to Haywood County.

Peter buried him with the rest of the family on a hill in Haywood County. He even carved out a headstone for his son that simply read, DM for David Mason, 1852. The headstone stayed perched on that hill for many years, even after the property had been sold and the land converted into hay fields. The headstone stayed perched on that hill for many years, even after the property had been sold and land converted into hay fields.

Over time, the headstone was moved to another part of the property as not to interfere with the hay. I mean, I'm fair. Please, please don't interfere with my hay. You and your dead body really.

Just really interfere with my hay. I mean, I get it like, you know, you don't want to have a big stone in the middle of your hay field. It makes sense, you know, it's pretty hard. You're out there cutting hay or balers.

You're like, oh, man. You're running to it. Sorry about that, DM. Yeah, it really is.

So eventually over time, the headstone just disappeared. So that's always the question. Like, was it some naughty teen in like the 40s who was like, and they just came and took the headstone or did someone know the legend of it? They were like, I want this as a trophy.

Or did someone just like knock it down and it broke and that was it? Yeah. Or somebody thought like, I'm going to take this for like, you know, historical purposes, and then it just ended up in somebody's basement. And then somebody's like, oh my gosh, I bought this house and there's a headstone.

There's a weird concrete slab in our basement currently. I don't know what's under it. We looked at yesterday, my mom's like, oh, I was like, I want to come on down with them that slab. I was like, no, here's the thing.

All right, we're going to do a live live episode from my basement from well, as we go down there and we see what's under there. I think it's like into the like cemented into the floor. We're going to get the chisels. Okay.

Okay. Because I think there's a full like it's about body size slab down there. This little house. Are we prepared for what I mean?

I said leave it me. You don't want to disturb whatever that is. Well, I mean, if the spirit starts to come through your house, you only rent. So that's the thing.

That's true. That's the thing. I mean, you know, maybe in a January? Well, it's an afternoon activity.

We'll talk about it. So I always wonder, you know, what ended up happening to kids before kids. So Haley doesn't think about that. I do.

So the four children were actually raised by David's father, Peter, himself, a widower. So David's mom had died back in 1843 and Peter was really grateful that his wife didn't live to see what he came with her son and the fact that, you know, he was hanged. He feared that she wouldn't have been able to handle that. I think of the parents.

Well, why something that happened. But, you know, I know I could not do that. No. So also in the home were David's two spinster sisters who helped raise the children and I was thinking when I hear spinster in the 1800s, I'm like, oh, she's probably 19.

Yeah, like 19. Dosti Mary. Yeah, what would I be 16? Oh, I'd be a, um, that was spinster old maid.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Like it's very sad poor Haley. Poor that old man, or maybe she's just a spinster. And actually in the 1800s, you probably would look old. Probably.

You'd rain hair and you'd put, hello children. And they're like, don't go near her house. It's the witch. The old witch spinster woman.

The witch spinster woman. Tell them I sound like back away. With all her plants. Back away.

Plants and books, she reads. Oh god. A woman reading. Right.

That's a problem. That's why she's a witch. And her eye. Oh, wow.

You are thinking of so many ways to kill yourself. Not that you're so sad. I assessed. We're fine.

We're good. Yeah. We're fine. We're fine.

We're fine. We're in a little snort. So like I said, the spinster sisters were there helping raise the children. So they were taken care of.

David's dad, Peter, actually lived until he was 106. Right. Getting me? Seriously.

He died in 1890 and it's unclear whether Peter believed his son was innocent or not. Die with it in ye. So maybe he was like me. Maybe maybe not.

Something to note here is that until the day David died, he always claimed that he was innocent in his story and he changed. Now you hear a really interesting piece of the story? Yeah, I do. All right.

It's not over? Not yet. Wow. She was like, dang it.

No. I thought that was like a nice little wrap up. Nice little wrap up. But now there's more.

I'm excited. In the 1980s, 104 year old woman was retelling the story of David Mason. Okay. She stated that there was a lady in their town who had been having an affair with David Mason.

The woman grew tired of sharing her time with David and wanted Mary, the wife, out of the picture. According to this report, the mistress confessed on her deathbed to having gone to the Mason home and slitting Mary's throat. Oh, it was the mistress. I don't know her name.

It doesn't give a name. But it said that, you know, with anger and passion, which is usually with a crime like that, she came up behind her and just slit her throat. So I guess her plan didn't work out so well because her man ended up being accused and hanging in the gallows. And as opposed to her coming forward and saying, no, no, no, it was actually me, she's like, I really love him that much.

That's fine. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know how that died for you.

And this is the story that was hanging in, you know, well, for Heywood County. And you know, just like, what are your thoughts? Do you think that the mistress really did it? Do you think like in the end she was just trying to, I don't know, I think she did it.

Well, how old was the woman who's telling the story to look at 104 at this point? So she was very... Was she with it? Yes.

Was she with it? She was. I mean, there's little to no evidence left behind. So maybe it seems likely.

Kind of trust us. This is a 104 year old lady. And I don't know why, but I kind of trust that David was innocent. I know that sounds ridiculous, but it also seems like, okay, if you're on your deathbed, why would you confess to something you didn't do?

Right. Like that, you know, like you're not looking for notoriety. I mean, you're getting ready to face judgment or whatever you believe. So, you know, I think she did it.

She knew the husband would be working. Yeah, maybe. Maybe the kids were out playing or like working in the field or maybe they're at school. And she was like, perfect time.

Yeah, maybe. Yeah. And if Mary were dead, she could step into the role of mommy and wife, David. True.

And during that period, I mean, if the wife is dead, it makes sense. Like, you could remarry. It's not like a divorce or something. Right.

So. Yeah, if that makes sense. Yep. That's my story.

How many did you miss the spouse though? Yeah. But maybe it's a... But I mean, I think it's often the spouse that's accused.

True. I mean, they didn't have anything else to go on. Who else would want to kill Mary? But then, you know, how many people knew the affair?

True. I mean, maybe they didn't. Maybe her revelation on her deathbed. Everybody was like, what?

Right. We killed an innocent man. And she did not die within her. Just saying.

I'm over to you. She's still dead. Right. So I'm going to look up more and investigate if die within you.

Yeah. I'm curious. Praise. Yeah.

So for you guys, if you know more about this phrase and you've heard it used, if you're a historian or you just want to give us your feedback, you can do so by shooting us an email. Ha ha. Shoot. Yeah.

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I do. I wanted to shout out and actually respond to her email right now. We had a lovely email from someone who'd been listening for a little while. I think it's Rianna.

Oh. That's how you say it, but she actually sent us an email and me. So she was going to Cherokee, North Carolina, for her birthday and made her husband stop to take pictures of Go Sound. Oh, yeah.

And I just really thought her email was funny. I was just reading back through it. But she sent us some pictures of, you know, the, like, the, like, the, like, the chairlift, obviously going up or like what's left of it and then like the sign. But what really got me was, um, she said, I saw Go Sound, that was in passing and I almost gave him a heart attack when I yelled a slow down.

I need to pick, it's from my favorite podcast. And he said Mountain Mysteries, um, of course. I thought it was really cute. It was so funny.

Where are they from? Um, I don't know. Okay. But she's also a mom and educator.

Ah. So, killing it. Girl, 100%. I love that.

Thank you so much. Yeah, it's just innocent pictures. Also said that it might be, um, there was some movement in the parking lot. It might be progress.

It might be drift deals. It might be other hubbies letting their crazy wives take pictures too. You know what I bet. Her personality though just sounds like she would just fit in so well.

You know, I, so something that I thought about, I thought about, wouldn't it be fun to have, um, a fan episode? Yeah. You know, like talking about like, yeah. I just want to like, I want to meet all of you guys.